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Show THE RiCH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH ' Hooray !" Thus the Honorable Mr. Beasley, waving a handkerchief thrice around his head and thrice cheering. And the" child, in that cricket voice of his, replied: 1 By V 1 t,.; ; Apper-thwaite- ROBBER KILLED , This was the form of salutation familiarly in use between them. Beasley followed it by inquiring, Who with us today? Im Mister Swift, chirped the little Mis-te- r fellow. Swift, If you please, Cousin David Beasley." Beasley executed a formal bow. v There is a gentleman here whod like to meet you. And he presented me with some grave phrases commendaABOOTH JARKINGTON tory of my general character, addressMister Swift; ing the child as whereupon Mister Swift gave me a ghostly litle hand and professed himself glad to meet me. And besides me, he added, to Beasley, theres Bill Hammersley and Mr. Corley. Linbridge. A faint perplexity manifested Itself upon Beasleys face at this, a shadow which cleared at once when I asked if He joined cachinnations with me I might not be permitted to meet these heartily, and with a twinkling quizzi- personages, remarking that I had Miss Apperthwalte was at home the calness that somehow gave me the heard from Dowden of Bill Hammersfollowing Saturday. I found her in idea that he might be thinking (rather ley, though until now a stranger to the library with Les Miserables on apologetically) to himself: Yes, sir, the fame of Mr. Corley Linbridge. her knee when I came down' from my that old .Beasley man 'is certainly a Beasley performed the ceremony room a little before lunch time; and mighty funny critter I with intentional elegance, while the she looked up and gave me a smile When I went away, a few moments boys great eyes swept glowingly from that made me feel sorry for any one later, and left him still intermittently his cousins face to mine and back Bhe had ceased to smile upon. I bowed and shook hands with chuckling, the impression remained agli I wanted to tell you, I said, with with me that he had some such depre- the air, once to my left and once to a little awkwardness bi)t plenty of catory and surreptitious thought my right. And Slmpledorla ! cried Mister truth, Ive found out that Im an awTwo or three days after that as I Youll enjoy Slmpledorla. Swift. ful fool." down-town started from Mrs. Can he But thats something, Above all things, I said. she returned out his came of Beasley ' encouragingly "at least the beginning gate,, bound in the' same direction. He shake hands? Some dogs can. Watch him! Mister Swift lifted gave me a look of gay recognition and I mean about Mr. Beasley the offered his hand, saying, Well! Up a commanding finger. Simpledorla, mystery 1 was absurd enough to find in this neighborhood ns If that were shake hands ! In Slmpledorla. I want to tell you I knelt beside the wagon and shook a matter of considerable astonishment. she said; and alI mentioned that I was a neighbor, an imaginary big paw. At this Mister Oh, I know, nd we walked on together. I dont Swift again shook hands with me and though she laughed with on effect of carelessness, that look wh.lch I had Think he spoke again, except for a allowed me to perceive, In his lumiWell, sir! or two of genial surprise nous regard, a solemn commendation thought far away returned to her eyes as she spoke. There was a cer- at something I said, and, now and and approval. In this wise was my Initiation into tain Inscrutability about Miss Apper-tbwait- then, You dont tell me I which he the beautiful old house and the corsometimes, it should be added, as if she did not like to be too easily diality of its inmates completed; and I became a familiar of David Beasley read. Ive heard all about it. Mr. and his ward, with the privilege to go Beasleys been appointed trustee or and come as I pleased ; there was alsomething for poor Hamilton Swifts eon, a pitiful Utle invalid boy who inways gay and friendly welcome. I alvents all sorts of characters. The old ways came for the cigar after lunch, sometimes for lunch itself; sometimes darby from over there told our cook I dined there Instead of down town; about Bill Hammersley and Simpip-dorland' now and then when it happened So, you see, I understand. Im glad you do, I said. that an errand or assignment took me A little hardness one might even that way in the afternoon, I would run In and have thought it bitterness became visit awhile with Hamilton Swift, Junior, and his circle of friends. apparent In her expression. And Im glad theres somebody in that house, There were days, of course, when at last, with a little imagination! his attacks were upon him, and only From everything I have heard, I Beasley and the doctor and old Bob returned, summoning sufficient boldsaw him ; I do not know what the boys ness, it would be difficult to say mental condition was at such times; which has more Mr. Beasley or the but when he was better, nnd could be child. wheeled about the house and again reHer glance' fell fcpm mine at this, ceive callers, he displayed an almost but not qttiekly enough to conceal a dismaying activity of mind it was aclook of trouble sudden, tive enough, certainly, to keep far (I can think of no other way to exahead of my own. And he was maspress It) that leaped into It; and she terful: still, Beasley and Dowden and was ringing. rose, for the lunch-beI were never directly chidden for inIm Just finishing the death of Jean subordination, though made to wince Miser-ableValjean, you know, In 'Les painfully by the look of troubled surshe said, as we moved to the prise that met us when we were not door. Im always afraid Ill cry over quick enough to catch his meaning. that. I try. not to, because it makes The order of the day with him almy eyes red. and ways began with the Hoo-ra- y And, in truth, there was a vague of greeting; after which rumor of tears about her eyes not os we were to Inquire, Whos with us toIf she had shed them, but more as if day? Whereupon he would make she were going to though I had not known the character in which he elect' noticed it when I came in. ed to be received for the occasion. If That afternoon, when I Mister he announced himself as reached the Despatch office, I was Swift, everything was to be very I All Slid Down grown-u- p Dowden, Beasley and commissioned to obtain certain politiand decorous Indeed. Forthe Banisters on One