The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1914, Page 8

whole lot better than most of the rookies. He grasped all the move. ‘flush stole from bis collar hatr. \ y 1 B | heaped full of mall were de | | to the internal revenue office == | icin ub 28 Several arre (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper| BY HA ROL D TIT U Ss the darkness, ready to flop to the| Many people, in rept deel ae are made today | tion w Enterprise Association) Prin deetane the wearch-|net incomes, bave subtrac —=|the death yeste f Gen. ( ‘roRar s suct nat Na urned his way again He Se jut | Ping ( ox-pre f the ¢ Seay Groen: was Sie ies 1 car thankful reverence Jarose, stretched himself with mained th tisrbered stretch that might get would help no on! j bin Be ate Bo) effort fo m to that In the early morr a great breath, slapped his chont |) Se Bove Mere ree easier, Itithia was wa og a t wan | of Ch he bh Tere Tine year when peace on | Jimmy Crogan, atepping Nahtiy, fently with the palms of bis hands, 8" More difficult to travel, of | Jimmy got up ard Fan Mt wa ie a ert wan er earth and good will toward men|amite in his eyes, de « smiled up at the sta and com: | course, for the rush was stiff and » crazy thing to nd ha: was | alyze the conte P @re supposed to abound. He read} pation in his heart i men to walk, carefully, ewtike. | jot Matas under cover at that, and. mone tripped and fell |#tomach for trac on. constantly—the history of wars.|string of army mules to the ra For « half hour he traveled slow: pind to gu arent hed out his | crazy Then b to te still again, | arrested were membe 6 q He studied constantly—the theory) road water tank Toward then ly. eh every foothold He tended ar aside what in the and was cont a heas cance . aaa household ae ate Otte ane ties 6 man 9% p Ao 9 hind hits and lnughe enh *. 1 like a vine. The|He became peniten' ers aa And so it was that when the reg-|wore the decorations of a colone softly—if nervously—as he saw the tho o arbed wire dug into| He heard the bere of humans fment was ordered south with de} His ga Hon the squad of Na mp Mghts receding slowly into | jie teak of his hands and he|sensed the presen to him. Hel cisive action a certainty, and Lieu-|tlonal Guardsmen and, recognising the distance. At lant he crosmed mjd Pg still for @ long time,| They passed eee sen breathe. | | tenant Jimmy Crogan was left be-/their rank, he looked ttle stream that babbled down 5 ate 4 4 footsteps. Once more|could even hear my re aentl? 4 hind in charge of the post, all his| curiously. His gaze fell on Jan rocky bed. For a little while he) (ame the finger of light and he|It was « small tee sound of | military training went for nothing. | Crogan ang he staggered backward followed the road, and then, when|*iuatted in the bushes while it|change of guard fficlent to | He damned the department » or two the moon shoved its yellow rim|™40e the stunted forest glow jtheir marching wee tt make, 60 | damned the colonel, damned te, Bay atenne above tho hil to the east, hel ot FIN hon aittieule ; Jimmy | cover any noise he migh ' | d sorry he had ever | tounded look o: struck out across the almost barren| *O'Med his way through the wire. | Jimmy started o meme Bamaned sorry he had ever | tou ae cine 1" cut bis clothing and it pricked| Worming like a snake, keeping (| gus | rat hand Liout, James Crogan, alone be-|h* flesh, but he did not heed. On|nis body Ught against the tpEnS it was de Lieutenant Crogan t tween two hostile armies, br fant ent again ing every |stopping only when 4 shat oO iSeading—torturing leried when he made words ed on prickly pear, scraping the |! take him nearer the crest | brilliance swept over aim, Lteut Long trains lumbered up through the tropical jungles, crammed with men who talked a strange language and who were backed by a history replete with gigantic successes. It Needed no appeal from Mexico to gend the army across the border ‘The officers of the National ere ordered to fill their Three days later the mill- tia was ordered under arms, to Move at an hour's notice, and Lieu tenant Jimmy ked alone, with @ white face and a stiff tread Tn the morning Lieutenant Cro- was missing from the post. colonel’s Indy and the post Washerwomen talked about {t alike, end in whispers. When two days Jesed and no sign of the man in mmand had appeared, the infor ation was wired to headquarters. éhe colonel—Jimmy’s colone!