Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-24
By Elizabeth Jordan
% by The Century Coz

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my dear" he fervently calculated,
II am beginning to think it will be al
most worth while to have that fellow
around for the sake Of the frequent
rapture of getting rid Of him."
Verity's black eyebrows rose trifie.
'Why did you engage him, If you didn't
want him?'' she asked
STANLEY wished him on me. The
whole episode is an amazing piece OF
folly, and I am afraid l don't show
up in it any better than Stanley and
Renshaw," her grandfather confessed,
with growing irritation. He described
his interview with Renshaw, while
Verity's expression, incredulous at
first, changed to one Of deepening In
terest and perplexity.
"You don't imagine there is some
thing back Of it?" she slowly suggest
ed. can effort to get into the house
and" II: D
"No, mol" her grandfather testify in
terrupted. "The last two years of the
mans time are fully accounted for.
He has been in sanatoriums, poor chap.
Besides, Stanley knows dill about him."
II wonder what happened to him?"
Verify spoke almost under her breath,
her imagination circling among vari-
GUS dark possibilities Of which she
had heard and read.
The old man shook his head.
II haven't an idea. What want to-
know Is, what's going to happen to
me under this absurd arrangement? I
can't imagine why let myself In for
it. For second or two thought I
saw way Of making him useful, but
1 don't believe it will work out" He,
broke off. II suppose the fellow has
some magnetism" he ended.
"Not particle" Verify spoke with
conviction. "In fact, it's the other way
around. There's something almost re-
pellent in him, something a little
oh, what is the word? Well, some
thing unhuman He Is unusually
handsome, of course; there's even
certain nobility about his head and
face. And yet, he's like a ghost. Yes,
that's what am trying to get at" she
added, with quiet satisfaction. HE
looks at us as the dead might look II
they came back-as If he had passed
through existences and experiences we
could never understand and could not
even dream Of"
mo doubt he has, the old man con-
coded. "He affects me like human
draft. But we must not let our
imaginations run away with us. If he
is too depressing, we will get rid Of
him: I'll ship him off and make him
useful somewhere else. He's got to do
what tell him and go where l send
him." "And now let's forget the fell
low and 60 on with that book you were
reading"
Upstairs, in the chamber to which
Campbell had sent him, Renshaw was
doing some thinking Of his own. His
first impression was that it was oddly
remote from other rooms. Only one ad-
ditional door opened from the narrow
corridor he had traversed. The second
reflection as jerks turned knob and
stood back to let him enter his new
quarters, was that the room was very
large and extremely comfortable.
jerks touched an electric button and
the shadowy room flashed into soft
light which brought out the details of
a mahogany bed in far corner, facing
the door, q high-boy, low-boy, and a
large built-in wardrobe. The rooms
north wall contained two windows, and
through two additional windows, very
wide and with built-in cushioned seats,
he could look out on the front grounds
of Tawno Ker and follow the maple
lined avenue leading to the highway.
He was to have plenty of light and
air, he reflected with content.
He went to a north window and,
glancing out, found this first impress
sion changing. There would be air,
without doubt. But numerous oaks
and naples crowded close to the house
so close, indeed, that an athlete such
as Renshaw had once been could leap
from a window into the widespread
| ing branches Of at least one venera-
Bile tree. The trees were rather I'M
expectedly thick in front, too, he dis
covered, and he was surprisingly far
from the ground. He would be almost
among the tree-tops If he leaned far
out of the windows on the front side
of his room.
jerks threw open the door Of a sec
ond room in which could be seen the
outline of shower apparatus and the
nickel and porcelain fittings of bath
tub.
'The bathroom is very small, sir,
the man alphabetically explained,
land there's no window in 1t. 1t was
made two years ago, out of big
closet. But you will be quite comfort
able. And you will always find extra
linen in the closet Just outside your
door, in the corridor That closet is
the mate to this one"
Renshaw returned to the bedroom
and it's blazing fire. He found that
jerks had lifted the heavy travelling
case to small trunk-stand and was
unfastening the straps.
'I'll attend to that, thanks" he said
with a gesture Of dismissal.
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