Arizona republican., 1905-06-04

have been a regular hair pulling. Any
 way before they got through, Mrs. Sunderland was so mad that she poured
 out the whole scheme in a mouthful.
 She said:
 You won't have a chance to coddle him any more! He's on the Treasure Trove, bound for China, to get the fool ishness taken out of him. He's past the Farralones by this time.
 The old lady was foxy. She would have made a pretty good sport herself. She shut up like a clam, went home, rushed for the telephone and called up the wharfinger. She found that the Treasure Trove was in the stream. be- ing lowed for the heads, and belonged | to Burke nd Colemn, this port. She
 knew Burke. She got her carriage made his office in two jumps, and wouldn't leave until she had an order on Captain Wynch to deliver a sailor | answering Letterblair's description, tatooing and all. In half hour more she had a tug started, chasing the Treasure Trove with that order. She offered the crew $2OO over their regu- lar pay. if they got their man back safe and sound. She herself was afraid of the water and staid in the tug office to wait
 While this WIS going on. Tom Let terblair woke up. The man watching him tried to get him drunk again, and the jag turned out loud and nasty. Crigg SAW he'd have to be doing some thing right off the bat.
 He knew a little how the land lay between Tom and his people, but not enough. He was sure that some one of Toms relatives had done it. As far as that he was right. He struck the wrong lead when he picked Mrs Bur. den as the one-she being a church member-that was most likely to be shmed of the kid. He looked up her number in the directory, and made for the house hot-foot. She wasn't in, so he held up a lamp-post, waiting.
 The tug got back. They packed Har- " Maidslow into the dock house. He was still sound asleep from the knock out drops.
 My precious boy" said the old lady, and fell on his neck. Then she scream ed so you could hear her all over the water front, and began to jump on the captain. She said:
 You're a pack of thieves. You've murdered my Tom and dressed another man in his clothes. Where is my boy? Give me back my boy" she said, and a lot of other things.
 Said the tugboat captain: You're trying to get out of paying the two rundred He's on specifications; and nice time we had making them pass him over. Look here" He got the coat off Harry Maidslow; there was the tattoo mark just beginning to swell up.
 It's a new mark. You and those hussies have fooled me" said the old | lady. 'T'll have you all in jail for this a 1 l,F, . cHr haF1 up: I'd take him right up to the big dance they're going to have tonight. I'd shame them!" she said. Aud she drove home. laughing and crying out loud At the doorstep Spotty Crigg braced her.
 He began quiet and easy, working up her curiosity, so that she would let him know how the land lay. That's just where he went wrong again. In about a minute she put two and two to- gether and saw pretty clearly through the whole scheme. She was just one point smarter than Spotty, and she worIned it out of him. finally. He thought she wanted Tom put out of the way, sure. She played her hand by letting him think so. It was move and your turn, like a game of checkers, with the old lady oue jump ahead. Spotty said:
 Two housand dollars, or bring him back and give the story to the Ob- server"
 Which, of course, was exactly what she wanted. She pretended to be scar ed, but mad.
 Not a cent; do your worst" she said
 'Then I'll go that one better" said Spotty. q see by the papers there's a dance at the Sunderland house to- night. Three thousand down. or I'll dump him in the front door drunk as lord, and dressed as a stevedore. I've got him where you can't find him which was a bluff. 'If you tell the pO- lice, he'll get worse than drunk which was another.
 Not 2 red cent" she said.
 Settles itl"said Crigg. He went away red hot, mad enough to back up his bluff, just as the old lady thought he would.
 When he got home he found that Tom could not be kept much longer. There had been a deuce of rough house That clinched the matter with Spotty Crigg. About 30 he woke Tom and gave him some dinner with cold bottle to get him started again, and spun him a yarn about finding him drunk and robbed. The deal went through on schedule. At 9:3O Spotty drove up to the Letterblair house with the kid, rang the door bell and pushed Tom right into the hall nursing loud ta4kative drunk. They say it put that function on the bum. heard after ward from Tom Letterblair that it was about the only time he ever really en- joyed himself at one of his sisters parties
 Nobody ever told the police or the Every man Jack in the | deal was afraid to peach on the others for he couldn't afford to tell on him. self. All, except the old lady and Tom. of course, and they were too tickled | at the way things turned out to care about giving it away. Another funny | thing; everybody quit a winner. You |