| Show the I 1 ne man with ith r three IL 11 ree names i vy by harold macgrath V ta ky illy bell s balc CHAPTER IV continued 5 A droll idea entered Man mansfields head he was not w vilt hout humor so tit ile returned to his desk looked into ahe be telephone book and called a number A womans comans voice answered oi 1 I wish to speak with mr cathene Cut Cat just a moment mo rilent please pl ense three or four our minutes passed hello I 1 this Is sir mr cathene Cat what do you wish to speak to me 1 I wish to ask you some gome questions frankly why do you hate hale tile me 1 I do not hate iou my attitude Is absolutely impersonal blunt enough what would lk you say if I 1 expressed the opinion that you carried out your part of the bargain tarca ln find and flint the hour had arrived for me to carry out mine A long pause events lia liate lae te made flint impossible I 1 release you you do not hold me then still I 1 am it a good loser I 1 will introduce you yon to my daughter between your daughter and me there lii in the space of two worlds I 1 regret that tolly folly on board the ship moreover I 1 rill am a poor mau every dollar I 1 have in tills w orld I 1 earn by honest labor 1 I dont quite get that I 1 have been duty duly informed that you have on deposit nearly halt half a million another pause that money does not belong to me ur mr mansfield that was the end of the conversation mansfield then wrote two letters the first was local it was to tile the chief of police it demanded as quie quickly lily as possible a good food photograph of brandon Cat cathene Catli ewe it did not matter how it was obtained the second letter was directed to a celebrated detective agency in new york the best man mail they had was wanted immediately trained lately dinner Is served sir air announced the butler front from the doorway Is miss betty down she begs to be excused sir mansfield ran upstairs and rapped on the door of his daughters boudoir it Is father betty are you ill no daddy just tirca and headachy may I 1 come in ne ile heard the key turn in the lock and ile he pushed in the door ile he saw instantly in that slie had been erving crying 1 I I 1 saw that c article in the herald she sobbed it ininee me ine wild with fury after you have done be 0 o much for Ilan bannister nister A worm warm glow pervaded his heart beart you waste any tears on that twaddle betty its just politics Ws ts all a part of tile game gaille come colne alon along to dinner I 1 ive sot a for you im sending fur for 3 our hunt aunt your in mothers others sister you ought not liot to be the only woman in this big house your aunt Is a 8 charming ling worn till im and there Is title ona thing I 1 little 1 atle fully I 1 mant vi ant you always to remember your mothers nol liers fortune makes you rich in cour own right LIO lie as you please with it 1 and alien lien tile the day comes and you find a nian man of your fancy marry him ill trust you to pick out of one worth while ile he laughed tucked her arm under his and led tier lier to the stairs around about ten that night ou haie hae found tier her on the floor before ar boudoir fire ere reading lier ber letters slie site would rend read so far into hill a letter and then u picture would drift tu ili between blue sky blue water tile the vague scent of clover und and au an odd young bending over oer flat stones slie site wanted to throw tile the letters etters I 1 into tile the lire fire it was sl she e allew that she he would mould hae bane regretted field tie hie I 1 net throughout tier her life but to lind some way out of the rl e put the letters in it a florentine b huu ON te U ilch the bile if les lored to a drawer site she was about to close tills this when ben her eye was attracted by a bill iliyof bof paper it was it a typewritten list of tile lie L buind s und tind stocks and accumulated funis fun Is fit if aich li tier lier private fortune fort utiP away aay down tile ell end she ell upon which slie she had noli previously fifty slit shares irem ale tie bannister morning herald tile only way vry you boll cain al aa brenk break no editor she lie murmured is to flu buy ills his sheet and turu turn him adrift thereupon a 2 great reat oni and glorious idea popped into her ber head CHAPTER V george cottar mansfield could not rend read he tossed tosi ed his bis volume upon apoll the table and got up ile he lighted a cigar then lie he went into alie hall for ills his hat ond and topcoat lie left ift the house houe through tile the conservatory door it was ras and a stroll about tile gardens might flight settle eth fills ull aRual mental turmoil he passed d adlung the musleh of rose bubles there were still some lowers flowers in tillio bloom ull ile he pushed pus lied through the buche to the next row where there alts a pink arends lie he cut cul ll it with tits penknife and drew it i onil til als buttonhole he threw consumed asur then icky lill ills lilda lie glanced again at bettys betty window it was wag dark in the very center of the was it a marble basin with a faun sent beat ed at one pud end ills his pipes emitting thin of water later tile the tinkle inkle or of the water sounded pie pleasantly a chantly on oil mansfields tonsa mansa ears ripe pipe to toba baco tco and good tobacco too one of the gardeners NO 0 o they ell all smoked abominable weed there ile he demanded sharply tile shadow began to move mansfield being in vigorous health ard and sound of wind ran along the path ile he made a short cut and arrived at the sidewalk as tile other ran across the street diagonally this maneuver sot set lit his face under the lie full glare of the street lamp mansfield stopped cathene Cat prowling around in the gardens the fool then was really ill loe with retry bettyl 1 ile he could give up the woman lie he loved for the sake of an all ideal an ideal which if pursued unfalteringly might break tier her father fat lier mansfield Manst idt returned to tile the house his usually cold and precise brain off its balance the whole