The Elbert County tribune., 1918-01-11
CeeyrgyIf, IQI6, Sfa- Csrps7y

| crossroads. As we followed 1 got Bill
lies story from him.
"well, l never saw Jean till yes
terday. But knew she was my girl
right away. 1 never noticed girls
much before. I've been too busy bring
Ing myself up, But Jean--she was
different all right. / knew; you un-
dcrstand how 1t is with fellow.
1T was like this. They gives me
telegram this morning over to the
ofIice-excuse me. over at the Office
and sends me-sent me-up to Rich
ard Morton's house. He's the dis
trict attorney. and the boys all say
he's a very honest guy--man."
Billie blushed lngenuously as he cor
rected his English.
"Well, when l get to the Morton
1 house they tell me to come in and wait
to see If there's an answer And
while I'm out in the hall the prettiest
little girl you ever seen came out. She
shook hands with me as polite as you
please and asked me to sit down Just
rs If / was gentleman instead of
| telegraph messenger.
"No other girl had ever treated me
like that before. and her being so
pretty and all-it just got me-got me
where / live. l knew it was love at
| first sight all right. ] got to grow up
and be president of the Western Union
and marry that girl
'Well, Jean-that was her name, she
told me-Jean seemed to like me, too.
| We had lovely time for minute or
! so, and then the lady with face that
| looked like someone had carved 1t out
OF piece of steel came out and took
her away. She didn't want to go.
cither-any more than 1 wanted to
have her.
$50 / went across the road and sat
down on the curbstone. / thought may
be she'd come to window and wave
to me-and she did. And then the
lady with the face all carved out of
piece of steel came and took her
away"
But, Billie, there's more to your
story. Why are we following that
limousine? That's the part of the
story have to know"
'Yes'm, I'm coming to that. Well,
then after l spoke to you ! went back
to practicing the Morse alphabet, but
! was thinking about Jean all the time.
just had to go back to her house and
I try to see her again. I got n message
to deliver up in the neighborhood that
afternoon and then l went over and
; hid behind tree, kind of hoping Jean
would come out and ] could see her.
Love does get fellow like that"
~ was thinking how hard I'd have
IN, IL to hn har
I'd study till grew up to be the kind
OF man girl like Jean could marry
and all of a sudden while l was
standing there dreaming, up the street
comes limousine.
81 could see two meu in 1t. One
had smoked glasses on. He got out
and the other stayed in the car.
II saw that the one in smoked
glasses was blind. He came tap-tap-
tapping along the sidewalk feeling his
way with his cane like he was trying
to get somewhere.
"And then, all of sudden, from
Jeans house 1 heard funny click
ing sound. looked up and there was
the window pane. And that blind man
cane was doing something that sound
ed to me kind of funny-lilSe the Morse
code.
without thinking much about 1t, I
got out my notebook and pencil and be-
gan to write. 1t just wrote Itself
kind of-and this was what it said:
Drive north of Sullivan road
"There was some more tapping from
the house. The steel-faced lady was
using a pencil on the pane. Pretty
soon the blind man seemed to get his
bearings and went back to the llmou-
sine. 1t stood there stlll-like it was
waiting.
"And then along comes another car.
1t said 'R. NJ on the side of it, and 1
knew 1t belonged to jeans dad. Well,
out came the steel-faced lady and
Jean, and the lady told the chauffeur
something and they drove off. And
then that other car turned around and
started to follow. and something told
me I'd better go, too, and l hopped
over and climbed on the tailboard.
pretty soon our car stopped right
square across the road so no other one
could pass, and the two men and the
chauffeur got out and looked around
the back of a curve we'd made and
there comes the car we'd stopped fol-
lowing all of sudden.
"And II drew up and the chauffeur
came out and asked us what was the
trouble. And then he stopped over to
look. and one of the men hit him over
the head with wrench he had in his
hand. And then they dragged him
down to the bushes by the side of the
road and the steel-faced lady gets out
of their car and comes along carrying