South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-19

Grantland interposed, ana one of
/ his men poured a drink from a
\ flask and gave it to the dying man,
who drank it docilely lay quietly for
minute. then reused himself and
! opened his eyes.
Have you got the she-devil?" he
/ demanded.
mo but we're going TO, If you
\ help us by telling all you know
| Hugh Grantland answered quietly.
Curse her" Tim replied fervently.
| "I'u spill all I know If it'll put her
where she belongs. I had TO do what
( she said. She knew something"
Hugh Grantland motioned to one
/ OF his men. who crept behind Tim
with a notebook and pencil.
"She always made me stay some
where near here" 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 1 stay
ed at the house of that man across
the road, and TO the studio. She had
the keys, and I fixed some boards in
/ the closet floor at the side where
could come up and down from un-
derneath. and hinged a board in the
/ floor Of that windOw-seat of draw
/ ings with a hook and eve underneath
I the floor. The day the baby got i'm
there 1 was hid under the floor all
day-waitin That devil had drilled
! the kid so he'd get i'm there and hide
/ under the drawings. And he had a
picture he called his Daniels draw
I ing at the bottom OF the pile"
1 gave a strangled exclamation.
/ for I saw the diaborcal way in which
/ Grace Draper had played upon the
little chaps love for his Erandmoth-
( er 20 send him 10 what she meant 10
/ be his death.
Hugh Grantland put HIS uninjured
arm back. and I felt his fingers clasp
mine firmly with . strength that sus-
[ tanned me.
The baby came running back 10
the studio" Tim went on with pauses
between the words 81 could hear
his little feet. and he climbed into
the box and rooted 20 the bottom OF
II. as she had taught him 70 do. /
| slipped the hook of the board be-
meath, caught him as he fell out, and
gave him a Whit of a chloroform
sponge"
1T Didn't Take Much"
Only the fact that the man was
dying kept my fingers from his
throat
ut didn't take much to put him
out" he then went on. Then
throwed a toy the baby had on the
path 70 the orchard, rs she'd told
me 90 do. When she give me a sig
nal that 10 was all right 1 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.
/ nearly lost my nerve then. for
/ heard you, ma'am, come shrieking
out. but that she-devil pushed me
/ on and stopped YOU"
, So my ears had not deceived me
, that night, Ny arms went closer
around my boy.
Il got the kid 20 the house OF the
' man across the road. and had hard
: work TO keep him from finishing the
I boy. He drove me off into the hills
\ where we met "a big automobile. and
since then I've been passed from
I one automobile 20 another till I got
uown here. That woman is head OF
t-of s-gang-"
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 him
IN charge o. the old colored woman
( and the county police-to rush 20
/ the railroad For both Hugh Grant
land and knew that il Mother era
ham was 20 I've we must put her
/ idolized grandson in her arms with
out delay.
Dimly l realized my husband S
| agony also. but the door that had