The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-10
IN THE BISHOPS
CARRIAGE
BY MIRIAM NICHOLSON
Copyright 1904 by The B0bbs-Msrrin Company.

and creep. | heard things n my head
and ears that weren't sounding any.
where else. And all OF sudden
tramp tramp, tramp-l heard the cops
footsteps.
He stopped over there by the swing
ing electric light above the gate. ]
crouched down behind the iron bench
And my coat caught twig on a
bush and its crack ok was like a yell
thought Id die thought Ia
scream. | thought I'd run, | thought
Id faint. Bit ! didnt--for there
asleep on a rig that some one had for
gotten tn take in. was the house cat
gave her a quick slap, and she few
ont aud across the path like fash
The cop watched her. his hand on
the gate and passed on.
Mag Monahan II Tom had come out
that minute without a bean and gone
home with me, I'd been so relieved
I'd never have tried again. But he
didn't come Nothing happened
Nights and nights and nights went by,
and the stiffness began to sound again
Ny throat went choking mod | he
gan to shiver. and | reached for the
rug the cat had lain on
Funny, how some things strike you,
This was Latimer's rug. had noticed
IL that evening" warm. soft. mottled
green that looked like silk and fur
mixed could see the way his long.
white hands looked on It, and as I
touched II could hear his voice
Oh. rhou, who Man ~ baser Earth didsr
mako,
And cv'n with Paradise devise the Snake.
For ali the sin whcrcwith the Face 81
Man
Is biackcn'd--M Nuns forgiveness give--and
takpl
Eyer hear man like that say a
thing like that? No? Well, its--it's
different. It's MS If the river had
spoken-or tree Its so--its so diff
ferent
That saved me--that verse that |
remembered said it over and over
and over again to myself. fitted ii
to the ferry whistles on the bay-to the
cops steps as they passed again--to
the roar Of the IL train and the
jangling Of the surface cars.
And right in the middle of it,-every
drop Of blood in my body seemed to
leak out Of me. and then come rush.
Ing back to my head heard Tom s
whistle
oh, it's easy to say run" and !
really meant it when promised
Tom But you see hadn't heard
that whistle then. When it came.
it changed everything It set the
devil in ME loose felt as II the
world was tearing something Of mine
away from me Stand for it? Not
Nance Olden
did run but It was toward the
house That whistle may have meant
Col To me II yelled Gomez"
got In through the window Tom
had left open The place was still
quiet Nobody inside had heard that
whistle SO far as I could tell a
crept along-the carpets were thick
and soft aud silky as the rug I'd had
~ hands buried In TO keep EN- warm
Along a long hall and through o
great room. whose walls we're thick
with books, | was making for light
could see at the back Of the house.
That's where Tom DorGan must he and
where must be 10 find out to know.
With my lands out in front of me |
hurried, but softly, and Just az | had
reached the porticres below which the
light strcamod. my arms closed about
thing cold as marble, naEod~-I
thought 1t was dead body upright
there, and with a cry. pitched for
ward through the curtains into the
lighted room.
Nance! lyon dewitt"
You recognize it? Yep, 1t was Tom.
Big Tom Dcrgan. at the foot OF Iati-
mers bed his hands above his head.
and Latimer's gun aimed right at his
heart.
Think OF tho pluck Of that cripple,
will You?
His eyes turned on me for Just Sec
ond and then fixed themselves again
on Tom But his voice went straight
Mt me, all right.
you are something Of thankess
devil, must admit, Miss Omar he
said.
4 didn't say anything. You don't
say things In answer to things like
TINT WOW feel ON. M
tFAshamed, What do | care for q
man with vofce like That put vou