The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-12

intindin that same, only 1 couldn't quit list'nn'.
she whee led round at the sound of voice
an put the gun agin. Thin she looked at
sittin quiet an harmonious, in the chair an
she lowered her gun bit y
What We dom here?' says she
81 a burglar says I. but I'm that no
more in this house. l says.
she niver WINGED. Mayhap a burglar waz a
small thing be the side of her trouble that night.
Thin she says: What did We mean whin We said
ye'd locked the detective in a closet?'
Just that. ma'am,' l says. waz niver
drunk the ixtnt of putin amy closets in
this house
But he can't stay there she answers quick
like. He'll get out alarm the house-they
mustn't know Thin Take me to him. she says.
L must keep him quiet-an' keep him here-must
keep him here
Hes dom fine where he is says l. for me
brain workn' great be this time, askin' your
pardon says l.
No she says. No I can't risk that An
she started for the dor-wan l had not been
through yit. AN give me that light, please
pointin to wan of thin pocket sticks with electric
light in thin whin ye press it.
LAS sayin' head clear S a bell,
but it good the liquor had done legs so
I begun tryn feet instid of arguin', an
stepped out afore her in the dark, feelin reason
able sure of fndin' thin closets be of their
bein somewheres mkt the library-room itself.
Which l did. the light shown thin three in a
row. had been tellln' 1t to mesilf in
mind all the way-In the first the what
is gone, in the middle l don't know an the
plain-clothes in the at the ind
'Whin come to the at the ind give
a gnte rap the door
Come out whin it opens says I. but come
easy for there's two of and have ye
cred
The door opened he come out with the
light in his face.
90 jack! says She
Holy Mother says I.
But there she with her round his
neck, an it seemed like she ought tell him from
plain-clothes Wrra, wirra it's the wrong ind
l begun countn FROM thinks l. 'ben' confused
from startn from that new library-room door,
Thin l speaks up:
Il after maxim bit of a mistake says
to her. This is the let out. 1 didn't know
him. niver havin' him in the dark afore.. /
thought he the other wan
WHAT says she lettin go of him.
Thin | see | wrong what I'd been sayin'
not maxim amy snse to speak of. but right thin
1t come clear just what l had done-Td mixed
thin in the start of things AM
You let out the detectve? says she. sort of
gaspin' it, the light maxim little round trembly
spot the floor of the hall.
Jack says she, brave-like, its not too late
yeti This man is goin' to help An forgive
Jack, DEAR The light wint up along the wall
quick, an he said something too low for ears
long they Thin she agin:
There's no time to--What that?'
Its only the other wan, says l.
1.-The other wan?' she says. Thin you didn't
let him out after all?'
They waz three of thim ma am says l mod
est. 4 forgot to tell ye."
. Three of thim?? Three of thim?' An for
wanct she lost hold hersilf
But l kept me head It's not the plain
Clothes l, but divil the of knows
who it is if it amt! He come pryin' down the
ball +l,;,,o
out askin' him amy questions to why 1 do
in it. The knockin' whit right on.
ut doesn't make amy difference says the man
speakn for the first time. I'm sick of this!
Whoever it Is will wake the whole house. Open it!
g Jack
What does it matter says he eff he is goin
to bring the others down to tell thin after I'm
gone? Anyways, there's ilse that
knows loose in the house.
THAT last don't much thinks I, me wits
niver leavin' me, ixciptin he's human compass
built the blamed thing
Give me the light. dear, says he. An thir
to Open it,
II wint to the middle door,
"'Whin l open it, out But do it quiet
There's three of an all have guns. An 70,
Hivens sake stop that knockin'!' l says, wonderin
why hadn't told him afore.
Il steps back an he with the light OF
him-a dried up little with a head belongin
to a bigger an red hair, not lookin' pleased
at things.
Mr.. Duncan it the girl that spoke, wills
perrin it so it whit cold down spine
Harris says the of the private FORGET
The cold come up spine agin an whit bac
to stomach and got warm-like. Thin ME knee
, begun tryin' to walk an leaned up agnst tn
wall in the dark wshin tada't caught the las
of thin three. Yit I the Fl st of thin all I
come to.
. what does all this fooishness mean?' say
n the plain-clothes. snappy. Did he git away?
Yes says 1. Who it that wint?'
Here 1 am says Jack. Give me till to-mol
8 row am
"You?' says the plain-clothes KNOWN him by b
voice. for it not a voice for two men to hav.
u What do want with you? Where is hep
"An' just thin he grabs the light from Jack a,
8 turns it in me face