Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1910, Page 23

| a “wr v [ ] mote ser for his song i an Imposing the then hunt about the his glorious love somg. His is the “ B d . > effect. Appearafices are against him, maple and then @lsappear to re of the May. All the ra and ue- irds on O S however, Nuture has Gestined him for turn e time riext day. Sometimed rest of the spring thrill through his en f Busy Bees produce Wagnerian strair 5 the ditinctly yellow underparts 1 and love night, whtle ere sriste b i " mmer e, OF “w saries.” as ar head and olive back. He allows dart and wheel about 11 Feathered Choristers Who Salute the Coming Day with Notes of Joy— SUIERE Srets A ' eadi & Wbl MePain & lawns, the wool sh sounds his trane But it v long before A learned o A W " - the children call them, devots themselves oen € Baby Dorothea . Busy Hustlers Into Whose Lives the Noise of a Great City Brings No o the isttecs BoSs Serem thé way. Five tres working about the bramches note. It is the voice of the ‘esllo, vibrant i A g iy 150N sine | & at LY a : . n N et 18 sea he de heanings of life. The By Eunice Wrig ged 11 Years, 582 them and pia th s w let va Terror—Omaha Has a Great Variety of Them in Its Many Shade Trees. of six may be seen thefe Assimilating sp- N4 Miseing very few twigs in his search. Wi .,.‘ of ?;:“,, Sviife 3 ¢ o ,“t,‘ as the 1ofan Street, Fremont, Neb. Red sid save 4 § o Ui floar Suriquiied B9 § hidae For a day or twe the red start maddens SCSlady ing She Wis aslsty SOF 458 Mamidd was 1% b - s with his varied tones so hard for the Quiet tona falle like a bened n through © . P her blocke sins and her ] Y - TR TN O ombmed The redeyed vares, Wison Flage's " "3 . te ome the gathering dusk admiring her as she lay fn her cradle of o Tl 0 T ed & w UGN eomptaetney;: 5 ‘preacher hird," delivers his staccato STSIEN g N e aone The night comes—the birds are silent, but blie. Her full name was Evelya Dovothea "l ree"pitiowe o ot ety & i herry Andates from the chicadees cherry trees ORE 1Oush. for Ule orange parches upon .\ Pl Tons astle. A tiny owl drifts Baird, but Dorothea was the prettiest s &. quiet byway Next to the cornér a half dosen cherry . - T 'reS* his black wings and tail and his incessa h B I t 1 - A - i 4 . and the warbling vireo rolls out his rich silently amohg the treés or site upon a MAMMS &nd papa thought, and so she was b ing eims and ma. (rees atiract the chicadees the vear round. [T TS PECEE VIEG T B B L e movement make him very consplelous Sently. troe - SR e G tek b i o Dorothy’s Tea Party ere and the " All winter thie familiar call greets one The yellow billed cuckoo comes ocea. SOHenWweod 1inb at the commer, turning 3 y 3 . ity s Now they cry, “060 st Bbe IaE1" o8 they. 100 D0t AN 150 vinGs WY &l FEn i R s Mmes OCCA- foecinated éyes upon the trolley car as it Vesterday. If ever there were proud par 3 v & wood stands, marking 3 e o noe Tarva., COIOF &nd act upon the precept that It is Siomally. His hoarse “Rou kou" forebodinge L8 Lt L LP00 (8 evetopn . 1 think Dorothea's patents were the Mudred Keliey, Aged 11 vears, 111 Fast 4 { some farm house of Rerorlh d best for littie birds to be heard and not Falh. thev Say, bears the assoclation of ", . o ;g EMILY WOOD., proudest. Then mamma went out of the " Neb. Blue Sid . early days. A car line crosses E . seen. They are very hatd to distinguish thick woods and breathless July afternoons room and Dorothea awoke &nd looked o e eame home f 1 Badehy. S e . 2 o gnond our telephone Wires from one another, but this year gives us a He #liph about #o quietly that ome rarely g, 4 4o e geen on an Omaha street be. around. Yes, she was sure she had sec day looking very happy ar i is nearby. The f the troller and the t ntive “truely, truely nce t6 learn them. They are due this See# the yellow lower mandible and white . B’ thet : Wosk: oF A Bluebird, that picture, and that oné, tod. She had noise of tratfic t Pt brings & dozen lively umb marks” on his tail which jdemttfy ‘Orc ‘'Be last W U Ag s r mother, “Oh, mamma, ca se of traffic upon pavements are audible v i en lIVelY week and the follage 18 #0 thin that they ' n bis tail which 10eatlY robin, chicadée, nuthatch, shrike, eardival tried in vain to get them with her ehubby |10 Gyl "on ine girs .n day T’ d far into the night t our to o 