Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-05-07
CHAPTER II-Continued

his duVent at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES luke
got a letter from Mrs. Kidder.
my Own Dear Boy: l write this as
we are leaving Cherbourg. and shall
try to post 1t at Southampton. How /
wish 1t were our Southampton. and hat
/ were about to see you. Your radio
message arrived duly. I understood, OF
course, and 1t made me happier than l
have been in years. Don't laugh, but
i have slept with It under my pillow.
Think how long 1t has been since l
have had any word from you, save for
that hurried, worried talk at the hotel.
/ wanted to write you at once, but
It has been hard to get a minute away
from your father. He really is very i'll,
and a little irritable, and the doctor
says any shock might prove serious.
OF course, ! want to tell him about you,
but perhaps it's as well hat i ant
Just yet. We shall be away until the
end Of July, at least, and perhaps long
err. BY that time. I shall have had such
good news of you as will enable me to
win him over. He does care for you,
dear. AS much as I do. Perhaps more,
and that Is why his pride has been
hurt, and he has seemed so hard.
I do hope you have given up rink
ing. That has been you real enemy.
And l do hope you will find work.
Nothing else will go so far in persuad-
ing your father. And we must per-
suade him soon. He must change his
will. 1t isn't the money I'm thinking
of so much as Its bitterness. / could
bear you being cut off, but / have
begged him for years to take out the
paragraph forbidding me to help you,
and giving his reasons why. / shall
never forget the night he read me that.
He has taken care of the household ex-
penses at Southampton. (Did tell you
that we were going to open the place,
anyway? We've a. Willetts ever
since we've had the house, and our
agreement is that his winter lay-off
isn't to last over six months.) Your
father gave him his check when he
came to the hotel the morning we
sailed, and will send him one every
month, to pay servants, etc. / am en-
closing another hundred dollars for you.
Cash, because my bank accounts rath-
er low now. That's all, except that |
am counting the days to your letter at
Nauheim. It's perfectly safe to write
me there, as / shall arrange with the
porter. / want that letter, dear. You
can never know how much I've wanted
1t, and how long, and how l pray that
nothing may happen now. One false
step on your part-one foolish exploit
like that at college - II he knew,
would end everything forever. And he
would know. Ill as he is, he still has
his newspaper sent him, and he still
reads every word.
II l seem ov~er-anxious, you will un-
derstand. You are almost all l have.
Mother.
p. S. Don't fail to write"
For the first time since he had in
serted his knife blade under the dry
putty Of that window, the Duke felt
ashamed of himself. Deeply and thor
Oughly ashamed.
"What can / dor" he said. II can't
write. And what would be the use?
One letter, and then silence. Some
day, she's sur to find out that her
boy never came neal Southampton.
. . / wish to God / could find that
boy |"
Thursdays evening paper was full
Of Judge Hambidge.
"Hambidge Decision Due" the head
line read. las Civic Association Links
Holding Corporation with Boss Kelly"
The link didn't seem very strong.
Kelly, who evidently was some pota-
toes In Tammany hall, had once en-
ployed one Of the alleged dummy d.
rectors" Of the corporation that owned
the property to be used In widening
Jefferson street. "In the face Of this
sensational disclosure" the paper
asked editorially, will Supreme Court
Judge Hambidge have the courage to
give these men the fabulous sums they
ask for their rookeries? Judge Ham
bidge insists that he has never ever
met Mike Kelly. I have never spoken
a word to him in my life Judge Ham,
bidge's decision is long over due
When 1t is handed down, the city's
voters will know whether Boss Kelly
has ever spoken to Judge Hambidge.'
After that, Barry wasn't surprised
to find the Judge absent from the mex
nights dinner party at his house. Evi
IDENTIFY, the pack was in full cry. Fri
days evening paper had a headline
that ran clear across the street. Still
unfolded, Barry had left the paper
lying on the library table, with Bos.
kelly's name filling most Of Its visible
Quarter-page.
Naturally, Patricia was disturbed
"Father spoke at a banquet last nigh
at the Astor," she explained. IAN,