The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-05-06


som and had made some discovery thai
had filled her heart with terror. My
wife had also looked through the tran
som and had taken alarm at something
that she had seen.
What is it now?" / asked.
"There is something very strange al
the farther end of the other room,
whispered my wife. "Listenw
stood silent and presently heard q
very innocent voice in the next room
say:
Now, my hearty, 1 have you all
made up. How do you think he
looks?"
There was long silence; then a joy.
GUS laugh rang out and ripping voice
said:
Il don't think he looks much like a
thief after ALL"
The word thief caused our little
maids cap border to bob and one of
her hands to dart up into the air and
the ends of her fingers to culver.
Presently voice, and it seemed as
if the patience of the ages was in it,
said moderately in the next apartment:
"This one is all right; now / will
make up another thiefp My wife look
ed Mt me in the deepest concern. "Three
will be enough to knock the good here
tic off his horse and to rob him and
leave him for dead" continued the for
bearing voice in tone like an ancient
priest that echoed through the tran
som.
We three stood freezing at these
words, and our little maids left hand
went up like an exclamation point, as
her right hand had done. Every nerve
In her body seemed to be in a tension
of excitement.
"All the saints deliver us!" she whis-
pered in stage voice, bringing her two
hands together. ''Phoebusw
She stepped toward the chair under
the transom very cautiously, very still.
waving her arms like a little windmill
as she went. She mounted the chair.
took one look through the transom.
turned around and bent on us face of
most intense terror, like a stage face.
Was she acting?
She went into my room and beckoned
to us. She shut the door and sank into
chair.
Il know what 1t is now" she said. 81
know all about it. 1t is a thief makers
shop. The man makes over men who
have been thieves. They do such things
In Paris, so | have read. | have road
The Mysteries of Paris France is only
just across the channel, and thew do
such things here"
My wife gasped
what 90 you mean, LETTER. asked
L. The little maids attitude seemed IN
throw spell over me- found myself
under her influence, as if yielding TO
some strange influence. My heart be-
gan to beat so as to make me dizzy.
1T is this way" answered the maid
all agitation: "A man commits a crime
and he hurries off to a place uu,e
that, and the 'presto-change' man there
makes him all over. Oh, OH He puts
new nose on him, new eyebrows. a wig
cuts on his beard or puts on one Of an,
other color, fits a hump to his back
dots him with smallpox marks o,vas
MIN a crutch, makes a lean man fo+
snort man tall. Don't you see? He
does 1t as If by magic. The man COOS
out and his own brother would NOT
know him. He pretends To helm tho
poiice TO find himself. He goes on 70 a
steamer In the very eyes Of the nol,ce
" NAT ala tell your That's the very
nan saw in my three dreams Rnt
mat was not all that / saw IN nv
ireams. Oh, OH This Is dreadful hut NJ.
III, not ALL" What else she had saon
ihe mercifully left TO our imaginot,on
she swayed 10 ana fro exclainine
orr nc every motion
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