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(Continued)
Stanton's smile was a mask of pure
malice. "I've made you no definite
promise as to that; but you shall
have one now. I'll promise to break
Baldwin in two and throw him and
his ranchmen backers out of the
Timanyoni. That's what you get for j
playing fast and loose with two peo-'
pie at the same time. When you look i
over your paying teller s statement j
for the day, you'll see that I have j
withdrawn our account from your!
tin-horn money shop. Good-day."
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Flesh-Pots of Egypt
Convinced by Verda Richlander's |
telephone message to the construe- ]
tion camp that he stood in no imme- !
diate. Smith spent the heel of the
afternoon in the High Line offices, j
keeping in wire touch with Stillings, j
whom he had sent on a secret mis- 1
sion to Red Butte, and with Williams I
at the dam. The High Line enterprise!
was on the knees of the gods. If Wil
liams could pull through in time, if i
the river-swelling storms should hold
off, if Stanton should delay his final j
raid past the critical hour—and j
there was now good reason to hope j
that all of these contingencies were'
probable—the victory was practically :
won.
Smith closed his desk at 6 o'clock
and went across to the hotel to dress
for dinner. The day of suspense was
practically at an end and disaster
still held aloof; was fairly outdis
tanced in the race, as it seemed. Wil
liams' final report had been to the
effect that the concrete-louring was
completed, and the long strain was
off. Smith went to his rooms, and.
as once before and for a similar rea
son, he laid his dress clothes out on
the bed. He made sure that he would
be required to dine with Verda Rich
lander, and he was stripping his coat
when he heard a tap at the door and
Jibbey came in.
"Glad rags, eh?" said the blase one
with a glance at the array on the bed. I
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1 GOLDSMITH'S 1
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MONDAY EVENING,
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I"T1 ~ (SEES n- • tu iS55?j I 1 11 ?)
| "I've just run up to tell you that you
I needn't. Verda's dining with the <
Stantons, and she wants me to keep >
j you out of sight until afterward. By ,
j and by, when she's foot-loose, she ,
1 wants to see you in the mezzanine. (
1 Isn't there some quiet little joint
' where we two can go for a bite? You
i know the town, and I don't." >
! Smith put his coat on. and together
) the circled the square to Frascati's, 1
I taking a table in the main cafe. ■
| While they were giving their dinner 1
< order, Starbuck came in and joined i
I them and Smith was glad. For rea- i
sons which he could scarcely have j
| defined, he was relieved not to have (
! to talk to Jibbey alone, and Star- J,
! buck plaved third hand admirably.
taking kindly to the sham black |:
i sheep, and tilling him up. in quiet,
straight-faced humor, with many
( and most marvelous tales of the
I earlier frontier. 1
At the end of the meal, while Jib
, bey was still content to linger, list- '
! ening open-mouthed to Starbuck's ;
1 romancing. Smith excused himself
: and returned to the hotel. He had
scarcely chosen his lounging chait in
; a quiet corner of the mezzanine be
fore Miss Richlander came to join
I him. , ,
"It has been a long day. hasn t
| it?" she began evently. "You have
' been busv with your dam. I suppose.
I but I —l have had nothing to do but
to think, and that is something that
I don't often allow myself to do. You
have gone far since that night last
May when you telephoned me that
vou would come up to the house
iater—and then broke your promise,
Montague." _ . „ , „
"In a way, I suppose I have, he
admitted. ~ .
j "You have, indeed. You are a to
! tally different man."
I "in what way, particularly .
"In every conceivable way. If one I
could believe in transmigration, one
would say that you had changed souls
with some old, hard-hitting, rough
riding ancestor. Have your ambitions
changed, too?"
"I am not sure now that 1 had any
ambitions in that other life."
"Oh, yes, you had," she went on
smoothly. "In the 'other life," as you
call it, you would have been quite |
willing to marry a woman who could
assure you a tirm social standing and
money enough to put you on a foot
ing with other men of your capabili
ties. You wouldn't be willing to do
that now, would you?—leaving the
sentiment out as you used to leave
it out then?"
