The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-09-13
CHAPTER XII.

When the plunging carriage and it's
yelling escort of pursuers were gone,
Griswold sat up and felt for broken
bones. Happily there were none, and
in Il trice he was afoot and on his
way back to the "Belle julie" the
handouts hidden by q bit of bagging.
The flank movement was not of inn
pulse; it was only the carrying out
of plan well defined at the outset;
the determination to do the thing
that the professional robber would
not do.
The mate was at the heel of the
footplanll when he went aboard, and
he saw the manacles.
eli, there, Gavitt!" he called,
"what's to pay with you now?"
! Griswold explained in barest out
line.
"Who was it, then? Thugs, sup
pose, after your bit of pay, and the
cop hustled the wrong man, av
course. How come We to get foot
! loose?"
Legged it. But 1 can't get these
off,"
It'll bet you can't. Come with me;
: you did be doing me a damn good
turn wan night, and I'm not forget
ting it,
He led the way to his room, found
= pair of handouts and key, and
freed the prisoner. After which he
gave him lopg-tailed coat, much
the worse for wear, and an old hat.
"Take them and be off with you,
before the cops come down to look
| for their bits of scrap-iron," he said.
Griswold would have thanked him,
but speech-Gavitt speech-was not
to be had.
Once on the levee again, with all
the improbability of finding the ne
+, gro and the treasure confronting
him, he had an ill-turn that was
most disqnieting. But in the midst
of it he found his man, who had
successfully lodged the officer and
saved the precious bundle.
Griswold promptly doubled the
blacks reward, and went his way to
begin a series of metamorphoses.
The series began in a pawnshop next
door to the saloon which had seduced
the detective. Here he made a
change of clothing from top to toe,
bought a handbag much too large to
be filled with the cast-off garments
of the deck hand. and sailed forth
to seek a BARRIERS shop of Clearly
promise.
| The shop and it's bathroom made
the next step in the series; and from
thence Griswold went uptown to an
outfltting establishment of the bet
ter sort, and made another complete
change; made it with such ample
provision for the future that he was
obliged to purchase two travelling
cases to hold the overflow. Here he
. explained that he was just up from
a fever district, and begged the OPP
. portunity to burn all the cast-oif
; clothing in the furnace of the steam
heating plant. 1t was given him, and
when a cab was called to take him to
: the hotel, no one who had known
him in New Orleans, or on the main
deck of the "Belle julie" would have
/, recognized the clean-shaven, we'll
y NlSSSSN young iIlill WIG nau COSScC
e his traveling-cases up to the driver
e and gave the terse order: "To the
Il Marlborough"
}, No one. l say; and yet it must hav,
n been the very irony of fate which
d sent to him the very cabman VIII,
S had so lately assisted him in tn
hazardous escape on the levee. For
e among all those who were most near
= ly concerned, surely none but tn
II sharp-eyed little lrishman woul
J. have penetrated his disguise-as h
l. did.
j. "'Tis the divil's own self he is.
n muttered the sharp-eyed one on tn
q short drive to the hotel. "rhere'
+ nothing left av him but thin eyes
y and that cut on his forrud. and hi
u manner of sp'akin'. But thin l.
y swear to if I'd live to be as old a
l. Father McGuiniss-rcst his sowl."
8 ITO BE Continued