Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09

CHAPTER xxi,-(continued).
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BY Tom Gallon.

Il SooIALee uOWA GS SS anu opCdhAAso a.
a low voice. "And IL betrayed him
and handed him over to the police"
The little doctor looked at Harry for
some moments with great gravity, and
then shook his head at him reproach-
fully. "My young friend my dear
young friend" he became quite melan-
choly over him, cts very evident to
me that you are on the downward path,
in the Evil Ones clutches. You've
been dreaming. Dandy Chatter is as
dead as Pharaoh"
Heaven Forbid" exclaimed Harry
turning white What do you mean?"
Dandy Chatter was drowned-a
week or two back--in that noble
stream, the Thames"
Harry burst into roar of laughter.
"A week or two back" he exclaimed.
"You must be out of your mind; why,
he's been down here, within the past
few days-has been in Chelmsford goal
to stand his trial for murder, and is
now at large about the country some
where-heaven be kind to him, wherev-
er he is!-with the police hunting high
and low for him."
Cripps sat down suddenly on a
bench. would you be SO kind, so
very kind, young man, as to call for
little drop of brandy--neat?" he said,
in a shaky voice. 'I've been persuade
| ing myself, for the last week, that
dreamed it all, and now find that it's
all true
Harry called for the brandy, and
Grips swallowed it, murmuring to
himself, over and over again, as he sat
down the empty glass: Dandy Cha
ter in the river-Dandy Chatter got the
necklace Dandy Chatter in Chelms-
ford goal-Dandy Chatter running
about the country with the police after
him. And Ogledon said that he"
He checked himself hurriedly there
and got up. You are most estima-
BILE young man" he said. addressing
Harry, "and / would recommend you
to drink as little as possible, and not
to see more Dandy Chaters than you
can help at once. Now, if you are go
ing toward Bamberton, perhaps you
will be good enough to put me on my
road
Harry expressing his willingness to
do so, the two went out of the inn to-
gether and set off. For a long time
they walked in silence; but the doc
tors mind was busy. Perhaps the
mere fact of. coming again in daylight
among old, well-remembered scenes
logged that blurred and faded thing,
his memory; perhaps the sight i'll the
distance of the towers of Chatter Hall
helped it still! more. Whatever it may
have been, he suddenly stopped In the
road, just before he came to the vii
lage, and clapped his hands together,
with cry: burst into g shrek OF
laughter, and began to dance and
caper wildly about in the dust. Harry,
fully convinced that the man had sud
denly gone mad, backed away from
him and stood ready to defend him
self.
-ho-hop, screamed the doc
tor, Shaping his thighs, punching HIM
self in the ribs, and still dancing as
wildly as ever Here's joke! Here's
a business! Here's a topsy-turvy, up
Shutdown affair! Ho-ho-ho! It's
/ the other child; it's the twin that was
struggled away!'
Harry, feeling at last that the man
WAS serious, and that his disjointed re-
marks had meaning which the other
could not fathom, sprang at him.
1 shook him, and demanded to know
i what he meant.
"Oh, you idiots! YOU blunderers!
i Cripps was still laughing boisterously
Don't you see that there are two Of
thema One dead t'other living!"
Further than that he would say moth
Il ing; he still continued to dance about
in the dust and to- Gap his hands and
4 to shrek with laughter, and to shout
over and over again, that one was
dead and st,other living. Harry, filled
3 with repentance for the trouble he hac
a brought upon his master, and keenly
n anxious to do all in his power to undo
a the wrong he felt he had committed
i began to feel that this man nigh
know something concerning Dand,
Chatter which would be useful; that he
q might be able, In some strange way, t.
. save the man against whom that fear
q full charge Of murder had been made
q Looking at him. Harry began to won
der what to do; how to force from this
Imam the information he probably held
Feeling his own weakness in the mat
tier, he cast about In his mind to dis
t5cover to whom he might turn for help
He must find, in the first place.
I5friend Of the man he desired to assis
some one about whose loyalty t
4 Dandy Chatter there could be no faint
lest doubt. The name of one person al
Il ter another occurred to him only =
he immed iately rejected, as an avowe'
!. Ibeliever IN his guilt or as too weak y
be Of use. Suddenly there came tn
thought or Miss Barnshaw- VIC
man who loved Dandy Chatter n
was rich. and had powerful friends; p
decided to go to her at once, and 7
take Grips with him.
( TO SO to her was easy enough =
take the little man was another ma
!! Ter. For Cripps already began TO e
|. ispentS 81 naying said anything to n
4 stranger, even heA 2 etnral excite