The truth is," he said, turning to me, "Philip Leithcourt has all along been the catspaw of Baron Oberg.

I claim that I prove my loyalty by saying that India is in no mood, is too deeply in mourning, to take part in and to welcome His Royal Highness, and that the ministers and the Indian Government show their disloyalty by making the Prince a catspaw of their deep political game.

It gives the real owners an opportunity to hide behind their catspaw, who simply obeys their instructions.

"Obviously, then, Schmall, Van Koon, and Merrifield were in leaguewhether Ebers was also in league, or was a catspaw, we did not trouble to decide.

But it does not better the case for his countryman; that, being an accomplice in the crime, making himself the leader in the persecution against the helpless girl, he was willing to be all this in the spirit, and with the conscious vileness of a catspaw.

The day will come when they will realize that they have been mere catspaws in the hands of the Centralia commercial interests.

The other is: Was Eugene Barnett in the Avalon hotel window when that affray occurred? We have proven by unimpeachable witnesses that there was a raid on the I.W.W. hall in Centralia on November 11a raid, in which the business interests of the city used members of the American Legion as catspaws.

The conspirators' first idea was to kill the brothers at a banquet which Lorenzo was to give to the great-nephew of the Pope, the youthful Cardinal Raffaello Riario, who promised to be an amenable catspaw.

When, however, Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, died in 1519, Giovanni was a young man of twenty-one with an absorbing passion for fighting, which Clement VII (then Giulio) was only too keen to foster, since he wished him out of the way in order that his own projects for the ultimate advancement of the base-born Alessandro, and meanwhile of the catspaw, the base-born Ippolito, might be furthered.

A single catspaw was all that the Eternal Painter had to offer over that basin shut in between the long, jagged teeth of the ranges biting into the steel-blue of the sky.

So you see, Mamma, they look upon me as a regular catspaw, and I won't put up with it.

In passing sentence of two years rigorous imprisonment on each prisoner, he added that they would have fared worse but for the patent fact that they had been made catspaws of by some one who kept in the background.

This little matter attended to, all hands now turned their attention to raising the sail, and by the time the advance-guard of cat pirates came rushing down through the pussy-willow grove in their pursuit, the Merry Mouser, borne along by a breeze that was something more than a catspaw, was fast leaving the shores of Catnip Island behind her.

And her poor old catspaw of a pater stood helpless before my little hurricanea very reed shaken by the wind.

HITCHENS, DOLORES B. OLSEN Catspaw for murder, by D. B. Olsen.

HITCHENS, DOLORES B. OLSEN Catspaw for murder, by D. B. Olsen.

This was not the first time I had worded the inner thoughts of a company who dared not speak out themselves, but, as catspaws are invariably burned, I cannot lay to my soul the flattering unction that I have escaped their common lot.