Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-08
NOVEMBER JOE.
THE DETECTIVE OF THE WOODS.
By HESKETH PRICHARD.
copyright, 1913, by Hesketh Prichard.

Linda, will you please go away
mo, Joe. Do you think I'm fright
ened?"
Huh! 1 know you're brave. but
man acts freer without the womer
looking on"
Without a we'd she turned ant
walked out Of the room.
"Puttick's going to confess, Mr.. Pc
tersham," went on November.
1--WE nothing to confess, you fool!'
Not even that story you invented
about hte man with the red banker
across his face-the man who wasn'
never there?"
What's he ravin' about?" cried
Puttick.
Have you forgot them long haired
Tomlinson brothers that
The effect of this speech on Putticl
was instantaneous. Evidently he leap
ed to the conclusion that he had beer
betrayed, for he turned and dashed
for the door. We flung ourselves upor
him and by sheer weight bore him tt
the ground, where we quickly over.
powered him, snarling and writhing
Some hours later we sat arounc
November Joe who was stretched up.
on the couch. Puttick had been tie6
up and imprisoned in the stronges
room.
mo, Mr.. Petersham," Joe was say
ing. "I don't think you'll have much
more trouble. There was only three
men in it. Ones dead; ones locked
up, and I dare say We'll find way Of
dealing with No. g."
What I don't understand" sale
Linda, "is how you found out thai
Puttick was in it. When did you be.
gin to suspect him? ?"
Last night, when Mr.. Petershan
didn't go to Buffers cairn. The fellas
who promised to meet him never put
in there, either. That was queer
wasn't it? OF course it could NEAR
one thing-that some one told then
that Mr.. Petersham weren't coming
There was only us three, and Putticl
knew. So Puttick must "a been the
one to tell"
But, November" I said, "Puttici
never left the house, for you remem'
Der you found no tracks on the sand
How, then, could he let them know?'
"I guess he waved lantern or made
some other sign they agreed on"
But why didn't you tell me all this
at once?" exclaimed Petersham.
Because I weren't sure. Their moi
going to Buffers cairn might "a beer
chance. But this morning, when Put.
tick comes in with his yarn about the
man with the red banker across his
face that made him hold up his hand!
and threatened him when he was
mending the canoe, I begun to think
we shouldn't be so much longer in the
dark. And when I went down ant
had a look around by the river,
knew at once his story was lie, ant
that he'd got an interest in soaring
Mr.. Petersham away"
How did you know that?
You mind Puttick said the fells
come just when he was beginnin' t.
mend the canoe? took look at th'
work he'd done on 1t and he couldn'
"a got through all that under an hour
He's fixed a little square Of tin ovel
the rent as neat as neat. And ther
wasn't it queer the fella should have
come on him there-a place III
wouldn't be in not one morning Of {
hundred?"
You believe he made up the whole
story? And that no one came at ALP
I'm pretty sure of it. There WASH
sign or track and as to the fellai
| jumpin' from stone to stone, theret
distances of fourteen and sixteen fee
between. Still he might "a done 1t
or he might "a walked in the water
and 1 were not going to speak till
were sure"
go on. We're still in the dark
joe" said Linda.
We'll. Miss Linda, you remembe'
how Puttick advised Mr.. Petershan
to pay or go, and how 1 told him t.
stick it out, and when I'd given hin
that advice, I said to you that I wa
going across to Senlis lake, and asked
Mr.. Quaritch to tell Puttick.
thought there was a good chance tina
Puttick would put on some Of hi
| partners to scare me. You see no
body knew which way were goint
but you and him, so it'd be fair Ger
tain that if I was interfered with i
would prove Puttick guilty"
THAT was clever, though you ran {
horrible risk. Was there any particu
lar reason why you chose to go t
Senlis lake,"
Sure / wanted to see if any ont
had been over there looking for you
brooch. On'y us and Puttick knew i
was lost, and you'd said how your ia
ther had paid dollars and dollars fol
it. When a thing like that's los
| woodsmen'll go miles to try to find it
and Puttick must "a told the Tomlin
sons, for there was tracks all arounC
our fire where we boiled the kettle.
do you think they found m!
| brooch?"
Huh! No. 1 pick it up myself five
minutes after you drop it. 1 only KEEP
it, pretendin' it was lost, as bait like
I've told you what happened to M
coming back and how 1 had to shoe
Dandy Tomlinson. His shooting a
me after l was down give me a sur
prise, for 1 didn't think he'd want t
do more than scare me, but I guess /
was natural enough, for Puttick wa
| gettin' ratified at me always nosin
| around"
| It's all very clear, November, ant
we know everything except who it wa
shot Bill Worke."
II guess Muppy Tomlinson's thu
man.
| What makes you think that?"
| Bill was shot with a 45-75 rifle
Both Puttick and Dandy Tomlinsol
carries 3O-30's. Muppy's rifle is ;