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Try PAGE TWO. VHE WILMINGTON DISPATCH. SATURDAY-AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1918 fit 1 I s , le The N a dreary evening in early December I sat alone In ray room dozing cnrrr a cheer ful grate fire. I was . unutterably weary with tike weariness that comes of over worked nerves. I must even have sleut an A Ammr-A a ra dream, my room seemed to than about so that furniture which iras'ta one part of the room occupied ,Ihe'otpotc side; even the fireplace moved over and some of the furniture Appeared unfamiliar. My very diaracter had changed, and I 1eCMRe a villain of the deepest dye. Now, t3igfet I, as the interior of a rofe$r tor warehouse appeared be fore sny rsental vision, I think we can fmBage tlws feyewt dead easy. In a few dayt now, wCfl h-e a of ecic y itt tite sse. We tvill rafce that in and i i ! ' : 1 L Far , af55 I The ttigihett t -023 O 2js -s; Just Y friend Cabas sol used to say that a family, to be quite complete, s hould consist of a fattier and mother, son and daughtctand a dog. There was a time, indeed, when he never would have said it, but thrrt was . when he was a bachelor, for he was tbe crustiest bachelor that I ever knew, lie lived fcy hiraself in the country, where he smelted las p?je asd reod his books and took tsire'of .Iris garden, or walked :ovcr the Scld with lus des- --. Yci. Srl a Af. . A perfect one named Mcdor, and In those days he thought a "perfect family cnwstcd of a man a-d hfc dog- Hedir Sad belonged 1G$ ' ' r-cl- 3rd LIBERTY I ceM piyv t j ' FIRST One Today to Enter A Subscription! iberty then quit for the present. The town 13 beginning- to get a little hot for us. Ve'll finish up those other two jobs fist aad then for this one. That will bring it about a week before Christmas. That was pretty cute in me playing myself off as a new merchant just start ing in business in Blankton, that new boom up the river. I told the old fel low I should pay cash and he took me3 out to dinner and just more than made. himself agreeable. I informed him I fhould be a Kttle late getting my order in, but he would be surprised when it arrived and 2 guess he will be. Biggs is to get acquainted with the old night wctchman under pretense that he himself is a night watchman, tem porarily out of employment The old fellow drinks a liUl sometimes, though the comr"; dcesn't know h. Biggs will o5fc him a tfitek, the stuff will oe drtrd. tbu. oij cha wiii drop to sleep and the jo .5? b 4-sy, At fails pqgt )t vjas aneu?d bj-py to a widow lady living at St' Germaine-en-Layne who thotKht the word of him, but was in eonstaAt fear ltt he should be shot, for'Mcdor was a bcyn hunter and the forest, part at St. Germain was an inviting field for four-footed as well as two-f opted hunters. The keepers of fnejirk declared. they would shoot Mcdor C rv caught him there again, so his mistress begged me tr; 5:ive his Ufe by findlSg him a new ma-.tcr. I thought at oncevof Cabassol, and I could not have found a better master. Tie and Mcdor became at once fast friends and , understood each other per fectly. They were made for one anoth er arid always together. But one 'diy when Mpr's nose was in his plate ani he icttodi to be thinking of notliing buK 1? dimaint he suddenly "raised his licai To P . ,oan Committee For New Hanover County Space orporation cramped attitude and the chilly at mosphere. The fire was nearly out and X crept shivering to bed, dropping at once into a dreamless dumber. The next morning my dream recurred to me, and I was struck with the coin cidence tht the scenes of the robbery was the store in which I was employed as assistant bookkeeper. The next evening I dreamed of a plan for robbing a prominent jewelry firm ; the following night it was . the rot office ; again it was my own firm. These dreams were never morning dreams but came during the forepart of Tic night. I attacked no importance to them, but ttajy apiyed me because they were entirely foreign to my nature, and I feared t$Tf might presage some seri ous ill-ess. "" Then came a :iight when I received a shock. Hitherto I had only planned rob beries. This time I begaji putting my plans into execution. Taking a-kit f burglar's tools from a lease The and, trembling from head to foot, began to howl and whine in a most piteous and unaccountable manner. The door bell rang. Medor sprang forward, and when Cabassol joined him he found him rolling in an ecstasy of joy at the feet of a stranger and leaping up and down as if beside himself. It was, as you have guessed, his old mistress, who had moved from St. Ger main to live in Paris and had taken this journey for the sake of seeing her oM friend Medor. She' cried at the wel come her dog had given her. She had come, she said, to ask him back again, for now that she lived in Paris there was no longer any danger of his life from the foresters. Would