Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-02-14
, Jane Bunker
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at was papa--but didn't see him"
"What did you have to let him
know
whether it was you or Mrs. Della
rio"
How did you manage that?"
Il set my little handbag on top of
/ the suitcaSe-that said the box was
there. Then drew OF my glove
that said. in slipper 1t wasn't
very hard to remember"
and you had given the signal when
| I picked up the slipperY'
"Yes-and I was so frightened. I
didn't know but papa would be
! killed"
and you went home with Mrs
Delarl0 and tried to see if she had the
right slipper?7
"Yes-but l never found out"
She looked as if she were dying to
/ ask. "Have you found out?"
I was so afraid she would that I
ended the cross-examination hastily by
asking her what she heard from her
mother and signaled Billy to chip into
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as he could; and after she'd replied
/ about her mother-that her GRANDPA
ther was still dying and her mother
! dared not leave-she turned to Billy
as though she had really only just then
| become aware of his presence, and
they soon We're chattering away like
magpies and the bushes were mostly
on Billy's cheeks. For which he might
/ be forgiven. He was just twenty-five
/ and she was just sixteen but in three
! yearS-dear me, what a beauty she
was going to be-what d man-killerl
left them to themselves, going to
my bedroom on some pretext or an
other while one quarter Of an hour fol-
lowed another and still monsieur did
not return. At nine Claire began to
/ be restless; at quarter after she blurt-
ed our, do you suppose anything has
happened to papaY
! had been supposing it for half an
hour-he'd had time to make twenty
trips to the telegraph Office and back
but I managed to say reassuringly.
"Why, what could happen?" and Billy
/ supported me with n fine courageous,
Nothing could have happened-hes
a man-he knows how to take care Of
/ himself and was rewarded with n
iooN' Eve" at sixteen CURE 5 looks
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was all on his side, however-he
/ caught her ~ she was raoor,Ioes1r ,,,..
/ So
den.
Got any smelling salts? ouick If
YOU have. Some water. If Won haven't"
he ordered.
I couldn't help an inward snort Mt
the cool way in which he took the nro-
prietorship of the situation in nv
house-a snort tempered via, go,,5-
natured elderly amusement a. his i'm
nefuositv ami ;ts iusti6ahIe causn H.
was nearly as nole &c Clafra and