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MCOOK - - - NEBRASKA
HEARTS
AND
MASKS
By
HAROLD MacGRATH
Author of Tho Man on the Boxetc
With Drawings by Harrison Fisher
Copyright 1905 by Bobba Mcrrill Co
CHAPTER VII
Look here sir cried the chief
standing up and hailing his fist I
want you to explain yourself and
mighty quick You cant come into
my presence in this manner
Bah You have just permitted the
cleverest rascal in the state to slip
through your hutter fingers I am Hag
gerty
The chief of police sat down sud
denly
The consummate daring of it Why
the rascal ought to have been in com
mand of an army On the Board of
Strategy he would have been incom
parable
There followed a tableau that I
shall not soon forget We all stared
at the real Haggerty much after the
fashion of Medusas victims Present
ly the tension relaxed and we all
sighed I sighed because the though
of jail for the night in a dress suit
dwindled in perspective the girl
sighed for the same reason and one or
two other things the chief of the vil
lage police and his officers sighed be
cause darkness had suddenly swooped
down on them and Hamilton sighed
because there were no gems Hag
gerty was the one among us who
didnt sigh He scowled blackly
This big athlete looked like a de
tective and the abrupt authority of
his tones convinced me that he was
Haggerty was celebrated in the annals
of police affairs he had handled all
sorts of criminals from titled im
postors down to petty thieves He
was not a man to trifle with menially
or physically and for this reason we
were all shaking in our boots He
owned to a keen but brutal wit to
him there was no such thing as sex
among criminals and he had the
nacity of purpose that has given the
bulldog considerable note in- the pit
But it was quite plain that for once
he had met his match
I dont see how you can blame me
mumbled the chief None of us was
familiar with your looks and he
showed us his star of authority and
went to work in a business like way
By George and he has run away with
my horse and carriage starting
from his chair
Never mind the horse Youll find
it safe at the railway station snarled
Haggerty Now then tell me every-
thing that- has happened from be
ginning to end
And the chief recounted the adven
ture briefly Haggerty looked coldly
at me and shrugged his broad shoul
ders As for the girl he never gave
her so much as a single glance He
knew a gentlewoman without looking
At her twice
Humph Isnt he a clever one
though cried Haggerty in a burst
of admiration Clever is no name
for it Id give a year of my life to
come face to face with him It wouldbe
an interesting encounter Hunted him
for weeks and today laid eyes on him
for the first time Had my clumsy
paws on him this very afternoon He
seemed so willing to be locked up
that I grew careless Biff and he and
his accomplice an erstwhile valet had
me trussed like a chicken and bundled
4nto the clothes press Took my star
credentials playing card and invita
tion It was near eleven oclock when
-I roused the housekeeper I tele
graphed two hours ago
Telegraphed exclaimed the chief
rousing himself out of a melancholy
dream There would be no mention
of him in the morrows papers
Yes telegraphed The despatch
lay unopened on your office desk
Youre a good watchdog for a hen
coop growled Haggerty Ten thou
sand in gems to night and by this
time he is safe in New York You are
all a pack of blockheads
Used the telephone did fce Told
Jyou to hold these innocent persons till
he went somewhere to land the ac
complice eh The whistle of the
train meant nothing to you Well
that whistle ought to have told you
that there might be a mistake A
good officer never quits his prisoners
If there is an accomplice in toils else
where he makes them bring him in
he does not go out for him And
now Ive got to start all over again
and he in New York a bigger cata
comb than Rome ever boasted of Hes
not a common thief nobody knows
who he is or what his haunts are
But I have seen his face Ill never
forget him
The chief tore his hair while his
subordinates shuffled their feet un
easily Then they all started in to
explain their theories But the de
flective silenced them with a wave of
Ids huge hand
I dont want to hear any explana
tions Let these persons go he com
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manded with a jerk of his head in our
direction You can all return to
town but one officer I may need a
single man Haggerty added though
fully
What are you going to do asked
the chief
Never you mind I have an idea
it may be a good oneN If it is Ill
telephone you all about it when the
time -comes
He stepped over to the telephone
and called up central He spoke so
low that none of us overheard what
ho said but he hung up the receiver
a satisfied smile on his face
The girl and I were free to go
whither we listed and we listed to
return at once to New York Ham
ilton however begged us to remain
to dance and eat as a compensation
for what we had gone through but
