The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-11

Sure you did. | haven't come TO
that yet. I said he took a couple Of
thousand from the colonel. That vas
before you came into il. and he was so
ashamed of it he never told you.
Well. out they go or the road again.
with him as the clown, Ruby as the
columbine. Casey as harlequin and n
guy named Smith as pantaloon. Well,
what does the colonel do. after the
show gets to going well, 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 owe Grand. So he got
rid of the devil for more than forty
days. That's about the time I goes
to the pen. | carelessIy lets myself
get nabbed. actin on Ernie's advice.
He's a slick kid, hat boy Is. So |
goes TO the pen just to keep from
KILN Bob Grand
You deliberately put yourself In
%prisOnY" cried David.
"Just to postpone the hangin'. kid.
that's all. There'll be a rope around
my guzzle ON time, Davy. just as
sure AZ you're sittin' there said Art
fur Dick. and, Notwithstanding his
careless laugh, q p~erceptible CLEAN of
terror showed in his eyes. But I'm
wandering again. When I was up to
Sing Sing I tumbled to what was on
Brad's mind. He thinks she trun him
down for Grand. He said he'd made
up his mind TO kill her and Grand
as 500 as he got out. You can tell
by : convict's looks whether he's bluff
fin 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 I does
after | leaves the coop was to hustle
down to see Joey. l put him on to
Brad's bad talk, and he promised to
keep a sharp lookout for him. At that
time Mrs. Braddock was llvin' in Lon
don, but Joey didn't know II. 1t
seems that while she wouldn't take
money from the old man she appealed
to him to help her In gettin' what was
due her from the sale Of the show.
She went to Europe a couple of months
after she left the show, a school friend
putin up for her, I understand. 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 this
news" cried David fervently. go on"
"Well, about six months ago her
stepmother up and dies. The old man
promptly sends for her to come back
and cheer his declinin' years, as the
novel writers say. Ernie's seen Chris
tine nearly every day for three months,
but she amt seen him. Poor devil, 1
banged him up for life"
1T was an accident, Dick. Don't
take it,
mix. Il amt no accident when you
kick a f~our-year-old kid down a fight
Of stairs. Well, anyhow, he and Ruby
write me that Tom Braddock is In
New York and actin terrible ugly.
He's layin' for Bob Grand. As luck
would have it, the colonel Is off attend
In the races along the spring circuit,
and Ernie says he won't be back in
New York for three or four days. Mrs.
Braddock has got her father down
south ~some'eres, but the servants are
expectin' 'em back this week"
Then we may be in time"
He stopped short, struck by a sud
den thought. why hasn't Mrs. Brad
dock written to me? She promised.
The five years have passed. We were
to see each other at the end of five
"Well, maybe you will, kid. I guess
Mrs. Braddock knows her business.
Has it v occurred to you that there
might be another Romeo lookin' at
Christie"
For Gods sake, Dick, il you know
of anything like that tell me-"
Gross my heart. Davy, l don't know,
and that's straight"
"She may have forgotten me. / won
der If you can understand how 1t Is
when you care as much as I do"
'Oh, I've had a cast or two myself.
kid. II amt nothin' new, this crimp
you've got" said Dick. Adam had 1t.
So did Solomon, only he had it in so
many places he got so he didn't mind
1t. Kid, every mans a Mormon at
heart. And every woman. no matter
how ugly she is, thinks she's a siren.
Oh. don't look so surprised. got
some Of my views out OF the diction-
airy, but most of 'em came from OBJ
servtn' people as they look to me from
my own level. It's human nature to
be bad. or want to be bad. We'd all
be a little bit bad from time to time
If we wasn't afraid of being found out.
Course. 1t comes In different size doses.
Some girls think it's terrible bad just
to wink at a Teller, but they do it be-