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ordinary circumstances. But in affairs
of this sort, where states evidence is
concerned, we are obliged to lay per-
sonal feeling aside. Now from this
letter. and Mr.. Dingley tapped the
little sheet which he held before
him, L gather that the Sonora
Valencia may have some informa-
tion concerning this case of ours
now going forward. Of course if it's
discriminating the state must have 1T.
On the other hand, If 1T should tend to
exonerate the defendant, of course we
shall be very glad"
l murmured. "Oh, yes" The hope
of a possible means of clearing
Johnny Montgomery went flushing
through me-
If the Spanish woman had anything
to say l knew it would be in his favor.
Still, there was something strange
about it. But If she has this infor-
nation / asked, why doesn't she tell
it in court?'
My dear Miss Ellie, why. indeed?
We never know why women do things.
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Mr. Dingley gave the bell handle
vigorous pull, but not the faintest tin
kle re-echoed through the interior. We
waited. There wasn't a sound of any
one inside approaching through the
hail. / was fully prepared to be
admitted by the same unseen agency
that had moved the gate. But when.
quite suddenly the door opened. l was
aware of a figure, very dimly seen in
the gloom of the hall. We were al
lowed to enter without a question,
without a word; and as quickly the
door closed upon us. After the broad
sunlight the hall seemed so dark, L
could but sense high ceilings and hang
ing draperies above my head. and feel
beneath my feet the soft depth of
carpet. All that my eyes could dis
tinguish was the little white glimmer
of Mr.. Dingley's card as he handed 1t
to the person who had opened the door.
We were led through several rooms;
but either they were interior rooms
without windows, or else the windows
were closely muffled, for they were so
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on the pretext of having fathers bag
to pack, and escaped into the house.
"All the same" l said to myself Il
don't believe he tried to get out, or even
really wanted to. From the way he
looked in the court l am sure he does
not care what happens to him.
But, oh, / did wish he cared little
more; how wished that some one could
show, in his behalf, one contradictory
piece of evidence; so that all the testi-
mony wouldn't seem to be narrowing
down to one point where there would
be room for but one thing / could be-
lieve him to be!
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CHAPTER vi

~ UNDAY, which found me sole mis-
tress of the place, was beautiful,
l. warm and beguiling. That love-
ly locked in feeling, which
comes only when the streets are quiet
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CHAPTER V
The SECOND DAY IN COURT

a s father and crossed the lower
~ hail. DO you believe all these
stories about the Spanish Wom-
-,,,o
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person. of "A Boy and a Dog
There was in the .'settin' room of my
earliest recollection.
remember that | considered it a dull
and an impossible picture. That is. the
hoy was dull and the dog was Impossible.
The boy, believe. was supposed to be a
dukelet a viscountlet, something or
other. He was diked out in a Fauntleroy
suit of black velvet. His absurdly we'll
rounded little legs-those eighteenth CEN
fury fashionable portrait painters were
outrageous fatterers were incased in
sleaZy white silk stockings. You could
your face in the shine of his shoes
boys shoes. remember, even if he was
a scion of noble house, A ridiculously
white spotessly clean and perfectly I'M
rampled lace collar. very wide and ex-
ceedingly elaborate in the working out
of the embroidered pattern. fell, or rather.
cascaded. over his shoulders. His hands
especially the hand resting patronizingly
on the dogs head were too fine and
shapely for any imaginable use; the fin
gers long and tapering, as the lady
novelsts say. and the ''flbert-shaped
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are number of we'll authenticated cases
where officers or others connected with
the maintenance OF discipline at the
Naval Academy have been the victims
of attacks of the kind which might easily
have resulted in the loss of their lives.
1t might be explained in the first place
that the post of officer of the department
of discipline at the Naval Academy is
most undesirable one. The maintenance
of discipline among a Shipload of blue
jackets is a trif1e compared to the same
task among the 500 midShipmen, with the
traditional rights and privileges claimed
by them and the sharp lines which they
draw to what means can be taken by
the authorities for their government.
