Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-07
CHAPTER VIM (Continued)

After one glance around, Adam con
cluded to carry the girl inside. Any
thing to get away from this rabble.
who hooted and showed and offered
~gratuitous advice. The clergyman sug.
gested an ambulance, and spoke of the
prison hospital on Blackwell's Island,
and this was enough to decide Adam.
An ambulance had been his own first
Thought, but now immediate shelter
seemed more important. He called to
the retreattng figure : OF Jerry's &C.
Quaintance, commanding him to re-
turn.
Here! You!" cried Adam. Jerry
back here!'
At the very step of the shack the
old man heard him. and returned. the
bell jingling more feebly, hesitatinE
in its clang lin perfect expression OF
its holders doubt. The old fellow still
chung to the great basket, and as he
came back, he shifted It carefully from
stood before Adam, looking at him
severely, and pointing his bell at the
ITS Jerry's daughter!!" he suaver-
ed. ITS Pearl. l tell yer! We got to
get her pal"
Good Lord!" cried Adam. "Here,
you people. stand aside. we've first got
~ GFI uSl AltO the mouse.
He strobe up the path with his pitt
full burden, as easily as though she
had been a baby. the old fellow join
ing forces with him, and shutting out
the crowd, all save the o~fficious
clergyman and a handsome giant of
a policeman, who had strolled up at
the last moment and came in to see,
in a leisurely. good-natured way. what
the rumpus was all about.
Adam want STRAIGHT thro,,rh %hn
d~isordered sitting-room to the one
door which he had not opened a Sec
ond time since his possession of the
Just turn the KNOB" he said to the
policeman, who followed him. And
that scion of the law meekly obeyeds
allowing Adam to enter the little white
narrow bed she had left so long since.
Her face seemed more white than
the linen against which it rested, and
Adam bent a troubled ear to catch her
breathing before he left her to the
ministrations Of the little old man,
who hurried in with a pitcher of water
and a flask. which he proceeded to ad-
derness.
Leave her ter me-" he kept saying.
Leave her ter me. poor kitten. Wa
her fur all rumpled then, poor NANCY
onei I'll fix her up all right, the
winkie-doo! Poor, poor kitty-cat. I'm
a herb-doctor, I am. I'll fix her up.
Yousleave her ter mel"
And indeed he seemed to know what
he was aboutf for all his strange talk
and uncouth appearance. Adam turn
ed to the police officer-a fine crea-
ture. as tall and broad, as young and
blond and handsome as himself. One
of those soldier-like guardians of the
peace who make us proud Of the de-
partment, no matter what the investi-
gators say
What is it all about, then?" said
the arm of the law, with the sweet
ness of Ireland in his voice.
"She is the daughter of the old fell
low who used to be here, it seems
Adam replied. "She was evidently re-
turning to her father-probably for
help and refuge-when she tainted at
the gate"
The cleric who had been watching
with folded hands spoke. II fear sae
she is-er, not a virtuous person." said
he severely. 'It is certainly a case for
the city authorities"
Adam made a strange growing
sound.
AN amt the father of the poor
thing here?" asked the policeman.
linen VIII 1 De aTter Sendln 1r the
ambulance :" inquired the officer.
1T would be wise!" commented the
clergyman, pursuing his lips. These
creatures are best handled by the
city!"
Great Scott, whose affair is this.
anyhow Adam burst out, exasperat-
ed blythe clergyman's SNUG assump-
ton Of authority, and, in his indigna-
ton, carried beyond his original in
&@-& - n
This is the girls home. She has come
back to it. Inc here she stays! That is,
unless she proves to be too i'll, in
which case it will be time enough to
talk of hospitals!!"
"But if her parent is not here"
began the cleric in a tone Of Mortified
protest.
He may be back at any moment"
said Adam, more promptly than
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