Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-17

Well, attend to them the best you
can; the whole court, officers and docket,
can go to %damnation; I am going to at
tend to my W affairsl"
The clerk wisely said no more and said
to himself:
Giles crazy, or in Lowell"
The two men secured an officer and
went to the hotel. They discovered that
Richard had left all his belongings, ex-
cept a few necessary articles, to be sent
after him, when he should indicate an
address to which they were to be sent.
just as they reached the rooms he had
occupied, Clinker met a maid carrying
out a waste basket.
"Just give me that, if you please" he
said, taking it from her. He turned it
upside down and the contents made an
untidy heap on the carpet which she had
just finished sweeping; but the pres
ence of the officer subdued her Just in
~dignation, and she said nothing, hut look.
ed cross.
81 have made some trouble, Susan -
said Clinker, "IU make it all right,
this is very important to us. He gave
her a coin which transformed her cross
looks into smiles.
eyes sir, certainly, is there anything
l can do to help you?"
eyes, you may take out all his clothes
and lay them on the bed. Locked9 We
must get them open. Officer, just tele-
phone for an expert locksmith, will youq''
He continued to examine the fragments
in the waste-basket carefully, at last he
came upon a number of slips bearing
strange characters to him, and the name
of a great dry goods establishment.
Clinker saw that many of the articles
named upon these slips were exclusively
those belonging to women's wardrobes
He showed them to Stanley.
eve will go there after we get through
here, and see what he bought and wha
he did with them. Very stupid of 81
bright a man to leave those thing
about
"Well, if he thought about it at all
he knew that; this room would be put i
order tltis morning and the scraps burn
ed, and he was reasonably safe too; for j
Susan here had not stopped to firt
bit with the sboyion this floor, she woul
have destroyed them before we arrived
WouEn't you Susang''
The girl,;who' was pretty, smiled, eye
sir, but N.Y. name is not Susan, it's En-
MAJ &
II always call girls Susan, for usua
ly girls named Susan are pretty. See9
The locksmith opened the two trunk
Soule had lefty but they found nothin
& but The usual wardrobe of a gentleman
"aJust pack these things again Susal
{ and I am your slave forever. Just tax
this greenback and get something prett
to. match your complexion.
They left the hotel and ascertaine
q at the dry goods emporium that Sou
had purchased a handsome wardrobe *
{ a lady and had it skipped South to a Ii
. tie port on the coast Of Georgia.
"He is a yachting man, Clinker, an
he means to take them to sea; and &c
knows when we will see them againi
They gazed at each other, pale al
stricken.
Clinker ground out a hearty oath b
tween his teeth.
stood have mercy upon him when
h catch him!"
They left the store and consulted
ID Stanley s office what best to do.
"We must follow them,'' said Sta
ley, 1--WE wilr get a special trai
is "Herel" to his clerk, handing him
check, ttget this cashed at once, I mi
be away from the city a week. On 20
I way stop and telft Slade to come in
once, he will take charge Of my bushes
Now Tom, while liam arranging, you S
!: about a train, you shave more inluen
with railroads than ], you don't bri.
suits against them. How are you fix
for money7n
~ have plenty, 'thalks God, I can b
80 an engine IL il comes to that. Who
going to tell tbesfolks'at home about III
"a III will tell my father, he can ms
al age tho family, bNtApoor old Mrs. Sou
II II viii DO ! shock to 'her Gerald
I'll ready for striaL. sso.1 will have t