Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-27

3D. You are q pack Of putty faced bea.5
gle houndsr' be roared. Go away '.Ss#
#s They went away-a little way.
In Pigeon Nice arthy's pocket was
section OF one inch gas pipe eight
inches long. In one end of it and in
the middle Of 1t was lead plug. One
half Of It was packed tight with solder.
Black Riley carried slungshot. being
10 conventional thug. One Ear" Mike
relied upon pair Of brass knuckles.
al heirloom in the family.
d. why fetch and carry" said Black
Riley, when some one will do 1t for
We? Let him bring It out to us. Hey
what?"
I'VE can chuck him in the river"
said pigeon" Mccarthy. with stone
tied to his feet
"Youse guys make me tired said
Zone Ear" Mike. ''Ain't progress ever
appealed to none Of yez? Sprinkle a
little gasoline on i'm and drop i'm on
the drive-well?''
Fuzzy entered the millionaire's gate
and zigzagged toward the softly glow
ing entrance OF the, mansion. The
three COLLINS came up to the gate and
lingered-one on each side Of it. one
beyond the roadway. They fingered
their cold metal and leather. confident.
Fuzzy rang the doorbell, smiling fool
ishly and dreamily. An atav1stic in
stinct prompted him to reach for the
button Of his right glove. But he wore
no gloves. 50 his left hand dropped
embarrassed.
The particular mental whose duty it
was to open doors to silks and laces
SHE'D at first sight Of Fuzzy But a
second glance took in his passport. his
card Of admission. his surety Of well
come. his lost rag doll of the daughter
of the house dangling under his arm.
Fuzzy was admitted into a great hall
dim with tho glow from unseen lights.
The hireling went away and returned
with maid and the child. The doll
was restored to the mourning one She
clasped her lost darling to her breast
and then. with the inordinate selfish
ness and candor Of childhood stamped
her foot and whined hatred and fear
of the odious being who had rescued
her from the depths of sorrow and de-
spair. Fuzzy wriggled himself into an
ingrattatory attitude and essayed the
idiotic smile and blattering small talk
that is supposed to charm the budding
intellect OF the young. The child
bawled and was dragged away. hug
ging her Betsy close. ~.
There came the secretary. pale. pois-
ed. polished. gliding in pumps and
worshiping pomp and ceremony. He
counted out into Fuzzy's hand ten ten
dollar bills. then dropped his eye upon
the door. transferred it to James, it's
custodian: indicated the obnoxious
Garner of the reward with the other
nnd allowed his pumps to watt him
away to secretarial regions.
James gathered Fuzzy with his own
commanding optic and swept him as
far as the front door,
When the money touched Fuzzy's
dingy palm his first instinct was to
take to his heels, but a second thought
restrained him from that blunder of
etiquette. It was his; it had been
given him. It-and. oh. what an ely
sium it opened to the gaze of his
minds eye: He had tumbled to the
foot of the ladder: he was hungry.
homeless, friendless. ragged. cold. drift
Ing, and he held in his hand the key to
q paradise of the mud honey that he
craved. The fairy doll had waved a
wand with her rag stuffed hand, and
now wherever he might go the en-.
:hanted palaces with shining foot