The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-03-02

no time to get here except by car
| know he has TO catch the ten o'clock
mail train from Seabridge. He'll have
to take the carriage there-and start
early, too"
Billy emitted a stified noise.
Its all to save Dad pain and
worry" said Aimee complacently
zone must consider ones parents
Never do to have him coming here just
now"
Great Christopher said Billy.
But that doesn't explain how"
"Tm coming to that made a cir
cult through the Home wood to the
cottage where Amy Shocks lives with
her old grandmother. tackled up and
down In the offing till 1 saw grand
mamma toddle away on her usual af-
ter-dinner visit to the woOdcutter's
wife, and l nipped indoors to have 1t
out with my dear old Shocks. l found
her packing for Jervaulx, and 1 told
her what l wanted her to do.
Amy Shocks is what you call stOlid,
and I've broken her In very well-but
I'm bound to say she was absolutely
paralyzed this time. But she surren-
dered, before I'd done with her She
just came to heel. 1t may surprise
you, Billy, but she simply adores me.
Amy never refused me anything In
her life.
Having melted her into flexible con-
dition, I borrowed one of her print
dresses (she hadn't another black
one) and her second-best coat, and did
my hair like hers. I'm jolly good at
doing hair.
ITO cut 1t short, 1 cleared out and
tramped across country to Pilbrook
station and took the afternoon train.
Amy Joined it with her two tin boxes
at Burnt Ash, and got into her car
riage at the next stop. I gave her all
the money had, and made her go on
to Seabridge with one Of the boxes
She'll get herself lodgings there and
have good time till further orders
she can last week, anyhow. 1 took
the other box and came on here. And
now, partner-what about It? Wasn't
it brain-waveW
Billy took off his cap and made dis
order of his honey-colored hair.
"You mean to tell me-" he said dir
lilly, that girl fell for it-just because
you told her to-"
"Ah, you don't understand the |
feudaI spirit" said Aimee cOmplacent-
ly. There have been Shocks In the |
Home wood ever since there were |
Scroopes in Scroope Towers. They
help each other. When Amy and
were kids and went birds-nesting, she
was always underneath when l fell
out of the tree. She has irregular
features, but heart of gold. And, by
the way, Of course Aunt Erythea has
never seen Amy-she engaged her on I
Dads recommendation"
But she's seen you'll" exclaimed L
Billy, "when you crashed the Sphinx
into her carriage"
Only for half second. She's blind
rs bat. She'll never know me. Isn't
It great, Billy?"
He looked at her thoughtfully.
|
olosfvely, ut is You're right. The
asst place on earth those fool police
would ever find you or look for you,
IS the house where the burglary hap
3ened. It's better than the cave, any
way You'll be right under my eye;
md among your own folk In case real
rouble came But"
"But what?"
"Why, you can't do It You, par
ormafd to Lady Erythea? It's the
lcid test! Partner, you could never
,et away with It,"
Aimee regarded him pityingly.
'.Bfny, I may not know anything
bout men," she said, "but you
NOW less than nothing about
women. There isn't the woman
living, from six years old upwards,
hat isn't born actress, when she has