The Argosy, October 1906 — page 46: what you’re looking at

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( Sairotge a get it in ‘running sree “We must arrange for a general of-- fice at once,” he had said to Barron that Might before they parted; “and: I know place which will just A us, and w nere we can move in without delay.” Accordingly, armed with full discre-~ _— sonary: powers, he proceeded first thing” 3 ae next Soe to lease the commo- a ad i it Bebe Pepnielcd. fied Sut. oe ae nd ready for business. / - Along the other lines of his task of a SS and consolidation it~ was the same thing. Matters had to go on” shoulder to the wheel. e - Still, despite the press ~ and hurry of © 2 Scie he did not forget his promise to call on Daisy Clarkson, and in default of having time to keep it, as he. told him. self, he made time. — SS ee ee “ It is possible,” he considered, “that __ Paine’ may have. betrayed me again and — as = blabbed my secret to some mutual frien = eee through whom it has filtered back to, ee Miss “Clarkson; and so given her this ee. alleged clue she- has that Sylvester Guse is in New York. | eo on i = ae _ “Tn any event, it strikes me as an — ss extremely prudent thing to find out she proposes doing. I can’t afford to get tangled up with. my old pment at. this stage of the game.” = Zs .Therefore, the second evening “aibet _ closing up his deal with Barron-he shook himself free of the cares of business for ~ a season and betook himself to the pretty* __ little apartment on Central Park West. where Mass Daisy and her mother os - their home.- . Nor did he find anything to eotolan - of in the character of his reception. = -a favorable report upon him > and was. prepared to extend a gracious welcome; ‘and the daughter Well, if she had = been charming on the train, he was con- = _vinced the English language did not con- , her own fireside. A ee TE is certain they don’t as” ‘yet ‘sus- - pect me,’ ” reflected Clarkson with a sigh of relief; ‘ “and if T can. Se it, they’ re —~- own time.’ —-- Horace had a very well-defined inte ~ son moved anywhere near him, . did n - the double-quick whenever he put his in regard to the intelligence she said *she had learnéd. nas ; aS Tequesting Sylvester Guse to communi- — ~ cate at once with the advertiser. The sate ela cmap = means ae like = = Eo Shee how much she knows and what : - Mrs. Clarkson shad evidently received - missive, Mrs. Clarkson took remark ~that their visitor se taina word fitly to describe: her here at _ picked me up oe Du : I get rey to tell. my ow? It may be inferred Rome aie i of eventually revealing the true state the case to Miss Clarkson; and the in telligent reader will perhaps _ grasp hes occasion which he had in mind, ‘and the manner - in. which he proposed to tell her. = | = *Dheveontemplation of that future e: } : change of confidences, however, and th present palpitation of the heart ee =. affected Horace every ‘time _Miss_ Clark- = 8 prevent ‘him from promptly ‘asking Then, with.some show of recites nt “$ the girl produced a clipping | cut from the “agony column” of a- newsp. initial “ os “Was” ile only —— = “ There,” said Miss Clatkeok em- = phatically, ‘“ doesn’t inet =prONe a is in — ae . New York?” *s ‘ ae somebody.else is trying to find h catching at any straw in the eff dissuade her from investigating, haps it refers to some other Soe No, _really, Miss: Ch on my ee * ste cae almost think you were = me from finding this’ man. would be a ‘long step oma Guse.”” Sage : While Horace stepped out a —— Saas young: man. : broke ‘in Daisy - eee aca al cheeks flushed and her eyes. wish you could have train at ae me just like I