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See NJ. G. Hill. 526 Vine st.
The Yale expositor., 1915-10-28
CHAPTER XVI.
ConveruIna Roads.

Matthew Broffin had been two weeks
and half of a third an unobtrusive spy
upon the collective activities of the
Wahaskan social group which includ-
ed the Farnhams before he decided
that nothing could be gained by fur
Their delay.
Having his own private superstition
about Friday, Brofiin chose a Wednes-
day afternoon for his call at the house
on the lake front. IL was resplen-
dent day of the early summer, which,
in the Minnesota ATTITUDES, springs,
Minervalike, full grown from the nod
ding head of the wintry Jove of the
North In the doctors front yard the
grass was wildly green, gladioli and
ionquils bordered the path with a
bravery of color, and the buds of the
clambering rose on the porch trellis
we're swelling to burst their calyxes.
Broffin turned in from the sidewalk
and closed the gate noiselessly behind
him. While he had been three doors
away in the lake-fronting street. a
small pocket blnocular had assured
him that tAe young woman he was
going TO call upon was sitting in a
porch rocker behind the clambering
rose. reading book
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SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold. an unsuccessful
writer, because of socialistic tendencies,
holds up Andrew Galbraith, president OF
the Bayou State Securities, in the presi-
dents private office and escapes with $780,
600 in cash BY original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as n deckhand. Charlotte
Farnham of Wahaska, Mimi, who had
seen him cash Galbraith's check in the
bank, recognizes him, and decides to de-
nounce him. She sees the brutal mate
rescued from drowning by Griswold. She
talks to Griswold and by his advice sends
letter OF betrayal to Galbraith anony-
mousy. Griswold is arrested on the ar
rival Of the boat at St Louis. but escapes
from his captors. He decides on Wa
haska, Mimi, as hiding place. and after
Quitting himself properly, takes the
train. Margery Grierson. daughter Of
Jasper Grierson, the financial magnate OF
Wahaska, starts a campaign for social
recognition by the "old families" Of the
town. Griswold falls i'll on the sleeper
and Is cared for and taken 10 her home
I'm Wahaska by Margery, who finds the
stolen money in his suitcase. BrOfiin,
detective, takes the trail. Margery asks
her father to get Edward Raymer into
financial hot water and then help him
out Of It, Griswold RECEIVERS to find the
stolen money zone. He meets Margery' S
social circle and forms a friendship with
Raylner, the iron manufactures.
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CHAPTER XIV.-continued.

Maurice, I've got to find that young
woman if have 70 chase her highway
round the globe, and it's tough luck to
figure out that If you hadn't been in
such blazing HI of hurry to
get your supper that night. might be
able to catch up with her in the next
forty-eight hours or so. But what s
done is done, and can't be helped.
Chase out and get your passenger
list for that trip. Wen take the WON
en- as they come, and when you've
helped me Gull out the names of the
ones you're sure it wasn't, I'll screw
my nut and quit buzzing YOU"
The clerk went below and returned
almost Immediately with the list. To.
gether they went over it carefully, and
by dint Of much memory-wringing
Maurice was able TO give the detec-
tive leave to cancel ten of the II
names in the women's list, the remain.
ing seven including all the might-have-
beens who could possibly be fitted
into the clerks recollection of the
woman ne had seen clinging to the
saloon deck stanchion after her inter
view with the deckhand.
1t was while he was waiting for the
departure of the first north-bound
train that he planned the search for
the young woman, arranging the
names of the seven might-have-b eens
in the order Of accessibility as indi-
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CHAPTER XIV.
In the Buralar-Proof.

A week and day after the opening
Of new vistas at Miss Grierson's "eye-
Ming" acknowledgement interces-
siol with the Widow Holcomb having
paved the way-took a favorable OPP
portunity of announcing his intention
of leaving Mereside. 1t figured as a
grateful disappointment to him-one
of the many she was constantly giving
him-that Margery placed no obstacles
in the way of the intention. On the
contrary, she approved the plan.
81 know how you feel" she said,
nodding complete comprehension.
"You want to have a place that you
can call your own; place where you
can go and come as you please and
settle down to work You are going
to work. aren't you?-on the book,
mean?"
Griswold replaced in its proper
niche the volume he had been reading.
