The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-03-01
Pant iii-contInued.

W W. aunt LaIEIeI UFkeOs MAJ
IA Noble DOR
why, his mother said he just wen,
y to his room and changed his shoe.
and tie-"
Il thought 90" Aunt Fanny wills
1ered hurriedly. but sslemnly
sCrazy."
.And then" Mr.. Atwater continued
Ne left the house. and she supposed
he'd gone down to the ONCE; but she
vas uneasy, and telephoned his IA.
ther. Noble hadn't come. He didn't
come. al afternoon. and he didn't 70
back to the house; and they tele-
Dhoned around to every place he could
%. that they know of-and they
couldn't nnd him or hear anything
about him." Mr.. Atwater coughed, and
paused.
but what" Aunt Harriet cried,
what do they thinks become OF him r.
~Old man Dill said they were all
pretty anxious" said Mr.. Atwater.
They're afraid Noble has-disap-
peared."
Aunt Fanny screamed.
Then In perfect accord, they all
turned to look It Herbert, who rose
and would have retired upstairs had
- been able.
Al that perturbing evening wore ON,
word gradually reached the most out
lying members Of the Atwater family
connection that Noble Dill was miss
AS. Ordinarily. this bit Of news
~euld have caused them NO severe
anxiety. Mobiles person and intellect
were 10 commonplace 'insisnihcant"
was the term usually preferred in his
ewn circle-that no was considered to
Be 40 nearly negligible a. It 10 charita.
Die to consider fellow being. True,
there was one thing that set him
apart; he was found worthy Of a su-
perlative when he fell in love with
Julia Atwater. OF all the large and
ardent group In like condition, he OBJ
tanned conspicuousness a. 'aThe
Worst" OF course, this distinction
caused him to become better known
and more talked about than In his
earlier youth.
However. the eccentricities Of per-
son In such an extremity Of love are
seldom valued except a. comedy; and
sven then with no warmth Of heart
Tor the comedian, but rather with an
!ncredulous disdain; 20 It Ii safe to say
that under other circumstances Noble
might have been missing, indeed, and
few Of the Atwaters would have
missed him. But ~ matters were, they
worried q great deal about him, fear
ING that q 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. Dill
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 Oriole
more than Julia became 20 wearing
that Herbert decided he would rather
spend the remaining days of his life
running away from Wallie Torbin than
put IN any more Of such a dogs eve
ming ~ he was putting in-thus he
defined 1t.
He made q confession; that 10 to
say. 1t was proclamation. He pro
claimed his innocence. He began the
history Of 1t with q description Of
svents distinctly subsequent to the lit
Ito 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
u be polite to Florence. Proceeding,
he related b 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 Q false witness by
Aunt Fanny. Aunt Carrie, and Cousin
Virginia. who had all heard him We
Aemently declare. no longer ago than
the preceding Sunday. that he and his
partner had taken secure measures to
Drsvent Florence from ever again set
ting foot within the newspaper build
Ing. In addition. no was quite show.
cred with definitions; and these. though
% variant, all sought to phrase but the
one subject; his conduct In seeking to
drag Florence through the mire. when
abe was absent and could not defend
herself. Poor Florence would answer
later In the evening, he was told. Sc
vsrsly; and though her cause was thus
ehampioned 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
T. explain; among them, her taking
Il upon herself to see that Noble re-
esaved q COPY Of the Oriole. and also
hsr sudden departure from home and
rather odd protraction Of absence
therefr0m. 1t was not thought she
was In good company. Uncle Joseph
had telephoned from q suburb that
they were dining at q farmhouse and
would thence descend to the general
region Of the movies.
That word Of any sort had come