1ind aurice ThOMPSOR (an scarcely escaps the watehful eye. Dim jubco, fleld sparrow, chipping sparrow, little hand, but cculd net do It. Why, what ‘ ot pr - ” trees shelter more than thirty va ¢ faid, “His flight is a poem In Itsell. AS Tyeir songs are very characteristic and so It may be possible to add many pecies gryechopper sparrow. goidfinch, meadow Was that blue thing? etaring st her In the o o' ¥ L birds. We are kindly folk on our sreet he Eoes trembling and wavering &long uniike that once associated With the per- to the list of birds Seen Oh Our $treet—0F jark red.minged blackbird, cowbird, crow, face? She had only seen the pict 80 gine s s of fun. ¢ and the wild creatures have gr to through the air and sunshine, he 8dds 10 gonality of their owners they will always Your street. This A6 Stves Rive e R B vt oot Sl s il Now ime Sorget oM o » They sted by cats course, & May day just the touch which makes %t petray them to the bird student killed and the birds must hunt in o 2 el ki Ay Wt siuiadie Bl toetiil Bt r s t but a bird pok u perfect.” Thoreau calls the bluebird's e ghird week of May brings a flo almost af bare as they Later arriva w thrush, olive- biue thing pulled Sotlies 5 Ay do upon : warble “The accent of the south wind. itS Tennessee warblers. They are very March. Whether the list is | backed thrush, wren, thrasher, red start. coveriet and ed ERithy W ob SaS fan to. e menace, threatening both t vernacul and again “Blue birds warble grayish-green birds with white underparts matte ttle, however. What c Maryland )% throat, myrtle w but & not #et the ool i S bt . ’ unjug and n B Ave ris through the air o6 lghtty, wathel, with yeliow to ‘sheim Test Snd refreshment Which cotis 1816 oUF yqllew warbles Teonsest Warhler i vt B g oy Hpthee k& her and said: “I'm s 4 thought. No mov Kingbirds contend noisily over some hap- merely a solied white when observed busy lives @s we Watch OUr neighbOTS OVer yinle warbler, Warbling viren, red-eved thea!' sf xeleimed - ";' T e "“ ot - neighbor ha ¢ appendicitls; why less insect. Thelr satin-white breasts, black through an opera glass. Their song, like head vireo, barn swallow, purpte martin, dick- povers ali off of your cradle! Papa, come — o “1t® .. ft she Jkovid a bird move because his ne or Coats and severe attitude s they perch the wren's. with a fairy busz-saw attached, We are working men and women on our anel indigo bird, rose-breasted Krebeak. here. Look at the darling.” For baby was eyt s . o of a cat wires or fence posts, give them & min- rises continually from the Crimson Rambler street. but we & or =6 in the oriole, king bird kob, mourning Aov 5 Tdid B0l o iiditactitn over ¢ Next ¢ at s she deliv The plum, peac al a The topsy-turvy antics &8 vines. They spend the hour from 6 to 7 with morning to b hrasher pour Total number, forty-fou: v Siut thlie v 8. The giris all v vard & roses, clems and honey foliow the erratic flight of their in- A and prom they would ¥ nbing about ches furnish she t rr';v make suspect the clown be- """jf« ‘ 'l’ ’:,’,,’f [he mext day at 2 o'c Dorothy was 3 and abun food for m mmigrants, N8th the cleric's dress " . 'S dressed in her party d and sitting in The vatant lots neart «t mow new 10 the new ploughed fields where soon ! was a blue AR yne parior waiting. A 3 P plowed ot b the rose-breasted grosbeak will be har crad Soot Dell FaNg. Dotethy knew at Before t as come the bird lire 'CRUBE Potato. Beetics. the mesdowlark e i f was the girls and ra meet ther y o &6 ~ moves about sedately. He searches for cut 1 let her pla th the t £ ’ ™ 2 'n,‘_ §¢ 1ath » A and wire worms, the {le whistiing his Oh. how she coved and crowsd. 1 B i ¢ : ¥ o~ " t notes ¢ 1 ! y and ft the thing was, and how she ed " N of dreamy mur 2 math few notes of absolute purity. He is = » . g 2. " areful to hide his vellow throat and jet th e r. She had blue eves herself ¢ 4 atied t . f g " black collar that the children on the probabiy a ed for her likir . -~ p X W \ 1 the ¢ trills his Sireet refuse to believe that these belong Papa and mamma were smiling at their girjs went home, saying t s 1 R g '« . With the dull brownish black and white ttle daughte e Was ®0 happy out of When 1 &t ' sofitode dhad @ " marked tall with which they are familiar thesé hot ers. Papa let her play awhile hed she kissed - she ) the cotton- Mg koo ' e R with it, then had to put her in her ¢ gl a Dot 0ods beside the car line and the robins FIOUFishing families of wrens pervad 4 S g S ¢ as very giad her face the east v hitr full-toned praiss ™% ds a1l summer. They quarrel agaln, a8 mamma 8aid that it was t : ¥ ¢ the g " among themselves, blackgrard cats and coid for her. How she hated to leave tb men without fe ma or favor, and in rare ts of peace, ravish the ear with the most joyous flood of song known to bird- dom Before the first of May we have had only the winter residents and the hardier spring biue thing, but being a good was content to lie in her cradle and up at it A Race in Fairyland Helen V Queen Lie Aged 13 Years, The Str ow, N , Omaha, Aft a bit she got tired of looking at the Neb. Blue Side blue thing and fell asleep. fairies were getung ready for a race. on the whole colony s awake. A downy weodpecker works his way about the rough crevices bark. A red- headed woodpecker drums vigorously upon some dead liml or with a raucou shriek Sasha Ewas 2t Gk il of the & The next morning she was taken up in Rose, the queen fairy; Thistle-down, the esese b e el - oo ol oned T birds. the seed eaters and destroyers Auntie Blanche arms. Then Auntie p of the underground cavern; the June e the weikin ring. (1 think gy and larvae. With the coming of the Blanche sat down and put the baby on bug and a baby grasshopper were all we have a welkin on our street; at any oriole the first week of May there begins the great migration of -the insect eaters Some stay with ‘us all summer, but many £0 on to the northern woods to nest. This week we hear the pipe of the oriole and joy In his black and orange glory as he flashes about the maple trees. Ma frequent the etreet. but no two have just same notes. One bird, which visited h e 8 1o the baby: be in the race rate 1 know it rings.) Blue jays bou her kitee and snia i Baby "un up the maple trees and swing upon me plant bough. They shout murder and sudden death at the world and at the same moment exchange sweet confidences in soft tones of love. 1 belleve Dean Swift . to have been the only other creature who could make the chenge from B cousins are coming The fairy queen, F ie imp rode on & snal Do you know t e June bug rode a very large bee and the baby grass- today? Oh, you dear baby!” she added, as the baby looked up into her face and ac- de a little noise that was meant N for a laugh. Of course rode on his father's back. the moon was up they all met in Bloomers' square, Fairyland, and started The rabbits stood up on the hill with eyes as big as nickels mamma and papa had to be ld all about it. A kissed her. But the baby didn't called and ter which to love's “little language” with equa 8 bredeatiint o is for two summers seemed to have a ¥ Auntie Blanche meant when _ The fairles were to give a prize of being H y regular sound to follow each da His SHe et e i aaaitin Weik. S & to understand all things. 4 A flock of cowbirds seitles upon the cot- song was so different from others on the bl ol g ahe was now in _One two, three, ready, go! called out a tonwoods. Sidling about wWith many gro- street that we could trace him at he wo-ked mamme's atmé asd @0 baby patted DATS, and sWay they weat. First U tesque bows, they exchange empty COM- his way from tree to tree turtle, then the snall, then the grassh 4 & ” ety b s b coihadin dho Jhs mamma’s cheeks with her soft, fat hands : s : pliments of the day. Thoreau once said Tha yellow-throat. gay i masker Sut cousths did come that very aftitnoon S04 hén the 566 Geiing ahead, it wae of the grackics' chattering, *J : nature 18 flits among the weeds or perches upon the a very exelting race. The becoming, these notes may become melodi- fe: was ani Dorothea saw them. & of our chicken s. flinging his his good behavior and went very fast for a ous at Iast,” and there is the same basis ‘Which way. s'r?’ at each passerb But she didn't like them because she gnall for belief that the cowbird may be evolved Goldfinches unduiate above us calling had never seen anybody else that she could Now they were within one-third of a 4 into a songster of degree. He may even tremulously. Now and then one sits him remember but grandma, Auntle Blanche, mile from the base. The turtle was way learn to conform to the conventions