The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1921-01-21

Mss rou again..
strangely. THAT'S just the point: they
rush, whirl, and"
"And crash" finished Bobby.
That's the very word" said Madge.
"If you'll only keep on the way you've
started, I'd love to talk to you all
night"
mo chance of that" said Bobby,
straight-lipped. "Tm through, and I'm
going" He turned toward the door.
"Not without kissing me good-by,
Bobby!" cried Madge.
He looked over his shoulder with a
polite but impersonal smile.
I'm not much on kissing strange
women" he said lightly. at would
take me years to learn to kiss you
again."
He left the room and the house.
With his top-hat pushed back on his
head, the ends of his muffler flying
loose his overcoat half unhuttoned
he swung up the deserted lower
reaches Of the Avenue. punctuating
his thoughts with the solid rap of his
stick on the pavement. 1t might be
supposed that he was thinking and
mourning over the sudden demise of
the Miss Van Teller he had thought
he had known for many years, but
such was not the case.
Mr.. Randolph was not built on
mourning lines; at the moment under
review, he was thinking about himself
| 40 ctr fat no a
| him foster-chld of fortune. He pro-
ceeded to look back ten years. Just a
| decade ago he had had his one meet
! ing with the young lady whose disap-
I pearance had brought him an unstable
aftiuence. 1t had taken place on this
| very avenue and less than forty short
| blocks away. He had reason to re-
member the encounter, for 1t had
brought into sudden conjunction Il
lovely Persian cat, a lovely wire-haired
terrier a lovely child, and himself
The cat had dashed from Il proud
front door to cross Forty something
street under the nose of a taXi-cab
the dog had flown in yapping pursuit
and, in the act, yanked his young mis-
tress off her pins. He, Mr.. Randolph
had seized one of, her flying feet
hauled her and the terrier back tC
safety, and no. sooner placed her up
| right and Smoothed down her abSurdly
short skirts than he, she, and especial
ly it. the dog became the center and
circumference of an animated pin
wheel
ha1 Il or oiy,n tn, hn1
TO the leash whatever happened
brought disaster. The said least
wound three times round her ankle,
and those of Mr.. Randolph, bringins
them both down kerplunk and facinl
each other. my, what bump ~ sh,
had cried. in startled tones, and thel
thrown back her curly head am
laughed.
1t was so that he remembered her
a child of ten or eleven summers ant
no winters, merry as sunny day
dark-haired, dark-eyed, pink-cheeked
pampered but unspoiled. She hal
risen and taken his hand, told hin
her name, thanked him, ordered
fiurried nurse to thank. him, shaker
iitI HIlSti III llle anu SAN
"Good-by" and Come on. Maggie" al
while he was still rubbing the seat o
; his first long trousers.
On that day she had been Miss ImC
; gene Pamela Thornton, petted darlin
of the gods and Mr.. Brewster Thorn
ton, banker and widower; two month
later had come ThorntOns financt
smash and Immediately afterward, hi
. spiritual moral and bodily cOllaps,
Everything that had made for life
!, him having been swept away, he die
!, as a matter of course, and was burie,
For sole inheritance, little GEM
Thornton found herself possessor an
!, possessed of one Maggie O'Rourke.
a nurse of long standing, of earnest an
faithful face, and monster heart in
/. pris0ned in pitifully thin chest.
|. 1t had taken Genie's great-uncl
Asa Thornton, six more months to TO
8 get quarrel of sixteen years stan'
= ing with his nephew. and by that tin
: child and nurse had been seeped I'M
). that lower world which can't affoI