Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-05-19

became plain to her at once that what.
ever had happened had been to Alan
| Conrad.
Eyes. Yes. You are
giving him every possible care?
At once"
She ran part way down the stairs
and met her father as he came up.
He told her Of the situation briefly.
"EIe was attacked on the street late
last night; he was unconscious when
they found him and took him to the
hospital, and has been unconscious
ever since. No one can say yet how
seriously he is injured"
She waited in the hall while her
father dressed, after calling the ga
rage on the house telephone for Kim
and ordering the motor. When he had
gone, she returned anxiously to her
rooms; he had promised to call her
after reaching the hospital and as soon
as he had learned the aIticulars of
Alan's condition. 1t was ridiculous,
of course, TO attach any responsibility
| to her father or herself for what had
| happened to Alan-a street attack such
| as might have happened TO any one
yet she felt that they were in part
responsible. They had LET him go to
live alone in the house in Astor street
| with no better adviser than Wassa-
! guam. Now, and perhaps because
they had not warned him. he had met
injury and, it might be, more than
mere injury; he might be dying.
Something which had disturbed and
excited Alan had happened to him on
the first night he bad passed in that
house; and now, il appeared, he had
been prevented from passing second
night there. What had prevented him
had been an attempted robbery upon
the street, her father had said. But
suppose it had been something else
than robbery.
She could not formulate more def
initely this thought, but ii persisted
she could not deny it entirely and
shake il off.
To Alan Conrad, in the late after
noon of that day, this same thought
was coming far more definitely and far
more persistently. lie had been awake
and sane since shortly after monday.
The pain of a head which ached throb-
bingly and Of body bruised and sore
was beginning to give place TO feel !
ing merely of lassitude-a languer
which revisited incoherence upon him |
when he tried to think. The man who |
had assailed him had meant to kill |
he had not been any ordinary robber. |
That purpose bindiy recognized and |
fought against by Alan in their strug-
gle, had been unmistakable Only the
chance presence Of passersby, who had
head Alan's shouts and responded TO
them, had prevented the execution of
his PURPOSE and had driven the man
to swift flight for his own safety.
A little before six Constance Sher-
rill and Spearman called 10 inquire
after him and were admitted for few
moments TO his ROOM She came to
him, bent over him, while she spoke
the few words of sympathy the nurse
allowed TO her; she stood back then
while Spearman spoke to him. In the
days he saw her nearly
every day, accompanied always by her
father or Spearman; it was the full
.wo weeks the doctors had insisted on
lis remaining in the hospital before he
saw her alone.
They had brought him home, the
lay before-she and her father, in the
notor-to the house on Astor street.
lie had insisted on returning there,
N Gil IA in fIea;- for ] Z
hey had offered; but the doctor had
Djoined outdoors and moderate exer-
Use fer him, and she had made him I
'romiSe TO come and walk with her. Z
lie went to the Sheriff. house about f
en- o'clock. and they walked north v
rard toward the park. q
There is something | have been
7anting to ask you," she said.
"Yes."
THAT night when you were hurt-it
as for robbery, they said. What do
GU think about it?" She watched
i'm as he looked at her and then
way; but his face was completely ex-
|
"The proceedings were a little too !
Ipid for me to judge. Miss Sheriff."
"But there was no demand upon you 4,
give over your money before you I
ere attacked?" l.
NO" \
She hreathed a little more quickly.
{ must be a strange sensation" she d
served ito know that some one has VI
led TO Kill YOU
1T must. indeed
you mean you didn't think that {
tried to kill your Y
Il vas hardly I'm a condition. Miss y
errill. to appreciate anything about Y,
2 man al alt Why do you ask?" NJ
'Because-" She hesitated an in N
nj. IF you were attacked 10 be "
led. II meant that you must have
'n attacked as the son 0f-Alr. Cor
B. Then that meaDt-at least II
1iied-that Mr.. Coryet was killed.
Z lie did not 20 away Won see