The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
Detective COnnOr'S Heart Adventures

I In the middle OF the block, and over the
sea of human heads the black top of n
Bellevue ambulance backed against the
curb. He made his way through fringe
OF women and children and clbowed into
the thronG.
There was on open space on the side.
walk at the end OF the ambulance. and
| a policeman was keeping back the crowd
Tho hospital surgeon was rolling up ban
dagcs and eauze. and before Connor could
make an inquiry the young doctor had
climbed Into the bus, The gong rang like
rapid fire gun. and tho ambulance went
Gathering up the areaue. the horse on IL
gallop.
The crowd drifted away in small
groups OF twos and threes, and what the
desk sergeant had designated as a rum
pus was now n thing of the past, The
man on post. after scattering a squad
OF small boys drew Connor aside and
what had happened
"Ou stove exploded back in Yamara s
shop. en- de Jap en- his woman got Only
burned" conhded the policeman, TOOK
EN- both on in de bus, en- de woman was
a sigh,-almost dead when de doc carried
her out. Yamara. he tried TO save her.
en- got scorched till lie looks like roast
duck.
There was never a word to Bill Con-
nor Of The beloved twins. Ishti and Bichh
sleeping in the back room under the win
dow. There had been no fire, only UaSh
of burning oil that touched nothing save
the llimona that pretty Saku wore. as II
some invisible hand had thrown upon her
sheet of fame. After the ambulance
turned off the lights In the store and
locked the door; and so. probably, it came
about that the sleeping doll baby twins
were known neither TO the policeman on
post nor to Detective Connor. Maybe
the man on post. In the excitement, had
been told hurriedly OF the twins. But
II so he had failed 10 grasp the fact. for
there had been big crowd 10 manage
and he had had plenty TO occupy his
mind with II.
SO. after Second avenue had become
normal again. or nearly so. the man on
Bill Connor drIfted back 20 the station
house. Ichti and Bichi were as nothing
to them: they had been told nothing
about the little lap babies OF The un-
fortunate Yamaras. In their case ignor-
ance was also matter OF content
Three days later Detective Connor had
occasion to visit Bellevue to take the
statement Of an inferno who was wanted
as n witness in small affair OF murder
over on Avenue a. II was while he was
In the hospital he bcthought himself To
make inquiries as 10 the condition Of Mr.
Alas poor little Saku the pretty wife
OF Juzahuro and the mother Of tho
twins, had died the gay before. and
even at the moment JuZaburo's condition
tor told Connor. and unless the brave
little brown man rallied during the even
ing he would soon join his helpmeet in
the shadowy land where the bloom OF the
lily is everlasting.
And then, for the first time, Big BIZ
heard the names OF Ishti and Bichi.
That very day Juzaburo had been talk
ing In his conscious intervals about his
babies-the doll Ike twins left sleeping
in the wicker cradle under the window.
The hospital folks had not told Juzaburo
of his wife's death. She was over in the
womans ward. and there had been no
tion between them. And poor
little Saku had never been conscious long
enough to make mention OF her beloved
babies
Juzaburo had talked much OF Tshti
and Bichi but his English seemed 10
fail him utterly now that lie lay uAon
a bed OF suffering. and somehow he could
not make the nurses and the doctors un-
derstand. But on this day he managed
with an effort to explain TO them about
the twins, and they understood. And