The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-09

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Of 1t. Reckon you'll dance whar the
grass is too short"
The girl cast glance at the pro-
fessor, who had not the faintest con-
ception Of what they all meant. then
a meaning glance at his captor. tap
ping her head with her finger. indicat-
ing that the horse thief was not in his
right mind. Then, riding up to Mart,
as she called him, she said in low
voice, not to be heard by Dibbley:
Hes goin' to Hutton's cave. he
says, to hunt for the bones o. people
thousand O. years old. That's evidence
enough that he's went daft"
Mart concluded to ask the professor
few questions himself:
"what We expect 10 find In the cave?"
"a treasure worth more than millions
Of dollars"
"what kind Of a treasurer
1.-THE bones of man who lived when
the plains down there We're covered
by an ocean,"
''That1l do. SAL" said the interrog-
ator to the girl. Il don't want to
hear any more But we can't let a
Teller like that go browsin' about by
hisself Come, my friend" to the pro
fessor you'll have to go back with
me-"
IT can't do that" replied Dibbley.
"I've come all the way from New
! England to examine this find. and
beg Of you not to interfere with me.
I didn't know the horse was yours"
Dibbley begged so hard that Sal set
! about persuading his captor to let him
, distant.
"Y' got to humor them lunatics," she
said aside to Mart. "If you don't
they're liable to hurt themselves"
Mart yielded to please her. and the
three went on to the cave. The escorts
watched to see what Dibbley would do.
Dibbley had brought some digging
utensils with him and began to make
hole In the floor of the cave Remov-
ing some earth. he picked out flints.
The watchers, supposing them to be
stones and seeing the professor put
them carefully In bag, saw conflrma.
ton Of their theory that he was crazy
Besides, the excavator was constantly
talking to himself using the words
neolithic, paleoithic and such other
unintelligible names.
What the professor discovered OF
what he might have discovered is not
to be definitely described, for the pa
thence of the two lockers on was soon
exhausted and they concluded that he
should be confined in n place where he
would do neither himself nor any one
else harm. They compelled him to
leave his work and return with them
to the place where he had paid mar
S. for the use Of another mans horse.
Unfortunately persons who had re
Gently lost horses were waiting Mart's
return. and they were not prepared fol
the line OF defense the professors at
tendants were about to give them
An angry knot of men were talking
about the loss Of their horses when thu
captive was seen coming. between
Mart and SAL When the party reach
ed the station there were frantic crie'
of Hang him. "Shoot him" xxi
him. mingled with uncOmplimentar,
remarks. Mart, who had become con
WINGED Of Dibbley's insanity, attempted
to argue with the crowd, but failed
They all said that, having recovered
his own horse. he was inclined to for
give the crime that had deprived 9th
ers Of their horses.
Meanwhile the professor had come
down from the age OF primitive man t.
hh own tragic situation and was trem
bling like a leaf Then Sal rose to thu
occasion and proved that a woman
may be valuable legal advocate.
"Men," she said. arguing from tn
rostrum of a horses back, sitting
straddle, "ef you'd "a seen and heard
what we seen and heard you'd be con
WINGED of this yere little feller's limo
cence. He's as crazy as a loon. HI
said while he was talkin' that we was
all the sons and darters OF monkeys
that there was times when everything
was covered with ice, runnin like wa
ter; that kangeroos was cavortin
around biggern any house In this yer'
place; that sometimes the sea wal
a-splashin' agin Table mountain; tina
there was men on earth before the In
fins. He went into Hutton's cave ant
was a-diggin' there. THROWN up dirty
stones and putin 'em In his bag, 8 i
they was silver spoons. II then
things don't prove him crazy there's
nobody crazy, and they'd better tea
down the madhouses."
"How about his stealth Mart''
horse?" called a voice.
"I'n tell you; he's not only lunatic
but fool. He got TUX in by some III
that he give a fiver to fur the use o
Mart's horse to go to the cave to hun
for the bones OF a man 25.000 year