Show I F The Evening Telegrams Telegram's o r Daily Short Story LOCAL COLOR i By Sy JOHN Wright 1013 1113 L b by the Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate Outside the he village of Fair H Haven cn in a aero field grown to wo cN and l stood th the house of of Almost ever every own and village Tillage has lias ont one In cake cac It wai 2 a house that thit tad had ad stood Jn n halt half condition and ami tenantless most of the for tor yearn eal Tho rho property was wa tied lied up III a cult at tt UK The house of mystery had been a a. free freel NI l rt Place for tramps 8 for the past yea years ean when the town to woke oke up one to that It Md had what hat seemed utO to boa bea permanent tenant A woman and f ti ft boy had taken pose possession lon during thI the th nIght They had arrived ed In a wagon which had brought some lumber for br- ic ic- and various artous supplies The woman to b bo ho BO W years old InIght I She he Wa was W tall gaunt and defiant de The boy was about bout 12 It may have been mother and nd eon flon but bt he ile io looked half starved and otherwise in HI i Phineas Oreen Green the thEl grocer was the the- first otherwise in HI i Phineas Oreen Green the thEl grocer was the the- first o oi one to come along llon and discover that the theold I Fold old house houf had a tenant Ho felt Celt perfectly ed In turning aside and taking a In at the tho open door doot He had only got ready to peep when tho the woman stepped steppe out fout and nd seized him by the collar collur and ran ranI I him back to the highway and then gave Gayo him a kick that lifted him a a foot Coot high The grocer didn't stop to ask any ques Ques- He hastened on to his grocery grocer and marked up the price of canned tomatoes as ai a a ft balm bairn to his lila feelings and then stood I at his door and told tho the news to all who caroe along Among them was wae Mo Moves Moses el Jackson packson the shoemaker Moses 1 was vas not a arun full run tull pago page advertiser in the county paper had an eye eyo out for tor business That trance woman oman and boy 00 must wear shoes life lie wanted them to wear shoes of ot his Ida 1 maJd He therefore hastened his steps Mo to the house of oC mystery Th The Tho woman was nailIng on a board while the bo boy held It fl n. n 1 What yer want was growled I at the shoemaker k You You Tou you wear shoes shoe he replied 1 I I dol dot she replied as she stuck out a aLfoOt afo afoot foot fo t Incased In a No 8 j I 1 called to ask ask ask- Oh have onel I I r you roumay may one And tie he got rot I It It Il was tho the shoe on her foot It wasn't removed from the foot before he got It Jt He was kicked d six before he could get a n fair start S One thinks of a R shoemaker as a mild mannered r man Moses Jackson was mild mannered but he had llad been kicked for tor the first firt time in his life Ufe and the Incident aroused amused him He went straight to Abra Abra- ham Scott the town constable and told his story l What a II citizen of our town kicked I exclaimed tho officer I r I It j Is Js true Abe By By the lumping Jumping but well we'll see ee about that thaU Ill I'll go up there and see that that woman paya you a dollar a n kick In La cash cashI I IBy I By the time the officer got up there theio the stran strange e woman had finished with the tho board and W was 8 cutting down a d dead deail ca II plum I. I tree tre I Look here now non who ho bo ho you d de demanded man mantled Abraham None 0 0 y jour our business I t Dont answer me that way wa r woman wilmar By B what tl right hl are arc you rou here You KO go o to blazes What What Do you Ou know that you are r talking to the laws law Woman oman I de demand do dc- mand Before he could finIsh he brought lip up I In InA A A. thistle patch latch and nd ho scrambled to his feet feel to make them hear bear him away like a flying machine This ended tho the calls call at atthe tho the house of The people of or FaIrhaven Fair FairHaven Haven lIa contented themselves with talk Once or ur a n week the woman entered tho vIllage to make mako purchases hns g. g but she hadn't a n word 1 to Ea say eay of ot h her 1 er errand or- or rand Some one math made the tho good pa ti t. t or one of or orthe the churches that tut It was hl his dut duty to have hn n tl little talk with the woman Ho Io had heard of or the s und and didn't earn care to 0 visit the house but n as aim sho had hud her purchases nod and a was returning home one da day he waylaid her and began My Iy good gOOlt vt man I haven't vent seen you Oll 1 at t church yet el 1 She answered never nC a word but bui setting down her basket sho she picked the man up without effort and carried him to the tho fence and ami heaved him over o It Is among tho J roe roe- C. C OMS of Fair lEaven Haven that as the tho pastors pastor's i boo body came to rest It crushed und destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- deI de- I no less than six hills of or growing I Icorn corn In tho field ld of oC Shoemaker From that date on there wore ure no more moro with the Inma Inmates tes of the tho house of mystery There were ere all kinde of