Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-01

against Tie UOOE anu IL CsiHlc open anu
he ran out in the yard. He was tryin'
to get the blindfOld off his eyes. but
he couldn't, because 1t was towel In
a pretty hard knot and he went tear
in all around the backyard. and we
didn't chase him. or anything. All we
did was just watch him-and that's
when he fell in the cellar. Well, 1t
didn't hurt him any. but he was mud
der than what he would have been II
he'd just had sense enough to lay
down in the shack. Well, so we
thought, long as he was down in the
cellar anyway, We might as we'll have
the rest Of the 'nishiatiOn down there.
So we brought the things down and
and Insulated him-and that's all.
That's every bit We did to him."
EYES," said Mr.. Williams sardonical-
ly; 81 see. What were the details of
the initiation
"Sir"
II want to know what else you did
to him? What was the initiationT
"It's-it's secret" Sam murmured
piteOusly.
"Not any longer, I assure you'll The
society Is a thing Of the past. and
you'll find your friend Penrod's par
ents agree with me in that. Mrs. Bas-
sett had already telephoned them when
she called US up. You go on with your
stOry!"
Sam sighed deeply. and yet 1t may
have been a consolation to know that
his present misery was not altogether
without it's counterpart. Through the
falling dusk his spirit may have
crossed the intervening distance to
catch q glimpse of his friend suffering
simultaneously and standing within
the same peril. And If Sans spirit did
thus behold Penrod in jeopardy, 1t was
true vision.
"Go on!" said Mr.. Williams.
"Well, there wasn't any fire In the
furnace because it's too warm yet,
and we weren't goin' to do anything'd
hurt him, so we put him in there"
"In the furnace?"
1T was cold" protested Sam.
There hadn't been any fire there
since last spring. Course We told him
there was fire in 1t. We had to dc
that" he continued earnestly, because
!, that was part of the 'nishiatiOn. We
, only kept him in it little while and
/ kind of hammered on the outside lit
: tie, and then we took him out and go1
, him to lay down on his stummick, be
. cause he was all muddy anyway
= where he fell down the cellar; ant
, how could it matter to anybody tha
, had any sense at all? Well. then W.
: mad the ritual, and-and-why, tn,
4 teeny little paddlin' he got wOuldn'
hurt a flea! 1t was that little cOlOret
boy lives. in the alley did it-he ism
anyways near half Georges size-bu
George got mad and said he didn'
| want any ole niger to paddle him
II That's what he said and it was hi
| own foOlishness, because Verman won
| let anybody call him niger and |
George was gOin' to call him that, h
ought to had sense enough not to d
it when he was layin' down that wa
I l
| der. And he needn't of been so ma
i at the rest of US. either. because
i took us about twenty minutes to &c
i the paddle away from Verman afte
I, that, and we had to lock Verman u
4 in the laundry room and not let hill
4 out till it was all over. Well, and the
j things were kind of spoiled anyway
{, so we didn't do but just little NOR
Il and that's all"
| go on! What was the Just a littl
moreY"
| "Well-we got him to swaller littl
ushed to have to wear in bag arOun
his neck. 1t wasn't enough to eve
make q person sneeZe-it wasn't muC
more'n q half spOonful-it WASH
hardly a quarter of a spOOnf-"
| "Ha!" said Mr.. Williams. ''That a
counts for the doctor. What else"
| "Well-we-we had some paint lie
over from our flag, and we put lit
N teeny bit of it on his hair and"
Il "Ha !" said Mr.. Williams. THAT q
counts for the barber. What else"
| "'That's all," said Sam, swallowin
"A Then he got mad and went home"
n Mr.. williams walked to the doc
VI and sternly motioned to the culprit
precede him through it. But just b
fore the pair passed from her sigf
a Mrs. Williams gave way to an uncO
~ trollable impulse.
= "Sam," she asked, "what does Inc
Il In stand for?'
The unfortunate boy had begun
, sniffle.
"It-it rheans-Innapenent Order
Infadelaty." he moaned-and plodd
ke onward to his doom.
ell Not his alone: ut that very nome
10 Master Roderick Magsworth Bits, J
was suffering also, consequent up
telephOning on the part of Mrs. B;
EFT sett, though Roderick's punishme
ell was administered less on the grou
Of Georges troubles and more on til
of Roddy's having affiliated with
on order consisting so largely Of Herm
lst and Verman. AS for Maurice Levy,
he was no whit less unhappy. He far
as i'll.
simultaneously, two eX-members
the In-Or-In were finding their lot f
ed. tunate. Something had prompted tn
mt to linger in the alley in the vicinity
ar | tho cbacE and II WAS tn this fntpd q