"No, I hardly think I should."
Her laugh was musically low and
sweet, and only mildly derisive.
"You are thinking that it is change
of environment, wider horizons, and
all that, which has changed you.
Montague; but I know better. It is a
woman, and, as you may remember.
I have met her—twice." Then, with
a faint glow of spiteful fire in the j
I magnificent eyes: "How can you
I make yourself believe that she is
pretty?"
He shrugged one shoulder in token
of the utter uselessness of discussion
in that direction.
"Sentiment?" he queried. "I think
we needn't go into that, at this late
day, Verda. It is a field that neither
of us entered, or cared to enter, in
the days that are gone. If I say that
Corona Baldwin has—quite uncon
sciously on her part, I must ask you
to believe—taught me what love;
means, that ought to be enough."
Again she was laughing softly.
"You seem to have broadly forgot
ten the old proverb about a woman
scorned. What have you to expect
from me after making such an ad
mission as that?"
Smith pulled himself together and
stood the argument firmly upon its
unquestionable footing.
"Let us put all these indirections
aside and be for the moment merely
a man and a woman as God made us,
Verda," he said soberly. "You know,
! and I know, that there was never any
i question of love involved in our rela
tions past and gone. We might have
married, but in that case neither of
j us would have got or exacted any-
I thing more than the conventional
decencies and amenities. We mustn't
try to make believe at this late day.
You had no illusions about me when
I was Watrous Dunham's hired man:
you haven't any illusion about me
now."
"Perhaps not," was the calm re
joinder. "And yet to-day I have lied
to save you from those who are try
ing to crush you."
"I told you not to do that," he re
joined quickly.
"I know you did: and yet, when
you went away this morning you
knew perfectly well that I was going
to do it if I should get the oppor
tunity. Didn't you, Montague?"
He nodded slowly: common hon
esty demanded that much.
"Very well: you accepted the ser
vice, and I gave it freely. Mr. Kinzie
believes now that you are another
Smith —not the one who ran away
; from Lawrencevilie last May. Tell
| me: would the other woman have
I done as much if the chance had fal
i len to her?"
It was on the tip of his tongue to
1 say, "I hope not," but he did not say
it. Instead, he said: "But you don't
1 really care, Verda; in the way you
are trying to make me believe you
do."
"Possibly not; possibly I am wholly
selfish in the matter and am only
looking for some loophole of es
! cape."
(To Be Continued)
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|j| All's Well That i
j m Ends Well j
How Two Girls Who Had to Move Found That Opti
mism Is a Good Thing
By Jane McLean
"You don't mean to say that we
have to move?" asked Gertrude,
aghast, as Louise came into the
room and flung herself disconsolate
ly down on the couch.
"I'm afraid that's just what's go
ing to happen," she returned.
"But did you hear anything, dear,
anything certain?"
"No, not a tbnig, but you know as i
i well as I that things have been i
j gravitating in that direction. The
1 men surveying outside, and every
thing of the kind."
"And just as we're so nicely set
tled."
"Of course. What does that part
of it mean to them?"
"Did they tell you anything at all
downtown?"
"Not a thing. I asked the agent
if he could tell me the truth, but he
said that the plans had not been
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Dr..w from one to two and so on
to the end.
| made public yet. I think he's afraid
too many people will make arrange
| ments to move right away and he j
will be out some rent."
"Of course, that's the reason. ;
| Well, what do you tl\ink we'd better
do? Hunt for another place?"
"That's all there is left to do.
You see, if we were important at ]
all, we could stay on and try to !
! make a bargain with them about
the lease. But what's the use of
I doing that? It would simply mean
that we would have to stay on here.
The thing that worries me Is that
we'll never be able to get another
place we like as well. The rents
are soaring all the time, and we
said when we took this place that
we'd never move. You know what
it cost us last time."
