The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-29
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Haven't i always been fail with
Tou2" demanded the older man. Cant
right, without demanding explana-
tons?"
mo, i've got to know"
Then. my boy. you'll have to get
by heaven. Adam Carr. IL he tries
to marry my sister, I'll kill himl"
at wouldn't say that, Eric"
II mean II. Curse him, ! won't have
my sister"
Adam turned on him, with the first
touch Of GOODNESS the young man had
ever known him to reveal
stop right there. Consider well be-
fore you condemn any man, or any
N mans mother" There was a clear and
Eric flushed and then turned deathly
pale.
stop the cab!" he said, hoarse with
q sudden rage toward the speaker.
Let me out. l say" M
Adam smiled. a trifle YEARLY, but
with a certain wistful gentleness that
81 did not fail to appeal to the hotheaded
young traveller, He took out his hand
kerchief and cleared the moisture from
his brow-moisture that might not have
been left there by the fine, penetrating
drizzle.
Are you about to forget. Eric, tina
we are ~friends?" he asked quietly.
Forgive me for what / said just now
1t was the only way to bring you to
time; as the saytns goes; Wen nr never yt
there quietly, I'll tell you about Mary.
It's quite natural that she should ad-
mire John Payson. He's an ideal type
Of American. He's good looking and
he does things. They say that os Pres
ident Roosevelt: he does things. They
don't say he's good looking. but that's
of no consequence" He smiled in his
queer, mirthless way. she turned to
Jack when Horace turned against him.
nat was quite natural, too. Mrs.
Blagden maintains to this day, with a
sort OF secret way of impressing her
views without actually uttering them
In so many words, that young Payson
was really at the bottom Of the bank
robberies, and that I put UP the job on
her son for reasons OF my own. What's
more, she believes that Jack knows
something Of Chetwynd's whereabouts.
A mothers hallucination, or something
of that sort. Well, when Jack and
Mary met each other a year or two
ago.-I introduced them at my daddy's
gate-house-she was a bit cold toward
him.. You see, she had always been a
lady, right from the day Of her birth,
and Jack had only been q man from
the day Of his coming into the world.
It takes a lady q long time to over
come a prejudice against the kind OF q
chap she has been brought up to con-
slider nothing but a nan "
nX y DeuSVe your ITlenQ, MISS brlBnL,
has never quite come 20 that way Of
looking at things. She doesn't know
It is the man in you that she admires;
she thinks 1t Is the gentleman But
that's beside the question. / mi be
getting bid, I talk SO much. ..I
I'm course OF time. Mary came to see
something she liked in lack. He Is 10
years older than she and he's had hard
knocks enough to make him seem even
older than that to her. He"
~. HgVA.a snkwAI,an.I 49, a. AN.0V AaAlrA
in Eric hotly. You arranged 1t, I'll
stake my head"
az well, hardly that" said Adam cas-
lily. ut just happened. Fate, 1 dare
say. She wasn't long in finding that
he'd made good in New York. Some
Of his friends happen to be. actresses.
That was enough to condemn him in
Corinth. They don't like actresses
there. They like 'em IN the phono-
graph. but not In the flesh. Well, Jack
who are not actresses, but who admire
these stage women for what they are
bright, clever, true women who fight
Just as shy OF evil as their sisters do
In Corinth, but without going to prayer
meeting once a week for instructions
Horace Blagden couldn't believe his
senses. He HHr AHD
stepped in as Mary's guardian and told
her to drop Jack n his well dressed
friends. / don't blame him altogether,
Of. AAAAAA = w. - az "oo y
for her best interests. 1 suppose he
has written you about all this. They
tell me he isn't as narrow as he used
to be. If he could forget that he Is
Horace Blagden for a little while, he
might be a wiser man. I'll say that for
him, even though / despise him.
He figures that Jack Is a schemer,
that he means to marry Mary and
above all-that he wants to get hold
Of her money. Well, q few weeks ago,
as you know. she became OF age. He
wasn't satisfied with her promise to
leave her money affairs In his hands,
Just as you nave DONE, but he must
regulate everything else for her. She
wouldn't sign an agreement, SO he
took II to mean that ooner or later
she'd let Jack make other Investments
for her. He put his foot down hard
a fortnight ago. Said that Jack was
not At to keep company with her.
Mary couldn' stand Ii. She eloped
with Jack. .
"Eloped." groaned Eric. Are they
married?
No." said Adam complacently.
The internal scoundrel," ragged Eric,
beating his clenched fists together.
And you try to defend him! oh. my
poor little Mary! My poor"
IT wasn't that kind OF an elope;;
him to take her to the home of Mrs.
Kendrick In New York-a mutual
friend, and a very noble woman. He
did it, that's all. She's there now, and
my father has a letter for you at the
gate house, explaining everything. You
needn't worry. She won't come to harm
not AT the hands of Jack Payson. He
wants to marry her. That ought to
satisfy you. Men don't wrong the
women they really want to marry. It's
not in the game. They wrong the oneS
they dom want to marry"
Il must see her at once. Whst
does this Mrs. Kendrick live? Hep
cabbyi Pull up a minute. Tell hin.
where to go, Mr.. Adam"
The young man was shivering with
the signs OF dread and excitement.
I'VE will go to the Holland house
and then you'll take the evening train
for Corinth," said Adam dictatorially.
Eric's energetic protests met with a
calm stolidity on the part of his
friend. Jack Payson will meet o
at my fathers cottage in the morning,
after you have read Mary's letter. It
is his place to put the matter square,
II" ~