of the down to sing. This is no desultory perform- mamma and papa. She puckered up her behind all the rest, when it gave a last § / bird world and cease to be a disreputable ance. Fe uses all the trills and quavers little x';b end hid he'r hr{-? f\nr::l:::‘ 2 e:(nr\ .fl..a reached bake & second before hanger-on In society. Just now his field the synocopations and crescendos of a arms. Then she put her fat fo rin the ‘ is limited and his economic house canary. If the jet black cap he wears her mouth and looked at them again. But Then all cheered and all went to the value very small. it is, however, a pleas- upon his yellow head were a trifle less they were not itke mamma and paps, s0 queen's paiace and each racer got & prize, among jaunty in its effect, we might take him B THI. GLORIOUS FOURTH h-‘/-‘. she turned around to mamma and cried in order to rémember that night } of usefulnes: ing thing to see that it is not on! at me with the air of a man whose men- condition. My draggled condition, T should was led unwillingly into the weather, your deer,” he said. “Bronze.” = tal attitude is unassailable say, for he improved every moment—hie 1lotchkies and I in eclipse behind the blan. As we neared the house the sense of s [~ T — G2 o7 < | “Well listen to this,” I said eyes brighter, his ruddy face ruddier, his ket. The liveryman stood In the doorway velllance we had had in the park gradusily F — = Then 1 told him at length of my encoun- collar newer and glossier. Sometime, when and calied directions to us. “‘You can't left us. Stumbling over flower beds, run- T \ VSRS | cmee. VRSN | SBUOE | Sucow WU ter with Bronson in the restaurant. of it does not encircle the little man's neck, miss it."” he finished. “Got the name over ning afoul of & fun dial, groping our way N the bargain proposed by Mrs. Conwey, I shall test that collar with a match the gate, anyhow, ‘The Laurels’ The favagely along hedges and thorny banks, final and climbea £ € i //// t and finally of McKnight's new theory. But, 1 was growing steadily more depressed: servants are Stlil there: leastways. we we reached the ste 7 aithough he was impressed, he was far 1 loathed my errand and its necessity. I didn't bring m down.” He even took a the terrace. -’ \ N from convinced. had always held that a mi who played nto the » as Hotchkiss picked up It was then that Hotchkise fell over one /I It's & very vivid piece of imagination.” th on & woman was beneath con- lines. “If you're goinz to settle the of the two stone urns which, with tall // he sald drily but while it fits the evi- temp! hen, 1 adm!t 1 was afrald of what estate h bawled. don’t forget us, Peck boxwood trees In them mounted guard at dence as far as it goes, it doesn't go far 1 might learn. For a time, however, this & Peck. A half bushel f name and a each side of the door. He didn’t make / / enough. How about the stains in lower promised to be a negligible quantity. The bushel of service." attempt to get up. He sat in & pudd / seven, dirk, and the wallet” Haven't streets of the stragglirg little mountain Hotchkiss could not drive Born a clerk, the brick floor of the terrace and clu ) we even got motive in that tel town had been clean-washed of humanity he gulded the roan much as he would drive his leg and swore softly in goverr ' /" Brenson 2 by the downpour. Windows and doors @& bad pen. And the roan spiattered through English £ Yes, I admitted, t of were inhospitably shut, and from around puddies and splashed ink—mud, that is— The occasic { the lightning was IA chain- an occasional drawn shade came narrow until I was in a frenzy of irritation see an ut f the I A Pooh he said shortly. sirips of light that merely emphasized ou *“Wh r e going to say when we get had no matches, and 78 vourself, Sullivan wore g gloo: When Hotchkiss's umbrella turned there fter 1 had finaily tak 1 gation showed th 3 ) chain. Our not finding them does no in:ide out, 1 stopped the reins ne useful ha Get windows were Loarded and the house N 4 they did not exist “I don’t kmow where you are going.” out there at midnight and tell che servants closcd. Hotchkiss, still recumbent, was as ( And there 1 made an error; half con- I snarled, “and I don't care. But I'm Wwe %ave come to ask & few questions & the damage, tenderly peel fidences are always mistakes. 