Show First State BANK BY MEREDITH Nicholson ILLlkSTRATIOm RAY WALTER'S tOrtRKHT 1907 BY BO&B3 Salina- :of 3Y A WRfHU CA J Lewis Alms Y "J President Huleh Cashier - ! SYNOPSIS Minx Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen Holbrook hlr niece were entrusted to the care of Haurance Donovan a writer tyflss summering near Port Annandale Patricia confided to Donovan that she feared her brother Henry who ruined by a bank failure hHd constantly threatened Donovan discovered and captured her an Intruder who proved to be Reginald Gillespie suitor for the hand of Helen Donovan saw Miss Holbrook and her father meet on friendly terms Donovan He met the fought an Italian assassin man he supposed was Holbrook but who a said he was Hartrldge Miss Pat announced her Intention of fighting Henry Holbrook and not seeking another hiding place Donovan met Helen in garden at night Duplicity of Helen At was confessed by the young lady night disguised as a nun Helen stole from the house She met Reginald GilGillespie lespie who told her his love wns confronted by Donovan At the town postoffleo Helen unseen except by Donovan slipped a draft for her father Into A young the hand of the Italian sailor lady resembling Miss Helen Holbrook was observed alone In a canoe when Helen was thought to have been at home for Gillespie admitted giving Helen her father who had then left to spend it Miss Helen and Donovan met in the night She told him Gillespie was nothing to her He confessed Ills love for her Donovan found Gillespie gagged and bound in a cabin Inhabited by the villainous Italian and Holbrook He released him CHAPTER CHAPTER XV t Undertake a Commission of my himself availed Gillespie wardrobe to replace his rags and appeared in the library clothed and In stroke on mind of the state his usual of seven “You should have had the doctor out Donovan Being stuck Isn’t bo die of funny and you will undoubtedly Every one does now- adays" you “I shall disappoint Ijima and I between us have stuck me together And it is not like a cracked plate well to publish our troubles to the If I called the village doctor world he would kill his horse circulating the satisfmysterious tidings Are you ied?’’ You're a man after my “Quite so own heart Donovan" We had reached the dining room and stood by our chairs “I should like” he said taking up his cocktail glass “to propose a truce between us — ” “In the matter of a certain lady?” “Even so! On the honor of a fool” he said and touched his glass to his “And may the best man win” lips he added putting down the glass unemptied He was one of those comfortable people with whom It ts possible to sit but in silence after intervals In to say he which we found nothing would with exaggerated gravity make some utterly inane remark his mind was more agile than ever hl3 thoughts leaping nimbly from crag to He had goat crag like a mountain traveled widely and knew the ways of many cities and of American political but were characters whose names vaguely known to me ho discoursed then his with delightful Intimacy mind danced away to a tour he hud once made with a company of acrobats whose baggage he had released from the grasping bands of a rural sheriff “What” he agked presently “is as sad as being deceived in a person you have admired and trusted? I knew a fellow who was professor of something in a blooming college and who was so poor that he had to coach delinquent preps in summer time instead of get I had every confiting a vacation I thought he dence in that fellow was all right and so I took him up Into Maine with me — just the two of — us and hired an Indian to run our pointed to plus camp and everything Well I always get stung when I try 10 be good” He placed his knife and fork carehis plate and sighed fully across deeply Did he was the matter? “What bore you with philosophy?” “No such luck That man was on the subject of domesticatYou may shoot me ing prairie dogs If that Isn’t the fact There he was a and a fellow of his unifine and scholar who edited a versity with that thing on Greek He held that the daily exhis mind ample of the happy home life of the prairie dog would tend to ennoble all mankind and brighten up our family altars Think of being lost in the woods with a man with such an idea and of having to sleep under the same blanket with him! It rained most of the time so we had to sit in the tent He got so bad and he never let up me he would wake that up in the night to talk prairie dog” I must been trying” have “It “What was your solution Butagreed tons?” and slept with “I moved outdoors Your salad dressing is exthe Indian cellent Donovan though personally I But let lean to more of the paprika us go hack a bit to the Holbrooks the lady there are certain Omitting we which well as may points about I am not so great a fool but agree that I can see that this state of things cannot last forever Henry ts broken over down from drink and brooding his troubles and about ready for close irt a brick building with confinement barred w'indows" Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits - The chapel clock chimed nine as and I