Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-02-13
CHAPTER w (Continued.)

Il never thought of that" he gasped
And he collapsed into his armchair
lighted cigarette and let him
think Of it; then I said: you won't
be able to do amy public work at all
and you'll never get that peerage, un-
less you can hush it up"
Yes. yes; you're right. III send
my daughter away at once - tonight,
he cried.
What good would that do? That
wouldn't shut Jack Humans mouth,
1t would open it. You've got to shut it.,
! said.
Curse that young man. Curse him."
he squeaked.
"Oh, yes. BY all means. But he's
got you in cleft stick. You've got to
let them get married.
Never. Never! They shall never
marry" he squealed. And he was
bouncing up and down again.
let him bounce till he was tired
then said ut seems rather silly to
become the laughing stock of the coun-
try and lose peerage for fad like
this. Really Jack Thurman has done
you real service. He's brought your
name before the public as no work OF
you own ever did. He's really got you
peerage, if you sit tight and take It.
But you know best. I'll let the papers
know about this discovery at once, my
SELF"
/ rose and was opening the door.
when he cried: wait! Wait! l must
think about it! Don't be so hasty!'
He flung himself back in the arm
chair, pouting, with his eyes full OF
tears; and expected him to start
numbering.
At last he said very sulkily: Il
yield. They shall marry. do not
Yield out of fear of ridicule. do not
abandon my Just resentment. The good
Of my country demands my surrender,
the surrender of my private feelings;
can not let myself be paralyzed in my
work for its best interest. They shall
marry" he squeaked solemnly.
That's all right" I said And now
we'll draw up the contract
He kicked at this; but what ] felt
was that 1t was no use my being
house agent il l did not draw up con-
tracts. Besides, he seemed to me too
peeyish to trust. just bullied him in
to II.
I drew up the contract myself. He
rave his consent to Miss Ponderbury's
marrying Jack in three months time.
He settled seven hundred year on
her Il tried to make it thousand. but
I found that that was trying him too
hish and might upset the whole bust
ness,. When he had signed the con-
tract he wrote a check for the hun
dred pounds reward for Alice Devine.
After It he was better. He bounced
beside me to the front door and as l
went down the steps, he said: 1T is a
reliefsonce more to take up the work
Of STRENGTHENING our order. with an I'M
harassed mind" And fhe bounced
I When got home'1 sent the check
round to Alice Devine and went into
NV once. Jack had just come back
after his lunch.
1--WE Just drawn up q contract and
should like you to look through 1t,
gave 1t to him.
He could not believe his eyes. What
Where? How? How on earth did you
get this out of the old dunderhead?'
he ssammered.
Gently with your future father-in.
law. I said and told him the line
had taken.
when I had stopped his thanks, I
pulled out my drawing Of the hierogly.
phics and asked him what they meant
exactly.
''They showed me where Muriel
would be on the fourth day after 1T was
drawn" he said. 1.-THE four shows the
fourth day, the circle with the line
drawn through 1t at the bottom of it Is
the afternoon sun; II the line were
drawn through the top it would be the
morning sun. The ducal coronet -"
'sYou call that coronet?' inter
called It an internal machine said.
rupted with surprise. "Ponderbury
'ft"s a coronet - ducal coronet. 1t
meant that Muriel would be at the
Duchess of Huddersfeld's in the after
noon. The circle with the cross means
the night = the crossed out sun. The
square with the three in it is 3, Berke'
10y Square. That's where she'd be
that night
II see," said. "And what does the
bomb-the crossed out sun - the last
hierog1yphic you drew, mean when its
~ ITSELF"
~Oh, that meant that her duenna,
Mrs. Manders, would be out, and she'd
ceme to the garden that night. It's
Qfee simple"
N was.
CHAPTER V.
Herbert Poikinoton's Uncertainty.
The discovery that he had made |
such a complete fool of himself seemed
to have a Christening effect on Sir
Jack told me that now.
when he went to the house to see
Muriel, the Gutta-percha One was quite
civil to him Also he seemed to have
grown rather shy of me since l had |
drawn up that marriage contract. for
be ceased Fostering Garth and Thur /
man with his fussy letters.