1 could not going to get under cover inside of ten about the family? It's an idiotic trip, down his stocking tell of the broken chain in Alison West's seconds. I'm not amphibious anyhow; I I had stayed at home.’ my soul,” he said finally, “1 don't gold purse 1 ducked into the next shelter. which The roan fell just then, and we had to know whether this moisture is blood r « v Co) you drop on the floor from exhaustion. dicated. I could hear voices in one of t It was 1 o'clock when Hotchkiss finally happened to be the yawning entrance to a crawl out and help him up. By the time rain. I think I've broken a bone Just wait a minute front roome, but could not understend left. We had by that time arranged a livery stable, and shook myself, dog fash- we had partly unharnessed him our “Blood is thicker than water,” T sug CHAPTER XXII 1 went back to the pantry, only to he What they said definite course of action—Hotchkiss to fon. Hotehkiss wiped his collar with his matches were gone, and the small bicycle gested. “Is it sticky? See if vou can AT THE BOARDING HOUSE confronted with rows of locked doors and “There was no violent dispute, but a search Sulliyan's rooms and, if possible, handkerchief. It emerged gleaming and lamp on the buggy was wavering only 100 move your toes.” empty dishes. Downstairs, in the base- steady hum Then Rronson jerked the find evidence to have him held for lar- unwiited. certainly. We were covered with mud, There was a pause sichkiss moved his 1 had not been home for thirty-six hours. .. kitchen, however, 1 found two unat- door open. 1f he had stepped into the hall ceny. while I went to Cresson ‘This will do as well as any place,” he panting with exerti and even Hotchkiss toes. By that time I had found & knocker since the morning of the preceding da tractive looking cold chops. some dry bread he would have seen me fitting a key into Strangely enough, however, when 1 en- said, raising his voice ahove the rattle of showed a disposition to be surly. The rain, and was making the night hideous But ohnsoh was not in Wight, and I Jet MY~ 04"y plece of cake, wrapped in & napkin. the door befors me. But he spoke before téred the trsin the following morning, the rain. “Got to make a beginning which had lessened for & time, came oa there was no response save the wind that self in quietly with my latch kex. It WAS gng from fts surreptitious and generslly he came out Hotchkise was already there. He had I sat down on the usual chair without 8gain, the lightning flashes dolng more biew sodden leaves dersively in our faces. almost midnight, and 1 had hardly settled papg gog appearance, destined for the -you're acting ltke a maniac, he said. DOUShL & new note book, and was sharpen- & back, just Inside the door, and stared than anything else to reveal our isolated Once Hoichkiss declared he heard & wi B8 the '} when the bell rang cogchman in the stabie at the rear. Tra¥s ‘You know I can get those things some INK & fresh peneil. out at the darkening street. The whole position dow sash lifted, but renewe lence with Al ¥ wen o find Hotchkiss, \pere were none—everything but the chairs way: I'm not going to threaten you. It changed my plans, you see.” he said. affair had an alr of unreality. Now that Another mile saw us, if possible, more the knocker produced no effect Mch - Sut, ihe. vantinnie and tables seemgd under lock and key, and isn't necessary. You know me. bustling his newspaper aside for me. “It 1 was there, I doubted the necessity, or the despondent. The water in our clothes had “There's only ome think 1o do” I said . VIR, R Hotchkise” T si0. {pere was neither napkin, knife nor fork It would be no use’ the other man I8 no discredit to your intelligerce, Mr. value, of the journey. T was wet and un- had time to penetrate: the roan had final ] back and try to bring 1 the ught you wer § home 1o §o 10 , pe found said. ‘I tell you, 1 haven't seen the notes Blakeley, but vou laci professional comfortable. Around me, with Cresson as sprained his shoulder, and drew us along up for you. You cam't walk, - . = : i The luncheon was wot atiractive in ap- for ten days.’ eve. the analytical mind 4 legsl gen- a center, stretched an irregular circumfer- In a s of convulsive jerks. And ther r SR ‘,.._.‘“ ,,3.