afloat however and a a. new ono one was horn every cven week weE One night months after the hou house e Imd hod Ibe been n occupied two tramps who were making for the village fIare reached l It to re relate relate re- re late that when passing the tho house of oC mystery mys ms tery thc they heard the tho screams of n a IO boy bov who was being beaten and the voice olce of or ofa ofa a a. Woman sayIng paying do o as I ay a or Ill I'll brat boat your our braIns brain out The Tho constable got eleven Ie eminent citizens citi clU- zens Zoos to accompany him to the house ouse to see and h hear ar what was going on but tho tim officer and his J posse O e halted wh while widle Ie yet et a At hundred feet awa away and and came cume to the tho wise Je conclusion that th the screams heard b- b by the tramps were ero only the of ot frogs I down In the marshes The Tho n next morning there were two ar arrivals arrivals ar- ar rivals rl of ot noted persons peons In Fair lIa Havon Tho The first was sas Miss US EIleen lIeen Clayton Claylon who hall hail run down from tho the city to visIt a n relative anI and tho the second t was at Mr 11 Claude Bell BeH who was going to write a n play pie and was waR lookIng for or l local cal color Ho lie wanted real tows bows anI and hogs and and constables S Miss Clayton Claton was a toM a about the house e of mystery and she he exclaimed I What sort of people are you Oll here anyway anyway any any- wn way to put Jut up with such fruch a l thing Of or I course that woman has b been en hired to bring about that bo boys boy's death lJ by starvation starvation tion and abuse Well U cerbo everybody cr to be to meddle W was 1 replied And shame hame to them I am a good mind to take tako hold haiti of oC pasO ruo m myself What hat hat what rould you do n I I. I broka m my Toy lo leg lell l last l winter 1 read ten ten d O If Ir J I W was wa lf on nn c ca cat that old woman couldn't bluff me a u little bit lilt J l lin o o Rot got no le less s than live H clues Just from froni Irum what lint you ott have told cIUs Inc me 5 At tho the In U ir Mr 11 nell Bell w Wit given full par par- NI I. I Of or coin OUI eo t heres here's a n pant gang n of or counterfeiters counter counter- fellers behind her he saId paid But Hut our tn lo Your constable boh bosh You 10 troa a t stu- stu tu- tu pith pit lot not to hn 11 got gt ot onto things lon long n ago o. o Plain as ns the nose on your om face fuce Clues are arc at sticking out on all skies of It like thorns n A it nh Why our t constable I nosh Bosh I I 1 am a r plU playwright ht and not n a detective but In fn a n da day da- daIll Ill I'll up that mystery In a u wa Sa way to open your yos yos- yos Miss ti s Clayton who tho bad rend in tel d detective e hook did not wi waiL l a t day in or o two Sh Sue She had lie her I ay say md apparently I dropped tho tue matter l' l out of bC right but at 11 o'clock at t l nIght o of the dy of or her ar arrival arrival ar- ar r- r rival 11 1 she sho ho slipped out of the tho house anti made her way war along th the roo road to lading the houto of or When hen to 10 breakfast next morning sh ails was not nut to tobe tobe toe be e heart heard of The Tho town tOn of Fair o Il IJa Haven en seethed and bubbled and boiled So did lid Mr lr Bell As js soon jis Jl he Iwa heard rJ that tha t a R good looking hooking girl had dIsappeared like a t nl nickel on a n Sunday Sunda school picnic and heft no trace behind ht her he lie starred stalled out Others Other started out l but ut while they were dragging th the mill pond ponti and survey curveS lag Ins th the topi of or ch churry cherr rr tr trees cs h ho lie was lS approaching ap up- the tho c. c of mystery from tho the bushes Clayton Clanon was 8 not to b ba found lvIn living liv lv- lv- lv In ing or dead About the ilie he time tune this fact was announced another fact rE reared red Its Us head Mr Ir Bell could not be found living liv liv- Jn lag ing or or dead d Tho rho constable hu busted three paIrs palis of Jn In on one day a hunting for or u n clue etue Stor Stores s were vere closed a and u business suspend suspend- ed d. d All that lon long Ions day and all that thal long Ions night with everybody worked jup p to the highest tension a and ad th lI lItho the tho two missing miss miss- ing ones C came camo walking Into the town arm lIm armIn armIn lImIn In arm aim Miss Eileen Clayton ll had d son gone to to the house of mystery to SP spy around and pick pickup pickup pickup up clues lues The rile she sho knew she was vas a picked I up her herself eH b by the tha wom woman n an and tied hand and foot and Hung flunG Into Inlo a room Mr lr Bell had gone Jonc snoopIng around to pIck up tip a Il clue and nod he lIe hud had been Men hit on the head with a club and thrown Into another room Then the woman and boy 00 hall had departed It was tho playwright l who hail liati worked loose only after a day and a nl nt and then released his fellow fello prisoner nel un By John Join Rogers exclaimed the men of Fair Haven Did you vou ever eVor exclaimed the women And Mr sIr Bell Dell got the local color for his I pa play and a n be besides |