The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-02-23

it, though they added their brains,
long over It. To them 1t was as silent
as an anoient brick though written
all over, dug up at Mosul, or Troy, or
Thebes. And they never heard before
of Cave Norwhal. They could not I'M
derstand what connection a myster-
ious Chicagoan could have with a
man at Dallas. After that cipher tele-
gram no one ever saw Cave Norwhal
again. He had vanished as complete
ly as smoke.
Now 1t was imperative that an ow-
ner of that trunk be found. in order
to satisfy the demands Of the law, or
rather the save the "reps' of the as
tute policemen. OF course they can
find a victina-that is easy enough.
So they took Arthur Hamilton. basing
their seizure of him on the ground
that he had received a White Caps
notice-the very reason why he should
have been protected rather than ar
rested.
Not long before Arthur had gone
from, st. Louis to Chicago in search
of work. He was stranger, and
therefore the more reason to the po-
He knew but few in this modern Babel
Yet he had secured position In the
switch-yards, the place Belisarius had
deserted when his trunk was discover
ed. The strongest ill-wind that blew
Arthur no good was the one that he
was a boardec and Iodger at Mrs.
Lulu Cowens. where the devil tainted
trunk had been found. Therefore he
was accused Of owning It, and also Of
changing his name. Without any
evidence for their allegation they de-
clared he was no other than Belisar-
ms, the much wanted culprit.
Some mysterious hand had put a
White Cap notice the day before. his
arrest where he could not fail to re-
ceive it. 1t conveyed the mighty
threat that If he switched any more
cars in the yards he would be roped
forthwith. He paid no attention to 1t
till a policeman "roped him in."
He had just thrown a switch for one
Of the wheezy old engines. which
Pancake Bill" avowed was a regular
coughing old cow" The cab was
loose from her constant -jigging,"
and she was Jim Dandy injine," as
Pancake Bill" said In his fool way"
Arthur had but casually observed a
bluecoat. with a pretty up-and- down
row of brass buttons in front, ad-
| vancing toward him. He gave this
| circumstances no thought, as he was
entirely innocent Of any crime, mis-
| deamnor, Or disorder.
"Exercising the right of an Amer
lean I demand to know the reason for
my arrest" asserted Arthur proudly,
standing fully erect"
None of that blasted nonsence
now, my dead-to-rights bloke, or I'll
crack you over the nub."
It was In vain that Arthur appealed
to this rowdy-level man Of the billy,
whose life was a sort of compromise
or reciprocity with the criminal ele-
ment of society, and asked him for
reason for his "pinching." He was in
solently marched away to the hold
over.
How strangely our lives sometimes
seem to hinge on a mere chance cir
cumstance. Now as it happened in
Arthur's case, Pearl Harcourt, Grace
Hall and Mona Dunlap, three girls
claiming a sacred friendship for each
other, pedaled by on their wheels,
gaily laughing and TESTING, enjoying
the pleasant afternoon outing almost
like birds set free. Mona Dunlap, a
st. Louis girl. was making a prolong-
ed visit to her cousins Pearl Harcourt
and Grace Hall. She was jolly good
girl, full Of life and love and freedom,
n nd
picture Of perfect girlhood. She had
just related some campaign farcial
story about Mckinley and Bryan, and
provoked the other two girls to
scream Of mirth
She could do strange things some-
times, and this was one Of the times
when she almost alarmed the two
girls. She sprang suddenly from her
wheel, and running up to a policeman
asked him what he meant by leading
Arthur Hamilton off that way. He
managed to explain partially to "the
lady," but 1.-THE lady" declared it was
false-"false as perjured Clarence
for she had known Arthur always and
he could not be an anarchist. Besides,
she said he had not lived in Chicago
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not have been here in 1886. Her zeal
moved the man with the billy to say:
Nov, never mind. young lady. You
go on and tend Ito your own business,
ur I'll nab you too as one of 'em in
female sex clothes"
She hastily retorted: "A man be-
ing once asked what was the difference
between a guerilla and a missionary
said he thought they were the same.
So I think policeman and a guerilla
are the same" Then she pushed away
haughttly. She was determined to see
where Arthur was to be taken. So
they kept the two men in view.
| On the way in answer to the girls
queries, she explained who Arthur
Hamilton was and why she was inter-
ested In him. When they were little
folks he saved her life She and her
father had been capsized in the Mis-
sissippi river, and the brave boy
sprang from another skiff, swan to
her, and saved her. He was a. Door
boy, but a brave, noble one, and after