The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-24

RESTED.
public property, such as car lines, wa
terworks and the gas and electric
plants. He is a good man and liberal
to those that do the right thing, but
he has had lot of trouble. especially
with process servers, who are always
chasing him back and forth across the
stateN line. He has a house in Little
ton and farm just over the border
and he lives in one place or the othef'
according to whether the New Jersey
or the New York people are after him
at the time.
The worst trouble that he had was
about four years ago, and it was then
that / first got mixed up In his af-
fairs. which was the making of me.
/ was a patrolman, and my beat was
in the Pleasant Hill section, where
Hasbrook's house stands. His daugh
ter had just come home from abroad,
and a fine specimen of the breed she
surely was, with the eye of hawk
and face as hard as marble.
I used to pity her maid. whom she
had brought home with her from Eu-
rope, pretty girl born in France. but
speaking English as well as myself;
cheerful as cricket and playful as a
kitten. There were times when I'd
have an hours talk with her at the
gate of the garden that runs back to
the north road. and she'd tell me how
tired she was and how late she'd been
up the night before and laugh as If
| it was the best joke in the world.
In the preceding fall there had been
a reform wive. and the people had
elected district attorney who had
pledged himself to send everybody to
iail. A good ,les,l had hren said in the
course Of the amistign about Amos
L. Hasbrook and the extension OF the
street railway franchise After think
ing about Il for six or seven months
the new district attorney. whose name
was Ridgewood. got after tlas'rooE
on this matter of the franthise ant
dragged him before the grand jury
where he was badgered during a Ions
forenoon. Not being satisfied with thu
way he had been treated Hashroo'
refused to attend the afternoon ses
sion. and Ridgewood got some sort O
warrant for him. but the judge didn,
issue it until he knew for certain tina
the victim of this persecution had es
) caped across the state line to bis farm
Hasbrook executed this sidestep il
{ an unusually hasty manner. and n
left some documents at his city hous
J which were absolutely essential II
some matters which were then IN prog
ress So he telephoned to his daugh
ter to bring them over The distric
\ attorney had tapped the telephon
wire, not only the one that was i
plain sight. but the secret line tina
ran under ground through the gal
den. As soon as he had oyerhear
the message about the documents D
rushed half a dozen of bis men up t
the Hasbrook house
:. I saw them coming. and. though
I did not know the inside of the case.
scented danger So passed the wor
to Madeleine that picket line wa
being thrown around the grounds an
that 1t looked to me as IL the me
intended to arrest anybody WI
y should come ont. Madeleine told Mis-
= Hasbrook. who promptly bid the paper
|, in a secret place which her father 10
= revealed to her. This made the paper
= safesf from the clutches of the distri'
= attorney. but it did not put Mr.. Ha
brook in the way of getting them.
Miss Hasbrook called up her fath'
B and laid the situation before him, 81
!. he could not tell her what to do. b