The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-24

"'lts me or my imags.
hut ~ sure a. there ; led /, ~
Iiiii, l never stood for M, -,
and ] never cav this Eoaas
life
"'po you mean % say. a,tL
10 Jones, shakin' his fhssl ID 80.
face, shat you never Lad M,
graph taken with my wifsi'
s'Now, sec here, siF. ala -.
backin' up, II doH I Iagat A,
10 come al me Ike thai
heard what ! said, That's "a.
l don I repeat
"Tom turned 10 me, shakisl "A.
leaf and ~ white a. ,aset n
all gone 10 pieces, Yet Il uls.,
10 him ~ II was 10 nc tls,
was telling the truth.
{" Jack, ] says, 'eome iowa a N.
high horse. This is Tom J5.s =
best friend I've got In he Ho,1
even exeepiin you, Your -
ried man and ought 20 uhdei,i.,t !.
he feels about IL.
"That was enough i0f Jasf :
held out his hand,
"'Mr Jones, he SAYS, i BE-, N.
pardon. That IL my picture bg,
not me. / don I understand 4. ~
your wife 10 NJ innoeen, u str !.
seious connection with that bto,6r,.
as | am, you We got nothing Ia -
about. And IL I'm iHt5fsr, !,
chances are u thousand 10 oss h.
she In.
"Tom looked at Smith for H,u,
and then took his hand aHd ,lsst
like he was workin a pump Lad
"'I believe you, be SAYS. 4 "a,
see the way out, but maybe them }
way. Maybe there's a trick
" There must be, says jack ~
II the DEVILS own. I'm mixed !, !
this thing now, and We fe gs!..
see il through together. have ~
TO know the truth.
"'That's IL, exactly, says l. AZ
let = get busy
Jack picked up the phoiograp. NJ
looked at IL closely for several :,
utes.
"'I begin 10 see light, au \
after a bit, but IL doesn Z lei, >
10 understand il. / never had 1 =
Of clothes like that. ! never kg
watch chain or charm like that
don Z wear ring.
"'Let me have IL. quick. "A
Jones. Il sect / sect he gasped, -
ming over with excitement i tiai
look at anything but the face bs.ra
That ism Z my wife s form; iit d
large. She has no dress like is,-
never did have. Look at that tiss
let, Bill. II isn't hers. But itt 4
face. There never was another Ia
like that, BILL
"'It's her, and it isn't; It's Jia
and it ism I, says /. 'Now, Where =
we att i am worse puzzled than ere
+" So IN !, so IN !, says Jones; =
il S a trick; it's a trick, Bill y
girls all right. That's the ~
thing. j IN sure Of il now
Good, cries Jack; then be IN
to me.
E" Bill, he says, do you happen .
know a photographer you can trust
Sure, says /. 'There's one sIx
The street that's as safe as hurEr
proof.
Well, phone for him to Ga
,ver.'
SIN three minutes we had The ~
in that Office. In tive ii
ties more, with the aid OF poems
the mystery was :olEs:
had got hold Of a Pisa
,raph of a man and woman in a Nv
ng attitude. Then they'd got phas
,raphs of Jack and Mrs. Jones, d
nut their heads and pasted them eve
he heads on the group, took Ltd
oloring of some kind and touched
he edges around the patch 50 tig
wouldn't show, and then put u
iixed-up affair before the camera "a
nd made new negative Nobody %
n expert could do it, but this was
Iell done nobody but an expert coll
ave detected the fraud. We dit,i
top, you can bet your life, until "
ound out who did it. 1t was wOnl
Ve managed to let her know that W
new, and let it 90 at that. But To-
ones never breathed word Of It q
is wife.-San Francisco Chronles