The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1921, Page 4

By Page » Cleland _4% 19 “DROWN, YOU THIEF" maw that} wm} T wtead of better; that inch by inch T the werter was backing up onto P the hiyder ground; that if it con ) tinned ty night hia yard would be Bnder water as well as bis folds. Ho hercii bis sheep together and took them up on the higher | ground on the hith toward | * the plage where © now gptands “When he came home tn the | evening ‘he found that the water was already wel! up tn his yard | and wonld soon reach the fi ) tion of his house. He walked out toward the boundar how _ alens. | “What a sight! “Water was seething and swirh tne all Was almost under water “From the roof of the ttttle| Porch the frantic bachelor had fastened a stout rail to the black stump; the same black stump be! had taken so much trouble to fix | Up like the one grandfather had | left as his marker. “And there, humped up on the | porch roof, sat the crafty bache lor. “When he saw grandfather he Degan running back and forth SeggreNDrATHER the flood grew worse wood nda his neighbor was getting about the Bittle cabin—it across the ral, He had taken off his red flannet shirt, and as he ran hp Gapped and Gapped it as a signal of distress, He had tied the sleeves of the shirt to a limb and it he had a hard the as he waved time balancing himself en “Grandfather stood on the ground and laughed. * "Drown, you thief? he chortled, Drown! It And turning on walked away you right! heel, he serves hie “Grandmother sid, ‘John, don't leave the poor fellow to drown t in too dreadful! Couldn't you get a boat and go save him? “But grandfather was stubborn, sod enough for him! he grum. bled, “To drown In his hole is good enough for a rat like that! He ian't worth picking up off of the | food? randmother more just then, give ap. didn't sy any but she didn’t ‘She had a wonderfully rweet voles, and everyDody liked to hear her read aloud. that very “(Did you know, Peery, my grandmother the first school teagber in the Puyal lup valley?) “So she got ont the big Bibia (Te Be Continued was RERKKe C]| ADVENTURES OF THE Clive = 3 from the birds,” said the Claus who was telling 9 Nick @ story, “there he ‘was with a perfectly good job but “fething to work with. Christmas almost at hand, but he hadn't . Nor a tree cut. ° Besides hadn't any reindeer caught, less trained. So what do you he did? He stole a fying ma ‘I Ike reindeer much better,” re) Nancy, snuggling cloner.) are so much more magical, agent they?* “Why, of course,” agreed Santa, i" her a hearty kiss. ‘ell, I waited and waited and up here at the North Pole| the birds to come with my let- as they had done other years, nary @ one arrived, except “Sam who?” “Bam Swift. He's the leader of the @iimney swifts and very smart. Sam/ He stole a flying mac the Bine Santa had got all! suspected that something was wrong ine for TWINS Barton 4 PLING hine. and came to tell me about it “But don't do anything,” advised Sam, “until I find out a few more things, and then I'll come to teil you. I've got @ very good friend amongst the penguins, and tonight TT get him to elide down his ley toboggan slide into Blue Santa's cave and find out what is going on, and If possible got the letters the children wrote you. I hear that he has them all in @ great sack. “That night." went on Santa, “1 went to sleep and left my «reat front door unlocked, indeed, open a crack so that if Sam returned with my let ters, he could get in.” “And what happened? asked the twins breathlessly. “Somebody came tn.” noadaed Santa, “but it wasn't Sam. It was that rascal Bive Santa himeeif! “He came if and snooped around to see just what toys I had got ready for the kiddies, and you'll » guess what he did!” (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons) START HERE TODAY mail Dodds, secretary (who gory), and his b Seer on the een Portland Short Line. the train slows down jones her muff from the | torte | Nor- > help them get je jump oft Jimmie jump png ‘on the train, and that instant | leaving the four bebind. ‘shelter under the water tank and the holdup of a special train of ae car by four men, who approach in goto. The car and engine are run ‘an old mine road jeading wp into B gulch, but not before the car Is recom- as the “Alexa,” owned by John wick, cago wheat . ite drive away, and thi tank walk up the mine roa The re by the locomotive, which ming aie [The locomotive te soon repaired. and the private car in found with Chadwic in uninjured, ie to secount for Be oh Mra v Hdnaping Chadwick greets ‘an old friend. Roreross is appointed general supertn lent of the P. 8. L. by Chadwick, a) that means more adventure than re- | eration. | ‘OW GO ON WITH THE STORY It’s funny how things change @round for a person just by giving thm time to sort of sh dows into place and fit them to gether, Nobody came up any more that night; not n the pie-taced | muree; and I had @ good chance t He there