The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1914, Page 15

THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY A New Yorker’s Odd loits in the Upper and Under Worlds BY P. G. WODEHOUSE (Author of “The Little Nugget,” &c.) ST SR an (Copyright, 1910, by W. J. Watt Co) CHAPTER I. A Queer Bet: 'T etarted with a queer bet at the Strollers’ Club. at va ‘The talk had centred on burglary; Arthur Mifflin having that night scored the hit of stage life in “Love, the Cracksman,” a Raf- fles type of play. Jimmy Pitt had bet a dinner for the crowd that he could break into a house and escape in safety. Mifflin took the bet and sought to mystify his hearers with learned talk @oncerning oxy-acetyline blowpipes and other alleged implements of modern Dargiary. After which he and Jimmy left the club, stopping at Pitt's rooms for a good-night cigar. Jimmy Pitt had begun life by working successively as an actor, @ re- porter, a jeweller and in a dozen other capacities. A rich relative had left him a fortune since when the wanderlust, and the means to gratify it, had kept him drifting aimlessly from one part of the world to another, To-night as he and Mifflin sat smoking in Pitt's rooms, Jimmy fell into @ reverie, Mifflin eought to rally him. * “Whe Jimmy? asked Mif- moment when the doctor’s raised eyo _— brows had reproved him for his mono- oe. bic reception that Timmy came out of bis thoughts Buby was sein oe Ue Hews that the ‘with a start. +. “Do you know what the time is?” What's that?” he said. “Two o'clock.” “Who te shet” "sald “I don’t know what you mean.” aayt bappeoo ucts bad lesvied oucsee “Yea, you dol I take it that you pose yo 1 ‘ one who wouldn't let bel met her on the way across to New itv eo Siup your husband amoking, York. Who is she?” my dear, That's a bit of advice for “I don’t know,” said Jimmy, simply. you when you're married.” “What do you meant” sto, 10pm, and Rt nd “we ai at all” ing p at home, and darn yo! Just happened to be going to the =] wish you could,” he said, dra fapot, eb?” ing her closer to him. “But one of Looped of fact, tt was like ‘bes days you're going to marry @ matter prince. And now run back to bed. It’s thie. Like a fool, I'd bought @ second- much too late"— dass ticket.” “It's no good, father dear. I couldn't “Whet? Our young Rockerbilt As- bby are ee icra wee hard boy lonaire, p ti tergould, the mill travel- nearly screamed, It's Rastua's fault. img second-class! Why?” He snores eof’ “Z had an idea it would be better bulla Fie ee ulldog sternly. fam. Everybody's so much more “ “Why do you have the brutes in @beery in the second cabin. You se your room te know people eo much quicker. Nine Bide g to rg the Lega ere from 9 getting me, of course. Arent you Wido oat Of tem, FE muck rather go B10 of the boogaboos getting yout second.’ But you're so big, you wouldn't mind. You'd just bit them. And they're not he was in the first c. in.” sald brutes—are you, darlings? You're an- gels, and you nearly burst yourselves Jwmony. with joy because auntie had come back from England, didn't you? Fa- “We didn't.” id miss me when I was “De you mean to say you didn't gone y pine away?” “They got like skeletons, We all talk at al wan “We didn’t say a aingle word.” “Your ‘Miffite eheok bis head sadly. “I should say 0.” - 1 gtve you up.” he eaid. “I thought 1 “Then, ie did you send me away s 0, England F’ you were & man cf enterprise. What «1 wanted you to sce the country. 