The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-30

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 'tAh light" In chorus, Lucille dressed faster than she over had before or has since, and We men, with the usual celerity of the bifurcat- cd sex, were ready as soon as she was.
 As soon aB we had assembled in the living room once more Bopp. by req son of his superior nerve, elected him. self commander of the expedition.
 'Monty,"he directed, "you take Jesse James with you and explore the north haf of the island. Lucille and will seGrch the southern portion As soon as either party discovers Mrs. Green come back to ttSs house and fire oG thn revoltsF." Re laid large caADer tx shootar on Rhe table.
 I might have disputed his arrange ment and calm appropriation of Lu- ' cile's society, but judged that 1t would be . poor time to argue about anything SO purely social. Besides, Agurel out that the man who was With Eucre was going to have no cinch reassuring her that her mother had not met wfth some terrible taking off. So they went one wGy, and we departed ths other, everybody sloshlng internal Iy and externally on account of the large amount of distilled water and rain
 How are we going to hunt this skirt nnYwayP' feInanded Kent after we had trudsod nOrt6waFd For a few mo msnts. . e..
 aJu5t hunt.~ 1 replied vaguely. too busy with my thoughts to consider the question seriously.
 '+This atn't regular" objected Kent, Blacking up his pace. eve ought to trail the old dame by her footprintB. Old you notice any footprints around she houss?" ...
 '4Sn I dfda't thihk to look"
 even. iees go back and have a peeh."
 AS that c0Iac4ded with the methods o6 reasoning adopted by the detectives in tho best BsIlerS, I agreed, and we retEaced our footsteps to the house.
 "You noen to know 6 good deal about detaetiye methedR" I said, with mock admiration.
 "Yeh," 6a responded seriously; T ought tA I've been ehaBed by some of the beEt detecttves in New York" Tnau Aa afded proudly, "I had Burns sfter Tdb oneS."
 'UndeF Der window is the first place b lOek," said Kent, alive with inter est now in the scheme. "WheEe dd che slegpT'
 I picked out tho window of Mrs. GFeAn's room. and we carefully search cd the vet ground underneath by light ing mEteha.
 A1Bn't 1t more probable that Bhe would come out by the doorT' sug. rested "she couh never climb from that second Et64y window"
 "Surs 8bS could" he asserted. See that rain pipe here? It goes Rlongside bsY window. A la6y like her could shin up and down that like a mouse"
 Somoway the picture of my future mether-tn-law q hoped trtsking up and down q narrow water pipe was beyond my imagination.
 "Look hereT' exclaimed my compan- Ion, pointing to the ground in front of him. ''Is that or Is 1t not the print rt q lEdy's SboeS"
 I looked. There was certainly footprint there. and # was small and narrow.
 'Trs fresh too. You can terl by the mud that it's been made since the heavy rsfn. Old footprints would have been washed out anyhow"
 This was sure enough reasoning.
 Kent started to walk in the direction thAt the footprints led, and followed. All at once Kent stopped and lit sev- egal matches all in one place.
 q think Pve solved the mystery" hs said, bending ever the mud. But it looks bad for the doll. There's guy following her. Look at these marks"
 With @ shudder verified his state ment. Larger footprints were in the mud with the small ones. The owner of the larger shoes had evidently fol- lowed the lady, because in many cases the small footprints were partially ob- liberated by the larger ones.