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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-11-11

| to be presumed that much. IL not all,
of the complacency would have van
ished If he could have been an unseen
listener in the Farnham sitting-room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered off 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, and the Ia
ther 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 Be~
tie.
I'VE can't have that at ALL" he said
incisively. You did your whole duty
in that bank matter; and 1t was a
good deal more than most young wom-
en- would have done. I'm not going
to have you prosecuted and harassed-
hOl OuS ullhulcs w hOAC IN eAAo 49,
low stopping?"
The daughter shook her head. Il
don't know. He gave me his card. but
II has the New Orleans address only"
Give 1t to me and I'll 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"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-11-11
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,
900 In cash. BY original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as a deckhand. Charlotte
Farnham of Wahaska, Mimi. who had
seen him cash Galbraiths check In the
bank. recognizes him, and sends letter
Of betrayal to Galbraith anonymously
Griswold is arrested on the arrival OF the
boat at st. Louis. but escapes from his
captors. He decides on Wahaska, Mimi,
as hiding place, and after Quitting
himself properly. takes the train. Girls
void falls Ill on the sleeper and is cared
for and taken TO her home in Wahaska
by Margery Grierson. daughter OF Jasper
Grierson, the financial magnate OF Wa
haska. Margery finds the stolen money
in Griswold's suitcase. Broffin, detective
takes the trail Margery asks her father
10 get Edward Raymer into financial hot
water and then help him out OF II. Girls
void RECEIVERS to find the stolen money
gone. He meets Margerys social circle
iron manufacture. Broffin comes to Wa
haska in search OF the woman who wrote
the anonymous letter to Galbraith. Mar
gerry takes Grlswold TO the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen money over to
him. Charlotte bluffs out Broffin and
Margery begins 20 watch him. Griswold
puts his money In Raymer's plant and
commences to rewrite his book. Griswold
goes to dinner at Doctor Farnham's and
is not sure that Charlotte has not recog-
nized him.
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Griswoid looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure Of a man leaning
against one 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 foolish idea
that 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. l
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 on spying. as you see. But
we have wandered long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not fit to criticize It."
mo; you mustn't mistake me. l
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 he
thought, when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one Of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the lake-shading
trees had disappeared.
II was only 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 whiff 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 tonightT'
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was note OF
freshly summoned hardihood in her
voice
I'VE were both mistaken" she af-
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. ! am sorry |
told you about them. He has certain
ly been present help in time of need
to Edward"
AS before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe. and 1t was not un-
til his daughter got up to go 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
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I'm coming to that. TDs escape
we read about happened Cd a certain
day in April. 1t was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida, and we took the eleven.
thirty train north that night. You
haven't forgotten that Mr.. Griswold
was a passenger on that same train?"
But. goodness gracious. Miss Mar.
gerry! any number Of people were pas
sengers on that train. You surely
wouldn't"
"Hush!" she said. and through the
lace window hangings Broffin saw her
lift a warning finger. What l am
telling you. Mr.. Rayner. Is In the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let a
breath of 1t get out. BIT that wasn't
all. Mr.. Griswold was dreadfuly sick
and, Of course, he couldn't tell us any.
thing about himself. But WHIT he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money. money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't find. OF
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get we'll. Doctor Ber-
tie and ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tau us who he was and where
ae came nom. There wasn't the lit
usst thingl'
eTo BIT coxrlNypcJ
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-11-11
HIS SILENCE A COMPLIMENT
Too Many Men Are Apt to Make the
Mistake That ls Record I'd Of
This Husband.

The coffee was weak, the bread un.
derdone, and the fowl tough, or at
least he said so. His wife's long pa
thence gave way.
John Henry" said she. i've tried
faithfully to cook to suit you for
twelve long years. No one in the town
has better-cooked food, yet you are
always finding fault. Why can't you
praise me once in while. Id like to
know"
He looked up in establishment.
well. II you amt the most unrea-
sonable woman / ever saw" he ejacu-
lated. why. many and many is the
time ", sat down to a meal and new.
er said word about 1t. Anybody
would know there wasn't any fault
to be found. or I'd a found 1t, and
yet you want better compliment than
that! That's just like woman-they
can't tell compliment when they get
one!"
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ur derfoot. as he was always obliged TO
do In these talks with her. 81 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 II out. And
the character drawing is fine, too,
some OF 1t. Your Fleming is as far
beyond me as your Fidela seems to
be beyond YOU"
you don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fidelia?"
mot as you have drawn her-no
She Is too unutterably fine. II she
had a single shred of humanity about
her. 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 mere daugh'
ter of men,"
But how about Joan?" he fretted
rs she out Of drawing, too?"
Yes; you are distorting her the
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then. with an
abruptness that was like a slap in the
face: IF 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
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mrect,y behind Mis- eriersop's chair