of the Ham- malities and distances were observed ; cal information from the Honorable ilton Swift, Junior, Days. David Beasley, an assignment I acnnd Mr. Corley Linbridge (an elderly notwithstandwith eagerness, cepted hnd a most eloquent way of exclaim- personage of great dignity and distincwas much tion as a mountain-climber- ) ing the commiseration it brought me ; but he listened visibly to my own from one or two of my fellows in the ing and oftener included in the conversation at that talk, laughed everything than Bill Hammersley. If, however, reporters room. You wont get any- I meant for funny. declared himself to be Hamilton he thing out of him! they said. And I never knew anybody who gave one Swift, Junior," which was his happiest they were true prophets. he seemed a greater responsiveness; Bill and Simple-dori- a I found him looking over some to be with you every instant ; and how mood, were inHammersley the ascendant, and there in his (office; a reflective, un- -' he made you feel it was the true mys- were games and contests. (Dowden. lighted cigar In the 'corner of his man who s chair his tilted back and I all slid down the and his tery of Beasley, this silent mouth; Beasley on one of the Hamilton Swift, He nodded, never talked, except (as my cousin feet on a window-sil- l. to children. Junior, days, at which' really picturupon my statement of the affair that said) that I thus met him, as esque spectacle the boy almost cried It happened without and brought me, shifting his we were both starting down town, and with laughter and old Bob and his position, gave me a look of slow but walked on with him, several days in wife, who came running from the over his wholly friendly scrutiny a in word, it became a kitchen, did cry.) He had a third apsuccession; me and bade sit down, shoulder, habit. Then, one afternoon, as I pellation for himself Just little Hambegan at once to put the questions was told to ask him interrogations turned to leave him at the Despatch ilton; but this was only when the he asked me if I would drop in (he seemed to believe)' satisfactorily office, creaky voice could hardly chirp at all answered by slowly and ruminatively at his house the next day for a cigar and the weazened face was drawn to I I did ; and he asked one side with suffering. When he told stroking the left side of his. chin with before started. come again the. day us he was Just little Hamilton we two long fingers of his right h$nd, the me if I would while he smiled In genial contempla- after that. "So this became a habit were very quiet tion of a tarred roof beyond the' win too. Once, for ten days;, his invisibles all A fortnight elapsed before I met went dow. Now and then he would give me away on a visit : Hamilton Swift, a mild and drawling word or two, not Hamilton Swift, Junior; for he, poor Junior, had become . interested in could bears. While this lasted, all of Beasbrilliantly Illuminative, it may be re- little father of marked. - Well about that " he be- be no spectator of track events upon leys trousers were, as Dowden said, a sight." For that matter, Dowden gan once, and then came immediately the lawn, but lay in his bed upstairs. to a full stop. However, he grew better at last, and himself was quite hoarse In court "Yes?" I said, hopefully, ray pencil my presentation took place. The bears from growling so much. We had just finished our cigars In were dismissed abruptly: Bill Hamjpolsed. ' About that I guess sitting-rooBeasleys airy, mersley andyMr. Corley Linbridge and I Yes, Mr. Beasley? I encouraged and were rising to go, when Slmpledorla came trooping back, and iblm, for he seemed to have dried up there came the faint creaking of small with them they brought that wonderful wheels from the hall. Beasley turned family, the Hunchbergs. (permanently. 1 Well, .8)rrl gpessre . Hadnt- - you to me. with the apologetic and (TO BB CONTINUED.) chuckle , that, was distinctly better see some one else about that? ' ' This with the air of a man who his ilone. Summer Vacations In Africa. twould be but too fluent and copious Ive got ,a little chap here; he At the equator in 'Africa there are jupon any subject in the world except said ; then went to the door. - Bob I only two seasons the wet and the The old darky appeared In the door- dry. The former is the summer seajtbe one particular point. I never met anybody else who looked way pushing a little wagon like a son, and lasts eight months. The therso pleasantly communicative and mnn- on wheels, and in It sat mometer averages from 110 degrees to 126 degrees Fahrenheit The othet Sged to say so little. In fact, he didn't Hamilton Swift, Junior. My first impression of him was that four months are the cold and dry seaisay anything at ail; and I guessed (that this faculty was not without its he was all eyes : I couldn't look at any- son, when the thermometer rarely goes value in his political career, disastrous thing else for a time, and was hardly above TO degrees Fahrenheit During s it hnd proved to his private happi- conscious of the ' rest of that wea- the rains the natives live In houses ness. His habit of silence, moreover, zened, peaked little face and the under- made principally of bamboo and roofed (was not cultivated: you could see sized wisp of a body with its pathetic with leaves, but as soon as the rains that foe secret of it" was that lie was adjuncts of metal and leather. I think stop, which is some time around the born quiet. they were the brightest eyes I ever first of June, they take on a holiday My notebook remained noteless, saw ns keen and intelligent as a mood, desert their towns, and set out; and flnalI1 at some odd evasion of wicked old womans, withal as trust- household furnishings are transported ful and cheery as the eyes of a setter on the heads of the women and bis, accomplished by a monosyllable. I laughed utrJght and he did, too! pup. Christmas 7 NOTORIOUS TRAIN s, e a. Jack Kennedy, Last of Daring Western Holdup Men, Is Caught in Trap. RIVAL OF JAMES BOYS Spectacular Looting of Mail Cars Anticipated by Poet Office Inspectors, They Do Who Wait In Ambush for Him. a Hundred Calories in About 9t St. Louis. Jack Kennedy, the quail hunter, notorious train robber nnd rival of Jesse James, has fallen. Death accomplished what civilization failed to do ended the career of the Wests last notorious train robber. 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