The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-08-14
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on Inference seemed pettyfom
| pared 10 poor Jim's tragic tntrodnc
| Hon to the man his children k6dlt
| have 10 call grandfather"
sThe detectives VIDE Unwilling
10 rive up their catch eaid, Dol
A he Sink INTO one side 81 d!
| Hafnm6tk. Thk danGS tnHsie can't
10 tis 81 tie tree1e and made I
| strafge background for the st0r,
| Bob Bid To ten.
lffsy were Hot going to delyel
! up such q prize to ave my bodyI
teelInsa Finally Iget hold Of Mot
GOOD ga Morrison! And M
Best-is free?"
Bob laughed rather cynically:
Reli; / 6iidn,t say .lfee. Msr
ris6h has Gone Oh the train witt
! him u the seabuafa and VII stay
with lie chap dhtil Die ship leave!
| the dock, too. You can bet ] tt1ed
tat al fighfr
aF6f goodness sale, tel md all
aboit III Beb!s
aBest explained to Us that %
had determined TO see his danga,,
| ter before he took the midnight
| tain So be hung around he!
| house on the chance that she would
Iran ID lot something during tne
evening. Mat<I smoker
"Oi course, my dear" !.
.When the fireworks went o.
the servants weht On, too. 4.
least Best says they: deserted The
place; So he walked right IN thu
front door, and wandered from
| room to room, Just TO see the fine
way bis girl had feathered her nest
l-so the fellow said. and, O
course, be whimpered q good deli
about being an outcast and . dete'
| let until | told him to. cut the
bunk. Wen, he said he knew
which was AIMS room from The
furniture, and he was just going
around admiring the things for
| their artistic worth. The antique
| furniture interested him greatly
| he's an artist, you know-and be
examined It like q conholssear,
evening opening the drawers 10
note the character Of the construe.
Ton. And SO It was Just BY accl-
dent that he came upon the gola
| mesh bag with those darn rings
am glad It was not a premedi.
tated theit, q was all / could say.
arguess the fellow told the truth.
! He said that he stuck the thing
| Into his pocket on the impulse. |
don't believe he went into AIMS
!! house to steal, but Of course. !
couldn't convince the detectives o.
that Best reasoned, he admitted,
that nobody would suspect him Of
taking the rings, because nobody
be knew had seen him, and be
would make q getaway on the mid.
might train, he had the tickets In
his pocket-bought by me yester-
day . He thought he was about the
\ last person In. the crowd here To-
night that anybody would follow,
and ] guess he was right-only he
was a little SLOW on the job. He
was descending the stairs, non.
chalantly and confidently, when the
two plainclothes men stepped
through the French windows from
the roof Of the porte.coch ere.'
"We can thank our lucky stars
the rings were saved. l exclaimed.
at would have been simply awful
to explain their loss to the girls
| our most intimate friends. Some
4 of the girls never would have
stopped mourning about the loss,
either:
%Neither would we-if this thing
had come out" said Bob. Poor
old Jim"
] ats a ho.rid, lgnoble story I
1 said. "And an awtully queer retri.
button. AIMS carelessness has
proved her fathers undoing.r
"The sins Of the father boom.
eralged this time" said Bob. But
thank all the gods that We didn't
have a scene tonight. Not a whis;
per Of this will get out, Morrison
promised"
"Oh Ia! la! Deborah Burns viii
never tell-we can trust her. But
have you forgotten that Katherine
/ Miller saw the whole thing? Don't
\ you think you'd better hunt her up
and keep her from whispering the
scandal to those who will spread Il
fastest" ] asked.
Ny husbands face was q puz.
As r;