The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-04

ness had caused his discharge. He had
! been always in bad company. and fin
ally he had drifted out of town. and
no more was known of him until he
/ had been arrested in Brighton, and
had served two years in JAIL for break
ing into the Brighton postoffice
And this was Durfee jackson againi
/ Dot heard match snap; they were
! lighting their pipes, and talking. with
frequent rough laughter, of matters
whose import Dot did not comprehend.
And then, suddenly: "'Twon't be no
kind OF risk about it." said Durfee
/ Jackson. I know. every inch O. the
place; I worked there once
| Which house did you say 'twas?"
Big yaller one with cuDola on ton
/ and porch all round. | know it like a
book-pshaw! know where she keeps
her money and all about it." Durfee
Jackson laughed. Keeps it locked up
in secretary u9stairs."
Easy busted?" said the other.
Il should say so, rather" said Dur
fee Jackson, with the staggering voice
that Dot knew. There's silver and
stuff, too; the old lady's we'll off. She's
got enough spoons to
ANY man there?"
Mop. Teller that works for her goes
home nights, I've found that out
There's just her and a woman that does
the work, and little gal"
The little gal'' leaned against the
barns side. She felt as if her heart had
quite stopped beating; she wanted to
scream and she pressed her hand over
her mouth. She had heard enough; a
child, even, might have understood it.
Her thoughts were like lightning fash
es. Durfee Jackson. who had robbed a
postoffice-he, and another man, that
night, at ! o'clock-the yellow house
with the cupola, cousin Tirzah's house
the money in the secretary upstairs
And nobody there but cousin Tirzah
and Janet and herself.
A great wave of something stronger
than fear swept Decentralization. Dur
fee Jackson, to be meaning to break
into cousin Tirzah's house and steal her
money! 1t was too awful to believe.
She thought swiftly. She knew exact
ly what she should do. She had lost
her terror. Even if they saw her, even
if they chased her-she drew her skirts
closely about her and gave a long
bound and ran across the field like a
deer.
When she was safe out of sight of the
barn she stopped to breathe. Then she
ran on. Hiram Sheldon was the sheriff.
and he lived half a mile straight up the
road
He was sitting smoking by his sitting
room lamp and reading the county
newspaper, when Dot burst in without
knocking and told her story all in one
shaking breath. He laid down his pa
per and took off his glasses and looked
at her
Just say that again. I said; and
by the time Dot had repeated it more
coherently he was ready with his an
swer.
GO home" he said, in conclusion,
land go to sleep if you can, and don't
say a word to Mrs. Eldred about the
business; it would just get her rousted
up. You can trust me, Dot"
When Dot went home from school at
noon the next day she found cousin
| Tirzah in a rocking chair on the porch.
And her face showed most plainly that
she was seriously agitated.
Dot sat down on the top step and
! folded her hands, and waited.
Dot" said cousin Tirzah, did you
hear any rumpus here last night?"
"Yes'm, I did. II was awake; /
didn't sleep much last night, said Dot,
family.
HIN! Do you know how many peo-
pie have been here this morning?''
NO" said Dot.
"Well," said cousin Tirzah, "all the
neighbors have been here, and the min
lister and DIR. Parks. The house has
been pretty near full
Has it?" Dot murmured.
Il shouldn't have known what to
make of it," said cousin Tirzah, but
Hiram Sheldon came first of all, and he
had a story to tell me, Dot"
did he?" was all Dot could say.
did heI He told me-" said cousin
Tirzah, that Durfee Jackson and an
other man tried to break into this
house last night, and that he with
| some others were here watching for
them, and caught them, and that they