‘ uma Pearacce, but Hotchkiss ate his eold chops But you will’ Bronson said savagely. ti‘men call a spade a spade. although it ence of mountains, with posgdly & ten- gh the rain-spattersl Wihow.of the In his puddie and » | Smopped A here it is almosy ®°d Spawed at his crusts as though he ‘You're slanding in your own way, that's May ba a shove mile radius, and In it I was to find & res et, 1 saw a light. It was a small V't Bk he could stir, but for [ e e wities mosicn i MO%! had been famished, while he told his story. all. 1f you're holding out expecting me WA primrose by the rivers brim. dence of a woman whose first name 1 did light. rather yellow, and it lasted perhaps 10 go back to town and leave I ' | Tee & Y Rvan: dr B el 1 had been there only a few m s, to raise my figure, you're making a mis- :“bfn'omml" m;‘;: Im, not know, and & man who, so far, d thirty seconfis. Hotchkiss missed it, ar e didn't have any family dependent e o Shvan, a y N Wih - ohen 0 ons hend and Shgrgd g dar g f : o ] been a purely echimerical parson. inelined to doubt me. But In a couple on him, and that if he was going to have P st i the cake in the other, “when Bronson T onidu's tal I 05 as Tir s mil. . TATVIS A the (IR, SEING owt. Hotchkiss had penetrated the streaming of minutes the roan hobbled to the side of pneumeomiu he had probably got it alread E SIS DN o Wy shed out and cut across the street. He's lion.' sald the man inside the room ‘I'd interior of the cave, and now his volce, the road and stopped, and I made a break I left him there, and started back to T “wery - £ wing . Bronson at 8 T u o n 3 it i ot of & CHAPTER XXIIT. tuated by the occasionsl thud of in the pines and an arched gate. et the horse | o'diod. WAk that " , ¥ a tall man, Mr. Blakeler, and I had hard do it. T cxpect. if 1 could. The best of us A, £ S u y th onal ud of In a & AR A "oy WOTk keeping close. 1t was a relfef when have our price A NIGHT AT THE LAURELS horses' hoofe, came to me It was & small gate, 100 DATTOw for the If possible, il was worse than before, ot the OuiF ot the = ) na D¢ jumped on a passing car, aithoug Brons Bt ed the door then, and I siept most of the way to Cresson, to Something light will do." he was say- bugey. I pulled the horse into as much There was no lightning, s | 4 being well behind, it was a hard run for flung past me down the ha the disgust of the littls detective. Finally ing. “A runabout, perhaps.” He came sheiter as possible under the trees, and we miracle did I find t simost ran feto & pisin clothes o T N iy Afler & cowpls of sminvtes I knooked Bi Shfwsk Wb 68 ‘stdivaintance with s Xind! rward rubbing his hands, followed by a Bt out. Hotchkiss tied the beast and we diew a long breath | $hp‘contrad wtfies, 1. ke NS DEOIT e Once on the car, we simply rode from at the door. and a tall man about your.faced old priest on his way home to his thin man in overalls. “Mr. Peck says' he loft him there, head @own against the another equally e O e e ™ s P MM (e cnd of the line 1o the other and back size, Mr. Blakeley, opencd It He was convent achool, armed with roll of dance bogan—'this is Mr. Peck of Peck & Peok driving raia drooy nd dejec Then had found the = ',‘l:;:{””’“ s i A i ol "W® again. 1 suppose he was passing the time, very blond, with & smoth face and blue c and surreptitious bundles that locked —says the place we ere looking for is We went toward the house was nothing at e for he looked at his watch now and then, eyes—what I think you would call a hand- box dw From scraps of con- &bout seven miles from the town It's It was & long walk. The path bent and 1t wind 1 seemed to hea You know him. probably. 1t Was .53 when I did once get a look at his some man . 1 gleaned that there had been clcaring, len't it twisted, and now and then we lost it. eager thud of stable bound feet. $o f B | the man Armoid, the detective Whom (he foee ji made me—en—uncomfortable. He I beg your pardon for disturbing you.' at the convent— It 1% not” I réturned savagelr. “And We were ciimbing as we went 04dly sécond time I climbed the slope state’s attorney has had watching Bron- .,jq have crushed me like a fiy. sir I said. ‘Can you tell me which what the reverend We don't want a r o Pek. there were no 1, although it Laurels, and on the way I thoug l ( son.