Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-11

Come on" said ThaW impatiently.
Don't bother about your office; we
will attend 10 that later. / want to
strike a railroad and get to Detroit"
But he could not hold to this re-
solve and his inability to telephone
anybody seemed To gall him. Less
than four miles out of Stewartstown,
running south and east, he made the
chauffeur stop again. The farmhouse
of Mrs Martha Anterior, a buxom
woman. whose husband was away
cooking for a lumber camp, stood well
back from the road. Into the yard
Thaw had the chauffeur drive, and
into the kitchen tramped Thaw. He
had noticed a telephone wire running
into the kitchen.
Mrs. Atherton was out at the barn,
but in the kitchen, which was clean
as wax, sat her aged step grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Elvira Day.
Il am Harry Thaw," said the
stranger.
Mrs, Day apparently had not read the
newspapers much of late.
rs that so2" she commented mildly.
What can | do for your
May | telephone2" said Thaw, taking
off his hat for the first time
you surely may, sir, said the old
lady 1--WE believe in being neighborly."
Thaw smiled and went to the telephone
but found il useless. He himself,
though. apparently did not realize was
responsible for the situation. News of
his liberation and wild automobile ride
was being flashed over the countryside
and to cities far away. Even then some
We're trying to notify William Travers
Jerome, others We're notifying Sheriff
Drew in Colebrook, so that he might
block the roadways Thaw was cooking
his own goose. He talked long with the
operator. urging her to get j. n. Green
shields in Montreal. his erstwhile CHEZ
counsel He spent more than 20 minutes
in the endeavor, sitting at intervals in
a quilted rocking chair. smoking and gaz-
ing at the nightly polished kitchen range
Mrs. Atherton came in from the barn.
She wore a red calico dress and her arms
were bare to the elbow.
This is Mr. Thaw," said Mrs. Day in
a matter of fact sort of way.
Thaw rose and bowed. Mrs. Atherton
was stupefied. Apparently she had read
the papers of late. The color did not
leave her cheeks, nor did her eyes bulge
nor did she exclaim aloud for the mo-
ment. She was too overcome to move or
to speak. Here was Harry X. Thaw,
slayer of Stanford White calmly smoking
a cigar in her own kitchen. She gazed
at him almost caressingly, then offered
him limp hand As Thaw took i, she
said
I'VE are neghborly folks. Mr.. Thaw.
and If we can help you in any way we'd
like to do it, I'll cook you a meal or
hitch UP the team or anything you say.
Thaw declined assistance with thanks.
Il must be going in few moments" he
said He stepped to the telephone again
and what the operator told him getting
Montreal was out of the question he babe
the two women goodbye and hailed Can
tin. The chauffeur had been resting in
the back yard.
Cantin was a little puzzled by this
time. He confided to the lone newspaper
man then with Thaw that driving man
somewhere was all right, but driving him
nowhere in particular did not appeal TO
him
'They say he's crazy" he whispered.
well, maybe they were right"
Come on shouted Thaw. lets be
moving"
Where tor demanded Cantin. Thaw
gared at him and waved to the south.
The car swung out into the road. .
Were going to Erroll," said Thaw.
Enroll was 80 miles away. The car
BOWED iii through lanes of birch, ev
ergreen and maple. At times water
fall could be seen from the roadway.
Lakes glimmered in the distance.
Thaw forgot his troubles for the mo-
| ment. enraptured with the scenery I'M
folding before him. Cantin drove on
| stolidly. Now and then Thaw eau
| toned him not to go so fast
Al -Four Corners" cross roads the
chauffeur stopped puzzled. He was on
unfamiliar ground and he suggested
going to a farm house for instruction.
Thaw acquiesced.
Two hundred yards away was a lit
tie house. Repeated knocking brought
no one to the door, SO Thaw, spying
house further on, ordered the ehauf-
feur to proceed. There a woman said
her husband was perhaps better quail
flied than she to direct strangers. She
was on the point of closing the door
in embarra ssment when the husband
came around the corner.
ThaW did not Introduce himself or
ask the mans name. He merely asked
the way to Enroll and when he had
this straight in his mind, headed back
for the Four Corners. Here the road
to the left was taken, following the
farmers instructions. and the chauf-
feur, with an objective point ahead,
made his little car sing.
1t was now nearly noon. ThaW in
quired of the reporter with him If he
would lend him some money in case
of emergency. Il may not have enough
| To get back to Detroit" he said. Il
- He dropped the subject
abruptly. A quarter of a mile down
| the road was a cloud of dust and un
| der the cloud of dust was a big auto
mobile. In the automobile were men.
| Thaw grew panicky. Somehow,
| even at that distance, the car had for
| him a sinister look.
| Hadn't we better turn back?" he
asked. yet he did not order the chauf-
| feur to stop.
| The little car kept on. The big car
| ,ytn Tho