PAGE TWO
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19. 1929
TH E SPRINGFIELD NEWS
"W a lt a m in u te." I said. An idea
“It w ill be a co m p artiv ely sim ple h er eyes so ught me anxiously in the
h ad stru c k me. “I have a friend uh m a tte r," said one of them , "to find thro n g th a t w as w aitin g a t the
in th e n ex t coach who w ill pay my all th e pack ag es w hich w ere m ailed statio n . I g reeted th e o th e rs and
from E air O aks. I d o n ’t th in k th e re d rew h e r to one side.
tore.”
“All rig h t. L et m e m eet him .” T h e i w ere m any. It will be a g a in st th e ! "I have located them a t the post-
co n d u cto r w as fra n k ly sceptical.
law for us to let you exam ine th em , office, but you have to com e over
I led th e way w ith som e m isgiving but you can m ake a m em o ran d u m of and iden tify th em .”
• c ro s s th e ew aying p latfo rm to th e w here th ey a re being se n t and you j She squeezed my hand. “ Oh T om ,”
em o k in g car ah ead .
can tra c e th e a d d re ss th a t way.”
sh e said sw eetly, “you a re wonder-
T h a t w as even m ore th a n I d ared ful.”
Yes, Ju liu s w as still th e re , his back
tu rn e d tow ard us. E vid en tly he w as hope, it is ra th e r d ifficu lt to g et 1 I sw elled w ith pride a s a disclaim
g re a tly co n ten ted w ith his lo t In the Uncle S am 's clerk s to do a n y th in ? ed any special c re d it for helping her
w orld.
o u t of th e ir ro u tin e b u sin ess au< th e . out of h e r p red icam en t. I
hailed a
I crow ded in to th e s e a t in fro n t of m ail is a n especially invidlabl i de- : cab and to g e th e r
we w en t to the
him .
i p artm e n t.
1 postoffice. T he p o stm a ste r w as ex
and we w ere readily
"S u fferin g c a ts.” T h e cig ar fell ! A fter a few m in u tes' search they pecting us
from b etw een J u liu s ’s lips.
| show ed m e a dozen pack ag es from adm itted.
“ Y es, it’s your old pal, Tom Bil- : F a ir O aks. A tt b u t th re e of th em
T he box lay on the desk, and a fte r
beck,” I said reassu rin g ly , a t th e w ere ad d ressed to a mail o rd er a sh o rt ex p lan a tio n from M aryella he
•a m e tim e d raw in g down my left com pany in th e city, an d tw o of th e opened it.
eyelid.
j re m a in d e r w ere obviously books.
It co ntained tw elve beautiful, large
M ystified, he p reserv ed a d isc re e t
T h a t left only one package under eggs-
alien ee. He had no w ay of know ing suspicion. It was ab o u t six inches
W e le ft th e post office absolutely
w h at my n e x t m ove w as going to be. , ling and eig h t inches wide, w ith a crestfallen . I had been so positive
“J u liu s,” I said h eartily , “I find d ep th of tw o or tw o and one-half th a t th e
package co n tain ed
the
th a t I h av e som e aw ay from hom e inches. It w as a little bit heavy, pearls th a t I would have stak ed my
w ith o u t an y cash , and I w ant you to b u t it w as d o u b tless th e one I was life on it. H ow had Ju liu s fooled
p ay m y fa re .”
looking for.
me tg ain ?
J u liu s laughed a h e a rty , rin g in g
M aryella w as cry in g so ftly a t my
“All you have to do,” said the
laugh.
railw ay m ail clerk , “is to tak e th is side.
“ Me pay y o u r fa re ? I don’t know a d d ress an d w hen you g et to th e
“W h at sh all I do?” sh e m oaned.
you from A dam .’’
city go to th e p o stm a ste r and ask "H ow can I ev er tell M rs. H em m ing
I lean ed o v er and w hispered in h is him to hold th is for id en tificatio n
w ay?”
ear. "T h e re 's a sh e riff in th e next
I th an k ed th e boys and re tu rn e d 1 I was too h um iliated by th e failure
c a r b eh in d ,” I said. “ If you pay my to m y car.
i of my plan to be very fe rtile in offer-
I ,
fa re I w on’t te ll him you a re on th e
As I had ra th e r m ore th an h a lt ln S sug g estio n s. I felt th a t I w as in
tr a in .”
su sp ected , Ju liu s w as n o t th ere, n o r d isg race w ith M aryella once more,
I t w as a long sh o t, b u t he had no | did j ev,e r se t eyes on |j im ag ajn
j and I had planned to a sk her to
m e a n s of know ing w h eth er I w as did n o t care. I had the p earls once m a r ry m e when I re sto re d the neck-
te llin g th e tru th o r n o t an d it won. m ore; o r a t least I had them w here lace-
“W hy d id n ’t you say so in th e I could g et them . T hey w ere really
JU8t ca n ’t face her, th a t’s a ll!"
firs t p lace ?” Ju liu s said h eartily , as sa fe r in th e m ail-car th a t they would M aryella said m ournfully,
h e reach ed down in his pocket and have been in m y own p ossession.
| " I11 tel1 h er if y ° u w an t m e to,” I
produ ced a roll of bills, one of w hich
A fter h alf an ho u r of delay we got ' ° ffere(1- "A t le a st I can do the dis-
h e han d ed to th e conductor.
u n d er way again , and so rtly a rriv ed ag reeab le work, even if I w asn ’t very
“W h ere do you w a n t to go to ,” in town. I w ont d ire c t to th e post- b riKht.”
ask ed th a t w orthy.
