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HENRY BELLAMANN
THE CIRCLE NARROWS
CHAPTER XX
TRAKE, we might a well
have this out right now. Pa
doesn't Ilka roe to go with you. I
guess Ma wouldn't either it she
was (till living. But I'm going
jith you anyhow, whenever you
k me."
"Well, what's got to b cleared
tip?"
"Only why Pa doesn't want me
to go with you. I'm going with
you ei long aa you want me to,
but don't get mad when I tell you
how things are."
"Well, if I married you-"
Bandy shrank away. Instantly
her face went blank and cold.
- "I wouldn't marry you, Drake." '
"Well, why not?"
"Let's don't talk about it, ever
gain. Will you remember that?"
. He did not answer at once. His
face, too, was as cold and hard
as Randy's.
"Where do you want me to let
jou out?"
"Right here, Drake."
Drake took a long way around
so that he would not have to pass
the Monaghan house. He drove
back of the asylum and to a dead
cod road that overlooked the bot
toms Randy had mentioned.
He shrugged his shoulders In a
gesture he had taken from Parris,
kind tightened the reins which had
fallen slack across the dashboard.
He drove as fast as he could back
the way he had come. In a few
minutes he stopped at the Mona
ghan house, and hitched his horse
to the whitewashed paling fence.
, He walked up the short board
walk to the front door, and
knocked.
' y' V
TENNY SINGER made tadus-
trious transformation in the:
Skefflngton vegetable garden. He
stood about in a kind of bewil
dered waiting while the Colonel;
and Mrs. Skefflngton fought at
bitter length over the location of
the bean patch, or the best place
to sow radishes this year.
," Benny felt that he was a citizen
of the town in full and honorable
standing.
One day Fulmer Green passed.;
Tulroer was looking very fine,'
Benny thought, all dressed up as
If it were Sunday.
"Well, if it ain't old crazy
Benny!"
, Benny grinned, and nodded. He
'hardly noticed the old nickname.
"Well, well, old Benny working
for the Colonel. Good idea, Benny.
' The Colonel might come in handy
keeping you out of jaiL" Fulmer
laughed, and Benny laughed, too.
But later in the day when he
thought of it, he didn't like Ful
mer saying anything about Jail.
It was Fulmer Green's fault that
be- got put in jail one time, and
It was Colonel Skefflngton who
got him out Vaguely he felt a
troubling sense of old, old injuries
and slights.
QFTEN
Drake McHugh drove
out of town sometimes out
hrederal street, sometimes out the
sylum road, sometimes by a less
frequented way always with
bandy Monaghan beside him.
The town talked. Drake Mc
hHugh, after all, came from "nice
people." He belonged to the best.
. .everyone saw now uie Vjoraons
idled the question when Drake
looked in the direction of Louise.
it little slap in the face should
ave taught Drake McHugh some-
g of a lesson. For a while it
ooked as though it really had.
ut now it was this Monaghan
1 from the lower end of town.
id people.
1 One afternoon Drake and Randy
iBashed out Federal street at a con
spicuous clip.
Mrs. Henry Gordon, sitting in
her south bay window, busy with
her crocheting, saw them. Drake's
back was turned her way as he
talked, but she caught a glimpse
of Randy's face as she made some
laughing response. Mrs. Gordon
frowned. The girl was really
pretty probably common-looking
if you saw her close, but at that
distance she was decidedly pretty.
Randy Monaghan certainly
looked frank and happy. And
she was certainly out in the open
with whatever it was she was
about. The girl surely couldn't
be setting her cap for Drake Mc
Hugh. That kind of a girl to
marry into the Union street crowd
for, no matter how you looked
it it, Drake McHugh belonged to
that crowd and, moreover, he'd
have money.
There1 was another person who
had noticed Drake and Randy.
That was Louse herself. She had
been standing at the open window
directly above her mother's sit
ting room.
Louise, like all of Kings Row,
felt that this affair with Randy
was different. It was quite pos
sible that Drake might want to
marry Randy. , And, of course,
iRandy Monaghan would Jump at
tthe chance to marry Drake. Who
wouldn't? Heaven knows she
wan tea mm herself. More than
ever now.- If only she had some
way oi calling him back.
She thought of Pan-it Mitchell
lit Parris were here, she believed
he'd try to get him to help
istraightcn things out. Parris could
oo anything with Drake, it seemed,
, irownsiairs Mrs. Gordon had
sudden intuition. She went quiet
ly to Louise's room and opened
the door. Louise was crying now.
. Louise did not turn. She
dropped her head, and was silent.
;.' "What are you crying about?"
"Does it make any difference?"
' Mrs. Gordon's face hardened.
She was angry at Drake, and still
angrier at Randy Monaghan.
"Don't answer me like that!"
f "Why can't you let me alone?"
' "Oh, I know what you're crying
about. I saw Drake McHugh going
iby with that little nobody from
idowntown. Aren't you ashamed
taf yourself?." '
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Louise stood up. Her eyes were
dry now, and she was trembling.
"I wish it was mcl"
Mrs. Gordon dropped her cro
cheting and struck Louise across
the mouth with all her strength.
Louise stood perfectly still. A
little streak of blood showed on
her lips. Mechanically she wiped
it away with the back of her
hand. "Mother, don't you ever do
that againl Don't you ever touch
me again as long as you live!"
Mrs. Gordon was shaken and
somewhat abashed by the sudden
ness of her own rage. But she felt
she must keep face.
"And what will you do about
it. Miss?"
"I'll kill you," Louise said
calmly. Then, shouting, she
pushed Mrs. Gordon toward the
door.
TJRAKE'S horse clop-clopped
softly along the sandy road.
The wheels made scarcely a
sound. The buggy top was down
and the late sun glistened on
Randy's thick shining hair.
"Why don't you come home and
have supper with us?"
"You want me to?"
"Of course. I think Pa likes
you, ever since that time you
walked in and asked him right
out if you could take me out
buggy-riding."
"Gee. That's nice."
"What's new from Parris?"
Randy asked as they neared town.
"Just short notes. Seems to be
getting along."
"I think people talk more about
Parris now than they did when he
was. here."
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
ONE OP THE LAR0EST
LANDSLIDES
IN history
WIPED OUT A PART OP
THE TOWN OF
PRANK, ALBERTA,
IIM I90i.
OAVE WAV AMD RUSHED
DOWN ON THE SLEEPING
POPULATION AT TERRIFIC
.SPEED, AND A CREW OP
WINERS, WORKING, IN
A SHAFT ON THE SLOPES,
Due THEIR WAV OUT
AFTER. THE SLIDE HAD
PASSED OVER.
ANSWER: On March
NEXT: Which flows faster,
IN WAR
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silver coins.
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askance.
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15 Three-banded
armadillo (pi.)
17 Editor (abbr.)
18 Marshy place.
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climbing
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mountain.
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Yen. He's somebody you dont
forget, somehow. But I think this
old town's proud of having him
over in Europe studying medi
cine." "Yes, I think so, too. Like Vers
Llchinsky."
Randy laughed shortly. "Aren't
we the old stick-in-the-muds?''
Drake's glance was deeply seri
ous. "It's good for me that you're
here,"
(To Be Continued)
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