looking up at the ceiling Pattern of the wall paper and think ing things out to a finish After a while the thin edge, of the wedge that Mrs. Sheila had been trying to drive into me began to take hold, just a little, in «pi of what 1 knew-—or thought I Was it barely possible, after there had been foul play | sort? There were plenty of mysteries to give the possibility standing-room In the first place, something had Been done to me by somebody; it Was @ sure thing that I hadn't crip-| pled and haif-killed myself all by, my lonesome, Then they said that the bors stayed up with Mr. Ripley! that night until after 16 o'clock, | and had then gone up to go to bed That veing the case, how “ | to the office, }run skittering after Maisie Anr betweer of anybody have got that time and the the midnight F about Mrs, Sh Anyway it stacked made a three-cornered puzzle, ing somebody to tackle it right away; and when I finally went to sleep it was with the notion that, ick or no sick, I wa to turn ut early in the busy. to bim leaving Mail to tell time a? was b m \a no up, need morning and get IT. With the Wheels Trigged I was well enough to get up the next morning, and when I phoned Mr. Van Britt he sent h. out to the major's to take me down Just before I left the house, Mra, Sheila waylaid me, and after telling me that nust be areful ‘not take in thfe she put in another word 8” di arance, “I want you to re nber what aid night, Jimmie, and not the others talk you over into the ef that Mr. Norcross gone becan was dix couraged or 1. He wouldn't do know it, and I it his friends, you and I, and must stand by him and defend when hoe isn't here to defend himself.” It did me good to hear that and 1 could the same who jumped oft burnt hand. about the bos apy d has you know We are her Jered if talk eh man to way be had young the train afterward made the tu: self Inside out under the water tank Just for her pastime, It didn’t eeem po so ma id older and wiser. I had been sort of getting ready » her for ing the #0 dee not te be n him she seemed wor got bim marr “6 in traight ted when that be lo it pulled me over g t was a but trying him as I was her ide again whe woman and *aw 1 #o I promised to do all the thing could sue told me to do, and to keep her Hatch had made it} AND HIS FRIENDS _FRECKLI ) H wNDS FRECWLES’ DD MAT ? | ves an uc 1 ‘Too Wr LAs‘r DIECE OF CANDY I WAD Away FRom pat | WERE YOUTH > You WAVE “THE HONOR OF PREGENTING MY ARD W THE PRESENT OF “TH\S ESTABLIGHMENT: posted as to what was going on and then she made me feel kind of fish and feckless by « out and helping me into Mr. Van Hritt's auto. | Tho the boss’ disappearance was now four dayn old, things were stil In @ sort of daze down at the} railroad offices Of course, the trains were running yet, and, #0 |far as anybody could see, the Short |Line was still & going proposition. | But the heart was gone out of the) whole business, and the entire push | was acting as if it were just wait-} the roof to fall ino—as 1| [guess it waa Mr. Van Britt, detng the general superintendent, and next in com mand, had moved over into the boss’ off and Fred May was doing his shorthand work. They wouldn't let me do anything much I couldn't do much with my right arm in a sling—so I hed a che to hang around and size up the sit-| uation. If you want to know how) lit sized up, you can take it from me that it was pretty bad. People all along the line were bombarding Mr. Van Britt with letters and tele |erams wanting to know what was| 'gotng to done, and what ebange in t was going |to mean for th and all that. | On top of this office ante room was full of me of} them juat merely most of them dead Mr Norcroas had at pro time had been at the and now| ed as if it wan alk going to Jumped into the ditch, Mr. Van Britt saw and talked th everybody, and when he could e off a minute or two of pri he'd go into the third r suite and thresh it out or Billoughby, or Mr. Rip-| From these private 1| |found out that there was stil! some |doubt In the minds of all four of |them a the boss’ drop-out—as }to whether it was voluntary or not Also, I ind out what hel been « the four days, We had company detective at that and Mr. Hornack had bor. rowed a man named Grimmer from his old company, the Overland Cen jtral, wiring for him and getting him on the ground within 24 hours of the time of Mr. Norcross’ dis. k . . omin YOULL “AVE TO PARK YOUR TOOTER oursipe! “We DOESNT APPRECIA’ ME. | GUESS Ke DOESN'T KNOW 1 WROTE “NELLIE era"! anager pub curious, y a mig the wheel a u tractive am in litue that an open he had go night bet fight the new and that there nany thing be forgotten was willing and a his and confession, to M vom re, an with company had talks Now, talk mpromine 1 of di ey had v to bo: out “ ed ther, heir wens’ rice upon. ne du Storage could & be time, amicat stood, With Mr « Ripley was afraid to ma rimmer once, had gone to work at but everything he had turned far, favored