The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-05-30

Lie t0e QeNll own Duolhcoo' nv
said with a sigh I've got to place
where l don't care what happens
everything black anywhere | look.
was happily married; two beautiful
children; none finer,-but I'll shorten
up the story so you can see what
monkey fate has made of me. My
fathers a crank, a genius in his way
but decidedly eccentric. My mother
died when | was youngster. ana
father tried all sorts of schemes oil
educating me, whimsical notions, one
after another. The result was I've
never got a look in anywhere; united
for everything. After l married he
still tried to hold the rein on me,
wanted to put me into businesses !
hated and kept meddling with my do
nestle affairs. All this made me weak
and irresolute."
We'll, sir, was about to offer my
self as exhibit A on a slab in the
nearest morgue," Congdon continued,
when | met young woman who
seemed to understand me, and right
there's where made the greatest mis-
take of my life. She made fool OF
me-thats the short of ii. | took
her into dinner at the house of some
friends right here in Chicago-and
she diagnosed my case with marvellous
penetration. She said | faced life with
the soul of a coward, and suggested
that | go armed and shoot anyone who
stepped ON my toes. She reclted a
piece of verse to the effect that man
fears his fate too much il he won't
put his life to the test"
81 was fool enough to believe it.
tried to follow her advice. Ii ended
in my having a row with my father
that beat all the other rows | ever
had with him and he turned against
my wife-said she was trying to es-
TRANCE us. And when | ran away to es-
cape from the nasty mess he sent her
kilograms in my name threatening to
kidnap the children and he did in fact
kidnap my little daughter. Snatcneu
her away from her mother and carried
her out to one of his farms in Ohio.
But my wife played clever trick on
the old gentleman and got the child
back again and I'm damned glad of it.
| got a message that the little girl Is
UP in Michigan, so that's really where
I'm headed for"
Archie had suffered "a blow but he
was I0eellHB II DIdNtly IluNihS "
lieved that Isabel had given him this
same advice quite spontaneously, II
was with a shock that he realized that
she had offered it in similar terms to
Congdon. There was no question as 10
the identity of the girl-who had bid
den Congdon plant his back to the
wall and defy the world; no one but
Isabel would ever have done that.
About your child, up there in Mich
igan," said Archie, tits wholly pos
sible that your wife sent you the wire
as an approach to a reconciliation.
ooh, Lord, no! You don't know
my wife, Comfy. You see | got an
swers to the kilograms father sent
her in my name and she hit right back
at me! Don't think she's coaxing me
to come back to her And here's the
message | got out there in Ohio that
caused me to jump for the train"
He produced from his pocket a
crumpled telegram which read: Your
daughter is in safe hands at Huddle-
ston, Michigan. Proceed to that point
with serenity and contemplate the
stars with a tranquil spirit"
This was so clearly the Governors
work that Archie found 1t difficult to
rafra In from 1auphinQ