Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-16

Hiiliard saw that hsr checks wsrs
teay-atalned.
"It's nothing but 5eaiousyi" ~
cried vehemsntly. lies said hor-
rible things about youi Hes always
saying. things about you! He said"
"AnselaJ" Cullen almost fairly
shouted II. 4 tell you. this 10 my
house, and ! won't have any moro OF
this Internal nonsense in It'll Hear
met I've had all the nonsense I'm
going tU stand from anybody!
Rufus, you stay right there! Angela,
you keep quiet!" He turned to Hi
Hard. III you'd come In q half
minute sooner. you'd have heard this
young whipper-snapper. trying 20
make you out swindler!N Tryins
to class you with fake promoters
and mining sharks!. Yes. that's
| what he did! You! And look at
him! Look at himl I want to tell
you, Hilliard. it'll take more than his
say-so to start anything around
here! Don't you open your mouth
Rufus !. you had your chanee
and you wouldn't take 1t! And
want to tell you right here and right
| now"
"wa,t a minute" billiard was
deadly quiet; the only quiet mem
Der of the quartet. There's no use
in telling all the neighbors just yet.
He regarded Waring kindly. 10
you mind repeating precisely what
you did say. Rufus? Don't you think
I'm entitled to that much%
The boy flushed agonizediyy he was
the accuser, and yet he couldn't meet
billiards eyes. 1t wasn't guilt; II
was mere intellectual inferiority: and
yet 1t gave exactly the opposite I'M
preston.
WELL" he said desperately. I
know hearsay evidence Is no good
so I got 1t first hand-.n your room
at the Onondaga, didn't 1? You
won't deny that, will you? / didn't
just pick up rumors--I got 1t from
you. Didn't go there and ask you
questions, and didn't you give me
the data? Show me figures and ev-
erythIng?> And told Mr.. Cullen the
very ,next day, it didn't look good to
me-" His voice roseA> stridently. All
right, IN say to him, and I'll say 1t
to you, and I'll say 1t to anybody
thatll listen to me! It didn't look
good to me then. and it doesn't now.
1 told him You acted darned funny
about it. And just now rye been
telling him don't believe it's
straight. You're too blamed sketchy
about IL, and it's got all the earnar+s
Of a bum promotion! There :.
Cullen!" The omission Of the prefix
to the father Of his idol was the worst
insult no could conceive.
Cullen's hand was still on billiards
shoulder, and it was billiard whom
he, addressed, 'explosively, and with
that particular sort Of muffled fury
which rises best from q set Of cir
cumstances not thoroughly under
stood
What this is all about Is beyond
mo! Only, If this law minnow has
Como as Tar as this We've got
to get at the bottom Of it You
know that as we'll rs I do, Hilliard,
naturally. The boys as wild &c q
hawk. Heaven knows how far he'd
60 outside. This has got to be
cleared upl We've got to p0un
some sense into him. We"
Hilliard was smiling vacuously;
now that the blow had actually fallen.
and the complaint officially lodged,
he felt deliciously relaxed, content.
Before he could oontrive q reply
Waring was strident again.
yes" The students voice wa
thin with acerbity. Yes, you think
you're pretty smart-all Of you.
Don't you? I come in here to do
you kindness that anybody else,
it seems to me would take as q ia
vor,, and you and Angela Jump all
over newly doesn't he deny it?
That's what want to know! Why
doesn't he say something's"
Cullen looked at Hiliard and made
a swift deduction. and spoke 1t. Il
Hes waiting for the rest Of 1t.
Go on-you're only half thru the
yarn you told U.S."
"Oh. very WELL" Waring gathered
courage. ''You can have all you
want-maybe moro than you want.
You'd have had 1t sooner II you
hadn't started yelling at me. know
what I'm talking about: you people
don't seem to realize I'm in the law!
I don't,=en-sff half cooked. I wrote
to law firm in Butte, Mont. that's
what did. I found out what was
the biggest firm there, and wrote
'em q letter. They answered it. too.
Iegot my Information right from the
ground. I've got q letter that
says
Cullen swayed forward, his hand
outstretched, palm upward, in d.
rect challenge Of Warnings truthful
ness
Where is ft?"
The boy withdrew step and
stammered: II left 1t home"
ooh, you did!" CulIen's laugh was
singing. -"That's Jlikely!"
Eyes, that's evactly what /. did!'
Think I'd bring an original letter
out Of my office-let it out of my
hands until it's time to make it OF
record? Not on your life! i've got
it all right. 1t says the silverbow
Mining Corporation owns some
acreage, fast enough, but there isn't
"a mine on it"
Cullen vented his abandon Of rage
on the empty air. id
= 'sWell. who in the devil ever said