St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-05-11

me, and / concluded to take hand.
Mr.. Gillett paused. Obviously in his
case egotism allied to enthusiasm
made his duties a pleasure. He SEEM
ed now briefly commencing himself
In his own mind. up to this time.'
he resumed. "our friend the ex-pugil-
is. had never actually killed any one.
but soon after l engaged myself to
look after him word was brought to
the department that poor woman
had been murdered, a cheap music
hall dancer. She had seen better days.
however,
Lord Ronsdale. who had been look
ing away, yawned. as If finding the
police agent ''wordy." then strolled to
the rail.
suspicion pointed strongly In his
direction. and we got him after
struggle. 1t was a hard fight. with
out a referee. and maybe we used him
q little rough. but we had to. Then
Dandy Joe was brought in. Joe's
plain. mean little gambler and race
track follower with courage not big
enough for broad operations But he
had a wide knowledge of what we
term the thieves catacombs, and, well.
he peached on the big fellow-gave
testimony that was of great service
to the prosecution. The case seemed
clear enough. There was some sort of
contrary evidence put in, but it didn't
amount to anything. His record was
against him. and he got a heavy SEN
tence, with death as the penalty if he
ever sets foot in England again"
Sir Charles assisted his lady from
her chair. Coming. Ronsdale?'
Believe l won't go down. drawled
the nobleman at the rail- Air better
up here" he explained.
Sir Charles laughed, got together the
other members of his party. and all
followed Mr.. Gi1lett to a narrow COM
panionway. There a strong iron door
stopped their progress; but. taking
key from his pocket. the police agent
thrust it into a great paddock. gave it
a turn and swung back the barrier.
Before them stretched a long aisle, at
each end Of which stood soldier with
a musket. On one side were the cells.
small. heavily barred.
ME-. Gillett peered into the cells at
his charges with a keen, bright gaze
that had in it something of the ami
NAL tamer's zest for his part.
"Well, how are we all todayT' he OBJ
served in his most animated manner
to the guard ''All doing we1l?''
''No. complained of being i'll, but
I say it's only the dumps No. Il has
been garrulous."
''Garrulous. Ell? Not little f1ighty?'
The guard nodded. Mr.. Gillett whis-
pered few instructions and asked
number of other questions. Meanwhile
the child had paused before one Of the
cells and. fascinated. was gazing with
in. What was it that held her-the
pity of the spectacle, the terror of it?
Her blue eyes continued to rest on
. the convict. young fellow of no more
than one-andtwenty Of magnificent
proportions, but with face sodden and
british. For his part he looked at her
open mouthed. with an expression Of
stupid surprise at the sight Of the fig
ure so daintily and slenderly fashion
ed, at the tangles of bright golden hair
that seemed to have imprisoned some
of the sunshine from above.
''Well. I'm blowedr he muttered
hoarsely. ''Where'd you come from?
Looks like one O. them bally Christ
mas dolls had dropped often some
counter in Fleet street and got in here
by mistaken
A mist sprang to the blue eyes. She
held her white. pretty fingers tight
against her breast. ''It must be ter
rible here she said falteringly
The convict laughed harshly. 'HellI'
he said laconically.
The child trembled. s'I'm sorry" she
managed to say.
The fierce dark eyes stared at her
what forY'
Because you have to stay here"
"Well, PM But this time he ap-
parently found no adequate adjective.
eff this amt the FUNNIEST Christmas
doIlp'
She put out her hand. Here's some
thing for you. poor man." she said as
steadily as she could It's my King
George gold piece. date 1852. and be-
Ionged to my father. who wore it on
his watch chain and who is dead Per
haps they'll let you buy something
with it"
He looked at the hand IF she amt
stickin' out her duke to me right
through the bars. Blamed If she amt.
Looks like lily-a bally white lily
he repeated wonderingly. lone of them
kind we wonst run acrost when the
cap turned up adrift on an island jest
to waller in green grass!''
Don't you want it?' said the child.
he extended great coarse hand