Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-30
CHAPTER XVIII
Jack o' Lantern.

IT HURRIED back to the trunk
 room and had soon gained the
 roof To my disappointment and
 clmErin my young lady of the single slipper was nowhere in sight found. however lying near the library chimney a trunk tray that required no explanation. With this HezelSiah had blocked the hue. and smiled as l pie tured her tiptoeing to reach the chim- ney crock and dropping the tray across the top. How gIeefully she must have cduckIed as she waited for the flue to hll and send the smoke ebbing back into the library, to the discontinue of her aunt and sister and the suitors gathered about the hearth The spirit of mischief never whispered into pretder ear a trick better calculated to caUse confusion.
 had thought Hczekiah secure when l locked the trunk room door, but ] had not counted upon the versatility and rpsourcefulucss of that young per son. l dropped to the second roof ley- el and inspected the down spouts. but it was incredible that she had sought the earth by this means. swung myself to a third level and after much gropiug for my bearings decided that am athletic girl of Hezekiah's venture some disposition might. if she set no great store by her neck. chamber off the Kitchen roof by means Of tall maple whose branches now raspingly called attention to their slight contact with the house
 As the moon cruised into a patch of clear sky something white huttercd from maple limb and l bent and pulled it free took counsel of a match behind the kitchen chimney and found that i was u handkerchief that bud been knotted to the tip Of the bough No one but Hezekiah would have thought of marking her trail in this fashion l held it to my face, and that faint perfume that had been mystifying accompaniment of the passing of the mansion ghost became nothing more unreal than the orris In Hezekiah's handkerchief case. The wind whipped the bit of linen spiteful- Iv in my hands reasoned that if Itezekiah. the ineXplicable, had not meant for me to know the manner or her exit she need not have left this plain hint behind, but the swaying maple bough did not tempt me. l hurried back across the roof t0 secure the trunk tray. resolved to dispose of | 1t. seek the open and find the errant l Hezekiah if sine still fingered in the 1 neighborhood
 ! I looked of across the windy land scape before descending, and as my 1 eyes ranged the dark ! caught the | gllmmer of a light as of a lantern ] borne i'm Che hand in the meadow be- youd the garden. lt paused and was swung back and forth by its unseen bearer lt shed a curious yellow light and not the white flame Of the com mon lantern. and now it rose a trihe higher and slowly resolved Itself into a weird fantastic face
 Three minutes later was out Of thf house. using the back stairs Co avoid fhe compony iu the library, and hud crossed tie garden aud cruwicd through the hedge As | rose Co my feet . voice greeted me cheerfully:
 "Wel done. Chimney Man! Yol were little slow hitting the trail, bu you do pretty well considering How l did you mapase with Aunt Octdyir
 about that Slipper; 1 had a narrow
 escape ln the second floor han when
 came ont of Cecilin's room. ] mus
 have lowered record getting upstairs
 And one shoe isn't bit comfortable
 Allow me 10 relieve you"
 ! Gro be cOntinued)