'Oh, w ill y o u ?” M aryella sm iled
office ju s t as I was.
Ju liu s lookel en q u irin g ly a t me.
w istfully. “T h a t will m ake it a little
C H A PT ER XV.
“I am going w ith th is g en tlem an ,”
A lthough th e p o stm a ste r a t firs t j easier. I d o n ’t know how I can re
I said to th e conductor.
reg ard ed m e with suspicion, ow ing place them , b u t I suppose th a t if I
J u lu s
g rin n ed
h is
ap p reciatio n to my m otley g arm en ts. I explained w ork my fin g ers to th e bone all the
w hile th e cond u cto r m ade th e change, m y con n ectio n with the Daily Mail re s t of m y life, like women did in
and w hen h e w as gone he eyed m e ; and gave him enough o f my sto ry th e sto ry of th e diam ond necklace,
sard o n ically .
I can rep lace them before I d ie.”
to a ro u se his In terest.
“W h a t do you w a n t? ” he asked.
"B ut th e diam onds in de M aupas
He se n t for th e package u n d er
“You or th e p earls,” I rep lied ;
s
a
n t’s sto ry w ere only paste. Maybe
suspicion and assu red m e th a t he
evenly. ” 1 am n o t very p a rtic u la r:
would k eep it u n til I a rriv ed w ith Mrs. H em m lngw ay's p e a rls w ere im i
w hich, ex cep t th a t if I g et you I will
ta tio n .”
M aryella to identify tn e pearls.
g et th e p earls any w ay .”
“No su ch luck,” m oaned M aryella.
I w ent to my own room and ch an g
H e s a t in silen ce for som e tim e
“T hese w ere re a l ones.”
ed Into a su it of re g u la r clothes.
d ig e stin g this. F in ally he grinned.
We took a c a b . to th e H em m ing-
“How do you th in k you will g e t th e T hen I telephoned to th e Old Sol w ay’s house to g e t it o v er w ith as
d ie rs’ Home to see if M aryella had
p e a rls? " he ask ed a t length.
soon as possible.
“ P erfectly sim ple, my d e a r Ju liu s," gone back there. Colonel S tew art
We got th e re alm o st as soon as
I a n sw ered patro n izin g ly .
"All I Inform ed m e th a t th e e n tire p arty th e y did. T h ey ap p eared to be very
have to do is to go to th e p o stm a ste r had left to catc h th e aftern o o n tra in happy, and w ere even nice to m e;
of yo u r tow n as soon a s th is train and th a t M aryella was In F a ir O aks which w as m ore th an I expected,
g e ts In and ask him to hold all m all w aiting to be Joined by th e o thers.
co n sid erin g th e way th ey had felt
W hen th e train cam e in I was tow ard m e d u rin g the la s t couple of
ad d ressed to a m an by th e nam e of
Ju liu s so m eth in g o r o th er. T h e re down a t th e statio n to m eet them .
days.
M aryella w as ex p ectin g me, and
c a n ’t be much m all from F air Oaks.,
W hile M ary ella stood by tearfully
and I will be p re tty su re of g ettin g
the rig h t p ack ag e.”
“D arn clev er,” h e adm itted.
“ It
would w ork, too, if I had ad d ressed
th a t p ack ag e to m yself, but I didn't.
B esides, my real nam e a in ’t Ju liu s."
H e lean ed back an d surveyed me
w ith an im pudent sm ile. My face
m ust h av e show n how cre stfa lle n I
w as a t h av in g my schem e o v er
throw n. I w asn 't m uch of a d etec tiv e ■
a fte r all, not to have thought of th is
•tm p le device for ev ad in g me. Now
I had b etray ed my plan to him and
ft w as w orthless.
"D o n 't tii' dow n-hearted, pal,” he
•aid
encouragingly. "Y ou've done
p re tty good for an am ateu r, but 1 am
too old an hand for you. 1 have been
up a g a in s t th is gam e too often.
H e w as still tellin g him self how
good he was when o ur train cam e to
a alow stop. We both looked out to
•e e if it w as a statio n . It w as not.
W e w ere In th e m idst of a snow
piled prairie.
