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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-10-14
CHAPTER xviII-continued.

1t was a mamie was looking in
at the window!" she returned In low
tones. Il thought l saw him once be-
fore; but this time I am certain!"
Griswold sprang from his chair, and
a moment later was letting himself out
noiselessly through the hall door.
There was nothing stirring on the
porch. He was still cropping among
the bushes. and Miss Farnham had
come to the front door, when the doc.
tors buggy appeared under the street
lights and vas halted at the home
bItching post.
Hello, Mr.. Griswold; is that your
called the CHEEKY one, when he saw
a bareheaded Ia beating the covers
in his front yard.
Griswold met his host at the gate
and walked up the path with him.
Miss Charlotte thought she saw
someone at one Of the front windows"
he explained; and a moment after.
ward the daughter was telling it for
herself.
Il saw him twice." she insisted;
'once while we were at dinner. and
again Just now. The first time l
thought might be mistaken. but this
time"
Griswold was laughing silently and
inwardly deriding his gifts when, un.
der cover Of the doctors return, he
made decent Acknowledgements for
benefits bestowed and took his de.
parture. On the pleasant summer.
night walk to Upper Shawnee street
he was congratulating himself upon
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-10-14
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold, an unsuccessful
writer because OF socialistic tendencies.
holds up Andrew Galbraith. president of
the Bayou State Securities, in the presi-
dents private office and escapes with $780,
In cash. By original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as a deckhsnd. Charlotte
Farnham OF Wahaska, MIMI, who had
seen him cash Galbraith's check In the
bank. recognizes him, and sends a letter
OF betrayal to Galbraith anonymously.
Sriswold Is arrested on the arrival OF the
poat at ST. Louis. but escapes from his
captors. He decides on Wahaska, Mimi,
es q hiding place, and after QUILTING
himself properly, takes the train. Girls
void falls I'll oil the sleeper n Is cared
For and taken to her home In Wahaska
py Margery Grierson. daughter Of Jasper
Emerson, the financial magnate Of Wa
paska. Margery finds the stolen money
In Griswold's suitcase, Broffin. detective,
taxes the trail. Margery asks her father
TO get Edward Raymer into financial hot
water n then help him out of it. Girls
void ~recovers to find the stolen money
Sone. He meets Margery's social circle
Prom manufacture. Broff1n comes to Wa
haska In search OF the who wrote
the Anonymous letter to Galbraith. Mar
gery lakes Griswold to the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen non ove to
nim- Charlotte bluffs out Broffin and
Margery begins to watch him.. Griswold
MS money In Raymer's plant n
commences to rewrite his book Griswold
foes To dinner at Doctor Farnham's n
u not sure that Charlotte has not recog-
nized him.
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Griswold looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure Of a man leaning
against n Of the trees.
That is my shadow" she said. low
ering her voice; "Mr. Matthew Brof-
fin Of the Colburne Detective agency.
In New Orleans. He has a foolish idea
that I am in communication with the
man he is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who comes and goes. I
can't imagine"
you have told your father?" said
Griswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test. But 1t doesn't do any good; the
man keeps OF spying. as you see. But
We have wandered a long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that l am not fit to criticize It,"
mo; you mustn't mistake me. I
haven't been coming to you for criti-
cism," was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplaces,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, as no
thought. when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hin pNckot IN nm oufcida pocLat ~ tho
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the AXE -shading
trees had disappeared.
1t was only a few minutes after the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch.
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for a
bedtime Whit In the open air.
"You are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl" he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest. did
you find out anything more tonight?"
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was a note Of
freshly summoned hardihood in her
voice.
"We were both mistaken" she az
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. l am sorry I
told you about them. He has certain
ly been a present help in time of need
to Edward"
As before, the good little doctor had
to his pipe, and 1t was not un-
til his daughter got up to 60 in that
he said gently: "One other word, Char
lie, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about Griswold?"
