Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-01-27

About the first move Mr.. White made
after establishing himself III Glendale
was to deliver a temperance lecture, and
the next was to attend church service
and drop whole dollar into the contri.
button box. From and after that date
he was solid. He might have driven
horse faster than a walk" across the
bridge over Rocky river and no one would
have entered complaint. Other things
occurred to place Mr.. White on pedes
tai to be looked at and talked about
and admired. He could pitch the tune"
and lead the singing; he could exhort;
he donated five dollars to a minister's
salary; he could talk to Sunday school
children; he was one of the first converts
baptized by Henry Ward Beecher.
Mr. White brought his own horse and
wagon and rode about the country to
exhibit his washing machine. He didn't
want to sell single machines, but to dis
pose of county rights. 1t was afterwa:d
remembered that whenever any one waS
ready to buy Mr. White himself blocked
the sale by waiting for certain legal pa
pers to arrive from Boston. 1t is time to
tell you now that was son Of the man
who owned and conducted thS1nn or ray.
ern. 1t was such house as you will find
today in any village off the railroads.
homelike place. with good beds and fam
lily fare.
Mr.. White had room next to mine,
and though e made extra efforts to win
my friendship | was shy of him from
the first. There are people you dis.
trust at first sight without being able to
tell why. and felt that way toward NJ
White He probably suspected it aid
did all he could to win me over, but
the more he did the greater was my dis
trust. ! hadn't the slightest suspicion
that he was anything but what he
claimed to be, but within week after
his arrival was watching him. There
/ was Il door between our rooms wnicl.
had been nailed up for years. | bored Il
hole in tins 50 as to observe his move
ments at night.
Air. White hadn't 1.-THE best room in
the house. lie had taken No. ~ of his
own choice. The back window in il
openel on the roof of the inn kitchen,
the same as the back window in mine.
One night about two weeks after Mr..
Whites arrival was awakened about
midnight by some noise. ana looked
through the hole in the door to find hi
candle alight and he moving about
While watched | saw him put on Sci
of false whiskers, which instantly pro
duced great change in his looks. He
also put on hat had never seen him
wear before, and after some other prep
arations to complete his disguise he
blew out his light and lett his room by
way of the back window
From my window | saw him carefully
descend the roof in his stocking feet anC
drop off the lower corner into lane never
used except to go to and return from
the tavern barn. You can imagine my
surprise and mystiication. was but
lad and kncw nothing of the wicked way
Of the world, but | instinctiyely realizei
that Mr.. White was up to some deviltry
Perhaps | was bit queer in my ways
1t never occurred TO me to rouse NJ
1 father and tell him what had seen.
simply decided to wait and watch fur
Their 1t was half past o'clock befor
Mr. White returned, and he came up tn,
roof as carefully as he had gone down
also made out that he had some sort 0
"A bundle with him. He did not light hi
candle ON his return, but heard him un
lock and relock his trunk and get int
bed.