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l drew him up beside mo 10 the dummer
window Of the attic out OF which hung.
Gropep Unly those who had handed
and kneeded il t'roo the unknown black
can properly define tho wud; and the very
wint fust. with large a-hold OF me heel
and he has said since 1t was like swimmin' ,
| my trail was 30 wet from the sweat.
| Likely II was, but wan who followed him
shud hev taken keyneen against the
shivers, they are that contagus
Suddintly | stopped short
"Jarge., large | hissed. come up clus
here to the right; there's some sort OF u
As we bot felt along the floor we
med out q roll OF blankets, a tinkers
furnace. and q box, In which was a hunk
Of brid. o half Imply milk bottle. and. bist
| friends Of courage and sanity. whether in
the dipths OF topical caverns or hyper
bolean winter, candle Ind and bunch Of
Caushusly we med light and gazed
around, gsuging fust the open dure lead
ing to the circular stairs.
Look, look" cried JarRe and hopes
i were the yellowish rays and not his
heart, / shud say stimmach, which med
him tunn so sickly as he pointed out a
great rough coat, and pair Of enormous
brogans.
"A wanderin' tinker was SUSPECTED "a
wan OF the mudderers, he faltered. 1He
was said TO be desperate villain; they
niver cart him. He has ividently been
hiding hore until sonevan shud come for
the trissure He must hev locked the
dure on us whin he wint down to dispose
OF that niver TO be hers. Philip. What
shall We do Smithersl"
-Dop' l answered putting out the light,
why, watch him OF coorse. Let him haul
the ehisnuts, the golden nuggets, out Of
the fire for US, man, for us.
We crep' n'iseless out into the hall.
We peered down the we'll of the circular
stairs TO the main hall far below.
The lamp by which Philip had been
reading his pretty books was now on the
stand. Sitting beside II was rough lump
OF a manin shirt sleeves and stocking feet
studying Jarge's stall, which | had put
into the long yeller envelope, as can
nibal king might study track. Where,
thin, was Philip?
Ill
! A reg lar Sly chops, this man; mminse.
shapeless, with a cock eye. Now and
thin he'd yawn over his fruitless labors.
and thin you'd swear that old Fee, Foe
Fun hisself was about TO q. Nash his
teet over the bones OF his victim.
felt me kronk to be sure it was still
there at the fought OF how he wud rap il
against Jarges IL We but gev him the
chanot Just thin Jarge's grasp on me
arm tightened like bellcal at the pull.
Look, look" he mumured; like a
virging martyr into den OF lines Dam
I if am going to stand for it
! And II hadn't disstrained him he wud
/ hev been down the stairs and at the HUI 60 s
t'roat
! As seen cudn't blame him thou gh my
rheumatic blood is a mud puddle TO bug
/ g,Indy in comparison with his. A young
woman was coming up the rear stairs,
TO which luckily the tinkers back was
TUNED. There was happy smile on her
face until she spied him. and thin it lost
the little color it had and her hand wint
oonwulsive TO her brist.
Yit you cud see her dilicate features
stiifen into that fortitude which hard ex-
periencs will give. Like the ghost OF her
dainty slf she ioated tr'oo the hall into
the room where had hid behind the fold
ing doors.
Her appearance seemed TO tell me
whole lot about this case which av
coorss we didn't know. An orphing
doubtless forced 10 earn her own brid,
! she had mayhap found among the family
| papers the mysterus triangular fragmint
which old Hansen must have stint to thin
as his kin. Its meaning had been naught
| to her Until Love t'rowing her and Philip
| togedder. had opened their four eyes.
No wonder she had smiled happy.
as she arrived. thinking that fortune was
about to crown their j'y; and now 4,
and now. poor, little creetur, with her
Philip perhaps a CORY mess. and that
wild animile ready to spring. What
wud she do, what wud she do?
| Il was Collar hisself WI no gev Z iicome
deyussuIn from the strain 10y laundering
into the front room. Presently he KEN
back with the pretty basket OF PROV
suns which Philip had perpared and
grin that threatened to take II all down to
wanst, the handle included.
Good for her. whispered large, the
plucky little saint. As quiet as a mouse,
Smithers, whin her heart must be rint
! into lint. ] b'lieve she'll do old Bloody
| Rawbones yit-dam If | don't Lard
as is like he is laid out with confusun Of
/ the brain Look, look il she isn't up to
snuf, may | sneeze mysilf stlf
| Truly II was pretty sight TO see
! Adele as she now poised on the threshold
| OF the back room, her finger TO her lips
the pussonificashun of watohfulness. The
tinker med a grab for the bottle, and
she gev a little nod as much as To say,
That's Just what ] knowed he wud do
The good stun wint down with a guggle
that med my toes curl, and her smile
grew more expansive as the bottle tipped
higher and hiAher
1If she hasn't managed 10 dope him
gasped large, may ! be ground up into
excilsior!"
Surely enough, before he had stuffed
! the stuffing out OF the choking al nd wadded
| il down with batch Of biscuits the tinker's
great head began to nod. He threw
his arms into the air, he closed his eyes
and back he lay in his chair like Samuel
about to have his hair cut.
She waited, she did, the crafty little
Dahlia, until she was more than sure
cree ping clus 10 the back Of hls chair
and listening to his heavy breathing az
| Ia svelled and settled into an cart shsk in &
snore, Then she glided into the front
room. There was the sound as OF a body
being lifted and moved, and thin KEN
her gintle voice.
sLie STILL darling she said, until
you get your full strengt back, and all
will be well -
large moaned. so he did. like a child
disappointed Of the moon,
Prisintly she was back agin; with great
kiles o, rope over her arm which looked
az II they had been adjusted to the human
farm divine. At all evints, they settled
materially and deftly about the sleeping
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