The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
SAVANNAH, GA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 49, 1899.
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must have forgotten you were coming
out won't make him pay me quite two
hundred That wouldn't be fair-woud
"Anything's fair in a horse trade g"
Dutch said. But let's finish our bar
gain. l must be movin' fast. Get the
money. please, while 1 write a receipt"
In just minute" Peggy said, leading
the way to her fathers desk As Dutch
sat down he looked appreheusively over
his shoulder through the open door, and
said almost in a whisper: Make hastet"
Hand in hand Peggy and Mabel ran TO
fnd Seraphine. Seraphine had vanished.
Yet the room was undisturbed. the win
doWs fast, the door securely latched Tip
sy, the white kitten, sleeping peacefully
beside the fire. The children looked at
each other awe-struck, then began 10 cry.
! Dutch darted in to them. IF you We been
fooling me you'H be sorry for IT," he said.
savagely. You had that hundred dollars
i know i'll know about your aunt's
will. Give it to me. Quickl Quick! Do
you hear? I'm bound to get away"
"Hardly-when you leave a stolen flly
plain to view! a man said stepping be-
hind Dutch and selling both wrists.
Dutch struggled hard, but was promptly
knocked down by the sheriff and his dep
uties, who had been hot on his trail. 81
really thought better Of YOU, Hawkins, -
the sheriff said, as he snapped the hand
cuffs on his prisoner. 1T isn't like you
to botch things this way. / suppose,
though. you have grown careless-as you
had stolen several horses and got away
with them, you thought you'd make the
rifle with the eighth, no matter what you
did"
How did he get my hundred dollar
bill? Make him tell! Make him give It
back! lie stole it while we We're in the
orchardw Peggy cried, shrllly. The sher-
| iff looked significantly at Hankins. Han
kins shook his head. 81 came after II"
he said, dehantly, but sure as I'm In
these bracelets. if it's gone. somebody else
got it. If l had got il, you'd a-never
caught me. The stocks dead beat-Td a
left it, and struck for the railroad. /
knew you were not two miles behind. T."
Search proved that he told the truth.
When the sheriff had taken him away.
Peggy and Mabel ransacked the premises.
They looked under the beds. in every draw
er and cuddy, the kitchen closet, the wood
she'd even the pigeon house the chicken
coop and the pump shed. II don't believe
it could have got to the barn. Peggy said
despairngly "And the cellar door is lock-
ed fast and tight" Mabel added, through
sympathetic tears. Still they searched
| spasmodicaly, with no appetite for any
| thing but sweetcake, until Squire Cray
shaw and his wife came home from the
wedding. They brought a great bundle OF
goodies the sight of which consoled Ma
bel to such an extent that Peggy said, be-
tween sobs: II wouldn't sit there and
gorge iced pound-cake Mabel Bert, II you
| had-had lost-your whole fortune"
Just as she said IL there came queer
numbering pt-pat on the kitchen stairs,
which ran up in one corner, and led to a
low, dark closet. Peggy and Mabel had
looked 1t through as best they might by
the light OF the stable lantern turning in
side out everything but Bosses box bed
beside the warm chimney in which Bose
himself, most waggish of shepherd pup
pies, lay curled into a fuzzy ball Bose
was coming down the stairs now, moving
sidewise, with something scarlet and
heavyish in his mouth. At sight of his
master he tumbled down the last three
steps, dashed across the floor, and laid
the something at his feet, waggng his tail
and looking up, as If for a word of praise.
why, ifs Seraphine! He carried her off
to his bedr Mabel screamed. Peggy had
her arms around the puppy's neck. ooh,
you darling! You saved my hundred dol
lar billv she said.