The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-10-21
THE BINGHAM COUNTY NEWS

iS biNbNlir, itCi HtIl loOhSu up,
and there was a CLEAN in his logged
eye; but he said nothing.
go on" Aunt Harriet urged "What
did Noble do?"
why his mother said he just went
up TO his room and changed his shoes
and tie"
Il thought So" Aunt Fanny whis-
pered, hurriedly, but solemnly.
Crazy"
"And them Mr.. Atwater continued,
''he left the house. and she supposed
he'd gone down to the office; but she
was uneasy, and telephoned his IA
Their. Noble hadn't come. He didn't
come all afternoon, and he didn't go
back to the house; and they tele
phoned around to every place he could
go, that they know of-and they
couldn't find him or hear anything
about him." Mr.. Atwater coughed,- and
paused.
"But what" Aunt Harriet cried,
what do they thinks become Of himr
"Old man Dill said they were all
pretty anxious" said Mr.. Atwater.
They're afraid Noble has-disap-
peared." 80 y I4}Q
Aunt Fanny screamed.
Then, in perfect accord, they ali
turned to look at Herbert who rose
and would have retired upstairs had
he been able
AS that perturbing evening wore on.
word gradually reached the most out
lying members Of the Atwater family
connection that Noble Din was miss
ing. Ordinarily, this bit Of news
would have caused them no severe
anxiety. Mobiles person and intellect
We're so Observation-Disclosures"
was the term usually preferred in his
own circle--that he was considered to
be as nearly negligible as 1t Is charita-
BILE to consider fellow being. True.
there was one thing that set him
apart; he was found worthy Of su-
perlative when he fell in love with
Julia Atwater. OF all the large and
ardent group In like condition, he OBJ
tanned conspicuousness as "The
Worst" OF course, this distinction
caused him to become better known
and more talked about than in his
earlier youth.
However, the eccentricities Of q per
son In such an extremity Of love are
seldom valued except as comedy; and
even then with no warmth Of heart
for the comedian, but rather with an
incredulous disdain; so It is safe to say
that under other circumstances Noble
might have been missing, indeed, and
few Of the Atwaters would have
missed him. But as matters were, they
worried great deal about him, fear.
Ing that rash act on his part might
reflect notoriety on themselves through
their beautiful relative-and through
the North End Daily Oriole. And
when nine O'Clock came and Mrs. Din
reported to Herbert's father. over the
telephone, that nothing had yet been
heard from her son, the pressure Of
those who were blaming the Orio'n
more than Julia became 30 wearing
that Herbert decided ne would rath"-
spend the remaining days of his life
running away from Wallie Torbin than
put In any more Of such dogs eve
ming as he was putting in-thus he
defined 1t.
lie made confession; that Is to
say, 1t was proclamation. He pro-
claimed his innocence. He began the
history of 1t with a description Of
events distinctly subsequent to the lit
tie game with Patty Fairchild, and
explained how he and Henry had felt
that their parents would not always be
with them, and as their parents wished
them to be polite, they had resolved
to be polite to Florence Proceeding,
he related in detail her journalistic
exploit.
OF the matter in hand he told the
perfect and absolute truth--and was
Immediately refuted, confuted and
demonstrated to be false witness by
Aunt Fanny, Aunt Carrie, and Cousin
Virginia, who had all heard him We
hemently declare, no longer ago than
the preceding Sunday, that he and his
partner had taken secure measures to
prevent Florence from ever again set
ting foot within the newspaper build
ing In addition, he was quite show
cred with definitions; and these, though
so variant, all sought to phrase but the
one subject his conduct In seeking to
drag Florence through the mire, when
she was absent and could not defend
herself. Poor Florence would answer
later in the evening, he was told, Sc
verely; and though her cause was thus
championed against the SANDER 1t Is
true that some Of them felt STRINGS Of
curiosity In regard to Florence. In
fact, there was getting to be something
like cloud upon her reputation. There
were several important things for her
to explain; among them, her taking
1t upon herself to see that Noble re-
ceived copy Of the OriOle, and also
her sudden deDart from home and