The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1914-12-25

oohiS opaftM'7ut dDofS- but It6ui1iiy
when ] turn out the Lights he comes
! forth. So there's no doubt that he
watches you enter and takes note of
your departure"
But doesn't follow me. That's odd.
What the devil is his idea?"
| I'd give a good deal to learn"
The shadow and the glowing cigar
cite disappeared around the corner,
and the lights IN the apartment were
turned on again.
Hes gone. You really think he's
watching me?"
He is watching this apartment /
know that much"
And even at that moment the watch
er was watching from his vantage be-
/ hind the corner.
'Suspicious," he murmured, tossing
the cigarette into the gutter They're
watching me for a change. I'll drop
out. know what know. It's a great
world. It's fine to be alive and kicking
on top of IT," He went on without
haste and took the subway train for
downtown.
is there any way / could get near
him." asked Braine.
Tomorrow night you might leave
by the janitors entrance. I'll keep
the lights on till you're outside. Then
III turn them off and you can follow
and learn who he is."
Its mighty important"
Don't scowl. At your age wrinkle
is apt to remain if you once get it
started
He laughed. Wrinkles" She could |
talk of wrinklesl
They are more important than you |
think. Every morning l rub out the
wrinkle l go to bed with"
Il wish you could rub out the gen.
eral stupidity which is wrinkling my
brain. I've made three moves and
failed in each. What's come over
me-"
Perhaps you've had too many sue
cesses. The wheel of chance is al
ways turning around"
May ! smoker"
Thanks. At least it proves you still
have some consideration for me. You
would smoke whether 1t was agreeable
or not. But l like the odor of good
cigar. And it always helps you to
think"
Braine lit the cigar and began his
customary pacing. At length be
paused.
Suppose we have real old-fash- |
Ioned coaching party out to the old
we know about?"
And what shall we do there?"
Make the mansion an enchanted
castle where sometimes people who
enter can't get out. Do you think you
'ould get her to go?"
Il can try"
Olga, | must have that girl; and |
must have her soon. Sometimes find {
myself nightly puzzled over the
Shole thing. If Hargreave is alive,
Why doesn't he turn up now that it's c
Practically known that his daughter t
resides over his household? l might 4
Understand it if ! didn't know that
iargreave is really afraid of nothing
Where is the man with the five thou
and, picked up at sea? What was
he reason for Jones carrying that box
ut in broad daylight? Who is the
hap watching across the street?
ometimes | believe in my soul-if /
ave onel-that Hargreave is playing
18th us, playingi Well" f1inging the Ii
alf consumed cigar into the CRATE. Il
the Black Hundred always goes for &
ard, win or lose. and never forgets."
I'VE are a fine pair," said the wo
IAN bitterly Fl
I'VE are exactly what fate intended b
5 to be. They wrote you down in the b
ook as a beautiful body with a M
cooked mind. They wrote me down IL
the devil, doomed to roam earth's n
p till I'm killed.
KILLED."
why, yes. I'm not the kind OF
lap who dies in bed, surrounded by
lie weeping members of the family, ID
,ctor, nurse, and priest. I'm a
oundrel; but it has this saving
ace, l enjoy being scoundrel. Now,
n going up to the club. There's
thing like a game of billiards or
ess to smooth that wrinkle which "
ems to worry you" a,
In the great newspaper Office there
Is a mighty racket. Midnight al
Tvs means pandemonium in the at
y room of a metropolitan daily. Nc
by boys were rushing to and fro. vi,
,ssengers and printers with sticky
lleys in their hands; reporters were "a
nging away at their typewriters, ed
d intermingling you could hear the su,
useless clickety-click from the tele- hui
lph room. goi
rhe managing editor came out OF
office and approached the desk Of this
night city editor. the
Editorial page gone DOWN." an,
Twenty minutes ago." said the VIII
hit city editor. of
l wanted a stick on that Panama IS
npus." i"
Too late" \
Jim Norton," iau
At the chamber Of commerce BAN of
t. The major is going to throw "
nb into the enemy's camp" 50
Nofhip1 IN tho Harpreave Stuff7" -.