The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-06

'"nat DoeS MS message meanC' n
Asked BluntIy.
hand. "What does this message
mean" he asked bluntly.
"Your daughters engaged to Brom-
field, amt sheT" demanded the ex-
prize fighter, his dubious eyes full on
his host. .s..
"That's our business, sir"
81 got a reason for asking. She is
or she amt. Which Is it?'
"We'll not discuss my daughters af.
fairs"
"All right, since you're so id par
ticular. Wen discuss Bromfield's.
warned him to keep his mouth shut
or he'd get into trouble"
"He was released from prison this
afternoon"
"Did 1 say anything about prison. p
Durand asked. There's other kinds
of grief beside being in stir. I've got
this guy right"
"Just what do you mean, Mr.. Dur
and?"
Il mean that he hired me to get
Lindsay in bad with you and the girl
He was to be caught at the Omniun
club with a woman when the police
raided the place, and 1t was to get in
to the papers,"
81 don't believe it." said Whitford
promptly.
you viii. 1 had a dictagraph in
the room when Bromfield came to see
me. You can hear it all in his OWL
voice"
But there wasn't any woman with
Lindsay at Maddock's when the raid
was pulled off"
"Sure there wasn't. threw Brom-
field down."
you arranged to have Lindsay
killed instead"
Forget that stuff. The point is
that if you don't call off the district
attorney, I'll tell all 1 know about
son-in-law Bromfield. He'll be ruined
for life"
"To hear you tell it."
"All right. Ask him."
81 SHALL"
Conspiracy is what the law calls
it. Maybe he can keep outa stir. But
when his swell friends hear it they'll
turn their backs on Bromtield. You
know it." s~eos..z,
"I'll not know it unless Mr.. Brom-
field tells me so himself. / don't care
anything for your dictagraph. I'm
no eavesdropper."
"You tell him what he's I'D against
and he'll come through all right. I'll
see that every newspaper in New York
carries the story if you don't notify
me today that this attack on me is
off. I'll learn you silk stockings you
can't make Jerry Durand the goat"
Whitford announced his decision
sharply. eff you'll leave me your tele-
phone number, I'll let you know later
In the day what We'll do"
He had told Durand that he did not
believe his story. He had tried to
reject it because he did not want to
accept it, but after the man had gone
and he thought it over, his judgment
was that it held some germ of truth.
If so, he was bound to protect Brom-
field as far as he could. No matter
what Clarendon had done, he could
not throw overheard to the sharks
the man who was still engaged to his
daughter He might not like him. In
point of fact he did not. But he had
to stand by him till he was out of his
trouble.
Colin Whitford went straight to his
daughter.
Honey, this man Durand has just
brought me story about Clarendon.
He says he paid him to get Clay into
trouble at the Omnium club in order
to discredit him with u.s."
"Oh, dad!'
'Tm going to see Clarendon. If It's
true / don't want you to see him
again. Authorize me to break the en-
gagement for you."
They talked it over few minutes.
Beatrice slipped the engagement ring
from her finger and gave it to her
father with sigh.
"You can't do wrong without paying
for it, dad"
"That's right. Bromfield-'
'1'm not thinking of Clarendon. I'm
thinking about me. feel as if I had
been dragged in the DUST" she said
YEARLY.