Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-06
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Marie .0gilvie. a mysterious girl ar.
Macs : suddenly at the home Of Alexander
facturer Of LaClasse, a middle western
Eitl to live with Carl Mendail. an art.
ISL; Instructor in the Laclasse schools
Is q relation of his.
The Girl is in a. state of exhaustion,
out rapidly RECEIVERS and exercises 9
ST strong destination over Mendall who !.
ment, although he is already involved
IN an affair with Mrs. Bagsby, the wife
OF the leading banker Of the city.
Townley. MacAllister's chaufeur. is
plant which is turning out Supplies for
the allies. Marie. III MacAllister
against Towniey: but shortly afterwards
the plant ia destroyed by m explosion.
Of the city Of having a hand in the de.
Mendall is threatened with discharge
from the Laclasse schools. Mrs: Men
dall goes to Mr.: Bagsby and frankly
discusses with him her husbands rela-
tions with Mrs. Bagsby. She then warns
her husband that he must choose be-
constantly coming into his life.
It is rumored that MacAllister in
tends to adopt Marie.
Mendall plans a daring portrait Of
Claire Bassby, daughter of the bank
been flirting with Ellis Kraup. son OF
the man MasA!lister suspects Of de-
secretly engaged.
At 4 costume dance that night young
kraup calls Marie aside on the plea that
he has something private: and Important
Marie refuses young Kraup's propos-
al. She and Mendall make a sensation
ina Spanish dance they perform to-
While the party is still going on Ma
rie receives a mysterious message. which
fills here with ear for MacAllister's
ss; ;d With tn. Mendalis. h goes to
not there, has been called away they are
told. Mrs. Mendall proceeds to tell her
husband a secret she has learned re-
Earding Marie's past.
ter's daughter.
MacAllister returns, having been sue
cessful in obtaining the arrest Of a
number Of the plotters against his plant.
with Marie, ask her to marry him.
She tells Mendall that or her mothers
side Marie has negro blood tn her veins.
Marie tells Mendall that Mrs: Mendall
Marie admits that she loves him.
Mendali also confesses to his wife that
he loves Marie.
CHAPTER XLVuI.-Continued. .
AS he sat in his Office, making a list
Of the many things that must be at
tended to during the next three weeks,
MacAllister's thoughts still circled
about his vision. In three weeks
had given him that promise. y
MacAIlister was alone with his
thoughts fol. he had sent. his stem
oGapher down to the bank. to Bags
by, with some business papers. He
did not want to see Bagsby; he did not
want to see any one while the first
flush Of happiness was OF him. He
would be endlessly questioned about
Mortola's' arrest; pestered with4stalk
about the plant, On this day, Of all
others, he did not want such talk.
would be on-before hts office was in
,vaded.
When the door OF the outer room
opened, MacAllister got up and took
his hat. If he. had not been 30 abb
sorbed, he would. have known before
he came to the door Of his room that
the heavy step in the outer ONCE .was
not that of his stenokrapher. It was
Andrew Kraup who doomed m his
threshold, keen4eyed and forid, his
bulk exaggerated by the tan line suit
which was always his attire in hot
weather. f s.E. =
MacAllister's brows lifted at sight OF
him.. It was several years since
Kraup had been In his Office. or he In
Kraup's. They were forced to trans
act business together occasionally;
they saw each other frequently, and,
eyen since, the destruction OF the
plant had succeeded in avoiding q
clash. But Z voluntary visit OF this
sort wa q surprise.
MAeA1lister knew that the morning
papers had full account Of the
Italians arrest, , and Of his suspected
part In the destruction OF MacAllis-
ter's plant. Even thesIAclaDe papers
had limited that one or two mon OF
prominence with strongly pro-0erman
sympathies might be implicated. The
German paper OF the town had had a
biased article on the occurrence and
the other papers their expressions Of
antagonissn--the usual ~controversy
well tinctured with sensatiohalism.
There were many who had looked
askance at Andrew Kraup ever since
The destruction NJ tho NH0Hf Tf haA