walked my gained the road horse to scan St Agatha’s windows through the vistas that offered across the foliage And there by the open window of her aunt’s Bitting room I saw Helen Holbrook reading A table lamp at her side illumined her slightly bent head and as though aroused by my horse’s quick step In the road she rose and stood framed against the light with the soft window draperies fluttering about her I spoke to my horse and galloped toward Red Gate A Rang Out and My Horse “Then I’m for capturing him and sticking him away in a safe place” “That’s the Irish of it if you will pardon me but it’s not the Holbrook fully” in the Shied Sharply And I thought I heard a sob moment's silence beforp she spoke "I want you to go at once to the on TippecaA father tucked away in a pri- house of the of It vate madhouse would not sound well noe creek go as fast as you can!” she I advise you not to implored to the daughter “To the house of the man who calls I generously suggest that to Helen at We are himself Hartrldge the aid your suit to that extent Red Gate?” for Helen’s both playing gratitude “Yes you must see that no harm of flat matter" the that’s the comes to him “I was brought into this business There was no mistaking now the to help Miss Pat” I declared though sobs that broke her sentences and my a trifle lamely Gillespie grinned sarwith questions mind was so donically "Be it far from me to Interfere with that I stammered incoherently We “Will you go — will you go?” Bhe demethods or hopes your plans manded in a voice so low and broken both have the coneeit of our wisdom!” "There may he something in that" that I scarcely heard “Yes at once” and the voice van"But It was decent of you to get me out of that Italian’s clutches this after- ished and while I still stood staring I at the Instrument When I went over there the operator at Annoon thought I might find Henry Holbrook nandale blandly asked me what number The thread had snapped and pound some sense into him and I wanted I stared and the spell was broken he’s about due from that telegram If Miss Pat won’t soften her heart I’d helplessly at the thing of wood and wire for half a minute then the girl’s better buy him off” he added reflecrose in my appeal and my promise tively I ordered We walked the long length of the mind distinct from all else and had just my horse before returning to the hall into the library was where the when our butler Gillespie coolly turncigars brary lighted on over the the table ing sought me magazines I was still dazed and something in my “Beg pardon the telephone sir”' is so appearance caused him to stare My distrust of the telephone “Been seeing a ghost?” he asked deep seated that I had forgotten the “No just hearing one” I replied existence of the instrument in I had yet to offer some pretext I now learned for house where it was tucked away in the butler's panleaving him and as I walked the try for the convenience of the house- length of the room he stifled a yawn keeper in ordering supplies from the his eyes falling upon the line of I spoke of the heat After a moment’s parley a French windows village of the night but he did not answer woman’s voice addressed me distinctly — a voice that at once arrested and and I turned to find his gaze fixed held ail my thoughts upon one of the oneri windows My replies What to it man?” I demanded were I fear somewhat breathless He crossed the room in a leap and wholly stupid was out upon the terrace peering do remember Rosalind Is "This you down upon the shrubbery beneath me?” “What’s the row?” I demanded I remember I remember “Yes “Didn't you see it?” nothing else!” I declared Ijima had “No” closed the door behind me and I was — "Then it wasn’t anything I thought a voice voice with alone that the spoke to me of the summer night and I saw the dago if you must know of low winds murmuring across star- He’ll probably be around looking for us” ry waters The Rosalind a little nervous “Humph you’re "I am going away is going a long way that’s all You’ll stay here all night you remember I fear without from the lake and you will never see of course?" I asked much enthusiasm her again” lie grinned “But you have an engagement “Don’t be so cordial! If you’ll send when the new moon — ” "But the little feather of the new me into town I’ll be off” I had Just ordered the dog cart when moon is under a cloud and you cannot see it and Rosalind must always be the butler appeared “If you please sir Sister Margaret Helen now" Ours wirheo to use our telephone sir St "But this won’t do Rosalind was more than an engagement it was Agatha's is out of order” I spoke to the sister as she left the I a solemn compact” insisted she house half as a matter of courtesy not so very solemn!” “Oh “And then you have the half to make sure of her The telelaughed other girl that isn’t just me — the girl phone at St Agatha's had been out of of the daylight that you ride and sail order for several days she said and I walked with her to St Agatha’s gate with and play tennis with” “Oh I haven’t her I don’t want talking of the weather the garden and the Holbrook ladles who were she her— ” Volatile Irish- said quite well man! “Treacherous Thereafter when I had dispatched man!” "Marvelous adorable Rosalind!” Gillespie to the village in the dog cart "That will do Mr Donovan” — and I got into leggings reflecting upon the hen with a quick change of tone she odd circumstance that Helen Holbrook had been able to speak to me over the asked abruptly: "You are not afraid of trouble are telephone a few minutes before using an instrument that had by Sister Maryou?” 