The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-06

cleared before me. Allowing my ran
cy full rein. | pictured 70 myself her
anxious figure standing alone in that
ancient ana ghOstly room filing off this
old ring from her dainty finger. Then
asked myself what she would be
liAcly TO do with this ring after dis
engaging II from her hand? Wonld
she keep IT. Perhaps. But, if 50. why
could II not be found? None such had
been discovered among her effects.
Or had she thrown it away, and if so,
where: The vision of her which |
had just seen in my minds eye came
ont with a clearness at this. which
struck me as providential. / could
discern as plainly as if | had been a
part Of the scene the white clad form
of the bride bending toward the light
which came in spursely through the
half open shutter she had loosencd for
this task This was the shutter which
had never again been fastened and
whose restless blowing to and fro had
first led attention to this house and
the crime it might otherwise have CON
cealcd indefinitely. Hal some glimpse
of the rank grass growing underneath
this window lurcd her eye and led her
to cast away the ring which She had no
longer any right TO keep? 1t would be
like woman to yield to such an i'm
pulse, and on the strength of the posi-
bility | decided to search tiis small
plot for what it might very reasonably
conceal.
Calling together 4 posse of street
urchins, | organized them into band,
With the promise Of a good supper all
around il one Of them brought me the
pieces Of a broken ring which | had
lost in the grass plot Of 4 house where
had been called upon to stay all
night That they might win the sup
per in the shortest possible time and
before the owner of this house, who
lived opposite, could interfere, | adj
vised them TO start mt the fence in
long line and proceeding on their
knees, to search each one, the ground
before him to the width of his own
body The fortunate one was to have
the privilege Of saying what the SUPP
per should consist Of TO give plausi
bic excuse for this search a ball was
to be tossed up ana down the street
till it lighted In the Moore house in
closure,
| did not accompany them jimmy,
who has such an Innocent air on the
street, took my place and promenaded
up and down the block just TO see that
Mr. Moore did not make too mitch
trouble. And IL was well she did so,
for though he was not at home--I had
chosen the hour Of his afternoon ride
his new manScryant was, and he no
sooner perceived this crowd Of urchins
making for the opposite house than he
rushed at them and would have seat
tered them far and wide in twin
king if the demure dimplcs Of my lit
tie ally h&l not come into play and
distracted his attention SO completely
ms TO make him forget the throng of
unkcmpt hoodlums who seemed bound
10 invade his masters property. She
was looking for Mr., Moores house she
told him. Did be know Mr. Moore and
his house, which was somewhere near,
not his new, great, big house, where
the horrible things took place of which
she had read in tho papers, but his lit
tie Old house, which she had heard was
soon 10 be for rent and which she
thought would be just the right size
for herself aud mother Was that 1T?
That dear little place all smothered In
vines? How lovely! And what would
the rent be, did he think. and had it
back yard with garden room enough
for her to raise pinks and nasturtiums,
and so on, and so on, while he stared
with delighted eyes and tried to put In
a word cdgewiSe, and the boyS-well,
they went through that strip Of grass
in just ten minutes My brave litin