With the sailors. an officer who is strict
to the point of harshneSs. il just, is soon
understood and supported by most of the
men. A large element among the mid
Shipmen seem to be outraged by any Of
ficer VINO effectively prevents some of the
breeches of regulations which have be-
come traditional at the academy. such as
hazing formerly was and as ''frenching'
has always been. Midshipmen who are
on duty and report such occurrences
have been sent to coventry, while officers
wno use any degree of secrecy to detect
ing such matters are visited with intense
dislike.
What seems to arouse THE particular
Indignation OF the midshiptnen is for an
officer OF comparative youth to use knowl-
edge gained as midshipman but a few
years previous for the purpose of aiding
him in the detection of offenses commit
ted by those who are a few years after
him. This fact puts the officers OF the
discipline department in an awkward po-
sition. Sworn to carry out orders and
regulations, and with a higher regard
for such an oath than he had as a mid
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
THE Naval Academy authorities have
practically given up their attempt
to lay hands on the midshipman
who about two weeks ago hurled heavy
alarm clock in the direction of the officer
in charge with the apparent intention OF
hitting him on the head. Charitable in
terpretations of the incident. not entirely
out of the question, are that the clock
was thrown into the corridor to make a
noise just the officer in charge walked
into the hall, or that it was thrown in
his direction with the intention of start
ling him and not with designs on his
life
These ways of looking at it are pos
sible. but the strong belief here is that
the clock was thrown with the delibera ate
utter disregard of whether 1t kined him
or not. The clock weighed about three
pounds and was thrown from the third
story or deck as it is called, of Ban
croft Hall. Hitting the officer on the
head, it might we'll have inflicted fatal
injury An inspection to find what mid
shipman had a missing clock is Of little
avail, as the miscreant would naturally
choose some other persons clock as
missile.
Most people who love the American
navy and are interested in the young men
who are being trained to become its Of
ficers, find 1t hard to believe that any one
of them could descend to the level OF an
assassin, as the perpetrator of such an
act, if Intentional, certainly is. yet there
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shipman. the young officer must eithe-
deliberately refuse to do the things he
knows are necessary for the maintenance
OF discipline or use the knowledge SO ac-
duiied. 1t is small wonder that no officers
like an assignment to the department OF
discipline and manage to get away from
IL in much shorter time than the reg
ular period of assignment to duty atsthe
academy.
Not only are the officers OF this DEPART
ment the recipients OF occasional attacks
of this kind. but masters-at ARMS and
watchmen. who also keep lookout for
o1enses among the midshipmen some
times have theirs handed out to them.
One or two of the incidents of the kind
which happen from time to time are ira
ditional. Shortly before the Spanish
American war clear attempt was made
to kill an officer of the discipline depart.
ment. who at the time was officer IN
charge at the old quarters OF the mid
Shipmen. A heavy jar was dropped from
the fourth floor, distance of at least
nifty feet. and came within few inches
of the officer, who was standing in the
hall at the bottom Of the stairway. A
fair blow on the head would almost GER
tainly have killed him.
1t is only fair TO say that assassins OF
the kind who would commit an act OF this
sort I'm no way represent the body OF
midshipmen. In almost every case as
with the most fragrant hazing and other
serious OffenSes. the offender In a mid
shipman who failed to reach up to the
academy and knows that he must sever
his connection in a few weeks. Hating
everybody and everything at the acad-
envy, such a midshipman is likely to do
things that the average midshipman
would not countenance.
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with his tail down. leaving a piece of ear
or something As A trophy in the jaws OF
paws of his antagonist This cowardice
and ineptitude on the part of my dogs not
only caused me the rawest misery Of
spirit. but 1t forced me to do whole lot
of quite unnecessary fighting myself.
Well. il my dog can't lick your dog
can lick you, doggone you I'd feel 1t
incumbent upon me TO say to some boy
whose dog had just put my mutt on the
run. and then I'd wade in. and
Well. there's no use trying to hide il
There We're times when | discovered, on
such occasions, that not only could the
other boys dog lick my dog hands down.
but that the other boy also could-and
did-lick me.
