Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 9, 1924 Page: 40 of 52
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and Clem Ocobock were sitting in
by with a bottle and two glames on
with a dpk
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support her
aa though i
Maraden to me on the street,
same man.”
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as won
wan a
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that
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tend. a heat
a weeping hot
never hope U
were fixed or
hundred yar
Fpawing fora
suspicious ei
elding breeze
Abruptly <
Without a a
his masaive I
the itervei
watched him
What a ri
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rible wind, hl
knotted and
dun skin Hki
forward. De
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re wealth lived. amply;
heads that were more
I just get another bleclo-
Some private deteotives
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nor bore the mprawitng red return card of
the Evening Forum. From that emvelope
tin Mada indloauns
that. Bo ted vasgety
the north end of the
an he wan with cola 1
furniture ted no par-
tloular ihararter be-
bo a take. But wive got to be j
ful as though we taw* It wan
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hath, a
ta. he
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Meedingthe Terms
' Othman
job done
large. Math
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aad there was
toad, worked I
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coula
hi omee; At any retd it
go over un mornin- Bu
a umall two story
Bag heuse, om the
Ibu
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anting this letter
anr lose allppery •
ent maller on his tn
part bl
elerty
"They
By Will Payne
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nda. Miserahje
the long slelgh
The
ana If she’s really got somethin* tt may be
mighty ucklimh. How did you leave U with
het What dM you tell her Analy?"
" I told her I was going to leek it up aad
that I would come aad om ter again.*
whispering gallerien Im gains to
puU Mr. Marnden through, beat it
takes some watehin out. A
caretully."
• Can you take the midnight train to
Bertas T Sooner the betterJ should MV..
-I could start tonight."
d eeverely took, with the mallow,
id but auiMag fane above an
mid. Be woo art at home ta Marsh. 1800,
- brth to a Mir gil
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bertieate was
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upa "I went to Ohio ia the spring, and
neat year married a dersyman, the Rsv.
mamuna Wesley Smith. We went to Call-
feral* after a few years. Mr. Smith pemad
away there. leasing me in comtortable eir-
cumatancen X remained on the daart more
than ten years, and then came back east.
I didn't know at the time why X wan keep-
down yum age. 1o
dwalung took at the I
rear of the aama lot.
I getting , ______ . _ I
what she maya. Her story is that
edge had come to Mr. X tried to get some
--- Aad she aaM.
=Hmt
bar fun brow to a rtyta that comported with
de nustenity at her
plain htertl drum. Were
hereyensrajt Atony
iidetedant-
notertatned Mr. and Mra Btamford Mandan
' 3 aad daughter,’ as though to bad only one
daughter. ' Be has another daughter, torn
* in lawful wedlock which a marriage cerun-
letter yourweur
Fetecty waateehed, ato comaidered it a
momant, atudying his tace, and repled, "Yes,
X wrote it."
The boldnena of the reply startled him.
Already to wan mecrety briatung with an
tagaalam as he got a fuller improortoa of
tla woman. That fun brow, with te dark
"“n 1808 X kept a beardlag boom la
Greenwich, conn The buuidine was torn
• You at go there ana aaa tor youreeB if
you want t Chore seemed no point in
1 neVf her any further, as ate was tnelined
ornamented in the upper
5----M orange bios-
utemonth er so ago I tort Mr. Mm ley that
if he board anything about Btamtord Mar-
don rd Uks him to let me know tt. What
•*1 had to mind was something iShrttag Mb
upon Fes dill ____
of oeurea. women llkced theme things,
own medeet bedroem and bath on Ninth
object appenre M be moral retribution-
looks upon beraeit M the chomen inatru:
meat for tenching him that the wages of
simple quenton of duty. —
Othinan’a ordere, and Othonaa tod mem
fixed in his memory, and tt he should m
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to mhoula," ato announced,
were- delivering judgment
‘ and returned
woche took another, of ordinary letter alaa. •
umwhich he hinted neroes the desk Xt had
gaeen opened, but Stolen examined tte art
tartar a moment; an ordinary, cheap, white
Onvelope, cash as one can buy anywhers at
burenu. I found it there after she'd wone
"I never saw Mr after that. But that
sama MI psi pietwre at young Stamterd
Marsden in a New Tbrk newogapor in coD:
necuon with an bibbs tit of hia wedding. I
recognineaI My tnrtnl paamd away
that winter. 1 mot my Greenwich property
aad name to New York and Brod with my
teatar for a whdle My brother-tn-law was
"beberapa“nmu"hurowalvartum.mich
ato headed to tea, standlag over hirg."
to n-*-'1 it- The photocraph was faded
and had evidenty been teken meny yeur
totem It stowed the bate aad Mad of a
amninz young man. The mustashe was
amaller aad silkier, the feed, with its gen-
erous nene aad strongly earrod ohin. was
much younger than now; but Kendal roe
igoto! K beyond a doubt.