E very o n e was a sk in g
w hat was
th e m a tte r, tu rn in g to not an o th er
in th e aisles.
F inally som eone got out to see and
re tu rn e d sh o rtly w ith th e inform a
tlon th a t we w ere stu ck in a snow
drift w ith every p ro b ab ility of being
th e re for som e tim e.
A fter w e had w aited quite a while
I had a new Idea. I got up and s ta r t
ed down th e aisle and w ith moat of
th e p assen g ers I got out and w alked
tow ard th e head of th e tra in . T h ey
w ent on to see how badly we w ere
atuck. b u t I stopped a t th e railw ay
post-office car. T h e m all c lerk s In
th e c ar a p p aren tly w elcom ed a slig h t
vacatio n before th ey got to th e next
tow n, and th ey w ere n o t av erse to
ta lk in g to a p ictu resq u e s tra n g e r
like m yself.
I gained th e ir atte n tio n by an ex
p lan atio n of how th e re cam e to be
only one leg to my p a ir of tro u se rs,
and I k ep t th em In terested by tellin g
them ab o u t th e ro b b ery of th e
pearls.
W hen I explained th a t th e
booty w as In th e ir own c a r In a p a r
cel post package m ailed a t F a ir
O aks, th ey w ere e a g e r to h elp me.
I told them the sto ry of th e pearls
and how we traced them and dis-
covered only th e package of eggs,
Mrs.
H em m ingw ay
h eard
me
th rough w ithout in terru p tio n , sm iling
sym pathetically. At the end she
laughed.
“Oh, I am so rry ," she said a t last,
“th a t I caused you so m uch tro u b le;
but h ere a re the p earls.”
She reach ed into her hang-bag and
produced th e stra n d , lu stro u s and
satin y ag ain st h e r th ro u t, around
which she clasped them .
"W hy, how did you g et th e m ? ”
stam m ered M aryella confusedly.
“I saw them lying on your d re sse r
the n ig h t th a t Jo h n cam e back to the
Old S oldiers’ H om e, and as I knew
you w ere through with them I picked
them u p !”
It seem ed sim ple enough and M ary
ella and I laughed w ith relief a s we
w ent down to our cab once m ore.
Once inside, she laid h e r hand on
my arm and said: “A nyway, Tom, it
was splendid of you tt> m ake th e ef
fort you did, and I n ev er will forget
it.”
“N ever?” I asked.
“No.”
W e w ent to g e th e r the follow ing
week a fte r th e snow had m elted and
j o perated on G randm other Page for a
new pum p-gear. She was absurdly
g ratefu l, and d id n 't stop once all the
w ay home, although it took us nearly
th re e hours to m ake the trip home
because it is h ard to drive using only
one arm .
It’s all for the best!
T H E END
A rm e n ia T a lk N o t G ive n
j
SICKLY BOY, 7, GAINS
15 LBS.— RATHER HAPPY
Allen K afoury, E ugene m erch an t
and form erly pro p rieto r of a clothing
sto re here, who w as scheduled to '
give an address at the m eetin g of
the Bible school of th e M ethodist
church on Sunday m orning w as u n
able to be present, according to H. L.
G illette, su p erin ten d e n t of th e S u n
day school. Mr. and Mrs. K afoury
becam e the p aren ts of a child during
the week-end and Mr. K afoury asked
to be excused for a while. He will
deliver his talk on "M issions" a t som e
“ My noy, 7, would not eat. I , fu tu ,e 1)816
gave him Vinol and the way he eats
and plays now m akes me happy. He
Has F irs t S chool A c c id e n t
gained 15 pounds."—J. F. A ndres.
Vinol is a delicious com pound of
D orothy T enent, a pupil a t th e
cod liver peptone, iron, etc.
The B rattain school, w as the first person
very FIR ST bottle often adds se v -,
eral pounds w eight to thin children | rep o rted to have suffered an in ju ry
or adults.
N ervous, easily
tired l since the opening of th e new school
anem ic people a re surprised how I term
D orothy ran a large sliver
Vinol gives new pep. sound sleep and I )nt0 h er han(J on M onday w hile sIW.
a BIG ap p etite. T astes delicious.
ing down the chute a t th e school and
K etels Drug Store.
' it w as n ecessaray to tak e h er to
In From M arcola—E m m ett Voggs a local doctor to have th e sp lin te r
was a S pringfield visitor Monday.
rem oved.
"N ot even a fte r you a re m arried to
Jim C ooper?” I asked gloom ily.
frOronite
She laughed. “No, because I am
n ev er going to m arry Jim C ooper!”
LY SPRAY
“N ot m arry Jim C ooper!” I re
peated. “T hen whom a re you going
to m a rry ? ”
“T h at depends en tirely upon yon,”
she said, and I s ta rtle d a traffic cop
by m aking my n ex t re m a rk s in
pantim im e.
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roaches e?moths.lice
and many other insects
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