Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-15

tnS MciSamaTa OutnC is Cryln TO put
The steel ON him.
Il don't understand"
Why. they've, sworn out a warrant
an aim to guard the shore tomorrow.
We want you to-"
"Mr. Dxetry, I'm not looking for
trouble. get enough in my own bust
ness"
But, see here,' argued the other,
we've got to send him out SO he cal
make pow-wow to the big legal
smoke In frisco. We've been cold
oecked with bum Judge. They've
cot us into corner an over the
lnpes,"
I'm sorry can't help you, Dextry.
but | got mixed up in one of your
scrapes and that's plenty"
This amt no stowaway There's
no danger to you" began Dextry, but
the officer interrupted him:
There's no need Of arguing. | won't
do It,"
"Oh, you won't, eh?" sad the old
nan, beginning to lose his temper.
We'll, you listen to me for minute.
Everybody In camp knows that me an
the kid Is on the square an that we're
goftin' the bunk passed to us. Now,
this lawyer party must get away to-
night or these grafters will hitcn the
horses to him on some phony charge
so ne can't get to the upper court
It'll be him to the bird cage for ninety
days He's goin' 10 tho States, though
an he's -yoor--wagon! I'm
talkin' to you--mel 10 man. II Won
don't take him, I'll go to the health
inspector-he's friend Of mine-an'
I'll put a crimp In you an your steam
boat. don't want to go that-it amt
my regular graft by no means--by this
bet goes through as she lays. I never
belched up secret before. No, sir;
am the human huntin'-case watch,
an won't open my face unless you
press me. But II should, you'll see
that It's time for you to hunt new
Job, Now here's my scheme" He
outlined his directions to the sailor,
who had fallen silent during the warn
Ing. When he had done, Stephens
said:
Il never had a man talk to me like
that before, sir-neyer. You've taken
advantage of me, and under the cir
cumstances can't refuse. I'll do this
thing-not because of your threat, but
because heard about your troubles
over the Midas-and because cant
help admiring your blamed insolence."
He went back into his stall.
Dextry returned to Wheaton's office.
AS he neared it, he passed loung-
Ing figure in an adjacent doorway.
The place Is watched he an.
nounced as he entered. aHave you
got q back door? Good! Leave your
light burning and we'll go out this
way" They slipped quietly into an
lnky. tortuous passage which led back
towards Second Street. Floundering
through alleys and over garbage heaps
by eircuitous routes, they reached the
bridge, where, in the swift stream be-
meath, they saw the lights from Macs
tug.
Steam was up and when the Captain
had let them aboard Dextry gave him
instructions, to which he nodded ac,
qu1escence. They babe the lawyer
adieu, and the little craft slipped it's
mornings, danced down the current,
across the bar. and was swallowed up
In the darkness to seward.
"I'll put out Wheaton's light 20
IAAOS - uS y SOli0 W U0u.
Yes, and at daylight I'll take your
place in McNamara's loft" said Glen
lister. There will be doings to-mor-
row when they don't find him.
They returned by the way they had
come to the lawyers room, extinguish-
ed his light, went to their own cabin
and to bed. At dawn Glenister arose
and and sought os5a his place above MeNam-
To lie stretched at length on a sin
gle plank with eye glued to crack
is not a comfortable position, and the
watcher thought the hours of the next
day would never end. AS they drag
ged YEARLY past his bones began to
ache beyond endurance, yet owing
to the flimHy structure of the build
ing he dared not move while the room
below was tenanted In fact, he would
not have stirred had he dared, so in,
tense was his interest in the scenes
being enacted beneath him.
First had come the marshal, who
reported his failure Ito find Wheaton.
"He left his room some time last
night. My men followed him in and
saw light in his window until two
O'clock this morning. At seven O'Clock
we broke in and he was gone"
He must have got wind of our plan.
Send deputies aboard the Santa Maria;
search her from keel to topmast, and
have them watch the beach close Or
he'll put off in a small boat. You
look over the passengers that go
aboard yourself. Don't trust any of
your men for that, because he may
try to slip through disguised He's
liable to make up like woman. You,
Observation-Disclosures only one ship in
port, and-he mustn't get away"
HE won't" said Voorhees,, with con
viction, and the listener overhead smil.
ed grimly to himself for at that mo-
| ment, twenty miles offshore, lay Macs
little tug. hove to in the track of the
outgoing steamship and in her tiny
cabin sat Bill Wheaton eating break.
fast.
As the morning wore by with nc
news Of the lawyer McNamara's I'm,
easiness grew. At noon the marshall
returned with a report that the pas
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