Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-03-28


affected English accent. receives pres.
sns from friend in China. The present
proves to be a pair Of pajamas. A letter
hssks Of surprise to the wearer. Lightnut
tens the pajaInas and late at night gets
up Tor a smoke. His servant. jenkins.
cSs..es in and, falling to recognze,, Llgn..
Eat, attempts to put him out. In nln. his
clothes intending TO summon help. When
he reappears Jenkins falls, on his neck ne. e.
T at ns Joy nn. LIB gtn Sah Of
the encounter he had with hideous
Chinaman dressed in .palamas; In a
message from his friend, Jack 60. Billin ll21
for the night on his way home from COX s,i,
lege. Later I.ightnut finds a beautiful
girl in black pajamas in his room; Lggns-
smoking and slanry talk, She tells hin
her. name Is Francis. and. puzzles MN nm
With story Of her love for her sisters
roommate. named Frances Next morn p,,
Ing the girl is missing and Lightnut nur-
ries to the boat to see her off. he Is af
rosted by a husky college boy, who calls
him "Dicky." but he does not see ne ne
niei wit With fishtnut. They discover
priceless rubies hidden in the buttons OF
the pajamas. Billings dons the pasamas
and retires. LiChtnut later discovers
ton-chop whiskers and wearing paJamas
jenkins calls the police, who declare the
Intruder to be criminal. esliea &c y
Lghtnut's guest and appeals to the i La5
ter in vain. He IL hustled OFF TO 2ail
In the morning Lghtnut Is astonlsnai 70
dnd Billings gone. and more astonls sIs
when he gets message from the latter;
demanding his clothes. Iightnut. bound
for Tarrytown. Billings home. discovers
frames" the gr s OF the t pab5a en and al
iudes to the night before. She declares
Indignantly that Lghtnut never saw ner
in black pajamas At TarrytoWn FRANCES .bs
hat me Ig 81 n a. bcHy. The latter g
nores the boy. who then threatens 10
thrash him for offending Frances. , MiGn.-
storms over the outrage OF his arrest He
and Iightnut discover mysterious Chi
nese characters on the pajamas ProIes.
Hor Doozenberry 10 called IN 10 lmi be,f he
calls the lost silk Of si-Ling-Chi. The
writing declares that person wearing
the pajamas will take on TIE The se nrnfassor
borrows the patamas for experiment T.;
Rulings" dressed in pajamas Is found IN
the professors room and is taken nome
In an automobile with Frances and a. Wo-
man IAghtnut calls 1.-The trump" Light
nut is angered by "the frump's slander-
pus talk about "Francis." Billings. IS
nut that a message has just been re-
reived stating that Billings was under ar.
rest in New York for stealing a suit or
slack pajamas Judge Bililngs as as.on ssnss
nades. Lghtnut asks permission to speak
70 "Frances." The Judge declares that
not another living person would so tackle
with the beautiful Frances. Is greatly
Mystifled.
CHAPTER overwhelmingly
"Why. sir, 1 don't think you need
be worrying but what they're all
right" and the big policeman nodded
confidently; "in fact there don't seem
10 be no damage at ALL" He added
meditatively: (Which is some won
Ger. considering how we had to
rough-house Foxy Grandpa before we
softened him down in his cell tn
other night" Here his cheeks swelled
and he sent q long sheaf of brown
liquid at grasshopper on the freshly
thitened door-stones-and got it, too,
Jenkins boot "No, sir!"-emphatic
Ally-"I don't think you'll be hearing
sny holler from your lady friend when
she goes to-eh, Wharf.-The stared
ut Jenkins blankly, for Jenkins had
coughed-"Oh, excuse me!"--and his
big hand lifted apologetically to his
mouth, while his eyes rolled upward
What l just meant was that know
they're all to the good went all
over 'em!"
"Oh!" / muttered, turning rather
faint. l dropped the parcel and Jen-
kins picked it up. BY Joye, for a mo-
ment, he came jolly near having to
pick me up, too, l was that shocked
and Frustrated!
The only thing--the only thing
tall" had to wait through an agon-
izing moment while his tongue
gathered his wad and peremptorilf
expelled it, this time enlivening the
cold, dead monotony of the silver-gray
macadam-"was her-I mean. was the
baDts"
"Ah-h." I put my hand to my side
and looked at JENKINS appealingly,
but he was looking upward his eyes
kind Of cast over like a birds; the
lines of his mouth frightened to an
Drch-and l knew ne was suffering
too! But we must try to stand it a
little longer-just little!
Through one instants respite, Mr..
O'Keefe's thick tongue was occupied
h striving to glutenlze the entire
wrapper of much crushed and awful.
~ yellow cigar. Then he separated a
mouthful from the end and proceeded.
II did notice with the legs, that
one of 'em was just a bit longer than
tn other, and down at the station We
was a wondering if" the brown head
Of a cracking match drew a long,
rurving what-y0u-call-it on the smooth,
creamy masonry, and he paused to
pump madly, striving to coax draft
Of smoke-"we wondered if twas
Intentional" HIS eyes sought mine
inQuiringly.
BY Jove, I was SO frozen with hor-
TOT, l couldn't even look away; just
stood there, helpless, you know, and
ny Jolly monecle hanging limp
couldn't have nkted 1t to have saved
ny life! Felt my senses just grow
ng numb all the while with the
Sagsdy OF The TING the thought Of