The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-04

from India. He visited us here and
brought my wife as present very
valuable silver tea and coffee service Of
heavy Indian workmanship, seven
pieces in all, and worth, should cay
at least couple Of hundred pounds. 1t
is not at all the sort Of thing we can
make use Of here. and l think of send
ing 1t over to the bank at Toogong to
be taken care Of.
"Ahl And you suppose that Flower
may take fancy to it as it is on the
wayf"
mo; for, as have kept my inten.
ton to myself, he naturally can know
nothing about It, But what l antici.
pate is that he may pay me a visit
here"
"You suppose, then, that he has got
wind of your new possession2'
Exactly. The day it arrived
rather more than week ago-the serv.
ice was laid out on the dining room
table for general admiration, of which,
can tell you, it received plenty. Only
ourselves were there. But suddenly
heard a noise at the window and,
turning sharply round, discovered
Coogee's ugly face expanded in grin Of
delight"
"Coogee, the aboriginal3"
''The same. Well, of course Coogee
saw the silver. and nothing would sat-
isfy him but to be allowed to come in
and look at it. He handled each piece
and seemed lost in wonder at its
beauty. constantly exclaiming, Bud.
geree; hurry budgereer cGocd; very
goodv) I was extremely vexed at his
inopportune appearance.
'Do you suppose. then, squire, that
Coogee gave information to Flowera"
'Not directly. But you know how
these fellows chatter. So, when yester-
day Drake confided to me his suspicious
that Flower was about, l thought it
high time to send for you"
"You were quite right, squire.
Flowers greed and daring may impel
him to crack your crib, as he would
call it, alone"
what DO you propose to do, thenT
asked the squire.
"To take up my quarters here.
The squire opened his mouth to
speak, but went on:
81 know that Flower may have spies
about Very likely he has Perhaps one
of them has seen me come here Very
well, then. propose that he shall see
me 60 away again without loss Of time
By the way, have you any new hands
just now3"
NO." said the squire. "Oh, yes, /
forgotl There is one, carpenter named
Murphy, whom I engaged to do piece
work, and, by Jove. it was the very
day after Coogee saw the silverl"
II thought a. much. Where Is this
man workinga"
"Close at hand. by the Warrigal's
pool Do you think that he is in the
gamer"
Eyes. do. but mean to make sure.
want you to come out with me as far
as the pool that may have good look
at your new workman. and then shall
leave you"
'But thought you were going to
stay" said the squire.
"You'd never do for a policeman,
squire" laughed. However, leave
everything to me. Just answer natu-
rally when speak to you and don't DO
surprised at anything may say"
fetched my horse from the stable
and rode to the Warrigals pool, the
squire walking beside me.
"There is our man.. said the squire,
pointing to fellow who was seated on
log eating. l ran my eye swiftly over
the man, who was of middle size and
strongly built, with flaming red hair
and beard, while his face, pockmarked
and freckled, was repulsively ugly. l
did not recognize in him, however, one
Of Flowers gang.
"a new member" I thought "He's
no beauty, at all events.
$50 you are putting up new hut,
squirrel" l said as we came within ear
shot of the man.
Eyes" replied Mr.. Ingram in an
easy tone, land Murphy here seems to
be making good job Of it,
"a new man, too, I see" said I.
"You don't belong round here, do you,
Murphy"
"What's that to your" answered the
man morosely. II amt done nothin
you can lay hold on that you should be
GO partic lar anxious about me-
"Come. Murphy" put in the squire,
"don't take offense. The sergeant
meant none. am sure"
Murphy scowled, but gradually al
lowed his features to relax In smile,
which gave his face even more SIMS
ter expression, "Oh, ! dessayi" he
returned. "But peelers is curious folk,
always pokin their noses in where
they're not wanted. However I'm