The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-27

Gentlemen" he said, Fifteen years from {
The world to her feet-and
swered. moved theoretically upon the house.
and from the maid who answered the bell
inquired for the latest bulletin of Mrs Ames-
bury. He stepped forward as If to enter the
house. and the servant made the least show
in the world of shutting the door in his face.
Professor Stilliter turned reluctantly away
and heard the closing of the door.
At that moment a buggy driven furiously
stopped at the front gate, and, thanks to his
glasses. which gave his helpless eyes an al
most hawk-like vision, Professor Stilliter
recognized DR.. Wainwright. old acQuafnt-
ance. If not friend.
"Glad to see you," said Professor Stilliter.
Are you in charge here?"
EYES," said DR.. Wainwright.
Then you help me, nobody else
can. I never knew Amesbury. / don't know
his wife, but a eugenist I was immensely
interested in their marriage. and / have a
deep scientific interest in seeing the daugh-
ter. Now at such time this could not
very well force myself upon the household.
but If you could slip in with you as a
consulting physician l will be Immensely
Obliged to you and there will be talk
of splitting fees"
DR.. Wainwright smiled and nodded
The object of Professor stilliter's interest
was not hard to find. She was seated. for
lorn and disconsolate. upon the bottom step
of the front STAIR DR.. Wainwright picked
her up in his arms and kissed her. He made
her shake hands with Professor Stilliter. He
told her that Professor Stilliter was very
fond of little girls, and wouldn't she do her
best to entertain him. while he himself was
with her mother upstairs?.
Professor stilliter could not conceal the
hat he
him. and that his appearance did not furnish
her with the same delight affected him no
more than ducks back is affected by water.
She had been too we'll brought up. and car
red her three four years with too much
dignity to run from him and hide, her in
stincts prompted her. She did not resist when
he lifted her from the floor asked her age
and said, MY. how heavy she vast! She
WINGED little and flinched little when he
prodded her arms and chest and felt with
evident admiration the firm and chubby
calves of her legs. and when he made her
open her mouth and looked In and murmured,
Colossal" But when he asked wouldn't
she show him the pretty house in which she
'fved. she did so gladly, for it seemed to put
an end to being handled.
For his immediate purpose Professor STILL
ter did not need to penetrate beyond the
cheerful living room, for here his eyes at
once singled out from many three photo
graphs, In which Justice had pretty nearly
been done. not only to his small companion.
but to her famous father and her mother.
What is that funny thing the piano?'
asked Professor Stilliter. The little girl
looked in the direction indicated. and told
him that 1t was Chinese "ephelent."
During the moment in which he had sue
ceeded in diverting her attention the young
man had slipped the three photographs In
their folded leather frame into one Of his
capacious pockets. His mission in the house
rcd 1or obi ri I've I'm
a kiss This was thing which, 1t seemed
to her, she could neither accord nor refuse
She simply burst into tears. The Professor
shrugged his great shoulders, grunted like
pig and abruptly took his departure.
Still weeping the little girl found her way
to a plaza that opened off the living ROOM
Here she seated herself very small chair
that was her very and kept crying
until she had almost forgotten what she was
crying about
Tommy Barclay, still lingering about the
premises traced the infantile walls to their
sources. The sight of his sympathetic face
above the veranda railing, across which he
had thrown one leg. started tears again. for
he was her best friend in the world, and she
wished to tell him all about the wicked man
with the black-rimmed spectacles. Tommy
took her on his knees and listened and gave
comfort Presently he took from his pocket
a little rag doll, and very shyly. for now that
he looked at it again, it seemed poor gift.
he offered 1t to her.
There was silence in the room. at once so
rich and depressed In it's holdings and fur.
nishinss, where Gordon Barclay received and
gave orders to such of his fellow mfllo naires
as in his confidence.
Semmes and Sturtevant. of all men. deepest
in his confidence, were strangely moved The
great man for once had not been dealing with
facts. but with fancies. Very quietly and
earnestly he had been painting for them that
terrific future to which, as he saw 1t, the rest
less forces of the world were driving
1t may have been that the OF