American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1921-11-26

"oh, About That" Fiersnes easd, and
Swung the Gate Smut est~ssn
Them.
he boy I know" She coughed, and
added as by an after-thought. He'd
just love to know all about It; know
he would. So. when I tell anybody
about Il I'll only tell Just you and this
other boy"
what other boyr Herbert Do.
manded.
And her reply. thrilling through the
darkness. left him paralytic with hor.
ror. "wallie Torbin!"
The next afternoon. about four
o'clock, Herbert stood gloomlly at the
main entrance Of Atwater 4 Rooters
newspaper building, awaiting his part.
ner. The other entrances were not
only nailed fast. but massively bar
rlcaded: and this one Consisting Of
the ancient carriage-house doors, open.
Ing upon q driveway through the
yard) had recently been made effsc.
tive a. an instrument Of exclusion.
A long and heavy plank leaned against
the wall. near by. ready to be set N
hook.shaped iron supports fastened to
The inner sides Of the doors; and
when the doors were closed, with this
great plank 10 place. Q person inside
the building might seem entitled to
count upon the enjoyment Of privacy,
except IN case Of earthquake. tornado,
or FIRE. In fact, the size of the plank
and the substantial quality Of the iron
fasteninEs, could be looked upon,
from q certain viewpoint, A. a heart
felt compliment to the energy and per
sistence Of Florence Atwater.
Herbert had been In no compli'
mentary frame OF mind. however
when he devised the distractions. nor
was he now In such frame Of mind
He was deeply pessimistic In regard
to his future, and also embarrassed In
anticipation Of some explanations II
would be necessary to make to his
partner. He strongly hoped that
Henry's regular after-school appear
ance Il the newspaper building would
precede FlOrence's, because these OK
plantations required both deliberation
and tact, and he was convinced that
II would be almost impossible to make
them at all II Florence got there first
lie understood that he was unfor
tunately within her power; and hi
saw that II would be dangerous t
place In operation for her exclusion
from the building this new mechanism
contrived with such hopeful care. ant
nj cost Of two dollars and twenty
Ave cents, or nine annual subscrip
tiOns to the Oriole out Of q presen
total Of thirty.two. What he wishet
Henry to believe was that for SOM
good reason. which Herbert had no
yet been. able to invent, II would b.
better to show Florence little 20
likeness. He had O desperate hop
that he might ind some diplomats
way to prevail on Henry to be a. sub
scrvient to Florence as she hat
seemed to demand. and he was deter
mined to touch any extremity Of un
yerncity rather than permit the de-
tails Of his answer In Truth" to com
to his partners knowledge. Henri
Rooter was not Wallie Torbin; but 4
| possession Of material such a. thi
he could easily make himself intoler
able. Here was q strange humal
thing, strange yet common to mos
minds broodlng In fear Of publicity
We seldom realize that the pe0pl
whose derision we fear may have bee
as imprudent rs we have been.
Therefore. Il was In Hurried stat
Of mind that Herbert waited; an
when his friend appeared, over IN
fence. his perturbation was not Dc
creased. lie even failed to notice tn
unusual gravity OF Henry's manner.
Hello, Henry; l thought wouldn
Start in work till you got here. didn
want to hat to come all the wa
downstairs again to open the doc
and hist our good ole plank n
again."
II see." said Henry. glancing ps,