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Pete needed no further invitation
and the luscious cakes followed one
another down his throat as if they
were affixed to patent belt-conveyer
Little pork sausages to the number OF
ten accompanied the pancakes, and
three cups of coffee helped to wash
1t all down. At length he drew his
chair back, stretched his legs and
heaved contented sigh.
well, ladies'" he said, 81 must say
dat"
But the remainder of the compli-
ment remained unuttered, for at this
juncture a tremendous banging on the
floor above brought down small flakes
of plaster on Miss Towners' table and
the house rocked with the commotion.
Eleeza shrieked and clutched at the
tablecloth, while Miss Towners sat
bolt upright and turned white.
Land O. Goshen!" she cried in a
lull of the noise. What is that?"
Pete rose to his feet in a carefully
devised attitude of strained attention.
1T sounds to me-" he said, after an
other series of bangs, 'like dere wuz
somebody up dere. Have youse got a
revolver in de house?"
Miss Towners pointed tremblingly to
a shelf in the kitchen and Pete at once
seized the firearm from between the
tea-caddy and the saltbox. It's six
chambers were loaded.
Thrusting it into his coat pocket,
Pete took the stairs three at a jump.
Immediately thereafter Miss Towners
and Eleeza ran into the front yard
and, standing at the gate, uttered
scream after scream.
"Jest as if dey wuz paid fer it," Pete
thought.
He entered his hosts bedroom and
carefully fred three shots through |
the front window, whereat the quality |
of Miss Towners' screams became |
doubly piercing.
Then Pete tore the sheets, mattress
and springs from the bed and ex-
posed the bound and half-suffocated
yeggman. Hole-in-the-Cheek wriggled
like snake, but his thongs held fast.
''Youse do wot 1 tell yer" Pete
cried, cor I'll put slug inter yer an
finish de job"
He lifted Hole-in-the-Cheek from the
bottom of the bed and set him against
the wall. Then he removed the gag.
AS soon as the burglar could enunci-
ate stream of profanity issued forth,
Ill of which caused broad grin on
2ete's face.
Keep it up." he said: Keep it up.
fe're boostin' me game"
For five minutes Pete turned over
hairs and knocked down pictures in
lramatic counterfeit of struggle to
he death. After this there was a
fitness of about ten minutes, during
which he rocked and wheezed in an
cstasy of mirth. Then he seized the
mummy wrapped Hole in the Cheek
nd bore him wriggling down the
tairs.
When he appeared at the front door |
[iss Towners lay on the grass-plot
i a swoon, while Eleeza was opening
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sgularity. No sound came from her
ps, however, for she had shrieked
erself into complete silence.
Pete cast his burden on the ground
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al" he said. a,
Aided by Eleeza, he harnessed HI b.
m TOWERS best mare to the family CT
agon and in ten minutes he was is
living rapidly down the highway to- sc
ard the station with Hole-in-the- II
leek doubled up under the rear seat, lie
incapable of motion as a sack of OF
tatoes. W
The jolting of the wagon, however, To
emed to revive the yeggman's vocal hi
wers, and he gushed out blasphemy an
such profusion that 1t made his first SO
gagged efforts IN the bedroom seem ca
e the small talk Of a mothers meet
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'Hole-in-the-Cheek," he said SOL fe
lnly, "youse wouldn't dast gimme on
{ line of talk II youse was united" ba
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