The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
CHAPTER Kill
OUR LADY ~ yAUDEymLr

by Ida shaking me and saying. some
things happened downstairs Mrs.
Grant is knocking at DENIES door,
telling him to go after a policeman
We hurried into our clothes, and
when we opened the door Of our room
the odor of gas from below was stiff.
fling | heard Dennie say. Here's the
devil to pay and then he threw hin-
self against a door smashing it in. /
realized at once the occasion Of the
disturbance. Vera had turned on the
gas-iutentonally, I imagined, during
an attack Of the blues. We ran to the
front windows. A policeman emerg.
ed from the hall door with q white
bundle in his arms. Said bundle | sur.
missed was Vera.
THAT call-boX cant be working he
said to Denuie. THE Emergency am
5ulauce should have been here by this
time
81 think l can make better time than
they can" replied Dennie, as he took
my wheel from its nail behind the
door you just place her across the
handlebars. Steady a minute. Now
they're off," he yelled; and he turned
one corner of our block, Vera. uncon-
scious. at full length on the handle
bars of the machine, as the ambulance
turned the other.
Mrs. Grant, seeing the girls at the
windows. came up TO the room. The
gas had been escaping for some hours,
she said. but she paid little attention
10 it. thinking the wind might have
blown out the jet in the lower hall, as
often happened. When Dennie broke
opeu the door, she found Vera in a
Mother Eve costume. minus the ng
leaves. She wrapped her i'm the coun-
terpane, and the policeman throwing
the limp body over his shoulder like a
sack of -four, carried her downstairs.
After everything became quiet l
looked out the window to- see Ir ] could
catch Dennie on his return and inquire
as to the situation, when, aunrerlng
alone under the electric light ] reeog-
nized Mr. Stivers, I called TO him to
wait a minute. and, picking up my nat
buried downstairs
Good morning 5lr Neyersleep.
Were this AIr. BAXTER l would think
the reporters nose I'm Iews led him to
the spot. / am & "a loss, however TO
account for your presence
My wife awoke shortly after Gld.
night end began an endless recital II
alleged wrongs, so I sot on my clothes
and skipped out"
II don't see that you should have
vacated the apartments.
Il took pity on my neighbors'
7 proceeded to tell him Of Vera ar
rival. her attempt at suicide, and how
Dennie carried her to the hospital
Did Baxter ever give you his mum
Der? I'd wake him up if / knew 1t.
4 good telegraphic scoop for him. He
rs not in the City Directory, ! know.
Were there any reporters at the
hOuse?"
"I didn't see any
Then we'll turn the item in our
selves"
we walked down to the counting.
room of The Post.
Here" he said as he passed me
over a tab, "get the facts together and
I'm pad them a Bit
wrote a few sheets. TO which after
an insDection, he added double head. 20
rben told him about the meeting with
her sister at the Raleigh.
That's worth another head. he
.,fd "Didn't she mention any street
in st. Louis; no clue to her tatAeI s
business or residence? / nave am INK
ing of an idea, and while you are up
stsjr. talking TO the managing editor
Win ruR up TO the Western Union ~
fna corner above, and file telegram.
Y1u say the old Hebrew family Hame
was Arev-Vera spelled backward
"But that isn't their name to-day.
No. [ understand that You go ON
.rDstairs with the copy before the forms
close and wait for me here when you
come back
lid not wait for the elevator boy
rg omen the door but rapidly climbed
.le stairs.
Az the door Of the second room on
.la floor above, a young man olocAel
my entrance. ......
THE managing editor l5 very busy
lust now" he said, in response 10 my
INJURY for that funcuonary.
Hell be buster than that "hen Dc
a-.s this I replied, waving lae manu-
script i'm his face.
The managing editor, 5eaI.. az DID.
desk iu the middle OF the room locke.
.1 from his work with a smile. j take
.I didn't speak in a whisper
What have you, my laoE.'
"A -c0op," I replied using my best
H.I. OF newspaper '.'
walked over and handed him The man
...rnt When he read tae first sheet
ia. aye it to = gentleman at am aalo.n
.ug table.
.Car up the Emergency ana verify.
Ha was one of those people that laIl
with their eyes," as Tony puts If. lr
.ua same glance b. directed the youu-
man at my elbow to clear chair of
Jldre of proofs and copy and invited
la rO seat.
Your article reads well" he said.
TheH hs wrote some word of tou
.atters across the corner iu blue pen
cid, making line ar the top and bot
t0m thereof
Tell Mr Thompson this is positive
Iy the last" he said peakng to IN
aoy who was making long bounds j.
the direction of the composing roof
before he finished the sentence.
you must have had some newspapa
experience" Doc sa.l turning TO me, a
manifested no intention OF leaYln
gle room and he seemed 10 have hl
busy done TO quote Mr.. whitney
well, I oahUIe i'm verse q Dll an
.hen I've been writing locals for IN
a5me paper ] m from over ln IN
Ee0kuk country
"I am also from the West I'm
4OJsier product. ! notice TWO peopl
participated i'm rhe preparation OF you
-t0ry2'
Yes. my partner In crime is waitin