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Do you s'pose you an' I could keep house a week or so, if I do the heft o' the work?" Old Lady Lamson's eyes took on the look which sometimes caused her son to inquire suspiciously, "Mother, what you laughin' at?" "I guess we can, if we try hard enough," she said, soberly, rolling up her yarn. "Now you come in, an' I'll git you a bite o' somethin' t'eat."
Just then the door flew open with a bang and Edna Crow, Anderson's eldest, almost flopped into the store, her cap in her hand, eyes starting from her head. She had run at top speed all the way from home. "Pop," she gasped. "Ma says fer you to hurry home! She says fer you to run!" Anderson covered the distance between Lamson's store and his own home in record time.
By gum, I hope she don't suspect nothin'! She's found out that Ed Higgins has a good job down to Lamson's store, an' she's settin' her cap fer him. It shows she'd ruther live in the city than in the country so it's all up with 'Rast. That proves she's from Chicago er some other big place. Ed's gettin' eight dollars a week down there at Lamson's. By gum, that boy's doin' well!
"Let's dazzle the town, Cora," said Jackie Blake; and before Tinkletown could take its second gasp for breath, the leading man and woman were slowly promenading the chief and only thoroughfare. "By ginger! she's a purty one, ain't she?" murmured Ed Higgins, sole clerk at Lamson's. He stood in the doorway until she was out of sight and remained there for nearly an hour awaiting her return.
A dozen persons saw him stop young Mrs. Perkins in front of Lamson's store, and the same spectators saw his feathers droop as she let loose her wrath upon his head and went away with her nose in the air and her cheeks far more scarlet than when Boreas kissed them, and all in response to a single remark volunteered by the faithful detective.
We soon reached "Lamson's Hill," rising three thousand feet across our path, and shortly after daylight began the wearisome ascent, helping the dogs haul the komatik up steep places and wallowing through deep snow banks. Before noon one of our dogs gave out, and we had to cut him loose.
Colonel Lamson's will divided sixty-five thousand dollars among five legatees ten thousand was given to John Jennings, five thousand to Eliphalet Means, five thousand to Eben Merritt, twenty thousand to Lucina Merritt, and twenty-five thousand to Jerome Edwards. Upham was not astonished by the first four bequests; the last almost struck it dumb.
He entered Lamson's store a moment later, singularly abashed and red in the face. "Doggone," he observed, seeing that an explanation was expected, "she might 'a' knowed I was only foolin'." A few minutes later he had Alf Reesling, the town sot, in a far corner of the store talking to him in a most peremptory fashion.
His "deductions" at Lamson's store never failed to draw out and hold large audiences, and no one disputed his theories in public.
The great train robbery occurred in the western part of the State, hundreds of miles from Tinkletown, but nearly all of its citizens had read accounts of the deed in the weekly paper from Boggs City. "I seen the item about it in Mr. Gregory's New York paper," said Anderson Crow to the crowd at Lamson's. "Gee whiz, it must 'a' been a peach!" said Isaac Porter, open-mouthed and eager for details.
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