The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-09
THE SECOND
DANDY CHATTER
CHAPTER xxI.-(continued)
BY Tom Gallon.

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, its 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 a
little drop of braudy-neat?' he said,
/ in a shaky voice. I've been persuad-
ing myself, for the last week, that l
dreamed it all, and now find that it's
| all true"
| Harry called for the brandy, and
| Grips swallowed 1t, 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 l would recommend you
to drink as little as possible, and not
to see rsore Dandy Chaters than you
can help at once. Now, IL 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 long time
| they walked in silence; but the doc
tors mind was busy. Perhaps the
mere fact OF coming again in daylight
among old, aforementioned scenes
logged that blurred and faded thing,
his memory; perhaps the sight in the
distance of the towers OF Chatter Hall
helped 1t still more. Whatever 1t may
have been, he suddenly stopped In the
road, Just before he came to the VII
lage. and clapped his hands together,
with a cry; burst into shrek OF
| laughter, and began to dance ana
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-ho-ho!" 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
business! Here's 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 a meaning which the other
could not fathom, sprang at him,
shook him, and demanded to know
what he meant.
sOh. YOU idiots! you blunderers!
Cripps was still laughing boisterously.
Don't you see that there are two OF
them9 One dead--t'other living!
Further than that he would say moth
ing: he still continued to dance about
| in the dust and to clap his hands and
to shrek with laughter, and to shout
over and over again, that one was
dead and t'other living. Harry, filled
with repentance for the trouble he had
brought upon his master, and keenly
anxious to do all in his power to undo
the wrong he felt he had committed,
began to feel that this man might
know something concerning DANDY
Chatter which would be useful; that he
might be able, in some strange'way, 10
save the man against whom that rear
full charge OF murder had been made
Looking at him, Harry began to won
der what to do; how to force from this
man the information he probably held.
| Feeling his own weakness in the mat
| ter, he cast about in his mind to dis
cover to whom he might turn for help.
He must find, in the first place. q
| friend of the man he desired to assist
| some one about whose loyalty TO
Dandy Chatter there could be no faint
est doubt. The name of one person al
ter another occurred to him--only to
be Immediately rejected, as an avowed
believer in his guilt or as too weak TO
be of use. Suddenly there came the
thought Of Miss Barrshaw-the wo-
man who loved Dandy Chatet-who
was rich. and had powerful friends; he
decided to go to her at once, and to
take Grips with him.
To go to her was easy enough; TO
take tho little man was another mat
ter. For Grips already began to re-
pent Of having said anything to a
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