The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-07-29
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lid haven 4 always Deen 1alr with |
# you?" demanded the older man. Cant
81 you take my word for it that he is all
fright, without demanding explana-
%#M tions?"
MI mo. I've got to know
q Then. my boy. you'll have to get
III your information from someone else"
BY heaven, Adam Carr. if he tries
II wouldn't say that, Eric"
Il mean it. Curse him, I 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 n
mans mother" There was a clear and
unmlsIakable meaning in his words.
Eric flushed and then turned deathly
pale.
stop the cab!" he said, hoarse with
q sudden rage toward the speaker.
Let me out. I say"
Adam smiled, a trifle YEARLY, but
with q certain wistful gentleness that
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, 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
there quietly, I'll tell you about Mary.
It's quite natural that she should adj
mire John Payson. He's an ideal type
of American. He's good looking and
he does things. They say hat OF Pres
tdent 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..
That 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, n that I put up the job on
her son for reasons of my own. What's
more. she believes that Jack knows
something of C~hetwynd'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 o 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.
"T believe your friend, Miss Bright,
has never quite come to that way of
looking at things. She doesn't know
it is the man in you that she admires;
she thinks it is the gentleman. But
that's beside the question. I must be
getting old, I talk so much.
I'm course of time. Mary came to see
something she liked in Jack. He Is 10
years older than she and he's had hard
knocks enough to make him seem even
older tina that to her. He
you introduced him to her?" broke
In Eric holly. "You arranged it, I'll
stake my head"
Well, hardly that said Adam cas-
fly. 1T just happened. Fate, l 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 don't 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 that 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
stepped in as Mary's guardian and told
her to drop Jack and his well dressed
friends. I don't blame him altogether,
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for her best interests. l 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 I 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, a few weeks ago,
as yon know, she became of age. He
wasn't satisfied with her promise to
leave her money affairs in his hands,
lust as you nave done. but he must
regulate everything else for her. She
wouldn't sign an agreement, so he
took 1t to mean that sooner or later
she'd let Jack make other investments
for her. He put his foot down had
a fortnight age Said that Jack was
not fit to keep ompan with her,
Mary couldn't stand it. She eloped
with jack"
"Eloped,. groaned Eric. Are they
married"
mo" 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
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. HI
did it, hats all. She's there now, and
my father has a letter for you at tbs
gate house, explaining everything. You
needn't worry. She won come to harm
not at the hands of Jack Payson. He
wants to marry her. That ought tc
satisfy you. Men don't 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? He,
cabby! Pull up a minute Tell hin
The young man was shivering with
the signs OF dread n excitement.
I'VE will go to the Holland house
and then you'll take he evening trair
for Corinth," said Adam dictatorially
Eric's energetic protests met with 8
calm stoliditx on the part Of his