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sack bundle» no the sagging runnin«
aerloua one. Whan ba naked for food - 1
boards was within.
at back doors, he offered so earnestly
He guessed correctly that the oc
to work (or It that he waa rarely re-
cupant of the cabin was cooking a
fused When the work was sufficiently
late breakfast in the kitchen
The
CHAPTER XII.
and eagerly performed, the grateful
door of the kitchen opened to the
A
Fight
housewife, usually gave hla a package
•
He began to not« ominous signs. south and there waa no window on
of food for the coming meal.
the west aide, from which he ap
Ha passed through Bcottdah- at The place had a down-at-the-heel and
proached The »and »tilled hla foot»
night on the bumpers of a fast freight. neglected air. There whs an unslght
steps- He pained the door without
Il was early, but the little town ly litter by the woodshed. Papei s
detection.
slumbered peacefully, Ils urea Illum were str e sn about the sandy yard.
As hla ahadow (ell aero«« It, the
inating empty streets. Nostalgia an J Something was wrong. He veered
aole occupant of the small room
cautiously
to
bring
the
gara.gr-
be
self-pity possessed him as he clung
looked up from hla task. He waa a
M l o h a .l J. P h illip «
to a breakbeaiu and rumbled through tween the open back door and h'm-
mean-faced, narrow-eyed man with a
aelf.
He
did
this
after
a
cry
of
greet
the place where be waa born. He
I l l u s t r a t i o n « b y H e n r y J*y L e a
stubble of beard on bia lined cheekd.
O spyH xM M U h sel V. P h lU tw s
yearnpd toward It, even though It re ing hail died unuttered on his lips.
He was in the garb of the motor-
•
Bstsasad th ru Publtahar« A utaoaater Bea
garded him aa a criminal, an outcast This didn’t look like Patay Jane. It
tramp. »oiled cotton shirt, the sleevee
was
as
squalid
as
a
city
slum
and a failure.
His teeth set them selves when he rolled up; khaki breeches, stained
He dropped from an empty car i t
noted
the composition of the heaps with greaae; worn canvas leggings;
daybreak, the sixth day of hla ab
, about the woodshed. It was his own and »tubby brown shoes. A cigarette
sence, In the bong Portage yards. He '
long lines of cars paralleled (hem on motive w hs s mvstery which could be
furniture and bedding, bundled out, hung from hla lip. He was in the act
loft to the future for solution. Mean waa tired and hungry and dirty; but unsheltered. He applied bia eyes to
sidings.
be could not wait. He hurried up the
a crack In the rear of the garage A
Resolution overcame weakness. He time, there was satisfaction In the
cement sidewalk which flanked the
thought
that
he
had
opened
an
ac-
small car, much more battered ana
had to get nut! He crawled up the
broad main street. Hla footsteps cllck-
rusty than his own with soiled gunnv
partition on hla left. There was space count In the Ming Portage Rtate bank,
■
ed
hollowly
in
the
hush
that
settles
(or hla body between the topmost a few day-- previously, and deposited
on the world Just before sunrise. He
layerw of bolts and the oar roof. He nearly all his money.
was well beyond the town when the
wriggled forward, toward the little
He carried a dollar bill for emer sun appeared on the winding sandy
door, high up. It: the end of the car.
gencies In a small pocket of hla trous truck ahead of him, sentineled in Ils
He found It, but It. too, waa locked ers, and thia had been overlooked.
arising by two stubs of what had once
He could not budge It He Inched
When, on the windows of a dingy been giant pines.
backward to the centre of the car, store on the street beside the railroad
Fatigue slowed hla footstep» In the
crossed the open space, and mounted |
the other partition to the plies of
timber In the rear half. These tiers
were not plied so high He was soon
examining the rear end door It -was
fastened, hut seemed weak He fuund
a slender bolt which could he handled
aa a battering ram
Half-sitting,
half-crouching.
ha
drovvi It against ths little door which
had been cracked across In the past
by shifting cargoes
Koon ha had
He clinched «till
broken away two of the boards com
more tightly, hla
posing IL so that he could reach out,
head
burrowing
twist off the seal and remove the
SEA RCH
downward
and
hasp The door slid back easily.
foe better optical service Inevitably leads to Moody's.
