Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-06-25

what you've been saying, you talk about
being fair! Why If you"
Hush Angela!' Her fathers adj
monition was peremptory enough to
quell her instantly. He wheeled back
to Waring. Were going to get at the
bottom of this sooner or later-and
the sooner the better. I'm waiting for
you to repeat what you just told us,
Rufus"
There were tears of anger in the
law students eyes-of anger and of
impotence. He gave Angela a look of
superb disdain, shrugged his shoulders.
"Well. that settles that!" he said.
and as Angela gave gasp of under
standing, and turned angrily white, he
laughed metallically.
Cullen moved nearer to him.
Are you going to speak up or not?
Because If you aren't :"
Waring folded his arms; but he
still failed Of the pose he planned, be-
cause his eyes and his muscles were
traitor to him.
mo, I'm not! Not until I'm ready
to! I'm not afraid of the whole crowd
of you! I'm not going to be bullied
and bulldozed into" He attempted
to brush past Cullen, the older man
caught him by the arm. ''Take your
| hands off mel"
"You stay where you are!" stormed
Cullen until you can"
eff you lay your hands on me once
more, Mr. Cullen, I'll don't you
forget / know what this means I'll
| have you"
"Oh. your law!" Cullen snorted it
contemporary. 'For Gods sake,
don't SWIVEL about it stand up
and take 1t like man. if you've got
any manhood in you! For a law stu
dent you're we'll, don't try to
/ run away from it, then. Are
you going to fell him, or am r."
The answer was delayed; Cullen
swung around to billiard. "Then I'll
tell you myself. Know what this boys
been saying about you? Coming up to
us when you're not here, and trying to
hAAA0 you W1IcH you &c AOI loOAAA6
| billiard. who had been standing
paralyzed, found voice.
"Why, can guess" he said. curious
| ly calm. "And don't be harsh with
him. Mr. Cullen. AS a matter of
| fact"
Angela had sprung between them !;
billiard saw that her cheeks were tear
stained.
Its nothing but jealousy !" she
cried vehemently. Hes said horrible
| things about you! He's always Say
ing things about you! He said"
= 'Angela!'' Cullen almost fairly
shouted it. 81 tell you, this is my
house, and / won't have any more of
this internal nonsense in It'll Hear
me? I've had all the nonsense I'm go
ing to stand from anybody! Rufus,
you stay right there! Angela, you
keep quiet!" He turned to billiard.
eff you'd come in half minute soon
er, you'd have heard this young whipl
per-snapper trying to make you out a
swindlerI Trying to class you with
fake promoters and mining sharks
look at hint Look at him! want to
Yes that's what he did You And
tell you, billiard. it'll take more than
his say-so to start anything round
here! Don't you open your mouth,
Rufus you had your chance
and you wouldn't take It'll And want
to tell you right here and right now"
"Wait minute" Hilliard was
deadly quiet; the only quiet member
of the quartette. ''There's no use in
telling all the neighbors just yet" He
regarded Waring kindly. do you mind
repeating precisely what you did say,
Rufus? Don't you think I'm entitled
to that much?"
The boy flushed agonizedly; he was
the accuser, and yet he couldn't meet
billiards. eyes. 1t wasn't guilt; II was
mere intellectual inferiority; and yet
it gave exactly the opposite impress
sion.
"Well," he said desperately, II know
hearsay evidence Is no good, so got 1t
first hand-in your own room in the
OUOuudSd, uIQn I LOU WOu GOIly
that, will you? / didn't Just pick up
rumors-I got 1t froDI you. Didn't /
] go there and ask you questions, and
didn't you give me the data? Show me
figures and everything? And l told
Mr. Cullen the very next day, it didn't
look good to me-" His voice rose
stridently. "AIl right, I'll say to him,
and I'll say it to you, and I'll say it to
anybody that'll listen to me 1t didn't
look good to me then, and it doesn't
now. l told him you acted darned
funny about It, And just now I've been
telling him don't believe it's straight.
You're too blamed sketchy about it,
and it's got all the earmarks of a bum
promotionl There Cullen 7"
The omission of the prefix to. the IA
Their of his idol was the worst insult
he could conceive.
Cullen's hand was still on billiards.
shoulder and it was billiard whom he
addressed, explosively, and with that
particular sort of muff1ed fury which
rises best from a set of circumstances
| not thoroughly understood.
'What this is all about is beyond
me! Only, If this law minnow has
gone as far as this i. We've, got to
get at the bottom Of 1t .. You know
that as well as do, Hilliard, natural
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