The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-15
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- got those at nfSI hanu IIom fFoi.
Haughwout You know how great
Tom is on tricks. | could explain the
disappearing woman mystery, and the
mirror cabinet. | knew the clog dance
that Dewitt and Daniels do. had pie
lures of the trained seals. the great
elephant act. Mile. Picotte doing he
great tight-rope dance, and the Lroth
ers Borodini in their pyramid tunl-
ding.
Yes, 1t was a whole vaudeville show,
with refreshments between the acts
that | was taking up to Tom DorSan.
doa't care much for lot Of that
Lruck-funny. isn't it. how you get to
turn up your nose at the things you'd
have given a finger for once upon a |
time? But Tom-oh, I'd got every !
thing pat for him-my big, handsome |
Tom Dorgan in stripes-with his cuTis |
ali shaved off-ugh
I'd got just SO far In my thoughts,
sitting there in the train, when | gave
a shiver. l thought for q minute it
was at the idea of my Tom with one
| of those bare, round convict-heads on
him, that look like fat skeleton faces
But it wasn't. 1t was
| Guess, Mag
Norway.
Both of us thought the same thing
OF each other for the first second that
our eyes met. could see that. He
| thought | was caught at last. And !
| thought he'd been sharp once too
| often.
And, Mag, it would be hard to say
| which of us would have been happier
/ if it had been the truth. oh, to meet
Norway, bound sure enough for Sing
Sing!
| He got up and came over to me,
smiling wickedly. He took the seal
behind me, and leaning forward, said
softly:
is Miss Omar engaged to read to
some invalid up at Sing Sing? And
for how long a term--I should say, en-
| gagement?"
I'd got through shiyering by then.
+ was ready for him ! turned ana,
looked at him in that very polite, dis
tant sort O. way Gray uses in her act
when the Charity superintendent
speaks to her It's the only decent
thing she does; chances are that that's
how Lord Gray's mother looks at her.
You know my sister Mini
asked humbly.
He looked at me, perplexed for just
a second.
Sister be hanged" he said at last
Il know you, Nat, and I'm glad to my
| dnger-tlps that you've got it in the
, neck, in spite OF all your smartness."
You're altogether wrong, sir"
said, very stately, but hurt a bit you
know live often been taken for my
sister, but gentlemen usually apologize
, when | explain to them. It's hard
! enough to have sister who"
] looked up at him tearfully, with my
! chin a-wabble with sorrow.
i He grinned
! Liars should have good memories
s he sneered Miss Omar said she was
! an orphan, you remember, and had moi
o relative in the world
J. Did she say that? Did Nora say
: that?" | exclaimed, piteously. "0h
what little liar she is! suppose SHE
/ thought it made her more interesting
!, to be so alone, more appealing to kind
hearted gentlemen like yourself.
/" hope she wasn't ungrateful to you, too
as she was to chat kind Mr.. Latimer
n before he found her out. And she haI
Y such good position there tool"
i | wanted to look at him. oh. | want
ed to! But 1t was my role to 81
Ia there with downcast eyes, just the pic
ture of holy grief | was the good on
r the good shocked sister, and thong
l. wasn't bit afraid of anything h
II could do to me, or any game he coul
put up, yearned to make him believ
IL me-iust because he was so suspicious
50 wickedly smart, so sure he was on.
w But his very silence sort Of told N
~ he almost believed, or that he was la,
tn ing trap.
IL win you tell me-" he said, tho
you--your sister got Latimer to lie *
m herr"
1T Mr. Latimer--lie! Oh, you don
know him. He expected q lady TO rea
to to him that very evening. He hs
n never seen her, and when Nora wake
in into the garden"
ID After getting d skirt somewhere. 7
rar "Yes--the housekeepers, 1t ha
% pened to be her evening out-why,
Al Just naturally supposed Nora was Mi
M Omar"
M "Ah! then her name isn't Oma
What might 1t be?"
o. "Fd rather not tell--if you dor
mind"
ma But when Latimer found out 81
\ had the diamonds-he did find out?'
, "She confessed to him. Nora's n
AN really So bad girl as"
? Very Interestingly But 1t does
happen to be Latlmers version Al
you say Latimer wouldn't lie"
az, ! got pale---but the paieness was
the the inside Of me, Think was goi
ket to finch before chump like Moriwf