The progress-itemizer., 1920-04-09
Illustrations
by
IrwinMyers

And have you ever seen or heard
anything?"
The old woman busted herself with
fore she answered me.
I'm not saying I've seen anything"
she began, but there's thugs l could
be telling if l was minded to open my
lips
''If you know anything" l said, you
must tell me. Mr. Castor put me here
to find out what was wrong"
There's no doubt there's wrong
here"
"What makes YOU say that? What
have you seen? What do you llnow?"
It's neither what I've seen nor
what I know" She nodded mysteri-
ously. It's what I've been hearing
myself"
'For heavens sake, woman" l cried,
losing patience, what is it you've
Eeard?"
I've heard them walking" she an
nounced with an air of triumph.
you've heard who walking:"
The little people, Of course. Who
else would it be doing it,"
"Oh. bosh :" l exclaimed I was well
enough acquainted with the supersti-
ti0ns of the Irish to understand who
she meant by the little people, It's
the habit of the old crones from the
Emerald isle to attribute anything
they cannot understand to fairies.
you may laugh" she retorted indig-
nantly, but / heard them, I tell ye''
where did you hear them, these
footsteps?"
Coming right out of the wall, here
in tlis room. and in the Kitchen be-
yond"
at was probably somebody in an
other apartment you heard"
'It was not. The floors do be dead
ened like, and it's nothing at all you
can hear. It was somebody walking
soft-lke right there in the wall at me
back"
well" I announced, "if there is
anything like that going on, l am 60
ing to stay here until I hear it. |
want to make sure no one can come
into the apartment but myself, so I
an going to ask you to give me your
NeS' l II NC "oi''0 'ie' ''ii 'ii'' morn. +,
ing. 50 l can let you in when You ring"
Its me key you're wanting, is it?"
She produced it from a pocket of
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herci'iel "i'eie sue i'a0 'ieu 1t Ior Sale
keeping
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be someone WHO A"e" 'i'e coiiioilia-
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hcor there:
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trying 10 oIacAln''ll tle lainiy next
door!
.. HOW h'u tHe anonymous notes
been deilVered OH tiie looi ol b"rp''ra
bradlord room Nl1Nloei''iy the
writer was the s''ile 40 III lily oaSe'j
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