Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-16


 opened it and handed it to me, in the paper.
 Its sweater" he said, not looking at me. T bought it for myself and it was too small Confound it, Minnie, wish I could liei I bought them for you! There's the whole business sweater, cap, leggings and mittens. Go on! Throw them at mel"
 But I didn't. l looked at them, all white and soft and it came over me suddenly how kind people had been lately, and how much I'd been getting the old doctors waistcoat buttons and Miss Pats furs, and now this! just buried my face in them and cried
 Doctor Barnes stood by and said nothing. Some men wouldn't have un. derstood. but he did. After a minute or so he came over and pulled the sweater out from the bundle.
 I'm glad you like 'em," he said, "but as l bought them at Hubbard's, in Finleyville, and as the old liar guar. anteed they wouldn't shrink, we'd bet. ter not cry on 'em."
 Well, I put them on and I was warmer and happier than I had been for some time. But that night when went out to the shelter-house with the supper basket I found both the honeymooners in a wild state of excite ment They said that about five o'clock Thoburn had gone out to the shelter-house and walked all around it. Finally he had stopped at one of the windows of the other room, had worked at it with his penknife and got it open, and crawled through They sat paralyzed with fright, and heard him moving around the other room, and he even tried their door. But it had been locked.
 By Friday of that week you would hardly have known any of them. The fat ones were thinner and the thin ones fatter, and Miss Julia Summers could put her whole hand inside her belt.
 And they were pleasant. They'd sit down to Q supper of ham and eggs and apple sauce, and yell for more.
 They fused some still about sleep ing with the windows open, especially the bald-headed men.
 Mir. yon Inwald was still there, and not troubling himself to be agreeable to any but the Jennings family. He and Mir. Pierce carefully avoided each other, but knew well enough that only policy kept them apart. Both of them, you see, were working for something. Miss Cobb came to the spTinghouse early Friday morning, and from the way she came in and shut the door knew she had something on her mind She walked over to where l was pol. ishing the brass railing around the sp-ing-it had been the habit of years, and not easy to break-and stood look. ing at me and breathing hard. Minnie" she exclaimed, T have found the thiefl"
 Lord have mercy!" l said, and dropped the brass polish. 'I have found the thief" she repeat ed firmly. Minnie, our sins always find us out"
 T guess they do." said shakily, and sat down on the steps to the spring. "oh, Miss Cobb, if only he would use a little bit of sense!"
 "He?" she said. He nothingi It's that Summers woman I'm talking about, Minnie. l knew that woman wasn't what she ought to be the min ute l set eyes on her"
 The Summers womani" I repeated. Miss Cobb leaned over the railing and shook a finger in my face.
 ''The Summers wouian," she said "one of the chambermaids found my my protectors hanging in the crea- ! ture's closeti"
 I couldn't speak There had been SO much happening that I'd clean for 1 gotten Miss Cobb and her woolen | tights. And now to have them come back like this and hang themselves around my neck, so to speak-lt was too much
 "Per-perhaps they're hers." said weakly after a minute.