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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3; 1905. 3 An Order of the Court By HOWARD FIELDINd Copyright, m, by CharU W. Boohe H DOT of red which seemed to be pasted like a wafer on the black darkness at the south ern end or the veranda bore Witness that my landlord was enjoying bis single hour of leisure In all the twenty-four between 11 o'clock and midnight. The sight was gratifying. I had feared that the chill of the even ing might have driven hjm to some Inaccessible warm corner of the bouse and that I should miss the pleasure of taking a yarn of his to bed with me. Prudently pausing at the foot of the Bteps, I lighted a cigar of my own In . order to escape smoking one of his, and then I took a seat beside him and tilted my chair against the clapboards. "When you were marshal of Circle City," said I and left the rest to him. He chuckled softly, and then there was a silence while he pretended to be waiting for an Inspiration. In reality he had prepared his story, as I knew as soon as he began to speak. Even a genius like Peter Conley will trip over his introduction unless he has thought It out In advance. "When I was marshal of Circle City," said he, "there was a real estate gang that ran the whole town, and a crooked Old blllygoat named George Warren ran the gang. One day Sam Cleve, who was Warren's most confidential agent, came to me and said that he wanted me to look up a young fellow that had dropped Into town a couple of days before and was stopping at the Gladstone hotel. " 'We suspect that he's a lawyer from Topeka,' said Cleve, 'and that he's got legal papers to serve on Mr. Warren In the Creamer case.' "I put a couple of my men on the hunt, and they reported In the course of the afternoon that the tip was straight The man at the Gladstone was Byron Wlllett of Topeka, and he had brought an order of court that was Intended to stop Warren in a mighty Importani matter. "When I had heard the fucts I stroll ed around to Warren's house and fount) one of the old man's most trusted serv ants sitting under a tree in the front yard with ; a Winchester across hit knees, He wasn't very cordial even to me, and you can bet that no strangei could have so much as leaned against the gatepost without getting perforated "Warren himself was stowed away lr the room where he usually lay low when a process server was on his trail, and he seemed to be particularly sore about this present affair. " 'Jim Creamer Is trying to stop me from putt lug up a gas bouse opposite his property,' said he. 'The yellow dog Is bound to bold on to It, and he's got an Injunction from some fool Judge in Topeka. Now, we've got to have that piece of real estate, and we've got ta have It at our own terms. It ought to be understood In this town that I fls the value of property,, and I've let Jim Creamer know what his figure Is. It's $0,500, and that settles the matter.' "At a fair valuation Creamer's prop erty was worth about $20,000, but War ran had blm surrounded and could put np all kinds of objectionable buildings on the adjacent lots. "Pretty tough, you'll say; but that was no business of mine. Warren had from Warren In which he said that be'd made up his mind to have a talk with Wlllett the next afternoon at 4 a'clock. 'I've sent him word to that effect,' runs the note, 'and you must get his papers away from him before that time.' "Later I got another note which said that Wlllett had refused to go to War ren's house for fear he'd be handled rough and that Warren was going to call at the hotel. This gave me a good Idea of Wlllett as a prudent and far leelng man, and It also showed me how Bet Warren was on having the Inter view. "You'll say right away that this com plicated the Job because Warren might be served with the papers while on the way to the hotel by some pal of Wii- lett's. But that was easily enough man aged. Between 12 and 1 o'clock that night Warren went down to the Glad stone, going In by the way of the kitch en and up the back stairs to the room that had been engaged for him. "Between that time and daybreak I had one of my men crawl Into Wlllett's if ii I 1..... I I "thk door OPENED, AND WILLKTT." IN WALKED room from the Are escape and mouse around a bit, but he didn't find any thing and mighty near got shot. So the matter stood square the next morn Ing, with no advantage on either side. "About 9 o'clock Wlllett started out for a walk, as he always did, and I and three of my men immediately began a hunt We had been In the room next to his and had bored some holes through the partition so that we could see If he hid the document anywhere or went to look at it In its hiding place. Nothing of that kind had happened but I had formed a few dim suspicion v hlle the man was dressing 1 made up my mind that the document was in his coat pocket, and when he was eat ing breakfast which lie ordered up I noticed that he was busy sealing up lot of letters which he had written the night before. Now about that time he made some rather slick motions, and It was a question whether he hadn't tak en the document out of his pocket and put It Into one of . the letters, which were all In big envelopes. I, didn't see him do It, but I had a feeling about It If those were straight letters and not fakes, why didn't he take them out to the mall Instead of leaving them In the basket on the tablet "When we got Into his room, I went for those letters the first thing, while my men divided the place into sections and began the most almighty particular hunt that anybody ever saw. I opened the letters, one by one,' very carefully, because If the document was there 1 wanted to get It In such a way that he wouldn't know It wns gone. The Job of opening and closing the letters took me nearly an hour, and the docu ment wasn't there after all. My men hadn't found any signs of It, but they hadn't half finished, for you must un derstand that It was a big room with a lot of stuff In It, and we were dealing with It a piece at a time, as a man handles a pack of cards when he sus pects that they're marked. "In the midst of It the door opened. and In walked Wlllett which was a great surprise to us, for we had set a lookout and had arranged a plan to stop him, though, as a matter of fact, we didn't expect him back, and so I sup poso our sentinel went and took a drink and the gentleman from Topeka slipped by. " 'Well, upon my soul!' says he, reach ing for his gun. 