The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-06-07
CHAPTER XIII.

ludI WHICH Ceutcleu at Ahi O. AhNp
toms boarding house. Within a week
he was as much q part Of 1t as II he
had lived there for years. At lunch
on the day of his arrival, he made his
appearance at the table in company
with Pearson, and when the landlady
exultantly announced that he was to
be lone of our little party" thereafter
he received and replied to the welcom-
ing salutations of his fellow boarders
with unrufIled serenity.
The captain paid frequent visits to
the offices Of Sylvester, Kuhn & Graves
in Pine street. Upon the senior part
ner, whom he esteemed and trusted not
only as a business adviser but friend,
he depended for information concern
ing happenings at the Warren apart
ment.
Caroline sent him regular statements
of her weekly expenditures, also bills
for his approval, but she had written
him but once and then only brief
note. The note brought by messen-
ger accompanied a package containing
the chain which he and Pearson select
ed with such deliberation and care at
the Fifth avenue jewelers.. Under the
existing circumstances, the girl wrote,
she felt that she did not wish to accept
presents from him and therefore re-
turned this one.
After Pearson had departed one morn
ing Captain Elisha put on hi hat and
coat and started for his lawyers office.
Sylvester was glad to see him and in
vited him to lunch.
"No, thank you," replied the captain.
"I just run down to ask if there was
anything new in the offin'. Last time l
see you, you hinted you and your mates
had sighted somethin' or other through
the fog, and it might turn out to be a
rock or a lighthouse, you couldn't tell
which. Made up your mind yet?'
Sylvester shook his head. NO" he
said slowly, sit is still foggy. We're
busy investigating, but we're not ready
to report"
"Humph Well, what's the thing
look like? You must be little higher
to it by now"
The lawyer tapped his desk with a
pencil. Il don't know what it looks
like" he answered. THAT is to say, l
DON'T can't believe it is what it ap-
pears at this distance to be. If it is it
is the most
He paused. Captain Elisha waited
for him to go on and when he did so
asked another question.
THE most what?" he demanded SIS
it likely to be very bad? Amt discov-
cred any mere cf those Cut Short bonds,
have your
The bonds to which he referred were
those of d defunct Short Line railroad
A large number of these bonds had
been discovered among A. Rodgers
Warren's effects. Part of his tangled
assets the captain had termed them.
differcntiating from the "tangible' va.
riety.
"Abbie my housekeeper, has been
writin' me-" he went on, about havin
the SEWN room papered. She wants
my advice concernin' the style of pa
per. Says it ought to be pretty and
out of the common, but not too eXpen.
sive. I judge what she wants is some.
thin that looks like money but amt
really worth more than 10 cents a mile
I've been thinkin' I'd send her bale
or so of those bonds. They'd fill the
bill in those respects, wouldn't they?
Sylvester laughed. "They certainly
would, captain he replied. mo, we
haven't unearthed any more of that
sort. And, as for this mystery of ours,
I'll give you the answer, if it's worth
giving at all, in a very short time
Meanwhile you go home and forget it. y
"Well, I'll try. But l guess it sticks
out on my face like a four days tooth.
ache. But l won't worry about that
You know best whether to tell me now
or not, and-well, I'm carryin' about
all the worry my tonnage'n stand as
tis.'
He drew long breath. Sylvester re-
garded him sympathetically.
you mustn't take your nephew's
and niece's treatment too much tc
heart he said.
"Oh, l don't-that is, l pretend
don't. And l do try not to. But
keep thinkin' and wonderin' if 'twould
have been better if l hadn't gone there
to live at all Hi hum! A man of my
age hadn't ought to mind what g
twenty-year-old girl says or does, 'spe
cially when her kind, advisin' friends
have shown her how she's been de
ceived and hypocritted BY the way
speakin' of hypocrites, / suppose there's
Just as much 'Dunnin' as ever goin
on UP there"
Yes; a little more, If anything, In
afraid Your niece and Mrs. Dunn ant
her precious son are together now 81
constantly that people are expecting
we'll, you know what they expect
Il can guess. l hope they'll be dis
app'inted."
$50 do I, but must confess I'm fear
full. Malcolm himself isn't SO wise
but his mother is
"a whole book of Proverbs, hey?
know. She's an able old frigate.
did think l had her guns spiked, bu
she turned 'em on me unexpected.
thought | had her and her boy in {
Glove hitch l knew somethin' that
was sartin sure they wouldn't wan
Caroline to know, and she and Nal
colin knew l knew 1t. Her tellin
Caroline of it, her story Of it, when
wasn't there to contradict, was a!
smart piece of maneuverin as eve
was. 1t took the wind out of my sails
because, though I'm just as right as
ever was, Caroline wouldn't listen t
me nor believe me now"
She'll learn by experience"
81 don't mind so much Caroline't
bein' down on me-" resumed the cap
tain. She'll know better some day,
hope, and if she don't-well, I'm onl!
a side issue in her life, anyhow, how
in by accident, like the section of do;