The Washington times., 1916-08-06

appreciation OF her sons story for
which Jimmy felt duty thankful.
oh. Mayme. she plays her ankle
Il after she sleuthed along after him
till she got him alone. Then she pre-
tends to fall. She knows he's Just the
sort thatll be sympathetic with a lady
In trouble. He catches her. She pre-
knows a good doctor what lives near
by He says he will help her there.
and she knows we've got him all right.
Big John Is waiting inside the hail
with slungshot. and Just as Mayme
and her helpful friend start to ring the
Doctors doorbell he Jumps around the
corner and hits the chap over the head.
Then he picks him up easy-!ike re was
babv-and carries him into the doc
tors office.
Praise From Headquarters.
while our friend. the Waterman. Is
still asleep from what John handed him.
they Law him down on a couch and take
off his uniform. Then they dress him
up in suit OF citizens clothes and give
me his uniform and badge Tint was
some cute trick-what do you say.
mother|
Il say you're a pretty smart boy"
said Mother Defarge.
l am setting down the story Just as
Jimmy told 1t afterward. but J!mmy's
inimitable good nature and slanRy ex-
pansiveness cannot make their way into
cold type.
But this Is the way he concluded the
first part OF his recital
Now. the next thing this young
sleuth wanted to know was. What have
these DcfarRes got hidden away In the
basement that thew seem to think Is 40
valuable! Uncle Jimmy had better go
down and see,"
II seemed to me that It was long
hours since the Doctor" had gone out
and left us to our uncertain rate. l
suppose. as a matter Of fact, that 1t was
little more than "A minute. The most
insistent question In my mind was:
Where is Jimmy Barton?
And then with startling audiences
Jimmy came hurtling through a door
tanned the wooden barrier Of a door!
longed to lift the arms which were
bound to my side and rub my eyes:
This. thought. was the beginning OF
the end-the vision of the dying. who
see what most they long to see
Jimmy got there neither as the vision
Of a distorted mind nor by any myster-
ious agency-but rather as the inevita able
next step in the Investigations he had
s begun at the rogues, gallery cry ana pur-
Silent Sam made clear the mystery.
After John has tied up the watch
man and brought him up here TO eat his
heart out in the dark, I goes and plays
throat to look like | had a cold and to
keep me from needing to give myself
away on account Of the natural differ,
ence I'm our voices. sits on stool
near the door: and when the clerk a4a
at their swell jobs in the bank passes
ing. just mods to 'em without speak
ing. And nobody suspects. At midnight
l let's in Doc and John with his torch
The Potent Flame.
my Sammy! I'd like to see one Of
them torches working" whispered his
mother. 1T must look like regular
magic. What did you say the name OF
1t was, now?'
"Oxyacetylene. laughed Sam THE
through the steel door next to the com.
bination and gives us cnance TO put
a chisel right in the hole we make
John takes hold of the handle. turns
1t and opens the door as easy as you
pleasant the noney's ours, Some
trick! Thirty Thousand dollars because
we got the trains to go and take it."
Jimmy crouched behind the cur
tains poised for a spring: The robber
took out cigarette and lighted 1t quite
aocieity youth uses when concluding
the tale OF some exploit Of which he Is
proud.
IOT MI. bdTtOH. tSdpSu si'~
curtain, seized the gun which lay upon
the table and covered Sam with It, The
thief sprang to his feet and simultan-
eously his hand shot to his hip pocket
But sharp command from Jimmy con-
WINGED aim that 1t was too late for him
to attempt to draw his gun.
SO he raised his hands above his head
in obedience to orders from the man
whose steady aim and unsmiling mouth
were so disconcertingly at variance with
his dapper appearance of social ease.
Jimmy was 80 absorbed In the man
with whom he was dealing that his at
tention did not for one second focus
on the old woman, who was crouchins
at the other side of the table.
But she was watching Jimmy with the
fixed and beady intensity of gaze one
sees sometimes In the eyes OF corncred
rat.
To Jimmy,s alert ears there came the