Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-08-05

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Goose! What Did He Mean? He Was
Full Hour Early.
have them, don't WEI" He added in
an odd voice: Perhaps l deserved ali
| got. Anyway, believe she was a
martyr"
"A martyr to anarchy"
But still martyr to what she con.
sidered right"
Steady. DAN" said Hunt you're
getting morbid. Come along to the pit
today. There's something stirring in
summer wheat. It'll wake you up:
make you your old self again."
mo use, Harry. I'm finished with
specializing"
| You talk like a has-been! Why.
you're just starting in life. You've got
to do something. A man like you can't
loaf. What's it going to be-"
Giving to Others"
Hunt jerked his head impatiently. 81
mean what business. what line? You've
got some big thing up your sleeve
Dan. Out with it,"
Daniel dabbled his fingers in fin.
| ger-bowl. While drying them on a
napkin the vertical lines appeared
sharply between his brows. He lighted
cigarette.
He showed his chair back, stood up.
"Henceforth l am going to take my
happiness in my own way. l learned
how at daybreak this morning. l am
going to give, give. give. And l won't
stop giving until the last cent Is gone"
Dan, believe you've gone crazy"
"And believe" said the secretary,
who read his Bible on occasion, that
Mr.. Fitzrandolph shows very keen
wisdom. Furthermore-well, there is
a verse in Saint Matthew, which runs
'Ye are the salt of the earth. >"
Jonas, the valet, touched his sleeve.
"A special delivery letter, SIR"
Taking the square envelope from
the servants salver without observ.
ing the superscription, the secretary
opened it and perused the contents.
He knitted his brows.
"Puzzling," he murmured, scratching
the back of his head. Its anonymous.
has neither beginning nor end" He
looked suddenly at the envelope, then.
with an apology. handed the message
to his employer. II didn't notice it,
It's marked PERSONAL
one glance at the sheet of note
paper and Daniel sank into his chair
With his strong fingers he pinned the
note to the table, breathing rapidly
through dilated nostrils. Hunt sitting
next to him, recalled afterward that
1t was the only time in all the years
he had known him that he had ever
seen the mans hand tremble.
Daniel looked up, stared blankly a
moment at the two silently questioning
faces. His lip quivered slightly.
Boys. I've received startling news.
I've changed my mind about giving
everything away I'll go ahead with
those houses. But I'll go little saner.
In a little saner manner, you under
stand. And. boys, am going to do
that big thing!"
Jonas! Call good livery stabis.
want their best saddle horse AT
twelve sharp. Craig, make an appoint
ment for tomorrow morning with
Stanley Graham. the architect. Phone
for the head barber downstairs, Jonas.
Mention ten dollars to him"
Then, without any of them know
Ing what it was all about. the specu-
lator. the secretary, and the valet, had
| their hands seized and wrung with
vim that crushed their fingers.
Hunt, burning with curiosity, per-
mitted his eye to rest momentarily
upon the opened note lying on the
table. He could make nothing out of it,
1t began without preface and was un-
signed. 1t consisted Of two questions,
written in flowing, girlish. hand:
DO you remember our last appoint
ment? Will YOU keep it today?"
AS the superbly 1.-the, red-haired
young woman mounted with cool COM
posture on the sorrel horse, cantered
serenely past the Grant monument in
Lincoln park she glanced at her watch
and saw 1T was one o'clock. A garden
| er spading the soft ground beside the
bridle-path stopped his work, as we'll
anyone might, to follow her with adj
miring gaze. There was a delicious
"earthy" smell of spring in the air,
a vernal quickening all about.
I Presently-she had passed the end
of the hillocll just north of the monu-
ment-she turned in her saddle, and
| perceived far to the south dark
shape growing rapidly larger She jerk
ed the reins precpitately, wheeled
about, started back in alarm. Her adj
mirable tranquility had vanished.
Goose! What did he mean? He was
a full hour early.
Escape was cut off. Quickly she
guided her horse into the concrete