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I boldly vontur ■ I. i.w career of Miss lluttle Saunders, ♦♦44-4444 HOW THE STORK D!S 4444-:-44-t4 “if such peculiarities were shown aft as she called herself, was brief, but full er tbe fright given her by tbe catas of incident, and tlie way she happened SOLVED PARTNERSHIP trophe which took place in the library." to become au luiuute of tlie prison I His eyes, which were fixed on mine, ♦ was connected w ith was a fair sample Professor Slangley was a great in flushed, and his hands c’.o.o'd convul of tin- adventures she engaged in. sively. vetltor. anil It occurred to him that lie 5 Tlie "job" for which tlie woman was By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, "We will not consider the subject." could make 11 machine that Mould both Convicted and seuieueisi was carried Author ol “Tlie Mystery of Agatha Webb," “Lest Man's Lane,' Etc. be muttered, reseating himself in the travel 011 earth and tly in tlie air F01 mi in Loudon. She invented excuses chair from which he bad risen. tbe earthly travel bls bicycle would do. to go to tlie office of a wealthy broker 4+4444444 1 bowed ngnln and went out. I did Copyright, 1903, by tbe Bobbs-Merrill Company inatti: very well, but to get in the air—all.. severul times und to have him call on not dwell on the interview in my own her at least twice, lie was a widower, that was tbe problem! .•4+444444444+4+444444*'-4*44444444444444444<»444+'fr mind, nor did I allow myself to draw ♦ 4+ ;-444444 4 4 4 4 44 4+ 4 444444-•• 44+ 4444++4444444444444444 » He solved it, however, by entering but was soon to be married again. One any conclusions from it till 1 had car- 1 CHAPTER VIII. into partnership with an old stork, whe > duy she demanded JA.Uti'J of him, anil •Tardon me. Mr. Jeffrey. I have ried the blotter into tlie southwest j ET hip repeat. The person who lie stood up anil defli-d her to do her was to furnish the wing power. had li t r the marks of Ills pro» something to say which is not exactly chamber of the Moore house and care-1 worst. She was angered over bls defi- “ Whnt are tlie terms? ” questioned ■ euee .11 the upper chamber of fitted for tlie ears of servants." Then fully compared the impressions made I uut attitude und made the mistake of the stork. tl.e Moore house was not the as he pushed his chair suddenly back on it with the marks 1 had scratched ' "These.”replied the professor: “When taking liiiu into court. Tbe woman lie I added reassuringly: “It is not a po on the surface of the mantelshelf man popularly known ar Uncle .»»avid. on tlie earth, you are to sit on tlie han was to be married to at ouce I roke tlie This I did by laying the one over the lice mutter, sir. but an entirely per Who. then, had it been? But one name die bars of tlie lnaeliiue and I do tlie engagement, and lie was tile lubject of other after having made holes whore sonal one. It may strike you as im Suggested itself to me—Mr. Jeffrey. work. When In the air, you are to public and private scandal. his fin.er tips had touched the blotter. portant, and 1: may not. Mr. Jeffrey. Lt was nut so easy for me to reach This made him thirst for revenge. The holes in the blotter and the tills man as it had been for me to I was the man who made the unhappy He won his case, but be set private de reach his singular and unimaginative discovery in tl.e Moore mansion which marks outlined upon the shelf coincid tectives at work, and iu the course of uncle. In the first place, bis door had has plunged this house Into mourning.” ed exactly. time tlie girl was traced clear back to This announcement startled him and been closed to every one since his the home from which she had run move off again. As she did so sin-1 CHAPTER IN. wife's death. Neither friends nor produced a visible change in bis man away. Then lie caused her arrest anil HAVE already mentioned tlie man cried, “Be good, mid don't let Durbin strangers could gain admittance there ner. Ills eyes tiew first to one door uumusked her in court, apil pretiy sovu whom 1 secretly looked upon as cut lu on you." but stopped for the sec unless they came vested with authori and then to another, as if it were be tlie doors of a prison closed 011 her oil ond time when half across the stree ! who feared intrusion now. standing between me and all ty from the coroner. And this, even if u three year sentence. At her trial a and when, obedient to her look. I luisti "I beg your pardon for speaking on preferment. He was a good look I could manage to obtain it, would not pmmineiit divine testified: ing felluw, but be wore a natural sneer ly rejoined her. she whispered demure answer in my ease. What 1 had to say so painful a topic,” I went on as soon "1 was favorably iinpreaaed with her ly: "Oh. I forgot to tell you something and do would better follow a chance as 1 saw he was ready to listen to me. which for some reason I felt to be al appearance. 