The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-02-11

reach with my foot. Z couldn't pos
sibly get that bundle In there, I said.
Try she insisted. You men do2't
know how to utilize space. You tHve
such a funny way of packing things
that you don't get half the things in
grip that it is capable of hoidE;g.
Open your valise, please, I'll warrant
1 can make room for half a dozen
bundles the size of this
"I'm quite sure you can't pro-
tested.
You must let me try, anyway she
pouted. I never saw you act so fun
ny. A body would think you had been
up to mischief of some kind and had
something in that bag you didn't
want me to see"
Nonsense l said family. Then 1
tried to change the subject, but Edith
would not have it so.
"'TelI me more about Ebenezer,
she said Tell me just how he looked.
What was he doing the last time you
saw him?'
Growing I said, and Tapping
his wings
"'The DEAR she sighed. He'll be
terribly lonesome to-day, being there
in the fiat all by himself
Oh said, consolingly, he'll have
! Alexander to fall back on. He can
commune with him.
Edith flushed and spread out her
skirts uneasily. This movement at
tracted my attention, and then L no.
ticed for the first time that she, too,
carried a travelling bag. This bag
was exactly like mine in size, color
and material. Impulsively 1 picked
it up. why don't you put your bun
die in here?' 1 asked. You certainly
have as much room as 1 have.
"'Oh, no 1 haven't she said ner-
vously. But never mind. 1t doesn't
matter now. We're almost to New
ark
''We exchanged a few remarks as to
the time each expected to get home
and, after dividing umbrellas, grips
and newspapers we separated. Hav.
ing had one severe turn in the encOun-
ter with my wife, 1 determined tC
take no further chances on discovery
but to get off at the next station and
there consign Ebenezer to the tomb
81 walked out into the country fol-
considerably distance before finding
a spot sufficiently secluded for sepul
ture. Finally I stopped and opened
the grip. With the first glance at
its contents 1 let out a howl thai
made the farmIands ring, for lying
insensible before me saw-not Eben
ezer, but Alexander the Great.
1.-The situation was easily under
stood. Alexander had tormenteC
Edith's soul even as Ebenezer had tor
mented mine, and like me she HAD
slain her foe. That we should NEE
when out to dispose of our victims
and in our excitement unwittingly
exchange the evidence of our crime
thus revealing to each the others per
fidy, was a trick of fate with which
neither of us would dare to quarrel
since both were equally culpable.
edith got home ahead of me. Thu
brown travelling bag-my travelling
bag-was sitting on the floor in thu
hall, and Edith was lying on the par
lor couch, weeping softly. She heard
my step, and without raising her head
she said:
"'Oh, Albert, such terrible thing
has happened. Ebenezer is gone
"'GOne?' I echoed.
eyes, said she, and Alexande
the Great, toO!'
''By that time I had found my cue
Great heavens! this is awful L said
What has become of them? Was i
thieves?'
"She gulped audibly, Yes she said
+ L guess that it was-thieves.'
"And from that day to this we hav
never had a word of mutual explana
tions or recriminations. On ever,
other subject we are two souls wit
but a single thought, but just lie
anybody mentiOn>pets of any descriF
ton and instantly we are twain"
Her Little Brother Again.