The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-10
The Man Who Served His Time.

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David started to his feet. Why,
| lent him the money three years ago
10 get on his feet again"
Sure you did, I haven't come to
that yet. | said he took a couple of
thousand from the colonel. That was
before you came into it, and he vas so
ashamed of it he never told you.
Well. out they go ON the road again,
with him as the clown, Ruby as the
c~olumbine. Casey as harlequin and a
guy named Smith as pantaloon. Well,
what does the colonel do, after the
show gets to going swell, but drop in
occasionally, just as he did TO Van
Slye's circus. and proceed before long
to make love to Ruby. Soon as joey
finds out his game, he up and takes
a fall out of him Right then joey
writes TO you for help. You fork over
proper like, as you should, and he
pays back what he owes Grand. So
he got rid OF the devil for more than
forty days. That's about the time
goes to the pen. | carelessly let's my
self get nabbed, actin on Ernie's ad-
vice. He's a slick kid, that boy is.
So | goes to the pen just to keep from
KILN Bob Grand.
You deliberately put yourself in
PRISON." cried David.
Just to postpone the hangin. kid,
that's all. ThereIl be a rope around
my guzzle some time, Davy, just as
sure as you're sittin' there said Art
full Dick, and, Notwithstanding his
careless laugh. a perceptible CLEAN of
terror showed in his eyes. But I'm
wandering again. When | was up to
Sing Sing | tumbled to what was on
Brad's mind. He thinks she's trun him
down for Grand. He said he'd made
M his mind to kill her and Grand
as soon as he got out. You can tell
by a conyict's looks whether he's bluff
in or not
And you say he's out. Dick, we
must do something
sit down, Davy. You can't get a
| train till tomorrow. Besides, there's
| time enough. The first thing | does
| after | leaves the coop was to hustle
| down to see Joey. | put him on TO
Brad's bad talk, and he promised tC
keep a sharp lookout for him. At that
time Mrs. Braddock was liyin in Lon
don. but Joey didn't know it. II
seems that while she wouldn't take
money from the old mai she appealed
to him to help her in gettln' what was
due her from the sale of the show
She went to Europe a couple of months
after she left the show, a schoo
friend putin up for her, | under
stand. When she got the dough out
of old Bob Grand she puts Christine
in a school some'eres and
Thank God and you, Dick, for thi!
news cried David fervently. Go on.
We'll, about six months ago hel
stepmother up and dies. The old maj
promptly sends for her to come bacl
and cheer his declinin' years, as the
novel writer's say. Ernie's seen Chris
tine nearly every day for three
months, but she amt seen him. Poo
devil, | banged him up for life"
1T was an accident, Dick. Don
take it
Nix. 1t amt no accident when 20,
kick a f~our-year-old kid down a f1igh
of stairs. Well. anyhow, he and Rub,
write me that Tom Braddock Is II
New York and actin terribly ugly
He's layin' for Bob Grand. AS lucl
would have it, the colonel is off at
tendin' the races along the spring cir
cult, and Ernie says he won't be bacl
in New York for three or four days
Mrs. Braddock has got her fathe
down south some'eres, but the ser,
ants are expec1.' 'o2, asca thi
week"