Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-07-25

moments before. He could distinguish
a number OF dark, moving objects
bearing lights. The police had brought
lanterns with them to prosecute the
search, and some, lying at full length,
were peering down over the parapet of
the building into the gloomy depths
below.
Job did not move, honing to escape
observation in the shadows, and pres
emily he heard one of the men above
saying confidently:
The poor wretch must have tried 10
climb down, and fell and killed hisself."
Job waited to hear more but II was
not forthcoming. Evidently the COM
rades of the man who had made this
statement believed as he did hat the
object OF their search had escaped
them. After a time they slowly dis
persed, and the light no longer twinkled
from the roof above.
Nov or never is the time to get out
OF this" Job muttered to himself. They
are making for the street to make sure
that / am dead, and, finding no sign
Of the remains, Will probably renew
the search"
Making his way carefully along the
edge of the roof, he was overjoyed
presently TO come upon a fire escape,
which, though rusted with age and
broken, enabled him to make his way
down to the street. Feeling sure that
the front of the hotel must be guarded,
he chose TO take the opposite direction.
Hearing the sound of steps approach
ing, he paused for a moment in the
shadow OF the factory, to see with
whom he had to deal. The man had
corne out Of n of the doors of the
hotel, and as for a ONE the light
fell on his face, Job recognized him as
the individual who mad planned the
ambush to secure possession of the pa
per. He made his way along with an
unsteady gait, as If he had not fully
recovered from his experience. or the
narcotic effects of the ring.
Evidently the police had no further
use for a man whom they believed had
humbugged them, and so had permit
ted him to go his way, little caring
what became Of him.
Job was not sorry TO see his quon-
dam enemy, and after watching his
unsteady progress for a while, resolved
to go n follow him. For this per-
sonage interested him strangely, and
he was not yet done racking his brains,
hoping to find out in what important
crisis they had once figured together.
Ellison, half supplied, stumbled on
like q man In a dream. He did not
look back to see whether he : S fol-
lowed or not. Now and her he would
raise his head sleepily and stare
around, as If to make sure where he
was
Hendricks was glad to remain un-
noticed. for, after the exertions ne had
made in escaping, he was rot prepared
for a fresh encounter with any one.
Arrived at the orner Of the street,
Ellison paused in q dazcd kind OF way,
as If he were looking for n carriage,
little thinking that such luxuries were
scarce In such a locality.
Job had meantime taken up his
stand in a nearby doorway. Under the
circumstances It was not likely that
he would he noticed.
Il wonder what next2" he heard
Ellison mutter; then, with a silly
laugh; Il suppose / shall he able to
square myself with the police should
l happen to be in the n~eighborhood
again. oh, dear!" with a groan, II
suppose l shall have to foot it home
carriage on the way. There don't
seem to be anything on wheels In this
cursed neighborhood," then swaylng
for d moment unsteadi!y on the curb,
he drew himself together, and went
lurching forward on his way with Job
at his heels,
1t was a long journey they made
together, and job was heartily glad
hat they met no vehicle on the road.
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tired condition. lie was still worrying
his brains trying 10 recall where he
had seen this man before, and ever the
search eluded him.
Time TO acknowledge hat YOU are
getting to be an old man." he NUT
tered to himself, since you can't re-
member where you had dealings with
this person in the past-and he
played a mighty important part in
your life, too"
Ellison had turned In O northerly
direction, and was making his way
along as If half asleep, and anxious
to be home and in bed. He apparent
ly had given up all hopes OF getting
a carriage.
They nae reached the uptown resi-
Dental district Of the west side of the
city, when Ellison suddenly turned tc
the right, passed down a narrow
street, n paused before a door SET
in a white wall, and began to tumble
In his pocket for a key.
AS he stood there with the light
Of u street lamp shining upon his
face, Job Hendricks. off in the shad-
ows. suddenly clasped his hands to-
gether as II trying to conceal his
emotion.
Can it be possible?" he muttered.
Why, my poor old wits must have
pCGiA "OOl-6dlllSIlIS all lIlS llIllG IlOl
to have recognized him before this!
1t is none other than the man who led
me on-my old enemy, who found
me when l was starving, and who
tempted me into SHINING, and, to save
himself, helped to send me to prison
to languish half a lifetime!"
AS these bitter thoughts surgeG
through his mind, unable longer t
control the hatred the sight of this
man had summoned up, he ran for.
ward with outstretched hands as ii
bent on a summary vengeance fol
his sufferings and wrongs But be,
fore he had reached the gate or dool
in the wall, Ellison, all unconscious
or danger, had slipped through anC
closed it behind him.
Job arrived just in time to see hi.
enemy disappear among the shrub.
berry of the garden. He turned away
with clenched hands and q mutterec
exclamation of bafled rage. Their
he looked up at the white walls o.
the house that glimmered through
the trees. why, bless me, it i.
James Ellison's housed" for he hat
often of late visited the place Sc.
cretly, though he saw it from a diff.
ferent point of view.
James Ellison's house, and this
man evidently lives here" and ther
his memory went back to the day he
had picked UP that curiously writer
bit OF paper in the drawing room OF
The Grange at Exton. AS he stood
there, peering through the Stats OF
the door, he saw the man he was In.
terested in appear at the further END
or the garden and then enter the
door of a small pavilion.
A friend of Ellison's. perhaps a rel.
atiye, for he had noticed the two
men resembled each other.
We'll 1 know where to find him.
said Job to himself, when he turned
away. For the present 1 will busy
myself finding out all about him. He
has not turned honest since those
old days, and / may trap him yet
Ali" with a sigh, "how L wish tina
~ x..o-k nuns done aud that I ~ q.