Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-10-03

0nele thtng 70 say What ne nad done
or where he'd gone7"
shook my head.
She thrust slim hand into pocket
after pocket, took up the vest, the
trousers, and shoes.
It shows what state had been In,
not to have done 1t myself, but frankly
! hadn't even thought of doing it at
all. stood and watched her and saw
her draw something from down in the
toe Of shoe.
was beside her before she had it
unfolded and spread out--a small slip
Of paper on which were written
words:
"RBHoLD THE KARMA OF KIM
LEE"G
caught my breath. had seen that
firm script too many times to doubt
the hand which wrote it.
AL this time it had lain here for me,
and I had been too blind to see it. 1t
had taken the curiosity of child to
spread it for my reading.
Yet It told me all wanted to know.
Beyond doubt Dual had gone, like Lu-
cile. to ask the payment of Karmic
debt.
els It q message?" inquired Miss
Lawton as stood with the slip in my
hand.
nodded.
"Good!" she exclaimed. "Then even
/ helped little bit by finding it, didn't
], Mr.. Glace?"
Again I nodded. To tell the truth
was disgusted to think of the hours
/ had sat with the thing unbound.
The luncheon came up and we ate.
Lily prattled of any number of things
to which replied without great deal
of interest.e
We were still dallying at our meal
when the door swung open without
any warning and Colonel Sheldon
came in, looking warm and worried.
He threw himself into a chair, drew
out kerchief and mopped his face of
q slight dew of perspiration.
II don't like it," he burst out.
There's something funny about the
whole blamed business. ! went out of
here an went up where you said. I
kept an eye out, but couldn't see any
sign Of Lucille.
"Then I went into the store you
told me about and asked clerk for
Kim Lee.
az want to see yolr boss l said.
"She called little sawed.off shrimp
an says, Are you Kim Lee?"
kim Lee?' says he. oh, no
there is Some mistake'
"'No, there amt no mistake says
!. want to see Kim Lee, who owns
this joint He looks kinder funny and
shakes his head. There is no Kim
Lee says he.
well, chinned a bit, an then
left an was mad. After bit, though,
/ thinks maybe one of the other shops
will wise me up, so 1 goes to two or
three.
AN say, Glace-honest, not one of
them places ever heard of this party.
i reckon, somebody gave Connel a
mighty bad steer. reckon there amt
no such man."
Thought of the paper in my pocket.
OF course Dual had obtained the
name from Connel as / had, but surely
he must have found this man, or else
where was he?
took out the bit of paper and hand
ed it to Sheldon.
There may not be any Kim Lee.
retorted, "but Lily found this in one
OF Dual's shoes little while ago."
The colonel studied it for moment
more Karma," he said slowly al
length. dual seems to have had this
Kim Lee tip, too"
"And you saw nothing of Mis-:
Foote?" questioned.
Mary hide or hair" said the colo
mel, "but found the shooter wh'
drove Dual away from here an where
do you suppose he went?"
/ shook my head.
ITO barber shop" The colone
lifted his hat and cast in on the floor
But there's shop in the hotel,'
exclaimed.
Il know it," rasped the old west
erner quickly. But he takes a cab
goes down the street to shop, get
out, and sends the man back up here
al AC uOh CNCh 81 toWoio
town. but away from It.
+An' that amt all. either. Whea
was ccmin' back from UP there. Their
was d yellow faced mutt trailed m
clear down to this here leetle park Il
front of the hotel. Then gets tire,
an turns round an tells hila to TAX
his foot in his hand an beat it bacl
the way he came.
He pretended he didn't sayyy, lik
they do. but he stayed where he wa
when come on. tell you don't lik
il, Glace., ! don't like it at all"
II seemed to me that the telephon
snarled rather than rang.
reached it on the run, caught u
the receiver, and answered the call.
Connels voice came back TO me q
once.
"l1ello!, That you, Clace? Sa,
,.,.,