"Is that Btamford Mamdeat" she chalt-
1gLham ma. MB," the repartar i in kbit
rellglous Mantle ■married to a
Bo gave a sour little laugh,
at bare made a awtrt palrt Her
No man In his positiom, unlens to were a
plain moron, would stick his head ia thg
kind of a halter. But if a man wan youmg
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mobe depended on. You see what's is my mind.
a} want you to go to this woman with the
letter. And out what you can. X don’t need
to cautlon you how careful we must be-
"Tareful of Stamford Marsden and his family.
SO Report to me, please. If you telephone here
or to my house, you can get an appaintaMUt
ahmost any time. I will make whatever re
pert to neceanaty to Mr. Murray."
Riding up to brand Central atatton hk the
subway Kendall was forced to make the
reluctant admisalon that, while Frederte
vintain Situattea at that tme I wanted to
know if any gossip was afloat Bo X spoke
A, to Mn Murray about a month ago, We,
■yesterday Mr. Murray brought am a letter.
wYou may as well read it"
bun He opened a drawer and took vut a largo
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said the reposted, eyes
on rug. When tt came V
onahiar in a maamahip omoe on tower Broad
way- One day he pointed out Btamford
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combing the whole stale.”
“Tee." said Kendall "That oertMoata
had a bogus took to me ■ but there's no toll
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the gtrl tar"
-t a uort-ot hotel that X m anti onto
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lady, she eayc to known, if I approach him
n
with thia mom or to anybody; he told btm-
set it wm late, Othmau would hams MB
ruthless infatuation, tad .g _
deotze Marsh, there waa bigany for om
thing. Surely, Btamford Maraden coute
hever tore been so harebraine4 as thak
to ctroumatanuai enough. Ototr »M pide
tovpe tailing me how she know that this
girl who, she saya to Maraden’e daagMorJo
ving to Nero, Maine. She said Uto knowi
ideruieate, the cheap uthe
__________ f being pnuuncnirt ‘
ore with a vignette of an
earn wreath. 1Nrcertine (
they eat down. .Mra Bmtth began the con-
versatlon, very much to the point; •
"What diP’stamtord Maraden meym
"Ho Moat enia anything." reeds 11 so-
pited. "Nobody's bam to am him yet We
wanted, nrat, to ted out what the letter
manna it meye you have some proof" The
womant amaurance rather motomhi nerves.
At any rate, she wm evident a irm
aunterey black tress there was eoamthiag
to it vazuety reminlmoent of the Inqutniuon:
If the drees wore a binck robe, one
imaztne her supervimtna the eppilcation of
Uf borrows. He aaw she tad once bom
gat pretty, certainiy, nor erm handkome
but a striking Making woman and would be
a striking Mekler woman suin if trees ei to
advantage, h
-whataretheproobrbepakd
. "De you knew Btamford Maraden by
dghtre
she arone’adenty. Mapped over toe
deer, and ties partied, closing the dear be-
hind hte SMBaihigg Bteut and portentoun
about tt. He westart prepara to am tar
return with a binok rata and teed on.
companion to that spra1
signature he would root.---
Be rache Now Tork the following mor
trig ana reported to othmanm He omo
before noon. When it came to deneriiag
the marringe certiicte Othman eommoateg
is mild surprise:
"No town aamedT That would mono
taasr door. Opooing the deer, to oumbed
two tong, tthnew- tights and went, to the
ml of the tea. Mra. MUTe card. com
panion to the one to thg veatibule w
ptauad to the MarMert Ba teerked
A tall, thin woman opened the deer, awe
tag it wide with a owtaiabaiiMes,ag though
"" - 0. ,asap mt of thia umal
- ded the
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ride taraly able to bend his gloved Angers
eumclently to hold his bag—Kendall turned
to take to the ecene. There woe only this
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cured him. " It's a strange story. Marnden’
a well known man. I thought it would M
Lnteresting to look tt up."
