Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-29

almost always right. Now, I'll tell
you = there somebody in this
town trying to ruin that Mr..
.smith-you know the man they
say you're in love with"
"How do you mean = ruin
him?" Edith asked the question
very slowly.
"There's somebody that knows
something about his past"
"Who knows it?" This time it
was the older woman who leaned
forward.
"a horrid mana man named
Simpson"
"What does he know? Tell me,
child, what does he know"
Elise gave her opinion.
cts something awful" she
said, her doll like eyes looking
like moons.
Edith got up and went over and
sat down beside her.
%"Something awful?' she ques-
toned.
$50 awful that it's going to
ruin Mr.. Smith"
Edith unconsciously grasped
her by the arm.
"Tell me! Tell me!'' she said, a
little fercely. What is it?"
While Edith chung to her arm,
Elise elaborated her story.
"Mr. Simpson was up in the Of
fee looking for Mr.. M%annersley.
He said he had something impor-
tant to tell Mr.. Mannersley. Then
he ran into Mr.. Mitchell, the
whisky man, and | heard him tell
Mr.. Mitchell he knew who Mr..
Smith was. / couldn't hear much
because | was over at my desk in
the corner and they talked low.
Mr.. Mitchell looked around in a
minute and saw [ was listening.
So they went into the committee
meeting room and had a talk, and
then Mr.. Mitchell left the Simp-
son man in there while he went in
to talk to Mr.. Mannersley. 1t was
the day Mr.. Smith came up there
and Mr.. Waller was there, and
"You say Mr.. Waller was there
--when?" Edith's brows were
drawn together. She was trying
to visualize everything Elise was
saying.
"Mr. Waller didn't hear any of
the conversation. He came in a
little ahead Of Mr.. Smith, but he
saw the funny look Simpson gave
Mr.. Smith when he met him on his
way out"
Edith still had hold of the girls
arm.
"Tell met" she said tensely.
"What is it you think this man
Simpson knows?"
cts something about a woman
something disgraceful." Elsie
made the statement positively.
"Why do you say that? Tell
me! Why do you say that?"
81 caught the word woman
and something about left before
they went into the next ROOM"
Elise explaining how she had
worked out her theory, "And-
and the rest was intuition -
woman's intuition, you see."
For a moment Edith was sus-
picious. 1t flashed into her mind
that, for some reason, the agita-
tors enemies wanted to discredit
him with her.
why have you come to me
with this storyg" she demanded,
shaking Elise's arm.
Elise looked at her in unfeigned
amazement.
"Why" - she took a great
flight into the high notes-'you
and Mr.. Smith love one another
don't you?"
Edith still was avid of informa.
ton.
"And that's why you came te
met"
"Why, of course! Didn't 1 tel
you | liked romance, real no.
nance? Amt I got a heart, deeE
feelings, and all that? Everybody
knows you're crazy about him
And | don't blame you. His eye.
are just dears! And I said to my
self you ought to hear this story
and / couldn't go to him. Blu
with you, being a woman, it wa.
i. different"
| eyes, of course Edith agreed
duly. She was cropping for ideas
some thought Of what to do o.
say.
j 81 know it's important" Ellis,
insisted, because Mr.. Mitchell
came to see me day before yester
day and took me out to dinner las
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