The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16

He is quite comfortable, more com fortable than he has been at all since the wound began to heal. I have been reading him to sleep, and when the night nurse came 1 ran down to get a breath of fresh air in the open"
 No, you didn't come down for that reason" Brouillard amended gravely.
 You came to meet me-"
 Did F" she asked. What makes you think that?"
 T know what happened" said Brou- illard, speaking as soberly as if he were stating a mathematical certainty.
 You left that room upstairs and came to me. l didn't see you, but I heard you as plainly as l can hear you now. You spoke to me and called me by name"
 She shook her head, laughing lightly.
 You have been overwrought about something, or maybe you are just plain tired"
 You are standing me off, he de- 1 clared. You are in trouble of some sort, and you are trying to hide it from me"
 No, not exactly trouble; only a lit tie worry"
 All right, call it worry if you like and share it with me. What is it?
 Il think you know without being told. l am afraid we have finally lost the Little Susan That is one of the worries and the other I've been trying to call silly. l don't know what has become of father--as if he weren't old enough to go and come without telling me every move he makes!"
 Your father isn't at home?" gasped Brouilard
 No; he hasn't been here since nine o'clock this morning. Murray Grislow saw him going into the Metropole about one o'clock, but nobody that I have been able to reach by phone seems to have seen him after that"
 T can bring the record down to two o'clock, was the quick reply. He ate with me at Bongras', and afterward l walked with him as far as the bank. And l can cure part of the first worry all of it, in fact; he had the money to take up the Cartwright notes, and when left him he was on his way to Hardwicks window to do it.
 He had the money? Where did he get it?" ,ado h, Br9Igy B5rr9Igy put rgainst a
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 sSNe PoouteD vas bought | a. .sSffree times within single | hour and that each time the price was | doubled"
 And you are trying to tell me that | father made hundred thousand dol | lars just in those few hours by buying and selling Mirapolis lots? You don't know him, Victor. He is totally lack ing the trading gift. He has often said that he couldn't stand on a street cor ner and sell twenty-dollar gold pieces at nineteen dollars apiece-nobody would buy of him."
 Nevertheless, I am telling you that he had the money to take up those notes," Brouillard insisted. q saw it in his hands,"
 She stood fairly in the beam of the street light. The violet eyes were misty, and in the low voice there was note of deeper trouble.
 You say you saw the money in fa- ther's hands; tell me, Victor, did you see him pay it into the bank?"
 Why, no; not the final detail But, as say, when left him he was on his way to Hardwicks window"
 Again she turned away, but this time it was to dart into the house. A min ute later she had rejoined him, and the minute had sufficed for the donning of a coat and the pinning on of the quaint cowboy riding hat.
 T must go and find him." she said with quiet resolution. Will you go with me, Victor? Perhaps that is why I-the subconscious I-called you a lit tie while ago. Let's not wait for the Quadjenai car. I'd rather walk. and we'll save time.'
 From the moment of outsetting the young woman's purpose seemed clear ly defined. By the shortest way she indicated the course to the avenue and at the Metropole corner she turned unhesitatingly to the northward--to ward the region of degradation.
 As was to be expected after the day of frantic speculation and quick money changing, the lower avenue was ablaze with light, the sidewalks were passes of peril, and the saloons and dives were reaping a rich harvest. Luckily Brouillard was well known, and his position as chief of the great army o1 government workmen purchased some thing like immunity for himself anC his companion. But more than once he was on the point of begging the young woman to turn back for her own sake
 The quest ended unerringly at tht : ous trip lasted longer. The meteori, flights of our tourists through Europ' are in point; the automobile, also, il