1 never saw a more truth that I heard this morning and that encounter. Hut no chance encounter “My excuse is that I came upon a lit ways directed toward myself. This ful. honest face. Her voice charmed with this gentleman seemed likely to tle riling that same night which I have sneer grew pronounced about tills time, nobody but yourself has any right b me. She was very shy and ditlident, and that was the reason, no doubt, why know. I was following your coni fall to my lot, and finally 1 swallowed and all my sympathies were aroused. Securing *n imprint I continued to work as long as I did in mauds and buying groceries at Simp my pride and asked another favor of 1 received her iu my study, as 1 did all of Jeffrey's Knnd secret. I dreaded the open laugh of kins' when, just as I was coming out the lieutenant. Would lie see that I others. She was there for about twen this man, a laugh which always seem with my arms full. I heard old Mr. was given an opportunity for carrying ty minutes and told me a story that ed hovering on bls lips and which was Simpkins mention Mr. Jeffrey's name some message or of doing some errand was false from beginning to end, but and with such interest that I naturally only held in restraint by the awe we which would lead to my having an in wliich I implicitly believed at the time. wanted to hear what he had to say. all felt of tbe major. terview with Mr. Jeffrey? If lie would When she rose to go, site demanded 12167487 Notwithstanding, I made one slight Having no real excuse for staying, 1 I stood ready to promise that my curi $.■>00 of me, threatening to go before a poked my finger into a bag of sugar 1 move. Encountering the deputy coro osity should stop at this point uiul that judge and swear out a warrant for me ner. 1 ventured to ask if be was quite was carrying till the sugar ran out. I would cease to make a nuisance of if I did not hand It over. She was satisfied witli tbe evidence collected in and I had to wait till it was put up myself. Mil. STO11K LET GO. cool and calm, aud, while admitting again. This did not take long, hut it tlie Jeffrey case. I think he suspected me by this time, Ilis surprise did not prevent him took long enough for me to hear the j grasp the handle bars with both claws. lay innocence, she argued that 1 could but he made no remark, and in a day from asking my reasons for this ques old grocer say that he knew Mr. Jef I shall grasp your legs firmly, and you not afford to be dragged luto court and or so I was summoned to carry a note i scandalized. Tlie result was that I frey and that that gentleman bad come will do the Hying. tion. to the house in K street. "It «'¡Il be graml. magnificent!” he gave her tin- money.” Into bis shop only a day or two before I replied to this effect: Mrs. Jeffreys’s funeral had taken I pursued. “Tbe world will wonder and Prison ottieials are not easily be “Because I have a little friend win his wife’s death to buy—candles!” place the day before, and the house ' guiled, but 1 must admit that Miss then praise. There will be great Tbe archness with which this was some enough and subtle enough to looked deserted. But my summons Saunders pulled the wool over our eyes worm the truth out of tbe uevil. I said, together with the fact itself, glory!" speedily brought to the door a neat “But who gets the glory?” asked the in great shape. She hadn't been with hear that the girl I.oretta is suspected made me her slave forever. As her looking but very nervous maid, whose , us two weeks before we began to look of knowing more about this unfortu small figure faded from sight down the stork anxiously. eyes took on an unmistakable expres- | “Oil, we share that!" said Slangley. upon her as a martyr. She won the nate tragedy than she is willing to im avenue I decided to take li«r advice slon of resistance when I announced I part. If you wish this little friend of and follow up whatever communica But somehow tlie professor took all the heart of the matran in a month, and my errand and asked to see Mr. Jef- I mine to talk to her I will see that she tion she had to make to the coroner by glory upon himself, and the poor stork within three site was being treated trey. The expression would not have more ns a guest tliaii a prisoner. Our a confession of my own suspicions and was not recognized. docs so and does so with effect.” struck me as peculiar if she had raised “What a wonderful genius that Slang prison was open to tlie public several what they had led me into. If he Tlie deputy coroner looked interested any objection to the Interview I had “Whom do you mean by 'little friend,' laughed—well, I could stand it. It was I ley has!” said every one. but they said hours each day, and everybody who solicited. But she did not. Her fear not the coroner’s laugh nor even the nothing of poor Mr. Stork. He, how came wanted to Bee "tlie beautiful and what is her name?” and antipathy consequently sprang major’s that I feared. It was Durbin’s. ever, winked first one eye and then tlie prisoner.” In one month six different “I will send her to you.” from some other source than her in other, scratched his head with bis claw, men offered to marry her lu case site And I