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He smashed his fist into his hand in a final sweeping gesture of disdain and Wilhelmina gazed at him fixedly. "I thought you were just talking," she said at last, "but don't you ever tell Father what's happened. If you do he'll never use the road or if he does, he'll pay Mr. Eells for it. He tries to be honest in everything."
It was easier to tear the weeds from a tangled garden than old memories from her lonely heart; and she took up, against her will, the old watch for Wunpost, who had departed from Blackwater in a fury. He had stood on the corner and, oblivious of her presence, had poured out the vials of his wrath; he had cursed Eells for a swindler, and Lapham for his dog and Lynch for his yellow hound.
It seemed too good to be true, but so it had seemed before when Calhoun had given up the Wunpost and the Willie Meena; and when Lynch brought him in Eells was more than pleased to see that his victim was almost smiling. "Well, followed me up again, eh?" he observed sententiously, and Eells inclined his head. "Yes," he said, "Mr.
There a short time before he had interceded to save her when she had all but signed the contract with Eells; but now at one blow he had destroyed what was built up and left her without a cent. "What you crying about?" he repeated, as she sank down by the desk and fixed him with her sad, reproachful eyes, "you ought to be tickled to death."
Wunpost took it all grimly, for he claimed to be a sport, but he saddled up soon after and departed for the hills, leaving Blackwater delirious with joy. So old Wunpost had been stung and called again by the redoubtable Judson Eells, and the bank had been proved to be perfectly sound and a credit to the community it served!
"There!" he said, shoving the check through the wicket; and then he stood waiting, expectant. The cashier glanced at the check and passed it back to Eells, who had hastened behind the grille, and then they looked at each other in alarm. "Why er this check," began Eells, "calls for forty-two thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars. Do you want all that money now?"
"But this time the papers will be drawn up by a lawyer that I will hire. And I must say, Mr. Eells, I think the way you changed those papers " "It ought to put him in the Pen," observed Wunpost vindictively. "You're easy and you're compounding a felony." "Well, I don't know what that is," answered Wilhelmina recklessly, "but anyway, I'll get that grubstake."
No, Judson Eells was desperate, for he saw his treasure slipping as the Wunpost had slipped away before; it was slipping through his fingers and he grasped at any straw which might help him to find the Sockdolager.
But on the other hand he had brought a world of money in to town, for the Willie Meena had paid from the first; and it was his pay-roll and the wealth which had followed in his wake that had made the camp what it was; so no one laughed as long or as loud as John C. Calhoun and he hunched his shoulders and quit. "Never you mind where I stole it!" he said to Eells, "I stole it, and that's enough.
"Here are the three copies of our agreement and" he shook out his fountain pen "you put your name right there." "No you don't!" spoke up Wunpost, breaking in on the spell, "don't sign nothing that you haven't read." He fixed her with his eyes and as Wilhelmina read his thoughts she laid down the waiting pen. Eells drew up his lip, Lapham shuffled uneasily, and Wilhelmina took up the contract.
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