The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-04-11

"dushI Ferhaps somebody g listening"
"Whisper."
"Well, then the detective jumped up
and said, BY Jovel it wouldn't be the
first dog who'd hanged mani and then
said presently, IF that dog saw it done
and ten to one she did-I'll have it out
of her, see If DON'T"
"What did he mean, Pickle?"
"Why, he's found out that you Won
Glabenize me, and make me talk; and
he'll do the same if he catches me. When
l heard this, master, sneaked out of
the room and ran for my life; and /
went, OIL such long way round, and
waited till 1t was quite dark, for fear he
should see me come in; and that's what
made me SO late. I may finish that bone
now, mayn't II"
Freeing the dog from control, the
young man flung himself heavily into a
chair. His position was desperate. The
little harmless dog, gnawing away at its
bone as il nothing had happened, had
his life upon his tongue. Why, in the
hands of man like the detective-a
man who evidently knew the secret he
fancied he himself alone possessed-the
dogs evidence would hang him twenty
times over. He felt his collar tighten
around his neck ash he thought Of it. Who
would believe IL was only an ACCIDENT
His threat to cut off Tommy Bowles'
head had been heard all over the neigh
borhood. He had flung the fatal plate;
the dog had seen him do it; the dog could
be made to speak, and the detective
knew how to malSeit
Suddenly the thought struck him,
"Pickle is the only witness who could
prove the actual deed How If were to
-to--put her out of the way?"
The worstl Great powersl Why, at
any moment the myrmidons of the law
might be hammering at his door; he
might be in Jail, and Pickle in the power
of that COMPOUNDED, meddling detective.
Not second was to be lost
Late that night young man stole eau
tiously down the steps of the house in
- street, and hailed passing hack.
From beneath the folds of his ulster
peered the sharp muzzle of little dog
Three weeks later man and dog stood
upon the deck of the good ship Grampus,
bound for Uiiji, with ice, lucifer matches
and gray shirtings.
"What is that island yonder?" asked
the man of the first mate, who was lean
ing over the bulwark near him.
The man shaded his eyes and looked.
"That? Oh that's a desert island.
We're out of our course, through the
fogs, a good bit, or we shouldn't be near
it."
Don't ships go nearer than this to it,"
mo fear. There's generally nasty
rocks off such places. We always keep
as far away from en- as ever we cam"
That night, shortly after dark, the
captain, walking round his ship, must
have noticed an unusual appearance on
the port side, for one of the boats was
missing.
And so were the man and the dog.
And the man and the dog were sitting
side by side now, as this confession was
written, and the boat is high and dry on
the desert island, where it has been their
hut and home for ten long years.
So ends our confession.
"Bow, WOW, wowl"
"Ah, my doggie, if you'd never been
able to speak any language but that, we
shouldn't he here now. Still, it was
best wo came. Wherever we had gone
amongst the llaunts of men, we should
have been recognized. A man and a
dog : fun description = $1,000 reward!
No, my poor old Pickle, wo should have
been caughti and you wouldn't have
liked to hang your master, would YOU?
BY Jove, Pickle, I've good mind to
Won Glabenize you again, just to talk
over old times. have never done il
since that fatal evening. Shall we have
talk again, just for once2 Shall we,
old girl?
why, if ever dog said yes with
eyes and tail, you do now. So will,
then. So! look at me well while make
the passes, Come, that's it! Why, you
go off easier now, my dog, than you did
Ten years ago! Steadyi Now for try.
Pickle, why, how fearfully you tremblep
''NIasterr'
why, what tonel Are you fright
ened, my dog3"
Master, want TO talk about Tommy
Bowles."
Hang it, my dogl some pleasanter
subject than that, now please"
'But, master, I've been wanting to
tell you about Tommy Bowles for ten
years. Oh, master! you didn't cut mis-
head off"
"What!'
Nobody cut it Oft wasn't cut off
at all. Obi do forgive me! and there
wasn't any detectivei and, please, l
made it all up"
Neutrality-suspicious. it, Pickle! /
don't understand! Amt a murderer,
them"
"No."
"But, in the name of all that's canine,
why should you make this all up?'
because 1 had been playing with low
dogs up by the canal all day, and
thought you wouldn't give me the bone
IL / didn't tell you something, and be
cross with me, and SO made It up about
Tommy Bowles."
"oh, Picklel Pickle! and for ten long
years have you and been on this desert
island because you told liel Why the
deuce didn't you undeceive me before?"
"How could !? You never Won Glaben-
lied me-"
'Pickle, old dog, we've been friends
too long to quarrel over this. Give me
yourpaw. ] forgive you"
''Master, do men ever, when people
want news, and they haven't got any to
give them, make thlngsup like1 did that
nightf"
Certainly not only q foolish dog
would do such q thing asthat. Hallosl
there's boat coming, Pickle. We're
discovered"
Bow, WOW, wow"
ut comes nearer! Never mind, we
don't dread it now. Why, Pickle, lookl
That face In the bows! Wig, I'm blest
If 1t isn't Tommy Bowles"
From The Times Aug. IL, 49,
The ship Jemlma, Capt. Bowles with iron rails
and cutlery, from Ujiji, arrived thismornlng. She
brings with her a gentleman and his dog, who
were discovered by Capt Bowles' son Thomas, on