The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-09
CHAPTER XX-Continued.

And that was when you began to
suspect?' queried Raymer.
That was when the suspicion be-
gan to torture me. l fought it; oh,
you don't know how hard l fought it!
There he was, lying sick and helpless;
utterly unable to do thing or say a
word in his own defense; and yet, if
he were the robber, of course, we
should have to give him up. 1t was
terrible!"
Il should say So" was Raymer's
sympathetic comment. How did you
&c; it Strengthened out, at last?"
1T hasn't been altogether straight
2ned out until just lately-within the
past few days. she went on gravely.
After he began to get we'll, made
him talk to me-about himself you
know. There didn't seem to be any
hing to conceal. At different times
ne told me all about his home, and his
mother, whom he barely remembers,
and the big-hearted, open-handed ia
her who made money so easily in his
professionals was the Griswold, the
great architect, you know-that he
gave it to anybody who wanted it
out suppose he has told you all this ?"
No; at least, not very much of it,
Miss Grierson went on smoothly,
falling sympathetically into the remi-
liscent, vein.
Kenneth went to college without
ever having known what it is to lack
anything in reason that money could
)uy. A little while after he was gradu-
ated his father died."
Leaving Kenneth poor, l suppose;
Re has intimated as much to me, once
)r twice." said Raymer.
Leaving him awfully poor. He
wanted to learn to write and for
ong time he stayed on in New York,
living just any old way, and having a
ireadfully hard time of it, l imagine,
,hough he would never say much
about that part of it. That is why he
kinks he is socialist. At last felt
hat I just must know, at whatever
cost. One day when we were driving,
brought him here and-and intro
luced him to Mr.. Galbraith. was so
scared that / could taste it-but did
IT,"
Raymer laughed. "Of course moth
ing came of it,"
Nothing at all. And then, right out
If clear sky, came another proof that
was even more convincing. Do you
happen to know who the young woman
was who discovered the bank robber
IN the steamboat"
II? How should l know"
6! didn't know but she had told you,"
was the demure rejoinder 1T was
Charlotte Farnha ~"
What" CALCULATED Raymer. But
he was rot more deeply moved than
was the man bei!.nd the window cur
tains. If Brof1in's dead cigar had not
been already reduced to shapeless in
utility, Miss Grierson's cool announce
ment, carrying with it the assurance
that his secret was no secret, would
have settled it.
IT'S So" she was adding calmly. 81
found out. How do know? Because
her father bought the draft at poppa's
bank, and in the course of time it
came back with the Bayou State Sc
curity's dated paying stamp on it. See
how easy it was!"
Raymer's laugh was not altogether
mirthful
You are WITCH" he said. rs
there anything you don't know"
mot very many things that l really
need to know" was the mildly boast
full retort. But you see, now, how
foolish my suspicious WERE"
Raymer nodded. Though he would
not have admitted it under torture, the
entire matter figured somewhat as a
mountain constructed out of a rather
small molehill to man for whom the
subtleties lay in a region unexplored
He wondered that the clear-minded
little social climber" as his sister
called her, had ever bothered her
nimble brain about such an sabstruse
and far-fetched question of identities.
. You said, a few minutes ago, that
: Gr:swArd calls himself a socialist. That