The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-22
WON AT LAST.
BY BERNARD BIGsBY.

Now Susan was the weakened
maiden who had given such damaging
testimony against Frank Grey at that
staf-chamber trial in the high school.
She had furthermore gained the noto-
riety of being the luckless individual
who had charge OF Willie. when the
poor child was lost. Again and again
she had been summoned into Jack
Wilders presence for cross-eXamina-
ton. and on the present occasion was
full of a FESTIVE determination TO put an
end to the annoyance.
Now" said the prospector. tell me
once more. Susan. how Won came to
take the child from its nurse.
"Oh dearl" Miss Green whimpered
I'm sure I've told YOU all know one
hundred times at least. Well. If you
must have IL over again this is how it
was"
"Yes, GO on. Susan"
Il met Alma Niggs out for walk
with the boy in the North woods.
Susan she says Willie wants to go
round to the cave I'm lame SAYS she.
and can't take him. Says |: Let the
little precious come with me- Says
she: 4 will Sowe went. Willie ran,
shouting and laughing. | saw him
turn the corner of the road and never
set eyes on him again. He was gone
just as though he'd vanished"
"Dio YOU hear 70 cry?''
- never heard nothing"
Think moment. girl" the prospec-
tor sale. sternly WAS there no
cracking of the bushes: no sound of
wild animals or of mani
Mary sound"
"An6 you searched everywhere?'
"Wish may die if didn't. Mr.. Wild
erS. ran up and down screaming
Willie for hours and hours. I'm sure
| tore my dress all to Shreds. an as for
my shoes. they was that sodden you
wouldn't have picked. 'em up if you'd
seen them a-lving in the street
We will leave poor Susan 70 the ten
der mer:ies Of the prospectors cross
questions anG take Il peep at the Whit
ford house and its inmates.
WjlderS' loss had created a stirring
sympathy in the neighborhoOd. and
no ones kindly emotions wore more
aroused than Mrs. Whitford's. Like
many others. too. this good lady had
suggestions to make. which. to her in
tense disgust. nobody would pay seri-
Gus attention Ia. 10 her the solution
lay ia nutshell. Al Marquette was
a wise woman. an Old crone. who told
fortunes and revealed the past and fu-
ture. an exceedingly sara .iouS person.
who dill roaring business in the
div;natiun way.
To this ancient SylI;l the worthy
dam resolved t" o. on her own ac-
count ard probe thc mystery Of the
lost boy tu its bottom. 80 accordingly
She has iunre.>cG the corporal, sorry
ices. aud the twain have started for
Marquette. leaving the house in charge
of Jacob Greg,on and Mr.. Dodd. who
do not seem To be having too pleasant
a time of it.
UnaccustOmcd to the severity of such
a season, they are sitting shivering
over the big stove. cursing with much
heartiness the intense cold and wish
ing themselves thousand miles from
the desolate country.
That gold mine didn't pan out as
YOU expected" Mr.. Gregson cheerfuliy
observed
NO. snarled Dodd, they knew too
much to bite"
Been there too often. eh?"
Guess So
We'll. what's the next move?"
skip"
Il would il | were you. heard yes
terday of follow who sailed mine
here once, an they caught him an sat
him down on red hot stove. an held
him there till he confessed. an then
took him ont an hanged him.
Ugh. The savagcs. Say. Jake. I'm
off as soon rs it is dark
SORRY to lose YOU. Tony. but the
best of friends must part.
Its a bad time to I've hard up Isn't
it,"
1T Is" Grcgson replied. impervious
to the hint
You'll let me have hundred dol
lars
Cant possibly"
hhNt. GNt dbt'ttt IT. l YOU
must
IF thirty would do. Tony. could
manage it"
1T viii have to do. suppose" Dodd
said, without much expression of graft
tude i'm his tones.
well. then, I'll go to my room an
get it for you: an while I'm gone just
mix us couple of stiff glasses of hot
grog, an let uS Try To thaw ourselves
out. Ny bones ache with the cold
A. he turned his ha.il Dodd's eyes
CLEANED with satisfaction
The big whisky bottle was on the
ia bile in minnie hanked by glasses
and sugar bowl.
Mr.. Dndd WAS very careful in his
preparations.
First he mixed the sugar and spirits.
then poured CA the boiling water and
added bittcr> doubiy anxious so
CRAFTY Mr. Greg>on'> taste hc took
small p!iial from bis pocket and poured
ten drops OF a dark sirupliSc fiuid into
that grntleman'> glass. rcmarlzing To
himself with rhu.-i,lc:
That's good for tyvcnty-iour hours
solid slumbcr, anyhow by, SEE if |