Gilpin observer., 1912-09-12

affected English accent. receives a pres.
ont from friend in China. The present
hints Of surprise to the wearer. Lightnut |
dons the pajamas and late at night ge.s
up for smoke. His servant Jenk,hs. iahs.
nut. attempts to put him out. Thinking
the servant crazy, Lghtnut changes Jhns ms
he reappears Jenkins falls on his neck
with Joy confirming Lightnuts belief
that he !. crazy jenkins tells Lsht,n%%t S,%noS, %,
as@sn from sasissa friend e jack
for the night OK hi. way home from
iege. Later Lightnut finds a beautiful
girl in black pajSmas in his , 59om dr,nkina Ifins
smoking and slangy talk. She tells him
her name is Francis and puzzles MIN
with story of her love for hsrt her s,stsrs gorns
RE. I to to the he boat o to see her OF. lie i. aG:
him "Dicky," but he does not see the
girl. Jack Billings calls to spend d,,ae the
night with They the bueSs Of
and retires Lightnut later discovers
ton-chop whiskers and wearing patamas
Jenkins calls the police. who deciars Ie,oEe tne
INTRUDER to b Gfruasa he Is
Lightnut's guest and APPEALS to the lat
ter in vain. He is hustled off to jail.
In the morning LlBhtnut ID
and Billings gone. and more assOnishsd sss 1astsS
demanding his clothes. Lishtnutt bound
.!Frances," the girl Of the pa1amas., on
the train Lghtnut speaks to h. her daniares ana a
udes to the night neyee saw her
in black pajamas. At Tarrytown Frances
is met by a husky college ,r youth, 10Y VINO inc
nores the boy. who then threatens & to
thrash him for offending Frances. ,,Li!g M!ght.
nut takes the next train home; on, arrsst ssihhfs Hs
and Lightnut discover mysterious Sn,-
nese characters on the pajamas. Profes,
the hierosiyphics. He. raves over wha! II he
calls the lost silk of Si-Ling-Chi: Inc
writing declares, that a person weinrme innns
of the previous wearer. The professor
borrows the patamas for experiment.
the professors room and is taken home
in an automobile with Frances ana Wo-
man Lghtnut calls all ...h The ,rm's frump .,anSer-
ous talk about ''Francis." "Biliings Is
taken to his room. A servant tells Light
ceived stating that Billings was under ar
rest in New York for stealing suit OF
black pa1amas. Judge Billings astonishes
10 Frances" The Judge declares that
the jobNand Lightnut, his mind occupied
with thd beautiful Frances. Is greatly
nystifed.
CHAPTER xxIv-(contInued.) =,
why, sir, l don't think you need
pe worrying but what they're all
right" and the big policeman nodded
confidently; "in fact there don't seem
to be no damage at ALL" He added
meditatively: Which is some won
der. considering how we had to
rough-house Foxy Grandpa before We
softened him down in his cell tn
other night" Here his cheeks swelled
and he sent a long sheaf of brown
liquid at a grasshopper on the freshly
whitened door-stones-and got 1t, too.
neatly missing the polished toe OF
Jenkins boot. mo, sir!"-emphatic-
ally-'I don't think you'll be hearing
any holler from your lady friend when
she goes to-eh, what?"-he stared
at jenkins blankly, for Jenkins had
coughed-"Oh. excuse me!"-and his
big hand lifted apologetically to his
mouth, while his eyes rolled upward
What just meant was that know
they're all TO the good; went all
over em!"
"Oh!" l muttered. turning rather
faint. / dropped the parcel and Jen-
kiDs picked It up. BY Jove, for a mo-
ment, he came jolly near having to
pick me up, too. l was that shocked
and Frustrated!
The only thing-the only thing
tall" had to walt through an agon-
izing moment while his tongue
gathered his wad and peremptorily
ID t,,,A o,,1t ~
cold, dead monotony OF the silver-gray
macadam-"was her-I mean, was the
pants"
"Ah-h" put my hand to my side
and looked at Jenkins appealingly,
but he was looking upward, his eyes
kind of cast over like birds; the
lines of his mouth frightened to an
arch-and ! knew he was suffering
too! But we must try to stand 1t a
little longer-just a little!
Through one instant's respite, Mr..
O'Keefe's thick tongue was occupied
in striving to gutenize the entire
wrapper OF a much crushed and awful
ly yellow cigar. Then he separated
mouthful from the end and proceeded.
II did notice with the legs, that
one of 'em was Just bit longer than
tn other, and down at the station We
was wondering If" the brown head
OF cracking match drew a long,
curving what-you-call-it on the smooth.
creamy masonry. and he paused to
pump madly. striving to coax draft
OF smoke-"we wondered n twas
intentional" His eyes sought mine
inquiringy.
BY Jove. ! was 30 frozen with hor.
ror. couldn't even look away; just
stood there, helpless. you know. and
my jolly monocle hanging limp
couldn't, have lifted It to have saved
my life! Felt my senses Just grow
ing numb all the while with the
kzaOsdy q the thing. the thought Of