Messenger No. 48

d after binding the boy, and assuring himself

r, and began to read a newspaper, although the light in th

the fellow's face plainly, and was now able to

e and rather long hair. Now his face

deeply. In addition the man's clothing was of the most fashionable make, w

to himself, "but yet I don't understand why I was

or fully an hour passed without any change in the relative po

and wearing a pair of green spectacles, came quickly

he said, bending over Jet to

him here

any tr

er my call, and I took that as a sign we

im around the c

op him after he's where it'

s a saf

any more of that business than's necessary. The l

y him up the river, and

hat later. Have you

ery, and by this time it is known pretty well what we looked like. The afternoon pape

tuff salt

s. The boys can send us more if we conclude to

after taking a hearty drink the one who had been

t done up so well but that some body would be able to recognize you. We are

y dull work staying in

bad as a cell

some way out of a position which was fraught with danger. It seemed impossible that he could

way to extricate himself and he said m

there's no use in giving up ho

ng the remainder of the afternoon, but sa

to hear them decide what was to be don

pite the painfulness of his position, and during this ti

surprise, the two men left the room, fastening the door behind them. Then Jet heard a

k so the door can't be opened in a hurry," he said to himself, and d

rt, and he might as well have tried to

y, and every limb ached from

he sounds of people moving proclaimed tha

could hear the noises of the city, and final

en his term of imprisonment w

f the servants say after trying several times to open the

re rapidly, and was so thoroughly exhausted when, at nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, the work

locksmith, and half an hour el

of unbinding him at once they ran in search of the purser. When that officer arrived Jet was rele

efore when the officers of the steamer insisted on being told how he chanced to be a prisoner, he simply related the story of the capture, without entering in

bably to get a free passage. Why would

pose I could have stowed away easier than by being tied up t

eve the story," the purser said severely. "Get ashore now, and if

his limbs, but he hobbled ashore at once, thinking that for a

ould return home at on

t had nothing with wh

Mammy Showers' house, and he did not

the river front, "and what makes it worse is that the inspector will b

a bad scrape, and the more he thought of it

! Whater you d

Jet looked around, and saw a small boy in distri

?" he asked, as he

t that a Ne

es

you doin

like to know," Je

s crawlin' on yo

some one is a relief, and he told him the same st

ened attentively, and whe

e they wanted with

n't k

body's else

an' I'm no

lookin' duff

ty well, the

wear green spectacl

ve you s

itin' for the train, an' I wouldn't wonder if they was the ones

happen to h

e parlor car tick

train g

eft at seven

night now, so t

nnin' away f

elling this brother messenger the whole story

er playin' such a trick on me. Say

I don't reckon you want

et I d

mbered that he had been sent on an impor

clock. Come around by the offic

and as his new acquaintance departed in great haste he wal

to him, and-- By gracious, why can't I follow t

izing that he had no means to prosecute even the s