Don't be absurd, papa!" she said
scornfully. passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content.
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the now quite complete fulfllment of
the wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
was going to prove to be all that the
most critical maker OF studies from
life could ask In a model; a supremely
perfect original for the character OF
Fidelia in the book. Moreover. she
would be his touchstone for the truths
and verities; ever as Margery Grier.
son might, II she were forgiving
enough to let bygones be bygones, hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
human1ties. Moreover, again, what
eyer slight danger there might have
been in o possibility Of recognition
was q danger outlived. II the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
memories in Miss Farnham. subse-
quept ones would serve only to widen
the gulf between forgetfulness and rec
objection by Just such distances as the
Wahaska Griswold should traverse in
leaving behind him the deckhand OF
the Belle Julie. .
How much this might have been
modified II he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had seen at
the window was silently tracking him
through the tree-shadowed streets is
a matter for conjecture. Also, 1t Is
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to be presumed that much. II not all,
Of the c~omplacency would have van.
ished II he could have been an Unseen
listener in the Farnham sitting.room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered of to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to,
gether under the reading lamp.
At first their talk was entirely OF
the window apparition. the daughter
insisting upon its reality. aad the ia.
Their trying to push 1t over into the
limbo Of things imagined. Driven
finally to give all the reasons for her
belief in the realities. Charlotte related
the incident Of the afternoon.
By this time the good Doctor BERTHE
had become the indignant Doctor Der,
tie.
I'VE can't have that at ALL" he said
%incisively. You did your whole duty
in that bank matter; and it was a
good deal more than most young won
en- would have done. I'm not going
to have you prosecuted and harassed-
not n minute! Where is this fell
low stopping?"
The daughter shook her head. Il
don't know. He gave me his card. but
1t has the New Orleans address only"
Give 1t to me and Ill look him up
tomorrow"
The card changed hands. and for a
few minutes neither of them spoke.
Then the daughter began again.
i've had another shock this eve.
ming, too" she said. speaking this time
in low tones and with eyes downcast.
This Mr.. Griswold-did l understand
you to say that he had lost all Of his
money!"
Yes; practically all of it," said the
father, without losing his hold upon
what a certain great London physician
was saying through the columns Of the
English medical journal.
But afterward, long after Charlotte
had gone up to her room, he remem
bered. with a curious little start OF
half-awakened puzzlement, that some
one. no longer ago than yesterday, had
told him that young Griswold was
rich-or II not rich, at least well
fixed"
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brackish waters Of sheer worldliness.
Then he saw how inadequate 1t would
be; how utterly impossible 1t was to
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
Of her own choosing.
THAT is the first really unkind
thing l have ever heard you say" was
the mild reproach which was all that
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
"Unkind to whom?-to you, or to
Miss Farnham?"
ASK yourself" he countered weak
ly. and she laughed at him.
Griswold did not reply to the laugh.
He was gathering up the scattered
pages of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When he spoke again
it was of a matter entirely irrelevant.
81 had an odd experience the other
evening" he said. 81 had been dining
with the Raymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news.
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to'sell me a pa.
per-at eleven o'clock at night! |
bought one and joked him about being
out so late; and from that on | couldn't
get rid of him. He went all the way
home with me. talking a blue streak
and acting as II he were afraid of
something or somebody. l remem
bered afterward that he is the boy who
takes care of your boat. Is there any
thing wrong with him."
Miss Grierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one of the win
dows.
Nothing that I know Of" she said.
"He is a bright boy-too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But l can ex-
plain-a little. Johnnie has taken a
violent fancy to you for some reason,
and he has fallen into the boyish habit
of weaving all sorts Of romances
around you. l think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
the hero of them. He told me the
other day that he was SURF somebody
was 'spotting' you"
Griswold looked up quickly. Miss
Grierson was still facing the window,
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
"'Spotting' mel" he laughed. Where
did he get that idea?"
