The Arizona copper camp., 1919-03-08

and the voice of Sally calling my name.
I stopped and faced about.
How charming she looked as she
walked toward me! I had never seen
her quite SO fixed up.
Bart" she said. 'T suppose you're
not going to speak to me-"
IF you'll speak to me-" answered.
81 love to speak to you," she said.
give been looking all around for you.
Mother wants you to come over to
dinner with us at just twelve o'clock.
You're going away with father as soon
as we get through"
wanted to go but got the notion all
at once that the Dunkelbergs were in
need of information about me and that
the time had come to impart it. So
then and there that ancient Olympus
of our family received notice as it
were.
81 can't" I said. 'I've got to study
my lessons before go away with your
! father"
1t was blow to her. I saw the
shadow that fell upon her face. She
was veXed and turned and ran away
from me without another word and T
felt pang of regret as went to the
| lonely and deserted home of the
schoolmaster.
At twelve-thirty Mr. Dunkelberg
| came for me, with a high-stepping
horse in a new harness and shiny,
still-running buggy. He wore gloves
and beaver hat and sat very erect
and had little to say.
II hear you met the president, he
remarked.
eyes, sir. I was introduced to him
this morning" I answered a bit too
proudly, and wondering how he had
heard of my good fortune, but deeply
gratified at his knowledge of it.
"What did he have to say?'
I described the interview and the
looks of the great man. Not much
more was said as we sped away
toward the deep woods and the high
hills.
I was eager to get home but Won
dered why he should be going with me
to talk with Mr.. Grimshaw and my
uncle. Of course I suspected that it
had to do with Amos, but how I knew
not. He hummed in the rough going
and thoughtfully ficked the bushes
with his whip. I never knew more
persistent hummer.
Aunt Deel shook hands with Mr..
Dunkelberg and then came to me and
said:
oval, Bart Baynes! I never was so
glad to see anybody in all the days O.
my life-ayes! We been lookin' up
the road for an hour = eyes! You
come right into the house this min
ute-both O. yOu."
The table was spread with the
things enjoyed most-big, brown bis
cults and great comb Of honey sur
rounded with it's nectar and pitcher
of milk and plate of cheese and some
jerked meat and an apple pie.
"Set right down an eat-I just
want to see ye eat-ayes dol"
Mr.. Grimshaw came soon after we
had finished our luncheon. He hitched
his horse at the post and came in.
"GoOd day. he said once and for
all, as he came in at the open door.
"Baynes, I want to have talk with
you and the boy. Tell me what you
know about that murder"
"Wal, had some business over to
Plattsburg," my uncle began. "While
I was there I thought I'd go and see
Amos. So drove out to Beekman's
farm. They told me that Amos had
left there after workin' four days.
They gave him fourteen shillins an
he was goin' to take the stage in the
mornin'. He left some time in the
night an took Beekman's rifle with
him, so they said. There was piece
o. wood broke out O. the stock O. the
rifle. That was the kind o. gun that
was used in the murder"
1t surprised me that my uncle knew
all this. He had said nothing to me
of his journey or it's result.
"How do you know?" snapped Mr..
Grimshaw.
'"This boy see it plain. 1t was a
gun with a piece O. wood broke out
O. the stock"
'Is that so?" was the brusque de-
mand of the money lender as he
turned to me.
Eyes, sir" I answered.
'"The boy lies," he snapped, and
turning to my uncle added: eyer mad
cause Pm tryin' to make ye pay yer
honest debts-ain't ye now?'
Uncle Peabody, keeping his temper,
shook his head and calmly said: mo,
I amt anything ag'in' you or Amos,
but it's got to be so that man can
travel the roads O. this town without
gettin' his head blowed off,"
Mr.. Dunkelberg turned to me and
asked:
"Are you sure that the stock of the
gun you saw was brokenw
eyes, strand I'm almost sure it
was Amos that ran away with it."
"Why?"
81 picked up a stone and threw it