The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-27

photograph Of the little Amesbury girl with
the tip of his finger.
''She is the answer" he said, but, by the
way. Stilliter. what do you hear Of the
mother"
Professor stilliter shrugged his shoulders
very slightly.
Dead 2"
Dying"
Barclay was not unmoved. "she thinks
he said. that she is only dying In grief. AS
a matter OF fact she is taking a great place
in the march of events"
What are the childs habits?'
She has a nap" said Professor stilliter.
from 10 to 1890 and from to $3.50. At other
times she Is mostly out of doors with her
nurse. There Is wood back of the house,
in which she has playhouse. see-saw, etc.
II you wished to see her 1t would be a simple
matter. but am ready to stake my reputa-
on her. She is absolutely cut to our plan"
Which" said Semmes. SIS so far a COM
plete mystery to sturtevant and myself"
In spite Of Professor stilliter's guarantee,
the triumvirate. as they were both popularity
and unpopularly called. determined to have
a look at the little Amesbury girl for them
selves. In car driven swiftly that the
traffic cops had to look the other way SO as
not to get dust in their eyes. 1t did not take
them long to reach the Amesbury house.
They did not. however. draw up before the
logged out in Indian dress SO that she re-
sembled the ornamental side Of cent they
found the object of their search. It was no
difficult task for three such to 1ul1 any
suspicion that the chi1ds nurse may have had.
They complimented her upon the health and
good manners of her little charge, inquired
after her mistress and learned with every
semblance Of regret that the latter was sink
Ing hourly. They joked Professor Stilliter a
little on the fear with which he seemed to in
Rnf IN ~lrir For
ahead. perhaps this aversion seemed a seri-
GUS thing.
Well" he said brusquely, lam right? Is
she the finest child you ever saw. or isn't
she? Just see the breadth of her skull above
the ears"
He would have touched her. but she shrank
from him. When Barclay however. spoke to
her she showed neither fear nor aversion
only pleasant shyness.
II have never seen you before" he said.
but am very fond of little girls and since
have none Of my own I do not propose to
lose sight of you in hurry"
Leaving the others. he took the child and
the nurse for little drive in the car, and
when they had come back he slipped some
thing that jing1ed into the nurses hand, SO
that the Eighty woman felt prepared to go
through fire with him.
The little Amesbury girl was of an age
when most impressions do not long survive
She would neither remember her father nor
her mother nor her nurse. nor her Indian
dress. nor the playhouse. nor the see-saw In
the woods; but always she had a vague rec
election OF three great and important per-
sonages. who treated her as If she were more
important than they were. and who on part
ing from her bowed over her chubby, DIM
pied hand and kissed 1t for all the world as
II she had been princess. 1t wasn't exactly
a recollection either. for she did not remem-
Der their faces nor how they came into her
life. nor how they departed It was more like
dream. only fragments of which here and
there survive in the walkers mind. It wasn't
altogether pleasant dream. There mingled
with It certain something OF the essence
of nightmare. Whether 1t was another man
in the BACKGROUND or some monstrous beast
with extraordinarily large, black-rimned
eyes she did not know.
1t is curious that she should remember a
little Of all this and nothing of that message
which came presently from the house,
me. sage brought by servant to another
and crudely blurted forth in the hearing OF a
child
Come quick, Mary. and bring the baby;
the missus is dead" She does not remember
running to the house between two women,
draExAd BIZ the hand and IL she did II n