The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-13


row. Aha, at last, at last!
1.-The meat was mine; all had to
| do was to jolt him on the shoulder and
| tell him to accompany me to the SAFETY
deposit vault for the lucre. Therefore
when I had waded through mass OF
! humanity that would have made the
/ flight from Sodom look like a street
| parade on New Years day, l felt SO
elated that cracked him bump on the
| shoulder that made his bones rattle
and told him who he was. Evidently
J he didn't believe me, for he just turned
and looked at me in stupef1ed sort Oh
manner. That whetted my zest for the
coin, and l boldly told him to follow
muh, giving him another Jafrlng'
though in a good-natured way
His apparent discontinue told
me that 1 had coppsd the right cheese
and would be hailed as the real oetec-
| tive-these thoughts were chasing
| themselves through my think-inclnera-
tor. when the corpulent gentleman,
quite put out at attracting so much at
tention, rose to his full height, took
square look at me, and then, without
warning, planted one of his ham-llke
fists square between my lamps. L saw
fit to do a backward fip-fop three
times without touching terra f1rma, and
at the conclusion of my turn, dropped
gracefully and with much symmetry of
form into a lady's lap. She yelled
bloody murder, and l got up, took my
head in my hand, and left the building
wiser quite a bit, but no richer from
financial standpoint.
Well 1 got home all right, put
hunk of 30-cent porterhouse over the
injured member and crawled stealthily
and silently up stairs to the alfalfa pile.
Next morning it was up to me to ex-
plain that | had bumped into the limb
of tree that needed trimming-but
it went all right, and no questions
were asked But, Stubby, I've decided
that yours truly was not cut out on
the pattern that calls for detectives and
such dope, and have decided to cut it
out
Here's wnar gets me, though, and
puts crimp in my cOat-tails. Last
night, as l was sitting quite comfy
in the hammock, the other halflet broke
the silence, as l was perusing the base
ball page, by making one of those tent
alive, where We going this-sum-
mer experiments, something like this:
" The summer resorts are beginning
to advertise earlier this year than US
ual, aren't they?' l only grunted, and
kept on reading-Kelly made a home
run, bringing in two men, and winning
the game, but had it not been for
rank decision by the umpire, it would
have been clam chowder for the home
team.
And they make those advertise
ments so much more attractive and per-
suaSive than they used to, don't you
think?' she went on. 1 grunted again
like a two-year-ol porker, and con-
tinued with the ball dope. Well she
went on, after pause of about the pro-
per length, it has been a hard winter,
and / for one shall be glad of the
change; and the city always seems so
dull after the close of a society event
like the Kirmess, too. Where are we
going to spend our vacations?
What is all this, anyway 1 in
quired, as carelessly as / could.
:" Oh, l was just specializing lit
tie as to where we might spend our
vacation-you know you promised me
last week that I could have two
weeks vacation out of town this year.
'Walla Wsalla for ours. What do
We want to go chasing around over the
country on summer vacation for? 1t
will be as cosy as can be right here
at home Then l saw big, briny tears
getting ready to drip out of her, eyelets,
and relented, patching it up SO she
might go alone. l will be detained here
all summer with business cares. That
| seemed to be satisfactory, but if l could
have captured Raffles, there would have
been simply nothing to the vacation
gag-no lengths to which we could not
have gone to have good time But
as it is, I have to skirmish around to
find someone who will loan me enough
| on approved security to send the other
half of the family off on a junketing
tour. Are you overladen with the
filthy stuff, Stubby?'
Nothing doing, old pal; two-bits
an hour and eat yourself does not give
man much opportunity to break in
to the frenzied finance class. But l
think you can pawn your moody COW
for the necessary adjunct to a summer
vacation"
THAT reminds me-Tve got story to
tell you about that brute some time in
the future. S'long"