Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-28
yelled from an ugly wound in his shoul-

welled from an ugly wound in his shoul-
der.
'He drilled you, major the man
said respectfully, but / don't think"
''Tie it up quickly" Hugh Grantland
snapped, "and let me get my coat on"
saw his face change as he looked
at the man on the floor.
"Send for doctor" he ordered.
"You-don't -need - no - dDctorr
Tim gasped. Il won't be here by the
time he gifts here. Don't take on 80,
Aunt Sukey. It's the best thing that
kin happen to me. But / didn't hurt
the kid-..though that she-devil wanted
me to"
His voice failed, and his eyes closed.
Give him some brandy" Hugh
Grantland interposed, and some of his
men poured a drink from flask and
gave it to the dying man, who drank
it docilely, lay quietly for minute,
eyes; 49,,
demanded.
mo, but we're going to, If you help
us by telling all you know Hugh
Grantland answered quietly.
"Curse her." Tim replied fervent-
". "I'n spill all l know if it'll put
her where she belongs. l had to do
what she said. She knew something"
Hugh Grantland motioned to one OF
his men, who crept behind Tim with
notebook and pencil.
"She always made me stay some
where near her." he said. "She told
me she wanted this young one taken
and put out of the way for good,
and" he gasped for breath.
"She had it all planned out" he
went On. THE last few days ! stayed
at the house of that man across the
road, and at night she'd slip out and
we'd 60 over to the studio. She had
the keys, and l fixed some boards in
the closet floor at the side where /
could come up and down from under
meath, and hinged board in the floor
a hook and eye underneath the floor.
The day the baby got in there I was
hid under the floor all day-waitin'.
That devil had drilled the kid so he'd
get in there and hide under the draw
ings. And he had a picture he called
his Daniels drawing at the bottom OF
the pile"
l gave strangled exclamation, for
I saw the diabolical way in which
Grace Draper had played upon the
little chaps love for his grandm other
to send him to what she meant to be
his death
Hugh Grantland put his uninjured
arm back, and I felt his fingers clasp
mine firmly with a strength that sus-
tanned me.
The baby came running back. to the
studio,' Tim went on with pauses be-
tween the words. II could hear his
little feet. and he climbed into the box
and rooted to the bottom Of it, as she
had taught him to do. | slipped the
hook of the board beneath, caught him
as he fell out. and gave him a Whit
of chloroform sponge"
ut Didn't Take Much"
Only the fact that the man was dy-
ing kept my fingers from his throat.
1T didn't take much to put him
out" he then went on. Then |
throwed a.. toy the baby had out on
the path to the orchard, as she'd told
me to. When she give me signal
that it was all right I took the kid
and carried him-she guiding me. But
the baby woke up and called its mother
twice before / could get my hand over
its mouth. l nearly lost my nerve
lHtu, LUZ uCdiu 3Uu, AuC uiii. SUAC
shrieking out, but that shedevil
pushed me on and stopped you"
So my ears had not deceived me that
night. My arms went closer round
my boy.
Il got the kid to the house of the
man across the road, and had hard
work to keep him from finishing the
boy He drove me off into the hills.
where we met big automobile, and
since then I've been passed from
one automobile to another till l got
down here. That woman is head Of
of a-ang-"
His voice trailed away, and even
less experienced eyes than mine could
have told that he was very near his
end. And SO we left HMM charge
of the colored woman and the county
police-to rush to the railroad For
both Hugh Grantland and knew, that
if Mother Graham was to live we
must put her idolized grandson in her
arms without delay
Dimly l realized my husbands
agony also, but the door that had
shut between him and me upon that
terrible day of Juniors disappearance
when Dicky, motoring with Edith
Fairfax, did not get home for hours
had never opened, and
felt no desire to open it.
Exhausted, I slept during most Of
the journey home. / did not see Hugh
Grantland until we reached New York,