Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 33

Fulfilled Desires. TRST, one, then another. of the dead chickens Edward Briggs picked up from the floor of the chicken house, but it was not | till he saw the ro the rooster, a8 not pleasant Briges broke off and stood for a time staring out of the window of the coop. gazing across the fields in the direction of the city far away. Finally he roused himself. A care ful search he made of the chicken house and finally he was rewarded by spying what he looking for. Over by the far window a faint streak of daylight showed. “Weasel,” ¥4 was exa ning the crack minutely the while muttering to himseif. “Weasel slipped in. Some of his hairs left on the board.” For a half hour after chore time that evening Ed was very busy. The shotgun he braced firmly—it must not twist or turn—the stout string he led from the trigger over to the window and tied it. One cartridge, its load re- moved, Ed inserted. Then standing to ide, using a long crotched stick. tugged at the window. It gave THE ; EVEN’IfiG— ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¥, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1927. dusk they had evidently mistaken the turn of the road. But never a word |did he say. Let them think he was Wilson. They could threaten and bluster. Fools! And now ‘twas getting tiresome | Briggs glanced sideways | on the “shelf, disregard | Seven-forty! Jim would soon be over! Only once the little dapper dressed man pounded the table as he threat- ened. and a cup fell—fell and. shat- | tered. " Only then did a smoldering flame blaze forth for an instant. “Hers!” “Aw. cut it!" the larger of the two, the silent one, finally broke in. . “Cut ! Let's get action!” Impressively Briggs watched them. | Wilson—that was where they bad | meant to go! | “Come”—the match flame flared yel low—"come, give me something to burn and then—" | Briggs whitened, Then he doggedly | shut “his mouth. "Try to make him [tell, would they? Again his eyes sought the clock fteen of eight! . “Here, you'!" Briggs lunged d in his r, sawing at the |cord that tied his hands, straining at the vope that tied his feet. “You! Leave that he!” The two pauted. “Where is it?” | Cool insolence of tome grimly—"going to tell?" he questioned, | force window in or lift—inside—"" have captured him!" They had called G e gy ne" The older yegg noticed. An ugly|up from the village and said the one HI H SPEED CURES “Died later.” The younger one was | grin was on his face. “Told you, kid!” he sald. “That talk —that gets You nowhere. B o 5 Knew | better go! T'll wait."” Going to tell?” Dimly Briggs kne: Briggs trembled in fear.|Ed. You e . them, but instead of |One wish he now had and—and it Jim 1 Don't you o I L dapper | Would only arrive. | screaming in pain he eyed the dapp “In the chicken house?” The youth had “going to tell?” still thinking of the photo. *Wonder what her photo—" “Go on!" his hand was being burnt. “Going to tell?” vouth before him grimly. Only by a| * Slight quiver of his hand did he give | turned. heed to the burned fles « “Died—-got to go- = 1 :n ()|;‘l in “Going to tell; going to tell?” | Strange f red questioning. | Will get it oht the words out hurriedly. H‘" had | one now. Died! Died — the vouth alone he out.” then brokenly, * “Lift windows.” Briggs was calm|the room—the mellow. lamp. eve there gl 7 ‘Lift the window. You * ok ok ok 'Twas much later. The cards had who fled had been caught. “And I vish,” Jim began aghin on his vain for riches. Then he laughed. iuess everybody wishes for things, ourself had two wishes. ant them?" Ed chewed slowly. His face ? ken on a_quiet, tranquil look. | His eyves, peaceful and calm, took in| Fire now— | w | busines: Spare Time for Natural med a | room. He picked up a ‘Don’t seem, Jim, like 1 have 4 , wiads By the Associated Press. | slres, any wishes to make at all—| "1 XG0, November 3.—High [ cures for injury, iliness {ment of have confronted the n of med o Titus of Columbia York, told the annual College of Physical Therapy Tuesday. “America’s demand for top speed |dided by RAISE NEW PROBLEM | in busivess. recreation and other parts of life has created a demand for similar_top speed in recovering from disablilities,” Dr. Titus said. Doctor Says Business Men Cannot become an economic question. | world men cannot spare the time for natural recoveries and insist upon speeding up nature.” | Recovery. Dr. Titus said the greatest field for | physical therapy ed | time required in ¢ | functions. static electricit over- | injuries and Americans will construct a $400,000 | shadowing all others, Dr. Norma whereby natur Then 1 could ! power plant in Manchuria. Y in treatment of minor found certai has been aided in in creasing its speed. ——— e He cited certain injuries to foot ball players and other athletics that were herapeutic treatment. “It has In the A good rub with ey BAUME BENGUE will bring blessed relief from the and agonizing pains of gia, Sciatica and Neuri lay in the develop- v reducing the storing physical himself has applied n methods ‘Leave it be!" The picture frame crumpled. The photo fluttered to the iAot | 1K, \"‘l‘(, .;54‘»21 | The glow of anzer blazed forth mur | derously. “You dirty devils.” Briggs htly. The resultant roar satisfied | Everything wofked. % 1 stood back. . teach you!" the gun, e nined the Greathedl hand, Lo I | “Why," the tone of the younger el A |man bespoke amazement: “why,” he Ml e ‘:,:;__;"m:. iven to | Dicked up the photo and paused before brooding. And, since his daughter, she | he applied the match. who ad worked at the village, had gl left, people had taken to avoiding him. A dangerous m would flare up at times in Briggs' eyes when his dau ter's name was casually mentioned. he'll come back.” Briggs at times spoke bravely. addressing the horses as he drove them up and down the short furrows of the *She'll come back!” Or * viewed some farm. “Her's, spotted cow that way, for Alice, the daughter, had raised it. *“Her’s,” the chickens also, for she had attended them. Yet the “she’ll come back,” although spoken bravely, although the quiver in the voice was hidden from all, did not deceive Briggs himself. He knew— knew she never would. Even as he fussed in the far bedroom, her room, Xeeping it speckless, even as he dusted the organ. “her's,’ he knew—she never would. And his hope. Once his rony. Jim Talbot. looked up as the two ‘were playing their weckl of “pedro” and said, "I wi rambled on, voicing his favorite for riches. The smoldering fire in Briggs' eyes woke. “Wish!” He hammered the table so that even Jim, who knew him well, was ‘startled. *“Wishes! I've two. And if I could have them— Goad!" And so, finally satisfied, Brigss turned from the chicken house and made his way to his dwelling. “*Twould be dark soon—8. Jim Talbot would come over. They would play here this week. Next time he Tyould trudge across the fields to Jim's ouse. “Remember She's the one T got to go to Worked at that restaurant | at Elmgrove.” The man stared at the | photo in unbelief. Then the match applied. The paper caught. "'—the older one wr workinig niliar object of the he would refer to the | Bond Clothes Show Their Quality after it . Subsit 'q action though o effcc- At the Sound of the footsteps on the ompletely €fe > Ca el B New Colors » New W New Model SUAl, Sevonten-not time. for Jim. e o hand: ew o S * New weaves - New Moaels ®wnd, besides, there was more than one Eeepta OME R RS, | S L»:r!fln approaching. 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