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CHAPTER VI-Continued
New clothes, shirts, collars, neck
ties, underclothing, derby hat and
leather suitcase were carefully select
ed. When they left the store the
colonel surveyed the boy with admir-
alton.
sit is a perfect Job" he said. "Send
the bill to me-"
They got new shoes at another
store and went to a barber shop.
There the colonel insisted that Shad
have trimming and a bath and fresh
underclothing. When they entered the
coloneps house about seven-thirty that
evening Shad was stepping proudly.
Mrs. Blake embraced him and said
that he was handsomer than ever. The
girl Ruth shook his hand.
81 am to be kind but dignified to
you," she said with smile.
"When I come again / think that
will wear green glasses" the boy an.
swered.
'Why"
"They will give you a kind of a
sickly look and make 1t easy for me
to behave"
The colonel and Mrs. Blake laughed,
betraying note Of awareness.
The girl sat down and began to sur
vey the boy. She was impressed by
>>kis grandeur. He thought that she
was more beautiful than ever, and he
was right.
"This boy has done important work
in the case Of the People against
Brown" the colonel said to his wife.
''He and a young friend have found
the hat and handkerchief that covered
the head and face of the murderer.
He has discovered other convincing
evidence. I am to try to make a
lawyer of him. It ought to be easy.
This young chap has almost convinced
me that his friend Bumpy Brown is
not the man we want"
He told his wife of Shad's finds and
adventures.
Mrs. Brake embraced the boy and
congratulated him.
"You really are getting along" she
said.
The colonei was weary. He arose
presently and suggested to his young
friend that they go to bed. Shad
arose and said good night. The girl
gave him pleasant smile as she an
swered. He thought that he saw a
note Of disappointment in her eyes.
The girl went with him to the foot Of
the stairs and whispered with sweet
encouragement in her eyes:
Elbow grand you look!"
He went upstairs with the colonel
who showed him to his room.
He came downstairs at eight o'clock
in the morning and Ruth met him in
the hall and looked into his eyes with
a sweet smile as she said:
allow lazy you are! I've been up
an hour waiting for you"
He was happy as he stammered
rather awkwardly: "f-if had
known that 1 would have been up at
daylight"
Ruth blushed, saying: II have got
1t was not quite true but it was a
part Of the old strategy. She knew
that it would pain him to see her go
and there was kind of joy in the
thought of his bitter and devastating
disappointment. So she left him. Be
fore she had gone block she pre-
tended to have forgotten something
and came back and shook hands again.
Shad went with the colonel to his
office. That day the boy was COM
fortably settled in a furnished room.
His wages were to be twenty-five dol
lars month. He was to get his
meals at small restaurant. It was a
speculation on the part of the gener-
GUS lawyer-like that of putting a colt
in a training stable. The boy was
quick to learn. Moreover, he had q
mind of his own, and agreeable man
uerS.
The country was now at war with
Spain. A messenger came one day
from the War department to consult
the colonel. 1t was then that Shad
learned that Colonel Blake was an
acknowledged authority in devising
and reading cipher messages used in
war.
Facts of vital interest were discov-
elad regarding the weapon used in the
Killing of Oscar Perry. The brief of
Colonel Blake submitted to the APP
pellate division of the Supreme court
eecites the Testimony of Sergt William