The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-09
STARTS THE STORY.

A house party Is Delng nelo a.
the country home of Katherine
and Bingham Harvard. Among
the guests is one Conrad Bel
KNAPP. Katherine discovers him
cheating at cards. Convinced
that be is concealing his real
IDENTIFY and that he is there Tor
some Interior purpose, Katherine
determines to ferret out q mys-
terry. She has formerly had x
~perience as a police headquarters
detective and has been known as
Lady Kate Of the Police. She
i~ntercepts a telephone call OF Bel
knap's to a woman confederate
named Roberta, and, in turn,
spcaks to the woman. Realizing
that he is suspected by Rather
inc, Belknap threatens to accuse
of a crime her brother, Roder-
lex Maxwilton, who is believed
to be dead. Bingham Harvard,
who once bore the title of the
Night Wind, becomes suspicious
of Belknap and of K~atherlne's
attitude toward him. Roberta
arrives on the scene under the
name CT SSenorita C~ervantez, a
pianist, who is to entertain the
guests. Harvard attacks Bel
KNAPP one night, after he has re-
ceived notes from both Katherine
and Roberta from a balcony of
the house. Belknap does not
recognize his assailant. At mid
night Katherine discovers Rob
erta in the grounds with a
strange man whom she believes
to be her supposedly dead brother
Roderick. Later, hidden in Rob-
erta's room, she witnesses a
quarrel between her and Belknap
in which he accused Roberta of
deceiveing him. She admits the
presence of Roderick. Her love
for him is revealed.
AND HERE TT CONTINUES.
Hes a thoroughbred, Kitten; h
almost ought to talk" he replied
Lets see, he's almost five-fiv'
next month. He was just three whel
/ sent him to you. He ought to be t;
beauty by now"
"a beauty! Well, 1 should sa!
so. He walked off with the blue rib
bon in lis class at the horse show
without a competitor that approached
him. The judges pronounced hin
an absolutely perfect animal"
"Of course" the senator replied
complacently, that is what he is.
could have told the judges that with
out their %bothering about =. That i
the only kind we raise on the oil
place, Kitten. 1 hope nobody ride
him but yourself"
Certainly not. That is to say, o
course Smoke. He is almost as fon
of that boy as he is Of me. Sometime
Pm almost jealous"
The senator laughed.
"Kitten,' he said. that horse know
how to keep Smoke in his place jus
as we'll as you do. He knows, just a
we'll as we do, that Smoke is a littl
black boy that's his servant, made I
wait on him, and he loves him in ju.
the same way That we love our co
Ored people who serve us faithful
and long. Here we are. Has Bin,
ham added any naw stock to his ST
bic since last year,"
"Just an Irish hunter that was
present. I'll have him brought O.
50 you can e him."
Thus father and daughter inspec
ed the stables, talking horse, laug
ing together over the senator's crit
cisms and suggestions-father al
daughter chums, as they had been
the past, before Katherine went
New YOrk-for this morning, best
her father, with the mysteries a
~perpleXities of the past night tempo
arily forgotten, Katherine was a +;
girl again.
When they came away from I
stables and started to return to {
house, Katherine was laughing m
rily Over one Of her fathers mimi
bic stores of the doings of his bls
retainers OH the stock farmland
they rounded the end of the pia,
where they met Bingham.
Nov, that's too bad!" Bing
claimed with mock regret" / CUES
that you two were at the stables
gether, and l was going to approi
stealthily so as to hear what the S
atcr had to say about Erin, the Il
hunter"
The three breakfasted together
a wide piazza, and were greatly s
prised, and not a little pleased, wi
before it was half finished, Katl
ines mother Joined them-for e;
rising was not a habit with L
Rates delicate, flower-like mothe
"YOu see" she explained to B
ham, Il knew that Katherine and
father would inspect the stables
gether as soon as the sun was up,
l reckoned that GU wOuldn'e be
fer off, Bingham, so I though
would be nice if papa and mama
the children could have their br
fast together" He'd smile was
to see, then.
Bing put mis- arm around the fir
LIT stately lady of the old South,
Kissed her.
"God bless you, mother" he
kolding her and speaking very
"You make me very happy
happy than l can tell you-bec
you are the only mother l ever kT
"And Bingham" she replied,
are just as near and dear to me as
could be if l were indeed your
mother, in fact-as if you were
very ovun son nv very own" Z