Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-11-16

"But wilkins"
wilkins or anybody else; l dom
want any help with bath. I know
how to take bath, at least don,
know how you swells take yours, but
I take mine alone, I don't want any
one pottering around me, and won't
have it,"
His countenance flushed angrily, and
Anthony favored him with an indulg
ent smile. After all, he was very
young.
"As you please, David. Show him to
the north bathroom, wilkins. That is
ALL"
But he tapped wilkins shoulder
and held him back moment to add:
And get his wretched togs, Wilk-
ms I'll dress him properly tomorrow;
but get those rags away from him.
Very good SIR" said Wilkins, as he
glided down the corridor after David.
The proprietor of F'ry's Imperial
Eminent watched him 60 and smiled
softly, returning to his chair to grin
at Johnson Boiler in perfectly hu-
man fashion. Johnson Boiler, on the
other hand, did not grin at all He
merely gazed at his old friend until
Anthony asked:
'WelEwhat do you Think
81 think you're mutt" Johnson Boil
Ter said with sweet candor. Il think
you're plain da-well, I think you're
You know what that
young thug will do to you, don't your"
"Ehw
IF he's the crook he looks, he'll
light out Of here about three in the
morning with everything but the piano
and your encyclopedia. II he isn't a
crook. just as soon as he gets loose
and talks, it over with his friends, he'll
have you pinched for OBTAINING him
here against his will: and I'll give
you ten to one that he collects not
less than twenty-five hundred dollars
before he's through. You scared him
stiff with your eagle eye and your
crazy notions, and he pleaded guilty
so he could go to bed and get away
from you. I'll have to testify to that
If he calls on me-"
"Fiddlesticks" said Anthony Fry.
us it? Wait and see, Anthony"
Johnson Boiler said earnestly. THAT
kid spells trouble. ! can feel it in the
air." Anthony smiled.
Maybe. SO; but this feeling
amounts to pain!" Boiler said
warmly. "This is hunch--a premo-
Of those prophetic aches
that can't be ignored. Why, he had
fight started before You had spoken
ten words to him. and"
ooh rotfD Apfhnpy sold
Johson Boiler drew deep, concern
ed breath.
"On the level he said, "are you 60
ing to keep this kid Imprisoned here?"
by no means" Anthony laughed.
"As matter Of fact, all I want to do
is to talk to him in the morning. I
want to know, Johnson, whether he
will actually persist in fighting off the
chance I'm offering him-because it's
so COMPOUNDED characteristic of the
whole human race. II he's as obsti
nate in the morning as, he is now
well, I suppose I'll turn him loose
with a ten-dollar bill, and look around
for another subject. I'd really like to
approach a dozen men, picked hap
hazard, and write little paper on
III
portunity."
"Yes, but not while I'm with YOU"
Johnson Boiler said. Anthony, do
this-get the kid aside in the morning
and tell him you'd been drinking
heavily all day and didn't know what
you were doing tonight See? Make
a joke of 1t and slip him fifty to keep
quiet, and then"
"Ah, Wilkins" Anthony smiled
Got his toys. did your
The Invaluable one bowed and held
the shabby garments at distance
from his person
"He passed them out to me through
4 crack in the door," he reported dis
what shall I do with them?
They're hardly worth pressing sir
"Of course not Don't bother with
them" Anthony smiled, and waved
his man away. johnson, turn intelli.
gent for a moment, will your"
why? Intelligence has no place
In this evAning."
ooh, yes it has. Let's examine the
case Of this David youngster and try
to reconstruct his emotions and his
mental Impressions when confronted
with opportunity such as"
Damn opportunity" said Johnson
Boiler rising with jerk. I'm going
10 bed"
Only once had Johnson Boiler tar
lied in Montreal, and on that occasion
he thermometer had ranged about
ninety in the shade. Yet now, rs he
,lumbered fitfully in Anthony's Cir
,assian guest-chamber, childhood nc.
ions Of Canada came to haunt his
dreams.
He saw snow--long, glistening
-oads of snow over which Beatrice
Shizzed in a four.horse sleigh. with
driver and footman on the box. and
beside her a tall, foreign-looting
creature with big mustache and
flashing eyes and teeth. He talked To
Beatrice and leaned very close, de,
her beauty with his eyes; and
Johnson Boiler groaned, woke briefly,
md drifted off again.
He saw ice; they were holding an
ce carnival in Montreal, and every
BODY was on skates Beatrice was on
skates, ravishing in white fur leading
some sort of grand march with the
Governor General of Canada. who
'kated very close to her and devoured