Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-14
TOO MUCH
EFFICIENCY
A CLEVER sERlAL STORY.
BY a J. RATH.
Author Of when the Dawn Was
Sisk, ~ "Ons- Cylinder SAM" etc.
CHAPTER XIV. continued.)
CLEVER SERIAL sTs

For answer. H. Hedge fumbled
among the few remaining papers on
the desk and discovered the check
book.
when did cut off your allowance,
Bm9" he asked
"I-gosh!"
TITS three weeks. anyhow" OBJ
served H. Hedge. as he began to write.
l"Call 1t d. month; that's near enough.
Well say two hundred is coming to
lyou. And then there's interest, at six
iper cent, guess. Oh. let's make It
an even two-fifty and call 1t square.
don't want to bother figuring It. Is
that satisfactory, Bill?"
| Billy Brooke was choking. AS Hedge
signed his name with particularly
dashing flourish, he stood as though
hypnotized. And when the check was
in his hands he was still dumb. He
stared at the slip Of paper and then
at the signer of it. Constance and
Hedge laughed merrily.
OH say" faltered Billy after q
long pause, "This sort Of gets me, E..
Il. 1t isn't the money part, but-oh, I
| guess you're all right.
| The two Brookes and Fl. Hedge
were laughing uproarously over a re-
miniscence of economy and efficiency
when the third Brooke made her ap-
pearance. Alice paused and surveyed
the group from the threshold. Then,
tossing her books into a chair she ad-
vanced upon the trio.
Hello Billy" she said, and kissed
him.
} Hello Connie--you fraud" and
kissed her.
"And hello, II. Hedge-congratula l.
tons"
And she kissed him!
"Alice!"
1t was the amazed voice OF Con-
stance that spoke.
"Pooh!" said Alice blandly. a
, knew it was going to happen all the
time. Anybody who wasn't blind could
see it."
alice! You couldn't have seen it
, nobody could"
, Couldn't I, though? I've been ex-
pecting to see you fall on each others
necks at breakfast for the past two
weeks"
i. buI you never Sald n WOTu. AnC
, you kept talking about him just lik.
: the rest of u.s." protested Constance.
Il didn't want to spoil it," sale
Alice wisely
And you freely forgive me every
thing?" asked III. Hedge in wonder
ment.
ITO tell you the truth" said Alic,
with fine simplicity and frankness, +"
was never very mad at you after tn,
morning you read the declaration. Yol
s gave yourself away then. II. Hedge
I But. just for the sake of revenge"
She seized his thick hair in botl
|, hands, took firm grip. and shook hi
e head until he howled.
:. "There We're quits" she exciaime
Now, go on with your spooning."
And she raced from the room.
DO you really think she knew ?
asked Constance in an awed voice.
You never can tell" observed Bill
thoughtfully. "She's wise little gu.
but she doesn't always let. on.
"She's strong little guy" affirme
H. Hedge ruefuliy, rubbing his heat
II You'll have to protect me from tina
child, Connie"
n I'm beginning to think she knew NOR
$, about it than any of us, after ALL
e Horace entered the room, carryin
n a trayful of mall. When he had IL
Gated the exact spot where H. Heds
sat. he faced 1t. drew himself up wit
a military air, and covered the in
IS terval by the shortest possible rout
: and with the fewest number of step
d With single movement of the arm,
presented the mail.
H. Hedge took 1t from the tray, bit
ing his lip to conceal smile. Horlo
wheeled about, clicked his heels to
gether, and started back over til
same rolte. He WAS halted by tt
" voice of the ex-effciency man befo,
he had reached the door
Take a couple Of turns around tt