The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-10-17

Rather confused" replied Brockett,
in%stinctively warming to the big Irish
man Tell us. won't you, how we
happen to be here?"
Have ye no memory at all?"
laughed the policeman.
almost none. officer. We can re-
member things going round in circles
and then someone shooting our senses
away from us-nothing after that"
Il can believe ye," returned the Of
hcer. Il was just walkin' State street,
me and Flynn, me partner-I'm Ho-
gan, an the well-known, w~ell-respect-
ed team is Hogan and Flynn, terrors
to all evil-doers. Well. me lad, be
that as 1t may, we were walkin' State
street. not too far from Taylor, when
we heard sounds indicatin' that Satan
had bruk loose in a coon restaurant
nearby. We went over, an I'm think
in we were just in time. Youse two
was on the floor, an half a dozen big
niggers was tramplin' the stufan' outa
youse. Five minutes more an ye'd
have both been fine subjects for the
coroner"
Tell me-" ventured Solano. was
there one great big fellow. twice the
size of an ordinary man, among the
crowd?"
Nov ye remind me of it." said the
policeman, there surely was-big Sam
Cruitt, the human elephant. Great big
niger, makes his Twin mostly by dis
tributin' ads for fake doctors and
thievin' dentists. He was tryin', as
a as We could judge, to keep the
crowd off from youse two. Anyhow,
he wasn't dom nothin' to harm either
he backed out the rear door, nice an
quiet. Bad niger is Sam, at times,
but he didn't seem specially bad on
this occasion"
"Just the same," declared Brockett.
the trouble started because he had
stolen something of mine-or, rather,
had something of mine that another
man had stolen. A money belt, con-
tanning considerable cash and-well,
anyhow, containing all my money"
He showed the belt in this res
taurant," put in Solano, land we, acct
dentally happening to be there at the
time, naturally tried to take it away
from him. Then, 1 suppose, they all
jumped on U.S."
THAT they did, an the only thing
I'm surprised at" remarked the of.
1cer, us that they didn't use their
razor on We. Bad lot of coons hang
round that place, I'm tellin'. ye."
we fully believe it," said Solano.
with a grimace Of pain. But say,
officer, how long have we been in
here, and how long have we to stay?"
Eye have been in only a matter OF
three hours. lads" replied the police.
man, though l suppose it has seemed
a week of Sundays. AS to how long We
stay-well, We haven't been booked
yet. I'm not a bad Judge of people
when l see them, an We look all right"
Washed and brushed up the boys
felt a little more like live human be-
ings. Officer Hogan treated them
like younger brothers, assured them
that no charge had been entered
d6d1LSI LuOA1s dAu lAoI IuOy u16uL COA'
slider themselves as simply held fol-
safekeeping. Better stay right here
till evenin'," said the hospitable Off.
Ger, IAN then we will sally out an try
to get hold Of the big niger. l have
a half-idea as to where we can locate
him. He's up against the dope-smokes
hop regular-an' 1t won't be hard to
find him. Along after supper, lads,
we'll 20 out IN do the best we an"
Neither Brockett nor Solano could
find words to ut the case, but the
twinkle in the big policeman's eye told
that he fully understood their feel.
ings. He shook hands with them re-
assuringly, brought them a bundle OF
newspapers to while away the time.
and then busted himself with the rou
tine of his report upon the days
events. The boys were buried in the
printed columns, when a little packet
of a seemed to watt itself through
the window by which they were sit
ting. The packet fell at Brocketts
feet. AS he caught 1t up Solano
sprang for the window, peered eagerly
out-and saw no one excepting two
blue-clad policemen %strolling by.
Brockett opened the packet and
found several thicknesses of blank pa.
per, bound together to give weight and
accuracy to the throwing Of the mis-.
sile. In the center of the package
was a slip of cardboard, and written
across this in the hieroglyphs Brock
cit had himself invented, were these
letterings:
"BA sH sH Fla TIC W HR 2BH HR E
Pos Pc Pos Fla Fla TIC HR e TO A
SH E TO BIZ SH Pc Pos WP E TIC
: PO TIC e 2BH SH w"
Keep original appointment. Delay
no longer" translated Brockett. ITO
nights fortunes then will decide
! whether we al keep faith as prom