L haven't the least Crude now please
understand. against the dogs that owned
when j was boy. | hope that every one
of EN- is i'm the dog heaven at this mo-
ment. munching fine. fat. meaty soup
bones. But I can't help wishing, even
now, that one or two Of them. anyhow
had had little lineage. just little IA :
voring of genealogy, and had held their
tails up like other boys dogs did, and
had fought even a draw occasionally. and
all like that.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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Mr.. Kuestermann is loaded for a speech.
members rush to the House from all over
the Capitol. Most of them start to laugh
before they get within hearing distance
NNCE upon a time Charlie Mann. who
~ was born shortly before George
Washington was inaugurated for the first
time. and who for the past forty years or
SO has been superintendent of the House
press gallery. was in charge of Pull
man dining car. That was ages ago. but
he still preserves the ability to cook
course dinner on an alcohol lamp. His
terrapin la Maryland is famous from
Tallahassee to Fairbanks.
lIVOU are so mpulsive. You Amer
leans said a visiting English
newspaper man at the National Press
Club the other afternoon. Il get many
of the papers from over here. and ! am
always interested when / see an item,
for instance. like this:
Special Dispatch to the Scream.
: Bluefelds. w. Va. December 81
AT a dance here last evening John
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you've heard of places called cleansing es-
Establishments, haven't you? HoW's that
Your suit has been to the cleanssrs nine
ten times already. and. in addition to
that. it was made over last spring to
conform to the style? Oh. that's it, is it?
Hurts and irkS you, hey, that you have
to patroniZe the cleanser once in a while ?
Well, it is sad, and outrageous, and hui
initiating. and all that. l know. but you
brought it all on yourself, you must remem-
scrub who has to work for a living. Your
game. you know. should have been to
marry millionaire.
"Oh by ,he way. I observed how Your
ears positively stood out from your head
the other evening when that silly, wshy-
washy Mrs. Gitkale was telling you here
that she has her shoes made to order and
pays $15 q pair for them. i had my eye
on you when she was pulling that on you,
and If YOU weren't q picture of envious
intentness. then l don't know that I'm
alive, that's all. I've been waiting ever
since for you to come forward with a de-
mand that you be permitted to have your
shoes made to order. at fifteen bucks the
copy, Just because Mrs. Gitkale has her
footgear done that way-or says she does.
AS a matter OF fact. you know, 1 think
it's a condinged shame that you haven't
been having fifteen-dollar shoes made to
order right along. You ought to have that
kind. You deserve 'em. And il Mrs. Git
kale has 'em, then why in the name of
leather and all of it's products can't you
have 'em. that's what I'd like to know. l
was reading the other day, by the way.
that the younger Mrs. Gastorgilt recently
paid $500 for a certain kind Of aigrette
for hat 1t struck me at the time I read
this that it was a shame you couldn I
have nine or ten aigrettes Just like that
for your hats. How's that? You never
said or suggested anything of the sort
Oh. perhaps you didn't in actual words.
but III bet a package Of lemon drops
that you were thinking it all right enough.
"By the way. is there any particular
reason why you should put your price for
this new fur coat at the arbitrary figure
Of $lOO? Wouldn't one for about 500 80
answer at all?
WHY, say, there are plenty Of women
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some sort of front It's no fun for me,
l beg to assure you, to sink around in
cheap, poorly made clothes, getting the
secret smoker from the well-dressed
dressed, of course because they're un-
married. the foxy dogs, I'm not a thou
sand years old Yet nor yet SO Internally
ugly some mud fences I've met up
some qualification to me If l could tog
out once In a great While-really and
truly tog out in buds that have the look
and feeling of quality clothes, and enjoy
OF being somebody. But can | do it?
How can / do 1t? Is it In the cards? Is
there a chance on earth for me to stake
myself to even one little mess OF COM
paratively fine raiment as often, say, as
once in five years?
