The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-22

the marks. They matched very well in
fish out Ia,idie's address lie had not
bccn about the slaughter house of late,
but al length found "A lad who knew ne
place. but not the number, and got him
10 conduct me 10 a house in Lady Law
sons Wynd. Here he pointed out "A wia-
dow ou the states. which he said WAS
rscihor lived.
/ saw iiie window, and In front OF IT
hanging f'cii' a string a pair OF coarse
''ohori was my mental exclamation. IL
am. too late. then, and hc has had his
socks washedl'
Up went and tackled the mother, for
lSauldie.. of course. WAS out have no
doubt she guessed my occupation at a
glance. for she instantly. became wary
In her words. She had been washing
on ay: aud she had nae particular time
for washing sometimes one day and
sometimes another 10, y wasn't uns
socks az "A time: she had not many more
10 wash; and so on. More than That.
Bauldie had been home only the night
before. and had slept like top the whole
night through. had expected that. too.
The womans trembling eagerness; her
hungry. watching OF my face rs ! listen
ed. nd her Whole demeanorti told me The
old. old story Of mother willing TO lie
sin. steal. suffer. or die for her offspring
J wanted To see Banldie'S boots. but he
had only one pair, and they were out with
him; SO I soon left the house. AT the
foot of the wynd met him full In the
face. and he. WAS about 10 dive past when
why are you IN such hurry Bsul-
chief. eh?"
! did not expect him TO say he had. and
was not disappointed.
Sit down on that step a minute. and
on With your boots, continued, with a
house and seen your socks--newly wa,
ed curionsly enough. though IT'S near
the end q the, week .1lhey that wash
You know tao old rhyme.
lie squattcd down and whipped on his
boots--which. az J had expected. were
square-toed biuchers; but he did II too
promptly and confidently to please me.
picked up the first he threw on and looked
inside. and then understood his confident
smile. The boots had been rinsed out
with water, too, before being put on.
and were ~ free OF earthly or muddy
traces as the. clean-washed socks had
taken from the window line.
was done. and he knew II; but never
theless l gravely told him TO put on his
boots and come with me- We kept him
| tried to trace his companion. but at last
he was let of. AS he was leaving, said
THE third times lucky. Bauldie: put Il
| o~ n long ~ you can. for IN afraid
"wiiI you? You'll be clever. then" was
words which need not be translated, and
| so we parted. To have begun preaching
| To him. or attempting to advise him
l against the life he was entering upon.
| would have been throwing pearls before
very thick-headed swine indeed.
| SO the square-toed bluchers went back
| all out OF them / was likely to get and
| that after being twice nearly nipped,
| Bauldie would be careful after that. But
IL Is possible that the clue had worked
| upon in both cases had not struck Baui-
1 die himself nearly so forcibly as IL had
/ done meat all events. ! WAS soon haui.
- rtn md
| that in connection with a case more Sc
| rious than any he had tried.
A house at a lonely part OF Stockbridge.
/ which was empty Of Its owners at the
| time, had been broken into one Sunday,
| and a great quantity OF valuables car
| ried Off. The house was what is called
being heard in the next house had caused
! at least one or the thieves to remove
| his boots while at work The men seemed
and yet to have been scared in some
| way before leaving the building at night,
| for one bundle of things was left near an
what could be more suggestive?-a pair
| of suuare-toed boots. When ! saw the
bluchers thought of Bauldie and when
Of tnose already in our possession, down
| 10 the very bulge of his big toe joint,
| i could scarcely believe my good fortune
hs haa Soxs Seen aos N be
| side the bundle, ! could not have been
| more agreeably surprised. went out
pety pet f fonnd that his mother had given up up
| the room and gone into the poor house,
! and the son now lived nobody knew
where. ! had seen him more man once
| ard I knew Coskey's den, 30 thither L
| went and found Coskey, who put on his
clothes and came with me without a
| Office. fastened by. one hand TO my wrist
thought ! heard something rattle on
| the street behind us and, suspecting he
had thrown something away, stopped and
| found only little brass paddock. such
| as you may buy for Sd. I'm any IRON
mongers. l could not understand his
| when IL WAS Identified az having been
| wrenched from tin cash box In the
| house at Stockbridge, ! quite appreciated
| his unsuccessful attempt
| 1 had no trace whatever of the plunder
| as yet, and Bauldie was invisible. At last
| I reasoned that he would likely have a
| him, and least likely to be searched by
me--namely, the vicinity OF Lady Law
| sons Wynd. went slowly over every
boot shop in the West Port, and at
| length discovered one which had sent
| out "A sight" AS they called IL, of mems
boots--still the fatal square-toed bluchcrs.
I was very speedily conducted TO the
house which was close by: but Baudic
| had heard my voice and gone out by the
| window, and escaped through tanner $
yard IN the direction of the Castle Road
| boots and all this time. let him go in
the meantime and turned my attention 10
| the room he had so suddenly vacated. IL
| was summer time, aud there was, In
| stead OF a fire I'm the grate. a nimsy orna-
| ment of tissue paper. On this there were
| traces OF SCOT dropping. L pulled II down
| ruthlessly, and thrusting up my arm as
I far as could reach, just touched and no
| more bundle wedged into the chimney.
| A hooked stick brought down the bundle
which turned out TO be a number of
1 plated articles taken from the house at
| Stockbridge, and which bad not found a
ready market with the fence whose melt
| ing pot had swallowed the rest OF the
| plunder. ! was now doubIy anxious to
| get hold OF Bauldie but did not hunt
| much for him all day. had studied the
| style of his actions. and found that there
| was not much variety or power of In
| vention displayed in them. ! had no
| doubt that after the FIRST tearing rush
away from my clutches, he would get
| quietly out OF town. and there his race
| would end. His safety lay In getting as
! far from Edinburg as possible, but did
| not expect him To understand that His
| greatest danger, some would have thought
| lay In being near his old home. yet there
| | would surprise him. What more likely
| then. that at nightfall he would creep
| back again, and get into hiding In some
| place unlikely TO be searched by meg i
| had already collared Coskey. and OF this