Miss Hawthorne resolutely shook her
head and as there was nothing in the
world that would have induced me to
stay without her I shook my head
too It seemed to me I had known
this girl all my life so closely does
misfortune link one life to another
I had seen her for the first time less
than eight hours before and yet I was
confident that as many years under
ordinary circumstances would not
have taught me her real worth
Mrs Hyphen Bonds will never for
give me said Hamilton dismally if
she hears that Ive been the cause
indirectly and innocently of turning
you away
Mrs Hyphen Bonds need never
know replied the girl smiling in
scrutably In fact it would be per
fectly satisfactory and agreeable to
me if she never heard at all
Yes Why I might really have
known you all my life and still not
have known you as well as I do this
very minute and less than a dozen
hours between this and our first meet
ing You are as brave as a paladin
wise as a serpent cool witty and
beautiful
Shall I ask the driver to let me
out Then she laughed a rollicking
joyous laugh
What is so funny
I was thinking of that coal bin
Well I didnt permit a lonely po
tato to frighten me I retorted
No you were brave enough
among the potatoes
You are beautiful
I am hungry
You are the most beautiful girl
I want something to eat
I ever saw Do you think it
possible for a man to fall in love at
first sight
Oh nothing Is impossible on Tom
Fools night Positive fool compara
tive fooler superlative foolest You
are marching on with your degrees
Mr Cornstalk
You might call me Dicky I said
in an aggrieved tone
Dicky Never I should always
be thinking of paper collars
I wish I were witty like that
She snuggled down beneath the
robes
An artists model thought I Never
in this world I now understood the
drift of her uncles remark about her
earning capacity The Alice Haw
thorne miniatures brought fabulous
prices And here I was sitting so
close to her that our shoulders
touched and she a girl who t0v
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Haggerty Looked Coldly at Me
I will call a conveyance for you
said the defeated F H I shall
never forgive you Dicky
Yes you will Teddy A loving
cup the next time we meet at the
club will mellow everything
Quarter of an hour later Miss Haw
thorne and I wrapped in buffalo robes
our feet snugly stowed away in straw
slid away to the jangle and quarrel of
sleighbells toward Moriartys Holly
wood Inn The moon shone not a
cloud darkened her serene and lovely
countenance The pearly whiteness of
the world would have aroused the
poetry in the most sordid soul and
far far away to the east the black
tossing line of the sea was visible
What a beautiful night I volun
teered
The beginning of the end
The beginning of the end What
does that mean
Why when you first spoke to me
it was about the weather
Oh but this isnt going to be the
end this is the true beginning of all
things
I wish I could see it in that light
but we can not see beauty in anything
when hunger lies back of the eyes I
havent had anything to eat save that
single apple for hours and hours I
was so excited at Mouquins that I ate
almost nothing
You are hungry Well well fix
that when we get to Moriartys Ill
find a way to waking him up in case
hes asleep which I doubt There will
be cold chicken and ham and hot
coffee
Lovely
And we shall dine with the gods
And now it is all over and done it was
funny wasnt it
Terribly funny with a shade of
irony It would have been funnier
still if the real Haggerty hadnt
turned up The patrol had arrived
But it didnt happen I shall never
forget this night romantically
I should he inordinately glad to for
get it completely decidedly
Wheres your romance I asked
Id rather have it served to me be
tween book covers As I grow older
my love of repose increases
Do you know I began boldly it
seems that I have known you all my
life
Indeed
intimately emperors and princesses
and dukes not to mention the
I admit that for a moment 1
was touched with awe And it was
beginning to get serious This girl
interested me marvelously I sum
moned up all my courage
Are are you married
No o
Nor engaged to be married
No o But you mustnt ask all
these questions
How would you like to ride around
in a first class motor car the rest of
your days
She laughed merrily Possibly it was
funny
Are you always amusing like this
Supposing I were serious
In that case I should say you had
not yet slipped off your fools motley
This directness was discouraging
I wonder if the ten of hearts is
lucky after all I mused
We are not in jail I consider that
the best of good fortune
Give me your card said I
She gave me the card and I put it
with mine
Why do you do that
Perhaps I want to bring about an
enchantment soberly
As Signor Fantoccini or as Mr
Cornstalk
- I have long since resigned my posi
tion in the museum it was too excit
ing
She made no rejoinder and for
some time there was no sound but the
music of the bells
Finally we drew up under the colon
ial porte cochere of Hollywood Inn and
