The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-09


while she operates"
Billy forked a lot of chicken onto
my plate and commanded me to go to
1t, and / grabbed roll out of his box
and said
"Billy, he tried to murder me-
"He?"
'That mamie was waiting for me
with dagger that night-look here
] jumped up and got the dagger from
my penholder tray-"he dropped 1t on
the floor"
Gee whizp he cried, taking the. dag
ger from me; and then he demanded,
"Who?s
"That man-De Rayenol."
'De Rayenol ?-you mean that man
in Paris who wanted you to bring the
pretty daughter over with you and
you wouldn't?"
''Yes--that's the one. He was dia-
mond thief--that's what he was!"
blew off. "He was in the act of steal
ing a million dollars worth Of dia-
monds. And / foiled himr'
"Wow! You did,"
II should Say / did! And what's
more, I've got the diamonds here
there-behind you in those hyacinths."
"Wow!" he whooped, and before /
knew what he was doing he was out
Of his chair, his hand on the glass.
"Don't touch them!' / shrieked.
"Wow!" he cried, dropping his hand
and jumping back. do they bite?''
Motley sting. They pizen your
very soul. But, Billy-stop wowing-t
I'm watched"
He sat down with the command,
"Diyulge the dread secret" and be-
tween bites I told him the whole story
up to Eureka, and brought in the slip
per to prove it.
He was still staring when I got
through and asked him, Sand now how
am going to get those beastly things
out of the house and where am / go
ing to get them to? She doesn't dare
to have them at her house"
"Oh, / can take them away and
hide 'em, If that's all you want" he
answered carelessly.
1T isn't ALL" retorted, bit indig-
nant, "It's only the beginning of
new chapter of misery for the whole
of us-it's throwing the responsibility
on you without getting me out of the
nett won't save me from being kid
mapped and searched and maybe MUIR
dered to keep my mouth shut"
Billy nodded at that and said,
You're right"
He took cigarette out of his case
and with short, MAY I?' lighted up
and began to blow rings, gazing at
them abstractedly. l nibbled crumbs.
After I'd stood his silence for half a
cigarette, repeated my question and
told him, "We've got to do something
right off-now-tonight."
OF course" He smoked another
quarter and threw the cigarette with
energy into the empty chicken tin,
bouncing up as he spoke.
What are we going to do?" he gave
forth masterfully. "We're going to
trap that bold man oil by our little
own selves-you and I. And we'n give
him one nice lesson on stealing dia-
monds from defenseless women-and
threatening you."
But we've got to hurry" / urged.
Il can't live this way much longer
it's simply killing mel"
Sure" Billy agreed, suppressing a
smile at me. I'm hurrying all I can.
] calculate to have your 'mossoo' in
handouts tomorrow night" And he
unrolded his plot and / entered into If
with fervor. The truth is Billy and /
We're having the fun of 0ur lives.
The scheme was to decoy monsieur
to the fiat by a letter frcm Mrs. Della
rio Indicating where the diamonds
were hidden; we banked on his re-
membering the one place he hadn't
searched-the hyacinths; and if he got
the tip we believed he'd return the mo-
ment went out.
After some discussion Billy and 7
decided not to take Mrs. Delario into
our confidence, not knowing how she'd
act In the crisis, which necessitated
our initiating her writing. The only
sample of her writing we had was her
address in my notebook and some
titles of books on spiritualfsm she'd
wished me to read. But the samnle
did us. and the joint literary efforts NJ
myself and Billy produced the follow
ing-this purporting to be from me to
her: -
Ny Dear Mrs Delario; Since he searched
everything but the bunch OF hyaeintbs ). =
s se you over the telephone Tuesday-- this ~
struck me as an exquisitely neat convI,eiIs,
S.S Ior his detective must have renor,as
uoth tnat 1 telephoned and the nurnher ~
w salll-i thought the same place vra,,I5
continue safe In case Of a seconl invas,or
= sot fresh bunch so you win know ~ 49,.
shy thing happens to me. II SO, come ana
ST., 1hem at once; break in the nat IA Won
am going to try to see YOU sa,ura.,,
~ NJ les mat arrangements il i can s,t,
wv W. without being seen Expect me hsty,oat,
elsn. anu ten. De sure TO be alone IL ~
e sa taiK. l still hold to my PROMISE go
sh N TO you II you will help me 10 dlsnnso
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