Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-05-05


rel. and from them she looked at me
1 Then she began to laugh. one OF her
4 hysterical giggles, and she turned
and went down again. As Jim and
stared at each other we could hear
her gurgling down the hall below.
| She had violent Mysteries for an
hour. with Anne rubbing her forehead
and Aunt Selma burning feather out
of the feather buster under her nose.
Only Jim and understood. and VIC
did not tell Luckily the next thing
I that occurred drove Bella and her
4 nerves from eyerybody's mind
At seven o'clock. when Bella had
/ dropped asleep and everybody else
was dressed for dinner, Aunt Selma
! discovered that the house was cold,
and ordered Dial to the furnace.
It was DaFs day at the furnace;
Flanagan had been relieved Of that
part Of the work after twice setting
fire to a chimney
In five minutes Dial came back and
/ spoke a few words to Max, who fol
lowed him to the basement and in ten
minutes more Flanagan puffed up the
steps and called Mr. Harbison
am not curious, but | knew that
something had happened While
Aunt Selma was talking suffrage TO
Anne who said she had always been
tremendously Interested in the sub
iect and if women got the suffrage
would they be allowed 10 yo$e2-l
slipped back to the dining room
The table was laid for dinner but
Flanagan was not in sight. / could
hear voices from somewhere. faint
voices that talked rapidly. and after
while located the sounds under
my feet. The men were all ir the
basement, and something must aaye
happened few 30 the. basement
stairs, to meet Mr. HARRISON at the
foot He was g,irny and dusty, wifh
streaks of coal dust over his face. and
he had been examining his revolver
| was Just in tiire to see Aim slip it
into his pocket
What is the nratter2F demanded.
is any one hurt p
No one" he said coorly We've
been cleaning out the furnace
With a revolver How interest
ing and unusual" said dryTy. and
slipped past him as be barred the
way He was NOT pleased beard him
inutteT something and come rapidly
after me, but had the voices as
cdide, and l was not going To be turned
back like a child The men had gath
cred around low stone arch in the
furnace room and were looking down
a short flight of steps, into sort OF
vault. under the pavement. \ faint
light came from small grating
above. and there was close, musty
smell in the air.
Il tell you it must have been last
night, Dallas was saying Wilson
and / were here before we went to
bed, and I'll swear that hole was not
there then.
II was not there this morning,
sir, Flanagan insisted ut has been
made during the day"
And it could not have been done
this afternoon" Mr.. HARRISON said,
quietly 4 was fussing with the tele-
II
heard the noise
Something in his voice made me
look at him, and certainly his express
sion was unusual He was watching
us all intently while Dallas pointed
out to me the cause of the excite
ment. From the main floor OF the fur
mace room, flight OF stone steps sur
f.A lol
cellar, beneath the street The coal
cellar was of brick. with a cement
floor. and in the left wall there gaped
an opening about three feet by three,
leading into cavernons void. perfect
~ evidently q similar vault be
longing to the next house.
The whole place was ghostly, full OF
shadows, shivery with possibilities. II
was Mr.. HARRISON finally who took
Jim's candle and crawled through the
aperture We waited in dead silence
!, listening to his feet crunehing over
the coal beyond, watching the faint
yellow light that came through the
ragged opening in the wall Then he
called through to us.
place is locked, over here" he
said Heavy oak door at the head
of the steps, Whoeve- made that
opening has done prodigious amount
of labor for nothing"
The weapon. crowbar, lay on the
ground beside the bricks. and he
| picked it up and balanced it on his
hand Dallas fiorid face was almost
comical in his bewilderment; as TO,
Jimmy-he slammed a piece of Stag
at the furnace and walked away Al
the door he turned around.
why don't you accuse me of it?'
he asked, bitterly Maybe you coulc
find lump of coal in my pockets ii
You searched me-
He 'stalked mp the stairs then an6
left us. Dallas and went up togeth
er, but we did not talk. There seemed