Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-07-28
CHAPTER x1v-continued.

yOO!' demanded the older q Can I
you take my word for it that he is all
tions?"
mo. I've got to know"
Then. my boy, you'll have to get
your information from someone else"
by heaven, Adam Carr. If he tries
to marry my sister, I'll kill him!"
Il wouldn't say that, Eric"
Adam turned on him, with the first
touch OF coldness the young man had
ever known him to reveal.
stop right there. Consider we'll be-
fore you condemn any man, or any
mans mother" There was a clear and
unmistakable meaning in his words.
Eric flushed and then turned deathly
pale.
Stop the cab!" he said. hoarse with
Let me out. 1 say"
Adam smiled. a trifle YEARLY, but
with a certain wistful g%entleness that
did not fail to appeal to the %hotheaded
kerchief and cleared the moisture from
his brow-moisture that might not have
been left there by the fine, penetrating
drizzle.
Are you about to forget, Eric. that
W. are friends?" he asked quietly.
"Forgive me for what I said just now.
It was the only way to bring you to
allude to 1t again. Now, If you'll sit
there quietly. I'll tell you about Mary.
It's quite natural that she should ad-
mire John PaysOn. He's an ideal type
OF American. He's good looking and
he does things. They say that Of Pres
ldent Roosevelt: he does things. They
don he's good looking. but that's
of no cOnSan11nnca He crni1oA In hic
queer. mirthless way. "She turned to
Jack when Horace turned against him.
That was quite natural. too. Mrs.
Blagden maintains to this day, with a
sort of secret way of impressing her
views without actually uttering them
IN sc words. that young Payson
was really at the bottom OF the bank
robberies, and that 1 put up the job on
her son for reasons of my own. What's
more, she believes that Jack knows
something of Chetwynd's whereabouts.
A mothers Authorization. or something
of that sort. Well. when Jack and
Mary met each other a year or two
ago..l Introduced them at my daddy's
eate-house-she was a bit cold toward
him. You see. h had always been a
lady. right from the day of her birth,
and Jack a only been q man from
n day of his coming into the world.
1t takes a lady a long time to over
come a prejudice against the Kind Of q
CHAP she has been brought up to con-
slider nothing blu a man.
II believe YOU friend, Miss Bright,
mas never quite come to that way of
looking at things. She doesn't know
It is the man In o that she admires;
she thinks 1t Is the gentleman. But
that's beside the question. 1 must be
geeting old. / talk so much.
In course of time. Mary came to see
something she liked in Jack. He is 10
years older than she and he's had hard
knocks enough to make him seem even
older than that to her. He
You introduced him to her?" broke
In Eric hotly. You arranged it, I'll
stake my head"
lily. 1T just happened. Fate, 1 dare
say: She wasn't long in finding that
ned made good in New York. Some
OF his friends happen to be actresses.
That was enough to condemn him in
Corinth. They don't like actresses
there. They like 'em in the phono-
graph. bat not in the flesh. Well. Jack
VINO are not actresses. but who admire
THESE stage women for what they are
bright. clever. true women who fight
just as shy Of evil as their sisters do
IN Corinth, but without going to prayer
melting once q week for instructions.
slorac Blagden couldn't believe his
senses. He
stepped in as Mary's guardian and o
her to drop Jack and his we'll dressed
friends. I don't blame him altogether.
mind you. He thought he was acting
Tor her best interests. % he
= written you about all this. They
tell me he isn't AZ narrow az he used
g be. y he could forget that he IL
Horace Blagden for q little while, he
mtght he a. WiN0r man. TsO ANU thof Fnr