The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-06-19

| clare, you are not so clever as
thought you were"
"Come, guv'nor. I done the best
could, so just please wait until"
well, go on, 1 am listening" re-
| piled Ellison, with the bored express
sion of patient resignation.
Eye know we wanted to find out
who this here chap really was"
"Yes, but what can you tell me
about him that / don't know already,
Briggs? Don't try to make up
story so as to cover up your own
stupidity" And he looked at the
young man in such a threatening
way that the latter cast an anxious
look at the door, as if he would
gladly be on the other side of it.
Eyer see, when / was on the trail
of this GENT he began, as he re-
gained some confidence and found
out that he was not to be eaten, 81
fell in with some of our folks camped
in the woods. They allus makes
known Their whereabouts by some
sort of sigma bit O. rag fixed to
a tree or the like. So when I see
this signal I thinks I'll go and pay
the folks visit. I plunges inter the
woods and hadn't gone far when
big, rough chap comes runnin' bout
of the bushes and axed me what /
wanted. I explains the best way I
| could, and at the same time makes
it known that I was onct at Romany
myself" %
| "You are mighty long-winded with
your cursed story" exclaimed Mr..
Ellison, as he leaned back in his
chair and yawned. ''Do be brief"
81 amt no telegraphic talker,"
grumbled the young man, sullenly.
AZ got to tell this in my own way or
not at ALL"
"Taere-there, I was only trying
to hurry you up a Bit" said the
other, seeing that he could gain
nothing by his irritation.
"As soon as he finds out that
was one of the people-though che
was nothin' but low down sort O.
half breed hisself-we got to be
quite chummy, and then I axes him
if he knows anything about the
party I was lookin' after. Bless we,
had paid the camp a visit the day
before
''And who is hep. and Ellison
drew his chair nearer, and the bored
look disappeared from his face.
"His real name they don'to know,
but he goes by the nickname of Will
o. the Wisp."
"Ah!"
Eyes, he's a escaped convict, for
he was in for 20 years, and on'y ss-
capped the other day, with lot of
others. 'Mong them was man he'd
got to know well in prison; his
NAME" and here he paused and
rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a
moment-''well, / disremembers
what it was"-stopping and shaking
his head.
wasn't it Martin Frale?" asked
Ellison, gently.
THAT was it-how'd We know?''
his sharp face becoming overspread
with smile.
"Never mind how I came to know.
But what of this Frale?"
"Well the party what escaped was
once near gettin' caught, and Frale
was mortal wounded in the row.
They managed to get him always but
he died the next day, and they
buried him. All the party was cap
tured at last but this here Will, and
he must be the man I been watchin'.
That was how the story the fellow
told me run"
"Well, you have not done so badly
after ALL" and Ellison's face ex-
he had just learned. He rose and
walked up and down the room few
PAGES, finally returning and standing
beside the chair where the young
man was seated.
"Well, what are you doing here?
Why didn't you continue to keep
your eye on the fellow?"
"Why? Cause he give ome the
slip-that's why. He left his bag
and skipped. Must have got scared
suspected he was follered-"
"Well, you muse find him again"
"Me?"
Eyes; it is more than likely that
he is in this town. He takes a deep
interest in the case of the young
man who is in prison here for what
happened at Exton."
D" faint likely he'd be hanging
round where you are, guv'nor. There
amt sense in that" wagging his head
sagely.
II tell you he must be here, and
you are poor stick if you cannot
find him.
eff he is here, why, of course, kin
get i'm, and what them
Let me know, that is all, and now
CO." and he went to the door, threw
it open and the visitor, without an
other word, went out.