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!pY HENRY BELLAMANH
PEYTON WONT HELP
CHAPTER XXII
)NE day in a kind of desperation
ha went to see Peyton Graves.
Drake smiled at the surround
ings. "Well, welll You look like
bank president In here, Peyton."
"What can I do for you, Drake?"
"Just dropped in to tee how
you're getting along, Peyte. Are
you busy?"
'Pretty busy, Drake, Just now."
"Well, I'll come again."
"You've had a lot of bad luck,
haven't you?"
'Yeh. Pretty bad. I'll get things
straightened out, though. How's
your big proposition coming on?"
.. "You mean the West End Cres
tent?" "Is that what you call it?"
' "Yes. Well, pretty fine, Drake.
1 finally got Macmillan St. George
interested, and he talked old
Thurston into it. They are going
to let me put it through. Takes
money, though."
"Yeh, I guess so."
"Thurston St. George thinks I
ought to build out there myself
and make one bang-up place just
to show how it would look."
"I see. Sounds right smart,
Peyte."
Peyton sighed and moved some
papers suggestively. "Too bad
you lost your money, Drake. That
would have been a fine proposi
tion for you and me."
"Well, I was Just going to ask
you, Peyton, if you don't need
some help."
Peyton flushed. "Gosh, Drake.
I havent got a thing for you to
do. You know, of course, this
thing's just getting going. I'm
working altogether with other
people's money for the time be
ing. Later maybe."
"Well, I just thought"
"I'm awfully sorry, Drake. Wish
I did have something."
"So long, Peyte. Good luck."
Young Peyton Graves' new
house was the subject of much
discussion. Of course, everybody
knew that the St Georges were
back of Graves, but it did show
what an enterprising young man
could do in Kings Row.
TfACH year in this part of the
country the January weather
repeated a familiar cycle. Hard,
bright cold after New Year. Then,.
In mid-month a few days some-;
times a week of warm, spring
like airs. Immediately afterward
roaring winds came from the
northwest whirling sleet and snow,
and freezing the ground until it
was hard as iron. Dark weather,
Drake walked west on a narrow
street that dodged in a zigzag way
across town. Be was walking
straight into the wind. Better to
jface it going than coming.
He had had a letter from Parrlsi
that morning a longish letter this
time. Farrls said he was terribly
busy, working harder than ever,!
but now that his stay was cer-,
tainly more than half over he had;
begun to think about his returnJ
He couldnt hope now to start!
back to America before Septem-I
Iber of 1902. He had been in cor-!
despondence with Dr. Nolan, the
(medical head of the state asylum.
the situation looked encouraging.
Why didn't Drake write? What
was ne noing7 Had he really ever
started that real-estate venture?
iAnd how about Louise? Had,
iKings Row heard about Vera?!
jVera had come to Vienna, and:
played with the Royal Philhar-I
monic. She'd made a real success.!
Vera had developed amazingly in
every way. Musically, of course,
but did Drake remember what a
iunnny-lookihg little washed-out:
'thing she had always been? Well,:
:ahe was positively glowing.
... Almost two more years be
jfore Parris would return. Almost
las long as the time he had been
! absent And that had seemed an!
i eternity. He had never told any-i
'one how much he missed Parris,.
inot even Randy. He couldn't ex-1
plain that to anyone. It was hard!
or him to understand it himself.
:He had never felt that way about
anyone.
, It was colder. The wind was!
ileveling out into a steady cutting!
blast He'd have to get in some-;
i where. Darned if he wasn't half1
i frozen. ...
Drake made a wide arc about
'the lower end of town. He came:
presently to the railroad and fol
lowed it to Fritz Bachman's place.
He fumbled the doorknob with
numb fingers.
i "Give me a drink, Fritz."
' "Better step into the back room,
Drake. I bring it."
Drake dropped into a chair at a
small table in Fritz's back room.!
He couldn't think, and he couldn't
even shape his feelings into .any
kind of order.
CHERIFF SAM WINTERS fln-
ished up a cup of coflee, and
stood up. He walked over to the
stove and toasted his fingers be
fore putting on his leather-and-iwool
gloves. He glanced toward
the back room. :
'. "Who you got in there, Fritz?" i
. Fritz looked up from his ac
count book. "Back room? Oh, it's
,that McHugh feller." ,
"Drunk?"
. "Yeh. Dead to the world for
the last two hours. Don't know
what to do with him, neither. I
ain't a-going to take him home,
not tonight"
"Well, you can't turn him out.
He'll freeze, sure as hell."
Frits grumbled a little. "What
I do, then? I want to close up and
go home now pretty soon."
"Well, you sold him the likker.
didn't you?" -t
"Sure. Good stuff, too."
v Sam looked straight at Fritz.
Xe,U.'d Jurn that boy out wouldn't
NKA alRVICK, INK
you?"
"I got to go home."
"Well, I tell you what TO do. I
can't git him home no way when
he's as drunk as that You help
me and I'll take him to the cala
boose for the night so's he won't
git froze somewhere. He'll be safe
till momin'."
"All right, I help you."
T5ANDY MONAGHANS father
opened the door of the kitchen
stove and laid several sticks of
wood on the coals. It was Sunday
morning, and he had had break
fast two hours earlier.
There was a slow, undecided
knock on the door.
"Good morning, Mr. Monaghan."
"Why, good morning, Drake,
Come in, come in."
Mr. Monaghan stared hard at
Drake. The boy looked like a
tramp. He wasnt shaved, his
hair was tousled, and his shirt
was unfastened at the throat
"What's up, Drake?"
"I want to talk to you a little
while, Mr. Monaghan."
"How about a cup of coffee?"
"No, thank you. Sam Winters
gave me some coffee."
"Sam Winters?"
"Yes. I was locked up in the
calaboose last night, Mr. Mona
ghan." Mr. Monaghan set the coffeepot
down with a clatter. "What for?"
"I got drunk at Fritz Bach
man's, and Sam Winters happened
to come along about the time
Fritz wanted to close up. Sam
took zne to the calaboose, so I
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13 Elevates.
14 Universal
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worker.
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Mr. Monaghan grunted.
"I want a job, Mr, Monaghan!"
"Well?"
"Could you get me a job on the
railroad?"
The weather-beaten old man
looked keenly at Drake.
"Tell you What I think I can
do."
"Yes?"
"I'll talk to Mr. Turner tomor
row. I believe he'd give you a job
in the yards switchman, or flag
man, or something. Sure you'd be
willing to take that kind of a job,
Drake?"
(To Be Contlnded)
The population of Tennessee
increased from 2,616,556 in 1930
to 2,910,992 in 1940.
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spiration.
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30 She was killed
in an airplane
in
January.
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(abbr.).
34 Symbol for
cerium.
36 Norwegian
(abbr.).
37 Scatter over.
38 Sicilian
volcano.
39 Small animal.
42 Musical
instrument.
43 Snakes.
45 Woo.
47 Genus of
palms.
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native of
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reasoning.
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