The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-19

tnln8. YOu'T0 O0CeC$lvO AxU& 0Okb'
ton. I tho't az how you fellers wuz so
cute like that you jest looked at the
dead man an rested the murderer
straight of; saw his likeness In the
corpse's eyes or sutbin. I've read that
in books, but guess you reel detectives
amt so darned smart as all that, hay9'
mo, am afraid not We are no
smarter than other folks, only we make
business Of putting two and two to-
gether, that's all. You could tell that it
would make four as easilyI could. But
you have your railroad business, Mr.
Skene, and | have to look for criminals
That is the only difference Burrows
tried little conoiliatory flattery, and it
operated to make Mr.. Skene more com
mnnicatiye.
"By JeLosaphat! Yen hit it square
that time. KIN smell Il raj, but it amt
my place to hunt him down. So guess
III tail you who Filled Lewis an let
you kctnh him. Only seens to me. you
ouchtn't to cit ~ the glory, hay"
"YCu give me tho .clew, Mr. Skene,
and VI .ltn | arrest the man you shall
have iull credit for giving me the clew'
sob, I'm only jokin. You ketoh the
Teller an I'll be satisfied. ! amt lookin
for no notoriety." Nevertheless he wore
pleased expression, as when shrewd
New Highlander has just arranged one of
those typical Yankee bargains" in
which each man swaps what he does not
want for what he does want and
chuckles because he has cheated the 9th.
or man. Mr.. Skene thought moment,
as though deciding where to begin.
Then be resumed, "You noticed that I
said could tell you who killed Lewis?"
II did," said Burrows, "and won
dered whether you had seen the crime
committed"
"Seen it?' cried Mr.. Skene. "Why,
man alive, d'you s'pose I'd have let
the murderer escape? No, I didn't 'spect
him last night, but seen him, I seen
him twice"
'Whom did you see twice?"
why, amt I tellin you? The muir
dereri seen the murderer twice. The
fust time wuz when the up train come
along. When she stopped, he got off. !
didn't pay no speshal 'tention to him till
the train wuz gone, when he came up
an spoke to me. He asked me how to
git to the Lewis farm"
"This is important. You say man
came up Oh train last night and asked
to be directed to the Lewis farm?'
''That's jest what said. I tol him,
an then he asked for time table an
wanted to know if he could 60 back
las night. I give him time slip, an
off he went never tho't no more of
him till seen him ag'in pacin up an
down jest before the down train come in.
tagged the train to stop, an be board
ed her."
Ibid you recognize him? That is,
had you ever seen him before'f'
"As fur's know, I never sot eyes on
him till las night, though once tho't as
how his voice wuz kinder familiar. But
don't lay no stress on that, cause ain t
no good rememb rim sounds. Ain t got no
ear for music. All I can tell you is no
wuz q medium size man with full
beard"
did ho nave any baggage?"
II wuz jest comm to that, cause it
is kinder queer. He didn't have none
when he come, less it wuz on the plat
form an didn' see it. which amt like
ly. But when he come back from Lew
is he had a satchel."
"Where did he go from here? That is,
for what point did he buy ticket?"
"He didn't buy none from me- That
wuz ono thing made me sort of 'spi-
cious. Then when hearn of the muir
der, why, it all come to me as plain as
pikestaff. That mysterious visitor
come up expressly to kill Lewis. That's
why he wuz so darned anxious to git
outer town ag in las night. Under them
circumstances it ain likely as how he'd
buy ticket from me. "
"At what time did he arrive and at
what time did he leave?'
"He come in at 9:07, an he ketched
the l0:39 down."
(Which way do you mean by down"
"Why, man alive, don't you know
that much? Down is down. Down to-
ards Nashuway, Wooster an that ere
way"
"You must excuse my ignorance,
said Burrows humbly. "Idon't pretend
to know everything, you see. Now, one
thing more--I must tell you, though I
presume you know it already, that it is
of the utmost Importance when de-
tective is trying to catch a criminal that
he should keep close mouth. As you
and I are working together, as it were.
must ask you to speak to no one but
myself"
This speech was adroitly worded
Burrows was anxious that Mr.. Barnes
should not hear Of this new clew, in
tending if possible to work it out alone
In order, therefore, to close tho mouth
of this egotistical countryman he in
geniously included him in his work,
having discerned that the fellow was
anxious to have tale to tell to the fire.
quenters Of the saloon of how "me an
the detective from Borston worked up
the case" Mr.. Skene, however, made
one feeble protest.
"Well, as to that" said he, II tho't
as how I'd have to go Oh the stand at
the inquest an tell what know" He
evidently counted upon the notoriety to
be gained by such procedure.
"Oh, of courseW said Burrows, has,
tily endeavoring to satisfy him upon
this point. II will tell the squire, and
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