Inward
The light of 2» years’ specialised research and knowledge acqulr-wl
Ha was free But another problem
SWAMP
THE LEADINO CHARACTERS —
Edison Forbes, a youug resldsut of
Scottdale with an Inherent cravlnx
for liquor. Is held for the (loath of a
woman who has been killed by a boot
legging truck.
vlroumstuntlal ev i
dence points to Forbes and rather
than tall the truth of the episode
which would d ear him but cast an
other friend In a bad light, he stands
trial and Is sentenced to a long term
In prison The governor of the slate,
an old friend of Eddie’s father, bo
Haves him Innocent sud pardons him
shortly after his arrival at the Jail
Seoota Llbbsy, a worthless chsror
ter, who has smashed his machine In
to another car, killing Its lone occu
pant, a woman. Forbes’ c-ompanl.-n
and Ubbey quit the scene hurrtdly.
leaving the former alone to (see a
constable who reasons that Eddie,
with ths «cent of whiskey about him
must ba connected In some way with
ths accident. Accordingly, Forbes Is
, arrested.
Fstsy Jans, Eddie's pretty wife.
M kees (hat public sentiment runs too
high against him
Accordingly they
migrate up north to some land that presented Itself. Ths train puffed
has been In ths family for years steadily ooward. The wheels mads
Settled In their log cabin
evil aoUea on the many curves, and
faalah Sealman. a neighbor, pays ths cars leaned sharply to ths new
the Forbes a visit and Intimates that direction. How could he. In hla
there are some back taxes for the weakened condtlon, crawl nut the nar
young couple to pay Heakasan offers row doorway. And the grab-irons and
to give Eddie a Job after he goaa down descend them to sa fety ♦ He was sure
to I-ong I'orUhBs. a nearby town, and to fall between the cars and lx- 0-ound
learns about the taxes,
to pieces
The next day while walking »bout
Fortune Inclined to him In friendly
their properly they discover a n g |s -
( fashion There was a long whlstls— grade he was invited to "Bat Here," waist ’ of the long tramp. He saw
tsrlous mound that conlslns out (rope | tralu slowed, stopped He could bear be descended He spent seventy cents no one; there was no friendly motor
»toiler to salt
At the tax office blast from the locomotive, and the for coarse filling food.
car to offer a lif t He scanned the
Forbes leuruk that the buck taxes
horlxon ahead with Increasing eager
It
revived
him
wonderfully.
When
men. calling to one another. The
amount to over sight hundred dollars
ness as the sun mounted, and signs
, train wan stalndlng by a long freight he took to the grade again his ache*
and that the certificates are held by I
told him he was approaching the end
and
pains
had
(Brown
more
subdued
«bed. whose platform was Illumined
a Chicago capitalist who Is eao-r to
Ills head was clearer; he was no of his Journey. There, at last, was the
by
many
srcllghta.
Reals
were
being
obtain the property. Eddie has five |
ridge marking the western boundary
broken; there was a rattling of hand longer so terrlflylngly dlxxy Fortun
months to pay A few days later ha
ately the night was warm for April. of their land, from which he conld
helps a booxe truck out of the mud ' trucks. The stop was a permanent
After two hours of walking a lumber- see the cabin.
i
*
one.
snd Is presented with a bottle of
He hurried until he was almost run
yard Invited him. He crawled through
whiskey which he hides before walk ' He crawled out of the little end
strands of bartted wire and laid down ning. A sigh of thankfulness swelled
door
dlsslly,
he
found
the
grab
Irons,
ing over to Interview Realman.
up; Patsy Jane had not carried out
Not finding him In. Eddie Imbibes and descended In the darkness on the on some sheltered planks, odorous
her threat. Smoke was rising from
with
the
scent
of
the
north.
