The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-09
The Gentleman from Kentucky.

Inc OcuItcmdn ITOm hcnLuckY. !
In mid-June the sun gets up early.
So do babies and small children, and
old people-and such others as lovev
the air and the sunlight and the fresh
ness of the early morning hours,
while the dew is on the grass and
leaves, and the air is as if it had been
washed and polished and hung out to
dry.
Senator Maxwiiton was one of
such; and hat morning was like the
preceding one, although Katherine
was not waiting to greet him as she
had been yesterday
The earliest Of the servants invari-
ably encountered him in one of the
maths, or saw him seated upon one of
the veranda chairs, or found him in
the stables among the hunters and
cobs, petting them, and feeding them
sugar. The senator was a typical
Kentuckian, and loved horses.
He came out that Monday morning
with the first rays of sunlight-came
out, as had been his habit in his own
southern home, and continued in his
daughters, by one of the windows.
His movements, without intention,
AlGNDC1lCN W NC DOlSClCoSy dllO do IC.
| stepped outside he saw Belknap-and
was on the point of going forward
and speaking to the man who chad
!: beat him to it," when some indefina-
bic thing about Belknap's attitude
l backward, within the window, where
he stood still, and Observing.
3 He had not seen Belknap about at
%ho+ hon.. hoforo opI o1fh0Y,Orb IN rid
ing toys, the man appeared to be
without intention of seeking the sta
e bles.
S More than that, he was passing up
S and down q short stretch of pathway
tie rose-bower, and glancing this way
S and that, from side to side, in front
of, and behind him, furtively, anC
a with rapid motions, exactly as if he
q were on the watch for something OF
,e for somebody.
l. Belknap had been there-and else
where among the paths-two hourI
L and more, if the senator had bu
20 known it, and was both eXultant AM
. disappointed, both pleased and angry
l. both annoyed and delighted; likewise
to and without the paradox, he was tire
IN OF MS Vigil.
" The lcng-distance telephone con
ly ~versation to which dhe butler ha
on summoned him the preceding evening
CIV had in a measure upset many Of HI
calculations, althCu~'l h ~- incline
to doubt the logic as well as the fax
is of the warning that mad been tran
Is mitted to him from Washington.
w. Nevertheless, he had passed a 1-cl
?? or less sleepless night, md with da!
nd break, before the sun was up, he he
BE donned riding togs-as being the mo
appropriate and palpable ~explanatiC
Is for being about so early-and hs
tn gone outside.
err There was a threefold purpose
Ter that: he wanted the air and the exc
90 else; he wanted to secure a saddl
a horse from the stables at rather
no. early hour, to ride alone to meet
messenger at an appointed place
announced in the telephone talk t
re- preceding evening; and, quite as i
red portant and imperative in cas the
he were logic and fact land, therefor
FOR danger to him) in what he had be
he told and what the expected messeng
in was yet to impart, he greatly desir
a short but uninterrupted converS
90 ton with Katherine Harvard
He knew that it was her habit
no rise early, and to ride Daniel BOO
Ord, c-ross-country, and alone, at 81
- rise or soon thereafter, over the
,or tensive acres Of her own estate
!, e. inquest. Belknap had no notion
.LIS accompanying her-he had other f
her to fry that nlCraing-but he had
termined that he would see her {
sT talk with her before she started, {
50, he was watching out for
gaze when the senator stepped from
+ho window and saw him.
- "Good morning, Mr.. Belknap,"
will senator said. "Have you been rid
FOR so early?"
sab, good morning, senator"
his KNAPP replied in his impurtunba
manner. mo; / haven't been rid
his yet. 1t was earlier than /. suppo
when / came out. Nobody was alb
now when / went to the stables"
,rdO "You were"-the senator smile
searching for something? | b
can't been observing YOU from the wind
can't Have you dropped something, or
can something, or''-again that insc]
come able senatorial smile-"perhaps ii
reek- is another early riser whom you
expecting?"
shers sYou have guessed It. senat
7 the Belknap responded, returning
part smile in kind If inscrutabiIity be
ion. croiterion. "Mrs. Harvard, /
ident daughter, is in the habit of induIl
the IN early morning rides, cross-cour
Iater. I thought I'd beg permission to
hem, with her, but-the men must be al
an by now, so I think TIL go ahead