The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-27

| come IN, she ordered again, 1T
tie sharply.
He came in and she closed the door.
".'m sopping wet. I'll drip all over
the foor."
"What are you going to do? You'll
! be arrested, you know" She stood
straight and slim as boy, and the
frank directness of her gaze had a
! boys sexless Inconsistencies.
There came to them from outside
the tap-tap-tap-tap of a policeman's
night stick rafting on the curbstone.
Hes calling help" ". ~ ~''s.
~ can explain how 1t happened"
mo. He wouldn't understand. They'd
find you guilty"
TO manservant standing in the
background the young woman spoke.
jenkins. have Nora clean up the floor
and the steps outside. And remember
II don't want the police to know this
gentleman Is here"
"Yes, MISS"
"Come!" said the girl to her guest.
way AouV"Cu lIAS AOSSCSS " lA1S
stairs and went up them with her, but
he went protesting. though with q
chuckle OF mirrll. HE sure ruined my
clothes heap. tain't fit to be seen."
The suit he had been SO proud Of
was shrinking SO that his arms and
legs stuck out like signposts. The
color had run and left the goods q
peculiar acknowledgement blue.
She lit gas-log in q small library
den. =; .ls
Just minute, please"
She stepped brlskly from the room.
In her manner was crisp decision. In
her polse a trim gallantry that won
him instantly.
I'll bet she'd do to ride WITH" he
told himself In current western
idiom. -
When she came back 10 was to take
him to a dressing room. A complete
change of clothing was. laid out. for
him on a couch. A man whom Clay
recognized as valet-hei had seen his
duplicate in the moving-picture thea.
tcrs at Tucson-was* there to 'ssupply
his needs and attend to the tempera'
ture of his bath. 49,. q
Stevens will look after you" she
said; "when you are ready come back
to dads den." p sor}f ~
His eyes followed to the door her
resilient step. Once, when he was
bQy,' he had seen Ada Rehan play In
LAS You Like It." Her acting had en-
tranced him. This girl carried him
back to that hour. She was boyish as
Rosalind, woman In every motion OF
her slim and lissom body. = j
At the head of the stairway she
pauseE Jenkins,was moving hurriedly
up to meet her.
TITS policeman. miss. 'E's come
about the-the person that came in,
and 'e's talkin'' to Nora on the steps.
She's a-jollyin'' i'm, as you might say.
MISS"
His young mistress nodded. She
swept the ha1 with the eye Of gen.
eral. Swiftly 'she changed the position
Of a Turkish rug SO as to hide spot
on the polished floor that had been,
recently scrubbed and was still moist.
Then she opened, the door and saun-
tered out.
Does the officer want something,
Nora ?" she asked innocently, switch.
ing tho end of crop against her rid.
ing-boots.
eyes. miss. There's been a rufflan
batin' UP Swedes an ttin' 'em to posts.
This officer thinks he came here" ex-
planned Nora. .........x
. docs he wautatolook In the house"
Eyes, miss"
"Tllen let hin, come in" The young
mistress took tne responsibility on her
own shoulders. She led the police
man into the hall. IT don't really see
how he could ahave got in here without
some Of us SCI cling him, officer"
mo, ma'am. I don't see how he
could" The I'atrolman scratched his
red head '1,he janitor's a Swede,
anyhow. He jjist guessen it. came
to make sure av it. I'll be sorry for
troubling yuh. miss"
The smile she gave him was warm
and friendly. "Oh, that's all right. If
you'd care to- look airound -. But
there really is no USE"
NO" The forehead under the red
,thatcl wrinkled in thought. HE said
he seen him, come ins,here or next door,
an he came lip the steps. But nobody
could have .got in without some Of
youse SEEM him. That's lead pipe"
The officer pushed any doubt that re-
manned from his mind. "Only mud
dle.headed S.wede." =
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