Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-07

Iieve it. She was acting in good faith
convinced her that the diamonds were
his-that Mrs. Delario was robbing
himl | felt IL then the boldest. clever
est plot had ever heard of actu-
ally admired him for the daring and
the intellectually Of it-as a feat IL
stimulated me.
Yes. once having the key to IL In
the slipper. ] 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 all-not If believed
Mrs. Delario hadn't told him. and ]
thought she was the only other living
person who knew it. Well had them.
and I'd keep them for all of monsieur
until returned them to her.
| At a 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 ! skinned along the hall in
my Eureka frame of mind-never once
thought of precautions or of calling
! lhiOtiSii III ~ iiAhiiE NuAt II va"
Billy-and flung the door open wide.
AS the door few back realized the
fool thing I'd done; and then without
! even looking TO see who II was caught
the door and tried TO shut II again.
! But he pushed. looked, then cried
Billy" and grabbed him by the arm.
| knew didn't deserve tit ought by
| .ssri,f Of 81 no
! villain.
"Oh. Billy-my deliverer-you dear :"
/ ! gasped the minute the door was shut.
81 declare you're good enough TO
! kiss" and with that--I up and did 1t
/ Billy was embarrassed. He APP
praised my salutation at, "Aw-say-"
and sheepish grin: so felt Obliged
/ TO add. as dragged him along the hall,
: But used to kiss you years and
| years ngo."
why, so you did-in my Stone
age" acknowledged Billy, his tone i'm
plylGg that he'd passed through some
cons of civilization since; and with
that he thrust big package In my
hands, saying laconically, Some eats"
"Some eats!" / gurgled. remember
ing suddenly that ! was starving.
BILLY could kiss you again"
"Aw-say-" he parried. and grabbed
the package and began tearing of the
wrapper. Its so sudden-but thank
you ever so much, and for heavens
sake tell me what's happened III
bust If you don't"
1--WE run off with a million dollars
worth of diamonds. that's all"
For a 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 respected elder whose mind
is wandering:
II think you'd better eat some
thing - Immediately" Gull period
here--it says, "We1l 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
insldes and up my throat, and /
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 suppertime per
fornanceS. Little had ever dreamed
that her daily torture of an otherwise
inOffensive piano would sometime
prove a blessing to me. Billy whis-
pered hOarsely, whats that? The
villain trying to get inf'
said, Mrs. Thing be-
lieves It's music lucky for us--we can
now breathe ont loiId without fpar OF