, 1889-03-26

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ibid any one see the-ah-accident,
Pickle?"
"No; but Tommy Bowles' father anda
neighbor who'd dropped in said they'd
heard you threaten to 10 it over and over
again. Then one of them said, 'Ah, If
that dog of his could speak, it would tell
us all about it, Warrant and them
go on, go onl"
"Hush! Perhaps somebody's listening"
"Whisper."
"Well then the detective jumped up
and said, BY Jovel it wouldn't be the
first dog who'd hanged a mani and her
said presently, IF that dog saw 1t done
and ten + o one she did-Tn have it out
of her, see If ] DON'T"
"What did he mean, Picker
'Why, he's found out that you Won
Glabenize me, and make me talk; and
he'll do the same II he catches me When
l heard this, master, ! sneaked out OF
the room and ran for my life; and /
went, obi such a long way round, and
waited till it was quite dark, for fear he
should see me come in; and that's what
made me so late. / 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 If nothing had happened, had
his life upon his tongue. Why, in the
hands of q mar like the detective-a
man who evidently knew the secret he
fancied he himself alone possessed-the
dogs evidence would hang him twenty
ti-oaa 1-ar H. faIt he NA1lor ti-htan
around his neck as he thought of it. Who
would believe it was only an accident?
His threat to cut off Tommy Bowles'
head had beer 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 make it.
Suddenly the thought struck him,
pickle is tho only witness who could
prove the actual deed. How if 1 were to
-to-put her out of the wayY"
Tho worstl Great powersl Why, at
any 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 n second was to be lost.
Late that night a young man stole eau
tiously down the steps of the house in
- street, and hailed a passing hack.
From beneath the folds of his ulster
peered the sharp muzzle of a little dog.
Three weeks later man and dog stood
upon the deck of the good ship Grampus,
bound for Ujiji, 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 zeal 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
as far away from EN- as ever we can"
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, wowI'
"Ah, my doggie, If you'd never been
able to speak any language but that, we
shouldn't be here now. Still, 1t was
best we came. Wherever wo had gone
amongst the haunts of men, we should
have been recognized. A man and a
dog full description $1,000 reward
No, my poor old Pickle, we should have
been caught; and you wouldn't have
liked to hang your master, would you?
By Jove, Pickle, I've a good mind to
Won Glabenize you again, just to talk
over old times. 1 nave never lone 1t
since that fatal evening. Shall we have
a talk again, just for once? Shall we,
old girl?
"Why, If ever a dog said yes with
eyes and tail, you do now. So I will,
then. Sol look at me well while l make
the passes. Come, that's It'll Why, you
go off easier now, my dog, than you did
ten years agol Steady Now for a try.
Pickle, why, how fearfully you tremblel"
"Master!"
why, what q tonel Are you fright
ened, my dogT'
Master, I want to talk about Tommy
Bowles."
"Hang 1t, 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, masterl you didn't cut his
head off"
"WhatI"
Nobody cut it of-it wasn't cut off
at all OH do forgive mel and there
wasn't any detective; and, please, I
made 1t all up"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. it, Pickle! I
don't understand Amt 1 a murderer,
Them
"No."
"But, In the name of all that's canine,
why should you make this all upT'
Because l had been playing with low
dogs up by the canal all day, and I
thought you wouldn'tgive me the bone
If 1 didn't tell you something, and be
cross with me, and SO 1 made 1t up about