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'It is certainly a correspondence, he comforted her, and then, reading it aloud, he proceeded to pin it on the wall above the mantelpiece: 'The Starlight Xpress starts to-night, Be reddy and punctuel. Sleep titely and get out. That was all. But everybody exchanged glances. 'Odd, thought Mother, again remembering her dreams. Jimbo upset the milk-jug.
"Hollow Rock County. N. Y. 17 Jewly. 18 MR. HARKABUS dear Sir. a cording to promis i send the sneak by Xpress. He is the Largest and wust Sneak we have ketched In these parts. Bit a cow wich died in 2.40 likeways her calf of fright. Hope the sneak weed growed up strong and harty. By eting and drinking of that wede the greatest sneak has no power.
"Ye think I don' know wat I be a talkin baout, don' ye, Perez? Wal, jess hole on a minit. A feller hez jess got in, a ridin 'xpress from Northampton, to fetch word that the people in Hampshire has riz, and stopped the courts. Fifteen hundred men, with Captain Dan Shays tew ther head, stopped em.
I never see any genmln more sick than he was; HE'D BEEN SMOAKIN SEAGARS along with Blewitt. I said nothink, in course, tho I'd often heard him xpress his horrow of backo, and knew very well he would as soon swallow pizon as smoke. But he wasn't a chap to do a thing without a reason: if he'd been smoakin, I warrant he had smoked to some porpus. I didn't hear the convysation betwean 'em; but Mr.
Give it right, now, mind." "Why shouldn't I? I ain't ashamed of it, if it isn't pretty. I'm Towsley. Towsley Towhead, some the Alley folks call me. I'm one the boys on the 'Xpress. That's who I am, and I can sell more'n any other fellow of my size on the whole force." "I believe it. You look as sharp as a razor. But let's keep to facts.
"Well, I guess I know as much as the next one," answered the lad proudly. "Ain't I been on the 'Xpress since I was so high?" measuring a short space between his thin, and now thanks to nurse Brady's attention very white little hands. "The dickens you have! Then why were you masquerading in borrowed plumes, my lad? Your story and your clothing don't agree. What is your name?
Smeling of it a loan will cure a small sneak ader or the like. I go in upon the dens tomorough and if we find any Pufing Aders will Xpres them to you per Xpress. Yr. oblgd. servt. Here was the whole story in a nutshell. For his experiments in septic poisons, Mr. Arcubus had hired this apartment, with its convenient balcony for the cultivation of his antidotes.
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