The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-01-20

Inat IL was also a day OF otner CO.
medicines will appear In the casting
up OF the items on the page OF events.
For one thing, II marked the formal
opening OF the De Soto inn for the
summer season. For another. the
special train from the far South arriv.
ing at noon and bearing the first de.
tachment OF the inns guests, had for
one Of It's Pullman passengers an
elderly gentleman with a strongly
marked Scottish face; a gentleman
with the bushy white eyebrows OF age.
the long upper lip OF caution. the
dropping eyelid Of Feasibility. and the
bearing OF a mar OF routine: in other
words, Mr.. Andrew Galbraith. faring
n%orthward on his customary summer
vacation. which-the fates intervening
he had this time determined to
spend at the Wahaskan resort
For a third item. II was a. three
o'clock OF this same Wednesday that
Raymer came out OF Jasper Grierson's
bank with his head down and a cloud
on his brow; the cloud dating back
to an interview just closed. a short
and rather brittle conference with the
banks president held in Jasper Grier.
sons private room. with the president
sitting at ease In his huge armchair
and hia visitor standing. quite desti.
tute OF ease. at the desk.end.
Raymer's horse was only a short
half.square away, hitched in front OF
the Winnebago house. and he went 70
get II. But at the instant OF unhitch.
ing. Miss Grierson's trap was driven
up and che untying OF knots paused
while he stepped from the curb to
stand at the wheel OF the modish equi.
page.
You are getting TO be as bad as
all the Others" was the greeting he
got from the high driving seat You
haven't been at Mereside for an age
only once since the night you took Mr.
Griswold away from us. BY the way
what has become Of Mr.. Griswold? He
doesn't show himself In public much
oftener than you do"
Il think he has been getting to work
on his writing" said Raymer. good
naturedly apologizing for his friend
He'll come down out OF the clouds
after a little. | understand he dine.
at Doctor Bertie's tonight"
The young iron founder was looking
up into the eyes OF beguiling when b,
said this. and. being a mere man. hi
wondered what made them fash anC
then grow suddenly fathomless anc
broodlng.
When you see him, tell him tina
we are still on earth over at Mere
side" said the magnate's daughter
pertly; and a moment later. as Ray
mer was turning u OF Main stree
into Shawnee, he narrowly missed run
ming over a neavy.set man with
dark face and dropping mustaches
a pedestrian whose ~preoccupatiol
seemed so great as to make him quit
oblivious TO street crossings and pass
ing vehicles until Raymer pulled hi
horse back into the shafts an,
shouted.
One more small coincidence vii
serve 70 total the items on the Wee
nesday page. II Brofin had no
stopped 10 look after the man VIII
had so nearly run him down, h
might have been crossing Main stree
in front OF the Winnebago at the pr'
ciae instant when Miss Grierson, wit
young Dahlgren In the second seat c
the trnp, came around the square an
pulled up 20 let her horse drink q
the public fountain.
who IS that Observation-Disclosures
man crossing over 10 the Winnebag
house, asked Miss Grierson Of be
, seatmate, indicating Brofin with
/, wave OF the whip. and skillfully ma
, ing the query sound like the yoicln
OF the idlest curiosity.
q Fellow named Brofin. from Louis
. ana, said Dahlgren. who, az assistar
! editor Of the Daily Wahaskan, kne
everybody. Says he's In the lumb,
n business down there. but. I doubt f
. said the carpenter. and shed Il bit,
tear"
Why do you doubt ~" queri,
MISS Orlerson, neatIy nlcklng q
A from the horses back with tho tip
the w~hiplash.
"oh, on general principles. I CUES
"a You wouldn't say he had any OF d
earmarks OF a business man"
What kind OF earmarks has
q got?" persisted Miss Grierson-mere
!. 10 make talk. AZ Dahlgren decided.
. II don't know. We were talki
~ about him at the club the other mig
and Stockholders from Kentucl
q, you know-thought he remember
- the name al the name OF n mo,
shine raider he'd heard OF down In
- home state"
N "A moonshine raider3 What Is tina,
by this time Miss Margery's curios
A was less inert than II had been. or b
seemed TO be. at first.
In "A deputy marshal. you know;
IN sort Of government policeman and
tective rolled into one. lie looks
don't you think?"
ID Miss Grierson did not say what /
a kouah4 than - laaaa .uh.. -.