The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1922-01-27

lection has been bestowed on Geary,
Webster leaves to investigate the mine
which he has come to finance
"What selfish. unsociable pro-
grant," she reflected. II wonder If
it will occur to him to come down
here once in while and take me for
drive on the Malecon and talk to
me to keep me from dying of ennui
before l meet Ricardo. I'll wait and
see if he suggests it,"
However, for reasons best known to
himself and the reader, Mr.. Webster
made no such interesting suggestion;
so she decided that while he was ire
| mendously nice, he was, nevertheless,
a very queer man and thoroughly ex-
asperating.
Just before the train pulled out
John Stuart Webster took Dolores
hand. "Good-by, >Seeress," he said
very soberly. 1.-THE trail forks here
for the first time-possibly the last.
although I'll try to be> on hand to
make good on my promise to present
you to your brother the day he Oc-
cupies the palace. However, If !
shouldn't be in town that day, just
60 up and introduce yourself to him.
It's been wonderful to have met you
and known you, even for such brief
period. l shall never forget you and
the remarkable "a hours just passed"
~ shall not soon forget them my
SELF Caliph-nor you," she added.
Haven't you been a busy little cup
of tea, Caliph! Within "a hours after
landing, you have changed your mind
three times. lost the best job in the
world, had your fortune told, been
marked for slaughter, acquired new
found friend and commenced actively
and with extraordinarily good results
the work of reforming him, soused a
gentleman in the fountain, spurned
another with the tip of your boot,
rode with me around the Malecon and
listened to the band concert, bundled
I poor Billy off to San Miguel de Pad
ia, discovered my brother presumed
to be dead, and received reprieve
from your enemies, while they per-
feet new plans for destroying you.
Really, you are quite a caliph."
"Oh, there's a dash of speed in the
old horse yet. Miss Ruey." he assured
her laughingfy. Nov listen; don't tell
anybody about your brother, ant don't
tell Billy about my adventures since
he left for San Miguel de Padua."
But I'm not liable to see Billy"
Eyes, you are-extremely liable. I'm
going to send him back to you as soon
as can spare him, because l know
you'll be lonesome and bored to death
in this lonesome town, and Bill is
bully good company. And l don't want
you to tell him about the mess I'm
in, because it would only worry him
he can't aid me, and the knowledge
that l was in any danger, real or
fancied, would be sufficient to cause
him to rebel against my plans for his
honeym-for his vacation. He'd in.
sist on sticking around to protect me-
He looked down at her little hand
where it rested in his, so big and
brown and hard: with his free hand
he patted her hand paternally. Good
by, Seeress," he said again; and turn
ing to the steps, he leaped aboard
just as the train started to move Out
of the station.
od-by-Caliph," she called
mOurnfully. Then to herself: BLESS
his heart, he did remember I'd bt
terribly lonely, after all. He isn't
bit queer, but oh, dear, he is so ex
asperating. l could bump his kline
old head against wall !" She turned
her back on the train. fearful thai
from where he chung on the steps hi
could, even at that distance, see the
sudden rush of tears that blinded her
However, Don Juan Cafetero, with hi
rubicund nose to the window of thu
last coach, did see them-saw ne
grope toward the carriage waiting II
take her back to the hotel.
"Why, shure. the poor darlint's cry
in" he reflected. BE the Great Gun
an Athlone! Shure fought all alon'
twas Billy Geary she had her eye oil
God love him! An be the SAM
token, didn't she tell me / was t.
shtay sober an take care av Mishte
Webster. Hah-hah-a-a! Well! III
say nothin' an I'll be neuthral, but
but-but--"
From which II NAV he inferred tina