-we, mobbo it would," Oora MOtoUd.
reangurea. "But you better let stooptag
dogs toy. That's what I’ve always thought
'about 1V—better lot sleeping dogs lay. Kate
Chadwick's a smart woman, and Maria's a
,es 1 ' ”
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good girl; kind of soft in tar nut, as you
to pick and choose - might say, but she's a good girL, Most
from. likely Kate’wgot tt fixed up for Mr so well
totpeted Coua Btamtund
_____ ive born so brutal as to
palm off a bogus marriage ceruincate m a
trusting girir Kendall felt this faded idem
of paper to be full of dynamite.
•rd like to take this with m4" be sold;
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w.the enclosurp-a single start of cheap
. With.; a fa I am go in the same
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doo "Editor of The Forum: X ace by your yarn, " Veagesnoo to nrtna. X will rapag." Be
aanoctety column today Fredere Othman on- much he took to aa be strand over to the
10 tertained Mr. and Mra. Btamford Maeden ' arm stair which Ma hoatega tudtoated, and
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toted, not looking at his ,om
added with a sort of dogged
" Td need come money" .
-2az,y.qganp-losmae"etm
’!?Si,£SS
Ing for monay. All of
depressing to
tog, adupper, towuy
p«mn. Mra. Bmtth wm s
oxito tte eppartto. MM
tooted hte tea to the
eye, and hia Aret pm
prendos was that, at • .
any rate, ate was not in
the tert atmia.
•BaAdali to my 1
mame," he tagaui"*
reporter from the
ioud. ‘mheedtorre
eetoed to letter that
i
the letter. ■
Mra. Bmtth draw it 1
trom the envelepe 1
giaoaed at tt. Mated %
hlaM h tto tat v
amata, trandyitkis, V
stock of him, aad aaM,
"Comem."
He stopped tote a It
tie aittteg roomBe
hind tt there wouta be
a cabby of a bedroom,
or portape two each
tag this photocraph all that while Bat 1
know now there was a loading of Provt
deaeo to it. By the eame tending, knowi-
edgs eamo to aw that thio moa's unac-
knowledged daughter was uving to Nora.
Maine, under the name of Mario Marsh.
I waited a good while, making euro of my
ground. But X am aura ef tt new. I would
not have written that tetter. If X had art
beet wure." L..
Threquartets of an tear later Kedah
trumped down the two flights of narrow
stain, took to mind. It ama thee sia e'otack.
Win that answerT" ..___,
-That's enough." the reporter muttered,
Bo know he was a fool, and told himself
mo. Thia was a buminens aftaim: It was per-
fecuy proper that Othman shoula e4vane
MB expense meney, yet he took the Dui”
with a telly feeling of humiliation. This
m—mr of the money from hand to band
xMate to plnce him more definitely than
ever ao thman's personally bind men.
• Mart go canetully," Othman mused aloud,
bhen he looked the young manin the eye.
"I have a lot at stake ban. Mr Kendal
X witt ge any length to protect Maraden—
and his fostite-, Thora appeared to be a
pecullarty adadincant emphaats on the tert
three words. " If vou need more money o
more teip up there, wira me at once. -I
stick at nothing that seems necessary. l‘
: relying on you." , v
"111 do my beat,"
Kondaii strained his eyes but could not
stake out the name: tt was a subject for
an expert. Thora wm a space for two wib
below, seen between a gap in the buildings
aarens the way, a gray and sullen sea pound-
ing at rooks and Ica Cheerful! But there
was a good fire Inside.
The Pine Tree state to hoary with •*■
pertence of prohsbitien, and bow to circum-
vent il havine practiced the latter art for
more than half a century. So, even in Nero,
just off the etraggUng Main street, there
to a little fly blown shop, wit* a showonap
containing cigars and shelves that < hold to-
bacco in various forms for smoking and
ehewing and bottles of soft drinks that are
served at a small, stained pine bar. A grimy
glass door beyond the bar gives to a billiard
parlor with one decrepit pool table. Bull
tack of that to a bare cubby with a round
table and three wolid wooden ehatra, Philip
to protecting Btamford
Marsdhc s " family " be
wanted t be the prin:
clpal, not a more hired
man moving at sme-
body etoa'a tack.
