The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1911-03-31

that little Billy seemed croupy and
she would sleep with him in a room
! by themselves, while the father slept
in the room With the little girl. Jere-
miah aWoke in the morning evidently
feeling very comfortable.
Wife he said, how good it makes
Il man feel to do kind act. | went 20
sleep last night thnkin' o that poor
Teller that let bury his wife, and
was thankful that Id taken the risk
and given him the satisfaction o keep
in his promise
You surely took a BIZ risk, Jerry
replied the vie with a yawn.
Didn't you sleep we'll last niehtF
he asked.
Not very. Billy VAS hreathin' hard
and coughin' all night
Sorry, remarked the husband SYM
pathrtically.
After breakfast when Jerry went
! down 10 his office, he noticed some
loose earth on the knoll where the
i burial had taken place the DAY before.
i lie went UP thee and discovered that
/ the AraNr was open to its very bottom
4 and the heN had been removed. Turn
| ing To the Garbor, he discovered that
the ship which had been anchored
there the evening before had also de
parted lie went in 10 his wife and
said eNcitedly:
by gum, Patience, thos" fellows
were smugglcrS'
What makes You 'hlhk SoE asked
the wife.
The grave has been robbed 1t was
a trick. Like enough the box had no
corpse in IT, but was fuIl of dutiahlc
! 20 is. Some confederate has taken II
ont
We'll said Patience, Wlpng Il dish.
'mHhhy after you've been collector
for spell YOU wont get taken IN so
easy.
Nobody hut You and me knows any
thing about 1t relolnod Jerry Thought
iullN' y must SO right out and MI
up the grave | wouldn't have the Sc
ttet Eet cut fer thousand dollars.
/ King shovel he went out To the
| knoll. Glanced about To see IL any one
| WIS looling and, feeling satisfied that
IL WIS not observed filed up the
ho!r.
by gum" he said To himself rs he
walked back to his house, that was
| the slickcst trick | ever heard Of |
| under Patience didn't get ON to II.
! = Is generally pretty wide awake,
ttt this time they caught her nappin'
u well rs me"
Patience" I've said II wish we'd a
l,l on to those fclcrs might n got
saaa, promotion
guess that's all you'd n got. You
Vou'dn't n got any of the goods"
s}hipple looked more disturbed over
IL, matter than his wife. His salary
-. collector WAS infinitely small. and
fa,sr WAS not much comfort for him
&, Difp bt4 wife having u hard fine ia
ela'he nad educate the children and
I've ends meet. BESIDES, the govern
y - done and he would lose his posi-
I'm. ON the whole, he was ms much
Il pressed over the result MS he had
b N elatpd nj having done good nc.
! sion.
One day Patience told her husband
th1t she must 20 TO n neighboring cit!
to Wit IL dentist. He groaned, no
luoWlng where the necessary fund
were Ia come from But Paticnc,
srd HIM eoodhy clecrily and tool
tnt departure. leaving him to take ear,
Of the children for whole day.
Ihr nest morning Whpplc received
a document with the United States
tulsnry departments official stamp.
d missing him from his office
II knrW IT. he moaned Somebody
! a.W TIA" whole thing and reported it,"
us wife sat down on his lap and
rul her arms around his neck
II reported It, Jerry
You:
y rs
y saw through that smyelln' mourn
or ut once. He overdld his cryin As
soon aS YOU We're IN bed that night |
went ont with spade and dug up the
bon. 1t was so light that | knew 1t
dtdht contain body. | carried 1t to
the "ld penthouse ana ma 1t up IN one
81 the r"liIh boats. Inc next day /
Mrnl ANA opened II ana found 1t fun
OF Inc's ana jewels. wrote n letter
t" the government under an assumed
name tenn them That ! knew where
S'h''sGl'd goods were hidden ana
"o'lid ten 'hem II lheY would give me
nan. ihey agreed ANA met them
Yesterday ana TOOK them to the goods,
lhey valued them at over $4,000 ana