The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-28

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IlOW w JOd huOW tudt ID the
clerk" asked Broadway, listening crit
ically to the snore.
Il heard him singing when l FIRST
got here. and now | recognize the
voice. He held the tune a little bet.
ter. then. that's all"
"Haye we got to wake him up?"
"Surel Why. It's after eleven
o'clock"
Nothing but the thought of Josie
Richards yes could have kept Broad
way at hat instant from casting all
his worthy resolutions to the winds,
selling to the trust and searching out
a Bible upon which to swear that he
never again would set foot In Jones'
vile. But he did remember Josie's
eyes. and 80 began to hammer on the
door.
After a quarter of an hour of steady
hammering, some shouting and a little
whistling, he was rewarded by a sleepy
and ~ill-tempered voice from a slowly
opened window.
Heavens! Was his window closed!
And yet that more got out to us!"
1T sawed It's way out" Bob suggest
ed.
We'll, what We want?" the angry
voice inquired.
Want to get in"
AT this time the night?"
Sure. It's always night before we
ever want to go to bed"
We'll the Grand hotel, IL don't think
much Of folks that stays out all night
long, I'll tell you that" the clerk ex-
claimed. as he came down In bright
red fiannels land not much Of that to
let them in.
All night longl"
Amt II a quarter after '1even?"
After telephoning Rankin (much t
the clerks disgust) to hurry to Con-
necticut by the first train In the morn
Ing. with ~well-packed bags, the two
friends crept upstairs. abashed.
The clerk scorned such a mental
service as attending them, and, In the
excitement left from the rebuke he had
received. Wallace stumbled into the
wrong room. All doors were partly
open. for the night was warm, and no
n feared the midnight interloper,
there In innocent and simple Jones.
VILE.
Fortunately the moonlight fell upon
the bed. and warned him, otherwise
there might have been a scandal In
Gum Village. in which case the com.
plainant The felt certain from that hur-
ried glimpse) would have been a sylph
OF close upon two hundred and fifty
pounds.
Wallace made an effort to sit up
and discuss things further with Broad
way, Who seemed &c be entirely awake.
though dreamy in a strange, unwonted
way, but there were two arguments
against this, the first that gnats and
moths swarmed merrily In as soon as
the oil lamp was lighted, bringing with
them more than one mosquito, the Sec
ond being that he was worn out after
a long day full of various excitements.
I'm going to bed" he finally de-
cided.
Best place for you. Bob, this time
of night. Folks who sit up"
"Oh, shut up! Good night"
Good night. See you in the morn
ing"
Nov, why" asked Wallace. after he
had left his friend. did that boy seem
SO glad to have me go to bed? He act.
ed just as II he wanted to kneel down
and pray. but couldn't while q vulgar
herd like me was looking on. Now,
what the devil!"
He got into bed.
Broadway did not go to bed. Instead
he found q pen and ink and some Of
the soft, spongy hotel stationery In .
drawer of the bare washstand. He be-
a work with them slowly. painfully.
The pen soon falling. he dug from .
corner Of a pocket in his vest the PEN
ell OF which he had been so proud
when Pembroke had called on him,
and continued. After an hours hard
labor for his brain. the pencil, the soft
paper and the tongue which he contin-
ually thrust into his cheek. he had
completed what he thought a master
piece. He. vas not sure whether he
would speak It. the next day, Josie.
by herself, or to the assembled multi
tude of the mills employees, but he was
certain 1t was great.
Having written 1t he spent another
hour in carefully committing It to
memory Tor 80 he fondly thought) and
then got into bed.
An hour later he tried to sleep the
night out sitting up for the bed was
such y he had never even read about.
When, at last, he fell into Q posture
less suggestive Of repose on garden
rokes and hose than any other had
been, he dreamed horrid dreams OF
broken-hearted villagers, starving In
the streets Of JonesviIls In such ter
rible ~profusion that the newspaper ~
ferred to it a. "Boneovflle" and dc.
clared that he had proved to b the
chief Industrial pirate OF his day. ruin
ing, IN the fourth generation. . 0ne
family name which had, for three.
STOOD for problty. humanity, indHstry
and-tha h1nt chaA1nE Gum of III