How should I know? But he had
made himself believe It; he even went
SO far as to describe the man. Oh, ]
can assure you Johnnie has an imagi.
nation; I've tested It in other ways"
81 should think sol" said the man
who also had an imagination, and
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon,
BrofIin, from his post of observation on
the Winnebago porch, saw the writing
man cross the street and enter a hard.
ware shop. Having nothing better to
do, he, too, crossed the street and, in
passing. looked into the open door OF
Simmons & Kleifurt's. What he saw
brought him back at the end Of a re.
Elective stroll around the public square.
Whea he entered the shop the clerk
was putting a formidable array Of
weapons back into their showcase
inches. Brofin lounged up and began
to handle the pistols.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-10-14
CHAPTER Xxx.
Broken Links.


It was on the second day after the
plstol-buying incident in Simmons &
Kleifurt's that Brofin, wishful for soil
tude and a chance to think in perspec-
tive, took to the woods.
A letter from the New Orleans Of
flee had reopened the account of the
Bayou State Security robbery. The
mail communication was significant
but inconclusive. One Patrick Shee.
han, a St. Louis cab driver, dying, had
made confession to his priest. For a
bride of two hundred dollars he had
aided and abetted the escape Of a
criminal on a day and date correspond
ing to the mid-April arrival Of the
steamer Belle Julie at st. Louis. After
ward he had driven the man to an up
town hotel name not given. He could
not recall the mans name. But the
destination address, "Wahaska, Min
nesota," was submitted with the con-
fession.
Brofin felt himself short-sighted
from the very nearness of things. The
single necessity now vas for absolute
and unsuitable Identification. To es-
tablish this, three witnesses. and three
only, could be called upon. or the
three, two had failed signally-Miss
Farnham because she had her own
reasons for blocking the game, and
President Galbraith -. That was an
other chapter in the book Of failure.
Broffin had learned that the president
was stopping at the De Soto Inn, and
he had Unanswered to bring Mr.. CAL
braith face to face with Griswold in
the Grierson bank on the day after the
pistol-buying. To his astonishment
and disgust the president had shaken
his head irritably, adding a rebuke.
INA, ma, man; your trade makes We
over-suspicious. That's Mr.. Griswold.
the WATERMAN and a friend Of the
Griersons. Miss Madge was telling
me about him last week. He's no more
like the robber than you are. Haven't
I told We the man was bearded like a
tyke?"
With two of the three eye-witnesses
refusing to testify, there remained
only johnson, the paying teller Of the
Bayou State Security. Broffln was
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of wiring
for johnson when he passed the last
Of the houses on the lakeside drive
and struck into the country road which
led by cool and shaded forest wind.
ings to the resort hotel at the head of
the southern bay. Presently a vehicle
overlook and passed him. 1t was Miss
Grierson's trap, drawn by the big Eng
lish trap.horse, with Miss Grierson her.
self holding the reins and Raymer
lounging comfortably in the spare
seat.
Half an hour later Brofin had fol-
lowed the huge footprints of the
great English trap-horse to the drive
way portal Of the De Soto grounds
where they were lost on the pebbled
carriage approach. Strolling on
through the grounds into the lake
fronting lobby of the inn, he went in
search of Miss Grierson. He found
her on the broad veranda, alone, and
for the moment unoccupied. How to
make the attack so direct and SO over
whelming that 1t could not be with
stood was the only remaining ques-
ton; and Brofin had answered 1t to
his own satisfaction, and was advanc-
ing through an open French window
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A DOCTORS EXPERIENCE
Medicine Not Needed In This Case.

1t is hard to convince some people
that coffee does them an injury! They
lay their bad feelings to almost every
cause but the true and unsupported
one.
But the doctor knows. His wide ex.
p%erience has proven to him that, to
some systems, coffee is an insidious
poison that undermines the health.
Ask him IL coffee is a cause Of con-
stipation, stomach and nervous trou-
bles.
