Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-30
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Ing for me when the lawyers settled
everything up, an put that into
things that wanted all my life.
bought some stun that needed too.
but bought the things that wanted
first-a Duchess lace handkerchief
that put me back Atty dollars, a gold
chair, an some diamond rings an q
gold mesh bag-but guess this is
neither here nor there. spread my.
self on clothes, had my face overhaul.
ed and renovated until hardly knew
1t myself, and then fixed up the
house. And that house-you can be-
lieve me-1s some honse--it's got
chintz bed rooms, an conservatory.
an smoking den an cozy corner
an sun parlor.
After that started out to be q
lady. went to the opera an the
theater an tea at the Deidrich.
hired landau from a livery stable,
an every day drove up Fifth avenue
The rest of the time. shopped.j An
Inspector Martin MCGEE, believe me,
begun to feel wrong, somehow"
Resale stopped for breath and In.
spector McGee jerked out a quick
laugh of anticipation.
1t wasn't till last week that looked
myself over an found wasn't happy.
To make no bones Of 1t, being q real
lady-which I wanted to be all my life
Jest bored me to death. 1t wasn't
as though I'd had somebody to do it
with. That was the trouble,-I guess.
l never did associate with mediums
much--I always was on to them. Two
or three of 'em crawled around an
tried to graft on me. fixed 'em.
They don't know nothing on me ex-
cept used to be in. the business, but
know everything on them. With
other rich people, like me. wasn't
maxim, no Roadway at all. That wasn't
the whole Of it, either. Here I'd been
twenty years takin' care Of other peo-
pies troubles, getting fun out of Jest
listening to 'em, an excitement out of
wondering what they'd do next. An I
missed it,
Il bet you did," said Martin MCGEE
admiringly.
. well, last week set down and had
good long dispute with myself.
You can't go back to the business,
got jest what you've always wanted,
an yet you amt happy. What you
need is a compromise, said l. An
next morning 1t come to me. Maybe
the spirits sent it. You can laugh, In
spector MCGEE, but there's sor ,thing
in this spirit thing. i used. to. think
there was, an then again I'd think
there wasn't--even in my own clair.
voyance But the more you know
about this clairvoyant thing the more
more you don't know, an that stands
whether you're psychic researcher or
q clairvoyant yourself.
S"Well, anyhow, 1t came to me like a
fiash-boarders! I could run my
house just the way wanted, because
I needn't look out for profits. An I
could take jest who wanted and shut
out whoever / didn't want. The
thought chirked me let Thinks L:
I've got smoking room and cozy
corner an sun parlor, and they amt
many folks that board get them COM
forts So I fixed all the bedrooms up
sensible with good white and gold beds
and adultsize towels an gave them all
little nxy touches that made them
homelike."
Again Madame LIE Grange ran
down. She painted softly moment.
Inspector MCGEE dropped q heavy
fist on his mahogany desk. 1T would
take you to look upon boarding
house as fun!" he chuckled.
"An' l was jest ready to begin to
look around an advertise when-this
happened. The idea struck me as
soon as saw the state Of the people
in that house. The police would put
it under guard, an the boarders would
be out of a home. So moved 'em
over bodily, all but the one you
pinched-the sick little dago woman
from upstairs, an the two girls, and
that funny old Professor NolL An
I'm even putting up with the landiady
If 1t was other peoples troubles
was lookin' for, got 'em all right"
"Gee!" calculated Martin MCGEE. Il
can use YOU"
Yes, you can" interrupted Resale,
but you won't. know what you
want. You want me to 60 to work an
help cinch this case. Well, won't.
I'm out of that business, too. What
I'm here for, Martin McGee-beyond
the pleasure always took In your So
ciety"-here Resale let her dimples
play and flash-'is to tell all know
or saw, SOS you won't be calm me at
the inquest an gettin' me feature in
the papers"
How about this man North?" asked
the inspector.
well, in the first place, like him, -
said Resale; II like that boy"
You're no different from every
other lady that's looked into that
terrier face of his" responded Martin
MCGEE, smiling heavily. 1--WE been
having his record trailed all day.
Seems he knows everybody, except the
swells, on his beat-the two COPS the
paper boy, the bartenders-he's strong
there-the bootblacks, the wops on the
fruit stand, the hike tailor, the cab
men, the expressmen and the post
man, even the chink laundrymen. He
was best man last week at the post
mans wedding, and they do say
everyone who knows him stick to just
one thing-whoever done it, 'twasn't
Tommy North. That may seem in his
favor, but there's two things against
him; one '-Martin MCGEE lifted a
heavy purple finger-"he does most of
his sleeping between the hours Of half
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