The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-10
BY MIRIAM NICHOLSON


and creep, | heard things in my heas
and ears that weren't sounding any
where else. And all Of sudden :
tramp tramp tramp heard the cop.
footsteps
He stopped over there by the swing.
/ Ing electric light above the gate.
crouched down behind the iron boneh
And my coat caught twig on a
bush and its crack--ck was like veil
thought Id die thought It'd
/ scream | thought I'd run. thought
/ Ia faint. Hut ddnt--for there.
asleep on rug that some one had for
| cotton ~ take in was the house eat
gave her quick slap. and she few
ont and across the path like fash
The cop watched her. his hand on
/ the gate. and passed on
Mag Monahan ii Tom had come ont
hat minute without a bean and gone
aome with me, I'd been So relieved
ia never have tried again. But be
| didn't come. Nothing happened
Nights and nights and nights went by.
and the stiffness began to sound again
My throat went choking mad / BE-
gan 70 shiver, and reached for the
rug the cat had lain on.
Funny. how some things strike you,
Thts was Latimer's rug | had noticed
II that evening" warm, soft, notified
green that looked like silk and fur
mixed ! could see the way his long
white hands looked on 1t. and as
touched Il could hear his voice
Qh, Thou who Man OF haser Earth ddst
make
And cv'n with Paradise devise TIE SNAKE
For all the Sin whcfewith the Face of
Man
Is hiacken'd Mans forgiveness gtve-and
takel
Ever hear man like that say d
thing like that2 Nor Well. it.s-its /
difIereM. Its dis il the river had
spoken-or a tree Its so--its So dir.
ferent.
That saved me-that verse that /
remembered said IT over and over
and over again to myself fitted ii
70 the ferry whistles on the bay-to the
cops steps as they passed agaIn-to
The roar Of the -" train and the
iangling Of the surface cars.
And right in the middle or it--every
drop Of blood in my body seemed ID
eak out Of me. and then come rush.
ng back 70 my head heard Toms
whistle.
On, its easy to say run" and i
'eally meant It when | promised
rom. But you see hadn't heard ,
nat whistle then. When II came
changed everything It set the !
levil IN me loose. felt as If the
world was tearing something Of mine
way from me Stand for I'll? Not !
Vance 0lden.
did run--but It was toward the !
ouse That whistle may have meant
Go. To me il yelled Gomez
! got IN through the window Ton. i (.
ad left open. The place was stir
niet Nobody inside had heard that
thistle SO far rs 7 could tell. =
! crept along--the carpets were thick
nd soft and silky as the rug I'D had Y
y hahds buried In to keep Elm warm !,
Along a long hall and through 4 y
,sat room whose walls were thick
~ nooks was making for a light
o'uid see at the back Of the house.
lat where Tom Dorgan must be and y'
leIe must be to find OUT to know. I.
Wilh my Lands out in front Of me I A
'riled' bht softly, and Just ali | had
acSeu Inc portieres below which the "
~ streamed, my arms closed about ~
thing cold as marble, naEed--I
ought 1t was a dead body UPRIGHT "
VIII ana with a cry. pitched for
rd through the curtains into the %
hted room
'Nance!--you dewitt" nc
You recognize itg Yep. 1t was Tom I, =
Tom Dcrgan, at the foot Of Iati. q
RS bed hts hands above his head - y,
Latimer's gun aimed right at his "
,rt. ey
mink OF the pluck Of that cripple.
] you? \,
lis eyes turned ON me for lust a Sec ~
J, and then fixed themselves again =,
Tom But bis voice went straight ~
me, all right. ~
You are something OF thankless
~, must admit. Miss Omar he
Il 4s ,
didn't say anything. You don't ~,
things tn answer to things like NM
I fcn feel ON. ss
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