Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-11-26

her hair. Soon the thick coils began
to sag.
She shook her head. All the glossy
brown locks came tumbling down
about her slender shoulders. She
turned sideways, with her back to
him, and, clasping the hairpins in her
lap. sat waiting. He gazed in won
dering admiration at the wealth OF rip
ping hair and the shapely little head
from which it flowed down.
"Why don't you begin?" she impa-
tiently demanded. You'll never fin
ish unless you start"
"Start?"
brushing, stupid y
"YOu-do you mean you wish me to
to brush your hair?"
"Oh, no; I'm merely sitting here for
you to look at" she bantered. Don't
be a goose"
She caught the brush from him and
made half a dozen vigorous strokes,
each time running her free hand under
the brown maze. He took the brush
from her backward-stretched hand,
and asked in a deep low tone: Am
to hold it that way with my hand"
''How else can yon do it right?" she
replied.
He cautiously took . full stroke
from her forehead back across her
dainty head and down the ripping
mass of hair His smile was now that
of a man completely lost in blissful in
toxicatiOn.
That's better" she said; "only still
harder. Don't be afraid. I'm not
paper doll-There, that's the way.
Now I can settle down and talk. First
of all, I'm going to tell you the bad
news and get through with it."
"Yes?" he asked, inhaling the deli
cious fragrance of her hair.
you're not listening, and it's very
important. 1t has made me dreadfully
cross at Charlie"
He stiffened at the name, instantly
attentive. "That fellow? What about
him? Has he?
Yes But that's not the trouble.
the bank has been making a fuss.
1t can wait. The horrid thing is that
about those bonds you lost. They
claim that you have lot Of money in
a Chicago bank"
Eyes. What of it?"
"That proves what told Charlie.
Of course you don't realize-you can't
realize"
Realize what?" he asked, pausing
in the midst of a long brush stroke.
"Why, about the bonds"
"You mean the bonds lost by your
brother?"
Charlie knows some one who has
found out all about them. 1t must
have been a detective. He found the
key of the safe deposit vault in your
pocket"
"In my pocketT'
Charlie said the man said the key
was found in your pocket, and-Oh, ]
forgot. He said it was all secret yet.
But of course you're my brother, and
YOU ought to know, and you won't tell
will you?"
"Why should 1? Please go on. l
fail to understand about the key. But
how about it? If it was a detective
that found the key, he must have dis
covered where it belonged and found
the missing bonds"
That's the horrid part of it," re-
piled Amy. Charlie says they found
the safe deposit box. but the bonds
we're gone"
Clinton's smile vanished behind a
look of blank surprise. Gomez"
"Yes-and all that money in Chicago
10 the bank is in your new name |!
That's what made me so cross at
Charlie"
81 don't quite see the connection"
'You don't? Of course 1t will be
easy for you to explain about the
money and"
Nothing easier if Jove! Why
didn't think of it soonerY' he ex-
claimed, and ne dropped the hair
brush. See here, Miss Lowrie-"
Miss Lowriev" she reproved.
He went on, unchecked: "You claim
that l look exactly like your brother?'
There you go again! Don't be sill
Iy"
He sprang up, clear of the eager
arms that she sought to fling around
him.
mo, waltz he exclaimed, as she
jumped up after him. 'It's-it's not
what you suppose-just the opposite 81
"Opposite!" she repeated.
Il said, actually began to believe
to doubt my own identity. But at
the Athletic club Tell me. You say
look exactly like your brother. That
must be so, because every one who
knew him Yet there's one thing. Had
he any peculiar mark-a mole or scar,
for instance-let us say, on his arm? p
why, of course. Everybody knows