affair was so absurd that it resembled a dream rather than a reality ile he hung bung up his hat and coat mechanically plucked the rose from the buttonhole and proceeded to his room immersed in revel ie lie he had missed something no it romance he lind had had his fall of that in steel he knew what aliat he had bad missed it was the thing that had r J his editorials were full of punch and prophecy lured that tillit fellow Catli cathene ewe to come prow prowling ling into the gardens merely to stand under bettys W window love level I 1 slowly he rose picked up the va vast in ill I 1 which aich he find placed the flower tiptoed into the hall and set it before bettys door next morning betty came into the breakfast bre alfast room with a joyous rush she was as us its pleasing to the rye eye as a glimmer cloud in a filmy white a pink boudoir cat cap on her lend head and the twe te pinned to tier lier bodice paddy mansfield did you put this rose by my door H lie could not answer her directly 1 I it thought light perhaps you had gone to bed there wont be ninny many more this yell venir she walked ON oer er to him and stooped you inny kiss inetor me for that ile he took her lead head between lie his palms and kl kissed gd g d both bolh tier lier cheeks checks soundly slie she ran rail back to tier her hair tind and began to lolley french at him finally lie in ill u sighed lied youre lo 10 Il liell tor for tile inc my french is violor truck tyle style i bradds ra ddS I 1 want to KII go back to france hut but I 1 need ou honey lie he cried aud and as tile lie words worda passed pas iod lit his 8 lips hie the inh acle lay lai repealed reNe aled that hiis 1 I its it I 1 t lie le in tiled her why do tou ou need ni cd nn nit diddy daddy 9 1 in a 11 kind of terrified elili chisper hi per sper I 1 love you J ec auie ine ie only just found it out 4 0 0 0 Cli thees newspaper for all that it aus alis loing money dully daily was a ww its editorial opinions biegun to bo be copied far and wide across the land lie thought and wrote clearly upon all subjects tits his editorials were full of punch and prophecy I 1 but lie he was losing money lie he had heard tales about moloch and now he understood each bach additional boost to ills circulation made a corresponding I 1 loss oss NN without ithna the local advertisements fills 1 tilt ascending popularity was wag becoming be comins more and more cot costly ly and any day lilg ills stockholders might sell bell out this would not nullify his control but it might add infinite confusion internal warfare so far lie had won two big battles lie fill had made the health department an all efficient edl clent organization and lie had blocked a deal by the local traction company Muns nelds to charge a six cent fare and lie had made the last election of mansfields congressional candidate extremely difficult at noon one day in october cathene cattle came down doun for his breakfast a frown between his ebes what la Is it sonny sonner asked hit his mother ali what lint Is what tile the meaning of that frown ah well I 1 had a curious experience at the office last night I 1 heard an ahem and looked up bang went a flashlight and before I 1 coul could 11 re coer from aly astonishment the photographer to had vanished took a R picture of me stole it put I 1 cant let that worry me I 1 must get that new book done our funds are getting low shortly after lie he entered his study and closed the door site she saw no more of him until four when he be signified that he was off for a walk in the hills he fie had not been gone more than twenty minutes when nancys smart runabout stopped at the curb two or three times limes a week she carried mrs catheine Cath eive off for a ride in the country at tile the same hour today fathers charlot chariot of mercy rolled under the Mang mansfield field porte cocheres co chere put but more of that anon mrs cathene had to change so 0 o for a few moments nancy was left to her own deil deuces ces she saw the study door wide open and stepped across the threshold nooks hooks were scattered over the floor tile the air filled with the strong scent of tobacco a desk littered with paper a wicker basket filled to the brim with closely written sheets slie ets B R waste basket choked with crumpled dl discarded c ald efforts the one thing that aliat lad had a touch of orderliness was the stock stack of blank paper arranged before the empty chair she could see that something had bad been written on the top kneet so she bent to see what it was A name repeated many times george cottar george cottar repeated perhaps a dozen times george Cot cottar tarl she spoke the noine name aloud A pile of manuscript and tile the name george cottar 1 the illumination left her temporarily blinded the brushwood boy george cottar brandon cathene I 1 why brand was the novelist and hiding biding his light under tile lie bushel like tills this what did that signify impulsively slie site reached down into the ette basket and picked up one of the llie crumpled sheets and smoothed it out A rejected sheet lie would neier dener miss it so she die folded it and put it in a pocket then slie she stole forth tier her eyes shining and tier lier cheeks af latue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 mansfield had an odd experience for him birn that afternoon A Benta Selita tire tive of the loval merchants called I 1 to ask him to release e them from their promise regarding tile the boycott of df the herald we are sorry mr mansfield lie announced but we cant carry tills this on tiny any longer we dont want to offend you or lose the trade of tile the thousands you employ but we have come to the conclusion that it would he be far more profitable table for us to cater to the other seventy odd thousand and let your people go what answer shall 1 I carry back that they are under r no further obligations answered mansfield quietly aul lly our ih anlis mr bit mansfield Mans neld we renew our contracts with the herald at once TO BE |
