The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-07

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for your business-none knows it bet
ter than me- | don't know why should
put myself out to help ye." Her tone
had touch of pathos under its hard
4 ness.
q know why" l said little touch
+ ed. It's because you like me-"
She turned a softened eye on me.
You're right, she said almost ten
derby, with a fash of womanly feeling
on her scanned and evil face. I've took
a fancy to We and no mistake, and I'd
risk something to help ye.'
Il knew you would" I said heart
lily.
And that's what come to do" she
said with 8 sparkle Of pleasure in her
eye. I've come to warn We"
New dangeTs?" I inquired cheer
fully. My prudence suggested that l
had better omit any mention of the
warning from Dicky Nahl
The same ones" said Mother Bort
on shortly, only more Of EN-"
What is the latest plot?" l asked
!
manner grated on my strange guest.
Il don't know" she said slowly.
But you know something"
argued.
Maybe you know what I know bet
ter than I knows it myself" growled
Mother Borton with a significant
glance.
I resigned myself to await aer hu-
NOR.
Not at all" said carelessly. Il
only know that you've come to tell me
something, and that you'll tell it in
your own good time"
It's fine to see that you've learned
not to drive a woman" she returned
with grim irony. Its something to
know at your age"
I smiled alphabetically upon her,
and she continued:
Il might as well tell We the whole
of 1t, though I reckon my threats as
like to be slit over it as not"
'I'll never breathe a word Of it"
, replied fervently.
I'd trust ye," she said. well, there
was a gang across the street tonight
across from my place l mean-and
that sneaking Tom Terrill and Darby
Meeker, and I reckon all the rest OF
EN-, was there. And they was run
min back and forth to my place, and
a-drinkin a good deal, and the more
) they drinks the louder they talks
And l hears Darby Meeker say to one
Teller Wen git him, sure!' and
listens with ell my ears, though pre-
tendin to see nothin' Wen fix it this
J time, he said the Old Un's got hi:
thinkin cap on And l takes in every
word, and by one thing and another
l picks up that there's new schemes
afoot to tap We. They was a-sayin
+ as it might be an idee to take We a.
you come out of Knapp's tonight"
How did they know l was a
/ Knapps?" I asked. somewhat sur
prised. though I had little reason to b,
: when l remembered the number o
! spies who might have watched me-
, why, Dicky Nahl told en-" sal,
! Mother Borton. He was with the gan!
and sings it out as pretty as 70,
3 please"
This gave me something new Z
= think about, but I said nothing
Well" she continued. they say
2 at last that won't do. fer it'll git 'er
e into trouble. and I reckon they're argy
/ flying over their schemes Wit. But on
thing l finds out"
+ Mother Borton stopped and locke
. at me anxiously.
d Well" I said impatiently. "wha
a was it?"
4 They're a-sayin' as how, if your
{ killed, the one as you knows on1l hav
u TO git some one else to look after tn
( boy, and mebbe he won't be SO smal
It about foolin' them"
That's an excellent idea" said
e IT they only knew that was the OF,
u er fellow they could see at once VIII;
e, a bright scheme they had hit upon
Maybe they amt a-goin' TO do it
d said Mother Borton. There's a hea
o things said over the liquor that don
lie git no further, but you'll be a fool
= you don't look out Now, do as l tie
you. You just keep more men arour
to you Keep eyes in the back of yol
| head, and if you see there's a-goin' /
K. be trouble. jest you shoot first and {
n questions about it afterward. The
talked OF getting you down on Ii
er waterfront or UP in Chinatown Wi
e. some bogus message and said no
1 easy it would be to dispose Of VI
;" without leaving clues behind 'e1
Now, don't you sleep here witho
Il, three or four men on guard. and dor
you stir round nights with less tbs