4 you ée” le whitey like itr" é % Jimmy sighed sofly. “I hated being away from you,” she “I used to and and smoke against *0swered, stouping to pat Tomuny, tl fox terrier. the railing opposite the barber's shop, Rut you liked the country?” ead she used to walk round the deck.” ar ure ae Fayedeer “and used to stare at ber?” cKachern yw a breath of lef. 1 enaice bas direction aouse- The only possible obstacle to the great times,” corrected Jimmy, with dig- ‘west en board that ship, happy, care “ir | went, too?” lees, beart-free. You came off it grave = Molly twisted around eo that she saddened, Yhenoaforth, for you, Could ser 1.5 face better. Oe eee sna cinta ween, “There's something the matter with an, and her you bad lost." you, futher, You're trying to say Marin in @ hollow and something, and I want to know what bereaved manner, aud took a sip trom !t is Teli me quick, or I'll make Ras- hip giaas to buoy bim up tus bite youl” Jimmy moved restiesaly on the sofa. “It won't take long, dear. I've been “De you believe in love at first lucky in some investments while you sigutT-"be aaked, fatuously. He was Were away, and I'm going to leave im the mood when & man says things, the force, and take you over to Kng- memory of which makes him ‘and, and find a prince for you to wake up bot al over for nights to marry—4f you think you would like “I dcert eee what first sight's got ther! It'll be perfectly splen- with it,” said Mifflin, “Accord. did fae to fous own siatement, you stood . “We'll etart fair in England, Molly. and iter at the girl for five days [ll just be John McKachern, from without letting up for a moment I America, and, if anybody wants to ea quite imagine that you might know anything about me, I'm a man gare yourselt into love with any one who has made money on Waki Street— La to England to apend it." sco mynelf settling down,” z at cas tboughttully. “And, un- Molly gave his arm a equeese, Her tl. you feel that you want to settle eyes were wet. down, I suppose you can't be really “Father, there was a man on the im love. 1 feel now | can't stay in 4 Lusitania with eyes exactly like Tom- Place more than @ week. it's having my’s—all brown and bright—and he money that does it, 1 auppone.” used to stand and stare just as Tom- sald Milo. “ie full my's doing.” of obliging persons who will be de 1] had been there,” eaid her fa- gated to relieve you of the Incubus ther wrathfully, “I'd have knocked fell, James, I shall leave you. By his head off.” the way, 1 suppose you this girl when you landed?” “You.” fee E “No, you wouldn't, because I’m eure he was really a very nice young man. I He had a chin rather like yours, fa- “Well, there aren’t so many girls {0 ther, Besides, you couldn't have got the United Statee—only twenty mil- at nim to knock his head off, because Non. Or is it forty million? Something he was travelling second-class,” email All you've got to do is to “gecond class? Then, you didn’t search around a bit, Good-night. jalk with him?” “Good-night.” “We couldn't, You wouldn't expect Jimmy leaned back in bis chatr, him to shout at mo across the railing? gmoking. The hour was late and he Only, whenever I walked round the tired. He forgot the silly bet he deck, he seemed to be there,” mnade. His head nodded. And at ° “staring!” last he went to sleep. “He may not have been sieving at .. me. Probably, he was just looki At about the time when Jimmy's the way the ship was going, and Aitetions finally merged themselves thinking of some girl in Ne ’ York, certain Mr. John Mc- } don't think you can make much of Bachern, ibe Bey of Police, was seat- 4 romance out of it, father!" e@ in the parlor of his up-town villa, “I don't want to, my dear. Princes Eachern had grown rich qon’t travel in the second cabin.” graft. In fact he was think- 1.419 may have boen @ prince in hed, ot rediring He meant to get into aisguise,” seclety—and the society he had select- More likely a drummer,” grunted e4 was that of England. Other peo- yep MoKachern. ple have noted the fact—which had “sprimmoera Itself very firmly on th@ groint they?” ‘es mind—that between Eng- incon are nicer.” and the Wales States there are = imei}, Ll go to bed and dream nd_miles of deep water. of the nicest one I can think of, Come ‘United piaten, he would be ® along, dogs, Stop biting my slipper, Polloe Captain; in England, Tommy, Why can't you behave, like gentleman of large and in- Rastus? Still, you don't snore, do ‘+ means with a beautiful you? Aren't you golng to bed, father?” was the ruling impulse in bis ag the door closed, the Captain daughter Molly, Molly was throw away the stump he was Smoke Bis ing, and remained for a moment in ‘The opened, admitting @ bull- thought, ‘Then he drew enothor cigar terrier, @ bulldog, and in the wake from his case and lighted it. It was ot @ girt in @ kimono past 8 o'clock when he went to his Te often quite nice, PP at Heeman, P°troom are you doing out, ot beat i CHAPTER I. ee a es Cy ‘Aeahe eat A Thief in the Night. ree bid He ah he OW long tho light had been cs G4 really ae, darting about the room like fy Jimmy did not know. the light, would have cupant. #team-heater, & heap on top of Jimmy. Jimmy, underneath at the fall, speedily put himself uppermost with & twist of his body. advantage. d of that Ume.” and that's no lie—and bas come over b; by the fail. ing to struggle. Jimmy half rose, and, pulling his prisoner by inches to the door, felt up the wall till he found the electric light By the way, your name? Mi: Willoughby Pitt, “Mullins is my monaker, boss. Spike, dey calls me.” “And you make a living at this sort of thing?” “Not ao wolse.” “Can you w blowpipe hat! "th fon red ved lp & very much enlarged fire- jin0. herent waking dream of his; and for @ moment, as the misis of sleep pass- ed away from his brain, he fancied that he was dreaming still. @leep left him, and he realized that which was now moving slowly across the bookcase, was @ real That the man behind it could not have been there long was plain, or he ven the chair and its oc- He seemed to be taking the room step by step. As Jimmy sat up nolselessly and gripped the arms of the chair in readiness for a spring, the ght passed from the bookcase to the table, Another foot or so to the left and {t would have fallen on Jimmy. From the position of the ray Jimmy see that the burglar was ap- Di preaching on his side of the table. He launched himself from the chair, sprang forward and grappled with the intruder. His shoulder bumped into a human His arms closed instantaneously on it, and puiled, There was a yelp of dlamay, and @ crash. The lantern bounced away across the room, and wrecked itself on the reef of Its owner collapsed in The yellow glow that flooded the room disclosed a short, stocky youth of obviously Bowery extraction. ehock of vivid red hair was the first thing about him that caught the eya, Looking up at Jimmy from under this wealth of crimson was a not unpleas- ing face, It was not handsome, cer- tainly; but there were suggestions of @ latent good humor, been broken at one period of ita reer, and one of the ears was unden! pen to any high-spirited young gentle- In costume, the visitor had evidently been guided rather by in- hi dividual taste than by the dictates of IN& fashion. His coat was of rusty black, his trousers of gray, picked out with stains of various colors, was a faded sweater. floor by the table, The cut of the coat was poor, and the fit of it spoiled by a bulge in one of the pockets. Diagnosing this bulge correctly, Jimmy inserted his hand and drew out a dingy revolver, “Well?” he said, rising. The man on the floor sat up, and rubbed the back of his head ruefully. "Goo!" he muttered, “I tought some guy had t'rown de bulldin’ at feats immy sat down and crossed bis an he demanded ast he sald. said Jimmy ailrily, 1 thinking of breaking into @ house to- Tt coomed to = ¥y lke he dorire, it. Cs elsasthe toe 1s ane worn tn taco: Race! i* exclaimed Spike, at last. “ you're in de game, boss? Sure, you're we'll go up-town, and you shall start gotiated, de guy dat's onto all de curves. I in. Don’t get nervous. Just work a8 the end Spik tought so all