Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

down, and after Miss Lancaster had
left the prison he sent for me 70 ask
| il the governor would pardon him on
his giving up the money. | had to
reply that it might be four or five
years before he could look for his lib
erty, but il would surely come before
he had served out more than third
of his sentence. He seemed quite
elated over this, and when | pressed
him to tell me where the Doodle was
hidden he opened his mouth as If to
do so. On second thought he shook
his head and replied
IF tell anybody it will be Miss
Lancaster and my sister. | had deter
mined to die first, but am beginning
to see things little differently"
l left him with the impression that
the two girls would soon have the Sc
cret. When Miss Lancaster appeared
next day Miss Day was with her.
Miss Day was very coy and retiring.
She neither shook hands with me nor
replied TO my salutatiOn and turned
her back as soon a possible, At the
same time,as | remembered later, Miss
Lancaster not only dallied with my
hand, but pressed it and was very eff
fusive in her speech. She said she
would have something special to tell
me when she returned from the inter-
view, aud she looked ut me 80 archly
that | jumped at the conclusion she
was going to confess a first sight love
for me.
The interview did not last over -
minutes, and it took place just as dusk
was drawing on. When the two ladies'
returned to the door Miss Lancaster
came over to me and whispered:
"He has promised to confess all to-
morrow, and every dollar will be re-
stored. am glad, not only on his
account and mine, but for your dear
sake. / know you to be a noble man,
and if you would not think it unmaid-
enly in me IL"
| took her hand in mine and gave
1t several squeezes and assured her
that nothing she could possibly an
nounce or confess in the English lam
guage would be considered by me un-
worthy of her. She pressed my hand
i'll return and was going to confess
her love, but the telephone bell rang
and put her out. She just whispered
in my ear that l was an old darling
and then laughed and joined. Miss
Day ut the door, and 1 myself pulled
the lever which swung back the hinges
that let them out. Need / tell YOU
that | walked around on air for the
next quarter Of an hour? / had won
that little girls love at first sight, and
when she came on the morrow should
ask her to name the day and the date.
She had said she was an heiress.
was loving her for herself alone. /
was still loving when the deputy war
len came rushing in and called out:
Chose girls-have they gomez"
"Certainly-long ago"
"Then we are i'll for it. Come out
lere, will you?"
He led the way to the west wing
md upstairs to the second tier of
ellis. When we reached the one oc-
'upied by Charles Day we found a
woman in his bed and his convict suit
wing on the floor. 1t didn't take five
minutes to grasp the situation. Miss
Day had given up her apparel to the
convict, and he had walked out with
Mss Lancaster. Miss Day was a
Mss Somebody else, who had been
,aid $1,000 to do the trick, and Miss
was the pal of one of the
,oldest robbers in America.
We raised an alarm and made pur.
nit, OF course, but the fugitives got
way as slick rs grease and are prob
bly, yet living on the Doodle stolen
rom the state. AS for the girl left
behind she was sent TO prison for q
ouple OF years, but after six months
vas pardoued out. As for me, my
was demanded in no gentle .
ones, and / rendered it and got away
nto the woods and kicked myself /
round section of government land .
or week without stopping to rest.
Atlanta Constitution.