Sioux County pioneer., 1922-03-30
Ole
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PART lll-c -continusd.
ii "Go on" Aunt Harriet urged. .What
|: did Noble do r. u n Il s!5's. H
Why, his mother said he just went
II /, y up to his room and changed his shoes
and tie = Isl, N 5s9i1 & Y. Sii y
III thought so" Aunt Fanny whis-
pered. hurriedly. but solemnly.
Crazy. 5s M
And them Mr.. Atwater continued,
she LETT the house. and she supposed
he'd gone down to the Office; but she
" was uneasy, ami telephoned his IA,
3ther. Noble hadn't come. he didn't
= come. all afternoon, and he didn't 60
back! to the house; and they tele-
phoned around TO every place he could
80, that they know f--and they
coulqn't find him Or hear anything
about him, u MIR. Atwater coughed and
paused. # # 4 B ~ II : N
But WHAT Aunt, 1 Harriet cried,
u -.whats do they think become Of. .hjm7ss
old man Dill said they were all
pretty anxious, y said III. Atwater.
They 'rss afraid Noble has disap-
Y pearei." Il X ,SS n ~ ~ ~ M =,
Aunt Fanny screamed. #
Then, in perfect accord, they all
turned to look IT, Herbert, who rose
and would havs retired upstairs had
he been able. 5s.s -
As that perturting evening wore on,
word gradually reached the most. out
lying members Of the Atwater family
connection that Noble Dill was miss
ing. @ Ordinarily, this bit Of news
would have caused them no severe
aRxieSy.. Noble'sS person and intellect
were 80 commonpla ace significant"
was the term tisuall preferred in his
own circle -that he was considered to
be as nearly negligible as 1t Is charita-
BILE to considers1 fellow being. True,
there was one thing that set him
apart; he was found, worthy of su-
perlative when he felRsin love. with
Julia Atwater. ofSall the large and
ardent group In like condition. he OBJ
tahed conspicuousness as 1.-THE
Worst" Ofecourse. this distinction
caused him to become better known
and more talked about than In his
earlier youth.
However, the eccentricities OF per-
4 con In such an extremity Of love are
$. seldom valued except .as comedy and
even then with no warmth Of heart
Tor the comedian, but rather with an
1ncredulous disdain; so 1t Is safe to say
= that under other circumstances Noble
B might have, been missing, indeed, and
few Of the :Atwaters would have
missed him. But as matters were, they
worried a great dekf about him, fear
ing that q rash act on his part might
reflect not0riety: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
beard from her son, the pressure of
chose who were blaming the Oriole
more than Julia became so wearing
that Herbert decided he would rather
spend the remaining days of his life
running away from Wallie Yosbin than
put ID any more Of such Acgs eve
ming as he was putting in thus he
defined 1t. e 5l3,s
I He made q confession; that IL to
& sayyflt was q proclamat zion. 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. & 81
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
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
Il ! ing. In addition. he was quite show
cred with definitions and these, though
70 variant, all: sought to phrase but the
one subjectf; his conduct In seeking to
I, \ M drag Florence through The m1re, when
= iii She essWasSab absent and could not defend
herself. Poor Florence would answer
later 81 the evening; he was told, se.
/ versly: and though her cause was thus