Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-06

chair. do you believe in destiny?''
She nodded brightly. Sometimes
do; when it brings things out the way
l want them to come out"
1--WE often wondered" he went on
musingly. Think Of it-somewhere
back in the past you took the first
step in the path which was to lead
you to that late supper in the Chou
teau. Somewhere in my past took
the first step in the crooked trail that
was to lead me there"
"Well?" she encouraged.
1.-The paths crossed-and I am your
poor debtor" he finished. II can
never hope to repay you and your
father for what you have DONE"
"Oh, yes, you can," she asserted
lightly. You can pass it along to the
man farther down. Forget it, and tell
me what you want to know about
Wahaska."'
First, I'd like to know my doc
tors name"
THE ideal" she exclaimed. Hasn't
there been anybody to introduce you?
He is Wahaska's best-beloved Doc
tor BERTHE; otherwise Doctor Herbert
c. Farnham."
Doctor Farnham /? - not Miss
Char" He bit the name in two in
! the middle, but the mischief was
done.
"Yes; Charlottes father" was the
calm reply. Then: where did you
meet Miss Farnham?"
"I haven't met her." he protested
Immediately; "she--she doesn't know
me from Adam. But have seen her
and I happened to learn her name and
her home address"
"Oh," said the small filter Of deduc-
tion pegs; and afterwards she talked
and made the convalescent talk
pointedly of other things.
This occurred in the forenoon OF
pleasant day in May. In the after
noon of the same day Miss Grierson's
trap was halted before the door Of the
i
public library. Raymer saw the trap
and crossed the street, remembering
what he would otherwise have for
gotten-that his sister had asked him
to get a book on orchids.
| Miss Margery was in the reference
room, wading absently through the
newspaper files. She nodded brightly
when Raymer entered-and was not
in the least dust-blinded by the libra
ry card in his hand.
You are just in time to help me,
she told him. do you remember the
story Of that daring bank robbery IN
New Orleans a few weeks ago?-the
one in which a man made the presi-
dent draw a check and get 1t cashed
for him?"
Raymer did remember it, chiefly
because he had talked about 1t at the
time with Jasper Grierson, and had
wondered curiously how the president
of the Farmers and Merchants would
deport himself under like conditions
IF you should meet the man face to
face, would you recognize him from
/ the description she flashed up at
Raymer.
Not in a thousand years." he con-
fessed. Would you?"
mo; not from the description" she
admitted. Then she passed to a mat
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Didn't l see Miss Farnham's re-
turn noticed in the Wahaskan the
other day."
With Charlotte's father a daily Wis
tor to Mereside, it seemed incredible
that Miss Grierson had not heard of
the daughters Homecoming. But Ray
mer answered in good faith.
They came up as far as st. Louis
on one of the Anchor line-the Belle
Julie-and even Miss Gilman admits
that the accommodations were excel
lent.
She nodded absently and began to
turn the leaves Of the newspaper file
Raymer took it as his dismissal and
went to the desk to get the orchid
book. When he looked in again on
his way to the street, Miss Griersor
had gone leaving the file Of the Pio-
neer Press open on the reading desk
Almost involuntarily he glanced al
the first page headings, thrilling to a
little shock Of surprise when one OF
them proved to be the caption Of an
other Associated Press dispatch CIV
ing a 20-line story of the capture and
second escape of the Bayou State Sc
Curity robber on the levee at st. Louis
The reading Of the bit of stale news
impressed him curiously. Why haG
Miss Margery interested herself in
the details of the New Orleans bank
robbery? Why-with no apparent
special reason-should she have re-
membered it at all-or, remembering
1t, have known where to look for the
two newspaper references?
Raymer left the library speculatinf
vaguely on the unaccountable tan
gents ut which the feminine mint
could now and then fly off from the
we'll defined circle of the convention
ally usual. On rare occasions hi!
mother or Gertrude did 1t and he hat
long since learned the folly of trying
to reduce the small problem to terms
of known quantities masculine.
Just the same, I'd like to know
why, this time" he said to himself
as he crossed the street to the Manu-
facturers' club. Miss Grierson ism
at all the person to do things withou
an object"
(To be continued)