did. could get a pardon, and nine-tenths of and said: Loretta, the Jeffrey»* maid The next day I was standing on the I - » CONTINUED.) “I believe In being honest, and I'll the female visitors gave her their sym not thought of sufficient Importance to corner of Vermont avenue when I saw soon allow you. Mr. Professor, that you pathies. The prison doctor, tlie ebnp- mention to any one else, but which it Jinny advancing from the house in K Tlie gallery is supposed to be the street. She was chipper, and she was main source of boisterousness In the can’t cheat us dumb creatures so.” laiu, tbe warden aud u guard were all may Interest you to hear about." Next day there was to be a grand ex- "soft” on her at the same time, aud Here I took from a book I held a smiling in a way which made me say bibition of “Professor Slangley'« new yet all of them were old prison offi piece of blotting paper. It was white to myself: and approved terrestrial aerodrome.” cials and married men. on one side aud blue on the other. The I "It is fortunate that Durbin is not Tlie matron had a sister living about Tbe course was five miles by land and white side I had thickly chalked, I here.” then over ike lake by the air line. Tlie Half a mile from the prison. After For Jinny's one weakness Is her lack though this was not apparent. Laying five miles was made in re-oril time, tbe Miss Saunders had been with us for down tills piece of blotting paper, of power to hide the satisfaction she stork sitting on the handle bars. Then five or six umntlis this sister was taken chalked side up, on the end of a large takes in any detective work that comes came the fly. Professor Slangley 1 ill, and tbe matron would go over after table near which we were standing. 1 her way. I had told her of this and Lad grasped tlie legs of Mr. Stork, who rose breakfast and after supper. One even took out an envelope from my pocket more than once tried to impress upon gracefully. It was n great success. ing I was coming up from the village and, shaking it gently to and fro, re her that her smile was a complete But in midlake tlie stork let go. The In a buggy and encountered the wo- give away, but I noticed that if she marked: professor held hard, but Mr. Stork bad imiii on the highway. We nodded to “In an upper room of the Moore kept It from her lips It forced its way greased his long limbs carefully, and, each other, but after I had passed on terest in the man most threatened by house—you remember the southwest The deputy coroner hold though he tried, tlie professor and It struck me that the female, whose my visit. Was it, could 't be, on her chamber, sir?” ie interested his machine tumbled Into the lake, j weight was 1B0 pounds, had suddenly own account? Recalling what I had Ah, didn't he! There was no mis amid howls of derision and laughter, , lost fleHh. I turned to look and then heard whispered about the station con doubting the quick emotion—the while Mr. Stork, flapping Ills wings, 1 became certain that some one hail bor cerning a maid of the Jeffreys who al shrinking and the alarm with which lazily floated off to other climes.—St rowed her clothes. Whirling the bug ways seemed on the point of saying he heard this room mentioned. gy around, I overtook her, and, be Louis Post-Dispatch. something which never really Jef her “It was in that room that I found hold, It win Miss Blunders! lips. I stopped her as she was about to there.” I took her buck to prison and made slip upstairs and quietly asked: Tipping up the envelope, I scattered an investigation, and It did not sur “Are you Loretta?” over the face of the blotter a few of Ao Animal Story For prise me overmuch to learn that tbe The way she turned, the way s’ the glistening particles I had collected matron was lu tlie plot. She believed Little Folks looked at me, as she gave me 11 shor from the place mentioned. the girl innocent and was willing to affirmative and then quickly proceed j He bent over them, astonished; then, help her get away. The political situ ed on her way, convinced me that mj as was natural, brushed them together ation was rather ticklish Just then, and colleagues were right as to her being ti i in a heap with the tips of his fingers so tbe facts were kept from the pub woman who had some cause for dread ' and leaned to look again just as I lic t month later the coimnissioner out of her eyes, and If she kept It out breathed a heavy sigh which scattered HKNHT M1LLKM, BTARH1NG IN "MAN TBO- ing police Interference. I Instantly from Ixmdon dropped I11 and Inquired or ner eyes it oeamec use an inner “ B r-r-r-ing in the pr-r-r-lsoner." POSK8 ’ them far and wide. made up my mind that here was a for Miss Saunders. He hsd been ap radiance from her whole lace. So !. growled Ills honor. Judge Bruin, and theater, but collegians really deserve mine to be worked and that I knew I Instinctively he withdrew his hand, pealed to by a score of outsiders who gave tip the task of making her perfect this questionable distinction. Many an Policeman Bahr dragged up before the did not believe, her