Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-03-03
CHAPTER II.
RI. Master Of the Dirty Mary.

week DeIOre tuiS Stoiy opcHS,
u.,ob Devon had steamed the length
- Tho lake, anchoring his boat as near
y.,oca MS he dared. Even to his wife,
cath he had not confided why he had
hroueht her to a town where yawning
orison doors gaped for her every pass
| Ing hour.
~ won't 20, Rah," Mrs. Devon had
,.,od when her husband had made the
statement that he intended to visit
ithaca "You couldn't get me near
that place with rope around my
neck"
put the very fact that she now sat
On n small bench against the boat rail-
gazing modify at the water. proved
hat Urah Devon had contrived to
have bis way
Occasionally Mrs. Devon lifted her
head TO listen and turned her eyes to
The west where narrow path zig
zagged It's length up the hill to the
boulevard Into her tortured soul
had come a belief since the night be-
fore. that Tony's "Gloriest God"
would send her man home.
Suddenly the sound Of heavy foot
steps in the forest path brought her
sharply around. At last he was COM
ing, this man she loved, perhaps
drunk, perhaps to beat her; but new
ertheless he was coming, and that was
all she cared about.
Urlah Devon slowly walked up the
gangplank in silence.
where you been?" the woman
Forced herself to say. But instead Of
REQ ying, he demanded
where's Tonnibel?"
II dunno" was the answer. "A min
ute ago she was over there not ten Of
your legs jumps from here. :.
Where you been all this weekT'
He'd been on terrible spree, she
decided. He looked as II he had been
drunk for days. That he had some
thing unusual on his mind, she knew,
and she knew, too, 1t was about Ton
nibel, for hadn't he asked for the kid
the moment he'd returned?
Its about time we was doing
things, Ede," he said, turning grimly.
1--WE waited as long as / dared. Rege
says Paul Pendlehaven hasn't an inch
leeway before he's in his coffin.'"
Mrs. Devons face grew deathly
pale.
What do you mean, honeyT she
faltered.
We live like rats in a hole" took
up the man. after a pause, "while IL
iony was made to do her part, we'd
Pc on easy street. That's what mean.
we've got to have money and lots of
u Reggle's willing to marry the kid
you mind your business afterward.
lis narryin' her amt sayin' he'll stick
y her. But we got to have Doodle,
anu we can't get 1t only through her.
ne shan't have err" the woman
sa'u' with hard tones and flashing
e!es How many times We ! got to
Say II over to you? II that's the why
you We come to Ithaca, you might as
W., turn the old scow north and go
""'A again. He's bum" she went
~ Jude and u fool and every
'h'ns else that's bad. He's thief,
too"
Devon laughed
~ aiil !, Eide" said he $50 re you
W. W. 'na' matter If Reggie knew that
iohy was Paul Pendlchuyen's kid, we
''u'uh get one d---n cent OF her
"o"'y' lie stitches from the Pcndle.
"Nehs and his mother because he
nVn | gel cash enough other ways. A
'''''' 5 got TO have spendin' money"
rretty small pickin's," snccred
''''h Devon, "Stealln from folks al
"os' IN the grave amt my style. Reg
s"s some second.story man. that
young dufrer Is"
iou sneakcd Paul's kid" tainted
won HE wouldn't be almost In
MS grave nov II you'd kept your
handS off'n Tonya
me woman, turned ON him savagely,
paying no heed to his words.
Vet your blasted Reggie to steal
'"o"gh Tor us all from the Pendleha.
eehs' she said. God knows they've
so' 1t and to spare, It's better'n
nahuih Tony over to I'm. lie lives nj
enu'ehayens, don't he?"
lie won't do It," cut In Devon.
reggie aint got the nerve TO burn his
P"Sers TOO deep. Paul Pendelhayen,d
6"' MN up for that, II he caught
'n, My plan il 10 get Tony married
i' hege, and before the lids screwed
'"h ON Pendlehaven's face. shove