The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-12-18

key out OF back. the boy
grabbed it and started to run. and a
policeman was coming down the other
side of h street started after him.
James a true Whitmore-she's got
all the family traits. including a re-
markable presence Of mind She says
children don't appropriate other PEG
pies turkeys unless they're hungry.
to run h made up her mind to save
the boy. She jerked the veil from
about her neck, tied it over her face
and started after policeman. She
says that in tho two blocks they COW
cred there were only two spectators
"a blind man and his dog. But then
Williams street ts always as quiet BIS
a graveyard.
They must have looked like actors
in @ moving picture race-the police
man gaining on the boy and Jane
gaining on the policeman. At h cor
ner OF Williams and Seymour streets
the boy stumbled and fell. the turkey
! think I told o that Jane has all
the family traits, but I forgot that
there's n she lacks. h supply of
dignity was pretty low when 1t came
her urn to be fitted out. and the def
cheney was evident, when. right there
in broad daylight, she piled on top OF
the policeman!
Jane says she pulled the policeman
off. but I know how much strength
she has and I think her memor is
faulty on that point. 1 believe she sat
on him while the boy wiggled from I'M
der. Anyway he got away. leaving
Jane hugging the policeman as though
he We're a long-lost husband. Then
when the youngster was out Of sight
she begged the officers pardon, said
she was sorry she had stumbled over
him n hurried on, with him stand
ing there staring at her as If he
thought she was an escaped lunatic.
He was that dazed he didn't say a
word. She looked back once and saw
him picking up the turkey, but when
h got to Williams and d streets
h started to run and she didn't stop
until she reached home, her overshoes
gone and her hat hanging over one
EYE.
She was repeating the story for the
fourth time when the policeman ar
rived with her card-and I've told you
how easily she explained that. Well.
after she left the room 1 sat there
thinking Of all the cases Of suffering
the Sisters OF Charity had told me
about that morning. 1t must have been
a full hour after the officer had gone
when he phone rang. / answered 1t
and a mans voice asked for Jane.
who is this talldng?" I asked. and
when the voice answered the super
lihGiidSliL VI PollSC, i lilllISu.
When I -me to, Jane was rubbing
head with camphor.
Well, what is it." l said. ten years
or life?"
Worse than that" she said. they've
caught the woman"
What woman?" said I, sitting up
quick. IT thought 1t was a boy"
THE woman I rave the card to-"
said Jane.
The thump she gave me in the mid
die of my back was all that kept me
from keeling over again.
Don't waste time fainting," she
said. Get your things on at once I've
got to go to the police station to iden-
tify her"
/ was still demonstrating with her
and refusing to be dragged into the ef-
fair when we reached the station door.
See here, Jane" I said. i've come
this far, but I'm not going in. If I go
Tn sure to give the whole thing
away"
You'll take your death of cold out
here" she said. I'm not going to get
this Strengthened out in a minute. you
know-lt may take half an hour"
Well I said, trying to appear
I'll go home n get a f1annelette
night gown for you. I don't imagine
they furnish a surplus of bedcloths In
these police station cells"
Jane gave me q look OF Scorn and
went In. l still maintain that In the
light of subsequent vents my part in
what followed was entirely justified
and that / did no wrong although
Jane insists that I am the real fugt-
tive from Justice. 1t was about z
o'clock and getting pretty dark. The
Sisters of Charity are just pack of the
station house; there's a narrow pas
sage-way between the station and the
building next to it that leads right
through to their front door. While I
was standing there, waiting, I saw one
of the sisters light the gas In the hall
and I started to tell her that I'd try
and find some more clothing for them
to distribute for New Years. I had
gotten half way down the passage
when right there in front OF my very
hung-but first / must tell you
what happened when Jane came out
of the station q half hour later.
I could see that everything had end
ed satisfactorily, but neither Of US said
q word until we were almost home. OF
course I was itching to near what hap
lpened.
Weir" 1 said, finally. Then she be-
gan.
= want to tell you. Molly" says she,
that we have to take up a collection
to send the members of our police force
to kindergarten. They're the stupidest
lot of infants I've ever met. Do Won
what they did? After that Off
Ger went back there this afternoon the
superintendent issued orders for the
men to keep on the lookout for q short.
fat woman with her head tied up in q
black veil"
Well" I asked, did they and her n
Did they find herr OF course they
found her or they wouldn't have sent
for me to identify her. "A fat woman
and q black veil isn't such a rare com
btnation, is 1t? The amazing part OF
the whole affair is that the officer who
chased b boy ID the one who brought
her mi"
she must have been scared to.
death" 7 said.
"scared7" says Jane. sshe was ia
Mysteries. She was out looking for
work and the officer thought she was
begging. She has four children at
home a q husband who's wintering
somewhere In South America. I gave
her q dollar to buy some Christmas
things Tor the children and promised
70 bring her some groceries IN the
morning. Wen Just take her the things
we've got for our own dinner ana 70
over and eat with cousin Mary
But what about the tukey?p i
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