The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-23
CHAPTER xX-contlnued.

And that was when you began 10
Suspect?' queried Raymer
That was when the suspicion be
gan to torture me I fought Il; oh,
you don't know how hard ! fought H.
There be was, lying sick and helpless;
utterly unable to do thing or say a
word in his own defense; and yet. II
he were the robber, OF course, we
should have to give him up. 1t was
terrible!"
Il should say so" was Raymers
sympathetic comment. How did you
get it Strengthened out, at last?"
1T hasn't been altogether straight.
ened out until Just lately-within the
past few days" she went on gravely.
After he began to get well, l made
him talk to me-about himself. you
know. There didn't seem to be any
thing 70 conceal At different times
be told me all about his home. and his
mother, whom he barely remembers,
and the big-hearted. open-handed IA.
ther who made money so easily in his
profession-he was the Griswold. the
great architect. you know-that he
gave It to anybody who wanted it
but suppose he has told you all this?"
No; at least, not very much of IL
Miss Grierson went on smoothly,
falling sympathetically into the remi-
uiscent vein.
Kenneth went to college without
ever having known what It is to lack
anything in reason that money could
buy. A little while after he was gradu-
Sted his father died"
Leaving Kenneth poor, | suppose;
ne mas intimated as much TO me. once
or twice" said Raymer.
Leaving him awfully poor. He
wanted to learn to write, and for a
long time he stayed on in New York,
living Just any old way, and having
dread5ully hard time Of IT, l imagine,
though he would never say much
about that part OF IT, That is why he
thinks he Is a socialist. At last / felt
that / Just must know at whatever
cost One day when we we're driving.
brought him here and-and intro
duced him to Mr. Galbralth. was 50
scared that could taste it-but ! did
III"
Raymer laughed. "Of course moth
ing came Of III"
Nothing at all. And then, right out
OF a clear sky, came another proof that
was even more convincing. Do you
happen to know who the young woman
was who discovered the bank robber
on the steamboat"
II? How should I know"
u didn't know but she had told you"
vas the demure reioinder 1T was
Charlotte Farnham."
What" calculated Raymer. But
he was not more deeply moved than
vas the man behind the window cur
talns. II Brofiin's dead cigar had not
been already reduced to shapeless in
utility, Miss Griersons cool announce
ment carrying with it the assurance
that his secret was no secret. would
have settled it,
IT'S so,' she was adding calmly. I
found out How do ! know? Because
her father bought the draft at poppas
bank. and in the course Of time Il
came back with the Bayou State Sc
curity's dated paying stamp on it. See
how easy it was!"
Raymer's laugh was not altogether
mirthful
"You are a WITCH" he said rs
there anything you don't know?"
mot very many things that really
need to know" was the mildly boast.
full retort But you see. now, how
foolish my suspicious were"
Raymer nodded Though he would
not have admitted II under torture the
entire matter figured somewhat as a
mountain constructed out of a rather
small molehill to a man for whom the
subtleties lay in region unexplored.
He wondered that the clearminded
little social climber" as his sister
called her, had ever bothered her
nimble brain about such an abstruse
and far-fetched question Of identities.
"You said, few minutes ago, that
Griswold calls himself socialist. That
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