The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-11-05
Glen Bailey's Own Story.
The Mystery of Perkins Corner.

The Mystery of Perkins Corner.
sWa'al, to begin with, | amt no news
bug. but the folks at the corners where
j live had been stirred up over this mys-
aery for long time, and we felt, IN
Justice to the town, the time had at last
arrived when we should investigate and
find out the truth of the whole affair. So
we met down at Herbs grocery store.
Zoe Jackson, the first selectman, presld-
ed at the meeting, and LATE Adams, he
suggested the most advisable way to get
at the details, and Herb. Sigglns, mes
the postmaster as we'll as the store
keeper and Justice of the peace, was
called on to tell what he knowed. SO
Herb he lit one Of them new brand OF
cigars that he gets rake Oft for selllng'
an started in to tell what he had seen,
an heard about the mystery.
.'This thing got started about two
months ago, as far as l can remember,
one afternoon when there didn't happen
to be anybody in the store. Glenn come
in. walked around little and bought
two cent stamp, went up in that corner
and plastered it on the letter, then, by
Gosh. he turned plum around and went
ont of the store with the letter in his
hand. watched him out of sight down
the road. He waited for Jimmy Stevens
to come along with the mail wagon,
and he UPS and give the letter to him,
stead ov leaving it in the letter box here
at the store. That sot me to thlnkln'
there was something Glen had up his
sieve. so never said nothin' about 1t, an
bimebv letter came addressed to Glenn
Bailey, from New York, an give 1t
good lookin' over, an come darn near
getting catched at it, too, for was just
holdin' it up in front Of the lamp when
Glenn showed up in front of the store, SO
7 had time to chuck it in among the other
letters an papers, when in he come an
arsked if there was any mail for him,
sheepish like. l passed him out the let
ter. and he took it an put it in his inside
pocket and mosied out ov the store. He
gin me sly look as he went out, and l
says to myself, I've.caught you, old fell
Ter. He was gone just long enough to
get clear of the winders when back he
come and bought two two cent stamps,
turned around and went out agin, an
tn at was the last seed of him till he
come agin' to get another letter from
New York three days afterwards. So
you see now he had gin the other letter
to Jimmy on the road somewhere. was
convinced by this time that the folks at
the corners had mystery on their hands
that was worthy of Sherlock Holmes at
his best; or Simon Parsons, our sleuth
G Unstable, for that matter, even if Sine
did run Deacon Smiths hen roost robbers
TO earth, and get the whole bunch of 'em
thirty days in Jail.
$50 told Hen. Brown about it, and
Hen. said he had a cousin in the city that
knowed about them things; he was JAM
tor one time in the city building, and
was right in touch with all kinds of
criminals, and them SIGH, and we would
w ait till we heard from him before pro-
ceeding further. So Hen wrote to him
and before we got the letter back you
felers know Glenn rode over to Rogers
town, and took the train for New York;
at least that's the place Ezra Thompson
said he got it for, and we suppose he did,
an you all know what happened after he
got back. He shingled that old barn,
put new wire fence around his whole
lot that must cost him thirty dollars, an
painted his house, hired Tommy King to
do the work, too stuck up to do it his
self, his wife come out with new dress
and whole lot of Gifted buds, and the
climax come when Glen got to ridin'
around in an automobile; SO say now,
aas honest, God fearin' citizens of Perkins
corners that we appint the first select
man to call as committee of one (more
if necessary and arsk Glenn to explain
to the folks and the church his mysteri-
GUS comings and coins since he took the
first letter out of this office from them
fellers in New York" Thus reasoned
the village oracle, so with no opposition
from anybody present the Honorable