Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-18

-hought she also had been suspicious
it was all plain enough afterward.
81 thought I'd come and tell you,"
she went on, b1ushing and difideut;
you've been so kind
'Marsden, will you believe that's all /
she was going to say? It's fact. And |
I had the very hardest kind of work |
getting the bare facts of the rest of |
the story.
You may not know that according
to our very admirable criminal code
man who accidently witnesses a crime
is often in a measure placed in the
same category as the criminal him
self. You didn't know that? Welt, it
appears that young Miller, going
home from work on the day of his dis
appearance, stepped into little butch
er shop off the Bowery to buy pound
or so of meat for dinner. While he
was waiting quarrel began between
two of the butchers, and before you
could say Jack Robinson one of them
had his head cracked with a. c1eaver.
The immediate consequence was that
all the persons in that shop were in
stantly scooped in by the police.
That night young Miller passed in
cell. What his feelings were any man
of family may know for himself. We
can imagine him to be frantic between
the horns of dilemma. There was
nothing disgracefu1 in his arrest, GER
tainly, but it was a question which
would have the less horrible effect on
his wife in her ondition--hearing
from him from a police station, or not
hearing from him at all. If he decid-
In any event he certainly expected re-
lease next day. But in the morning
he was taken to that institution for
the conservation of public morality
known as the House of Detention.
How long was he to stay? That was
question which the district attorney,
officially through the proper channels,
told him was none of his business. At
the end of ten days he got a note taken
to brother clerk. That young man
took the word gently as he could to
the wife. The wife came to me.
Seven weeks he was in the House of
Detention. He might have been there
for seven months, but we found loop
hsle. When he got out he was i'll
again, and they were almost penni1ess.
He had lost his situation. But he had
grit. Sick as he was he got place
somewhere. That was two months
ago. On Monday got a letter from
him in which he said he was going to
enter a competitive examination for
situation as electrician. He has
been studying and experimenting, it
appears, during his leisure hours for a
long time back. l don't suppose he'll
get the place, however. He's clever
enough, but it's place with consider
able of salary attached to it, and
you know how those things go. If he
only had a little influence to boost
him-eh? The examination is over,
believe, but the thing hasn't been de-
cided yet. And that's what 1 came
into town for--to see if 1 couldn't help
him. Marsden, 1 believe you're a di-
rector in the company that wants the
electrician. l want the use of your
name. Vickery pulled out his watch,
and added: It's getting late. I'm go
ing around to see them, and haven't
time to talk now. But tomorrow, if
you don't mind
Marsden leaned forward to look out
of the window.
HIM; beautiful night, isn't it? he
remarked. Seems cooler out, too. Say
-er-suppose I walk over with you?
Becomiugly to a business man, I'm
cautious. l don't believe there's ever
an excuse for buying pig in poke,
and II I'm TO do anything for these
people you've been talking about
With all my heart, answered Wick
cry. I'd like you to see them, and
talk with them. We'll have a ham
som. Cooler and quicker. Besides,
you look rather knocked out. Nv
story-eh? No, but seriously, YOU
ought to get out of town; this wealth
er's enough to kill man.
They passed into the corridor and
out to hansom at the curb. Thew
were driven eastward. The rising
moon, lush yellow and great in size.
was at the end of the perspective
formed by the double line of houses.
A slight but nalodorous breeze came
from the river. They crossed one
avenue, and then another, then an
other-each grade more shabby and
i'll lighted. In little viii e, not far
from the water front, they drew ND
before tall tenement.
Vickery led the way from the.eab
into dark and narrow hallway. At
the end was steep flight of stairs:
and these they climbed, putting. The
younger man presently stopped before
door and knocked.
think this is the place, he said.
1t was a minute before the door
opened; and then a woman with a
babe at her breast stood before him.
Her cheeks grew rosy, her eyes kind
led.
Oh, Mr.. Vickery! she cried, Henry
got the place! He
She broke off abruptly and Redeemed
even more when she saw the other
man behind.
Marden brushed past his friend and
the young woman. In a corner he
had seen lounge, and upon it, hollow
checked and feverish eyed, a youth.
He crossed the room rapidly and sank
to his knees beside it. There were