II was Adam Smiths Wealth of Ma
tions," and he had been wondering by
what ironical chance it had found a
place in the bankers library.
Eyes; that is what | mean to do"
he returned. But it will have to be
done in such scraps and parings of
time as can save from some bread
and-butter occupation. One must eat
to live, you know"
| She was sitting on the arm of one
OF the big library lounglng-chairs and
looking up at him with a sI.ile that
was suspiciously innocent and o5ild
| like.
"You mean that you will have to
work for your living?" she asked.
Exactly"
what we're you thinking of doing?'
81 don't know" he confessed.
Again he surprised the lurking
smile in the velvety eyes, but this time
1t was half-mischievous.
1--WE have a college here in Wahas
ka, and you might get a place on the
faculty" she suggested; adding: al
an instructor in philosophy, for exam
ple.'
Philosophy that is the one thins
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whose chief occupation was the meas
uring of his own wit against the subtle
cleverness of criminals. Therefore she
accepted the challenge.
IL did my whole duty at the time
Mr.. Broffin," she demurred. with q
touch Of GOODNESS in her voice. "Ii
you were careless enough to let him
escape you at st. Louis, you shouldn't
come to me. | might say very justly
that it was never any affair Of mine. y
Matthew Broffins gifts were subtle
only in his dealings with other men |;
but he was shrewd enough to know
that his last and best chance with q
woman lay in an appeal to her fears
don't know what made you write
this letter, in the first place" he said
taking the well-thumbed paper from
his coat pocket; but l know well
enough now why you didn't sign 1t
and why you didn't put the mans real
name in it. You-you and him-fixed
1t up between you so that you could
say to yourself afterwards what you've
Just said to me-that you'd done your
duty. But you haven't finished doin
you duty yet. The law says"
81 know very we'll that the law
says" was her battling rejoinder; 81
have taken the trouble to find out
since came home. ! am not hiding
your criminal"
Brofin was trying 90 gain a littls
ease by fitting his chair. But the house
wall was too close behind him.
People will say that you are helpin
to hide him as long as you won't tel
his real name-what?" he grated.
RIO BE coNTINUED)
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} dergarten work, and was cheerfully
shown the records When he turned
to the pages signed Charlotte Farm
ham" the last doubt vanished and
assurance was made sure. The anony-
nous letter writer was found.
1t was just here that Matthew Brof-
fin fell under the limitations of his
trade. Though the detective in real life
is as little as may be like the Inspector
Buckets and the Javerts of fiction, GER
tain characteristics persist. When he
found himself face to face with the
straightforward expedient, the craft
limitations bound him. He thought of
a dozen good reasons WHY he should
make haste slowly; and he recognized
in none of them the craftsmans slant
toward indirection-the tradition of
the trade which discounts the straight.
forward attack and puts a premium
upon the methods of the deer-stalker
Sooner or later, of course, the at
tack must be made. But only an ap-
prentice, he told himself, would be
foolish enough to make it without
mapping out all the hazards of the
ground over which it must be made
In word, he must place" Miss Farm
ham precisely; make a careful study
Of the young woman and her environ
ment, to the end that every thread of
advantage should be in his hands when
he should finally force her to a con
fession. For by now the assumption
that she knew the mysterious bank
robber was no longer hypothetical in
Brofiin's mind; it had grown to the di-
mansions of a conviction.
With the patient curiosity of his
tribe he suffered no detail, however.
trivial, to escape its jotting down. To
familiarize himself with the goings
and comings of one young woman, he
made the acquaintance of an entire
town. He knew Jasper Griersons am
bition, and its fruitage in the practical
ownership Of Wahaska. He knew that
Edward Raymer had borrowed money
from Grierson's bank-and was likely
to be unable to pay it when his notes
wi AuN' AAC llelu lNdi u IL wills pei GU
that there had once been a love affair
between young Raymer and Miss Farm
ham, and that it had been broken off
by Raymer's infatuation for Margery
Grierson. Also, last and least impor-
tant of all the gossiping details, as it
seemed at the time. he learned that
the betwitching Miss Grierson was a
creature of fads; that within the past
month or two she had returned from a
Florida trip, bringing with her a sick
man, total stranger. who had been
picked up on the train taken to the
great house on the lake shore and
nursed back TO life as Miss Grierson's
latest defiance Of the conventions.
