The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-22
XIV. THE WHITE BULL DOG.

l Fry chose this point in the game to indulge in the folly of individual am bition. It was clear to him that Traf- ford was determined to shield Grimble- shaw, and that nothing less than the most incontrovertible evidence of the doctors guilt would prevent his doing so. With equal clearness Fry saw 1t his duty to the public to see that the scheme did not succeed. and he added, in behalf of the claims of loyalty, that he owed the same duty l. to Trafford himself.
 r Necessarily. he would be compelled to pursue his self appointed task under difficulties, for he could not neglect III the slightest detail the portion of the work assigned him by Trafford, and, besides. he would have to exercise the utmost care not to run up against, his chief and what would provoke awk- ward inquiry.
 His first duty concerned the drunk en Canadian, who had been so con- veniently absent from the farm the night of the murder. and he found him so close-mouthed until his tongue had been loosened by a copious supply of bad brandy, that he began to suspect him Of having something to conceal. This view commended itself to him the more since he felt that Trafford could present the most logical reasons for believing that the man really knew | little or nothing.
 | When, however. his tongue was loos- ened he talked with the volubility of a Canadian of French extraction and | hot night, for without money liquor was not to be had in Lanceboro. 4Ah, oui Messiah Haltenbourg he gif me un. deux piastre. He gif heem for hees wages"
 Hump! And you spend your. wages for bad brandy. do your"
 ''Non,non non! Messiah Halten- l bourg he keep heem; only deux pias- tres Me. An talk heem for what yot call ze joli temps. ze good time. hain't | eet ?" s6
 Maybe that's what you call it.'' Fry I answered, t'but I should call it getting roaring drunk That's what you were when you got back to the house. | "Ah, oui! ze drunk, you call heem Eet was ze joli temps; zat mean ze same ting; ze drunk. Oui out oui!' Well. if getting jolly drunk means tze joli temps you had tze joli temps all right Where was Altenburg when I he gave you the money?"
 stEen ze room where ees ze what you
 call heem, ze place where he wrftes?'
 ooh, his desk"
 "Oui. out. out; ze desk. He talk ze bouk-pocket from ze pocket. He gil IIo ho "
 'sacre' when Ah tell heem An van un Il deux piastres. He say you vun d-r
 drunkard: you tro' away ze moneys l you vun d-n foolp A
 -'But you took it?''
 "Ah. oui! An talk eet. An vantei
 ze joli temps; ze gret drunk you cal I heem. He say you vun d-n fol ,Ah
 say 1Ah won't ze piastres. ze joli temps
 An could not geet eet, me. eef An hat
 not ze piastres. A want heem!"
 At what time did he leave the farm Just after supper, about o'clock. Aft CT he finished his supper in the kitchen ' he went into the room and asked fol
 the money. and as soon as he got i
 put on his coat and started for tht
 village. No. he did not go by the road
 but through the woods. and met An tone, who worked for MT. Malbon, ant . they went to the village together.
 Did he meet any one as he went l through. the woods?
 "Ah, oui; An meets ze dog
 .The dogv' exclaimed Fry. 'Wha
 dog?"
 ..Ze dog. Me. An call heem 'Chack' ze bool-dog: Messiah Haltehbourg'
 bool-dog.''
 ''But haven't seen any dog rount
 there," declared Fry. There hain'
 any dog round there.'
 Mon! He gone; he not dar. Yol
 savez where he go?'' . "No. Do you?''
 Me? Non, non, non! He gone Where? An no savez. I see heem nt
 more. An meets him in les bois. Al say to heem, Go home! He vags hee.
 tail; he growl; he say 'sacre,' An tinks | kGa ~.