Arizona republican., 1911-12-27


 him." said Erebus glibly. "Wiggin
 never touched the pheasant: he didn'
 even go into the wood; and when
 went into the hall. the hall of tn Court, I found him and the keeper sit | ting there and I let Wiggins out O. course; and then that horrid Mir. Ro
 Senheimer who shoots nightingale: caught hold of me by the arm ever S,
 roughly. and I slapped him just once. should think that the mark is there stil Cher speed of speech slackened to a slower. vengeful qualification and then quickened again., and he began to thump me and the footman interfered and I came away, and they came after us in the motor car. and you saw what happened-at least you did it."
 She stopped somewhat breathless.
 ''Lucdity itself" said Mir. Caring ton. But let us have the matter of the pheasant clear. Was the Terror exploring the wood on the chance of finding a pheasant, or had he reason to expect that a pheasant would be there ready to be brought hOmeT'
 Erebus blushed faintly looked round the horizon somewhat aimlessly. and said Well. there was a snare. you know
 Mir Darlington chuckled: 'I thought so," he said And did you know of that snare. Rupert?'
 "Oh. no: he didn't know anything about it, Erebus broke in quickly. We should never have thought of let ting him into anything so dangerous! He's so young"
 'I shall he eleven in fortnight" said Wiggins with some heat.
 You see. we wanted a fur stole at Battam's in RowingtOn for a Christ mas present for mother: and pheas- ants were the only way" Erebus ex- plained
 Light, Light at last" said the Higher Mathematician. laughing gently Well. everyone has been assaulted except the poacher. Exquisitely Pom eranian, But it's just as well. or that ingenious brother of yours would he in a fine mess. AS it is I think we can teach the young POmeranian not to be SD high-Spirited." He chuckled again.
 He turned off to Muttle Deepins: and before he reached the house Of MT. Tripping. the lawyer. he had drawn from Erebus the whole story of their pOaching. He was therefore able to lay the whole case before Mir. Tup- ping; and since the lawyer not only shared the general dislike of MT. Darcy Rosenheimer, but was also the friend and legal adviser of Mrs. Dan gerfeld. he could not have laid it be- fore a more sympathetic man.
 The result of their council WIS that no later than seven o'clock that even ing. NIT. D'Arcy Rosenheimer was served by the Constable of Little Deep ing with q Summons for on assault on Miss Violet AnastaSia Dangerfeld. and with another Summons for an assault on Bertram Darlington. F. K. S. and in the course of the next twenty min utes his keeper was served with Summons for an assault on Master Rupert Darlington.
 Mr. D'Arcy ROSenheimcr was in a chastencd. shaken mood owing to the fact that he had been put to sleep by an uppcrcut on the point" He made haste 10 despatch car into Rowing ton to bring the lawyer who managed his local business.
 The lawyer knew his clients unpop- ularity in the County. and advised him earnestly to try to hush these matters up. He declared that however Pome- ranian one might be by extraction and in spirit. no bench of English Magis- trates would take favorable view of an assault by big young man on Higher Mathematician of European reputation. or on Miss Violet Anastasia Dangerfield. aged 13. gal lantly rescuing that Higher Mathema- tician's little boy from wrongful arrest and detention.
 Mr. D'Arcv RoSenheimer neld his aching head with both hands. pro- tested that they had done all the eff fective assaulting. and protested his devotion to the Sacred Bird beloved of the English MagiStracy. But he per ceived clearly enough that he had let that devotion carry him too far. and that Bench which never profited by it so far as to shoot the particular Sacred Birds on which it was lavished, would not be deeply touched by it. Therefore he instructed the lawyer to use every effort to settle the matter out of Court.
 Since in the background. behind the three assaults. there lurked the Terror with q veritable poached pheasant. the lawyer was not called upon to strain himself Mir Darlington settled the matter out of Court. Great Deeping Cottage Hospital became richer by a hundred guineas of Mir. Darcy Rosen- heimer's Anglo-Pomeranian gold: and the danger which had menaced the coura geousIy collected money of the -.~r. -%a.t