HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929.
PAGE THREE
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Seventh Installment
WHAT HAPPENED BO PAS
The Sheridan Dramatic Club, of
wnicn Tom Bilbeck, the narrator, Mary
ella, the girl he cares for, and Jim
Onnnpr hi. rival dm n.A.v.A...
performance of Pygmalion and' Galatea
vjiu ouiu:er nome, dui are in
terrupted by a Are. During the re
hearsals Tom Bilbeck is accused by the
nusuana 01 one oi tne actors. Mr. Hem.
infirWMV flf holnv In l...rA V.1. ..If.
?.i ' ""'b ' Willi Ills WI1C.
Riding away from the scene of the
Ill-fated play In their costumes and
up by two esraped convicts, one of
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
He obeyed meekly enough.
"Will you answer one question?"
ne asked deferentially.
"Yes. What?"
"Are you a ghost?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
"I only agreed to answer one
question."
"Oh!"
He was obviously disappointed.
"What are you going to do with
me "
"Turn you over to the sheriff,
suppose."
The sound of the shot had arous
ed curiosity at the Old Soldiers'
Home, and now half a dozen of
the most nearly complete of the
inmates led by Colonel Stewart
came down the road in military or
der. They were armed with rifles
and had bayonets fixed. I learned
afterwards that the weapons were
SpaniBh-American War trophies
which were not loaded and had not
been fired for sixteen years.
We told the Colonel what had
happened and he sent one of the
old men back to the home with the
ladles with Instructions to telephone
the sheriff . The rest of us went
after the other escaped prisoner.
He had broken away from the
road and gone into a patch of
woods that lay longside, as we
could easily tell by his fresh tracks
in the snow. It seemed as if it was
going to be a comparatively simple
matter to trail him.
We changed our minds, however,
when the tracks led out of the com
parative quiet of the timber-land to
a meadow. Here they ceased
abruptly. There was enough wind
blowing so that the snow was kept
clear in some places and drifted in
others. He had evidently avoided
the drifts.
We had only one lantern or we
could have searched to better ad
vantage and by spreading out
might have picked up the foot
prints without much delay. As It
was we worked slowly and ineffect
ually. A complete circle of the field gave
us no clue. The snow was falling
more rapidly now and even our own
tracks were filled In very soon after
we made them. I was anxolus to
get started, too, while the roads
were not badly drifted.
"I think we've done all we can
to-night." I suggested to Colonel
Stewart. "That fellow is going to
have a hard time traveling very far
in this storm and probably he'll lay
low somewhere until It lets up. The
Bheriff can organize a big posse and
pick him up after daylight"
The colonel agreed. He was anx
ious to get his men under cover.
We took our prisoner back to the
Home. There we found the lady
Greeks sitting around disconsolate
with their wraps on amid a group
of negligee but wide-awake old sol
diers having the time of their lives
over the extra attraction of a thief
hunt There were no handcuffs in the
Institution, naturally, so we bound
our prisoner to a chair pending the
arrival of the Bheriff. He looked dis
consolate enough. I was suddenly
sorry for him. Poor fellow, all he
had done was to make a break for
liberty. It was only because we
were all against him that he was
against us.
"Hard luck, old chap," I said to
him.
He looked up at me. "It's all
right," he said. "I don't mind a bit
I'm glad to stay in here overnight
where it's warm. I'm kind of wor
ried about Julius, though, out there
in the snow. I wish you'd got him
too. He's delicate, and I'm afraid
he'll catch cold."
"Well, I'm going home," I said
by way of farewell. "But before I
go is there anything I can do for
you?"
"Not unless you're going to tell
me what you are wearing those
white things for. Did somebody
steal your
'No, they didn't," I snapped,
turning away.
"Ain't you going to tell me?"
"No."
I rejoined the rest of our group
around the fire.
'I'll go out and start the car," I
notified them, "and back up to the
gate once more. When you hear
me outside you can come out"
Let me go with you," Jim Coop
er offered.
I would just as soon have gone
alone, but there seemed no way of
declining his assistance, so we trail
ed out in the snow together with an
oil lantern flickering unsteadily in
the wind.
It was only a few hundred yards
to where the automobile was stand
ing, but the wind, which was In
creasing, threw the snow Into our
faces in stinging blasts that made
walking difficult and conversation
practically Impossible.
The lights of the car were still
bravely hurling wedges of illumina
tion into the black-and-white night
The seats were covered with snow.
So was the windshield; around each
wheel was a little heap.
"You can get inside if you will,"
told Cooper, "and advance the
spark as soon as t get an explosion."
He did as I directed. I primed
the motor thoroughly. I had no par
ticular reason to suppose that the
engine would start now when it had
refused to do so half an hour before,
except that from long experience I
had great faith in the perversity of
inanimate subjects, especially Internal-combustion
engines. Grand
mother Page had thrown me down
In an emergency, but now that the
immediate danger was over I had
no doubt that Bhe would start up
cheerfully. There is something un
mistakably feminine about a gaso
line engine.
