The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-08-14

the ONCE.
"Oh. III do friend favor without
pay said the barkeeper il a depre-
catory tone, but with a greedy look
which plainly showed that Mr.. Mitch
el had played a trump card.
Il tell you what you do" he went on
after IL moment. Rogers is the man
you want. He'll go down in the dirt
and let you walk all over him for a
flyer. \ man like that wouldn't stop
long to think if you held Doodle under
his nose
"Where can | find him?"
Rogers is always in one of three
places-h here, at his home asleep or in
Jail"
''And where is he now?"
Hes the man by the window, and
he seems to be asleep, but that's an
old bluff of his. He's watching us be-
cause We're talking low. You go into
that room to the left, and III send him
in. Then you work him.
Mr.. Mitchell obeyed instructions and
specimen of beer drinking humanity as
he naQ ever encountered.
"Your name is Rogers, l believer"
said Mr.. Mitchell. wishing to make the
interview as short as possible.
Good guess" replied the man.
II wish to ask you few questions
Sorry l can't answer you, but my
throat is too dry
Then he uttered a couple of hoarse,
rasping sounds which We're very sug-
gestive. Mr.. Mitchell was disguised to
find himself obliged to deal with such
a beast of Il man. but ordered drink
for him, which he eagerly disposed Of
Can you talk better now?" asked
Mr.. Mitchell Sarcastically.
''Much better, thanks. but better fill
her up again. l might get dry any
minute. It's constitutional with me.
No cure for it, except drinkin."
You shall have enough to drown
yourself in if you only give me your
attention. You We're witness lately
for Mr.. MoraY'
Yes
You swore that he was in this hall
at the time when it was supposed that
his father was killed.
That's what | took oath to-
Mora paid you for that service?'
Good guess He gave me a tenner''
$50! You admit then that you swore
to lie?"
NO. mister; you're wrong. l told
the truth that day-tirst time in years,
but luck was with me, you see"
sNn. do
mean?"
why. l mean was offered money
to tell the truth, and that's a snap,
amt it?''
"Then you still insist that Mora was
down here until after midnight?''
Its the truth. That's all can say
",Then this time you are not so
lucky as you thought you were''
How so?''
why, because if YOU had been lying
before you could earn lot of money
now by telling the TRUTH
you mean by swearin that Mora
wasn't here that night?''
Yes"
How much could get for that?"
"Oh. say hundred dollarsv'
Done! I'm your MANI
"Oh, then you would be willing to
swear that he was not here after mid
night?'
"For hundred would."
But, as matter of fact, was he
here, or was he not? What is the
tluth?
II told you he was here, ditln't L?
That's n fact. but that don't cut no
figure with me. III swear the other
way, and all the lawyers in town
wouldn't confuse me or trip me up
II guess that " true. You have
been well drilled i6yt&ar part and well
paid too"
What do YOU mean? l amt on"
II mean that you lied on the witness
stand and that you are adhering to
your story now
You're hard to please, mister. But
amt easy to offend. I'll swear either
way you like. There; that's fair
enough. amt it?"
Look here! Let me make myself
clear. What | want is the truth. L
w III pay lOl lilul. Whatever III is. But
when you admit that you are such a
liar how am to believe what you tell
me?'
That's so, mister. You've got me
there. don't know why you should.
But what can do to help you out?"
Il cannot take your word unsupport-
ed. You tell me that Mora was here
late that night. There was dance
going on was there nOt?"
"A regular hummer"
did Mora dance with any of the
women?"
"Why. sure! You don't take him for
walltlower. do you?"
II have been told that the best
| dancer here that night was girl called
Lillian Vale"
This assertion was made merely to
watch its effect and upon the chance
that it might be true, since the bar
keeper had told him that the girl fire.
Quented the hall and had expressed
her intention to be at the opening
SOirea IN tho fol1owinp NIGHT This