The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-05-28

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my life! Felt ny senses just grow
ing numb all the while with the
tragedy of the thing, the thought of
this coarse monsters touch detiling
the dainty, gossamer garment that had
shrouded her sacred what-you-call-
'ems-Oh it was awful!
"Um-ah, I see! 1t was, then!"-
he was nodding with an air Of under
standing, pausing in the struggle with
the refractory cigar. His strained and
Redeemed face shaped sympathetical-
ly. Just what 1 thought and told
'em!" he bobbed with satisfaction. !
understand! You amt got no need to
make no explanations to mel" and ne
fitted his fat hand to restrain them.
Why. my wife's own grandfather had
a club foot, and to her last day If she
got outer bed on the wrong side, the
old lady went a header sure-oh, l
know!"
A moment before, had thought
that so far as the mere matter Of jolly
misery was concerned, I had sounded
the what-you-call'ems; but now my
dashed brain was reeling before this
new horror! To think that she was
but oh, it couldn't be! And yet l re-
called ominously that most Of the
time I had known her, I had only
seen her sitting!
"By-y-y the way, sir!" He closed
one eye at me as he carved from the
brown beauty q half inch of its waxy
bud, using for the maltreatment a per-
fectly brutal knife. THAT was neat
try-on you made to copper the thief
yourself-a leetle irregular, you
know" he shook his head at me, "but,
as the captain said, we amt making
no point about that with gent like
you-sure not!"-another imperisha-
BILE line of beauty upon the receptive
stone, and he puffed inhalations Of
Joy. "But I knew you never could
get him to the station-I could have
told you"
"Oh!" remarked, puzzled. By
Jove, had a dashed awful thought
for moment that l must be losing
my intelligence! I looked at jenkins
again, but he had not yet come back
to the ground.
ooh, I'm on, sir!" Another one of
those awful winks as his club
scratched his helmet sideways. You
know 1 saw everything was right
there at the Kahoka, you know!"
"Oh, that!" I said, understanding.
For knew then that he was talking
about Foxy Grandpa in my rooms. !
had almost forgotten the jolly old
vagabond, but it occurred to me that
perhaps ] ought to show some inter
est as they must have recaptured him
along with the pajamas. Il say!" l
chirped up, "did you have much
trouble about it-getting him again,
you know?"
"Trouble?" O'Keefe's lip doubled
contemptuously. "It was easy as but
teri" His hand spread, palm down
ward, in an expressive gesture. "Why,
he doubled right back to the Kaho-
ka!"
"By Jove, you know!" exclaimed,
startled.
"Surest thing you know! I collared
him right in front and with the
goods!" Mr.. O'Keefe ,expectorated
eloquently. "My, but he did put up
an awful holler-said the pajamas
were his own and he had just had 'em
made. And bluff-well!'-h famed
the air for a moment in the effort to
find an appropriate gesture
used to these swell con men, but that
gun was the limit-pulled out card
case, mind you, and letters, and want
ed me to go with him to his club
his club" the big fellow doubled over
in a spasm of mirth tnat all but
choked him. 81 told him I'd give him
the club if he didn't go quietly-for
you see ! recognized him in a minute;
you can't lose them freak kind! BE.
sides, he give himself away: told me
he'd overlook my conduct on this oc-
casion and the other, If would re-
lease him. Well, that was enough! l
beckoned Jimmy Dwyer across and
we run him down the line to the sta
ton. Oh, we got him there. but it
wasn't easy-for him! And there
he'll stay while!"
He had to pause and pump air. he
was so winded.
"But it woulder tickled you," he re-
sumed, using one of the vestas 1 ex'
tended and putting the cigar until it
almost famed, "if you coulder seen
the grand-stand play this guy put up
before the sergeant! But the old man
just let him blow it ell off; just sat
there calm behind the desk, chewing
away and jabbing a pen through the
blotter, while this stiff fumed and
spouted-oh, something scandalous-
bringing in the names of mighty near
all the important people in New
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