Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-01-21

! ais caller. lie would acquire uIul. Vi
curse. He always did She saw the
man give the attorney a bill. Then he
went out. transformed by the hope
Ward had given him in payment. Ward
looked up.
"Old fellow still there?" he demanded.
mo, SIR"
We'll. don't like the way he's act
ing. Has Bliss telephoned today?
mo, sir
Nor CverickiT'.
mo. but some protective association
telephoned about his case. They said
they'd send their lawyer to you tomor-
row."
Ward frowned; then he looked at his
watch.
please call the railroad Office" he
said as he reached for his hat. land
tell them to reserve me berth tonight
for st. Louis. Say you don't know
where I'm gone. I'll be back in two
weeks. Pay the running expenses from
the bank account" And he slammed
out Of the Office
| Ward had not chosen his way Of Jour
neying when he left Chicago. When he.
saw the City Of Savannah tied to the
ST. Louis docks-a huge. fiat bottomed
sternwheeler looking for all the world
like pOuter pigeon floating on the
muddy waters of the Mississippi. he de-
cided his course.
An hour later he was standing at the
rail, watching the negroes shambling
back and forth at their stevedore tasks
and watching. too. the faxen haired
girl whose eager interest in every Incl
dent of the scene emphasized its charm
for the man near her.
She was vivid for her type of blond
ness, and as the boat swung out in re-
spouse to the Changing bells of the en-
CINE room. Ward lazily calculated that
her eyes We're the source of her com
polling power. They were eager, hirni-
nous blue eyes that demanded vital
excitement from life.
He did not see her again until the
next morning. Life on Mississippi
/ river boat demands no haste
Later. before the boat swung out of
the shore fog. he found her alone look
ing down to where the stevedores kept
speech Of protest against hurry.
Fine lot of coonsv' he observed with
ii laugh
The girl turned to him without self
consciousness
They have to work SO hard. poor fell
lows" she said as if in apology for the
negroes stumbling way of toll
Poor fell6wsw Ward chuckled
why. they're the LATEST loafers ever
allowed to breathe. Not one of them
would work If he could get along with
depended on them the world would
stop. Now. white man works for
power. for wealth, for women"
The girl smiled It little bitterly. Ward
thought.
"You can put your whole idea in one
word" she said Just say money"
Ward shrugged his shoulders while
the laughter came to his eyes.
"And if you're right he asked.
"Oh, l am" she declared And the
rest Of the creed Is that the wisest man
is the one vino does least and who gets
most
| ASASut dSuAhs Sulu w oAu.
When the supper bell summoned
them Ward stopped the girl as she rose
to 60
/ Wont you tell me your name" he
asked her. Here I've told you nearly
all ! know about myself, and I've not
an idea who you are"
The girl hesitated.
II came away from Chicago to forget
all about who and what ! am" she
said. I've been trying TO make this a
fairy wandering. Won't you let 1t go
and you're not to know me as anything
but Helen.
BE it agreed" he laughed.
Mrs. Wilson. a woman whose appar-
ent WEAKNESS Of mind and of body
seemed to detach her from everything
but her deck chair. made back ground
for their deepening cOmradeship as the
boat plowed down the river.
/ Perhaps 1t was because Ward found
the blueeyed girl Of mystery an exhila-
rating game Of chance that he made his
sons. so that the three of them saw
New Orleans together.
They came to the point of coodby
with such apparent lack of deeper in
terest on her part that Ward was net
| tied into returning to Chicago days
| earlier than he Ind intended.
Il don't believe you wanted me to
come back with YOU" he said on the
/ night before the train was due t. bring
them TO the city of their homes
Pm not sure that | did the girl
said. You know The river was sort
/ of fairy journey for me. and was
willing to end the fairy tale with the
end of the journey"
But that's not fair said Ward
The more | see of you the more
| want to see of you. Can't we meet
| often when were back in Chicago?"
"Iou may not care for me when You
know me then" The girl said. I've tit
III with your IDEAS of life just now"
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