1t should have been a memorable
day for Matthew Brofiin when he had
this sick man pointed out to him as
Miss Grierson's companion in the high
trap. But Brofiin was sufficiently hui
man 10 see only a very beautiful young
woman sitting correctly erect on the
slanting driving-seat. To be sure, he
saw a man, as one sees a vanishing fig
ure in kaleidoscope. But there was
nothing in the clean-shaven face of the
gaunt, and as yet rather haggard con-
valescent to evoke the faintest thrill
or interest-or of memory.
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She had risen to meet him by tn,
time he had mounted the steps, ans
he knew that her first glance was aV'
praisive. He had confidently counted
upon being mistaken for a strange pa
tient in search of the doctor. and he
was not disappointed.
You are looking for Doctor Farm
ham?" she began. He is at his Of
fice-201 Main street."
Broffin was digging in his pocket
for a card.
81 know we'll enough where your
fathers office u.s. but you are the one
| wanted to see," he said; and he
gave her the round-cornered card with
its blazonment of his name and en-
ployment.
He was watching her narrowly when
she read the name and its underline.
and the quick indrawing of the breath
and the little shudder that went with
it were not thrown away upon him.
But the other signs; the pressing Of
the even teeth upon the lower lip and
the coming and going of three straight
lines between the half-closed eyes
were not so favorable.
"Will you come into the house,
Mr." she had to look at the card
again to get the name-"Mr. Brofin?"
she asked.
Thank you, miss; it's plenty good
enough out here for me if it is for
you, he returned, beginning to fear
that the common civilities were CIV
ing her time to get behind her de-
lenses.
Il guess we can take 1t for granted
that you know what l want, Miss
Farnham," he began abruptly, when
he had shifted his chair to face her
rocker. Something like three months
ago, or Whereabouts, you went into a
bank in New Orleans to get draft
cashed While you were at the pay
ing tellers window a robbery was
committed, and you saw it done and
saw the man that did it. I've come
TO get you to tell me the mans
name"
Il have told it once. in letter to
Mr.. Galbraith."
BrofIin nodded. yes; in a letter
that you didn't sign. I've come all
the way from New Orleans to get
you to tell me his real name, Miss
Farnham."
why do you think l can tell your
was the undisturbed query.
"a lot of little things" said the de.
tective, who was slowly coming to his
own in the matter of self-assurance.
"In the first place, he spoke to you
in the bank, and you answered him.
Isn't that 500"
She nodded again. you know so
much, il is surprising that you don't
know it all, Mr.. Broflin," she COM
mented. with gentle sarcasm.
"The one thing l don't know is the
thing you're goin' to tell me-his real
name" he insisted. That's what I've
come here for"
In spite of her ineXperience, which,
in Mr.. Broffin's field, was no less than
total. Charlotte Farnham had imagi-
nation, and with it womanly zest for
the matching of wits with a man
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IN tae world that know least about"
"Oh, but do mean it. honestly" she
averred. You are a philosopher.
really and truly, and l can prove 1t.
Do you feel equal to another little
drive downtown"
Being a philosopher, ought to be
equal to anything" he postulated; and
he went upstairs to get a street coat
and his hat
She had disappeared when he came
down again, and he went out to sit on
the sun-warmed veranda while he wait
ed. He had already forgotten what
she had said about the object of the
drive-the proving of the philosophic
charge against him-and was looking
forward with keenly pleasurable an
ticipations to another outing with her,
the second for that day. 1t had come
to this, now; to admitting frankly the
charm which he was still calling sensu'
Gus, and which, in the moments of in
sight recurring, as often as they can
be borne to the imaginative. and
vouchsafed now and then even to the
wayfaring, he was still disposed to
characterize as an appeal to that
which was least worthy in him.
Passing easily to Miss Farnham the
ideal from Miss Grierson the flesh-and-
blood reality, he was moved to won
der mildly why the fate which had
brought him twice into critically init
mate relations with her was now deny
ing him even chance meeting For a
week or more he had been going out
daily; sometimes with Miss Grierson
in the trap, but oftener afoot and
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Gated by the addresses given in the
Belle jules register. In this arrange
ment Miss Charlotte Farnham's name
stood as No. /.
