!I«LUSTRATE!) FEATURE SECTION—January II. 19»»
L-’SJE PLAYS hide
and seek with booti . eggers
ntinard lr»m Page One)
«H 'r n l one of t « o men »landing on gto an obscure comer of the reme gout six graves by digging tlie hard. I kr It. ft glvea me a twin lo o k s
Tearlli and ».»I away These were all »11 the work It makes, and In Iho
t<- u, or m line ol duty
the porch. The voice carried dls- terv and ordered him to work
All day long lie worked, slvovellng parallel to the cemetery Irne® and lold weather tool Now 11 1 could -
l<ultonm„ tils 00« t. sliding III* tuu-Uy throutili the trusty air
The
It .were In plain sight u! the man at well, if It wwsn t tor this prohibition.
hand» deep into Ills pocket». »nd door i>iiene«t ipileklv and * » ipilckly and digging and tilling graves.
Tilts had Hie J could stand It better ”
M trllr on a Urn« * a Ik that would cloned. prnnlUlnii two men wiUi a was hard work, back breaking, es- Ulr suspected house
Jackson thus played Ida trump
penally so, since he was not used to ¡desired rllecl. It worked on his
brine J 1 in new ol the suspected satchel to enter
He had brrn working Indus
Tlie
*'* - man railed to card
house “ .u- in the day and after th e ; Jaek.win knew that he would need It When evening came and he otter- superstitions
triously
while lie talked He slopped
someone
lusldr.
and
lie
In
Inni
ra
il
cemetery sates had closed, he deter- a warrant and more evidence. He ed to work irretirne, the superintend
and
I.Hiked
at Uie visitor, saying:
ed
to
another,
until
all
three
of
ent
allowed
him
tlie
best
way
out
mined to see what tie could see. cool would gel tile legal document on sus-
them were watching me.
"You know. I d give five bucks
weather or not
1 ptcion and the evidence. 11 there aiui left him alone
light
now
for
a pint of the real
"A t last one crossed tlie ruad. say
Hid Behind a Tomb
were any. later.
Tilts was f.ve chance he wanted
It's
mighty
cold
tonight.
When the sun had gone down he
Thus, early tin next morning an Hu l i e im rd ia trt.i t n i i . - f c n e d Ins op* ing as hr rame up 'How many more stuff
| I mma “
mmed cautiously over to a tomb kempt, tired looking colored mall real Urns to the street side ol the erm- you got to dig there?'
j
With
liiat
lie
returned
to
hts
dig
facing the hoc-e and crouched in the presented himself at tlie superintend- e t r iv . less Ilia n a h u n d re d fe e l horn
” H aven!” Jackson related that he
Tlie man on the oilier side
shrubbery tha surrounded It.
He ent's oftlcr o l this remetery.
Hts tlie suspected house A man stand answered on the spur of tlie mo g in g
Of tlie fence looked cautiously around
settled down to watch and wait fur coat was threadbare and out at the ing In the frvmt of the house regarded ment
But h. *. 1 « .kr without
are If anyone was near and a|iukn
possible developments.
¡elbows. Safety pins Instead of but- him with bored Interest. Tiieti he rnt Interest and rotti limed hts work to
n a low voter:
For tiiree long, cold hours nothing tons tield It together. He was a tor- went about hts Job ot shoveling the , with Ins shovel.
"You came to Just tlie right place,
at all happened
He had Just about lorn sight and enough to arouse the «old. heavy earth
the
I "Eleven I”
almost
slum ted
decided to climb the fence and strike 1 pity ot any one as he stood hunched
” 1 wanted that man to otter me "> »"
"W hat a the matter? Eire. colored man: drop over to the house
when you get through and maybe I
to.- tiie distant suburban street car and old.
a drink.” Jackson explained "but 'accident, or explosion?”
terminus when hts straining
eyes
" I want a Job as a grave digger.” I he appeared unlntrresied
"It does arme sorta strange." the can hg you up "
In my
Jackson was duly appreciative and
caught a yellow pencil of light from he said
” Iin experienced and can welfare.
He
didn't
siisi
apeet
my grave digger obscrvrd. "Ilu l I guess
Hit of the door of live blackened d good work. '
identity. I telt sure, but he didn't that's tlie way It goea these days tltanklul. When It became daik hr
bouse
Then the light wldrned to I The superintendent
didn't
wait ( appear very frtrndly. either
Sometimes people won t die for put hla shovel In live tool house by
kbout an inch tr. width.
long In deciding
Pointing to where } "Then I decided Ui startle him, months i hen all of a sudden
hun-
"We've brought ttie yeast,” slits- the shovels were kept, he sent him and Immediately went about laying drrd will up and dir at oner I d on t
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