— Fead a copy of the message just as the recruiting officer of a National Guard regiment was taking the Measurements of a decidedly well- putup chap, who answered al! the ments and seemed to be a men who made up the militia This new man listened with a Dored expression to the sergeant who was detailed to school the ments on the instant. it seemed: once he shook his head and uttered “what might have been the first syl- of a protest when the ser. launched {nto a new explana- Evidently he thought better it, though, for he stared straight in silence, while a deep to his Private Crogan, under another ‘ame, moved south with his resi- Jimmy enjoyed it immense- ‘They were to be moved, the rumor, after a week of drill- {ng under the hot sun, among the @actus plants. Great was the re- ‘sultant excitement. The next day they moved southward. And one was so hilarious, so boy- took all day to go those 50 At sundown they left their train, marched up a rise, gained the top, and drew one great breath fm unison as they looked at the army spread out before them. An army! the dun country, the enemy! Un known, powerful, aggressive! We. breathed a private whose first name was Jimmy, and the e CHAPTER XC When Dick rang off the tele Phone after telling me to get an evening paper as soon as I could and read it, all sorta of terrible things went through my mind While waiting for the boy to bring me a paper I thought of ev ery direful business possibility from the schoolbook firm falling to the death of the manager or Mr Selwin. And then my heart al Most stopped beating as it came to Mme that probably something hap- pened on that night when Dick Stayed out that had come out in the newspapers Dick's voice had never sounded Bo excited as it did over the phone and 1 thought he must have be much wrought up to have forgotten all about my anxiety. If 1 told him of the surprise in which he left me he would probably not remember what he did or said As soon as I left the phone I called a boy and asked him to get he asked f them, , I don't know—a! I answered. He went slowly down the hall. It seemed to me he crawled In a few minu came back with the four evening papers. Eagerly 1 scanned the first page of all of them. There wasn't a thing that I could see that inte ested me or at least conc Dick or anyone connected him. Then I took each newspaper carefully and went through ol umn by column, and not one thing could 1 find was completely mystified I tat down and to walt, as Dich coming home I waited an hour @ ed I would get mys dinner. This I did as leisure MY nervous state would permit I was all dressed and had waited almost another hour before I heard Dick's quick step “Did you see ing. composed myself said he ‘was soon d then If re |his spluttering The Man Who Wouldn’t Stay Put | What's the me ing of this damned bust Yes, sir,” muttered = Jimmy knowing nothing else to say leould think of no fitting word, #0 | searched bim. jens spite of the fact that the van window he could see the thi the army was 50 miles to the/it winged its way 16 Bg looking like a big bug went | Jubilant, that he almost laugh- | phys; 4 aloud in the faces of the officers | was ninchor at Before, over | | gets | Four- -Lord! And onfessions of a Wife MY ADVICE it?” was his greet |per “You deserted the post!” snort ed the other, “Yes, sir, colonel,” replied Jim my, saluting again You're here with the Guard! “You, str. “Why, you but the colonel} he simply ordered Jimmy's Lieutenant “Chickens Jimmy and were Classmates at the Tough luck, old top,’ b arrest Rawley Chick Point. | mut |tered, as he went through for aality of searching the prisoner, ‘What's the answer?” “Nothing,” mattered Jimmy moving his Hps as slightly as pos sible so the through the cracks in the south, Hours, passed and the aeroplane did not return. Another went up and did not come back. The next day a third and a fourth made the at tempt. And none came back That afternoon Lieut. Rawley| entered the guard house on official | course. His face was pinched and drawn. He looked ae ae in silence. | e held up four fiftgers c | right hand. rica as Pr Four,” he said weakly. “Yah—four,” said Jimmy, spec- ulating as to the sanity of his Jailer. “They've ley in a the a battery,” voice that ‘planes at said Raw grated, “that any distance. they've got to! WAS GOOD | “See not pers what?” I asked. “I could find anything in the newspa that meant anything particu lar to me You must have gotten ar edition,” said Dick, hurriedly tak ing a paper out of his pocket and thrusting it into my hand while he went to take off his overcoat and hat early There on the first page was a sensational story telling that the Rural Schoolbook Concern, which had gotten the contract away from Dick, had been indicted for bribery Margie, you must have had intuition, for the whole thing wa a frame-up. You see, the reform ora were after some the me bers of the school board and they planted the idea in both the of Whitman, who is the sale of my rival concerr and myne that the only way we could get the contract was to fix it up with cer tain members of the board He bit and 1 think I would have for you. Now t he whole th 1 nd there { b aw that J ito his office an it was somewhat disappointed ee now why you did not I answered: ‘Yes, thia y tion was made to me and | conte it was a temptation, but told me not to do it and 1 too her ice : Waverly,’ alwa ake her ad id went hen I the counsel of my wife ‘ 1 Dic c@rely, id e, if Lt ot ried I would have been |i in this thir It's @ proud woman’! am th (To Be Continued Monday) the wall/the air. tories th ta th to; “You Deserted the Post!” Snorted the Othe “y Sir, Colonel,” Replied J immy, men would not see j paused and strained his ears, The er: He waited unt! the sentry, The return; {t was agony.’ Hinenses. An interest- You'd have done the same thing./send men up that hill tonight on! bricks. It crumbled eastly under! lights died out, one at 4 time, and| reached the end of his post and| Jimmy wanted to run and dance - Py a een pave ge put ,.. their bellies—the way they did at the attack In a half hour the bugles blew the army before him turned back With utmost cau-|and sing. He worked carelessly earning savings ac- e news that ran through ths isan Juan.” brick was loose. He worked ato sleep. He went on tion, then, he hurrt lo > ugh the first few yards of : camp became more and = more Tonight? —Volunteers—to map /second block loose; then the one, From the top of the rise above many yards, eens, gyrco Hes bisa a swoop of the light count in a good bank jSrave. The invading army was ad-/the hill?’ asked Jimmy in alabove the two An hour later he| him shot a blinding eye of ight. It breathing, and waited while the brought him to himself and he like the Dexter Hor- | vancing steadily, ominously. | whisper stuck his head and shoulders out,| plerced the distance to the north. soldler came and went again went cautiously. en he laughed ri They'll advance us before tong. Yea—and it's com replied | put his ear a t the xround to ward for an instant, settled to the Thus he proceeded. Two more and looked to the east where the ton Trust & Savings the man that fed the prisoner told! Rawley We'll be tangiing with hear better the tread of the sentry, ground with a jerk and swept in a|wire webs ripped his clothing and yellow moon glowed on the hort . . his old Weutenant a em in 48 hours, I'm afraid,” be chose hin time well and slipped into| «igantic aro over the country, slow: haggled his flesh; three more sen.| son Bank is a great aid, | “Lots of good it'll do me,” com-| muttered tae night. Carefully he crawled be-|ly, scouring the open places, {Ilum-|tries patrolled the path he tou aut the laugh died. To the mented Jimmy | “Afraid!” scoffed Jimmy when|tween the tents; cautiously he! inating the brush. Jimmy ionmen |Get -Gttae bred bs pretdaage elise ke thea aaa ae and money accumu- Real action was inevitable. |he was alone. Great God! ked hin way to avold lights. He) Just before it reached him, flat-\the open strip, not 400 yards from shout, Then silence, After a mo lated therein will Jimmy Crogan was out of it; that! Afrald' Those fellows don't worked away from his own regi-/tened his face tn the sand Ho |the ridge, where low bushes and| ment he distinguished footsteps was as certa’ in as fo death | He looked Uy g ery one win ment oan passed through the camp could see the white glare all about heavy grasses grew thickly He | descending the hill hurriedly. He prove a fortress of : g | dow for a long, long time. of another. him for a time. Then {t became crawled a short way into th date atill and reeked cold sweat, : . Lieut. Crogan found himself} The swift night settled down| An hour went by and he com-|dark again and he looked up to|then sat up, ‘bi ot soar hare rie Ry aware that he had been | strength in the time awake in the middle of hisiand the hum of the menced to foar that the moon see the finger of white drilling the| Jimmy laughed crazily. War! |acting as though in a dream. The | prison, the sunlight streaming |Ished to a drone. A would frustrate all his efforts. Ati night far away This wan This wa | of need. It made living tense. last he left the man-infested area uniform. They were and his heart thumping stoutly,) “The moon,” said Jimmy to! behind and crept on fanter. the open country and made « cau-|and deserted and broken from ork sateeseally some some | DEXTER HORTON right up in his throat. Then he|himself, “will rise after midnight.| “Well,” be told himself, “a man tious run for {t. He went quietly the guardhouse! He wanted juat|central object, evidently of en-| Ii TRUST AND SAVINGS laughed. Tt wasn't a battery,! And ft's a cinch!” never did anything who stayed ufttl his foot slipped and he went! one thing now He wanted to| grossing Interest | : j after ‘all. Just the roar of a| He went to the corner of the! put!” down, banging his head on a rock. gain the top and see what was ‘m giad it wasn't me, } BANK | plane's exhaust it circled one room and squatted on the| Jimmy crawled on his hands and|The blow made him dizzy and the|there. Then—well, they could | Jimmy, half aloud. A sob was in encore anu cHsaay above the camp. Through his floor. With a stick he jabbed at|knees for what he guessed was|nolse he made terrified him. But\shoot. and shoot rod oheot. 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