And again in leaving
the house a sense of its
spaclous richneas came
over him. Any woman
Uked those thing*—un-
limited command of
wealth; all the shining,
delicate objects that
were displayed along
Fifth avenue spread
get the point. I suppose I needn’t say that
this to eomething much above ordinary new-
taper wort and I’D use that you’re well
paid.” L/18
Kendall's selfirespect quivered. Hiring
rt—rif out to Frederic Othman personally
wm somehow so different from taring him-
mif profosntomally to the newspaper which
rederie Othman ownedl Ba hated the sur
gention and itched to fltag it back. But tag
common nens res llmd that Othman, after
all was merely talking buninesa to a young
man of whom he knew nothing enoept that
he was a iMtoXir on the Forum. He munt
keep to mind alwayw that to Othman he wm
etmply a reporter, and, above all, bora was
a sass which did need dellonte bandung on
behalf at the Maraden family. Ba te only
mumbled, With a touch of tmpatlence
" the paper.
about a week, as near m X resoltort ib Mo
went awaythen, and iters the last I saw
sf him. His wife wao in tow opirlte after
the baby came, I began to muspect he ted
damrted ter. Bte never arid anything .
about tarn, and I dMut try to pry into teg details M to tew 4ceme
adatra flho had tamuy and paid the rent
promptly. But oab day X «d art ter tt
she waa married, and ate showed me a
masriage buruAcete. Then to June, of a
sudden, She pasted up and left. This pho-,
tocraph ted stood on her bureeu. Some
nd. There wm a oom
sh.ag
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waiting for him.
The rich air «
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w years ego"
-Too knew Mr. Mareden by right, thent"
Othman asked.
"0, yea; I've gaga htm," Kenden annwered
But Mo tend memed to requtr no further
^rtanctioo on Ant print. "AnAheretony
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ouzagnk. tata^teta WM stlU vacant
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paper and ted terns a child to the man
Ofeourse, whom name appeared dn it along wilh bet
_____-» 50 U thie tea a wenutne martage certitont,
"AANNoum mn bo tnvented." Kendall re- end if Btamford Maraden. to a TW^hte
pnea, without ethustaam. "I eould any X ruthless infatuation, had mequeraded as
wm writing cocao newspaper .articles on.the
Maine oast in winter-aomethin tee that.
T-Hnv you any particular clews to go
oar- Othman amked »“Tou know where
street casse to his mind by way of a ahat-
taring contrast. The master of all this
greeted him amiably and supplemented the
ureeting with: -wei, what did yen Ana:"
-That wwnap Mra. Bmith-wrote the
totter,” Kendall repled. Mo mortally hated
tepeutins the utory. But it wm ee dear
and almple a quemlon of proteselonalobi
wation that there wm ao way out of 11 and
te met the obligation equarely, rehiearaing
tai that Mrs. Bmith had told bias.
"I don't merty make ter out," he added,
ponderingi M She seema to be the piqus
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keep her quiet for a while, at any rate."
Kendal felt again that sort of inecrutable
cqmpulaton which the other man’s dark eyeo
seem cd to convey, a look of Mourad power.
. The same assurance wm otampod on hie taco
with ita heavy few a tormidable animal
that would have ito war aad knew AL
-Is a amouit came," Othman went on,
tao voice, although taw and composed, with a
certain grating arte to it. " Ten to om this
woman you’ve been to eee to really after
moocy—taking thin rellglous pone la order to
get more money flucny. Even if ehe’s got
momne such Ideg as she suggesta--retribution
end so o»—it's a hundred to one she’n toko
money finally." He grinned, faintly. "The
meetly de. Anally. Ten think she's got
bralnat"
"Tsa. I think M
"Weil if she’s got brains and is playlag a
tomnea calung up Mb howto M well as Mo
office.
Finally te turned ta at a drug more, com-
multed the telephone directory, entered a
teeth. The meemge that came back warn
-Mr. Othman win ace you tare at the
houme He win be obliged if you will goose
at once."
"Be there la tea minutes." Keatan re
plied; and tramped on te Fifth avenue,
turning north ta it. Ho. too. had often
noticed that as I mu lie fcade, blank to
the lower story, with a Byaantine suggos
uon la Ite windows. He stepped into the
tunnel-uke driveway, mounted the stone
steps, posted tte tail button. An Engdish
looking butler opened the deer, heard his
name, aad admitted htm. A brisk young
footmnen took Mo ooet and hat and led him
uputatrs to a spacdous library at the rear
of the mecond story, where Othman wm
a precarioua living m a reporter
hopelesaly ta love witb Flof» I* i
te investixate tbs story of Mrade
________of tt. Maybe
wanted te unprem me with tte
provddenc Maa; make me see tt m a sort of
myerertous revelattom."
Othman teBshed a hair of his mastache,
thoughttuibn "Ab'odd story, cortainly.
cate win show. Bs committed bigamy aad
abandoned hie lawful daughter. '
... “None are ee Blind m thome who win
■vNot Bee. De art you be blind. Mr. Hditor.
woMra Jomephine Smith, 1M Fortyatth Street,
aazhira floor back, ta la pombemadon of tarts.
