The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-02-03
CHAPTER xx-contInued.

And that was when you began TO
suspect" queried Raymer.
That was when the suspicion be.
gan to torture me. | fought Il; oh.
you don't know how hard | fought Il!
There be was. lying sick and helpless;
utterly unable to do n 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. II was
terrible!"
II should say so.' was Raymer's
sympathetic comment. How did you
get II Strengthened out, at last"
1t hasn't been altogether straight.
ened out until just lately-within the
past few days" she went on grayely.
After he began to get we'll, | made
him talk to me-about himself. you
know. There didn't seem TO be any.
thing TO conceal. At different times
he told me all about his home. and his
mother, whom he barely remembers,
and the big.hearted, open.handed IA.
Their who made money so easily in his
professionals was the Griswold. the
great architect. you know--that he
gave II 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.
niscent vein.
Kenneth went to college without
ever having known what 1t is to lack
anything In reason that money could
buy. A little while after he was gradu.
ated his father died.
Leaving Kenneth poor. ! suppose;
he has intimated a. much to me, once
or twice. said Raymer.
Leaving him awfully poor, lie
wanted to learn to write, and for a
long time he stayed On in New York,
living just any old way, and having a
~dreadfully hard time OF II, ! imagine,
though he would never say much
about that part OF II. That is why he
thinks he Is u socialist. Al last | felt
that just must know, at whatever
cost. One day when we were driving,
] brought him here and-and intro.
duced him 10 Mr.. Galbraith. was so
scared that | could taste it-but / did
IT,"
Raymer laughed. "Of course moth.
Ing came Of it,"
Nothing at all. And then. right on.
OF a clear sky, came another proof tina;
was even more convincing. Do you
happen TO know who the young woman
was who discovered the bank robber
on the steamboat"
Il? How should | know"
81 didn't know but she had told you. q
was the demure rejoinder. 1T was
Charlotte Farnham."
What" calculated Raymer. But
he was not more deeply moved than
was the man behind the window cur
tains. II Brofin's dead cigar had not
been already reduced to ~shapeless In
utility. Miss Grierson's cool announce
ment, carrying with It tho assurance
that his secret was no secret, would
have settled II.
TITS So" she was adding calmly. :"
found out. How do | know? Becaus,
her father bought the draft at poppa'i
bank. and In the course OF time 4
came back with the Bayou State Sc
curity's dated pay Ing stamp on II. See
how easy II was!"
Raymer's laugh was not ~altogethel
mirthful.
you are a witch" he said. Il
there anything you don't know"
Not very many things that | reall!
need to know" was the mildly boast
full retort. But you see. now. how
foolish my suspicious we're"
Raymer nodded. Though he woul
not have admitted II under torture. tn,
entire matter figured somewhat as
mountain constructed out OF a rattle
small molehill TO n mar for whom tn
subtleties lay In a region ~unexploreC
He wondered that the clear.minde,
little social climber" as his siste
called her. had ever bothered he
nlmble brain about such an abstrus
and fa~r.fetched question OF Identities
"You said. a few minutes ago. tina
Griawold calls himself a socialist. Tha