The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair, page 39 by Charles McCellan Stevens
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come running up and shaking his fist at him yelling at the top of his voice, "O you horrible old cheese, I'll get your mug behind the bars some of these days in spite of yourself."
The policeman was placidly watching the scene, but concluding at last that something unusual was happening he came up and went into the house. A few minutes after he came out alone and walked measuredly on toward the end of his beat.
Fanny in the meantime had pinned her dress and was walking away with the two boys. She was not less excited than they were.
"What is the matter? I can't think. What has happened; there must be something awfully wrong."
"Well, you see, miss, that feller is the pall of the man what tried to rob your grandad and he was a taking of you to one of the worstestes places in Chicago."
"Why he showed me his detective star and also papers and business cards the other day at the Fair. I met him this time in the store. While we were talking there he showed me a blue book which he said was a list of the best society of Chicago, and he showed me his name and his sisters'. I didn't know anything how to trade at the big stores and he said it would please him so much to take me and introduce me to his mother and sisters, who lived only three or four blocks away, and one of his sisters would come back with me and I could do my trading in half the time and to so much better advantage. He talked so nicely that I didn't see how I could refuse to go."
"That's the chap exactly. He's a bad man, and I'm a going to run him in yet."
Louis gave a self satisfied toss of the head, clinched his fists and said, "Its lucky, awful lucky that I seed ye." Fanny shuddered and she whispered a fervent prayer of thankfulness.
They had now arrived at the store and Louis acted as ready escort to the various booths where Fanny desired to trade.
"Don't you forgit that you have to meet me at the Sixtieth street gate at nine o'clock next Monday morning for to be my body g