"All ready, I said as I gave the
crank a sharp pull upward.
I noticed that it pulled rather
hard, but I bent an extra effort and
yanked It, over compression.
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"Bang!" responded Grandmother
Page enthusiastically.
The first explosion was followed
by a hideous clashing sound and
then a terrifying thumping which
could be heard even above the ex
plosion of the motor.
"Cut her off!" I yelled.
When Grandmother Page had
subsided, Jim Cooper asked solici
tously: "What's the matter?"
"Didn't you hear the racket she
was making?" I asked sarcastically.
I dldn t notice anything special,
Jim observed, which remark put
him by unanimous vote into the
Loyal Order of Henwethers. Pilk
had nothing on him for saying the
wrong thing.
In silent exasperation I lifted the
hood and with the aid of the flicker
ing lantern exmained Grandmoth
er's gizzard.
One look was enough. I closed
the hood once more and stood si
lent, communing with nature.
Something In my manner must
have penetrated Jim Cooper's con
sciousness.
"Is anything the matter?" he
asked.
"There is," I announced briefly.
"The pump froze while we were
hunting for escaped convicts, and
as soon as I started the engine she
stripped her gear. She won't run
again until I get some new parts
from the factory."
I turned out the acetylene lights
and started home. Jim Cooper fol
lowed silently.
Half way to the Home he said
brightly:
It's all for the best, Tom. Think
how glad the automobile-repairmen
will be."
When we entered the ladies stood
up ready to go.
I didn't hear you come," said
Maryella. "The car is awfully quiet
to-night isn't it?"
"It Is," I assented glumly. And
will be for several days to come."
When I had explained what had
happened a cry of dismay escaped
the lips of Mrs. Hemingway.
I promised John I would come
right home as soon as the perform
ance was over, and he will be ter
ribly anxious," she wailed.
I wish I had gone home in
the funeral bus," bemoaned Mrs.
Lilllelove.
I wish you had," I echoed feel
ingly.
"It's probably all for the best,"
chirped Jim Cooper like a parrot.
(Ornithologist's note: Parrots do
not chirp.)4
"Where do you find the ray of
comfort in this?" I demanded sarcastically.
"That's easy," Jim explained. "For
one thing I am glad that It wasn't
my car. For another.it will give us
all a chance to spend the night in
an Old Soldiers' Home, which is
something post people who aren't
veterans can't do."
"Spend the night here?" Mrs.
Hemmingway exclaimed in dismay.
"It's impossible. I have to go home!"
"How?"
"I don't know how, but you must
think up some way."
"Nonsense!" I exclaimed. "It
can't be done .to-night There's no
train until morning. You can call
up your husband and explain it to
him."
"Oh, is there a telephone?"
"Sure. There must be," said Jim
Cooper. "You talk to John and tell
him it's all for the best"
"I'll try," Mrs. Hemmingway said
cheerfully.
The telephone was conveniently
located in the living-room so that
all private conversations were dis
tinctly audible to any one in the
building.
After considerable delay in get
ting a long-distance connection.
Mrs. Hemmingway managed to get
the ear of her husband, who fortun
ately had not left the office.
"Is that you, John?" she asked in
the telephone.
Apparently it was.
"Well, listen, John dear, I can't
get home tonight I'm going to
stay all night at the Old Soldiers'
Home."
The rest of us tried to talk about
something else so as not to appear
to be listening, but we couldn't help
it, and a sudden silence fell at her
next remark.
"Yes, of course, Tom Bilbeck is
here. It's all for the best."
The receiver hummed for a mo
ment Even we knew that he had
raised his voice.
"Silly; of course I'd come home
if I could. But Tom,broke his automobile."
'No, no.
purpose."
He didn't break it on
"Listen, dear, you mustn't say
such things over the telephone.
Some one might be listening. Be
sides, you are entirely mistaken.
How could I fall in love with a man
who looks like Tom Bilbeck?"
There was absolute silence in the
room, also on the part of Mrs. Hem
mingway.
Yes, he has got a funny face.
Of course I laugh at him and all
that, but What's that? You're
coming here? Oh! Is there a train
yet coming this way? Good! That
will be lots of fun. Then we can go
home together in the morning. I
am so glad. Good-by, dear!"
Mrs. Hemmingway hung up (he
receiver and turned back to our
frantically silent company. I wished
that I could say something to show
that I was alive, but my throat
choked.
Something in my face must have
shown, however, because Mrs.
Hemmingway looked at me and ex
claimed in dismay:
"Did you hear what I said, Tom?"
"Well, part of it," I admitted.
"You mustn't think I meant it."
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She tried hastily to repair the
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"I simply had to make John think
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