" Tour Sins Bball Find Too out.
"A Max Wm Xurowa"
“05 Kendall’s eyes clung to the paper a mo-
•dment after he ted finish srt readna: he then
bedlookced blankly up at the man behind tte
e desk,
“What do yen make ot tr* Othman te
.quired.
M “Blackmall, I suppose," Krafen ah-
aoawered. "Probably written by this wimss
orij whose addresa is given."
m, " Exactly,” said Othman, M though tte
2 answer pleased him "I thought •o, aad ee
306 did Mr. Murray. But there’s a question. A
anblackmaller would hardly begin by
ad an enohymous tatter to a newmpape__
.^gee It tf thia woman wrote tte tatter, she’s
already been after Mr. Mareden. aad Mara-
den has told her to go to tte devil qc a
•any rata ho hasn’t eatiaded her. BowKe
que writes this letter, supposing Murray win
motmend a reporter to eee Mareden about it and
_ that Win frighten Maraden. Tot it seema
to me that would be a riaky thing for a
etd blackmailer to do-letuing a newapaper la
ebton It Doenn’t it strike you that a black-
%o mailer would hiritele to do that? "
I " Well—it wouM be unusual," Kendall ad.
aritted. f
93 "It taote^so to me," Othman weemea
-caabrplexed. "And then that bibilcal quota.
masllon4bunk- tor effect, maybe. On the
other hand, It may be a crank—eomebdy
‘who‘s cracked end tea got hold of eemo
•08 and built up a theory, ao cracked
people do." He thought it over a moment
cm.- “ Well, there are the facta, Mr. Kendan.
ta When I mentjoned Stamford Maraden to Mr.
"Murray, I didn’t think of anything like thia.
10 But here it is. Naturally I want to handle
melt carefully. I woudn’t hand thia over to
zdthe pollce or to a detecttv agency. I know
moqothipe about Stamford Mreden’a younger
days. Maybe they were like the younger
-days of plenty of otter men who are born
to a fortune and social positon and so on.
r a -Being born with a goldppoon in your mouth
A is apt to make you carelena. For all I know,
V’nAthere may have been ascribing—kart hi
.those younger days—that would give a han-
"Sdle to a thing like that, la that case, put-
dde.
n drd,t
And thin piano whei dM you cay tte name
of that town to Maine lai "
"Nero," Kendall anmwered
•I woaflir tt there in any such town," Oth-
man spoon lated "Wo can eerily And out.
stood in need of protec- .
tion now they must
look to the mighty
Othman, not to the reporter.■ But he went
doggedly about ft. to do whut be could.
The oun was metting next day ao, stiff and
aching with cold, ta peeled off the buffalo
robe and blankets, and painfully ellmbed
out of the sleigh, with wooden legs. The
vehtede stood in a long, straggling village
street that had breast high ramparts of
shoveled snow along both sides, A path
through the rampart just here led to wooden
otepe. which, in turn, led to the veranda
of a rembung two story frame building in
need of paint Frozen snowflaka half oblit-
erated the sign. "Chadwick House" that
aung from tte eaves above the atepa Thete
wm a knee deep drift of wind swept enow st
two flats gggANMHB and ome Qowiiataire.
four rooma‘each. Ie May this man"—she
red the photocrapb-"and a youn wom-
M came lo tart ft ita te tell vw
vacant, ate item was • tor rent aumnin
the window. They pave the names of Mr
aad Mrs. George Marta, sad rented tte
Bat and stayed A* more Am a year.
The man wa away rom home ngopd del
-r ------T to New York, they
• -X,
r w".
- "
L co’
— — .... — _____ fly enough,
—but ttei heavy few aafl a esrtaia utettfltamd
ata of torso! Haiine Beau Trederto othmen
flaeo to face he teted Mm more oordtally UMA
ever. But whatequa te behind this lettert,
Tte flrm edn that lay behind tt was •
dingy brid rdaldenoe which had been oom
verted into • builfllag of ute two mH three
room Bato, with a osoeud Imad book shep
on the grauad Beer. Aa oak dam with •
small suare vanel ef gines in.d
part gave ononuny vestbule A
raw ef tatter tease showed that seven ten-
ante wer aeriefl mmewtere upatain te
tween tte aanrow waUa A piin prtnte4
oaling Mid start ia om of tte tease food
-MrJonphina smith” He praseed tte
button above that eart and aeea heard the
>. we
I 5 s
"Ton am imagine a woman of that kind
getting’teM of some evidence ana writins
that letter. But it may be blackmail for
BU that Bte showed me thio phetograph
I speak rt ft dew leek decidealy m Mr.
