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BY HENRY BELlAMANN
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FARMS OUGHT TO KNOW
CHAPTER XXIV
DH, GORDON tat In his living
room with tray before him.
Be it (lowly, almost absently.
The door opened so (lowly and
to (Uently that ha did not notice
Louise's entrance.
"Father!" Louisa (poke in a
curious flat, colorless voice.
"What's the matter?"
"I I beard about Drake Mo
Hugh."
"Urn." The doctor turned his
attention to his food.
"I (tood it ( lone as I could,
then I went down to the rail
road." "That will do, Louise. It was
tnott unbecoming of you to go
about parading your feelings
whatever they happen to be."
"Father!" Louise stared stony
faced at Or. Gordon.
The girl shook now so violently
the could scarcely stand.
"You monsterl"
"Louise!"
"You flendl"
i Sr. Gordon arose, laid his nap
kin on the table, and with the ut
most deliberation struck her.
"Ill let the world know what
you are, if it's the only thing I
aver do in this world. Tomorrow
tomorrow in tell everyone. I
know what you are. I know all
about you and your operations."
Dr. Gordon took her by both
aims. "You are going to bed at
once."
"I will tell. I will tell. I will
tell" Louise began a sort at
singsong chant that rose suddeny
to a shriek.
Dr. Gordon struck her again, a
sharp, stinging slap that cut her
screams short
"Louise this is enough of your
willful tantrum now. If you per
sist, there is one thing I shall have
to do"
He waited. She (tared at him,
half listening, then suddenly alert
"What?" she whispered.
"If you utter one more word of
the kind of nonsense I've beard
from you I shall commit you to
the insane asylum."
Louise backed away. "You
wouldn't dare!"
"I have only to call Dr. Nolan
en that telephone there in the balL
and have you in a cell behind
bars In one hour. Now, can you
get mat through your head?"
Louise swallowed hard.
"I I'll go," she said.
"That's better. And stay in your
room until I say you can come
out"
Louise sodded her head like a
email child who only half under
stands what is being said. She
backed toward the door.
VO& three days Randy scarcely
A slept She felt that she dared
not leave Drake. She knew that
she had to be with him when he
found out what had happened.
Sandy set her foot on the first
step, and paused. She stood for
several minutes leaning her head!
against the door frame. It was
"then that the dreadful sound came'
srom that upper room.
She tore up the narrow stair
case and flung the door open. !
"Drake!"
Drake's eyes were rolling and
Us face worked violently as if tha;
very bone structure had been;
shattered. Randy saw with a sick'
horror that his hands were grop-i
ing frantically under the blankets.
She almost leapt across the room
and seized his hands. "Drake!
Drake!"
"Randy where Where's tha
rest of me?" His voice rose to a
sharp wall.
"Hush, Drake. I'm here with;
you. You'll get well, now."
He held hard to her shoulders.
Little by little he quieted.
vwaa uw, t. l.UC.lt I
"Yes, Drake. But don't tnr toi
talk about It yet Youll get well'
now."
His grasp loosened. She looked
fearfully at him. He was quieter
.now. Very slowly he turned his
face to the wall.
TJANDY turned away from the
window where (he had been
standing. The frost-rimmed
UmiarM rf rrlnaai aM Ji.i L I
Alston of the still cold day. She
felt that her mind was like that
wavy glass. She had no true plo
' tures of anything.
She went into the kitchen. Her
iouicr naa come in and had taken
'Off his shoes to warm his feet at
the oven door.
.; "Going somewhere, Randy?"
"Yes, I'va got to get out for a
I while."
"Is Drake asleep?"
'1 don't know. The nurse is up
Ithere."
"How long is she going to stay?"
"Dr. Gordon said Drake
wouldn't have to have her after
next Monday."
"How's he going to make out
then?"
' The sound of hei father's words
.cleared something in Randy's
brain. Her face cleared, too. Tha
quivering uncertainty disappeared.
A simple resolution replaced it
- "What's the matter, Randy?
Change your mind?"
"Yes. I don't need to go out
now."
"What's that?"
"I aald I don't need to go now.
I know now." She spoke the last
phrase half to herself.
"What is it, daughter? What's
on your mind?"
"I didn't know what to do. I
know now what I'm going to do."
Mr. Monaghan kept his eyes
down. He didn't want her to see
how much he pitied her.
Mr. Monaghan stood up. His
gaunt, bony figure towered above
her. Hla shaggy white hair almost
touched tha low kitchen celllnc
vraice nere, aom you?"
Very slowly her eyes filled with
tears. Very slowly her hand re
laxed. She did not make a sound
but let herself sway and lean
against her father's breast as he
reached out and put bis arms
around her.
"Come on. now, and set down.
How we going to fix it up, you
reckon?"
She shook her head. She was
not able to speak.
They sat in silence for a time.
Then Mr. Monaghan spoke.
"Now you listen to me, daugh
ter." "All right"
"I never said anything to you
about Drake when he began com
ing around here. I I Just didnt
know what to think. I feel awful
bad that everything's turned out
this way, but we got to take
everything as it comes. Now, like
I asked you a while ago, how we
going to fix this up?"
"I guess I know whai you mean.
I'm going to marry Drake."
"Is that the way you want to
do it?"
"I've got to convince him, some
way. I'll think it out."
"Now look here. There's one
thing. There's Just me. So this
house Is yours, anyhow. I saved
a little money. Ain't any of us
going to starve."
"I'll think of something. First
of all, I'm going to send a cable
to F-arris Mitchell. There's been
enough of this foolishness."
"You ought to let Mitchell
know, I think."
Sandy dressed again and went
out It was horribly cold, but she
scarcely noticed it She was ex
cited, and terrified, too. How
Drake could be managed was the
real question. He'd be mad, no
doubt,' a"boul letting Parrli know,
but aha was certain that she
should.
She wrote carefully, crossing
out words, and finally rewrote the
whole message. It was a succinct
but full account of the loss of
Drake's money, and the accident
She bit the eraser in the pencil
for a moment or two, and added:
"I must keep him with me some
how." (To Be Continued)
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