not Mon sieur Cabassol permit her to have Medor again? She would gladly pay whatever he chose to ask for Medor's board dur THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN IS Upon Us- Beginning TODAY, April 6th, the Anniversary of the Day on Which Our Country Dedicated All Her Powers and Resources, In cluding That of Her Young Manhood, to the Cause of Liberty Liberty for All the People of the Earth. We Are All Going to Help Win This Liberty. Every Individual Should Carry the Mark of the Patriot "A Liberty Bond." Celebrate This "Liberty Day" by Buying a Bond Early. A Hundred Dol lar Subscription the First Day Is Worth More Than a Two Hundred Dollar Subscription on the Last Day of the Campaign. " You Must Any Wilmington Bank Donated by Wilmington Banks i secret hiding- place and accompanied by two other men, one of whom, a blond gentleman, seemed to be my room-mate, we all sneaked noiselessly from the house, made a detour along back streets and entered the jewelry store of Tate & Co., after the exact method 5annd in my dreams. Everything worked smoothly without the slightest mistake until I struck an unsuspected electrical connection and sent in an alarm. This thrrw me into a greater terror, because burglary was not naturally in my line. As I was hastening away a beam frcm my room mate's dark lantern fell accidentally full on my face as I passed a mirror." The shock of what I saw awakened me. I sat up in alarm, cold prespiraiion start ing from every pore. As I glanced in the mirror the face I saw was not my own. I put the matter out of my thoughts as quickly as possible, believing myself to have been the victim of a night- Do ing the three years he had been absent from her, and a round sum besides. Cabassol looked at -her in a furious manner. "Give up my dog?" Never! T will not sell my friend at any price," he cried, and gave a rude shrug of his shoulders, which said as pbjy as words, "Go about your business Vad am. The lajdy bitterly reproached him d grew, very angry, not because he had treated her so rudely, which ws ( n enough she did not mind that at all but because he was likely to make Me dor die of grief by refusing to giro him up to her. "See I" she cried, "he has never ceased to regret me. He still loves n and no one else." These last words enraged .Cabass!: they aroused his pride, and, deterrah,2 Buy Liberty Bond. Will Handle Your Subscription Without Cost to B BH MM KB AM MM - MM MM) MM) MM MH MM MM MM Ml M ' ' fl WW 1 mre. I was" Just settling myself to sleep again when some peonle came in next door. I had been awakened by them at about ttv same time of night before, but I traderstrsd it was unavoid able, because they were employed on the nigat staff of a big corporation con cern. I hd ny private opinion of a pa per that would hae its employes prowl ing f"-oxmd xakmg other people up at unferdy finrs. The n& JXmng-w&en I entered the office Ae beekeeper had some news for vC "Ed rov hear of the robbery last nightV Notf-tder the drenmstances, I could not hefc giving a little start "No." "Tidc Z9 got into Tate & Co.'t store but they were so near caught that they left fdt--toofc." & far this was my dream exactly, andA Vori intensely interested. 625 it happen?" I inquired. "ViijtA seems they have electricpro toeCxO. -d when they went to crack C3 dt they struck a wire and turned Jm go sdorah The police were there in 05 minutes, but tbe thieves eGiO down an alley. The detectives are atr them.'" tbpxxgA what supernatural agency ware ( bang made acquired with these strCle plan and for what purpose? WOT this merely a coincidence or were all my reaent dreams true? If they wore it was my doty to save .our firm. to ctvw ser that Medor loved him best he s?d. "Come 1 1 have a plan which will soon show you whether Medor loves yea more tSian me. We will' go together to yonder hill. There we will separate. You shall go down the southern path, and I will take the northern; that comes Hck to my house. Me8or shall belong to whichever of us he chooses to fol low." "Very well," said she, I am agreed," for Jie was confident the dog wou? follow her. Medor did not quite undetan the agreement, but he saw the .-two people whom he . loved best shake hands and stop quarreling and were now talking poStely together. ..He was full of de light, gamboing afeotxt them and petted by both. Ca&aisoi, though ; a .crusty bachelor, was, after all, a ok; as ant com panion whs-a be ckcefed now feeling some pity for the "ni vho must be dis appointeiV he beg?jv to make himself quite agreeable for she was his and Me dor's guest after all; and the widow lady, sorry for the loss which she was to camw hhn and feeling happy at recov Sdap, ledot, was in high spirits and mde Vwsrdf . qs&e entertaining. Wb 2i time came for her to go, fee thx walked slowly together at die Then 1 thought of Biggs. I would see if he had recently met a strange night watchman out of a job. Biggs admitted that he had. "A fine fellow he said, "and not afraid to treat a body to a little something wann thi cold rather." A couple c4 SBBrrniAfirs later I read of a successful postoffice robbery in a town about a hundred miles away. The thieves secured about $375 !u cash and some registered inail , Tbe following morning I focud. when I reached tb timet, that I had forgot ten my gloves. 