TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28. 19P.0
PAGE SIX
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALKM, OREGON
By Haro'd Ira
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
A V'c-.'.t Problem
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Chapter 34
ROSE'S Bl 'MILE IU RST8
Ram Conaldlne powdered her nose
with satisfaction in the jolting taxi.
6h had left Lester Broon imzlnc.
u she believed. longingly alter her.
Everyone said he danced divinely.
She did hone he'd Je at the Club
Rlvoll tonight. Her lunctwoo en
gagement with Mr. Perle, her de
lated guardian, vu all ttiat was
polling the day.
Tomorrow her car was to be de
livered. Next week. Next week she
moved into Cynthia Difrey'a Hat.
She must tell Mr. Perle that. Since
he had handed her her lint check
she had not seen him at all.
-I shall be rid of hiin soon, any
how," said Rose aloud. "I'm rid of
him now, really. I'm rich rich rich
and I've nothing to do but spend
my money."
She had. as usual, lieured too
closely and she was more than halt
an hour late when she walked Into
Mr. Perle office. She burst Into
at flood of excL-ses.
"Ah, yes! The traffic problem Is
becoming serious, asreed Mr. Perle.
"Fortunately, I had allowed a liber
al margin for our talk together."
He escorted her to a quiet old ho
tel Randalson's. For further se
clusion, he had engaged a private
room.
"This Is the only place where we
can be sure of remaining utterly
undisturbed," Mr. Perle said. "It
Is old-fashioned, is It not?'
I haven't had a chance of telling
you yet," Roae said, "but I've ar
ranged to share Cynthia Dlffley's
apartment with her, for a time, any
way.
Mr. Perle ate cheese and said
nothing.
"P'raps you think'' began Rose.
But as It had always been impos
sible to guess what Mr. Perle was
thinking, she retreated from that
line of attack. 'Tin of age and I
cuppose my money is my own to
do as I like with." fihe tried not to
make it sound impertinent by add
ing "And I'm sure you'll be glad
enough to get rid of me I ve been
an awful curse to you, I'm afraid.
It became evident that Mr. Perle
Intended to consume the last morsel
of Ills cheese and crackers before he
answered her. Rose twLsted her
hands together under the table and
lor the hundredth time adjured her
self not to be aech a rabbit. What
did It matter? As soon as she had
arranged all about her money she
need never see him atain.
An ancient waiter entered, cleared
the table as slowlv as a waiter In
a slow-motion film, and retired,
"I have a great deal with which
to reproach niywlf." said Mr. Perle,
as the door closed and the quiet of
the hotel ens wathed them.
Rose furtively studied her wrist
watch. It was very tiny, encased In
platinum and encircled with small
but very pure emeralds. It had
made a hole In that check . . . She
must find out If there were any
means of getting an advance on the
next.
"I wish to tell you a little story."
Rose sighed. That didn't sound
as though she would get away with
in ten miutes. as she had hoped
She looked again at her watch, op
enly this time, but Mr. Perle com
pletely ignored the action.
"It Is a strange story and one
based upon human weakness. Mr.
Perle rolled the syllables round his
tongue as though they were a sec
ond savory. He had pushed his coffee-cup
aside and now leaned his
crossed arms upon the table.
Some twenty-five years ago,'
cald Mr. Prle, "a young man de
scended from I believe an old
Irish-French family, found himself
so miserably unable to make head
way along lines that were congenial
to him that he was forced to earn
his living in a manner he despised
This young mnn, whose name was
Clement Conaldine, was a cook,
Rose, at hU first words, had braced
herself for the name.
"He was. In suite of liis nrlvnt
likes and dislikes, a very goad cook.
We Jirct hear of him as one of the
assistant cooks at tiie Pamasuis.
Most unfortunately his career there
was abort. His work gave saitsi ac
tion but he an allowed his priv
ate and working lite to all over
lap. In other words, he became as
sociated with a woman called Mar
got Muur who had been dismissed
from the Parnassus staff for an
reasons. It Is believed that Mutr wv
also as&oelated with a man named
Boit."
Rose knew now quite definitely
that she did not want to hear tlit-
story. Also that Mr. Perle would
make her hear It to the end.
"Conaldtne shared with Bolt a pas
sion for Invention. The nature of
their Inventions was Invarlaoiy do
mestic. Conaldine patented a form
of cooking utensil whkn is today
to be found in every home. Boll was
not so fortunate, although he ap
pears to have been trie more indus
trious of the two."
"Does my money " beiian Rose
Mr. Perle waved his hand and
her voice failed la her throat.
At the Parnassus Conaldlne had
been able to save the greater part
of his salary, wnen he was dismiss
ed, he went to Pennsylvania alone
and worked hard at some Idea tliat
seemed to him mortliy ol develop
ment. I cannot, of course, explain
to you exactly what the conditions
of his life were at this t;me but they
were such that they brought him
into contact with the charming and
romantically minded daughter of a
country minister. To shorten a ted
ious tale, mr dear Rase. &h? mar
ried him. In fact she eloped with
hira.
"It is to be supposed that she knew
he was onlv a cook but believed that
he would make her a faithful and
kind husdand. Herein she was i:io.;t
tragically mistaken. When their
duughtcr was only one year old. he
abandoned her without making the
.slightest provision for her future
and returned to the woman Mulr.
It was, of course, necessary that he
should earn a livelihood for himself
and Mutr and he took a pos: as cook
ui an insignificant private hotel in
Southcliff. Muir took rooms nearby
and there in due course, a daughter
was born.
"It would seem that Conaldine's
affection for his unfortunate worn
an and her child was of no more
stable a nature than his so-called
affection for his wile; for when
Mulr's child was somewhere near
its first birthday, the father left
Southcllff and went to New York
And there he fell In aealn with
Bolt . . . for a short time they work
ed together and then there was a
quarrel a very violent quarrel. A
part of ft was overheard. An hour
later Bolt was found very brutally
murdered and Conaldlne had dis
appeared. Although the most ex
haustive search was made for bun.
he was not found. He has never
been heard of again."
Rose was twisting her watch round
and round her wrist. There was
something odd about tills story-
something that didn't fit. She would
work out presently what it ft as ,
Then she knew that Mr. Perle was
going to work it out for her.
'All this happened, my dear Rose,
about twenty years ao. That Is to
say that at the present time. Con-
aldtnes daughter christened Rnae
after his mother would be between
twenty-three and twenty-four. And
the child of Margot, born of course
out of wedlock, would be between
twenty-one and twenty-two."
Each of the little emeralds roi:nd
Rose's watch were flashing out and
piercing her.
"But"
"Yes." said Mr. Perle very softly
and elegantly. "I have, as I have
Already confessed to you, a great
deal with which to reproach my
self. I have made a most imtortu
nate mistake."
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