The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-02-10

fan'otu OUT OF INC way in a night OF
two. Now what's Your ncws?"
The %to"mer nl@',cf Quebec daN
after totlo '.'oN'. '3!tn, .o,n,.row
ns.ht. Non sras; th9t a;scut Ct .u4ls:"
v" son l:,uss''"tl NIT an inch
}ona#,htng better than that. Fear. ITe
knows me: false move means prison.
Smead nodded approvingly.
The right idea Now listen. Don't
60 fooling around the water in the
morning. That's the time I'll wire YOU
May send a night message. / haven't
asked you how you got your hands on
these things"
Don't. | shouldn't tell you"
"All right" amiably. II agreed to
back the game for third. That's
enough for me. You've got head OH
you. But don't forget that Crawford
may have done some advising"
"All due to you. If you hadn't
dropped in he'd never dreamed of any
thing off color. But what's the use Of
arguing with your"
NO use whatever. At best he'll never
tumbe-hell only worry and wonder.
I'd give ten thousand to break him"
"You can break him physically. if
you want to-"
whats the good of that? 1 know
his breed. You don't break that sort
physically. You break him socially"
MY words. But there's fine chance
of that. l tell you there wasn't scrap
. I Il, n ,%o, @1,nt
| did not go over"
Smead took from his pocket news
paper clipping. He passed it over to
his son.
"Ah"
You never told me about that"
Why should l have told you? My
affair that" The young man laughed.
Good pupil. though. What"'
Boy" said Smead, what I've done
. has been for the love of the sport
"Ah. indeed! 1t was just the love of
: sport that made you teach me how to
rifle cold deck, mark an ace with my
thumb nail and all that-just love of
sport.
You'll land hard one Of these days.
DON"
"Supposing | do? But perhaps
shan't. Maybe I'm going to turn over
a new leaf. hunt up Il new country and
live straight under another name." The
! son eyed his father. Smead's face
> bored into his
go your way, where you like ana
. when. But I'm hanged if you ever lay
a hand on my pile when I'm done for. y
"Thats tough luck! But would you
like to know what Id do with it if you
left it to me? I'd give it to orphan
asylums, old ladies' homes and hospi-
l. tals-the places you've helped to fill
Smead drew in Il long breath slowly
what did you do with those emer-
> alds-the real stones for which you
n substituted the paste? I'll tell you
l. this, my lad-l never plucked anything
u but fat gllis. | never took a dollar
from woman
Z You thought you were going t,
when you married the mothcr?'
y A chalky Dallor overlaid the tan OF
the sons face. "Who knows what YOU
Il have DONE" lie stepped close.
i With amazing suddenness the grea
L powerful hands of the seated MAJ
~ reached out and caught the young MAJ
by the wrists, whirling him to hi
knees
> With his face but hands spa
- away he said: You puppy, stir and II
[e break your wrists, so help me, Try t
III come it over me with your tongue, Ell
~ Thought because | can only hO
around on one leg I'm something t
IL stick pins in? What the devils 60
= into you?'
p In Smead's heart there was admire
u ton for the nerve of the boy-not
III flicker of the eye, nor did the lips eve
stir.
- TOO strong for you, eh:'
VI "I'll admit that. You We're to
~ strong for the mother. I've been thinI
ing about her of late"
le Leave your mother out of this col
" versatiOn.'
Can you forget herr" painted the DO.
hs You We're only six when she died
NC six. That may be, but there wei
ot five years of terror crowded into eac
VI lueLIl. IL you wv Isl amy LUZ tA'
VI you'll break the right one, and il yc
=, do I'll kill you later on"
~ Smeal flung him aside.
! 4" The boy got up, brushed his clothe
:" rubbed his wrists and wiped the swe
que of agony from his forehead. i've
WV notion you'll be sorry for this bit
l'e gallery play. You ask me- what | q
with the eneralds. | dropped them
the poor box at Monte Carlo. A gre
week. Never told you about it, never
or you in Then, in cold, level tone
III tell YOU the truth about the Pri
to cess Aenia's cmeraCs. / sWore
never tell Il living soul Two M
ne she sent to hades We're friends of mil
eco once upon a time honest. | sold t
gems and divided the cash betwe
the two widows. 1t wasn't lee
OF restitution, but they'll never be a