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TIIE FOOTPRINTS
XV
pAT, Charley and Eric, bless
ins uDiuuitous time neari.
were in the kitchen when we
came in.
"Well," Erie said, "the early
risers."
Charley went over and put
some coal on the Are. Pat stood
over the stove frying some' eggs
und doing a bad lob of it,
could tell by her earnest air of
preoccupation that she was a lit
tie angry. But when she turned,
there was a faint smile on her lips
"Have a fried egg, Nick?" she
asked me.
"No thanks, Pat. We've eaten."
There was a plate of dough
nuts on the table. Eric reached
out and took one. As he bit into
it, he said:
"Where is your father, Miss
Temple?"
"I haven't the faintest idea,'
the replied.
"His car Is gone," sold Erie.
I pricked up my ears at that,
and Brenda glanced at me briefly.
"Father is a curious soul," she
said. "He must have his news
paper the moment he's awake,
lie's probably gone to town for
The Times."
"The furnace fire's out," Pat
called over her shoulder. "Hun
down und build a new one, will
you, Nick?"
1 was Kind to get out of that
atmosphere of bottled-up ani
mosity. While I was waiting for
the wood to catch, I stood staring
at the cellar door. There was a
thick film of dust that must have
been weeks In settling during the
long days when the house had
been unoccupied. I saw the tracks
where Mr. Hudson and I had
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ministered to this hungry engine
the night before. They mingled
aimlessly and converged at the
firebox door.
Then I saw something else.
With a curious feeling of ex
pectoncy I went over for a closer
look. When I leaned down, I felt
something as Crusoe must have
felt when he saw footprints on
his desert isle. It was a very
big foot, bigger than either mine
or Mr. Hudson's, and the prints
were quite clear. They ran
straight across the cellar to the
door thdt led to the bulkhead.
I had started to follow them
when there was the sound of
movement behind me. A swift rush
of air that made me duck and
whirl Just in time to receive a soul
jolting blow on the shoulder with
something hard and heavy.
struck out viciously with my
right, felt a thrust of flesh and
bone on my fist. Then from no
where came a second blow. It ex
ploded with myriad lights in the
dead center of my brain and I
dropped as if struck by a mallet.
''T7ASY, old man."
' It was Charley. A strained
smile was on his lips and Just
beyond him I saw Pat's fuce, pale
and anxious.
"The fire," I said. "Put some
coal on it."
' "Never mind the fire," answered
Charley. "What hit you?"
I sat up.
"Where's Eric?" I said.
Pat and Charley exchanged
glances. Then Charley said:
Lun you stand up, Nick?" He
took me by the arm.
As we went buck through the
kitchen, fcrlc came in by the back
entry.
'It Is not there," he said.
What?" asked Pat.
'The axe," he went on suavely.
I saw it by the carriage-shed
this morning, but now It is gone."
What did you want with the
axe?" demanded Charley.
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M erry-Go-Round
(Continued from page four)
gon building has been worried
over rumors that the Mead com
mittee might check into the
whole supply ritunlion, especially
warehouses U supplies stockpiled
in England for the invasion,
which never will be used.
Some day the Mend committee
may dig out the real facts as to
whether the supply breakdown
was actually the fault of the
home-front as maintained by
the war department lust fall. If
so it will muke interesting read
ing. Minara' Strike Vols
On the day the strike vole was
taken among the bituminous coal
miners, the national labor rela
tions board paid $.'15 a day to stu
dents of the University of West
Virginia, Iwlh men and co-eds,
to stand at the mouth of the
mines und take the vote in the
Morgnntown irea. The govern
ment also furnished transporta
tion. The college studants worked a
12-hour day; but even so, some of
them felt they were overpaid.
The ballot thry asked the
miners to sign as lliey came out
of the mini's read: "Do you wish
lo permit an interruption of war
production in-wartime as a result
of this dispute?"
Tile mountaineers around Mor
gantown voted "yes," 8 to 1. Ac
tually, many ul them didn't want
to vole lhal w.iy, but on the other
hand didn t want
to let down
their chief, John L. Lewis.
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THE
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"But to help our frg
Nicho
las wlUi the woc for te fire."
Woolf locked at me round-eyt4.
-wnai rias Happened? You lc4Nt
pale."
"Somebody slugs) me," I said),
"In th cellar."
"Slugged?" He lifted his hands
and a mystified expression came
into nu eyes. "Just now, you
mean? Then we must hae a
look around."
"You look." I said. Iric wa
not very convincing bat by new
I was sure of nlng I waa
into the library ani lay aa the
big divan In front at the fte-
place.
Pat followed me In with a
basin of warm water and some
gauze.
"Let's have a look at your head.
darling."
I'm all right."
No doubt," she said cheerfully.
"but you're getting blood all over
trie divan."
Then Phlneas Hudson arrived.
He removed his cigar from his
lips and peered at me closely,
"What's wrong?"
"Somebody in the cellar hit
him over the head," Brenda Tem
ple said. She looked at Mr. Hud
son steadily.
"I should have attended to the
furnace, myself," said Mr. Hud
son.
"But then yoii would have been
hit, father," said Pot, "and"
She stopped, A dead silence
followed In which everyone must
have thought the same thing: that
Phlneas Hudson's words ond tone
seemed to Imply that he was In
no danger from the attacker In
the cellar.
At that moment I caught sight
of Bruce Temple's figure as it
passed the tall French windows
in the library. He had The Times
under his arm and he stopped to
light a clgarct. There was no
reason whatever for his being on
tnat side or the house. If he waB
Just coming from Minot with the
paper, he would have had to walk
halfway around The Ledges on
either side to reach the library
windows. And he would have
passed both the front and rear
entrances of the house to do It
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