Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-30

niece's? It's a good car. I ima CINE II
Will please Mrs. P. immensely and
grant Won sIrcease from sorrow. OF
course. l will not give Il TO you. I'll
sell il to yOu--five hundred down up
on the signing OF the agreement, and
in lieu Of the cash, will take over
that jitney Mrs. PoundStone finds So
distastefGl. Then / will employ your
son, Henry. as the attorney for the
Laguna Lumber company and give
him q retainer of twenty i've hundred
dollars for one year. | will leave it
TO You 70 get this twenty five hun
dred dollars from Henry and pay my
niece cash for the car. Doesn't that
strike YOU as perfectly safe and
sane propositions
Had a vista OF paradise opened W
before Poundstone. he could not have
been more thrilled. He had been alb
soiuteIy honest in his plea TO Mrs.
PoUndstOne that he could not afford
thirty-two- hundred and fifty dol
lar sedan, much rs he ionged to oblise
her and gain a greatly-to be desired
peace. And now the price was dang
ling before his eyes. so to speak. At
any rate ii was parked in the porte
cochere not ffty feet distant,
For the space of a minute the may
or weighed his sons future as cor
poration attorney against his own fu-
ture as mayor Of Sequoia-and Hen
ry lost"
TT might be arranged, Colonel" he
murmured in a low voice-the voice
Of shame.
ut is already arranged" the ColoneI
replied cheerfully. Leave your fit al
the front gate and drive home in
Shirley's car. TN arrange matters
with her" He laughed shortly. al
means. Of course. that I'll have TO
telegraph TO San Francisco tomorrow
and buy her a later model Thank
goodness, she has birthday tomor-
row. Have a fresh cigar, mayor"
Colonel Pennington had little diff
Guilty in explaining the deal to Shir-
! ley, who was sleepy and not at all in
! tersted. The Poundstones had bored
| her to extinction, and upon her uncle's
! assurance that she would have a new
car within week. she rnangeu MIN
and for the first time retired without
Offering her cheek for his good nigh
kiss. Shortly thereafter the Colonel
sought his own virtuous couch and
prepa red TO surrender himself TO the
| first good sleep in three weeks. He
laid the fiattering JUNCTION to his soul
! that Bryce Cardigan had dealt him a
| poor hand from q marked deck and
| he had played it exceedingly well
Lucky: 7 blocked the young beggaI
from getting those rails out Of the
Laurel creek spur" he unused, "ol
he'd have had his jump crossing in
over highland then where the dew
WOULD have heen without a paddle
and all the courts in Christendom
would avail me nothing"
He was doing off, when SOUND
smote upon his ears. Instantly he was
wide awake. listening .intently, hi!
head cooked on one side. The sound
grew louder; evidently it was ap
preaching 5equvia--and with a. Dount
the Colonel sat up in bed, trembling
in every limb.
Suddenly, out of the deep. rumbline
diapason ne heard sharp click-ther
another and another. He counted
them-six In all
"a locomotive and six fat cars.'
he murmured And they just passet
over the switch leading from the
main line tracks out to my log dump
That means the train ia going dowI
Water street to the swithch into Cardi.
gan's yard. BY George. they've ont.
4 witted mel.
4 With the agility OF a boy ne sprar,l
Into his clothes raced downstairs
land Ieaped Into MAYOR Poundst nnes
4 titney ntnniipg m the darkness Z
sthe front gate. q Al z 3ss88'