The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-21

WEH the smooth Lake Shore
xS&W drive. and happiness al
HN most everywhere. And as
:. ,trolled along we were watching
."...sdly the ones who felt tnem-
- N a little world apart as they
80 foolishness into each others
The fact that 1t was day did not
A make much difference. The
IN. .oman detective who strolled be-
-" ma smiled at the couples about
g sh.n turned her gaze to the rolling
-. there. in the distance, a lumber
,,.,ehter was lazily dipping into
e. horizon.
.uheu Love is young in spring
-"I quoted. Alice Clement.
= sor A half holiday from her work !
! catcher OF criminals for the city
= chicago, laughed and then watched
8, : moment my idle occupation OF
ssv,,e small pebbles along the path
nv with my stick.
G.1oye is young pretty much OF the
~" she said at last. And the
,uaser It gets more fool things 1t
m make a person do. That's the
,,opAle with It, you never can count
e mat what the outcome is going to
+ don't look like a woman who
s.uN cause q murder, do II"
/ stopped short at the remark, then
...sd At her. TRINITY dressed, her
..ups almost girlish face looking up
~ that happy smile on the full, red
~ the deep brown eyes sparkling
-veil II would have been hard to
I,asine what anyone except some old
-ary,ed man like myself would do.
- said SO. She laughed softly
nd was silent.
soon the happy expression seemed
4. lave her face, and a bit OF sadness
~ in its place. We had found a
ha.ch in q spot where the warm sun
~ good, and near where an ener'
dc SQUIRREL was practicing Its calls
fn~nics upon the trunk Of budding
M I waited for her to speak. and
vsifins in vain. prompted her.
"A romance?"
~Just a detective assignment" she
aagvered. where love played the
wrong way a long time. and ther
hrnsd right just at the proper mo
mt Don't bother to remember thu
nanss; I'm going to change them.
II was not SO long after had mad
~ entrance into the detective worl
IA / was eager for every case. | an
m eager, for that matter. but yo
hnov how 1t is, when one Is youn
zth he business. One morning | re
o(rsi . summons to detective head
Dafters.
Alice" said the captain, we're e
~ to need You and your smile. Here
4 1picture of Clayton Rogers. Tn
bureau wants him for a $1,000 en-
besslement. I think he's gone to s.
Louis, but can't be sure. You'd be-
3 - run down there and locate him.
3 But did not take the next trail
b g. Louis and rely on my ingenuit
y ind my man in a city OF half
nillion people. A story-book detectiv
night have done that, but I'm onl
a ordinary city sleuth. and so / di
~ logical thing. l went out and sa'
olayton's mother, told her was a
ID sweetheart and that l was cryin
NJ heart out for word from my ow
lsar boy. And quite naturally.
lsarned that he really was In
Louis. working in a bindery plal
lhsre-which one she did not knoN
that, however, was better lead ths
nothing, and SO the next mornir
oound me in the city on the Mississi
-
Ny work was ahead of me. I hi
studied that picture until every line
3 was indelibly pressed into my brai
And many a time while studying | h;
nd sharp little things about Mr.. Ola
In Rogers because he had not had b
Photograph taken for twelve veal
This proposition Of trying to figure o
Now . man will look after SO MAJ
ysars ID not an easy thing. But ! d
he best could.
One by one | took the binderi'
sour to q day. In the early morni
would watch the employees coming
work At noon I would watch othe
ooing and coming. At night wor
aand BY some building to keep I
syes on the outpouring string FRI
book and publishing houses. And
mt tharA - hnnn fnfn I
hsart.
A man had passed within three {,
q me, a man with eyes OF just
sort believed those of Rogers to
There was something about the
pression Of his face that was like Il
- Rogers, too. There was a char
y was not he; there was just as gr
. chance that l had found my m
determined to find out.
The next morning there was a n
gn. on one Of the book binding /
ehines In the great workroom VIII
NE man ! believed I wanted was :
uoned. Simply dressed, yet as pre-
IS possible in keeping with a W,
q eight dollars a week. l had set
70 play game of hearts. Clay
Rogers liked women. | had lear
mat And il this was the man
The old freighter was lowering
all farther and farther into the b
non now. The squirrel had approac
closely and was regarding us v
eurious eyes. Alice Clement
thoughtful.
Perhaps you've never worked
BOOK bindery," she said. land d
guess You have. And perhaps.
you've never been hoping and hoI
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