Mt radio mart ten looked twentyve or
anmc2vm6CEdNS
muepsuymnuntameweme qmy
" rn
that, after all be knew Uttto abaut this
plausible young man. ,
-ICouks, Ite tonin’ ypu this story, Mr.
Kendall Just at man to maa--ta a tftendy
waff," he continued, ta hla belated egita-
tion. "Tou.meemed unterested, and I get
to talkin'." Boone tndignation, M wen no
alarm, appeared to bio mgmali blue eye
-You ain't grin' to make me say trouble
about thlar"
-No. indeed! No, indeed!- Hondo fl q»
“SMteg
u,a.-
' tanen 'itteaanua 4 "
tally. "A young man and a
pretty girt—of courue, any one
cm unerstand that. Aad Ma
man Ante hlmseir to a devil of
a mom he may take Mgh bonded
coures to get eat at ft." He
mused ever that a moment and
threw it aside with, " Well we're
not Mra. Chadwioh-or Mra.
Smiths, I shoula say. Wer not
required to adt in Jet gm mt ea
our erighberr conoduct This
'may be a devish delcate thing
to handle Hora's this woman-
Tbs grating note in hie voice turmed harsher,
ike a command. "I don’t want her to go to
Maraden. As I fold you. Mr. Kendall Mara-
den’s shipping buminens is tipd up. It be
gave this woman any large amount of money
he’d have to come to me for it. I don't want
him to have to de that. It would bumillate
him afterwards. That's what I want to
avoid. Mr-' Marsden’s been under a heavy
strain lately. rm going to pull himiup on
his foot and give him a better opportunity in
bustness than te’e ever had beored But I
want him to be all Mmeeif—not distracted
now. I don’t went anything humiliating to
him in ear relettonsbip. Understandt "
Kendal nodded, hie eyes downcast
- Be I want to handle this buninens myselt,
with your help. I'm telling you all about it
so you ana act to the beet advantage. We
must keep ft away from MefoOe taeanoo
he's in no position to stand this jell. If I
Mdsrishs to sss a man through I ass him
clear through, Mr. Foetal! Thie may all be
a* take. Thie woman showed you an old
photograph that she may have got hold of
sosnowbere, and ate told yen a stog: it may
and he listen staag. dellb
what as a man mdght dellberate aver the
chalee of oommittng wudeide by polsom or
hr hanging. He hated colag to Othman
Suefanie yomii
Wave upon
over tte opu
of the Durans
Thai arid ra
relgns la azel
not a moment
piaina.
Whether OM
in that vellea
the umaller 01
quarry, er w
contrariness d
man may any.
Pomafbly the
Few, indeg. i
of which the
the beginning
ending.
They renche
of thoumands i
eanda whitene
On the inatani
lope on which
greet exodus,
ereatures mon
ravening pack
lope, the elane
and aa they li
tures, the le
furious purwul
The movem
the dust at I
clouds above
Uma the rear
habitanta, dto
the yelping r
with feet deet
Among the
of al creature
less veldt, am
qt that preasu
Time and i
upon the aanni
by hundreda
at length and
Mort grim
by that bard a
with their aa
rub*, surname
they the tret
off. And Aral
fight with th
give up wm 7
wm to the b
the wartare, I
rest More
lamented a ca
of numbera
Through th
at suprlaing
head. Hour
day they wm
tag, and thro:
noon tin, to m
tote a spreadi
they halted.
About and ■
to the hip a
among the e
deliberation,
were the te
crowned by 1
were more m
steel.
In the eve
of the bulls e
that an wm
. tooked, to th
: black coat of
) the resting p
heron, which
the hide.
The three i
gin of the sw
came mighty
as cow callet
with another
were their re
xsdwo mt postage stamp tai wei tt ted been
maned to Npw York. It WM addrososd care
Tho Eveniz Forum of New Tork. New
“lofork City, N. r„In the tower left hand
adorner "Conndentidi" wm typed to capital
bezletters and ns Airman A with a heavy Um
ef rod tale •
It atruck K mi fan that the typtog ted
“teen done ty an tneperlencea hand. Tte
adpertods were driven batt through the paper.
* m though by a clumay touch He draw out
- ’ ' V
_2 4 7
Undoubtedly why
the Turk spokotr
Maraden’e family Abe
meant Flora. Kendhli
would .have shed his
blood to protect the
family; but blood wee
uncurrent coin la thia
affair, of no more use
than so much dUta
water. If the family
' «
a tgt Vgoc-
--—L.
