Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-04-07

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the window so long alone, and | knew
Mr.. Hornack would keep him talking
about something or other all the rest
of the way IN.
For II little while they talked busI-
ness. BY and by the business tulk
wound Itself UP and | heard Mr.. ilor-
mack say: II saw Ripley going in on
Number Six this morning, and he
had company; Mrs. Macrar and the
majors wife, and the husky lIttlc-glrI
cousin. They've been visiting at the
capital, so they told me, and | expect
the major will be mighty glad to see
them back"
didn't hear what Mr.. NorCrOSs
said, If he said anything at all, but
# had been stone deaf ] thnkA
should have heard the thing that Mr.
Hornark said when he went on.
~ heard something the other day
In Portal City that seems pretty hard
to believe, NorcrosS II was at one
Of Mrs, Stagford's evenings, and |
was sitting out dance with certain
Young woman who shall be nnmetesS
We were speaking of the kendrickS
ana she gave me a rather brond hint
thar Mrs. Macrae isn't widow at
all; that her husband Is still living
My heavens. | had figured out a
thousand ways in which the boss might
get wsed mp to the dreadful truth,
but never anything like this; to have
It dropped on him that way out Of n
clear sky,
For a minute or two he didn't say
anything. but when he dld speak
saw that the truth wasn't going to
take hold.
"That is gossip, pure and simple,
IIornack The Hendricks are my
friends and | have been as intimate
in their household as any outsider
could be. It's merely idle gossip, can
assure You"
Maybe So" said Mr.. IIornack, sort
of drawing in his horns when he saw
how positive the boss was about It,
'I'm not beyond admitting that the
Young woman who told me Is Il little
inclined that way. But the story was
pretty 'lffuIlHto1''ai II went so lar
rs 70 "S>''' 'h"t M"'F"' WAS" 'AIS'
Sheila's married name at all, and 70
say 'i'a' h'r 'ohE stay WIN i'F west
VI" ''"N'''S Wis" an" sun l, 'oa''N
I'SI'I from '"hdI'l"hS 'I'a' were 700
iun''''"''nS I" ne no'''".
i 0oh care what was SAID, or
VINO SaIa IT, the boss cut N bruSqu"jY.
It's rIH''n'ous 10 suppose tlIat any
woman ana especially a woman Ike
Nheila Ma'rae' would attempt 10 pass
IeFHel OH az WIDOW Wil'h SiIe WASH I
one
Il know said the traffic manager,
tcnponzihg llttIe, 'Hu, on the
o'hor hand I've never heard the ma
J"r' OF any one eiS'' say outright 'f'at
Sh' was widow, II seems t" he jHSst
'ah'h Tor granted II Sure" IN" NY
a OH on van br''tS account You
u"h 40 a''lN'er' 10 'n'N an" 'hI''EI'
socially nut II : the tax OF the town
''ot 'Pioh " IN over ms h'ah IN 'Ila'
1""' YER
Slt' my eyes ana held my pf"atf'.
MT. h"fIiack hauh 'he ShgIl'oSt ldea
"ila' 'h'h ICE ne WAS shanhE over
or now hl'S easy m'n'1oh OF Mr. van
bfl'' hlGHt ne Just IKE running S''n
I'M" lfeNh cut hF 'I''S time II was
GROWING ""'N' anu we were running
nv" "'''' '''S, anu WAS ,o's''H
E."" ""' J.. ,'''''' ''N' h,''" 'o,'%,''
i"' '"'HN dl"' SI'eah aE"'h "n'' 'n'
Nu'" ""'''I'> were ''d"N''S "i''e'
'''e '"'' ai'" tue" ne H"'"'
p'"li IS wei obie 10 TAX" care W
himS'h- h"rna"R, ana doh't th'hN
we ne'd worry ABOUT nm, ana men
over ms shoulder 7" me; JIMMIE II 5
'lhe I" wake up were p''''lhS H.
As he always did on a return trip.
Mr.. Norcross ran M To his office to