Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-28

won't do much good to try to guess
where she is. Let's begin a systematic
hunt"
Lets get on some regular clothes
frst." l suggested.
"All right" in chorus.
Lucille dressed faster than she ever
had before or has since, and We men
with the usual celebrity of the bifurcat
ed sex, were ready as soon as she was,
AS soon as we had assembled In the
living room once more Bopp, by rea.
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
half Of the island. Lucille and will
search the southern portion. AS soon
as either party discovers Mrs. Green
come back to the house and fire of
this revolver" He laid large caliber
six shooter on the table.
II might have disputed his arrange,
ment and calm appropriation of Lu-
Giles society. but judged that it
would be a poor time to argue about
anything so purely social. Besides.
figured out that the man who was
with Lucille was going to have no cinch
reassuring her that her mother had not
met with some terrible taking off. So
they went one way. and we departed
the other. everybody sloshing internal
ly and externally on account Of the
In ~
rain.
How are we going to hunt this skirt
anyway demanded Kent after we
had trudged northward for q few mo-
ments
"Just hunt" l replied vaguely. too
busy with my thoughts to consider the
question seriously.
This amt regular" objected Kent
Stacking up his pace I'VE ought to
trail the old dame by her footprints
Did you notice any footprints around
the house?"
mo. didn't think to look"
"Well. let's 60 back and have a
peek
AS that conceded with the. methods
of reasoning adopted by the detectives
In the best sellers agreed. and we
retraced our footsteps to the house.
"You seem to know good deal
about detective methods" I said. with
mock admiration
"Yeh," he responded seriously; 81
ought to. I've been chased by some of
the best detectives in New York.
Then he added proudly. II had Burns
after me once
Under her window is the first place
to look" said Kent. alive with inter,
est now In the scheme "Where did
she sleep?"
] picked out the window OF Mrs
Green's room, and we carefully search
ed the wet ground underneath by light
ing matches.
isn't it more probable that she
would come out by the door?" sug
gested. "She could never climb from
that second story window"
"Sure she could" he asserted. See
that rain pipe here? 1t goes alongside
her window. A lady like her could
shin up and down that like n mouse"
Someway the picture Of my future
mother-in-law Il hoped frisking up
and down narrow water pipe was
beyond my imagination.
~Look herev exclaimed my compan.
ion. pointing to the ground in front Of
him. rs that or is 1t not the print Of
lady's shoe?"
looked. There was certainly a
footprint there. and it was small and
narrow.
Its fresh too. You can tell by the
mud that it's been made since the
heavy rain. 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 ut once Kent stopped and lit sew
eral matches all in one place.
II think I've solved the mystery"
he said. bending over the mud. But
1t looks bad for the doll. There's a
guy following her. Look at these
marks"
With a 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 OBJ
liberated by the larger ones.