The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-25

near as We could Judge, to keep the
crowd off from youse two. Anyhow.
he wasn't doin' nothin' to harm either
wan Of youse, an when We come in
he backed out the real door, nice an
quiet. Bad niger is Sam, at times,
but he didn't seem specially bad on
this OCCASION"
Gust 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, and we, acct
dentally happening to be there at the
time, naturally tried to take it away
from him. Then, l suppose, they all
jumped on US"
THAT they did, an the only thing
Pm surprised at" remarked the Of
ficer, lis that they didn't use their
razors on ye. Bad lot of coons hang
round that place, I'm tellin' We"
I'VE 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"
"Ye 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 see them, an ye look all right
to me. In fact, / haven't a doubt Of
the truth of your story-ye can ex.
plain the details further to me later.
I'll take we out of this, take We up
stairs where we can wash up, an then
We'll have a little talk about ways an
means Of r%ecoverin' your property.
Come along now-it's glad ye ought
to be that youse are both Twin"
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
against them. and that they might con-
tD10Cl I'D 6aLIpiy ACio "
safekeeping. Better stay right hero
till evenin'." said the hospitable ON.
GER, IAN then we will sally out an try
to get hold of the big niger. 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 go out an do the best We can"
Neither Brockett nor Solano could
find words to At the case, but the
twinkle In the big polioeman's eye told
that be 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 tie rou-
tine Of his report upon the days
events. The boys were buried In the
printed columns, when a little packet
OF paper seemed to watt itself through
the window by which they were sit
ting. The packet fell at Brockett's
sprang for the window, peered eagerly
out0and saw no n 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 writer
across this in the hieroglyphs Brock
EFT had himself invented, were these
letterings:
"BA SH SH FA TIC w HR 2BH HR Z
Pos Pc Pos FA FA TIC HR E TO A
SH z TO Bib SH Pc Pos WI E TIC
Pc TIC Z 2BH SH w"
Keep original appointment. Delay
no longer" translated Brockett. ITO
nights fortunes then will decide
whether we can keep faith as prom
ised or have to give 1t all up and ad
NIT ourselves utter failures!"