syd “I sho like to hear,” i auusediyy ae one who draws out an mot built in a day. When we aro “how you would set through, I will criticise a f8w of your about burgling one of those up-town mistakes. How does that sult you? My own wotk has been on &@ "Gee, bo: hat larger scale and on the where dere’s a peach of a ide of the Atlantic.” “De odder side?” “I have done as much in London as = “Very well, then. One moment, anywhere else," said Jimmy. “A great though.” * London, full of opportunities He went to the telephone. Before he 4. | Did you hear of had left New York on his travels, Ar- Then intelligent child, for the fine worker. “The police would like an answer “Hello, Dixon," said Jimmy, “is that to the same questlot Was dat— “The thief,” said Jimmy, filcking @ sicepy and outraged voice of Mr. ‘Mif- pin speck of dust from his coat nodes filn spoke at the other ond of the ling, duet. ‘the air was filled with their “was discovered to have used an oxy- “What's wrong? Who the deyil'’s ©/#mor. acetylene blowpipe.” is intake of Spike's "My dear Arthur! Where you pick breath was the only sound that bro the profession, about? The night’ ed thts by Now, tell me, supposing you were go- ‘hur, touching that little arrangement (he open ing fo broak into a villa, what time 1° Beie—creckic of night would you do it?” “ any objection to my taking an asalst- ite dis oF when de folks ta ta at supe ant along with me? I don't want to rugs, aud underneath these rugs. it Tepnentiulige do anything contrary to our ugi Jimmy smiled & faint, patronising eu', rig smile, and nodded. ae + come along and pick up a few hints, Pd HyRRG what would you Got! |. Hes a professional all right. Not in case dere a window ‘open somewberee,? OUF class, of course, but quite & fair from un sald Spike, difidently,, “And if there wagn't?” Hie had every ‘The burglar was a small man, and had been taken very much rprige, and any fight there might have been in him in normal ciroum- @tances had been shakea cut of him He lay still, not attempt- of de bedroo his first attempts at original poetry Bight, think of his callow outpourings! Spike hung hie head. “Bust de catch wit’ me jemmy,” Be hed: whispered, shamefacedly. catch with your jem- nose had iis ty} only way I ever learned,” pazurded. The expert was si je seemed =: Yd r ly ou tee thinking! ae yy ‘watohed it work with brains, not guns,” ho gers tenderly through his vermilion face, humbly. How would youse do It, boss?” be fi town, Hoavy footsteps were descending tured timidly, at last. dark street, far uptown. ih?" Beneath the red-and-white A hat of soft felt lay on the How would youse do it?” “Why, I'm not sure,” changes it would do.” Ie dat right?” queried gpout le. Spike was sitting on the edge of bis time hi: chair, dazed but happy, buzzing from the unhoped-for pralso, Jimmy looked at his watch. It waa was of a forgiving disposition.” A In him aa nearly three o'clock, A sudden ides single rain-drop descended on the *andoning the “Would you care to come and crack hands,” said Jimmy. “We must break he said, “let there @ crib with m secrets between us. What's 1s Pitt. James “Would your? “Surest t'ing you kno’ cume along with you? Strictly He poured the contents of the bot speaking, I am here on a vacation, tle on a piece of paper, which he but a trifle like this isn't real work. pressed firmly against the window- he explained. “I've pane Then, drawing out a short taken a fancy to you, Spike, and I don't Ike to see you wasting your . hort tap. The time on coarse work. You h root of the matter in you, and with @ leaving @ gap in the pane. Spike in- chair, @ rug, and Spike, little coaching I could put @ polish serted his hand, shot back the catch, The chair, struck by @ massive boot, I wouldn't do this for one, but I hate to see ® man i aaa at right along, oxy-acetylene Ivs this way,” * said Spike, blankly. ‘Dat