'What are you all do ing here?' "'Mr. Wlllett,' says I, tapping mj badge, 'this Is our lawful duty, and, though painful, we must do It. I'm the city marshal, so there's no occasion for you to draw iron. Ten silver spoons have been missed In this house, and one of the dining room help Is suspect ed. For the sake of that poor girl's good ' AnniA1 B,1VQ T 1 w n' v rrt- mnlrn A and 1 ipnivh' " 'Ten silver grandmothers!' yells Wll lett. 'We'll see about this!' And he be gan to give me quite some language of one kind and another, especially after he noticed that I'd been fooling with his letters. 'The proprietor, says he, won't stand for this.' " 'Toil go ask him,' I suggested, "John Fynes, who ran the Gladstone, know that Warren and his gang were HB WAS S1TTINO WITH A WINCHESTER ACROSS HIS KNK1CH. put me and the party Into olIUi another election was coming along. " 'Well, Mr. Warren,' says I, 'what do you want me to do about it?' " 'Yon get that document away from Wlllett,' says he, 'and you do It with out violence. I don't want this man laid up. I've got a notion that I'd like to have a talk with him before he goes back to Topeka. They say he's the slickest young lawyer iu the state, and it's likely we may want mm. uur op-: back of the game, though he didn't erations are spreading out and we can know Just what the game as. How uso good men in various parts of the ever, as Warren owned the hotel prop state. Now, It's up to you, Conley , erty and held a mortgage on the body says he in conclusion. 'I want to see j tnd soul of Fynes, the exact nature of house In a tearing rage, and a couple of. my men shadowed him. By and by one of them came back and reported to me that the gentleman from Topeka had called on a girl a right nice girl he said Ihe was who was visiting some rela tives In our city, " 'It seems he's engaged to her says my man. "Meanwhile we'd taken that room all to pieces and put it together again, but it hadn't done us any good. It seemed likely to me that Wlllett had the paper en blm. Of course we'd thought that probable 'from the start and bad made our arrangements accordingly. As he was on his way back to the hotel about half past 2 my men arrested him on suspicion of being implicated In the matter of the spoons, and they took him to the station house, where be was searched from crown to heel. But he didn't have the paper. "Well, of course that made the game clear. Wlllett had given the court order to somebody else, perhaps to the girl or one of her relatives, who was to call at the room after Warren got In there and serve the documerft on him. So I said to Warren: 'It's all right My men will arrest anybody that comes on to this floor during your Interview, and I'll be right outside the door as a last line of defense.' "This was after we'd released Wlllett with our apologies for suspecting him In the affair of the spoons. One of my men walked on each side of him all the way from the station to the hotel. "It was Just 4 o'clock when he ar rived, so mad that his face was a pic ture of premeditated murder. In fact, he tried to hit me as he went by me In to his room, but I was under orders and avoided violence. "Warren was on hand promptly, and, after a word of praise and another of caution addressed to me at the door, be went along in. "I was feeling pretty chipper. It was a moral sure thing that WilWtt didn't hove a harmful document on his clothes and a double sure thing that It wasn't In the room. Moreover, I had arranged so that It couldn't get In by any possi ble way. "In about a minute Warren came to the door and called me iu. IVou've got him crazy!' he whispers. 'It's all right' "So It was. And I meant that It should stay that way. Culling me Into the room looked like a trick of Wll lett s, and therefore I set my back against the door and had a gun very handy. " 'Marshal,' says Wlllett, 'you've been making some serious accusations against me, and now It's my turn. I charge you with stealing a letter from my table.' Not guilty,' says I. And then, 'Do you happen to know how many there were?' "'Ten,' says he. "I had thought he'd add one and try to stick me for the eleventh which had never existed. There's but nine now,' says he and began to count 'em. "By Jlmmyneddy, there were eleven, and before we could stir he'd ripped FRANK BUSCH The House Ftifnishe I AFTER THE FIRE We have to perform the unpleasant duty of selling our dam aged stock of goods damaged by water and rough handling during the excitement 700 Cedar Doors, edges slightly sprinkled with water, 85c and 95c each 150 Woven Wire Springs, best quality, ' $1.95 each Fifty Iron Beds, great bargains tor $1.95 Writing Desks, regular $9.00 value for Half Price this cuss personally, and you've got to make him safe.' "I says, 'All right Mr. Warren,' and then I went back to the central police station to think It over. "Within a few minutes I got a note the business didn't cut much of a fig ure. "Wlllett stalked away to see Fynes, ind he didn't come back. What story the landlord threw Into him I don't know, but It was gooO Wlllett left th SKnVINO WARKEN WITH THB INJUNCTION. the Inst one open and had served War ren with the injunction that was Inside it. " 'You think you're pretty smart,' said he to me, 'but you're a back num ber. What you don't know would be a liberal education. I fixed those letters up for you. I knew you'd get Into my room and hunt high and low. I knew you'd open the letters first. So I gave you time to do It and seal 'em all up, and then I enme back here with anoth er Just like 'em In my sleeve. While I was chinning with you I dropped the letter into the basket where you'd al ready searched. Savey? Now you can go back to your cage.' 1 'Mr. Wlllett, says Warren, 'I'm sur prised that a lawyer of the bar of our state should descend to such disgrace ful trickery, and In order that you may not be tempted again I'm going to hire you to work for an honest man me.' j " 'You can't bribe me to be false to my client, Mr. Creamer,' says Wlllett firmly. 'But In any other little matter of business, says be, 'I'm a practic ing attorney and the man for your money.' " A Nice War. He I wish I had the key to your heart She Indeed! What wor.'d you do with It? He Insert It In widlock, give one turn and throw It away forever. Fine Decorated Dishes, 6 cups, 6 saucers, 6 dinner plates, all for $1.50 Come ealy if yoa wish to avail yowself of these Bargains VI I I (Hill ' KM LL ii i i mm. i i am s.'ffiA. y?fr THE MORNINQ TUB cannot be enjoyed In a basin of limited capacity, nor where the water supply and temperature is uncertain by reason or de fective plumbing or heating apparatus. 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