"weli, not il know common arith-
metic. Not IL l can add UP a short col
umn of figures. Not II I'm dreaming
about the drag and drag and drag this
esta blishnent is upon me from one year.
end to the other. Not if know the first
thing about how the married mans nose
is held to the grindstone in his herculean
effort to maintain an extravagant wife,
who'd rather blow in hard wrung money
than eat angels food any day in the
week
whats that? Oh. go ahead and pull all
that antique stuff about YOU not having
q rag to your back and all that sort of
thing. OF course, you haven't a rag to
your back. That's the original bromid-
iom / never met or heard of a woman
yet that had a rag to her back. ! sup
pose you'll be sitting there and telling me
next that you didn't work me for one of
those outrageousy expensive tailored
suits only last fall. How's that? 1t
wasn't last fall but the fall before? Oh.
/ knew you'd deny 1t. Sure thing, l re-
member perfectly well paying bill for a
tailored suit for you early last fall. but
II you want to insist that 1t was year
before. why, go right ahead. You'll get
away with it. You get away with just
about every old thing around here But
granting. for the sake of argument. that
it was year before last that you got your
last tailored suit mean last fall-why.
the suit looks pretty good yet. doesn't
it? That was the suit you had on yester-
day evening when I came home, wasn't
It? Well, it looked great to me all right
Oh, it's all spotty and soiled, is 1t? Well,
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tary was in bromide and discursive
mood. and then, kissing the royal great
toe. hasten from the presence to sing to
waiting world the war song of the up
lift. They were ever ready. always on
the job. The President could ladle out
upon the red-hot sriddle of their recep-
tive mood any old dough. fresh or stale.
that he might happen to have handy, with
The assurance that in the shortest possl-
bic space of time it would he properly
baked and served for public consumption
These gentlemen appear 10 be without
jobs under the present administration.
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polished, anyhow.
The boys face tas moonishly oval as
the face of Nine. Pompadour in her por-
traits had an angelic expression such as
no sure-enough boys face ever wore
since the world began. 1 don't care what
"they say TO the contrary The eyes
as large and round as the moss agates
YOU used for ''taw marbles, were the
eyes of a cherubim A perfect shower of
tight tallowy curls that looked as though
they were glued on by somebody's sure
stick stickum. hung rgidly from his head.
the brow thereof being given the mature.
noble amplitude of the brow OF Edmund
Burke or of Charles James Fox. Alto
gether he certainly was one dull, dummy
fed dishwatery kind of boy.
But the dog was simply out OF the
question Not that the dog wasn't OBJ
viously of high degree. pedigreed. per-
maps back to the crusades. aristocratic
to his paws tips manifestly OF the canine
haut ton.
He was all of these. That was just the
trouble He was too scandalously aris-
tocratic and refined to be a dog at all.
Maybe he was a super-dog-1 don't know.
He was collie, / believe. His forehead
was as expansive and bullying with in
tellect as the forehead of Socrates in
the bust He had ludicrously clean
match of white on his broad, billowy
BOSOM His eyes were just exactly like
the boy 's-same shape, same expression
and everything
His nose tthe nostrils delicately dis
tended) was sort of tilted priggishly. as
though he wouldn't chase a rabbit (un-
less formally invited TO by his noble
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in a singerly fashion quite unusual with
him. IIe scrutinized Bluey carefully and
judicially for points" Evidently,
though he failed to discover any.
Well, he pronounced, redepOsitinS
the pup in the pail. 'all 1 got to say is
this: It's a good thing that kiyoodle ain t
got no eyes open Yet to See hisself. Ii
he could see hisself he'd laugh hisself to
DEATH
Wouldn't You call that midding dis
couraging way for boy just come into
possession of his first dog to be treated
particularly after he'd rescued his first
dog from Davy Jones locker, SO to speak.
by sacrificing cherished watch that
didn't go. wouldn't go. and never had
gone?
But that wasn't anything to the dis
piriting-oh. 1t was dispiriting. all right
enough-reception received when !
home when I got there. He looked at
the pail. at the pup, at me, and then
he
However, I draw the veil There
never was anything particularly halcyon
about these Woodshed proceedings in
which my father and figured respective
~ as the party of the first part and the
party of the second part. Nevertheless,
when it was all over, / was permitted to
keep the pup.
i
agreeable conformity with the tradition
il ] could truthfully say that Bluey, my
first dos, whom / had snatched from the
nav of extinction, and for whom l had
taken a whale of a whaling-if | could
say. with even shadow of veracity. that
Bluey exhibited his gratitude by making
good, by showing himself. that is to say
a good dog, a dog in wnom I could take
pride. a dog whose uprghtness and man
ner of carrying himself would enable me
to confound his early critics.
