Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-04
Iu.-Continued.

"Too much, probably. If, 1 am ill
tomorrow, I shall tell Rupert that
you poisoned me. Are you going
around to pay the lord proprietors of
the place for what we have CONSUME
ed?"
"Who, me If I did, Mrs. Goodwin
might box my ear for the impertin-
ence; she has boxed them before. !
grew up around. here, remember.
The first. acquaintance 1 made with
this house "a when I SHE'D an APP
pie at the family tabby as it sat sun
ming itself on, the well-curb, and
bowled it in. Naturally: L: hadn't
meant to hit it; the beast stepped
forward just as I fired. ! nearly fell
in. myself, trying to get tout, but
raise a meow o a whisker. 1t was
a fine November Sunday, 1 remember,
and while I was busy the family
drove into the yard, home from
church. Il bolted. No n saw me
go, but by and by I began to remem
Der all the yarns I rel had heard
about people getting typhoid fever
from polluted well-water, and to i'm
agine that entire household dying on
my hands. Remorse with a. capita
R! / felt like Cesare .Borgia and
Madame de Brinvilliers and the Veil
led Mokanna all rolled into one. When
couldn't. stand it n longer, ]
sneaked into Flavia's room lat two
o'clock in the. morning, for counsel..'
"She gave it?" a r
''she gave it, You can always
count ons Flavia. I can see her now,
sitting up in. bed with her,hair braid
ed in two big yellow plaits and her
troubled kiddte ~countenance turned
to me. w..
"'You will have to tell either papa
or those people, she decided, wise as
a toy owl. And il you tell them,
they will surely tell papa, SO perhaps
you would rather tell him yourself
But am sorry, dear darling
$50 I 'fessed, up. after breakfast
what happened?" Gerard dues.
9 1--WE drove over to the farm to.
gether. and father went IN f1r a. pri-
vate interview with old man Good.
win: After which he, father. escorted
me around to the we'll and Informed
me that I was to drink q cup OF that
water. Phew, I would rather have
drunk hemlock! I wasn't much given
to begging OF when 1 got. into trou-
BILE. but I tried that time, all right.
ITS what you've left these folks
to- drink said he, standing with hi.
hands in his pockets looking at me
1T would have been a lot more pleas.
ant for you to swallow II you had
owned up two days. ago; just keep
that as q reminder never to put of q
thing you ought to do. Take your
medicine, Corwtn b.
rf,I took 1t. But 1t almost killed
me. He shook his blond head dis.
custody. II told him I would, prob.
ably die Of typhoid, or something
worse. He said we would chance
.tstill. It was = chance, Corrie.s,
uCorrte calmly fastened the las
button Of his raincoat. 8. NJ.
sNo, / guess not. You see, old
Goodwin had told, father that they
pulled pussy out Of the well ten min.
utes after I ran away. the first day
She was clinging to. the bucket, pref.
,ty wet, but healthy and merry. ia
ther told me The truth. before din.
ner-tinre; / d,i1n't sea;l ID sajsn sos
luncheon, that Ssy. Hive yoil Oh q
pencil? I've est my, fountain bsr
again; thet,s the third rye boush;
0srard produced the pencil. II 4
.at.Maea rough Joke 81 row,
,thongil.s e conmsnssd -Dfdn,s you
Corris nftsdS 10 bf4ght cleaf Il nc.
from his taskof tsaring 8 blank ieai
from hia notebook.
Hadn't I eaFned IT." he asked,
Keep the lines straight, Gerard: my
father never punI6hed me IN anger,
nor ublen9.y coulA nr1t admit I de-
5e0Fy1d n AnA ~ could snake .hande
~ aftoeyards Oz course, that eort
o3sth1ng eoe6l ~ yeasp ago-thers