gets past me." Give up burglary. It's not in your Better try poultry-farming. ane / The Evening W.orld Daily Magazine, Monday; Octobe . f 12, 1914 ees « « By Robert Minor! POOGDIODHOOODOO on Next Week’s Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD \ j Ashton-Kirk SpecialDetectiva}. By John T. McIntyre : This Book om the Stands Will Cost You $1.25. Tou Get lt tor o vents, J @OOOH9906 OOOUOON OOOO BOOOOU €d to bia fect, slipped again, fell, and “Pleased to meet you,” he auld. fballp sompromioed 66 ha aitourt ot hewn Gaya ‘a talk together ene position, in whioh attitude he remain- must,” eaid the police od, blinking. aignincantly, He was rich— WAG Giese Gtirring acts were 1k Cee ae ion Gran Renee progress, there was the sound of @ Tid Teen vmake the moet of te door opening upstairs, followed by ® — “Of course, I don't know your meth- scuttering of feet and an appalling ods on this ‘side, but anything that's increase in the canine contribution to Us — the current noises. The duet bad now yuliing wilt show you where IF taken on quite a Wagnerian effect. “Very well. You must forgt There raced inte the room first & Besar informal call. We white terrier, he of the soprano voice, I more to shelter from the rain ss and—a bad second—bis fellow artinte, “UME os the baritone, @ massive bull-dos jimmy felt thai it behooved bist bearing a striking resemblance to the stand on his dignity. ‘The situatiqn big man with the big lower jaw, dem nas 4 wits Ad ,"" he said with some Tad: Started SRO OF: igi tne ‘ordinary t should hardly then, in theatrical parlance, 1 lke" — tire company “held the plo “lt ee pike, rapturous! on tage, witd his band otis ofive” An jools trom dudheuseat on the door, stuod the man with the I admit @ partiality for jewels ‘ tage Yi duchesses," said Jimmy, “And “ee bull-dog, tuelr noves ag its @ little late, perhaps we * & couple of inches apart, inspected petter—— Ready, Spike? Goode each vlber with mutual disfavor, O2 then. Pleased to have met you the extreme O. PD. ak the bull ter- “i'l see you at my office.” Fier, Who bad fallen foul of @ wicker= =f muy possibly look ine ee oe rear yet wat. be doing very little work in ee 4 ended tongue ard * York, . rely, Se Ing, for the next MOV C vacation: | Om Bere moreiiay ; ‘The householder loo! at Jimmy. “if you do any work at . Jimmy looked at the householder. the policeman@ eclly neni Spiko and tho bull-dog looked at each at ny office, or you'll wish YOM 4 other: The buil-terrier dlatributed Bis When it's too late i wazo impartially around the company. —“O¢ courm, of courae, ahowdaet!: A typical scene of quiet American dreain of omitting any ‘oreallte aot lite,” murmured Jimmy. may be Buc T don't ‘The householder glowered. shail ak my vacation By “Hands up, you evita” roared, way, one jittlo thing. Have you mammo'! revoly: two marauders humored bia front yers: MY oMFving @ Jom : mn Tho policeman started. Wot me explain,” sald Jimmy pa- "On the innide. It won't show, Ite ting warily around in just q whim of mine. If you have me ' order to face the buli-terrier, who Was objection : now strolling In his direction with an H “I don't want any of your"—_ iil-aasumed careloweneen: the policeman. " began. “Keep still, you blackguard!" ie Jimmy kept still. The bull-terrier, You misunderstand me. It's ee iis took longer, but 1 » porsuasive methods you would if I were not there, I prevailed. sald Jimmy ®hall not expect too much. Rome was sp) ie cust ved cautiously qver the i by Jimmy, ‘The latter found the elec- They were in a ind decorated with Jimmy had expect- but hore aper to the wonderfully ! Great! An’ L know pl Tegular soft proposition. A friend mine told me, It's"—— ovata se was business, @ admiring the cracking of the New Asiatic Bank thur Mitflin bad been living at a no- {Use elects fonts Ei nienie in Lombard Street?” tel near Washington Svuare. It was j\imy was to prove his presence in whispered Spike. “Was probable that he was atill there, He JIM) Was to prove hls presenoe In Called up the number. ‘The night 4D “len house by carving a Ae on Jimmy laughed, clerk was an old acquaintance of his. was that big J still to be carve. ne said, elf you? I'm Pitt—Pitt! Yes, tim back FOr Greens Ean ara MURR IESE ‘Perhay rou heard How did you guess? Yes, very pleas- nothing of the disappearance of the ant. Has Mr. Mifflin come in yet? | lie was just mevine oe bap as 4 ss of Havant’s diamonds?