Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-26
CHAPTER II. Continued
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CHAPTER II. (Continued.)
Man came this afternoon and paint
ed out her old name Changed it t
Lileth. Mighty suspicious
WHAT was the old name?'
"The Lady Evelyn. If I was you,
I'd get outside drink, and quick.
Good night"
AZ Minot dashed up the bank, he
heard the swish Of the old mans oars
behind. He ran all the way to his
i rooms, and after hot bath and the
liquid refreshment suggested by the
Waterman, called Mr.. Thacker on the
. Telephone. a
well, Richard?" that gentleman in
quired.
Sad news. Little Cupid's had set
back. Tossed into the Hudson when
he tried to board the yacht that Is tax
ing Lord Harrowby south
mo? Is that sou Mr.. Thackers
& tone was contemplatiye. Well Rich
ard, the Palm Beach Special leaves at
midnight Better be on it, Better go
down and help the bride with her trou-
seau.''
Yves, sir I'll do that. And I'll
see to It that she has her lamp trim
med and burning. Considering that
Her fathers in the oil business, that
ought not to be-
&. Il can't hear you, Richard. What
are you saying?'
Nothing Thacker. LOOK
up Z yacht called the Lady Evelyn.
Chicago man, think-fnd out II he's
rented it, and to whom. It's the boat
narrowly went south on"
"Au right, Richard. Good-by, my
boy. Write me whenever you need
money"
perhaps can't write as often as
that. But I'll send you bulletins from
time to time
4 depend on you, Richard. Jephson
must not lose"
Leave it to me- The Palm Beach
Special at midnight. And after that
Miss Cynthia Meyrick!"
CHAPTER III
JOURNEYS End In-Taxi Bills.
No matter how swiftly your train
has sped through the Carolinas and
Georgia when it crosses the line into
FLORIDA wasting languor overtakes
It. Then it hesitates, signs and creeps
across the fiat yellow landscape IKE
an aged alligator. Now ana again II
stops completely in the midst Oh
nothing, as who should say: You
came down to the south, didn't you!
Well, look about you.
The Palm Beach Special on Whlcn
Mr.. Minot rode was no exception 10
this rule. It entered Florida and d
state of innocuous desuetude at one
and the same time. After tremen-
dous struggle, it gasped It's way INTO
Jacksonville about nine O'Clock OF the
Monday morning following. Reluctant
as Romeo in his famous exit from
Juliet's boudoir, it got out OF Jackson
Vile an hour later And san marco
was Just two hours away, according
to that excellent book OF light fiction
So widely read in the south-the time
table.
It seemed to Dick Minot that he had
been looking out Of car window for
a couple of eternities. Save Tor the
diversion at Jacksonville, nothing had
happened to brighten that long ana
wearisome Journey. He wanted, now,
- glance across the car aisle toward
the diversion at Jacksonville. Yet II
hardly seemed polite-so soon.
Wherefore he continued to gaze out
Al the monotonous landscape.
For half a mile the train served its
masters Then, with pathetic
groan 1t paused. Still Mr.. Minot gaz-
I'D ont the window. He gazed so long
that he saw family Of razor-backs,
nassed a quarter of mile back,
catch up with the train and trot scorn-
fully by. After that he kept his eyes
on the live oaks and evergreens, TO
whose topmost branches hung gray
moss like whiskers on western sena>
tor.
Then he could stand 1t no longer.
He turned and looked upon the diver
aim at Jacksonville. Gentlemen OF
the tury--she was beautiful. The GUS
fodian OF a library of books on socl-
ology could have seen that with nall