The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-02-05

lieve it. She was acting in good faith
whatever she did. Perhaps he had
convinced her that the diamonds were
his-tilat Mrs. Delario was robbing
hint / felt it then the boldest, clever
est plot / had ever heard Oft actu-
ally admired him for the daring and
the intellectually of it-as feat it
stimulated me.
Yes, once having the key to it in
the slipper, l saw the whole plot as
plain as day; the one point puzzling
me was: how did monsieur know /
had the diamonds now? / couldn't
make that out at ali-not if believed
Mrs. Delario hadn't told him, and
thought she was the only other living
person who knew it. Well, I had them,
and I'd keep them for all of monsieur
until returned them to her.
At quarter after six or Whereabouts
heard the front bell ring three two's
I'd told Billy Rivers to use as his sig
nal, and l skinned along the hall in
my Eureka frame of mind-never once
thought of precautions or of calling
through first and making sure it was
Billy-and flung the door open wide.
AS the door flew back realized the
fool thing I'd done; and then without
even looking to see who it was / caught
the door and tried to shut it again.
But he pushed. looked, then cried
"Billyl" and grabbed him by the arm.
! knew / didn't deserve tit ought by
the rights of romance to have been the
villain.
ooh, Billy-my deliverer-you dear|
gasped the minute the door was shut.
II declare you're good enough to
kiss" and with that up and did it !!
Billy was embarrassed. He APP
praised my salutation at, "Aw-say--'
and a sheepish grin; SO felt obliged
to add, as dragged him along the hall,
"But l used to kiss you years and
years ago."
"Why, so you did-in my Stone
age acknowledged Billy, his tone i'm
plying that he'd passed through some
cons of civilization since; and with
that he thrust a big package in my
"Some eats!" I gurgled, remember
ing suddenly that l was starving.
"Billy-I could kiss you again"
"Aw-say-" he parted, and grabbed
the package and began tearing off the
wrapper. ''It's so sudden-but thank
you ever so much, and for heavens
sake tell me what's happened! I'll
bust if you DON'T"
"Pve run off with million dollars
worth of diamonds, that's ALL"
For minute Billy looked as If he
thought I'd run off with my senses !;
then he observed in that soothy, con-
densed tone very sane young person
uses to a respected elder whose mind
is wandering:
Il think you'd better eat some
thing = Immediately" Gull period
here-it says, 'We'll talk about what
ails you when you're feeling more
yourself.') where's your can
opener?"
/ was SO hungry at the sight of food
that little panicky pains ran round my
insfdes and up my throat, and l
pranced into the kitchen for the opener
and plates, leaving Billy to think what
he pleased about my mental state.
had the wit, though, to tell him "Ssh!"
Just at that moment Mrs. Thing
downstairs began her supper-time per-.
formances. Little had never dreamed
that her daily torture of an otherwise
inoffensive piano would sometime
prove blessing to me. Billy whis-
pered hoarsely, whats that? The
villain trying to get in?"
1 said, Mrs. Thing-down-stairs be-
lieves it's music, lucky for us-we can
now breathe out loud without fear of