Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-24
CHAPTER XIV.
Woe In No. Seven.
ESTABLISHED 1853.

Of a man who had detained him a
moment ago. Who but Cargan and
Max, of course? They had found his
childish hiding place, and the money
had come home to their eager hands.
No doubt they were laughing slyly at
him now.
Well, he would show them yet. He
got UP and walked the floor. Once he
had held them up in the snow and
spoiled their little game. He would
do 1t again. How? When? He did
not know. His soul cried for action
of some sort, but he was up against a
blind alley, and he knew it.
He unlocked the door Of No. Z. To
go downstairs, to meet the sweet
eagerness of the girl who depended on
him, to confess himself tricked-t
took all the courage he had. Why had
it all happened anyway? Confound It!
Had he not come up here to be alone
with his thoughts? But brighter
side, II had given him her, or it would
give him her before the last card was
played. He shut his teeth tightly and
went down stairs.
Mr.. Bland had added himself to the
group about the fire. Quickly the eyes
of Miss Norton met Magee's. She was
trembling with excitement. Cargan,
huge, red, CHEEKY. got in Magee's path
once more.
I'll annihilate this man." thought
Magee.
I've been figuring" said the may
or, that was one thing he didn't have
to contend with. No, sir, there wasn't
any bright young men hunting up old
Napoleon and knocking him in the
monthly magazines. They didn't go
down to Sardinia and pump 1t out OF
the neighbors that he started business
on borrowed money and that his IA
ther drank more than was good for
him. They didn't run illustrated arti-
cles about the diamonds he wore and
moving pictures of him eating SOUP
mo, 1 guess not" replied Magee abb
stractedly.
II reckon there was a lot in his
record wasn't meant for the newspa-
pers." continued Cargan refiectively.
And it didn't get there. Nap was
lucky. He had it on the reformers
there They couldn't squash him with
the power of the press"
Mr. Magee broke away from the
mayors rehashed history and hurried
to Miss Norton.
You promised yesterday" he re-
minded her, ito show me the pictures
of the admiral"
$50 I did," she replied, rising quick
ly. ITO think you have spent all this
homage to its own particular cock Of
the walk.
She led him to a portrait hanging
beside the desk.
Behold" she said, 1.-The admiral on
a sunny day in July. Note the starchy
grandeur of him, even with the ther-
mometer up in the clouds. That's one
of the things the rocking chair fleet
adores in him. Can you imagine the
furry at the approach of all that su-
periority? Theodore Roosevelt, Will
liam Faversham and Richard Hard
ing Davis all arriving together could
not overshadow the admiral for a min
ute"
Mr. Magee gazed at the picture of
a pompous little man whose fierce
mustache seemed anxious to make up
for the lack Of hair on his head.
"a bald hero at a summer resort, "
he commented, lit seems incredible"
"Oh, they think he lost his hair
fighting for the flag" she laughed.
ut is possible to see the room
where the admiral plays his famous
games?"
Step softly" she answered. I'm
here. There stands the very table"
They went into the small card room
at the right of the entrance to the Of
flee, and Mr.. Magee quietly closed the
door behind them. The time had
come He felt his heart sink.
"Well?" said the girl with an ca
gerness she could not conceal.
Mr.. Magee groped for words and
found-his old friends of the noun
tain.
"I love you" he cried desperately.
You must believe / want to help
YOU. 1t looks rather the other way
now, I'll admit. / want you to have
that money. I don't know who you
are nor what this all means, but
want you to have it. l went upstairs
determined to give it to YOU
Really" The words were at least
80 degrees below the temperature OF
the cardroom.
Yes, really. l won't ask you to be-
lieve. but I'm telling the truth.
went to the place where I had fatu-
ously hid the money-under brick OF
my fireplace. 1t was gone.
How terribly unfortunate"
Yes, isn't it?" Mr. Magee rejoiced
that she took so calm a view of it
"They searched the room, of course
and they found the money. They're
on top now, but I'm going"
He stopped. for he had seen heI
face. She-taking a calm view of it :
No. lnueeu. bllly hdSee Sd" lIloiI ohS
was furiously, wildly angry. He re-
membered always having written il
down that beautiful women were even
more beautiful in anger. How, he
wondered. had he fallen into that er-
ror?
please do not bore me-" she said
through her teeth. with any further
recital of what you are going to do
You seem to have a fatal facility in
that line. Your record of accomplish
ment is pathetically weak. And-oh
what a fool I've been! l believed
Even after last night. l believed"
II know" he said helplessly, you're
terribly disappointed. and I don't
blame you. But you will find out that
you've done me an injustice. I'm 60
ing
"One thing" she said, smiling q