Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

carried her off on the 5 o'clock train.
During the month that followed the
editor heard nothing either of Lissie
or her new husband. Then one even
ing the Bellows drove up before his
front gate in a beautiful twelve-cylin-
der Dunkard. The car was deep and
roomy and soft-spoken, and it's en-
CINE was of a power to play snap
the-whip with seventeen runcbouts of
the Eden Center class. They had
dropped around. they said, to take
him for a ride: Mrs. Blake, too. if
they could get. her to go.
Upon his return to the house the
license number of the car, and wrote
lnquirlng about it's ownership to
Springfield.
IF that's a rented car the license
will show it. My guess is that it's
rented. If it is, there must be a rea-
son. / wonder what they're up tor
But the car was owned, not rented
The license had been issued, he was
told. to David Bellew of Chicago.
he was not told that Bellows chauf-
feur: man known as Lush in some
circles and as Gus in others. had
lent Breaker the BeIlew Iicense-piate
Tor few hours in exchange for the
plate on the rented machine, in view
OF just such inquiries.
Lissie and Breaker followed this
visit to Eden Center with others. AL
ways they called upon Harrington
ana Mrs. Blake. and always in the
evening. These were the only per-
sons in Eden Center whom they saw.
except Baldy. who. as MIR Mar
ters. the coffee merchant, might have
known Bellew. and once, when Break
er mad paper to sign. notary pub
Tic with whom Badly had become ac-
quainted x
Harrfngton's instinct to use his ewes
for himself almost brought him into
serious conflict with the Bellows upon
one of these visits. Breaker. ii seems.
nad neglected to sign will that Ills
attorney had prepared. and had teIe-
phoned to Badly from Weston aski,1e.
TO have notary public and two wit
nesses at his store at O'clock He
and Mrs. Bellew would be along in
the course of half an hour.
Among the ideas Badly had brought
with him was the whim to have a
long standing desk such as hook
Keepers use. placed in his private of.
nee. with the light falling upon ii
from behind that is to say, from the
store proper. through the frosted
glass partition. The Office was very
the time space was taken up for this
long. high, sloping desk, and for the
safe and battery of filing cabinets
and some sectional bookcases there
was no room left. or very little. for
it's owner III
You'll have to stem in ono - :.
time" said Badly, humorously. .T'eava
the door open for your elbow" :.
Breaker. s""
you'll write small hand this
Breaker entered the Office c.rrv;,
in his hand the will to be sirna5
Baby ana Lissie. who were sharn
eyed in such matters, saw the shiver
OF his right elbow as he made a light :
ning-like substitution at the desk
Ihey knew that in that one swift
ready signed document from beneath
nile or correspondence and had
slipped the other underneath in its
place Then they saw him ostenta-
tiously dip ink and pretend to sign
Bellows name.
II don't think Mr.. Bellew ought tn
ask us to witness that signature" re-
marked Harrington. gravely 1--WE
his back 90
The remark was not seriously in
tended; he did not mean to question
the signing, but merely to fling hu-
morous jibe at the coffee merchants
too cramped Office space
But its effect was that of flame
against cotton. Even while he was
yet speaking Breakers face flushed
darkly and his eyes narrowed with
anger. For a moment his scorn seemed
such that he must refuse to remain
In the same room with such worm
And not only Breaker; Lissie also.
The wrath in her eyes was like moth
ing SO much as that of the old Liss ie,
at the trial. The effect was out of all
proportion to the cause. r ia
Later. Harrington remembered an,
other odd circumstance, which was
that Badly betrayed almost as much,
anger toward him as Lissie or
Breaker.
"why, what's the matter? You sure