81 have been a coffee drinker all my
life, and when taken sick two years
ago with nervous prostration, the doc
tor said that my nervous system was
broken down and that I would have to
give up coffee.
Il got SO weak and shaky I could
not work, and reading an advertise
ment Of Postum I asked my grocer II
he had any Of it. He said, Yes and
that he used 1t in his family and 1t
was all 1t claimed to be.
so l quit coffee and commenced to
use Postum steadily, and in about two
weeks I could sleep better and get up
in the morning feeling fresh. In about
two months l began to gain flesh. I
weighed only 146 pounds when l com
menced on Postum and now / weigh
1877 and feel better than I did at 20
years Of age.
II am working every day and sleep
well at night. My two children were
coffee drinkers, but they have not
drank any since Postum came into the
house, and are far more healthy than
they were before" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereaI-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and 25c pack.
ages.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
dissoIves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter. and with cream and sugar, makes
n. delicious beverage instantly. 500
and scG tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers
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underfoot, as he was always obliged to
do in these talks with her. Il should
be discouraged II you didn't keep on
telling me that the story. as a story.
is good"
1T is good; II is a big story" she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
The plot, so far as you have gone
with 1t. is fine; and that is where you
leave me away behind. l don't see
how you could ever think 1t out. And
the character drawing is fine. too,
some Of it. Your Fleming is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia seems to
be beyond you"
You don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fideliag"
Not as you have drawn her-no.
She is too unutterably fine. II she
had n single shred of humanity about
her, I should suspect you of meaning
to fall In love with her, farther along
to the humiliation and despair of poor
Joan, who. as you say, is a mere daugh'
ter Of men"
But how about Joan?" he fretted.
rs she out OF drawing. toor"
Yes; you are distorting her the
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then. with an
a~bruptness that wal like a slap in the
face: III you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Bertie's. You would
get both Fidelia and Joan in better
drawing"
He flushed and drew himself up,
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some singing retort con.
trasting the wells of truth with the
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-10-14
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls,

Within a week from the day when
Raymer, angrily jubilant. had rescued
his imperiled stock. 1t was pretty gen.
orally known that Kenneth Griswold.
the writing man, had become the
fourth member in the close corpora
tion of the Raymer Foundry and Ma
chine works, and Wahaska was ca
gerly discussing the business affair in
all its possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory of the
Pineboro railroad.
OF all this buzzing of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing. Digging deeply
in the inspiration field, Griswold speed
lily became oblivious to most Of his en-
compassments: to all Of them, indeed.
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
quent evenings spent in the Farnham
home. He was using each of the
young women as a foil for the other
in the outworking Of his plot; and he
welcomed 1t as a sign of growth that
the story in its new form was acquir-
ing verisimilitude and becoming CRATE
fully, and at times. he persuaded him
self, quite wildly. human.
When he got well into the swing of
it and vas turning out a chapter every
three or four days, he fell easily into
the habit Of slipping the last Install
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside. Margery Grierson was add.
ing generously to his immense obliga-
ton to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, he found a helpful
collaboration. More than once, when
his own imagination was at fault, she
was able to open new vistas in the
humanities for him. apparently draw.
ing upon a reserve of intuitive ON
illusions compared with which his W
hard.bought store Of experimental
knowledge a almost puerile.
Il wish You would tell me the secret
Of your marvellous cleverness," he ex.
claimed, on one Of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her in
the cool half-shadows Of the Mereside
library. you are only a child in
years; how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con-
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
beyond mel"
There are many things beyond you
yet, dear boy; many, many things"
was her laughing r%ejoinder; from
which 1t will be inferred that the cpl.
sode in the Farmers and Merchant
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. you
know men-a little; but when 1t comes
to the women well, II ! didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two heroines-with neither of whom
you are really in love-would degen-
crate into rag dolls. They would, ac-
tually."
That's true; ! a see 1t clearly
enough when you point 1t out" he ad.
mitted. putting his craftsman pride