The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-26

iouASSu dudply upon ucT IypSWE1LLus desk as of yore.
 You look as if you'd had night o1 it. remarked Rosie Eddie yawned obligingly. Don't sit on my desk Can't you see those lettersi'
 Gee, you're getting touchy of late I'll move the letters"
 No, you won't" she objected. Be . sides, it doesn't look well. What ii some one should come in suddenly"
 well, it wouldn't be the first time got out suddenly. would it?" He re tained his seat on the desk "Say, where's Rigby?"
 You mean MT. Rigby? He's out"
 Gee, you're also snippy.i We'll. give him my regards. So long,"
 He was unwinding his long legs pre-. paratory to descent from his perch
 Don't rush." she said quickly. He rewound his legs and yawned. Good ness, you're not affected with insom- mia, are you?"
 Tive got it the worst way. I got awake at 8 o'clock this morning, and l couldn't go to sleep again to save my soul. It's an awful disease. Will Rigby be back soorly' tIt won't matter. He's engaged" :" she snapped, cracking away at her machine.
 live heard there was some prospect. She's fine locker"
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 Say, Rosie, Pm going to ask a girl to go to the theater with me-" said Eddie complacently.
 Indeed! Well. ask her. I don't care"
 Tomorrow night. Win you go?"
 "Who? Me?"
 "sure. I-I wouldn't take anybody else. you know.,'
 'tWhat theaterr' she asked, with her rarest smile
 At that instant Rigby came in. With out word Eddie popped up, bit red in the face, and followed the lawyer into the private room, closing the door behind him. Rosie's ears went very pink. and she pounded the keys so viciously that the machine trembied on the verge of collapse.
 Gee, MT. Rigby, that old Droom's a holy terror. He kept me there till after l o'clock. But I'm going back again soon some night. He's got an awful Joint. But that isn't what wanted to see you about ran across May Rosa, bel, that chorus girl was telling you about. Saw her downtown in restau- rant at this morning. She wanted to buy the drinks and said she had more money than rabbit. There was a gang with her. got her to one side, and she said an uncle had just died and left her a fortune. She wouldn't say how much, but 1t must have been quite bunch. I know all of her un- cles. She's got three. They work out at Pullman, MT. Rigby, and they couldn't leave 30 cents between them if they all died at once"
 After hearing this Rigby decided to confront Bansemer at once. It did not occur to him until later that the easiest and most effective way to drive Banse- mer from Chicago without scandal was through Elias broom. When the thought came to him, however, he re- joiced. The new plan was to SOW the seeds of apprehension with broom. Bansemer would not be long in reap ing their harvest-of dismay. Ten ap- parently innocent words from Eddie Deever would open Droom's eyes to the dangers ahead.
 Young Mr. Deever met with harsh disappointment when he came forth to renew his conversation with Rosie Heating. She was chatting at the tele- phone, her face wrea thed in smiles.
 Thank you," she was saying; "it will be so nice. I was afraid had an engagement for tomorrow night but I haven't. Everybody says it's per fectly lovely play. I'm crazy to see 1t. What? About 7:30. It takes nearly half an hour down on the Clark street cable. Slowest old thing ever. All right. Goo1oy." Then she hung up the receiver and turned upon Eddie, who stood aghast near the desk. "Oh, I thought you'd gone"
 Say, what was that you were say ing over the phone? Didn't l ask you"-
 III SOluS SO luS JuedlEI Wltn NIT. Kempshall. Why?"
 Why? Why, you know asked you to-
 You didn't specify, Eddie, that's all. I'll go some other night with you. Goodby." Clackety clack went the machine, throwing insult into his very face, as it were. He tramped out of the office in high dudgeon.
 "Confound this detective business be might have been heard to Three nights later, however, he took Rosie to the play, and on the fourth night he was Droom's guest again in the rooms across the river. He was well prepared to begin the of insinuation which was to affect Bansemer in the end. Sitting stiff and uncomfortable in the dingy living room overlooking Wells street, he watched with awe the master of the place at work on the finishing touches of new invention" the uses of which he did not offer to explain.
 He was without coat, and his shirt sleeves were rolled far above the el- bows, displaying long, sinewy arms. hairy and not unlike those of the orang outang Eddie had seen in Lin- coin park.
 "I've got new way of inf1icting the death penalty" the gaunt old man said, slipping into heavy, quilted