directly behind Mis- Griersop's chair
to put the answer into effect. when the
opportunity was snatched away. Ray.
mer. his business apparently conclud'
ed. came down the veranda and took
the chair next to Miss Grierson's.
Brofin dropped back into the writ
ing-room alcove for which the open
French window was the outlet and sat
down to bide his time.
Its a shame to make you wait this
way, Miss Madge. McMurtry said he
had an appointment with Mr.. Gal
braith for three o'clock. and he had to
go to keep It. But he ought to be
down again by this time. Don't wait
for me II you want to go back to town.
l can get lift from somebody"
THAT would be nice. wouldn't it,"
was the good-natured retort. ITO make
you tie up your own horse in town
and then leave you stranded away out
, here three miles from nowhere
think l see myself doing such thing!
Besides, haven't thing to do but
wait"
Broffin shifted the extinct cigar he
was chewing from one corner Of his
mouth to the other and pulled his soft
hat lower over his eyes. He. too, could
wait There was a little stir on the
veranda; rustling Of silk petticoats
and the click Of small heels on the
hardwood floor. Broffin could not for.
bear the peering peep around the shell
tering window draperies. Miss Grier'
son had left her seat and was pacing
= slow march up and down. That she
had not seen him became a fact sufii'
ciently well-assured when she sat
down again and began to speak to
Griswold.
How is the new partnership going,
by this timer" she asked. after the
manner of one who rewinnows the
chaff OF the commonplace In the hope
OF finding grain enough for the immedi.
ate need.
so far as Griswold Is concerned.
you wouldn't notice that there is a
partnership" laughed the iron
founder. II can't make him galvanize
an atom of interest in his investment.
All l can get out OF him is, Don't
bother me; I'm busy"
"Mr. Griswold is In a class by him.
self don't you Think" was the ques'
tioning comment.
HE is all kinds of good fellow;
that's all l know, and all l ask to
know" answered Raymer Loyalty.
81 believe that-now." said his com
panion. with the faintest possible en-
phass upon the time-word.
Broffin marked the emphasis and
the pause that preceded it. and leaned
forward to miss no word.
Meaning that there was a time
when you didn't believe it?" Raymer
asked.
Meaning that there was a time
when he had me scared half to death"
confessed the one who seemed always
to say the confidential thing as If II
were the most trivial do you remem.
Der one day in the library. when you
found me looking over the file of the
newspapers for the story of the rob-
berry of the Bayou State Security bank
in New Orleans?"
Raymer remembered 1t very we'll
and admitted 1t.
Yes; | remember 1t all very clearly.
Also I recollect how the second news
paper notice told how the robber es
capped from the officers at st. Louis,
But you haven't told me how you were
scared" Raymer suggested.
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the now quite complete fulfllment of
the wishing prophecy. Mss Farnham
was going to prove to be all that the
most critical maker of studies from
life could ask in rAodel; a supremely
perfect original for the character OF
Fidelia in the book. Moreover, she
would be his touchstone for the truths
and verities; even as Margery Grier-
son might, II she were forgiving
enough to let bygones be bygones, hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
humanities. Moreover, again, what.
svor slight danger there might have
been IN a possibility OF recognition
was a danger outlived. II the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
memories in Miss Farnham, suisse
Quent ones would seTys only to widen
the gh:f 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 muct this might have been
raodifled II b mad snown that the man
,~hose face Miss FarnhHm had seer at
the window was silently tracking him
through thu iree-shadowed streets Is
, matter for santea.rs, Also. &c y
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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 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
Il had an odd experience the other
evening"" he said. Il 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. 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 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. think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
other day that he was sure 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' me-" he laughed. where
did he get that idea?"
How should 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 1t in other ways
IT should think sol" said the man
who also had an Imagination, and
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon
Broffin. 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-
iective stroll around the public square
When he entered the shop the clerk
was putting formidable array OF
weapons back into their showcase
aches. Brofin lounged up and began
- Aapdla tbs pistoA
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-11-11
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.

FlIdlhs
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
ton 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 obllvious 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 verlsimilitude and becoming CRATE
fully, and at times. he persuaded him.
self, quite wildly, human.
When he got we'll into the swing of
1t and was turning out 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
Mereslde. Margery Grierson was add
ing generously to his immense obliga-
ton to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, he found 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 con-
illusions compared with which his own
hard.bought store OF experimental
knowledge was 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 rejoinder; from
which 1t will be inferred that the epi-
sode in the Farmers and Merchants
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. you
know men-a little; but when II comes
to the women well, II | didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two heroines-with neither OF whom
yau are really In love-would degen.
Q, ate into rag dolls. They would, &C.
tually."
That's true; can sac Il clearly
enough when you point II out he 81
nittsd putunS his craftsmAs pnc.
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CHAPTER Xxx.
Broken Links.


II was on the second day after the
pistol-buying incident In Simmons G.
Kleifurt's that Broffin. wishful for soil
tude and a chance to think in perspec-
tive, took to the woods.
A letter from the New Orleans Of
fee 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.
Broffln felt himself short-sighted
from the very nea-ness OF things. The
single necessity now was for absolute
and unshakable 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 E. That was an
other chapter In the book Of failure.
Brofln had learned that the president
was stopping at the De Soto Inn, and
he had Unanswered TO bring Mr.. Gal
braith face to face with Griswold in
the Grierson bank on the day after the
pistol-buying. To his establishment
and disgust the president had shaken
his head irritably. adding rebuke.
INA, ma, man; your trade makes ye
over-suspicious. That's Mr.. Griswold,
the writer-man 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
/ told ye the man was bearded like a
tykeT
With two OF the three eye-witnesses
refusing to testify, there remained
only Johnson, the paying teller OF the
Bayou State Security. Broffin was
considering the ACCESSIBILITY OF wiring
Tor 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. II was Miss
Grierson's trap, drawn by the big Eng
lish trap-horse, with Miss Grierson her
sci. holding the reins and Raymer
sounging comfortably In the spare
seat.
Half an hour later Brorin 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
whelmins mat Il could not be with.
stood was the only remaining qucs-
ton; and Broffin had answered 1t to
ais own satisfaction, and was advanc-
.NR through en- oman French window