'I live for nothing else!” been out of comgaret's testimony "You are not so pledged to the Me mission for several days The girl had undoubtedly slipped away from St you play tennis with that you cannot serve Rosalind If she asks it?” Agatha's and spoken to me from some "No But I other house in the neighborhood you have only tJ ask but must see you once more — as Rosa- this was a matter of little importance now that I had undertaken her comlind!” "Step being silly and listen care mission m XVI An Odd Affair at Red Gate As I rode through Port Annandale the lilting strains of a waltz floated from the casino and I caught a of lake’s the cincture of lights glimpse My head was none too clear from Its crack on the cabin floor and my chest was growing sore and stiff from the slash of the Italian’s knife but my spirits were high and my ears rang of the Voice with memories Helen had given me a commission and every fact of my life faded Into insignificance The cool night air compared to this rushing by refreshed me I was eager for the next turn of the wheel and ran on to the my curiosity house I came now to a lonely sweep where the road ran through a heavy woodland and the cool moist air of the forest rose round me The lake I khew lay close at hand and the cottage was not as I reckoned my distances very far ahead I had drawn In my hors to consider the manner of my approach to the and was jogging along at an when a easy trot rang out on my left from the direction of the creek and my horse shied sharply and plunged on at a wild gallop He ran several hundred yards before I could check him and then I turned and rode slowly back peering into the forest’s black shadow for the foe I paused and waited with the horse beneath me but the iiancing'fcrazlly woodland inscrutable an presented front I then rode on to the unfenced strip of wood where I had left my horse before I began this narrative with every intention of telling the whole truth touching my adventures at Annandale and I cannot deny that the shot from the wood had again shaken my faith in Helen Holbrook She had sent me to the Tippecanoe on an errand of her own choosing and I had been fired on from ambush near the place to which she had’sent me I fear that my tower of ifaith that had grown so tall and strong shook on its foundations' but once more I dismissed my doubts Just as I had dismissed other doubts and about her My fleeting misgivings glimpse of her in the window of St less than an hour before Agatha’s flashed back upon me and the tower touched the stars steadfast and serene again I strode on toward Red Gate with my revolver in the side pocket of my Norfolk Jacket A buckboard filled with young folk from the summer col ony passed me and then the utter st lence of the country held the world In a moment I had reached the canoe maker’s cottage and entered the gate I went at once to the front door and I repeated my knock several knocked tin ts but there was no answer The front window blinds were closed tight The houseboat was effectually screened and I had deby shubbery scended half a dozen steps before I saw a light in the windows It occurred to me that as I bad undoubtedly been sent to Red Gate for some purpose I should do well not to defeat it of my own so I by any clumsiness proceeded slowly pausing several times to observe the lights below I heard the Tippecanoe slipping by with the subdued murmur of water at and then a lantern flashed on night deck and I heard voices Some one was landing from a boat in the creek This seemed amiable as the enough a man in the helped boat to clamber to the platform and from the open door of the shop a broad shaft of light shone brightly The man with the upon the two men lantern was Holbrook alias Hartrldge beyond a doubt the other was a stranHolbrook caught the painter of ger and the boat silently made it fast “Now” he said “come in” (TO BI3 CONTINUED) The Sickroom Bugbear The great nugbear of the sickroom This is the problem that is monotony must meet and nurse study every ways and means to prevent She may She may ways do this in several of the room oche appearance alter by pushing the bed or sofa casionally to a different part of the room in order to give the patient a fresh outlook the cut flowers may be replaced by a growing plant old magazines and books may be removed and new ones take their place the pictures may b changed especially those that hang ai a the foot of the bed or perhaps blank wall may be found to be restful to the tired eyes— Circle Magazine SCENICLINEOFTHEWORLD THREE SOLID VESTIBULED - TRAINS EACH WAY 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