Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-03

son had left her seat and was pacing
a slow march up and down. That she
had not seen him became fact suffi'
ciently well-assured when she sal
down again and began to speak tC
Griswold.
How is the new partnership going
by this ,time?" she asked, after the
manner Of one who rewinnows the
chaff of tn, commonplaces in the hope
of finding grain enough for the immedi'
ate need.
$50 far as Grierson is concerned
you wouldn't notice that there Is
partnership" laughed tho iron founder
II can't make him galvanize an atom
of interest in his investment. All
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 a good fellow;
that's all l know, and all ask TO
know" answered Raymer Loyalty.
Il believe that-now," said his COM
panion, with the faintest possible en-
phasis 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 things as If 1t
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 it very well,
and admitted it.
Yes; remember it all very clearly
Also l 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" r. Ter suggested.
I'm cor to that. This escape
w read al happened on 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.. Grierson
was a passenger on that same train? p
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 I am
telling you, Mr.. Raymer, is in the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let a
breath of it get out. But that wasn't
all. Mr.. Grierson was dreadfully sick
and, of course, he couldn't tell us any
thing about himself. But while he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money, money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't find, or
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get well, Doctor Ber-
tie and / ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell us who he was and where
he came from. There wasn't the lit
tlest thing!"
And that was when you began to
suspect" queried Raymer.
That was when the suspicion be-
gan to torture me. / fought it; oh,
you don't know how hard l fought it,!
There he was, lying sick and helpless;
utterly unable to do a thing or say a
word in his own defense; and yet, if
he were the robber, of course, we
should have given him up. 1t was ter
rible!"
Il should say so,' was Raymer's
sympathetic comment. How did you
get it Strengthened out, at last?"
1T hasn't been altogether straight
ened out until just lately-within the
past few days." she went on gravely.
After he began to get well. made
him talk to me-about himself, you
know. There didn't seem to be any
thing to conceal. At different times
he told me all about his home, and his
mother, whom he barely remembers
and the big-hearted, Open-handed ia =
ther who made money so easily in his
profeSsion-he was the Griswold the
great architect, you know-that he
gave it to anybody who wanted it
but suppose he has told you all this?'
mo; at least, not very much of it, VI
Miss Grierson went on smoothly
falling sympathetically into the remi-
niscent vein.
Kenneth went to college without
ever having known what it was to lack
anything i'm reason that money could
buy. A little while after he was gradu-
ated his father died"
Leaving Kenneth poor. l suppose;
he has intimated as much to me, once
or twice" said Raymer.
Leaving him awfully poor. He
wanted to learn to write and for a
long time he stayed on in New York
living just any old way. and having a
dreadfully hard time of it, l imagine
though he would never say much
about that part Of it. That is why he
thinks he is a socialist. At last felt
that l just must know, at whatever
cost. One day when we were driving
brought him here and-and intro
duced him to Mr.. Galbraith. l was st
scared that l could taste it-but l did
it,"
Raymer laughed. "Of course nothing
came of it?"
Nothing at all. And then, right out
of a clear sky came another proof that
was even more convincing. Do you
happen to know who the young woman
was who discovered the bank rObbel