guilty. The ma just the demure little soul best equip | whereupon I embraced tbe opportunity of turning the blotter over, uttering and let her go on smiling, glad that she •ctor’s heart has been set aching by bar of justice that dreadful bad bear tron and myself were present at the fed to act the part of miner. had such frequent cause for it. the pranks of tbe callous scholastics. In a moment she came back, and 1 I meanwhile the most profuse apologies. known as Ragged Ralph. Interview. Tbe commissioner had tbe Tills morning her smile had a touch Richard Mansfield once had an ex “What's lie done now?” shouted the record of her trial, and he started in had a <'. inee to note again her p ‘‘tj i Then, as if anxious not to repeat my but exp. csSionlesa features, amon; I misadventure, I let the blotter lie of pride in it as well ns of delight, and perience in England with a toxful r* judge in such a ferocious tone, as he without a doubt of her guilt, but two Oxford students. Once bitten, twice caught sight of tbe woebegone Ralph. hours later he was very much be which the restless eyes alone bespoki j where it was, and. pouring out the few noting this. I remarked: “You have made Loretta talk.” remaining particles into my palm. I scared, so when he played later In Cain character or decision. “Of you bleese." said Policeman fogged. Her head went up, and a demnr> bridge Mansfield anticipated exactly "Mr. Jeffrey is in the back room held them toward the light in such a Tbe prisoner not only explained away Bahr, whose ancestors came from tlie dimple appeared In her cheek. what happened. The opera was "The Black forest of Germany, "dla vos de the points bearing hardest against her, Upstairs,” she announced. “He says way that he was compelled to lean "What did she say?' I urged. “ Win' across the table in order to see them. Mikado,” and Mansfield was playing worstest bear in der whole communi- but accused the broker so circumstan tor you to come up.” has she been keeping back?' Ko-Ko. There were students In every paw—I means kouimcuity. He yust tially that It seemed to be a case where "Is it the room Mrs. Jeffrey used to Naturally, for I had planned the di* part of the house. Ko-Ko's entrance occupy?" I asked, with open curiosity, tance welL his linger tips, white with he hsd evoked the law to carry out a “You will have to ask the coroner. was greeted by hurrahs from the boys as I passed her. private spite. She spoke without halt My orders were strict to bring the re the chalk he had unconsciously han and the thrusting of half a dozen roost An involuntary shudder proved that dled, touched tbe blue surface of the sults of my interview immediately to ing or hesitating. She seemed to an ers on the stage. Instantly there was she was not without feeling. So did blotter now lying uppermost and left him.“ ticipate every question and have an bedlam. Ko-Ko, however, stood bis the quick disclaimer: answer ready. It was not her words their marks there “Does that Include Durbln7' ground. In a couple of minutes the “No, no! Those rooms are closed. alone, but she knew just where to “Does it Include you?” 1 could have snouted in my elation students bad shouted themselves hoarse He occupies the one Miss Tuttle had at tbe success of this risky maneuver, fetch a smile and where to shed a tear, “I am afraid not.” or tired, or both. before she went away.” ■ nd at times she looked so sad and but managed to suppress my emotion "You are right. But why shouldn’t When quiet prevailed Mansfield, In “Oh, then. Miss Tuttle Is gone?” heartbroken that you wanted to pat and to stand quite still while he took It include you?” bls own robes as Ko-Ko. entered and be Loretta disdained to answer. She a good look at the filings. They seemed her on the head and tell her to put on “What do you mean. Jinny?” gan his song as the super he bad sent had already said enough to cause her to have great and unusual interest for her hat and walk out. It may lie a “Why do you keep your own counsel to bite her lip as she disappeared down i him, and it was with no ordinary emo so long? You have Ideas about this on to take the reception grinned at the mean thing to give tlie commissioner success of bls ruse and ambled awk the basement stair. Decidedly the boys 1 tion that be finally asked: away, but I’ll bet boots to buttons that crime. I know. Why not mention wardly off. ROBERT BUTLER. Were right. An uneasy feeling followed be was ■ bit stuck on our prisoner "What do you make out of these, and them?” any conversation with this girl. Yet. I why do you bring them here?” *hen he left the Institution. “Jinny!” Concerning Ilankef Ball. while there was slyness In her man I don't know how things would have My answer was written under his “A word to the wise is sufficient.” Basket ball as a recreative game is ner, there was a certain frank honesty hand, but thia It was far from my pol She laughed and turned her pretty tnrned out lu the mutter of securing a unique In Its origin for two reasons- risible in it, too. which caused me to icy to