The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-22

be her parents.
 She was topnotcher-good- looking, neat. and young; and her face vas the frank. open, suileless face of school girl. didn't lose q move she made. and when I saw her flick sparkler from a shirt front len seconds later, blinked my eyes She was going through that crowd like an old-timer, and no mistake.
 They passed on out to closed carriage and I. standing at the curb, heard the girl say to the driv. CT. Out Hennepin as far as the park, George Then as they were starting ran for a car. caught 1t, and stood on the rear platform as the carriage turned into the avenue Their horses were a gray and a claybank
 The car went on ahead in the mist and left them behind at the first corner. At Loring Park alighted in the drizzle and waited in the shadow of the trees. When the yellow and white team came along trotting briskly on the wet pavement, which glstened where the street-lights fell across it, slipped out snd climbed up behind
 Tt was through pure curiosity that I went with them. had no h. tention of bothering the girl, who was doubtless professional; and though i, would have been easy to have trotted along. opened the car riage door. got in, put a gun on the three and demanded the stuff, I had no such idea. was simply killing time and going along for my own amusement.
 George drove on for some ten or twelve blocks westward, and fin. ally pulled up at the curb. It was certainly a thick and muggy night the driving mist was as heavy as a fog, and simply faded back into it few feet and stood concealed The three people in the carriage got out. dismissed the driver who turn. ed back into the damp curtain o4 darkness, and then, the girl pre-. ceding. they went through gate and up to big house where they entered
 ''I noted the house and surround. ings, and half turned to take my way bach downtown, wher the light flashed in one of the front rooms uptairs. The blind was drawn al. most immediately, excert for a thin crack of light at the bottom, and this excited my curiosity again. wanted to see what was going on in that room.
 "A wide piazza, whose roof was supported by columns. half wood, half brick, faced the street. It was only a moments effort to shin up to the slightly sloping roof of the piazza like any ordinary porch climber and apply my eyes to the crack os light
 There were two persons in the room. A man past middle-age, hay ing the appearance of a merchant or a broker. prosperous and respect able looking, recognized as one of the couple the girl had accom- panied. The other person was the girl herself but rapidly losing that identity. The picture ha' had been removed, and with 1t the n,ass- es of high piled hair The neat and well-rounded tailor-made gown was being doffed with rapid and careless fingers, revealing the straight and 1.-the form of a young man.
 The shapely oval of his cheeks and the pink freshness of his com plexion were natural. but the rest was assumed-and he had made a girl. too. He slipped on trousers and coat, and lit cigar. cite. with the contented air of one who doffs corsets without regret, conversing cheerfully with the cid CT man meanwhile.
 There was evidently something else on foot for the night, as the young iCan Mas paving over mis- cellaneous collection of wearing ap- parel, hats, and shoes. He also brought out of closet a handbag or grip, such as traveling.men use, and opened it on chair. From 1t he took pocket-fashlight, some keys, and a shamois skin case of tools. understood what was on hand.
 'It was then a matter of getting together a few necessaries, among which I observed serviceable- looking automatic .38 caliber which wasn't a toy, and a three-pronged steel hook with some twenty feet of stout cord attached, which indi- cated wall-scaling. While he made and when he wasn't talking, the girl impersonator whis- lied cheerily. evidently Tn the best of spirits. He even picked up a banjo and strummed out the notes of t~o-step.
 His good humor was coptasious,