The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-08-22

They're rotten clear through" Hun
Ter reflected. This administration is
worse than the last. and It was a
peach. There have been more suicides
than could count on my two hands
In the last ten years. warn you
you'd be better out Of this mess"
What do you think about the elev-
en- twenty-twoT" ! asked.
lit might be that many dollars or
the time train starts. or II might be
the eleventh and the twenty second
letters of the alphabet-k-v."
"K-vw repeated. Why that would
be the Latin cave-beware-"
Hunter smiled cheerfully.
You'd better stick to the law. Mr..
Knox" he said from the door. I'VE
don't use Latin in the detective BUSH
ness"
Plattsburg was not the name OF the
capital, but II will do for this story.
The state doesn't matter either. We
will say that my home city is Man
chester. live with my married broth
er. his wife and two boys. Fred Is
older than | am and be Is an excep-
tional brother. On the day be came
home from his wedding trip | went
down with my traps on a hanson in
accordance with a prearranged sched-
ule Fred and Edith met me inside the
door.
Here's your latchkey. Jack" Fred
ssn
pulation-remember we are stran-
gers in the vicinity and try to get
home before the neighbOrs are up. We
have our regulations to think Of"
There is no hour for breakfast"
Edith said as she kissed me. You
have a bath Of your own and don't
smoke In the ORA wing room"
Fred was always a lucky devil.
had been there now for six years
had helped to raise two young Knox
es-bully youngsters, too (the Oldest
one could use boxing gloves when be
was fouri-and the finest collie pup in
our end Of the state. | wanted TO raise
other things. The boys liked pets, but
Edith didn't care for animals.
On the day that Margery Fleming
came TO me about her father ! went
home in a state Of mixed emotion.
Dinner was not quiet meal Fred
and | talked politics generally. and as
Fred was on one side and | on the 9th
er there always was an argument on
What about FIeming?" | asked at
last when Fred had declared that in
these days OF corruption no matter
what the government was he was for
ninSt" it. Hasn't be been frightened
into reform?"
bad egg" he said. jabbing his pota-
to as If it had been a politician. land
there's no way TO improve 4 bad egg
except to hold your nose That's what
the public is doing-hoIding it's nose"
Hasn't be a daughterF" 1 asked
casually.
"Yes-a lovely girl. too" Edith as
scented. "It is his only redeeming quail
ity."
Fleming is rascal. daughter or no
daughter" Fred persisted Ever since
be and his gang got poor Butler into
trouble and then left him to kill him
self as the only way out have felt
that there was something coming TO all
of them-HanSen. Schwartz and the
rest. | saw Fleming on the street to-
day"
-whatr ! exclaimed. almost jump
ing out of my chair
Fred surveyed me quizzically.
Hasn't be daughter be quot
ed. Yes. | saw him, lack. this very
day in an unromantic four wheeler.
and be was swearing at policeman"
Where was ltr
Chestnut and Union. His cab bad
been struck By car and badly dam
aged. but the gentleman refused TO get
out. No doubt you could get the de
tails from the corner man"
Look here. Fred" said earnestly.
Keep that TO yourself. will your And
yon too. Edith? It's queer story, aud
I'll tell you some time"
As we left the dining room Edith put
her band 90 my shoulder.
Don't get mixed up with those PEG
ME, Jack" she advised -Margery's
dear girl. but her father practically
killed Henry Burler. and Henry Butler
married my cousin"
-You needn't make II family az
fair" | protested. Il have only seen
the girl once"
But Edith smiled Il know what
know" she said. How extravaganza
Of you TO send Bobby that enormous
hobby horse"
The boy has 70 learn to ride some
tne In four years De can have q
pony, and I'm going 10 see that be has
T. Hen be eight by that time"
Edith laughed.
ain four years. she said. Why. In
four years you'll be forty. Jack And
it's q mighty unsttractive man who
gets past forty without being sought
and won by some woman. Yoo'll be
buying
II will be thirty-nine," ] said. with
dignity. "and II marry-n ! dot
will be some girl who turns and runs
the other way every time she sees me"
The oldest trick IN the box" Edith
,cored. What's that thing Freds al
ways quoting: A woman Is like a
,h,a,vv. Sotlov her she dies: fy from