impart. Bo. putting on my friend n<-w trial or a pardon had not some think that if she could ever be made to liest air, I returned, with suitable re face toward the coroner’s office. Bir ■ firstly, it is our one, positively sure, 1 thing occurred to render further pro home American production; secondly, ' ■peak her evidence could be relied on. spect: ceedings useless. The doctor’s wife she was a woman and could not help tbe name, date and place of Its au Mr. Jeffrey was sitting with his was an almost daily caller at tlie pris “I don’t know what to make of them. glancing back. and. meeting my du thorship are exactly knawn. Of no oth back to tbe door when I entered, but' They look like gold, but that is for you bious look, »lie broke Into an arch . on, and of course she bud the run of lay around und ketches little bears und er game In all th® category can this be turned as I spoke bis nam® and held to decide. Do you want them, sir?” the place. She was greatly l-i'i 1 >1 < ■mile ar.d naively added this remark:! out his hand for the note 1 , sr^ed. He ( “No,” he replied, starting erect and “Loretta is a busybody ashamed of lea ■acl. The birth of the bulk of them la steals dere pennies.” In Miss Bsnnders, but not foolish "Woof! woof!" snapped th® Judge, n appeared to shrink from observation withdrawing bls band from the blot own curiosity. So much there can li b'lriod In an ob- -nrlty which reach“» enough to help her to i- i;»- It and shifted uneasily as long as I stood ter. "It's but a trifle—not worth our no harm In telling you. When on ’s beyond the uniform covered, bnke<l be shook tile Judicial gavel at th amounted to the same thin-’ however In front of him. though he said nothing attention. But I thank you Just the knowledge has been guincil by Huger clay tablets of Babylon and tbe hiero trembling culprit, "you're a fin<- spe 8be brought laudanum to cure a ij>- men to be allowed to run lopse! I ’ ve glypblcs of the remotest Egyptian rec and did not lift bis eyes from the lette- same for bringing it to my notice." posltltlous toothache, and In r -n Ing behind doors and peeping through ord*. beard a whole lot about yon, and noth Le was perusing till he lit-ard me step Miss Saunders gave her a ' <.■!" of it in And again bls manner became a plain cracks, one is not so ready to say wl ■. Ing that's good. I'll make an example back to t! <■ door 1 had p-trpo- .'y ! Mfr Mlwtnke. Il er dismissal. one bus seen and hem !. Loretta is ii of you that will fix yon all right. You something they were drh.! open aud softly closed It Then In Mrs Newliri'l - S-■■ here! Wh»n I bad a good home and should have In the matron's private r >1 1. Wli- n This time I accepted It as such with that box and. being more than a littli glanced up with a keen If not at: out question. Carelessly restoring the scared by tbe police, was glad to le gave you that ph-, you promised to saw grown up to be a respectable bear, but. tlie drur had tak- n cffei t. r ■■ f alanued look, which seemed an exag piece of blotting paper to the book her nnxioty arid her fears overt! w Im- . some wood. r's 1 I- Instead, you would rather be a tramp oner dres-u d herself In t' • ■mt IIU-gT Hank Well, you oughtn’t and a nuisance to your family and ev inent and passed the gu •!;» and rot from which I had taken it. I made a a synq 'lilzing ear. Won't she he stir If be had no secret to keep. bow and withdrew toward tbe door. prised v. ben she Is called up some fin* I to’ve gave me tlie pie first, lady erybody else. Your sentence Is that safely away. "Do you suffer so from drafts?" la , He seemed to be thinking, and tbe deep day by 1 . <• coroner! I wonder If shi Mrs. New bride— Tbe Idea! Of all the you be confined for life In tin- zoo. In The search for her was only half asked, ris'ng In a way which in itself furrows which I am sure bad been will blame me for it?' Impudence I hearted, and she made good her ee_ap<', a cage by yourself, and that tin- cage was a dismissal. “She will never tbink of doing so.' ■ Hungry Hank—Dat ain't impudence. lacking from bis brow a week previous and later on we board that s!. • was Pv." I smiled an amused denial, then ' became startlingly visible. Finally he , I basely assured my little friend, wilt I Indy. I mean I Just ruined de saw ■bull have su<-b a line wire screen over Ing io France. Iler escape could not th® bars that good hearted little chil with the simple directness I though' | observed: an appreciative glai+e at her sparkilns try in' to cut de pie. Atlanta Couatltb dren cannot pu«h even the smallest of be concealed from the public H Is time, most likely to win me his confidence, flta. “Mn. Jeffrey was not in her right; eye and dimpled cheek. sbel.'ed peanuts through. Take him although every effort Was made to b ish entered straight upon my business In ! mind when she so unhappily took her I thing» up. M. QUAD. ■ wsf."—Pittsburg Dispatch. these plain words; that tbe change in ber F ® t* H n h ™ it gmng 4+++4S+4+444- t++44444 -4+ 4444 -i-:-V.-4 4 '-4 «• 4 THE BLACKMAILER Filigree Ball g | s». L I The Bad Bear I