Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-09
The Successful Detective.
BY ROSE EYTINop

rue sho was always kind and afrec.
Tomato 20 him.
That was just It.
She was too kind and affectiona.o o..
ae was forced To acknowledge 10 him
Seh'--himself. mind you; TO no one elAe
would TO make such an ac1nowledp.
insni. that sometimes. only sometimes
no might be little trying.
Tor instance. when he came homo 70
ainner ~ seVen-thirty, after promising
70 DO at home at five sharp. and then
raising Gains because the dinner VIVA
cyeE-cOOlted.
or stopping out with the boysn till
Ihreo O'Clock In tho morning. when his
wifs had sat waiting. Ia evening bonnet
and gloves. from ssYen-thirty till ten
lhirty' In expectation Of being taken 70
The heater. In accordance with a fort
nlght-old and Oft-renewed promise.
but why did she 80 carefully and per-
sisienily keep her desk ia the sitting
room locSed3 And why. when the post
mans whistle was heard. did she blush
50 wildly. and become 80 embarrassedp
True, she was always at home. In
deed he sometimes reproaahed her for
not going out oitener. for he could not
help noticing that she looked sadly pale
and thin.
These were the reflections OF Mr..
Thomas Bleakiy, as he walked down
town one frosty morning. from his cosy
little home In -- street; and he
there and then determined that he would
learn what her desk contained. and why
she blushed At the sound OF the post
mans whistle.
80. few mornings after his reaec-
lions had taken this definite form, no
asked his wife 10 pack his travelling
bag. as he Was going 10 Albany for a
few daya
Cioely Bleakly turned her large blue
eyes ga her husband IN startled way,
aud trying vainly TO keep back the
tears. she said;
''Why. Tom, dearl isn't Il rather
sudden? You never said
Yes, yes, (" said Mr.. Bicai,ley. look
ing no, over comfortable, for this
was his first essay AZ private detective
business; and as his wife stood there
bctoin him, with her sweet, gentle face
~ paio. trying 80 hard 10 control her
trembling lips, and ciaspiBg her hands.
her hAais. that used 10 b. 70 plump
and dimpicd-looking. 20 thin and
ahlio hc did no, Ike Il oycrmuch.
''Ycs ycs; I'm going for The firm,
some business before the Legislature:
b. hack "a three days d iayihos, sooner
II possible. Goodbye" aud with a
aasiy kiss ho He'd.
Fled IN The word, for one more look
al Ciocly's hlce. and bag, and iib. and
doioctiyo business. aud all. would
hare All gone BY the board.
iiut jus; al that moment The bell
rang sharply. and The poslmau wlfs-
lied. Ciccly's iace flushed crimson. and
hsr hands autlcrcd like two little Gagged
birds beating their pretty wings against
their bans
This sight nervod Mr.. Bleakley 10
iirnncss. aud with cold 'Ia-ta," he
10, the house, aud walked sharply
away
II was nearly ten o'clock on the night
81 lho day OF which Mr.. Bleakley,
armed with his travcling-bag and his
suspicious, had started on his trip TO
Albany.
Tho snow. which had been falling all
day. vas siill steadily coming down,
and ihcrc was a strong enst wind blow
Ing ono 81 those cast winds that have
way Of dopositing small specimens OF
TO- Just between your neck and yoar
muller, behind your ear, an east wind
that makes your fingers and toes, and
YOUR cars and your nose, feel like
small SECTIONS Of Siberia.
Tho Blcaliy house did not look 50
CHEEKY a. usual. The light seen through
Tho ycs,ibnlc doors burned dim and lows
,ho parlor aud basement windows were
IN total darkness; but the light which
.hone out upon the cold, bleak night
nom tho three windows in the second
story. looked uncommonly warm and
gracious.
A, least this Is tho way il struck
man who passed rapidly, but nlruvely'
IN and down on the opposite side OF me
street. trying intellectually TO keep him
self warm.
This was Mr., Thomas BleOSley' ana
ns he ,ramped up and down In the pitt
loss cold. no could noi help thinking
how oheory and cosy thai room was
And he ihought.too, thai. the day now
onded had certainly been the longest
he had ever known. Though he had
been pcrfectly free to 60 and dine IN
,,,,c bohemian fashion with the boys,
somehow he had not felt inclined 70 90
a.. Indeed, on tho contrary no ie'
The strongest objection toseeing' OF DC
inq eeon. by any Of "thc boys, ana no"
~, found himself cold. miserable, falnN