* Gone to bed? Never mind, call bim When from some distant par ao the bark of a dog, An- cd in. ‘The solo became a up, will you? Good.” Presently, the that?” cried Spike. » remark seemed more or leas to up such expressions I can't think— sum up the situation, “Ge Vis sweet,” says Byron, “to hear ‘Through the smoke, his 90t from me. 7 .! 4 se jy » Jimm; What in the the watehdos’s honest bark.” Jimmy €ygu could be seen slowly widening, _ 18 that you. Jimmy? What in the fhe witntn id two watchdons interested even in the “Heavens! What are you kicking Honest barks cloying. Spike Intimat- yet young. Ar- for that crib, you the success ivre, the *auor know. Are you listening? Have you of the room was covered not with @ pot but with tastefully scattered was vory highly polished. young fellow here treading on one of these islands, w who's anxious that I whould let him instant No power of will can save 4 man in such a Ke skidded, His feet flew ¢ him. There was a mo- rough workman, He—Arthur! Ar- mentary flash of head, as of a thur! These are hareb words! Thon, he next moment, uwising meteor, 4 “ . am I to understand you have no ob- he had fallen on his back with a thud I'd climb up di Baron an into eps jection? Very well, Only, don't say that sho vk, the house. Fven in the v " JOU erlais, the though lashed across * blushing, He felt like @ boy reading jis that | didn't play fair, Good ri te tetas was not Spike's ‘What wi He hung up the receiver, and turned lucky night this master cracksman, this polished °°, Weetyy Upstairs, tho efforts of the canine - “Ready?” choir had b Pine ebinke OF Bie asin ene wow; “Ain't youse goin’ to put on your che la morte” duet in “ll Trovato low would you get into the bed. SUm-shoes, boss?! Particularly good work waa bdeltg Jimmy frowned retiectively, as if dono by tho baritone dog. there was something in what thi8 soike sat up, groaning. Equipped novice suggested. He went into the though ho was by nature with @ and returned with @ pair of skull of the purest and most solid ent-leather shoes. ivory, the fall had disconcerted him. coughed tentatively, a His eyes, lke thoso of Shakespeare's Won't youse need your gun?" he owt, rolling in @ fine frenzy, did glance from heaven to earth, ‘from Jimmy gave @ short laugh. earth to heaven, He passed his fin- said. “Let us be goin; Half an bour later they were in a bair. the stairs, In the distance, the s#o- At last, Spilce balted before a fair- {ho mara | th ange oar sized detached house, a Wen Lad reached 4 1 alt, O80 "Dis Is de place,” he said. “A friend Wis holding tt. ee rm onld the MAM ot mine tele me ct in J didn't know {let executed Tune {a the lower Femiae “whether your way ho was mo friend, dough, before he ‘"., 7 Fi ; might not do in a case like that. It’s puts ine wise about ais joint, ft “et up" hissed Jimmy, "There's but with @ few tought he'd got it in fer mo ‘cos of #emrboty coming! Get up, you idiot, last week when I scrapped wit’ bim metiin'. I tought after that be was layin’ fer me, but de next seen me be put me wise to aracteristic of Jimmy that ven occurred to him to de- ono, and depart alone. he tn-arms, He ght of desert~ ain would of head still dis pia “Coals of fire,” sald Jimmy, “He sitly, as Spike, despite all tinued to remain on ng his head and utter- val in a mel nape of his