Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
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Escape? From whom ?"

Escape? From whom?"
She locked away and shook her
head. From Watrous Dunham, let
Ors say. You didn't suspect that, did
,yn? It is SO. nevertheless. My father
desires it; and suppose Watrous
Durham would like to have my
money--ycu know I have something
IN my own right. Perhaps this may
help to account for some other thing
for your trouble, for one. You were
in bis way. you see. But never mind
that: there are other matters to be
considered now. Though Mr.. Kinzie
has been put off the rack, Mr..
Stanton hasn't. l have earned Mr..
Stanton's ill-will because 1 wouldn't
tell him about you. and this evening
at table, he took it out on me-"
IN what Way?"
'TIe save ne to understand, very
plainly, that ne had done som ething;
that there was Il sensation in pres
pect for all Brewster. He was so ex-
uitantly triumphant that it fairly
frightened me. The fact that ne
wasn't afraid to show some part of
his hand TO me--knoWing that /
would be sure to tell you-makes me
afraid that the trap has already been
set for YOU"
In other words, you think he has
gone over Kinzie's head and has tele-
Eraphed to LaWrenceville?"
Montague, I'm almost certain of
it,"
Smith stood up and put his hands
behind him.
Which means that I have only a
few hours, at the longest" he said
quietly. And then: There is a good
bit to be done, ttrrning over the busi-
ness of the office, and all that; I've
been putting it off from day to day,
saying that there would be time
enough to set my house in order aft
er the trap had been sprung. Now l
am like the man who puts off the
making of his will until it is too late.
VIII you let me thank you very
heartily and vanish?"
What shall you do she asked.
Set my house in order, as l say
as we'll as l can in the time that re-
mains. There are others to be con-
sidered, you know"
"Oh; the plain-faced little ranch
girl among them, 1 SUPPOSE"
NO; thank God, she is out of it
entirely-in the way you mean" he
broke out fervently.
You mean that you haven't spoken
to her-yet?"
"Of course haven't. Do you sup
pose 1 would ask any woman to
marry me with the shadow of the
penitentiary hanging over me-"
But you are not really guilty."
That doesn't make any difference,
Watrous Dunham will see to it that
l get what he has planned to give
me-"
She was tapping an impatient tat
too on the carpet with one shapely
foot.
why don't you turn this new leaf
of yours back and so home and fight
1t out with Watrous Dunham, once
for all?" she suggested.
Il shall probably go, fast enough,
when Nacauley or one of his depu-
ties get here with the eXtradition
papers," he returned. But as to
lighting Dunham, without money"
She Booked up quickly, and this time
time there was no mistaking the
meaning of the glow in the magnifi-
cent brown eyes.
Your friends have money, Mon
tague-plenty of it. All you have to
do is to say that you ill defend
yourself. l am not sure that Watrous
Dunham couldn't be made to take
your place in the prisoners dock, or
that you couldn't be put in his place
In the Lawrenceville Bank and Trust.
You have captured Tucker Jibbey,
and that means fuckers father; and
my father-well, when it comes to
the worst, my father always does
what 1 want him to. It's his one
weakness"
For one little instant Smith felt
the solid ground slipping from be-
meath his feet. Here was a way out,
and his quick mentality was showing
him that it wa a perfectly feasible
way. AS Verda Richlander's husband
and Josiah Rlchlander's' son-in-law,
he could fig, Durham and win. And
the reward; once more he could take
his place in the small Lawrenceville
world, and settle down to the life of
conventional good report and ease
which he had once thought the acme
any reasonable mans aspirations.
Sut at the half-yielding moment a
word of Corona Baldwin's flashed in
to his brain and turned the scale:
1T did happen in your case =
giving you chance to grow and eX-
pand, and to break with all tn ; old
traditions and the break
left you free to make of yourself
what you should choose" 1t was the
reincarnated Smith who met the look