Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-28
CHAPTER Xx-Continued.

"And that was when you began to
Suspect?" queried Raymer.
THAT was when the suspicion be-
gan to torture me. fought 1t; oh,
you don't know how hard | fought it!
There he was, lying sick and helpless;
utterly unable to do thing or say
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
get 1t 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
professionals was the Griswold, the
great architect, you know-that he
gave 1t to anybody who wanted it
but suppose he has told you all this?'
mo; at least. not very much of ii"
Miss Grierson went on smoothly,
falling sympathetically into the remi.
niscent vein.
Kenneth went to college without
ever having known what 1t Is to lack
anything in reason that money could
buy. A little while after he was gradu-
ated his father died"
Leaving Kenneth poor, 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 1t. imagine,
though he would never say much
about that part of 1t. That is why he
thinks he is a socialist. At last l felt
that 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 80
scared that could taste it-but did
I'll"
Raymer laughed. "Of course moth
ing came Of it?"
Nothing at all. And then, right out
Of 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
on the steamboat"
II? How should know"
"ldidn't know but she had told you,
was the demure rejoinder. 1T was
Charlotte Farnham."
What" calculated Raymer. But
he was not more deeply moved than
was the man behind the window cur
tains. If Broffins dead cigar had moi
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 1t.
IT'S So" she was adding calmly. Z"
found out How do know? Because
her father bought the draft at poppa's
bank, and in the course of time 4
came back with the Bayou State Sc
curitys dated paying stamp on it, Sc,
how easy 1t was!"
Raymer's laugh was not altogethe
mirthful.
"You are WITCH" he said. IL
there anything you don't known"
mot very many things that reall,
need to know" was the mildly boast
full retort. But you see. now, how
foolish my suspicious WERE"
Raymer nodded. Though he woul,
not have admitted 1t under torture, tn
entire matter figured somewhat as
mountain constructed out of a rattle
small molehill to man for whom tn
subtleties lay in region UNEMPLOYED
He wondered that the clear-minde,
little social climber" as his siste
Itkr.Ied her, had ever bothered he
imble brain about such an abstrus
and far.fetched question Of identities
"You said, few minutes ago. tina
REiKKnld Gala himself socialist. Tha