But ] can't. I simply cannot. Bluey
didn't make good. Bluey very soon gave
unmistakable evidences Of his obscure,
presumably plebeian. origin. Bluey never
was high-hinded. In fact. Bluey's in
stincts were low. I suffered the most
dreadful modification of spirit when this
fact became SO patent that it could not be
ignored. Just to show how ornery
Bluey's instincts were: When he got past
the milk-lappng age l fell to providing
him with choice little tidbits of steak,
chops and the like. Never mind how
got the tidbits, the furtive ingenuity
had to employ to get them and all like
that. The main point is that I got them
Well. would Bluey eat this fine, high
grade food that l had to st / mean
that ] got for him? No: Bluey would
not
Bluey shifted and turned up his nose at
patrician dog food. Bluey preferred fish
heads. chickens that had keeled over and
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the moist blue pup into the milk pail
which was still untitled. The pup just fit
ted into it nicely. i had no time to reflect
that this treatment Of the household milk
vessel might come in for criticism. to say
the least when reached home. My main
purpose was to get promptly away from
boy who might prove to have change
able mind. and I achieved that purpose
NV progress homeward was marked by
envious Manifestations considered them
envious. anyhow-on the part Of boys of
my acquaintance who peered into the pail
Nothing could have prompted their de-
risive. jeering remarks except envy OF my
proprietorship of pup.
Lets see If he's got any pluck, said
one boy. lifting the dormant. not to say
moribund. blue. pup out of the pail by
the scruff of the neck-against my pro-
test, of course.
I never did take much stock in that way
of testing a pups pluck, by the way. and
] don't yet. I consider 1t too Spartan an
ordeal. Supposing somebody had roughly
grabbed you by the scruff OF the neck
and thus have hoisted you out of the
cradle and held you out at arms length
when you were only about six days old to
see whether or no you possessed pluck
don't you think you'd have squealed good
and plenty? Well. then. But all the
boys of my day had that way Of trying
out the pluck OF pups.
BIuey-that was what I'd already men-
tally christened him-squeaked under the
test
.'Waw-haw-what mutt derided the
tester Topping the pup back into the mlik
pail.
That boy now is an honored citizen OF
the community. He is lawyer IN NM
practice, a director in many banks, mas
served as speaker Of the lower branch
OF the legislature. and has coed chance
to become United States senator But
I've always hated him since that hour
have never forgiven him, never snail Tor
give him. for the opprobrium. the obloauy
he visited upon my first pup.
I met my older brother-he was play
ing silfnny in the vacant lot-as l neared
home 1t was not exactly an nspiritins
encounter. He gazed contemplatively
at the mess-that's just what the pup
looked like, a mess-in the milk pail. and
then he shook his head balefully.
well" said he in that doomful. prog
nosticatory tone that boys use, I'D hate
to get what you're going to get when you
get home for doing that milk pail that
way. Where's the milk? In your pocket:
Sure enough. where was the mix
Really. ] hadn't thought of the milk. |
had sharp hunch that my older brother
was going to be vindicated as a shrewd
prophet before the Lord very soon after
/ reached home.
Then he picked Bluey out Of the pail
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A PERSON named John Torrance. VINO
"A represents a couple of papers In that
dear New England. and who looks as
though he had forgotten 10 remember
something or other but didn't know what
it was. appears to have discovered Q
truly scientific and labor-saving method
of collecting news. The other day he was
discovered by a friend in pleased contem-
plation Of the evening papers.
You know" he said. II have thought
for some time that these horrid afternoon
local papers We're not printing sufficient
the city editor of one OF them and tod
him So And do YOU know. the result Is
quite apparent There is a great dea
more Capitol news in TODAY. I shall have
quite a column To send tonight; oh, 10, ,
/ know | shall.
Sounds easy. doesn't il"
IRVING c NORWOOD