* 1 had brought Mr. Hotchkiss a glass of Johnson's room Mr. Francis Johnson™ father called vagu a quantity of un- What we require is & herem y sealcd Was on. o'el ot later. Hotchkiss many things to say Johrson being ot - gooRvied, T bad ning. and ke wae leokiRE Detter. He o ad Gy " The vaatial ittty s I dropped asleep at that point, diving sult. 1 suppose thery isn't a ma- Kept & ah ¢ me, knocking into I struck the house at a new angie, for ssked for Arnold myself stopped to finish it, declining with rly been here a few days sed a few minutes later, the Chine to be had?’ Mr. Peck gazed at me lrees now and finding the path I found a veranda, destitute of chairs and 1 nodded of his hand to have it refilled, 1 thanked him and left, but 1 od had rgressad Hotehk! in silence: machine to him m sther In half the tin I should have tak furnishings, but dry and evidently fed. We e stopped me at onc said he'd gy ued a good Jook at b and I think w agram on envelope. things than motors. Automobile, 1 sup- Once, as I felt my way ar d a tre n It was bet than the ter and so, by the fellow’s tracks since early .,pgue 9 o'clock or a little later he gut him readily any place window bolted and that one Plemented. His face cleared the biackness, I put my hand unexpectedly groping along the wall, 1 tried 1o make 7 ’ € and had no time for luncheol. ¢ pomewhere near Washington C I sat for a few minutes thinking it over. and if, a8 you say. the—er— None but private affairs. 1 can give on his shoulder, and felt a shudder g0 way to Hotehki That was how I found Socs V't eating sauch Lhese g went along one of the rcsidence streets “But what did he mean by saying he SATments were In a t here at X. then, You & good huggy with a rubber aprom. Gown my back. the open window. 1 had passed perhaps ‘_ uce jotted down the fact " ihere, turned to his left a square or iwo, hadn't seen the notes for ten days® And a5 you hold the key to the other door—I Mike, is the docter's horse What do you expect me to do?’ he six, all closed, and to have my hand grom e irgued that he was boing both- gng rang a bell. He had been admitted why is Bronson making the overtures? thick you said the convent dog aid not I still uncertain as 1o whether the protested, when 1 remonstrated Hang for the next one, and to find instea e i ered b an with the notes. when 1 got there. but 1 guessed from *I think he was Iving,” Hotchkiss re- ralse any rbance? Pardon a personal raw-boned roan we took out that night out a red lantern? What was that? Lis- soft drapery of an inner curta was ‘It might y other 1 I the appearance of the place that it was a flected. “'Bronson hasn't reached his fig- Question, but do you ever walk In your over the Inguntains was the doctor's horse ten siarliing, to say the least suggested 1 ou sarding house. ure.” sleep® r not. If 1t was the doctor may he a We both stood peering in the gioom. The 1 found Hotchkiss at 1 arc : Hotchkiss ig Wel I waited & few minfles and rang tho “It's a big advance, Mr. Hotchkise, and The priest loocked bewildered £00d doctor, but he dossn't know anything ain on leaves haed angle of the stone wall, and told him that some re f g t L. When a maid answeréd it. I asked for I appreciate what you have done more I'll tell you what to do, Hotchkiss @bout a horse. And furthermore, 1 hope ahead theére eame the horse was gone. He was disconcerted would t [ him the slip that night. Mr Spilivan. Of course there was no than I can tell you 1 said. *“And pow, ®aid cheerfully leaning forward, ‘“look he didn't need the beast that miserable padding of feet In but not abased; maintaining tha s > he asked r stay nd the private Mr. Sullivan there f you can locate any of my property in around a little yourself before you call evening wet soll. My ed on Hotchkiss' a new kind of knot that couldn't slip and trance there while he ran across the 1 sald 1 was sorry; thal the man I this fellow’s room, we'll send him up for In the police. Somnambulism is a queer While they harnessed the horse, Hotch- rhoulder, and we listened together, warlly. that the horse must have chewed the hal strest and get som § to eat. It was looking for was a new besrder. She larceny, and at least have him where we thing. It's a question whether we are kiss told me what he Lad learned The were close by, unmistakable. ter through. He was less enthusiasiic than saffd o 1a . that. as he hed wes sure there was no