The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-11

Now for his attitude?
! Tell us for whom they all yearn?
What. by the way, and before We ad-
journ,
viii they allude to a. spinach" and
! ''fern2"
Speaking with Difference.
Won't that has reference
To an appendage of Kern?
Bryan" and Taft" they have caus-
ed us to churn
Foam in our brainpans. It's easy with
Kern
They were perplexing us.
Puzzling and vexing us.
| Kern gives us rymes, though, to burn.
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The oficious Pensacola copper had
been tipped of by a particularly Of
! ficiOuS and ordinary appearing special
| officer. There was most assuredly
something doing" in that particular
house on the darkened corner, be-
cause man had said so.
The man had seen the special Of
ficer not two minutes before, and had
told that suspicious parsonage of
queer lights and strange sights which
had been noted, although the hour
was long past midnight
The people who had the misfortune
to live il the house which now lay
under the awful suspicion of the pO-
lice were strangers-and the fearful
thought probably fingered in the
mind of the initial informant that
strangers were to be measured from
the same standpoint as some of the
old and reliable local brand.
The two coppers paced up and
down the deserted street
They evidently possessed a full and
beautiful realization of their impCr-
lance in being detailed m this par
ticulaT instance, and their clubs and
their FURNISHED buttons and their
stride fairly hOwled the fact out TO
the world
There was a good live poker game
going on within the bIock-and there
were conditions and conditions on the
next street
Small things don't matter, however,
when you are going to make a kill
ing"
There actually was something stir
ring about in the house referred to-.
II was mysterious.
Instead of going to bed with the
chickens like any other law abiding
and perfectly prudent citizen. some
one had actually taken it upon him.
self to burn lights and to move around
and behind closed shutters, too
II was thrilling.
Bob" whispered the brother min
ion of the law to his companion, do
you suppose well get good jobs out
of this? Don't you think that
A shrill hist from his companion ar
rested further conversation.
The other copper had seen a cIew
carriage had dashed up to the
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sounds and Examinations. man
alighted, and quickly and furtively,
so it appeared to those who watched
him, made his way up the front
steps.
He did not knock.
1t was two o'clock a. m
That looked bad.
It's our move" chartered one of
the nerVy representatives of the law
and mis- limbs shook beneath him.
But Say-if we are going to really
pull me place Bill, and 1t looks as if
We will have to-hadnt We ought to
get reinforcement from the station"
This was a question to be argued
The decision would be in reality
whether the two sleuths would fair
~ smatteT themselves with glory in
a particular and private stunt all of
their own, or to divide honors ire
vocably with the boys down town.
They continued to look the matter
straight in the face
Looking at things Systematically, of
course is to be desired in a reliable
officer.
Besides. it takes time
Finally the two decided on a bold
stroke. They would walk briskIy up
the front steps. knock at the door. and
at least ascertain what was going
on
The matter of the strange man
should also be duly investigated.
They had reached the gate. and the
final blow was about to be struck
Each sleuth CONGRATULATED himself
privately with regard TO his own per-
sonal brand of the real thing in the
bravery line.
Suddenly the door opened. and
steam OF light flashed full in the face
OF the ofhcious coppeTs, who felt the
ground give way beneath them. when
they noted the strange man" to be
no Otner than a well known local medi-
Cal man
Worse still. the strange man"
evidently took in the situation at a
glance, for he smiled blandly into the
disturbed visages before him, and
glanced back at the man who was
lighting him out.
It's a boy he explained pleasant
ly-but Two cress fallen amateur
Sleuths failed TO stop for the usual
congratulations.
Belle wrote an said she was havin'
perfeckly elegant time out west
there" said the girl with the lopsided
bang shes got about "steen fell
lers'
Belle has?" said the girl with the
rhinestone-set comb in a tone of in
credulity.