t voluntary runaway theory t the aitfon; ow to wae apparently up. Mr. rerosa’ his rooms at but his two grips were the night clerk at the hp was poshed to it remembered that the boss had paid his bill up to date, that night be up to his rooms. the trace was complete: The conductor on the Fast 4, on the night in bt to have been the But he wasn't. He that was good and Norcross hadn't been a wenger on his train. And he would certainly have known it if he had been carrying his ¢ ager Besides that, the the kind of a man to crowd; he tox were Bullard; And when sight. By the ne the man hey say, Just He was only a sort of letective, and had run o When he came Mr. Van Britt and Mr. ould see that he fully the theory, an Mr. Van Bb hotel o Grimme in and ly lost. | Mail a next wore eastbou drop-out and ation, ov witness, lawyer ‘by all great that Mr. Jefinitely iad paid crips were Prewdent ow 6 that hi Dunton eral positive, y¢ had resignéd and fied the New York off he hotel b and two had manager b wasn't be lost in and too Well w t rank man a a »root thi | known and file Over time in the other field there wna absolutely ni 1 the Hateh people. So far Hatch had turned up at road office, bright and morning Mr, Nore asked for find him tt Fred May t dw nk me t te ing criminate om it] the Bu the rail early the had we » two dol thought ind felt at rs I per, but job was reckler corner after had t the bo: he had What he th lay Over ta things little our threshing and got @ and no grain Fred ydidn't irimmer and ldn't to And emed, lot to him the f the rehe Red been ma ‘ ws offer ‘&e W variou plante Van B Huipley want to the facts keom be any for me, I had mind all the tin that somebod the new ¢ t purchase r equipments | ir fe boss after | Mr him Mr itt had referred our ur to te lawyer | t6 the What purported toon the nell and withdraw At first been to fight everything tn Tre a r to s said that would better | Grimmer however straight re ed k-bordering plants Warehouse ply This was the way the matter still Norcross gone and|!ock of the \ new general manager coming, Mr. | /¥*t how ke and Hatch was pressing him to get yusy on the bargain and sale as as morning I came on or about done his do journeyman ut ta Rr be i] itt dmit that the facts were with him The bows had written a letter « was quitting; and a whi t ad When the noon hour came out to lu was pretty rich for our blood gue! goneg anyway, th ble ar agr bt help thi ne had left night of shockings, and had N determined Yes, ip Whee WAVE You BEEN THAT You LEARN SUCH THINGS? Look EGE « WHAT Do You MEAN BY HATURDAY, TANUATT 1. By ALLMAN Cee werrtr You Muar | AEE Know ~ | Leanwap Ir From YouR cousiud OCLiviA- Sue was SHOwWG Me How to po ir! i co) (s By BLOSSER ARNEQ AND © You ALY Go AND CUT AE A C000, SrRNE GREETINGS GuV NO? \ | WHAT WouLd You bo wit FE WOULD YOU IANDLY CRO Ww WM A PALTRY “We farts acts SO MORRO ABOUT YOUR WELL IF YOU'RE WRITING TO OTHER GIRLS YOU NEEDN'T COME vO ste met amit Just bashed him tn story of Mrs. widowhood. By and by we got aro burned hand, and Fred told) me had at least succeeded in he| clearing up whatever mystery there busi} was about that, The wall ewitch He had|for the trie light in the lower tors to-| hall at adquarters was right to nell | beside door jamb—as 1 to Citl | knew burned out in some if alway, an was why there was agreed | no light when I went down | stairs: burning out it had short-cir iteelf with the bfas# Fred didn't know had |pinined it, I asked him if Grimmer |had explained how @ 110-volt light jourrent could cook me potato, and he eaid bi The afternc sort of outa: the face with Sheila's sham to a finish, | a good nd to my had that on And in A door; but Grimmer A move, ow propo: anxious | he had non at the l.comeagain repeat of the morning, with lots of people milling around and things rooked and crossways, they were bound to with the boss gone and a new boss coming. Nobody had any heart for anything, and along late in the afternoon when word came of a freight wreck at Cross Creek Guieh, Mr, Van Britt threw up both hands and yipped and swore like a pirate, It just showed what a raw edge the headquarters’ nerves were taking on. Tho it wagn't hie business, Mr Van Britt went out with the wreck ing train, and Fred May and I had t all to ourselves for the remaining hour or so up to closing time. Just before 5, Mr. Cantrell, the editor of the Mountaineer, dropped in, He looked & bit disappointed when he found only us two, Fred turned him over to me, and he came on in to the private office when I asked him to, and smoked one of the boss’ good cigars out of @ box that I found in the big desk. the had, as f clues Iked to pley, 1 in the to ved ven had aying he his later nted ch was hat the oO noth along. rd cafe at 0048 did cliaft we own ut with there | for it at other the big had got Rupley fRUSS TORTURE eliminated by w Lundberg Rupture Support. 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