such boarder In €an get &t him. I'm going to Cresson to- Most ourselves sleeping or waking. Ever “Six Curtises in the town and vicinity,” The ash of lightning showed noth- I had expected about the window gone there wit 1y. they would dine the house; the I¥ new arrival was a WOrrow, to try to trace him a little fro think of t? Live a saintly life all day, he said Sort family name around ing the house was In full view It looks uncommonly ilke a tray . leist a X 1 have plenty man on the third floor—she thought his there. But I'll be back in & couple of préyers and matins and all that, and the here. One of them is telegraph operator Low and uninviting, looming huge said I tell you there was some of time to get k name was Stuart days, and we'll begin to gather in these Subconscious mind hikes You out of bed at the station. Person we zve looking for ®bove & terrace, with an lLialian gardea tue park below when we were com “What abou T 1 asked My friend has a cousin by that name,' Scattered threads &t night to steal undermusiins. Bubliminal —Wwas—a weaithy widow with a brother— 2t the side. Then the blackness again. AMan has « sixth sense that scientists curiously 1 sald. TN just go up and see Hotehkiss rubbed his hands togcther d=- theft, 8¢ to speak Better examine the Tamed Sullivan' Both supposed 1o have Somebody’s teeth were chattering: I ac- ignore—a sense of the nearness of B R 3 1 have =k wanted 1o show me up, but I said lightedly r been kilied on the Flier L ed Hotchkiss, but he denled it And 1 the time you have been g ° § siveny g e ot W Budd it Was unnecess: me “That's It he said. “That's what we | doged again. When I wakened Hotch Her brother.” 1 repeated stupid! Although I'm not very comfortable, I'll one has been watching me Hotehkiss it + question of it was the bedroo on want to do, Mr. Blakeley. We'll gather up kiss sat alone, and the priest, from & eo You see’ Hotehkiss went o hree edmit,” he confessed; “there was some- “Couldn't see yo 1 maintained; 1 dinper W ¢ 4 h's the third floor fromt the threads ourscives, if we Jet ths police DBer, was siaring him dazedly, over his Pecple, in one party, took the traip here thing breathing right at my «lbow here a can't see you now And sense of ¢ 2 mind & as th “I mel & couple of men the stairs, Dut in too soop. they'll tangle it up again breviarr that night, Miss West, Mrs. Curtis and moment ago. tiguity didn't tell you about t flower He was a frail littie ma neither of them paid any attention to me. I'm not vindictive by nature; but when a It was raining when we reached Cresson, Sullivan. The two women had the drawing “Nomsense.” I took his elbow and steercd erock e locked pale v A boarding house s the casiest plgoe in féllow like Sullivan not only commits a & wind driven rain that had foreed the rocm, Sullivan had lower seven. What we him in what I made out to he the diree- In the end, of course. he consented to 2 riion the world to enter.” murder, but goes 1o all sorts of trouble agent at the mews stand L0 close himself Want to find out is just Who those people tion of the steps of the Italan garden with me. He was very lame, and I helpe ' ‘ Did you have any They're not always so easy to leave,” to put the burden of guflt on an Mmnocent 'n. and thai beat back from the raiis in Were, where they came from. if Bromson “I saw & deer just ahead by the last flash: him around to the open window. He was was sgBewhat e a 1 put in, to his evident irritation maz—I say hunt him down, sir paraliel lines of white spray. As he went knew them, and how Miss West became that's what you heard. . By jove I hear was full of morsl courege, the little man —renlly, lakele: events o “When 1 got to the third story, I took ou are convinced, of course, that Sulli- up the main street, Hotchkiss was cheer- entangled with them. She may have mar- Whee! it was only the physical in him t day were o engrossing out a bunch of keys and posted myself van did 1™ + fully oblivious of the weather, of the ried Sullivan, for one thing.” We paused to listen and Hotchkiss put gualled “Well,” & Said, “I'm nol going to see by & d0Or near the ones the girl had In- “Who else? He looked over his glasses lhreatening dusk.of our generajly draggled 1 fell inio gloom after that The roam his hand on something ciose 1o us. “Heres (To Be Continued.)