Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-08-01
girl not to talk to such a dirty boy Tut
to come and play with him

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After his first-encounter with the lit,
tic girl Jimmie and Pete had often
gone through tho street when the little
girl was playing, there. She always
spoke to Jimmie. Sometimes he stood
On the corner and watched her until
she went into the, big fine huuse where's
all the servants Nyere..z - G'r-f ~
At this spoint Jimnie's meditations
wefe interrupted by a short, thick-set
man. wfth an evil face, who came over
to him and said:
"Ilello, Jimmie. DOM anything to-
night7"
'Got a job for yer" said the other,
laconically; inject men Bill ut this old
place; same times usual
IAN right, Kid said Jimmie, aud
the man went away.
Shortly after twelve had struck that
night two men, boy and dog
emerged from a Baxter street alley and
proceeded up town. When they had
gone a considerable distance Jimmie,
for he was of the party. asked:
"Where's the crib?"
Its old Johnson's, the bankers
| house." the Kid replied.
Up town they went until they. came
VD VIC 0LTcct= WuC1C #tuS uAS0 AiOC4O GHA
with the yellow hair lived. Then they
turned, went half way down the block
| and stopped in the shadow of stoop
opposite where she lived. Jimmie's
heart began to beat rapidly, and me-
| chanically he placed one hand on the
dogs. heed. Pete looked up into his
face and then pressed close against him.
'Now, Jimmie" whispered tho Kid,
''wc'u put you through the transom.
You open the door for u.s." .',
II don't wnnter to go in there the
boy said,. beginning to edge away .,
Quick as q flash the kidscized him
! by the throat. One hand the Kid put
| in his pocket. and when he brought it
out there was long, cruel-loolking
knife in it. -
| '.See here, ,'she said, ominouslt; do
yer sec that knife? Well, you'll gitit
| if you, come any funny business. We
amt got no time to fool with YOU. Now,
go ahead"
| Jimmie and the Kid crossed the street
and glided up the stoop. Bill and the
dog remained behind. Pcte had been
on such expeditions before and knew
just what to do.
In a moment Jimmie was through
the trausom and had opened the front
was glad, because he didn't want the
other tossee his face; but he was afraid
the Kid would hear his heart beat.
When the door was opened Bill
came over. The latch on the front
door was fastened back and both men
entered. ''You watch out for the cops,
was the Kids injunction to Jimmie.
The boy slipped to the other side OF
the street and crouched in the shadow
of a stoop. with Pete beside him. On
the second floor of the house he had
come from a faint light was burning.
He remem bered that he had seen the
little girl at one of the windows there.
Suppose she should wake up and cry,
and the Kid should get her by the
throat?, lie rose quickly to his feet
glanced hastily up and down the street,
and started on n run toward the ave
nue., the dog beside him. Looking
eagerly up and down the avenue. he
ran down for a block and into the arms
of a policeman.
Several minutes later half-a-dozcr
policemen ran swiftly up to the bank
cr's house, with Jimmie and Pete in the
lead One of the blue-coats whispered
to the boy. He went up the stoop tc
the door, opened it, and, as he did SO. {
man bounded out and cleared the stoor
at a leap. Jimmie saw a pair of hand
cuffs flash as a powerful hand seizet
his coat-collar and drew him into the
dark hallway. He heard the latch clicl
as the front door was shut. Then he
heard the voice OF the Kid. which nut
tered: Damn yer, yell never go bacl
on anybody else, if SWING for it,
Jimmie thought of the big brigh
knife he had seen that night, an'
wriggled out of his coat. He put hi
hand against the wall and tried to fol
, low it. When he had taken three step
/ he was seized by the neck. Then h
felt a pain in his side, and cried Pete!
{ before he sunk to the floor.
The glass in the hall door wa
, smashed into fragments ms long
, black object shot through it. Befor
the Kid could withdraw the knit
something had gripped him by th
throat He tried to shake It off, but
only chung the tighter.
He began to choke and tried to fin
the knife that was sticking in the boy
, BODY, but could not. Then he clutche
5 the dog and tried with what strcngt
: was left him to tear it from his neck
, but with each effort the animals teet
! only sank deeper. For but noE1er
r longer the struggle in the darknes
c went on, and then the Kid lost cor
' scicusness. - -
c When they lit the gas in the ha
/. they found the carpets and wal
= sprinkled with blood that had com
1 from dozen deep gashcs in the dog.
Wen have to get couple {
> strctchers for the bodies" said one {
4 the policemen: eve can throw the dc
:, out in the street" Then he added:
. wonder who the boy was?"-N. Y. SUI
c "A worthy schoolmaster of paris