The Golf Course Mystery

r side of the water, innumerable grasshoppers were singing their song of summer. On a verdant bank reclined a man, whose advanced age might be indicated in his

armly, unhindered by any shade, lolled a colored man

o impolite as to take that liberty, would have discl

note, that as you

blossom sooner than

s, sooner in season

before they cast

rs longer before th

looked across the stream. The sunlight flickered over its rippling surface, and now and then ther

ed, thereby galvanizing int

el! Yes, sah!" c

eep, were

p, Colonel. I were jest takin' t

ere. I don't expect any trout, my friend Walton to the contrary. Besides

Colonel!

s colored servant, Colonel Robert Lee Ashley once more opened the li

necessary for you

of, that if the pi

y will be sure to

for the most part

esn't much matter, so I catc

rod and line from Shag, who handled it as though it was

ith a fine mess of perch, S

at's what we will," w

ny consideration, let anything i

Colonel.

ind, if you ever hear me asking if the

l, Col

ery, of a big robbery, or of anything except wher

he would relish such "Well, I can't advise that, of course," said the colonel with a smile, "but you may use your ow

did elucidate dat one most exp

ld any post-mortems on past cases. Now for it!" and the elderly man cast in where a little eddy, und

ry to which Shag had alluded, Colonel Ashley could not help dwelling on one or two phases o

hough of late years he had endeavored, but with scant success, to turn

onel needs no introduction. He was a well known character in police and criminal cir

rn city. From that he had built up a private business of his own that assumed large proportions, until advancing age and a desire to fish an

p his active mind from passing in rapid review over some of the event

el, as he sat up more alertly, for there came a tremor to h

rike, and the colonel got first to his knees and

in a low but tense voice. "I've hoo

sah! Dat's fine! I'll be

y gamy fish in this quiet, country stream, yet for such as he caught he used

er, a shimmering shower of sparkling drops falling from his sides. "I've got

claimed the delighted George Washingt

he fish which had developed unexpected fighting powers, there was a movement among the bushes that lined the stream below

if yo' please! De Colonel,

n, for he could not see the figure of the colonel, who, just the

h-he's got a strike-a bi

im. I've come a l

, an' I'se got to go an' land de fish. Aftah dat, if you wants to hab a word wif de colonel, well, maybe he'll see yo', sah," and Shag, with

d in the shade of the willows, somewhat chagrined. He had come a long way for a talk, and now to be th

business man, Harry Bartlett knew better than to make an inauspicio

been, for it was disturbed by the movements, up and down, of

where it had fallen, Harry Bartlett pick

sh called a stickle

his body fenced wi

dwells in winter,

only to make spor

ed other fish that

, who will bite at

k be rightly baited

his tail turning

e him turn more qu

ow c

right man," said Harry