The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-05-08

hand" he answered dOggedly. Il
take Il heap of pride in my room and
my furniture. itused to belong to my
mother, and she scrubbed it twice Il
year and oiled it once "a mOnth, and We
tried to do the same. You can see
yourself it is as fine as piano finish.
She worked on it for thirty years, and
she made me promise to do the same
as long as live, and L don't like to
see it Scared. When you tumble it
about lay it on one of them thick com
forts
DO you know that made US feel
awful cheap? The furniture did have
fine polish, and it wasn't dressing,
either-it was just the wood. And
still | felt dead moral sure that he and
| Mollie killed the man and had his
money hid somewhere.
| We next took Mollie's room, and we
treated it just the same but we didn't
| find IA thing except some suspicious
| looking ashes in the CRATE. Whatever
had been there had been burned in
| the last twenty-four hours. Mollie
said she burnt the papers from all the
rooms once day and | guess that was
| true.
We held them as long Gs we could.
| The Swansens from Milwaukee came
| on and helped in the search. They
offered ten thousand reward (; but We
finally gave it up. All the time |
knew in my heart that MOllie and
Neil were the guilty ones.
| guess it was Il year after that when
Ennerly brought Mollie and Neil to
the station and went back to their
room after the money, and brought
the full ten thousand, and a few dol
lars over.
How did you get on to it - | asked,
feeling cheap.
He laughed and said,-
60 ask your wife. Ask her about
that queer dream she told at my house
yesterday.n
1t was near dinner time, so | went
home and asked Jennie to let me hear
that dream she had told at Ennerly's
house the day before"
THAT one that scared me SO badly 4?
Yes, shall never forget it. You re-
member | screamed out loud, and it
made you so mad that you got up and
locked yourself in the front room, and
slept the balance of the night on the
lounge
well, well, go on with the story"
"What woke me was one man drag
ging another over the foot of bed
and hitting him with Ratchet. The
murdered man fell in a heap at the
foot of the bed, and Il woman with
long black hair stood with a comfOr
table before her and threw it on top OF
the dying man, and she stood on one
side of him, and the man on the other,
until he was still. Then they went
through his pockets and put him back
on the bed. The woman dropped her
L. hi IF -, or To- rot
it caught her hair on a nail 1t al
most frightened her to death. for she
thought for moment the dead was
holding her. She tore helself away
from the nail and left a wisp of her
hair there. Then all at once l lost
sight of her, and saw the man i'll an
other room, where there was some
nice furniture. | seemed to know
that he had just taken thorough
bath and changed his clothes, burning
the suit he had first worn in the CRATE
Now he was folding paper money into
little wads with long threads tied to
them, and dropping them into deep
holes bored into tie four heavy posts
of his bedstead. When he had them
filed up he took all the long threads
and tied them together and poked
them into the holes, and then he glued
on the fancy tops. He wiped of the
glue, and rubbed and polished his
work until no one could tell that it
was fresh done. He burnt mp hand !
full OF small bills. Then lie get TWO |
looking glasses and looked himself all |
over. He rubbed his face and hands |
on the carpet to take his excessively |
clean look off. He had swept the
ashes in the CRATE into a dust pan.
These he examined carefully and
threw them from the window, after
turning out the gas. If you remem-
Der tried to tell you my dream next
morning, but you stormed so that |
never attempted to tell you a dream
from that day to this
Ny wife had missed reading the pa
pers for about week just at the time
of the murder, and as never talk shop
at home she had not heard the parti-
culars of it and took her experience of
second sight as an ordinary dream.
Ennerly was appointed Chief of De
tectives IL few months later, but he
gave me half of the ten thousand dol
larS