Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-09-06

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affected English accent. receives a pres
ent from friend in China. The present
proves to be a pair of patamas letter
dons the pajamas and late at night gets
up for smoke. His servant, Jenkins'
comes in and. falling to reeosniz%e %,inkine Lgha-
the servant crazy. Lightnut changes his
clothes intending to summon , help, e.. WeeR neeh
NTH Ri 1oy eonrnns ff hshtnus
that he is crazy. Jenkins tells Lightnut OF
the encounter he had with hideous
Gs,na%sn @sssass from @aefsfa Sis friend %
!ightnut is asked to put up the k,o oI-
lege. Later Lightnut finds beautiful
girl in black pajamas in his room; Light
nut is shocked by the girls dIinkh,ng % h
her % name I is Francis and puzzles him
with story Of her love for her, her sisters isorns
rom nm mate; ;r namsa p esipr nSd ,Fhtnut Rur-
ries to the boat to see her on he Is az. az
costed by a husky college boy. who caiis
l sri. JACK ,Bnnnss calls 70 spend the
night with Lightnut. They discover
priceless rubies hidden In the & buttons no;nmSs az
and retires. Lightnut later discovers
in his apartment beefy person In nut nut
intruder to be n criminal. called roxy
Grandpa" The intruder declares ne 70
Lightnuts guest and appeals TO the IA, ian-
ter in vain. He Is hustled on 70 jan.
In the morning Lightnut is astonishai 20
find Billings gone, and more t, aSe later
demanding his clothes. iighthu.; @ @pouu
for Tarrytown. Billings home, dlscoVers
the train. Lightnut speaks TO her and al
iudes to the night before. She declares
Indignantly that Lightnut never saw ie rnes nes
is met by n husky college YOUTH. VINO
halls Lightnut as 'Dicky." The latter ig.
nores The he, boy 10Y anS,np wnS 5reP France Light.
nut takes the next train home. Blihngs
storms over the outrage OF ms arres', r,tt iie
nose characters on the patamas. Profes.
sor Doozenberry is called In to interpret
the hieroglyphics He rsXes ,0bi oyer That The be
writing declares that person wenflng
the pajamas. Will take on the sempianee
of the previous wearer. The professor
borrows the pajamas for experiment.
billings" dressed In pntamas Is found IN
the professors room and Is taken nome
man Llghtnut calls the trump" Light
nut Is angered by the frumPs,, PP,,,,in nlsnaeT a
taken 10 his room. A servant tells Light
nut that n message has Just been re-
ceived stating that billings was under ar,
black pajamas. Judge Billings astonishes
Lightnut with tale of Francis esca-
pades msstnnt ss asss ,psra deeiares that
not anoiher living person would tackle
the fob. and Iightnut. his mind occupied
with the beautiful Frances. Is greatiy
mysuhed.
CHAPTER xxiv.-(continued.)
"Why. sir. don't think you need
be worrying but what they're all
right" and the big policeman nodded
confidently; sin 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 long sheaf of brown
liquid at grasshopper on the freshly
whitened door-stones-andg 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 mei"-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; l went all
over 'em!"
. "oh!" l muttered. turning rather
faint. dropped the parcel and Jen-
kins picked 1t up. By Jove. for a mo-
ment, he came jolly near having to
pick me up. too. 1 was that shocked
and prostrated!
"The only thing-the only thing
tall" had to wait through an agon-
izing moment while his tongue
gathered his wad and peremptorilY
expelled it, this time enlivening the
cold, dead monotony of the silver-gray
macadam-"was her-I mean, was the
pants"
"Ah-h," l put my hand to my side
and looked at jenkins appealingly.
but he was looking upward, his eyes
kind OF cast over like a birds; the
lines of his mouth tightened to an
arch-and l knew he was suffering
too. But we must try to stand It a
little longer-just little!
Through one instant's respite, Mr..
,O'Keefe's thick tongue was occupied
in striving to glutenize the entire
wrapper of n much crushed and awful
ly yellow cigar. Then he separated a
mouthful from the end and proceeded.
.I did notice with the legs, that
one OF 'em was Just bit longer than
tn other, and down at the station we
was a wondering If" the brown head
of n cracking match drew a long.
curving what-you-call-it on the smooth.
creamy masonry, and he paused to
pump madly, striving to coax a draft
of smoke-''we wondered If twas
Intentional" His eyes sought mine
inquiringly.
BY Jove, was so frozen with hor-
ror couldn't even look away: 1ust