Louise Baker and Gertrude Hayes
had been living together' since col
lege days. Both girls were doing
: well in work especially suited to
them. Louise had been out of col
lege only two years and was still
studying designing. But of late she
had made her drawing pay in poster
work, and although the girls were
not poor they had just begun to get
ahead, and it hurt to feel that they
must give up the apartment and
move just as they were so nicely
settled.
"You can meet me downtown to
morrow," Gertrude said before
dropping to sleep that night, "and
we'll look over the ground. Of
course I don't expect to find any
thing; we went over everything so
thoroughly before. But we must
get a place, there's nothing else
to do übout it."
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Louise's retort was a long drawn
' sigh, and for the night the trouble
I was forgotten. It was remembered
again only too quickly, however, for
! at breakfast Louise though of some
i thing with a gasp and said almost
J chokingly: "How I'm going to miss
j this place. It just seems as if all
i the luck I have ever had has come
Ito me here. I'm sure things will
I never be just the same again."
Gertrude, to whom a good night's
rest had brought a certain amount
! of comprehension, laughed a little,
j "Oh. you never know your luck," j
1 she said brightly. "Let's not give up
i till we try."
And try they did. They looked j
i all slirdluetaoicmfwypetaoinshrdotlt
;up all the real estate agents in i
town, it seemed; they hunted for
! days, and found nothing. The rents
1 were all high and the returns were
disappointing to say least. Mat
i ters became more obvious about
their place, until one day the agent
! called upon them thattaoinshrd
called and told them that the house
was to be torn down and a new
apartment hotel erected.
It was that day that Louise, eat
ing a dreary lunch alone, suddenly
read in a daily paper an adverttse
j ment of a real estate dealer they
■ had not tried. She suddenly de
j termined to go to interview him
without waiting for Gertrude, who
I had a position downtown as file clerk
! with a large concern.
"I'll go and see anyway," she said
| rising quickly and going out. "Then
|we can truthfully say that we've
! tried them all."
If she had been expecting any
! luck, she was very quickly disap
j pointed, for there was nothing at
I all at the new place. As she was
' going out, the man called her back
: and said: "Of course, you wouldn't
j care for a place downtown, would
you? A walk-up place? I have
something here; don't see how it got
in with the other things. It's in a
business neighborhood, and it's a
top floor apartment, but you might
j look it over." And he named the
address and a rental that made
Louise's heart leap suddenly; it was
! fifteen dollars a month less than
i they paid now! And to live down
i town, a thing they had always want
ed to do. Why, there might just be
JULY 2, 1917.
| a chance that the place would suit,
after all.
Louise forgot the fact that she I
i had been tired as she turrted into a '
side street and, after hunting up the !
I janitor of the building, was finally ,
ushered up to the top floor. The
! minute the door was opened and she
j had stepped into a quaint little
j place she knew that It was just the
j home to make her happy. She ran I
rapturously from one thing to an- I
' other and exclaimed delightedly !
over everything. When she finally:
left it was only* because she felt ]
that she must get hold of Gertrude
; and tell her the news. Why, the I
fifteen dollars they would save 011
the first month's rent would almost j
1 pay for their moving, and they could I
i move any time they liked. Why, I
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I this was the kind of place they had
always wanted, and the one they
j were living In now they had thought
as nearly perfect as anything they
I could afford.
"I'm going to be an optimist from
now on," she said suddenly right
out loud. 'And then she laughed
happily at the janitor's puzzled face.
.SCIENCE TEACHER RE-ELECTED
Lemoyne, Pa., July s.—Prof. Har
ry Slothower, of this place, has just
j returned from his duties as teacher
of science in the Mount Union High
I School, where he has been re-elected
to the same position. He is a gradu
| ate of the- Lemoyne High School
in class of 11108, and of Albright Col-
I lege in 1915.
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