Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-29
I'LL I'M nm
I'LL I'LL III
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AAoNSi L Always pcen 1alr with
gou?' demanded the older man. Cant
you take my word for it tina he is all
right, without demanding explana-
tions?"
No. I've got to know"
Then. my boy, you'll have to get
your information from someone else"
BY heaven. Adam Carr. if he tries
to marry my sister, I'll kill him!"
Il wouldn't say that, Eric"
Il mean it. Curse him, l 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 we'll be-
fore you condemn any man, or any
mans mother" There was a clear and
unmlstakable meaning in his words.
Eric flushed and then turned deathly
pale.
Stop the cab!" he said, hoarse with
a sudden rage toward the speaker.
Let me out. L say"
Adam smiled, a trifle YEARLY, but
with q certain wistful gentleness that
did no fail to appeal to the hotheaded
young traveller. He too out his hand
kerchief and cleared the moisture from
MS broW-molsture that might not have
been left there by the fine, penetrating
drizzle.
Are you about to forget, Eric, that
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 saying goes. Wen never
allude to it again. Now, if you'll sit
It's quite natural that she should ad-
'nire John Payson. He's an ideal type
of American. He's good looking and
he does things. They say that % Pres
ident Roosevelt: he does things. They
don't say he's good looking, but that's
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queer. mirthless way. She turned to
Jack when Horace turned against him.
That was quite natural, too. Mrs.
Blagden maintains to his 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
~rohberies, 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.
1t takes a lady a long time to over
come a prejudice against the kind of a
chap she has been brought up to con-
slider nothing but a man.
II believe your friend, Miss Bright,
has never quite come to that way of
looking at things. She doesn't know
1t is the nan in you that she admires;
that's beside the question. 1 must be
getting old, l talk so much.
In course of time, Mary came to see
something she liked in Jack. He is 10
years older thar she and he's had hard
knocks enough to make him seem ever
older than that to her. He
You introduced him to herr" broke
in Eric hotly. you arranged it, I'll
stake my head"
We'll. hardly that" said Adam cas-
fly. 1T just happened. Fate, 1 dare
say. She wasn't long in finding that
of his friends happen to be actresses.
That was enough to condemn him in
Corinth. They ont like actresses
there. They like 'em in the phono-
graph. but not in the flesh. Well, Jack
has a lot Of fine friends in New York
who are not actresses, but who admire
these stage women for wha they are
bright, clever, true women who fight
just as shy of evil as their sisters dc
in Corinth, but without going to prayer
meeting once a week for Instructions
Horace Blagden couldn't believe his
senses. He
stepped in as Mary's guardian and told
her to drop Jack and his well dressed
friends I don't blame him altogether,
mind you. He thought he was acting
for her best interests. l suppose he
has written you about all this. They
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, ever though l despise him.
He figures that Jack is a schemeri
that he means to marry Mary and
of her money. Well, a few weeks ago
as you know, she became of age. He
wasn't satisfied with her promise tc
leave her money affairs in his hands
just as o nave done, out he must
regulate everything else for her. She
wouldn't sign an agreement, so he
took it to mean that sooner or later
shed let Jack make other investments
for her. He put his foot down HARD
a fortnight ago. Said that Jack was
the illegitimate son of some one anC
not fit to keep company with her
with Jack"
"Eloped," groaned Eric. Are the,
married? 2"
No" said Adam complacently,
The internal scoundrel," ragged Eric
beating his clenched fists together
1ild you IS ~ bClVlld It'll. vi, IuS
poor little Mary. My poor"
1T wasn't that kind of an elope-
ment.'' explained Adam. she asked
him to take her to the home OF Mrs
Kendrick in New York-a mutua
friend, and a very noble woman. He
did it, that's all. She's there now, anG
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 te
satisfy you. Men don wrong the
women they really want to marry. Its
not in the game. They wrong the one,
they don't want to marry"
Il must see her at once. When
does this Mrs. Kendrick live? Hey
cabby! Pull up a minute. Tell him
where. to go, Mr.. Adam"
The young ma was shivering will
the signs of dread and excitement.
I'VE will go to the Holland hous
INT then you'll take the evening trair
for Corinth.; said Adam dictatorially
Eric's energetic protests met with {
calm stolidity on the part Of hi:
friend. Jack Payson will meet yo,
at my ather's cottage in the morning
after you have read Mary's letter. L
Is his place to put the matter square
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