Affair at Oth:
' ,L"9 7". <
d plummpiy. "Didn’t you write Ae
man at the hotel—a bimple and friendly sou.
By midafternoon the first day te reacted a
point vhere he fait safe in inquiring con-
ndantlrily whether a fellow could get a
drink to Nero. After that it wm smooth
sailing, far a moderate amount of liquor un-
tooked the native's bosom,
Clem WM underizea and round shoul-
dared. Ma meager face Indurated by sixty
years at Mateo seacoast and overwelghted
by a bushy red mustache; a kindly and hun-
gry light to hla small blue eyeo. yearning
for Uta companionsitp of his kind. Under
the iron rule of Me oourifl. Mrs. Chdwek,*
be ted grown into a bort of nexagnarian
youngster who wm adopt ta sneaking out
it esuool ee now and having a secret lo-
qaaeioua uetle trollo to thia back room or
ome edmotiar spot. The attention M a well
dressed aad unvoted stranger flattered him.
"That’s the doecyment, Mr. Kendall, just
M she brought it up here," te wm maying-
"take it down to Connectieut; mH Ioa'v
leosts this ministar.” "
4 But Clem answered quickly. In B atert of
alarm. "O, I couldn't let you Ao that, Mr.
Kendall! That wouldn't do, you aea Goulds 1
tot’ft fit out sf my handa IEs ben bp
there ta the trunk to the attic, agate's I
toM you; looted up, only I know where ate
keep the key. She aright want ta glt 11
moot any day. she might be lookin’ for it.
I couldn’t let it glt out of my baud* Marie’s
a good girt. She’s a alee riri. Ies her’a b
rights. I couldn’t letigi away. I‛m
willin’ to stew ft to teu, to prove what I
said; but I couldn’t let-it glt away." Tte
bora idea struck him with consternatiqg,
eying Kendall apprehenatveiy. —
Showing a friend the paper, to provp,what
he had aald-ana to demonstrate hZka-----
cleverness to being able to lay hand’en it
whenever he wished waa one ehing- Bitt
letting it get out of his hands wm quite
another thing, land a startiing thinp “I
got to pot it back, sun." He wm rehching
for the paper, anxiously, and wm obviousl
much relieved when be ted tt to his owg .
fingers again. Indeed, Kendair’s propotly/t
.hre trustworthy and some an not. I
"I take tie chance. I wanted a mag w
as it could bo fixed. Let sleepeng dogs toy.
I etat co talkative about thie thing u you
might suppose, Mr. Kendan. I wouldn't
tefl one of these codfish round ben anything
about it for government bonds; you might
ea well do mubush it in the newspaper.
"They’n keep thelr mouth, taut when there’s
a dollar in it, or. tor Instange, about where
to glt a drink, because they want to glt a
drink themaelvem; but where they ain't got
any personal interort LArdy, you might
just as well go publish it in the newspaper
I can keep my mouth shut, too. But I took
to you first off. You’re 4 man that'a trat
eled and been around seen the worid It’s
lonesome as hell up here most at the tim
—grubbin' round bManged hotel twelve
hurs a day. and n"y much to talk to
I ought* been a traveled men myself. We
was seatarin* folks, you know, gain' over the
whole world, till we got bottled up herb,
catchin’ a few stinkin’ endfish and grubbin’
on shore. It bottles us up. you see me
speclally. When a man like you comes
along, that's seen the srorM, Im glad of • —
chanc to talk to Mm." \ P
I " I'm glad of the chanc* myself." Kenk
‘ dal replied, and smiled with eordtallty-
sympathizing with Clem's bottled state
Pouring another drink. Clem continued,
with a »a«e wag, " But I don’t talk to every*
body by a long shot. There was a woman
up hre a month ago—a book agent, selling
a Bible eonoordance,' She etayed bore three
days and seemed kind of struck with Marit
—askin' me some kind of printed questlone.
But she didn’t eit anything out of me, you
bet. I didn’t like the rat of her jib. 8M
must ’a' been a fool, anyway, enmkin’ any,
body up here was grin’ to"pay eight dollars
for a Bible eonoordanee la Uta dead of
wintar."
"Du you remember ter namer Kendad
asked.
“ Johm-atone," Clem replied, matirlcany.
" if you arid Johnson, she’d remind you
"twas John-stone. No, sir; I dntt talk to
everybody. Better Irt Bleepin' dogs lay.
