The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-09-25


suspect that IL had attacked Margery
Grierson; that II had subconsciously
II not otherwise. thrust itself into
Charlotte Farnham's life; and the
days lately past had shown him into
what depths II could plunge Its
! wretched guardian and slave.
Now that the plunge had been taken
and he had been made TO understand
that he must henceforth reckon with q
base and cowardly underself which
would not stop short OF the most helm
GUS crime. he told himself that he must
have time to think--to plan.
! Caring nothing for its roughness. he
{, followed the country road into . valley
forest Of oaks After an hour OF aim
less tramping he began to have occa-
sional near-hand glimpses OF the lake:
and little farther along he came out
upon the main-traveled road leading to
the summer resort hotel at the head OF
Dc Soto bay.
Still without any definite purpose In
mind he pushed on. and upon reaching
the hotel he went In and registered for
room. Here he drew che window
shades and lay down, and since the
week OF strife had been cutting deep
ly into the nights. when be awoke II
was evening and q cheerful clamor In
the dining room beneath told him that
It was dinner time.
II IL trite saying that many a gulf
seemingly impossible. has been safely
bridged In sleep. Bathed. refreshed
and with the tramping stains removed
Griswold went down to dinner with the
lost appetite regained.
Early on the following day he sent
note TO Mrs. Holcomb. by one Of the
Inn employees; but the copy OF the
Daily Wahaskan laid beside his break
fast plate made II unnecessary to tele-
phone Raymer. The paper had a full
account OF the sudden ending OF the
lockout and the. resumption or
work In the Raymer plant. and
ring OF self-compsssion. AS he had
reasoned 1t out. there was only one
way In which the result could have
been attained 80 quickly. Had Raymer
taken that way, In spite OF his wrath
ful rejection OF the suggestion? Doubt
less he had: and on the heels OF that
conclusion came q sense OF deprivation
that was fairly appalling. and the
healthy breakfast appetite vanished.
Griswold knew what IL meant. or he
thought he did. Margery Grierson was
gone out OF his life-gons beyond re-
call.
After that. there was all the better
reason why he should grapple with
himself I'm the failow interval; and for
two complete days he was lost. even to
the small world OF the summer resort,
trsmping for hours In the lake shore
forests or drifting about in one OF the
hotel skiffs. and returning TO the Inn
only to eat and sleep when hunger or
WEAKNESS constrained him. On the
whole. the discipline was good. He
fattered himself that the sense OF pro-
portion was returning slowly. and with
II some saner impulses. Truly, IL had
been his misfortune TO be obliged to
and to involve others, but was not
that rather due TO the ineradicable
faults OF an imperfect social system
than to any basic defect In his own
theories? And was not the same Inn
perfect social system partly RESPONSE
Bile for the quasi-criminal attitude
which had been forced upon him? He
was willing to believe It; willing. also.
to believe that he could rise above the
constituting forces and be the man he
wished to be. That he could SO rise
was proved. he decided. on the morn
ing OF the third day, when he CHANGED
/ to overhear the hotel clerk telling the
man whose room was across the CORR
dor from his own that Andrew Gal
braith still had lighting chance for
life. In the pleasant glow OF the high
resolve the news awakened none OF
the murderous promptings. but rather
the generous hope that IL might be
true.
II was late In the afternoon OF this
third day. upon his return from a long
pull In the borrowed skin around the
group OF islands In the upper and un-
freQuented part of the lake. that be
found n note awaiting him. Il was
from Miss Farnham. and it's brevity.
no less than It's urgency. stirred him
apprehensiyely. bringing a suggestive
return OF the furtiye nerceness which
he promptly fought down. II must
see you before eight o'clock this eve
ming. II 10 OF the last Importance
was the wording OF the note; and the
heavy understanding OF the last" and
certain tremulous characteristic In
the handwriting. stressed the ur
gency.
II was still quite early in the eve
ming when the inn conveyance set him
down at the door OF his lodgings II
upper Shawnee street. To the care
taking widow. who would have pre-
pared a late dinner for him, he OK
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