Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

OS' S'''''h '''S S''SSS'
long time as they picked among the
treasures from the tide-lands. and pres.
emily they fell in with the small, brown
women and all disappeared around the
bend in the Siletz road,
The aching fury began to rise in her
at thought of those two. alone, leav.
ing the women. idling back together.
Perhaps they would climb the hills for
a way, and sit ogether-perhaps- but
here the sadness fell upon her that
said she was unworthy.
Had he not kissed her, and was she
not his woman? His eyes were true,
and they had spoken things that babe
her be calm. Not yet had she learned
the lesson of his greatness that kept
him always SO quiet and sane, even
in trouble.
There came step beside her, soft
step padding on the worn, bare floor.
and Coosnah came from the east
porch, painting with the heat. He
leaned against the jamb of the door
to the little south room. scratching
luxuriously. and promptly jumped as
the door swung swiftly inward Again
Fate smiled impishly and sent at that
suspicious moment the first good
breeze of the warm day sucking up
the valley. 1t caught the papers on
the floor under the typewriter table,
fiuttered them daringly. and with
whistle and whOop bore them tum
bling out across the swept boards of
the eating-room floor, to lodge against
the rocker of Mas little chair.
The girl in the doorway turned,
reaching out half-unwilling hand to
save her rivals property. Not yet had
Siletz learned a tenth of Sandry's
code, else she would have folded the
packet and laid it aside.
Instead, with the freedom of camp
life and utter innocence she began
to read, wonderingly at first, then, as
she saw Sandry's name, with hushed
breath and parted lips. When she had
finished the first part she paused and
stared out across the sloping lift OF
meadow, already sere and brown with
the summer heat. Puzzled, but half
comprehending, yet filled with name.
less fear, she felt her fingers shaking
as she turned the page to Sandry's
letter.
Dally's Camp Toledo. July %. 49,
John II. Musseldorn-
The time of restitution has begun. As
you made the structure OF my fathers |
fortune but quilted and empty shell so |
cunning 10 ill 1t to Its former substance. |
unknown to the outside world Wilton |
Sandry Is gone. but his pride remains |
and il must be upborne. Here Is the re- |
mIttance which / told you would some |
day be forthcoming. Take II and obtain |
the deed 10 the MeadowlanCs Farm which |
you sold squanderinG the money Put 1t |
In my name as part OF the Sandry es. |
tate. No matter what you have TO face !
to get it-get IT, This Is a threat Re |
member that those proofs. which you and |
your accomplish thought destroyed. are
safe In my possession
From time TO time you will be called |
upon 10 manage the buying back Of ev-
cry piece OF property. every horse on the
breeding farms. every stock and bond
that you, under the power of-HttOrnry
which an honorable and trusting old man !
invested In you when he could no longer
be about sold-for your own profit
through travail hUu bloody sweat ! Kept !
my father IN ignorance of his ruin until
his death.
AS had no mercy on James g. Whit
by for hls share with you In the imam
cusiy legitimate deals which made Will
ton Sandry an unconscious uauDer so
viii ] have no mercy on YOU. You know
what know. and shake in your SHOES
because Of IT, So far 50 good I shall ex-
pect the deed TO the MeadpWands Farms
As speedily as II can be arranged
WALTER SANDRY
Trembling with premonition OF dis
lster to Sandry. Siletz sat holding
he strange documents great anger
began to well in her against the other
womun. She opened the buttons Of
her blue shirt and dropped the folded
packet inside its blouse.
On the Suetz road SAndrY and Miss