Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-16

Then, when you saw the paper in
Boisseaus-'
"I knew. We had killed two people
and injured a third"
THE policeman"
Father reeled in the wire at once,
and it must have been the emu 'ha' cut
like a moving knife
think it helped her to talk about
II to get il off her chest, so TO speak
: told her how 1 had traced the cam
ora and | called myself rev pleas
ant truths for having left the camera
70 he repaired. If we'd got 1t ana
burned it there would have been no
proof against the old man.
Not that they could do much 10
him, anyhow" | added. Inc 'iil"s
"Rut he doesn't know that anything
happened. 1t would kill him to
Well, he looked as able to stand it
as she did. to my mind. But IL she
felt that way
.Then the thing you threw over the
hill was the motor, engine "ha'eNei
yes. We cannot afford another
and there will be no more kite n.y.
ing" The grit of her! No wonder
she had breathed hard.
II used a pole as lever When
got it started 1 was frightened. I'M
always being frightened. Suppose
there was somebody on the river In
small boat-underneath."
And this cut of mine -
You said it was brush
Something struck me. It's not
much of a cut. Probably an end of
the wire"
And to this day I do not know. 1
am aware that in n story of this sort
it's rattling bad form to leave any
loose ends. but / can only write what
I know. | do not know what struck
me in the face.
There are other things that I do not
know, or at least l can only surmlse.
The identity of the blithe bandit is
one. And until two days ago | never
knew what became of Olive Thomas
sapphire bracelet. I'll tell you about
that later
I'VE must destroy the camera"
Hazel said. "He must never do this
sort of thing again, Ollie"
I'VE must get the camera and then
destroy it," l corrected her. / had
a perfectly distinct idea that if l ever
got it, it would be over the n. C,'s
dead body.
Hazel never knew that she'd called
me "Ollie" that night. 1t gave me
sort of ache to have to sit there
after she'd said it, and not dare to
notice it. In spite of what I'd just
heard, kept thinking what a pal she
would be to the fellow that married
her, interested in things. you know.
I'd seen the bridge playing, cock
| tail-drinking sort until | was sick of
them, and here was a real girl, the
kind to check me up when 1 took
| hold of the road and wanted to step
out a bit too fast. And she belonged
to somebody else. 1t made me sore.
Well, that's not the way to put it,
1t hurt.
with 1t, thought I'd have been a good
| husband.
The old man came out to the porch
and called her querulously
Coming, father" she said. And
got up.
you said you would do anything
to help. Would you commit a rob-
berry,"
1t startled me. rather.
I'm not experienced" said
humbly. But l could learn"
Are you in a hurry?"
Hurry? No"
She outlined the crime to me. The
old man had a room full of apparatus
different lenses. cameras in the max
ms AOI illuitsS' lOL VI JUNK. SHE
wanted it stolen.
THE way things are now" she
said with a sigh, 1--WE can't replace
them. I'll pack them all in an old
suitcase and leave it just inside the
window. In half hour you can break
the glass, unlock the window, and gel
it,"
And throw it in the river? WHY
not send them after the engine?"
She hesitated. He loves them.
she said. I'm a way, they are hi.
children, the things he lives for. Ano
when we go to the country"
You are going to the country?"
"Out of town." she said quietly
Il am going to be married mex
week"
Were you ever in love with a girl
the real thing, so that you broke ou
in perspiration at the thought o.
meeting her, and did you ever hay,
her tell you she was going to MARI,
somebody else next week?
I'd known I couldn't have her. II
way, I'd known somebody els.
would. But I'd put 1t in the indefinit,
future, like death. Next week!
couldn't breathe.
She held out her hand. You don
, like to be thanked. L won't even try
But III never forget you. Never. Al