Landing in Wahaska the next eve
ning Broffin's first request at the ho-
tel counter was for the directory. Run
ming an eager finger down the "F's,"
he came to the name. 1t was the only
Farnham in the list, and after il he
read: "Dr. Herbert c., Office to 10.
2 to 4, 201 Main ST., res. 16 Lake
boulevard"
Then he registered for a room and
prepared to draw the net which he
hoped would entangle the lost iden-
tity of the bank robber After a good
nights sleep in q real bed, he awoke
refreshed and alert, breakfasted with
an open mind, and presently went
about the net drawing methodically
and with every contingency carefully
provided for.
The first step was to assure him.
self beyond question that Miss Farm.
ham was the writer of the unsigned
letter. This step he was able, by a
piece OF great good fortune, to take
almost Immediately. A bit of morn
ing gossip with the obliging clerk OF
The Winnebago house developed the
fact that Doctor Farnham's daughter
had once taught in the free kinder
garten which was one of the chart
table outreachings OF the WahaskS
public library. Two blocks east anC
one eoVth; Brofin walked then
Nromptly. made himself known to thu
ubrarias as visitor interested in kin
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alone The walking excursions had
led him most frequently up and down
the lakeside drive, but the doctors
house stood we'll back in its enclosure,
and there was much shrubbery. Once
he heard her voice: she was reading
aloud to someone on the vine-screened
porch. And once again in passing, he
had caught a glimpse of a shapely arm
with the loose sleeve falling away
from it as it was thrust upward
through the porch greenery to pluck
a bud from the crimson rambler, add
ing its graceful mass to the Chamber
ing vines. 1t was rather disappoint-
ing, but he was not impatient In the
fullness Of time the destiny which had
/ 2ice INTERVIEWED would intervene
again. He was as certain of it as he
was of the day-to-day renewal of his
strength and vitality; and he could af-
ford to wait. For, whatever else might
happen in a mutable world, neither an
ideal nor its embodiment may suffer
change.
AS If to add the touch of definiteness
to the presumptive conclusion, voice
broke in upon his reverie; the voice Of
the young woman whose most alluring
charm was her many-sided changeful-
ness, as If she had marked his preoc-
cupied gaze and OWNED It's object
you must have a little more patience,
Mr.. Griswold. All things come to him
who waits. When you have left Mere
side finally, Doctor BERTHE will some
time take you home to dinner with
him"
For his own peace Of mind, Girls
void hastily assured himself that 1t
was only the widest Of chance shots.
Since the day when he had admitted
that he knew Miss Farnham's name
without knowing Miss Farnham In per.
son, the doctors daughter had never
been mentioned between them.
How did you happen to guess that
was thinking of the good doctor?" he
asked, curiously.
"You were not thinking of Doctor
BERTHE; you were thinking of Doctor
Bertie's only" was the laughing con.
tradiction; and Griswold was glad that
| the coming of the man with the trap
saved him from the necessity of fall
ing any farther into what might easily
prove to be a dangerous pitfall. 1t was
not the first time that Miss Grierson
| had seemed able to read his inmost
| thoughts.
The short afternoon drive paused
at the curb in front of Jasper Grier
sons bank and a moment later he
found himself bringing up the rear oil
a procession of three, led by young
woman with a bunch of keys at heI
girdle.
Number three-forty-fve-A, please,
hia companion was saying to the young
womaa custodian and he stood aside
and admired the workmanship of the
complicated time-locks while the two
entered the electrio-lighted safety de
post vault and jointly opened one o.
the multitude of small safes. Wher
Miss Grierson came out, she was car
rying a small japanned document boz
under her arm, and her eyes were
shining with soft light that was new
to the man who was waiting in tn,
corridor. Come with me to one o
tia coupon rooms" she said: sn'
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fered for six years
terribly. / tried sew
eral doctors but none
seemed to give me
any relief. Every
monththe painswere
intense in both sides,
and m ad e m e so
weak that l had to
go to bed. At last
a friend recommen-
ded Lydia E. Pink
hams Veg e t a lie
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Give the boaster a chance to make
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The Kind.
"He was a regular furnace OF
wrath"
"Yes-a hot air furnace"
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MRS. THOMSON
TELLS WOMEN
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1t belongs only to the guilty to
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