were welcomed by the genial Moriarty
himself his Celtic countenance a mir
ror of smiles
Anything in the house to eat I
cried shaking the robes from me
Anything ye like if you like cowld
things I can hate ye -a pot of coffee
on the gasolene burner and theres
manny a vintage in the cillars
That will be plenty joyfully
helping Miss Hawthorne to alight
Sure and ye are from the Hunt
Club noting our costumes Well
well they niver have anny too much
grub Now Ill putt ye in a little
room all be yersilves with a windy
and a log fire cozy as ye plaze Yell
have nearly two hours to wait for the
car r from the village
To be Continued
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An interesting visitor at the Yalo
club of New York recently was Harold
Pape of England who is widely known
on the other side of the Atlantic as a
steeplechaser amateur horseman and
gentleman rider He was one of a
party of English gentlemen accom
panying Lord Tumour who arrived
here on the Baltic They were enter
tained by Brinton Buckwalter of the
Yale club where they will remain
for a few days prior to going to Mexi
co Mr Pape talked entertainingly of
steeplechasing on this and the other
side and spoke enthusiastically of the
proposed international horse show to
be held in London in June in which
Americans are to take a prominent
part While as far as I am personal
ly concerned I have never gone in ex
tensively for horse shows I have the
sportsmans and the horsemans in
terest in them Racing is my game
but I come into contact with those
who are promoting the show at 01ymJ
pia and I can say that they are migh
ty keen for the international show
There is no doubt that it will be of im
mense benefit to sport on both sides of
the water for I do not doubt that u
have as much to learn from us as we
certainly have from you Certainly
international events of the kind are
sure to be beneficial The reason
no doubt that I take no personal part
in showing horses is that hunters and
steeplechasers in which I am keen
ly interested have so small a part in
the show ring It seems to me the
competitions held on these lines are
mighty poorly conducted in England
ind I hope we can improve them by
contact with your methods After all
though racing is the real sport of
horse interest In steeplechasing and
aunting meetings we have never had
a better year than last year Both
classes of contests have been im
mensely popular and I think are
growing more so every season
There is a whole lot more going on
under that sorrel thatch of Manager
Hugh Jennings of the Detroit base
ball club than his modest manner
would lead one to suspect One of
these instances came to light the
other day when Jennings started out
o hunt up an abode in Detroit The
new executive is a widower and with
his eight-year-old daughter safely in a
convent boarding school has no one
to look after here but himself In
stead of finding quarters at some of
he downtown hotels however he an
lounced that he was looking for some
juietrplace just out of the swirl of
the business section of town I want
a place where I can be by myself
rfter the game if I want to he ex
plained I dont mean to sidestep
Hugh Jennings
the fans and Ill be as ready as any
other fellow to talk over our good
games with people who make base
ball possible by their support at the
gate But I dont want to get into
any arguments with any sore losers
Im too sore a loser myself to want to
be round where postmortems of that
sort are going on I want to be able
to go home and think it over quietly
If I got to discussing it elsewhere
Im afraid there might be some dis
agreements
Jay Gould the 17-year-old son of
George J Gould has outstripped all
other court tennis players of his age
He is a phenomenon at the game
Gould is the amateur champion of
America and has gained international
distinction in the game by taking sec
ond prize in the contest for the Brit
ish amateur championship Young
Gould presents a remarkable contrast
to the usual run of rich mens sons
He is just a healthy clean minded
American boy who has had more ad
vantages perhaps than the average
American boy He is stepping into
manhood unspoiled by luxurious sur
roundings To Frank Forrester pro
fessional at Georgiancourt belongs the
credit of having developed this new
star in the tennis world Jay was an
indifferent player when Forrester took
hold of him His progress under For
resters tutelage has been marvelous
Within a period of four months last
year young Gould passed from novice
to amateur champion He is now re
nowned throughout the court tennis
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Bright Sunshine All Winter Is What
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Feb 4 1907
C J Broughton Esq
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Dear Sir
Being so well pleased with Canada
we wish my father and brother to
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and are delighted with this country
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