Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25

Resale stopped for breath and In
spector MCGEE jerked out quick
laugh of anticipation.
"It wasn't till last week that l
looked myself over an found wasn't
happy. To make no bones of it, bein' a
real lady-which I'd wanted to be all
my life-jest bored me to death. 1t
wasn't as though I'd had somebody
to do it with. That was the trouble,
| guess. I never did associate with
mediums much-I always was on to
them. Two or three of 'em crawled
around an tried to graft on me.
fixed 'em. They don't know nothing
on me except used to be in the bust
! ness, but know everything on them
With other rich people, like me, ]
wasn't maxim no Roadway at all,
That wasn't the whole of 1t, either
Here I'd been twenty years takin'
care of other peoples troubles, get
ting fun out of Jest listening to EN-,
an excitmeent out of wondering what
they'd do next An ! missed it."
II bet you did" said Martin MCGEE,
admiringly.
well, last week l sat down and
had a good long dispute with myself.
You can't go back to the business,
says /. Resale LIE Grange, you've
got Jest what you're always wanted,
an yet your Amt happy. What you
need is a compromise, said I. An
next morning it came to me. Maybe
| the spirits sent it. You can laugh,
Inspector MCGEE, but there's some
thing in this spirit thing. 1 used to
think there was, an then again I'd
think there wasn't-even in my own
clairyoyance. But the more you
know about this clairvoyant thing
the more you don't know, an that
stands whether you're a psychic re-
searcher or a clairvoyant yourself
well, anyhow, It came to me like
a f1ash-boarders! l could run my
house just the way I wanted. be-
cause I needn't look out for profits.
| An I could take jest who / wanted
and shut out whoever I didn't want.
The thought chirked me lot. Thinks
/: I've got a smoking room and a
coy corner an sun parlor, and
they amt many folks that board get
them comforts So l fixed all the
bedrooms up sensible with good white
and gold beds and adult-size towels
an give them all little fixy touches
that made them homelike."
Again Madame lie Grange ran
down. She painted softly a moment
Inspector MCGEE dropped a heavy
fist on his mahogany desk. ut would
take you to look upon a boarding
house as fun!' he chuckled.
AN l was jest ready to begin to
look around an advertise when-this
happened. The idea struck me as
soon as I saw the state of the people
in that house. The police would
put it under guard. an the boarders
'em over bodily, all but the one you
pinched-the sick little dago woman
from upstairs, an the two girls, ano
that funny old Professor Noll. And
I'm even putting up with the land.
lady-if it was other peoples trou-
bles I was looking for, 1 got EN- al
right,
"Gee!" calculated Martin MCGEE
81 can use you"
Yes, you can" interrupted Rosalie
"but you won't. / know what you
want. You want me to go to work
an help cinch this case. Well, ]
won't. I'm out of that business, too
What I'm here for, Martin MCGEE
beyond the pleasure always took ir
your society''-here Rosalie let hel
dimples play and fash-"is to tell al
I know or saw, SOS you won't bt
calm me at the inquest an gettin
me a feature in the papers,"
How about this man North,
asked the inspector.
well, in the first place, I like him,
said Rosalie: 81 like that boy"
You're no different from every
other lady that's looked into that ter.
rier face of his" responded Martin
MCGEE, smiling heavily. I've beer
having his record trailed all day
Seems he knows everybody except
the swells on his beat-the two cops
the paper boy, the bartenders-he'
strong there-the bootblacks, the
wops on the fruitstand, the kike
tailor, the cabman. the expressmar
and the postman, even the chinb
laundrymen. He was best man last
week at the postman's wedding, and
they do say--everyone who knows
him sticks to just one thing-whoevel
done it 'twasn't Tommy North. That
may seem in his favor, but there's
two things against him; one''-Mar-
tin MCGEE lifted a heavy purple fin
ger-"he does most of his sleeping be-