He
slept
side
opposite
the
platform.
He
was
too freely of bis liquor and aa a result
the chimney of the cabin. All ■was
P
a t s v warns him that the next occur-'
Patsy
occur In a narrow lale between two lines of soundly.
right with the world. With Pat beside
Winning
his
way
home
was
not
cars.
He
turned
In
the
direction
rence of a similar nature will result
easy.
He
was
Inexperienced
In
steal
from
whence
he
had
come.
In her departure. Realman hears of
The terminal was Chicago. This ing rides. He walked many miles.
the trip to the tax nfllcs and makes s
generous offer for their place, but Ed he learned from electric signs when Eating was a problem, though not a
ole. scenting something In the air, de the yards broadened out beyond ths ,
clines.
Realman refuses him work end of the train. He was several
and several weak» pass
Then one hundred mllea from, Ixing Portage.
day. Eddie's resolves weaken and he The first problem waa food; the
accepts a ride aboard another liquor second to get hack to Patsv Jane as
soon aa possible. Ilemorae sourced
track. He drinks heavily.
him as he thought of her alone In the
cabin In the wllderneaa, worrying over
CHAPTER XI.
him. torn with suspense at hla ab
Shanghaied
sence.
Fxldle lay for hours In a stupor so
He thrust his hands Into his poc
profound It was deathlike. For other
kets. Suspicion became a certainty.
linurs he was I n a delirium shot
The rum-runners had drugged and
through with the misery of real Illness
shanghaied him. To make results
His head ached. His flesh protested
more effective, they had robbed him
as though It were being lorn from his
of the few dollars he had had. Their
bones. The bones them selves seemed
packed with pain. He was Immured
In a violently-moving hell which
»creeched and clattered Itenearth him.
»nd tossed him unfeelingly »bout.
It was early night of the second
day before consciousness returned
He was very weak, and hla head
throbbed violently. He was ablo
A WEB of cords that end in numbered holes.
after many attempts to sit up, brac
ing him self agnlnst the wall or parti
2 1 A hand p used ready to answer signals
tion while he groped In the mate that
which flash from tiny lamps. A mind, alert
netted him.
for prompt and accurate performance of a
First, he was In darkness, clangor
ous and complete. Rocond, he was In
vital service. A devotion to duty inspired by
a railway freight car In full motion.
a sense of the public’s reliance on that service.
How he got there he could not recall.
Every section of a telephone switchboard
Think as he would, his head between
his hands, he could remember nothing
typifies the co-ordination ot human effort and
after the first drink In the rum-
mechanism that makes possible America’s far-
crulser,
reaching telephone service. Its cords link for
It waa a long time before he could
stand up. His trembling flnw rs re
instant speech those who are separated by a
vealed that he was prisoned In a nar
as a germicidal, stimulat
continent. Its guardian operator is one of an
row space running between the two
ing tonic which will give
army of telephone men and women vigilant to
doom In the center of the car There
the hair renewed life and
were cross wise partitions holding In
lustre. “Ninety-three" Is
meet a nation’s need for communications.
place a cargo that pounded and rasp
not sticky or mussy.
In plant ami personnel, the Bell System is
ed with the motion o f the tmln
It Is easy to apply and
in
effect a vast switchboard serving a nation
Further explorations told him Ihe
does not lesva the hair
cargo was hardened bolts about four
that has been transformed into a neighborhood
dry or brittle.
feet In length.
through telephone growth and development.
He tried the two doom. He was
14 ounce bottle
able to slide one of them a little way
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W e W ill Have Offices in the M in e r Building a fte r Septem ber
The Switchboard
H e conld not open them because they
were sealed It was apparent that they
were now In the outskirts of a most
Ideal railroad centre. Pencils
light from successive streetlsm ps
pierced the darkness of the prison
fleetlngly. The tm ln rattled Intermln
ably oyer switchpoints. The droning
errand of toelr progress proved that
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