1 turned back and came face to face with one of the boarders next door. He was the man of my dream, the man I saw that night in the jeweler's mirror and he resembled a blond gentleman who had of late fre quented our store on some pretext or other and who made quite a nuisance of himself. He claimed to be a Dr. Tro! foot, of Wayback X Roads a good customer of ours, but a man whom we had never ld before seen. He arrays was getting turned around, so he hsd to be fished oat from, some nlace, and he always apologized pwfusery and turned around and did the same thing right over again. I departed for the office, my mind at last made up. - Whatever the conse quences, I would talk with Mr. Leeson, and he could follow whatever course he saw fit. When I entered the office I found I was .the first employe, there, and top oi the hill Cfct two, I" mean ;f or " Medor was frisking about them in great gHe. At the top they separated, and Cabassol went at once-down the north ern slope, while the lady went down the southern, and Medor bounded after her. But in a moment he perceived his mas ter was not with them; he ran back to htm. Then he saw his mistress was not oliowing but was keeping on her path; he ran back to her; then to Cabassol, wiho was still keeping on his path ; then to his mistress, then to Cabassol, tiSen to his mistress, then -and, so up and down backward and forward, the road be coming longer and steeper each tmm He could not make up his mind whk4 to leave; he could could not understand it at alL He went first to one, then to the other, 10 times, and then 10 times more; while they, without turning or saying a word, kept straight on their separate paths. At last poor Medor. out of breath, the sweat pouring from him, his tongue hanging out of his nrnudi, fell down completely exhausted on thr very top of the hill where they had sep arated ; and: there, turning his head farst to the right and then to the left, he tried to follow with his eyes, at least ?be two beings to each of whom be had given half his heart. You 3f a: jfejf. Mr. Leeson was already down. I'Tost n time in telling him my singular experi ences. At first he laughed at me, as sured rne I had dyspepsia, and advised! me to consult a physician. As I pro ceeded, he grew interested, and, before I had finished, began to think there might be something in it. We went to gether to the basement windows, which opened on an alley at the back. We found two bars of the central window skflfutly severed but still in place. At ceon Mr. Lecson came to me and; said as that night was the one deter mined upon ;n my dream, it might no? be a bad plan to roske some preparation. We could get two cr thrre policemen! from, headquarters on some pretext. At' about 8 o'clock ;the iore dark Mr. Leesoon, the bookkeeper jukI myseli would come. So it was arranged and carried otrt. The men came, catered the bn semen? aS were twr.tnibsiBrl and handctrffed There were tlrree f th-oi two broth ers and Big-jb. They fwmsd the "night staff" of t? bg cffTotin. Their, room in the nax hw joined miRc. Much pluarfer a fwrrl m thr roonv and it W33 rrppord hn their landlady;' was in colhssion wfth seei, as she rent ed the. bouse wh tVy first appeared . town and just bef'oj cr 4rcms com menced, but nothing e&4 b proved against her and she. roan jUj. ps ied. So did my dreams. Tl:e men 'T.r old of- fndtrs and received usog scataaces. Cabasol, meanwhile, saw "Row the pc5Fj dog had fared, for each time he returl ed to him he was panting harder. H j was seized with pity for him ; he re j solved to give back Medor to the lady else he saw that Medor would surelyjj die. He turned up the hill and cama1 to the top. At the some moment th lady came up the hill from the other.: side; she, too, out of pity for Mcdcr had resolved to sacrifice her own feel ings and suffer Cabassol to keep the be loved d. They met at the top oyer? the ponr f rfJow, who was now waggins t0 in a fecb! maimer to express his delight. . Pit kv couW ?&ey' mike the pp" ar Wial submit to t new separation? I? he were to' gc with either alone, it wcuM brczk his heart Cabassol reflected. fe fiw only oe way of getting out r,f too difftcaitv. ant that was to marry the lad, v.- Would she huve him? Yes, for Medor "c- sake. And so they married f pie.; the dog. Kind Lady Aii yoo sl-rzj go br reoted during the month mi June, my poor man?" Sandy S I bav. to mure. rcooa we rjp U th e c4l sbcs - thrceir.g st J '-.lie viddmgc ) S
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