The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11

MRS. GREEN HAD DISAPPEARED
You have guessed correctly that this
is where the clement Of mystery On
tcrs the story. You doubtless wonder.
as we did. II Kent, the wire taper,
had made away with Mrs. Green or 4
Bopp. baked III his dog biscuit. had
become a villain of the deepest dye.
We did not come to any such cOnclu.
slons at first, Of course. That was
after we had looked all over the house,
up I'm the attic aud down in the cellar.
Then ! went to kent's room. He was
snoring peacefully. | mistrusted that
he might be shs mining and poured :
PITCHER of water On him to see how hc
would react to the shock. ! Should
say that his reaptiOns were perfectly
normal, albeit somewhat picturesque
ly abusive.
Next we hailed Bopp from his room
He was inclined TO be suspicious al
first until we told him about flrs
Green's disappearance; then he was
all sympathy and joined our lightly
clad searching party In the hallway.
Naturally, Lucille feared the worst,
while the rest of us with masculine
optimism discounted any danger which
might befall the old lady.
"But she wasn't herself" walled Lu'
cile. "She's been acting funny all the
evening"
Never mind about her." comforted
Kent. "a man with jag can fall OF
the roof and never hurt himself bit
A bit Of a bun makes anybody lucky
Suppose she is out In all this rainT
"A little water, more or less, wont
make any difference to her after the
last two days." l observed gIoomily.
Lets not stand here any longer,
said Bopp in businesslike fashion. "It
won't do much good to try to guess
where she is. Let's begin a systematic
hunt"
Lets get on some regular clothes
first" | suggested.
"All right" in chorus.
Lucille dressed faster than she ever
had before or has, since, and we men,
with tho 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 sOOu
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.
might have disputed his arrange
ment and calm appropriation of Lu'
Giles society, but judged that il
would be a poor time to argue abou;
anything so purely social. BesiGps, !
figured out that the man who was
with Lucille was going to have no cinch
rcassuring her that her mother had not
met with some terrible taking off. So
they went one way, and we departed
lhS OIllCI, CNcl y DOuy SiOonhlS lnlSlhlf
ly and externally on account Of the
large amount of distilled water and
rain.
"How are we going to hunt this skirt
anyway" demanded Kent aftoc we
had trudged northward for few mo.
mentS.
"Just hunt" l replied vaguely. toe
busy with my thoughts to consider the
! question seriously.
"This amt regular" objected Kent,
Stacking up his pace. 1--WE 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 20 back and have q
peek"
AS that coincided with the methods
of reasoning adopted by the detectives
in the best sellers, 1 agreed, and we
rctraced our footsteps to the house.
(TO BE CONTINUEDO