neck. In another moment, @ smart shower had begun, “This matter has passed out of our at } ancholy voice, resigned him- wo was written of the tn, if only 0 get shelter, Got busy, aire to tate, and stood where he was, ‘There was a handy window only a Wiitins for the door to open. few feet from the ground. Spike pull- | It opened the next moment as If ea from his pockets simall bottle cyclone had been bebind tt. boss." “What's that?” inquired Jimmy. ‘Molasses, boas,” said Spike, defer- entially. CHAPTER III. Getting Acquainted. o) CYCLONE, entering a room, is apt to alter the position of things. This eyclone shifted a foot-stool, a small gave the paper 88 broke almost the inaudibly. The paper camo away, oy up the window, wae, timmy; stool rolled away. ‘The rug crumpled juite neat Wes BOW & aputter to be ne up and aid. Spike, with # yell, leap: whirled against the wall. The foot- yun to resemble the “he a world of good to this playful and looking customer!” " that It moans paying ¢ wita the same abstracted alr, was bi s for a dinner, |Piuning. a casual iuspection of bis be A RT Wee | rigbt Lrouser-le; Policeman pointed to the wine Kelations between Spike and the “ | bull-dog, meanwhile, had Become ut you get,” he said, 've had enough of you. And you forget to come to my office.” more strained. The sudden fingin: up of the former's arms had had t worst effects on the animal's nerve: Spike, still deeply mistrusttul of in! Spike the croucher on all fours bulldog Rastus, jumped at the might. have tolerated; but Spike ton. He was thro ‘s the semaphore Inspired bim with &nd out of sight in t friendly dark. thoughts of battle. Ho was growling Deas almost before the policeman in a moody, reflective manner, His Snished speaking. dimiay Tesainad eye was full of purpygse. “I shall be delighted"—— he had It was probably this that caused begun. T e Spike to look at the householder, ‘Till wey was tranding « piston by ‘noe then, he had been too busy to shift he recognized. ier sta: x his gaze, but now the bull-dog’s ey8 him that alie, ‘too nat bim. ; had become #o unpleasing that he te Dathetic glance Up At the MAN” No6 tor tne ret time since R ay Mekeee ts eried. “1s 46 bemn Bay, tet out from his flat that night au boss, call off de dawx. It's sure goin’ Spike's company sey was ae, t unreality o: to nip de hull head of n me.” scious of 4 sense of the ‘The other lowered the revolver in things, It was all so gracuy, asi aurprise, would have happened in “So, it's you, you limb of Satan!* He had gone to sleep thinking of thir he remarked. “I thought I had seen S'rl, and here she was. But a that damned red hoad of yours be- &t the man with the revolver fore. What are you doing in my him back to earth, There was house?” ing of the dream world about Spike uttered a how! in which In- police captain, dignation and self-pity were nicely That gentieman, whose back blended, toward the door, had not chenreed I'll lay for that Swede: addiuion to the company, het: “EL soak it to him goo turned the handle quietly, her bad s saw deal, O do teval hy . aiippered feet made no sound. 1s aa 1 ey's a feller I Know, a fat Swede— tho amazed expression on J} Ole Larsen his monaker ean’ dis face that caused the captain to feller an’ me started in scrapping last toward the door. week, an’ I puts it all over him, so he “Molly!” 