The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-09

trees had on a long travelling coat
that came nearly to his heels, ana MS
can was the kind that has two VlSots'
one in front and the other behind.
Realizing that it wasn't TarbeIl'
stood perfectly still. The house was
lighted with gas, and the dlnlns-rooh
chandelier had been turned down. 50
there was Il chance that the skulKer
under the trees wouldn't see me stand
ing in the corner Of the box WINDOW
no make it surer. l edged away uhl''
tho curtain hid me- was just in time.
The man had crept out of his hiding
place and was coming up to the WIN
dow on the outside. AS he passed
through the dim beam of light thrown
by the turned-down chandelier l sa"
that he had a pistol in his hand, Or q
weapon of some kind; anyway,
caught the CLINT of the gas'light or
dull steel.
That stirred me up good and plenty
, 7 still had the gun l had taken out o
= Fred Mays drawer; | had carried
. ever since the night when it nat
, mighty nearly got me killed Off in tn
Red Tower coal yard. | fshed it on
and made ready, thinking, OF course
that the skulker must certainly be on
!, Of Clanahan's gunner. I still ha
). that idea when I felt, rather than Sd"
that the man was pulling himself II
" "a the window so that he could tax
look into the dining room.
7 The look satisfied him, apparenu
for the next second l heard him Orc
~ among the bushes; and when | stoc
20 up and looked out again l could ]u
make him out going around to"al
= the back Of the house. | knew Il
house like a book, and without mak''
- onv noise about it I slipped throu'
q tho buffers pantry and got lo'
~ - out of a rear window. My man "
-" there, and he was working his w
~ sort of blindly around to the den 81
or of the place. :,
W. I knew there was only one wlnd'
~ in the majors den room' and I'll
NJ. was nearly opposite the screened de
IL, way. So ducked back into
" dining room and took a stand whf
II. I could see the one window throu
~ tho door-curtain network of bumf
~, ~ heads. I was so excited that l cau'
. "s only snatches Of what Mrs. Shella
IN, ~" saving to the boss, but the BITS u
" I heard were a good deal to the po
the mo, I mean it, Graham -. II IS
in. I told you at first -. there Is
ow standing room for either Of US
AXE that ground . and you must
mn come here again when you kno"
loot am alone. }. No, Jimmie
enough"
or's | wrenched the half'worklne
the sense aside and damned 1T into
eyes, concentrating hard on the
YOU dow at which expected every sec
to see a mans face. If the man
an. q murderer, thought l could
on him to it.
lngs The suspense didn't last very
ual- A hand came up first to push
rged window vines aside. 1t was a "
, be hand, long and slender, more III
, be womans than a mans. linen as'
tho glass I saw the fuHe, and 1t
me such a turn that thought l
|ple: be going batty.
ing; Instead of the ugly mug OF or
in a c)anaban's gunner, the hasgard
framed in the window sash was
gree. that had seen Once-and only or
was before: on a certain Sunday nisl
the Billiard when the loosen
vou," mouth belonging to it had been
White hing drunken curses AT Inc
e ex- clerk. The man at the window
the dissipated young rounder wit
nd ! been pointed out as the nephe
nuOfon