Luckaly I got a taxi at the corner, and
I ordered it to drive to the mill. I sank back, bathed in hot
persparation, and on consulting my bracelet watch found I had but twenty
five minutes until the curtain went up.
I must find him, but where and how! I confess for a moment that I
doubted my own father, who can be very feirce on ocasion. What if,
madened by his mistake about Beresford, he had, on being aproached by
Adrian, been driven to violance? What if, in my endeaver to help one who
was unworthy, I had led my poor paternal parent into crime?
Hell is paved with good intentions. SAMUEL JOHNSTON.
On driving madly into the mill yard, I sudenly remembered that it was
Saturday and a half holaday. The mill was going, but the offices were
closed. Father, then, was imured in the safety of his Club, and could
not be reached except by pay telephone. And the taxi was now ninty
cents.
I got out, and paid the man. I felt very dizzy and queer, and was very
thirsty, so I went to the hydrent in the yard and got a drink of water.
I did not as yet suspect meazles, but laid it all to my agony of mind.
Haveing thus refreshed myself, I looked about, and saw the yard
Policeman, a new one who did not know me, as I am away at school most of
the time, and the Familey is not expected to visit the mill, because of
dirt and possable accidents.
I aproached him, however, and he stood still and stared at me.
"Officer" I said, in my most dignafied tones. "I am looking for a--for a
Gentleman who came here this morning to look for work.
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