The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-01-26

stranger. This Is the firth case a.
boss stealln' in these yeTe parts in the
last three weeks. Now we've got on
to who's doin' 1t therein lie no more
Of It, Reckon you'n dance wbar the
grass Is too short"
The girl cast a glance Mt the pro
fessor. who had not the falntest 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 a 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
q few questions himself:
what We expect TO find in the cave?"
"A treasure worth more than millions
of dollars"
what kind. or treasurer
"The bones of man who lived when
the plains down there were covered
by an ocean"
''That'll do. Sal" said the interrog-
ator to the girl Il don't want to
hear any more But we can't let
feller like that 80 browsin' about by
hissef. Come, my friend" to the pro
fessor you'll have to 20 back with
me-"
Il 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
| didn't know the horse was yours"
! Dihhley begged SO hard that Sal set
about rersuading his captor TO let him
go to the cave. which was but a mile
distant.
"Y' got to humor them lunatics," she
1 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, lie picked out flints.
The watchers, supposing them TO be
stones and seeing the professor put
them carefully in bag, saw eonfrma
tion Of their theory that he was crazy.
Besides, the eYcavator was constantly
talking to himself, using the words
neolithic, paleoithic and such other
unintelligiblc names.
What the professor discovered OF
what he might have discovered Is moi
to be definitely described, for the pa
tience Of the two lockers on was soor
exhausted. and they concluded that ne
should be confined In place where nc
would do neither himself nor any one
else harm. They compelled him e
leave his work and return with then
TO the place where he had paid a maj
S5 for the use of another mans morse.
Unfortunately persons who had re
Gently lost horses were waiting MART
return, and they were not prepared TO
the line of defense the professors al
tendants were about to give them
An angry knot of men We're taking
about the loss of their horses when I'll
captiye was seen coming, betwee
Mart and sal. When the party reaci
ed the station there were frantic cris
of "Uana him!" "Shoot him.! "kl
himy" MINGLED with uncomplimental
remarks. Mart, who had become co
yinced of Dibbley's insanity, attempts
TO argue with the crowd, but faile
They all said that, having recover
his own horse. he was inclined to II
give the crime that had deprived o'
ers Of their horses.
Meanwhile the professor had col
down from the age of primitive man
hH own tragic situation and was tire
bling like a leaf Then Sal rose to I
!, occasion and proved that WON
: NAV be valuable legal advocate.
"NIen.' she said. arguing from
rostrum of horses back, stu
straddle, "ef you'd "a seen and hea
!, what we seen and heard you'd be &C
q yinced of this yere little feller's ini
;. cence. He's as crazy as a loon.
n said while he was talkin' that we W
q all the sons and darters OF monke!
that there was times when everythi
/. was covered with ice, runnin Ike v
ter; that kangeroos was eaVort
G around higgern any house IN MS Se
r. Mace. tat sometimes The s2a v
J. a.splashin agin Table mountain u
there was men on earth before the
n iins. He went into Huttons cave u
was a-dircin' there, THROWN up on
al stones and putin 'em in his bag $
lie they was silver spoons. II th'
10 things don't prove him crazy 'hei
n. nobody crazy, and they'd better e
De down the madhouses."
Glow about his stealth Mar