Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-12-30

photography as anybody. ! had Il little talk
with him over the telephone last evening.
He's Il perfectly trustworthy man. | want
Him to look over those lenses, you sec. and
give me an expert opinion | don't even
I1,OW that those pieces of. glass; I<rom turned
over Thursday were anything more ti.an
li!aln window pane" ~;
slr wished tn protest. But krom offered
TO lit Sou see them through Il magnilyin:
glass" Tho wish. however,. WAS only an
: Intellectual stir in her minG- 4,
AZ his plenslntcst IIarwooa' cnlcludvd:
IS" you fetch the lenses up here. Kersten
may require a day on two. or course he'll
tal:r good care of t,cr,, i;cSi du il now. SO
! can get iiGrs,un st:,r:eu.'
It was an instruction TO al emp!bse, and
lie. 50 obviously took 1t all for granted that
AI5ass couldn't find II word To SHY. She got
her hat and coat. took the fiat, shiny little
safe deposit key QUE Of the secret place in
li"r desk. and put il in her handbag. She
went down in an elevator. out on La Sale
street. up the street to the safe deposit vault.
And all with Il queer. Dumb, divided sort OF
feeling. as though somebody else were doing
1t. Entering the safe deposit vault. she
thought, why didn't + tell him | couldn't
do it"" But that thought was outside the
field Of her actions. She got the pastebuard
box with the lenses in IL, tucking it under
her arm, and went. back along La. Sale street
!, with a bedraggled feeling-an uncomfortable
exposed sort Of feeling. as though she were
not decently covered with clothes. She was
breaking her pledge to Krom.
She put the pa steboard box On Harwood's
desk and found him quite annoyed. lie had
been telepl,oning while Bess was gone. Prof.
Kersten had not supposed there was any
urgency in the case that Mr.. HARDWOOD had
spoken to him about over:tlle telephone the
evening before, SO he had gone, out Of town
this morning for the weekend and would not
lie back until some time Monday night The
lawyer was ahnoyed at the delay.
. Well, nothing to do but wait until he
comes back. l suppose he said to- Bess.
IN lock these things up in our vault here
He dropped the pasteboard box into a DRIVER
in his desk-disposing of it so easily, in a
perfectly matter of course way. ~
Bess went BACK to her cabinet. She'd been
the trustee. her honor standing bright and
true between Harwood and Krom. But she
wasn't that any more. Within twenty-four
hours she had handed the lenses over to Har-
wood. against her pledge. "ltwlsh he hadn't
slleS thought unhhppily.< Suppose Krom
should ask her about the lenses? Well.
Of course, she'd have to lie about it. She
had a mean. sneaking feeling. a
HARDWOOD did not come back to the Office
after luncheon, and Bess was in two minds
about going back. She'd rather not see
kron. However, there. was some work to
be cleared UP. The remainder Of the after.
mon pight have been probably devoted to
reading law; but, in fact. she hadn't opened
Il law book since coming to Chicago. She
did go back to the office. and: a little before
threeta telephone callcame. The voice mum
bled.I asathough the speaker had some diff
Guilty in enunciating. : Only after two or
1 three words did she recognize it.
y. That you;ss Miss Malden2 This is I<rom.:
I'm down at my hotel. I've had some bad
rek--trouble with my eyes.&sIt woke. me up
about two O'clock this morning. went to
a specialist soon as his Office was open. He
says lisa pretty bad case$%of iritis.a He's
shut me up in my room here with a .bandage,
over my eyes--says IN probably go blind if
don't look ont. One Of my eyes been weak a
I long while. Yes'm, it bothers quite a bit.
Kind Of a toofhache in your eyes, If you
/ know what that means ImSshut up. YOU