The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-11

:sme from a Pittsburg tailor.
"She is not conscious, / suppose!
mo; she may be to-morrow-or III
! week"
He looked q. the thermometer.
murmured something about liquid diet,
avoiding my eye-Mrs. Klopton WIS
byoiling a chop at the time-and TOOK
his departure, humming cheeriu.!y ss
he went downstairs. Mcknight icoAed
after him wistfully.
"Joye. I wish | had his constitu-
tion," he exclaimed. Neither nerves
nor heart, What a chauffeur he would
make!"
81 have an idea," l said grilniy,
that this small matter OF the MURDER
Is going to come up again, and tnat
your uncle will be in the deuce OF
fix if it does. II that woman is going
to die. somebody ought to be around
to take her deposition. She knows a
lot, if she didn't do 1t herself. wish
you would go down to the telephone
and get the hospital Find out her
name. and If she is conscious.
Mcknight went under protest. Il
haven't much time" he said, looklng
at his watch. I'm to meet Mrs. west
and Alison at one. l want you 10
know them, Lollie. You would IKE
the mother
why not the daughter?' l In
ouired. | touched the little gold bag
under the pillow.
"Well," he said judicially, you've
always declared against the immature
| ty and romantic nonsense OF very
young women"
81 never said anything of the sort,
I retorted furiously.
| "'There is more satisfaction to &c
had out of a good saddle horse! nc
quoted me. more excitement ou1
of polo pony, and as for the eterna
matrimonial chase, give me instead
good stubble, a fox some decent dog:
and a hunter, and I'll show you the
real joys of the chase!"
For heavens sake, 60 down to thu
telephone. you make my head acne
l said savasely.
hardly know what prompted M
to take out the gold purse and lool
at it. It was an imbecile thing to d.
call it impulse, sentimentality
what you wish. l brought 1t out, on
eye on the door, for Mrs. Klopton ha
a ready eye and noiseless shoe. Blu
the house was quiet. Downstairs Nc
Knight was flirting with the telephon
central and there was an odor @
boneset tea in the air. l think Mrf
Klopton was fascinated out OF he
theories by the "boneset' in conne'
ton with the fractured arm.
Anyhow, held up the bag and lool
ed at it. 1t must have been III
fastened, for the next instant Their
was an avalanche on the snowfield
the counterpane-some money, wis
of a handkerchief, tiny booklet wit
thin leaves, covered with a powder
substance-and a necklace. DIRE
myself up slowly and stared at tn
. necklace.
: II was one of the semi-barbaric a
I fairs that women are wearing now,
heavy pendant Of gold chains an
carved canoes, swung from thi
!. neck chain of the same metal. TT
. necklace was broken: In three place
a the links were pulled apart and Il
canoes swung loose and partly d
a tached. But it was the supportir
O chain that held my eye and fascinat'
!. with it's sinister suggestion. Thr'
a inches of it had been snapped of, al
n as we'll as l knew anything on earth
knew that the bit of chain that Il
q amateur detective had found, bloc
stain and all, belonged just there.
v And there was no one l could ia
g to about it, no one to tell me ne
i. hideously absurd it was, no one
l. give me slap and tell me there a
" tons of fine gold chains made eve
tx year, or to point out the long arm
ID coincidence!
d. With my one useful hand fu
o. bled the things back into the bag a
II thrust If deem out of sight among t