Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-08
CHAPTER XII.

yelling escort of pursuers were gone,
| Griswold sat up and felt for broken
bones. Happily there were none, and
in a trice he was afoot and on his
way back to the "Belle julie" the
handouts hidden by bit of bagging
The flank movement was not of i'm
pulse; it was only the carrying out
of plan we'll defined at the outset;
the determination to do the thing
that the professional roboer would
| not do.
The mate was at the heel at the
footplank when he went aboard, and
he saw the manacles.
Hi, there, Gavitt!" he called,
whats to pay with you nowf"
Griswold explained in barest out.
line.
"Who was it, then? Thugs, I sup
pose, after your bit of pay, and the
cop hustled the wrong man, nv
course. How come We to get foot
| loose?"
Legged it. But I can't get these
! off,
I'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 a key, and
freed the prisoner. After which he
gave him a long-tailed coat, much
the worse for wear, and an old hat
take them and be of 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 disquieting. 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 pawnshop next
door to the saloon which had seduced
the detective. Here he made a
change of clothing from top to toe:
bought handbag much too large ia
be filled with the cast~off garments
of the deck hand. and sailed forth
to seek BARRIERS shop of cleanly
promise.
The shop and it's bathroom made
the next step in the series; and from
thence Griswold went uptown to an
outftting, establishment of the bet.
ter sort, and made another complete
change; made it with such ar1p}e
| provision for the future that he was
obliged to purchase two travelina
cases to hold the overflow. Here he
explained that he was just up from
a fever district, and begged the op.
portunity to burn all the cast-on
| clothing in the furnace of the steam.
heating plant. It was given him, and
when a cab was called to take him ia
the hotel, no one who had knows
him in New Orleans, or on the main
deck of the belle julie" would have
| recognized the clean-shaven, well.
dressed young man who had tossed
| his traveling-cases up to the driver
| and gave the terse order: ITO the
Marlborough"
No one, I say; and yet it must have
been the very irony of fate which
sent to him the very cabman who
had SO lately assisted him in the
hazardous escape on the levee. For,
among all those who were most near
~ concerned, surely none but the
sharp-eyed little Irishman would
have penetrated his disguise-as he
did.
",'Tis the divil'e own self he is.
muttered the sharp-eyed one on the
short drive to the hotel. There's
nothing left av him but thin eyes,
and. that cut on his forrud, and his
manner of sp'akin'. But thin I'd
swear to if I'd live to be as old as
Father McGuiniss -rest his sowl." I.
ill.,. ~ ITO Be Continued.l
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