Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
ter than this i~naction-and growing

ter than this inaction-and growing
hunger" he said.
Before he went Fribleigh took the
%precaution to copy from the directory
the addresses of both James Patrick
Morris and James Parsons Morris, "in
case" he said, Miss Brightie should
prove obdurate."
1 remained at the doctors office and
watched, as well as the doctor would
allow me, the progress of the patient to-
ward recovery of consciousness.
What happened to Fribleigh in his
quest, l cannot say in detail.
He told me that he could
hear the loud gruff tones of old Morti-
mer, when the butler took a hastily writ
ten note of self-introduction in to him.
l suppose he managed to persuade the
Mortimers that he was not an impostor,
and to give them a recognizable de-
scription of our lady's appearance, for
in about ~three-quarters of an hour, after
the doctors female attendant had an
sWered one ring at the telephone and de-
l1Vered a message requesting him to keep
his patient there, a cab drove up to the
door, and a young lady and elderly man
entered.
l recognized the gruff voice that asked,
rs Mrs. Morris there?" 1t was the voice
of old Mortimer.
us ID Tie IL loN dpptdltu, bou
some slight acquaintance with Mrs.
James Parsons Morris-had exchanged
mods with her. AS a matter of common
human kindness, the Mortimers had
sent word to Mrs. Morris family of her
whereabouts and her safety; from like
motives they had come-father and
d~aughter-to comfort and assist her un-
til her own husband, son and daughter
could arrive.
This was all very well-excellently
well-and I felt at liberty to depart
leaving the lady in the hands of friends,
as felt sure. But where was Frib-
leigh?
oh" said Miss Brightie, your friend
Mr.. Finney-'
"Fribleigh,' I corrected her.
= I beg your pardon, I didn't quite
catch his name, in the hurry and con-
fusion. Mr.. Frilby asked us to tell you
that he had gone on to dinner
saw how it was, Fribleigh was
too hungry to ~prolongs his humane eff
forts any further. 1 knew just where
1 should be likely to find HMM a GER
tain German house of entertainment
where he and 1 had meditated frank
furters and beer for that very evening.
But l was veXed with him, and deter
mined to let him alone.
However,, Fribleigh. it seemed, was
not go ing to let me alone. At half-past
eleven that night l was violently aWak-
ened to read a note which said come
here at once. Bring money. Fribleigh.'
Fribleigh had ended his day in the po-
lice station.
When l got to him, with all the money
I could find, he told me that banana peel
had brought him to more harm than even
he could nave thought possible. He had
been routed out of his own rooms at 10
o'clock by a detective. And the charge
was grand larceny.
Mrs. James Parsons Morris had been
taken to her home and was dong falfly
we'll, when it occurred to Mr.. James Nor
ris to ask her what she had done with
the hundred dollars she had drawn from
the bank that afternoon. The question
had brought on a recurrence of the fever
SYMPTOMS. Mrs. Morris had not the
| faintest idea what had become OF her
pocketbook, in which she had the money.
In her feverish condition 1T never oc-
CURED to her that the man who had the
Mortimers for her must have her pocket
book, which contained MISS Mortimer 5
card.
without loss of time Mr.. Morris had
communicated with the police who had,
in the meanwhile heard of the accident
from a patrolman who had come on the
scene just after Mrs. Morris, Frlblelgh
and had driven off in the hack. That
gave them a chase to the doctors office,
The doctor had not heard of any name,
but he knew that my companions name
was something like Finney, Frlmmy, or
Frilby and that we mad telephoned Tor
assistance. The scratch pad on the tele-
phone desk guided them to the last num-
Der runs up that day-the
and, finally the MOrtirner, to whom fflp-
leigh had infinitely introduced himself
giving his business and his place OF resi-
dence, directed the policemen Knowing
inst what they were doing-tO poor Frlb-
leigh.
Friblelgh told me all this. cursing his
luck and banan peel. And the worst
of it was he concluded, that there was
that internal pocketbook in the INSIDE
pocket of my Overcoat.'
SO it was-dollars, latchkey, samples,
cards and all, just as Fribleigh had
found them.
pass over the horrors of the police
court and hasten to the bright dawn
that ended all.this nightmare for Frib-
leigh. 1t came with Miss Brightie Nor
| timer.
No one had asked Miss Mortimer to
appear as a witness. She came, she sald'
as a matter of strict justice.
Mr.. Frilby"-she had not yet quite
+ got his name-"pulled my card and some
other out of that Docketbook when he
came to our house that night. He laid
!. the pocketbook down on q cniffonier
while he was talking to papa and me;
and when he went, papa had to call him
f back to take it. 1 don't believe he ever
2 knew there was money in it,"
e That eVidence-that and his obviously
good character, and the general improba-
t bility of the charge-saved Fribleigh.
= Indeed Mrs. Norris apologized hand
somely for her husbands ~over-hasty re-
: course to the law.
And then at last, and after all, that
piece of banana peel did bring good luck