Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-13


fault.
So, for couple of days. Swatty
didn't say much because he thought
maybe the burglar would come around
Ind burglar his house and then he
would be as good as Bony. But the
burglar didn't go to any more houses,
and me and Swatty got pretty sick
about the burglar climbing right In
1T his window and almost falling over
his bed, and about how'll he had
Weakened up-he would have gone
Into his fathers room and got his
Fathers shotgun and shot the burglar.
We got pretty sick Of hearing about
}he reward Bony's father had offered,
Ind about how the policemen came to
fhe house and looked at Bony's bed
room window and everything and
"Garshp' swatty said. '!t amt
nothing to brag about to b bur-
s1ared! The way you talk you'd think
nobody In the world could be burr
klared but you. II ! wanted to I
6ould write to my uncle in Derling-
port and he'd send down . burglar
TO burglar my house In 9 minute
And he'd burglar Georges house
too. And my uncle would send down
b real burglar, too"
That was a good one on Bony. because
tho newspaper said the policemen said
tho burglar that burglared Bony.'s
} hSSsS w saisnt: real burglar but only
"well~weil- Bony said. "well,
If your uncle can send down 30 many
real burglars, why don't he do It and
not leave you sitting there TALKING
about what he can do all the timer
your old burglar will write to my
said. 80.
"Awl and If you did he wouldn't get
pothingl Whatd he get. at your
cardinals signet ring"
Well. guess that made swatty pref.
fy mad. guess we had heard about
All we wanted to hear about that old
signet ring. SO Swatty started to go
away, and he said to me:
nothing in IN the &c world " but that old
signet ring. I bet 1t was brass. any
way"
But the cardinals signet ring
wasn't brass, because 1t said In the
newspaper It was gold.
signet ring before the burglar ever
got 1t, because once Bony told US
about 1t when we were at his house
and he would have showed 1t to us,
only his mother would not let him. 1t
chad been in the family from genera
tion unto generation. So when Bony's
mother would not let us see 1t be-
cause her hands were in the dough
and boys are too careless, Bony told
us what 1t was like and said he
Jars. or maybe hundred. anyway.
because 1t was solid gold and had
red, carved stone in 1t, and the car
dinal had given 1t to his son, and
he had given it to his son, and 1t had
always been In the family. SO said:
couldn't give anything to their sons:
they don't have any sons to give any
well, this cardinal gave this ring to
his son, so he did, Bony said. This
cardinal had son."
mo. he didn't!' I said. II guess I
know about cardinals. They don't have
Hny sons: They can't have sons. That's
Wei, Bony didn't know what to
because read lot of books and he
don't. So, If it hadn't been for Swat
ty don't know what we would have
done about it. I guess me and Bony
would have been mad at each other
forever, or had fight or something,
fSs ssNJ AA~N JAoS OSSAA AAolShAAS
and spoke up.
"Aw" he said; that amt nothing
to fight about. The cardinals signet
ring could be an heirloom from gem
Grafton to generation and the cardinal
needn't have any son either. He could
give 1t to his grandson. couldn't her"
''Of course he could!" Bony said.
'That's what he did"
Sure he did" said swatty. "That's
how all cardinals do. When they want
to start an heirloom going they look
around for son to give 1t to, and
when they haven't any sons they give
the heirloom to their grandsons."
The burglar got plenty of other
things from Bony's house, too, but the
eignet ring is the thing I'm tell
Ing about. because it was the Sig
net ring that helped Swatty to
catch the burglar. That and Mamie
Little, only Mamie Little didn't know
She helped until told her, and then
che didn't understand any better than
che did about the sulphur bag I guess
nobody Will know unless I tell it. So
tn tell it.
Well. Mamie Little was my girl, only
anybody said she was I'd fight him,
like any boy would If anybody said
anybody was his girl. She sat almost
clear across the room from me at
School and she knew was her beau,
So none of the policemen caught
Bony's burglar. Bony's father printed
p reward of fifty dollars in the news
paper, but my father said that who
ever caught the burglar wouldn't be
half as lucky If he caught him as he
would II he ever got fifty dollars out
Of Bony's father. because my father
would be blessed il he believed Bonys
father had ever seen fifty dollars al
one time. So maybe the policemen
knew that Anyway they did not catch