4 lt in for me, But he comes up to Tho: girl smiled, though her ine, like as if he's meanin’ to be good, was white. Jimmy‘s evening an’ he says he's got e soft proposition had reassured her. She did not fer me if I'll give him half, So, I stand how ho e to be says all right, where ts It? An’ ne evidently there was nothing xives ne de number of dis house, an’ She had interrupted a dis is where a widder-lady lives not @ conflict, 4) dione, an’ has got silver muge and "I heard tho noise “the does tings to boln, an’ dat she's away downstairs, and I down Sout’, a0 dere ain't nobody tn to help you, fathe: do house, ‘Gee! I'll soak It to dat then, after a ittle, 1" eae Swede! It was a raw deal, boss, He see If you were all rae Perper was Just hopin’ to put me in bad wit’ Mr. McFachern Dat'a Bow it was, boss, Hon- Molly's arrival had put Eig awkward position. To denoune: a Tho big man Hatened to this sad visitor ae a cracksman was story of :, Not impossible, for he knew too teemeoe wo the bull- ‘don. which growled from The only real fear of the pollooman’s start to finien. life was lest some word of Spike eyed it uneasily. money-making methods might “Won't you call off de dawg, boas?” to his daughter's eara, he said. Quite a brijtiant fdea came to him” The other stooped, and grasped the “A man broke in, my dear.” Bey animals collar, Jerking him sald, “This gentleman was “The same treatment,’ and saw him. said Jimmy. “Ap eaty:, Jimmy with approval, “Distinetly,” affectionate animal—unicss he is a “But he slipped out of the window, Lareeree 2 which case, don’t one got away,” concluded the polio er.” ‘The big man glowered at him. ‘He was very quick,” sald Jimmy. “Who are you?" he somenees. think he may have been @ pre- fessional acrobat.” ‘He didn't hurt you, father? No, no, my dear.” e “Perhaps I frightened him.” said Eh?" he said, Jimmy, airily. Mr. Me! He's a champion burglar from de scowled furtively at him, odder side. He sure ls. From Lun- ‘We mustn't detain you, Mr."— non. ho's de guy! Tell him about — “Pitt,” sald Jimmy ““My name Je de bank you onened, an’ de joola you Pitt.” He turned to Molly. nT bo hope awiped from de duchess, an’ de what- you enjoyed the voyage. . d've-call-It blow pipe, The policeman started, With ‘some astonishment Jimmy “You know my daughter? wa found that these revelations, so far “By sight only, I'm afraid. We were from prejudicing the mun with the fellow-passengere on the Li revolver against him, had apparently Unfortunately, [ was in th told In his favor. man behind cabin, I used to see your the gun was regarding him rather walking the deck sometimes.” with Interest than disapproval. Molly smiled. > “So, you're @ crook from London, remember seeing you—somes are you?” mes,” e Jimmy did not hesitate. If being @ = McKachern burst out. crook from London was @ passport “rnen, you" into citizens’ parlors in the small po at a hours, and, more particularly, if it Pe ad nd looked at Alig carried with it algo a safe-conduct tickling him under the ear. out of them, Jimmy was not the man “et me show you the wi aut, to refuse the role. He bowed. Mr. Pitt,” sald the policeman, “Well, you'll have to come across, bi now you're In New York. Under: sue in apecking toe ruey ues Stand that! And come across good.” I vi “Sure, he will,” auld Spike, charmed window abrupthese ie’ aleve thes te. tel ice Ae been relloved, avoidable, ‘ and matters placed upon a pleasant “Perhi * one and business-like footing, “He'll be yinrayeth? | MBould be going: wood. He's next to de game, sure.” § “Good-night, Mr, Pitt,” sald ," echoed Jimmy, a hall agall He did’ not understand; but things gimmaree %e Shall meet again,” seemed to be taking @ turn for the “This way, Mr. Pitt,” better, so why disturb the harmony? MoKachern, holding the door, bait. a “Dis gent,” sald Spike respectful: “Please don’t trouble,” sald Jiminy.’ - 1s boss of de cops, A police-captain,” He went to the window, and fil! he coprected himself. Ris lor over the sill, esoeees: mama he nite! of broken eye Siarey'a bt lessly to the ground, ka 1 . He wondered not un- He turned and put head im cf derstood before. He had not been & tho window again” M4 a newspaper man in New York for a “I did that rather weil,” he year without finding pas someting Ania Bieseaatiy, “T think I must Re of the inner sort of thing as 3 5 gM now way, a other's Good-night.” manner pay eo Be Continued.)