Was you ever to China, Mr. Kendaut"
"No. I've never bees in Asia." the re-
, porter contemed. ,
"My father emo la china, and Japan
too. Those wm tte days when a man coula
eee something st tte world." Tte qonve
ration wandered off
Next morning Kendan peeked hts boy,
paid Mo MB. and prepared for Oerther mratin
sleigh ride. There wm om small mtiatot I
uon. Holding that marriage cerunc4te in
Ms hand, he ted termed a mdden notlon w
get paeaseeion tt tt and doetroy It beceume
it might be mo dangerous to Stamford Man
tin and hla family. There bad ten a wud:
den temptation to obliterate the thing aad
any nothing to Othman about it, whtet
would have involvea a betrayal of big PPF
tenslonal obligation to Othman, and a be
trayai of Clem OocteriL He was glad now
that the Wild Moa hod been trustrated; thets
was the email satisfaction of going bad
with clean hands. But there wm m mate
15.
ing." nr y,
nthman BhaerveA. “TteTa tha dvil ft tt 4
—thore’s no tellinu. What did you make N '
the girt—the muppomed dauphtefr 2
-hes very pretty." Kendall r»p Artoil ,
_ — I Qcobochk enyg
she is. There's no particulan Mailing
tu
.e;8* ■:
-Ltt Um aehnowledge
his deugheer."
A8dalpm4dm2KEEX
--- --------- shat deorge
March and Mario Lotour were united to tte
holy bonda of matrimony on Oct. 29, 1898,
but the pale Ink waa hardly legible, and the
Tho man
comapu-ceoramiacbatnomnemenemmeok tMatgom- ; j’
(Covrricha: 1924: Mr will Porme)
(Te te i to Art ri]
when the chnds matter dirt the hotel
woman, Mra. Kato chawiek, took tte child
and has brought it up as a sort of tntermally
adopted daughtar. Mt making the girt war*
her pameage all the mame Her point, to put
It In a hutahell, le that Mra Chadwick geta
blackmail from Marsden and keepa the girt
ta ignorance of her parentage."
"Do you think that could be truer" Oth-
man ached to a allghtly shocked tone
“I obouMn-t think so, from an Fve over
heart of Mareden." Kendall answered dully-
-Nd l ehouldn" thihk ee."
mhsm Othman commented, thotght-
fe, ' gu 2g '
wleeecmMEd
v a r* MF
t.S2 - 2 ■ ,y
o dro 2mIT—a ",2. ■ .
‘ 92 ,■ V i
# T ■
relous ear
while on th
by a part gr
Now, the
thirty mlles
the slowest
rate ptvote
the ute tree
leap aa a m
entp“
m wm ।
body of the
i to belly, ha
Thoruba tu
Mother to
a- I ’ . •
__i----------------4----------------------
THE STORY THUS FAR.
TREDtRIC OTHMAN b aM of MB
mystery, Uving in New York A a.hqunz
of forbidding aspect, and a wad de
talked about since tho murder.o hia dost
step, some months before. OAwm b riM
and a devotee of beauiyRarticulariy 25
Titian’s “ Daphne," which he. owna. E:
bmanrioig"cniosum."a
^NELSO* guna wdcag
wastrel who has forged and.embenaled
under circumstances that pus him in OA-
man’s power. In a moment of drupken
indiscretion te bra revealed Art te the
^STAMrORD MANSDKN, Me MoM gqa
a businens man of supposod. prebirt- .06b-
man demand, that, iTfc tebooi He Mp.
heltell what be knows ahout. Marsira
Baklow narrates a story, qtumbled mpeg
by accdent, of « girl abandened.yeersbo
fora in a Katoo villase, end an legitimate
daughter. Othman thermpea seoounem
that he b to love with
HORA MARSDEN,SUMifrt Maradem’s
daughter, and is determined to manry ter.
He is han di rapped uocielly, and promines
to help Barlew and make him raM if te
will bring sheet the maarh Barlow aureen,
proposing that Othman wia fever by raa
cuing Maradra’a unsuceqeaful shivping
businesa. Othman gera about his comb
taip ekinlfuily, not only wife
financial aid to Maredea buti
econtributions to Mra Mendesa
Natal HfTrrll r-i . neoora to eigsin,burtainpag."as
out thera Ten needn’t hotter about the ------ the uthosaphed ton
newpaper unt you’re done with thia."
Bd ft oceaaod. whether he liked U or not.
te WM to become Mr. Othman’s personal
notch above his valet.
_ buppose you can find as excuse, .ton
we don’t want to art them talking."
- - —— h- tnvantaa." Kez
of Connectcut,-
kane of the town
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