Show Q P ja ro pic R eff co 27 it J 3 iii y assy ia R 4 in i R T abul couo yo you 1 M 4 LINK CORRIGAN looked 1 IL il 1 from faco face to tho the bundle mournful of papers under the he lads hills arm as r J tho the little follow fellow turned from a signboard aboard nt at tho the edge of tho alley what youse about ym lie asked then lis as skeeter fingered tits his newspapers lie ho added stuck 1 I tire me replied skeeter sadly leaning against lignIn st the corner of the building va one foot resting on top of tho the other alt aix look acre blink cocked ills his left eye in the direction of Skee lers nod and with nn an exclamation of boyish delight elight il beheld the dramatic scenes portrayed in brilliant colors colora blink ana nicknamed for that defection j of left ove eye find m recognizing that short uncomplicated ted names were blo for tile thu needs of their profession silon lie he hall applied skeeter to ills his diminutive younger brohier with the authority of tile tho older elder brother of a fatherless family W why hy I 1 see oat last week after a few minutes of hard mental menial labor blink spelled out tile wording great mikel lie exclaimed why I 1 see lot dat last laba week then turning to skeeter Sk ecter say skeet leave us go tonight hey its do newsboy detective its tit at do de regent an wo vo ken git in de loft for 16 15 cents again face was overspread with sadness 1 I anly got bough nough to buy hudders mud ders christinas present nn an six cents over replied tile tho boy an people aint buyan no more aw choko choice it off youse aint on do da job allt a little tle bit retorted blink although lie know that the demand for papers was wag decreasing ue he glanced nt at sk big armful and then at his own slim pile and softened a bit gwan now make inako a hurry lie he added ill give do foist chance A customer whistled and skeeter ran off blink jingled the coins in tits his pocket til ril help do de poor kid if lie dont sell enough lie he told himself I 1 sold vree free come Skeet cra shrill voice froni from 1 rho lie corner blink beckoned to him film with wildly waving arms jiey illey youse pipe yer lights over derel dere I 1 he shouted phout cd pointing across tho the awan bent beat it I 1 dodging in nod out among the wagons and carriages skeeter started across the tha street on a run ran the street was narg crowded with at that hot point there hero was a great confusion of noise end tho the little follow fellow did pot not hear the warning shouts that preceded it n heavy dray drawn by uy two runaway horses suddenly it crashed full fall into till an empty carriage and benc beneath lie he torn canvas tile the splintered wood and glass and tile twisted iron lay skeeter stunned blink too was stunned by tile ho suddenness of the lie accident ident then bystanders helped him extricate ate both bolli skeeter fuld and one of the men of tile tho team skeeter revived quickly but tile ho hixi ana ve coat verely acly injured and villo he anil and skeeter lay malting for the ninlin ambulance lance ho he held a brief hurried talk avith alth lita his partner ill Ilc em ember member jim lie said in a low tone audi hlo hie enough to skeeter them two tanks what marked la Is them what hay has the alio garolene ga solene solone forced in em cm other twos plain the teams till nil right aint it I 1 nt I 1 it t 7 the ninn man nodded then get em up to tho the regent no as soon as you can ilia injured man continued bill knows the mark anark but buebe be suren tell him for the second performance tonight blink blin ic had skeeter home by seven welock visions of the preparations which their and skeeter and lie had made for their christmas Chilst mn feast had strengthened tits pleadings with lie he hospital doctors doctors found a badly sprained ankle and a few bruises blink had cast aside sit all thought of tho the theater after ille accident but when tits his mother and ho had made skeeter comfortable in bed skeeter said aint yon bouic ac coln BlIn blindt kt aint no good returned blink shifting awk V ardly aint Ain trl repeated skeeter Sk ecter his big head thrust up in emphasis dats fill ill ou knows why deros gain eoln to be two performances tonight tong ht blinker eyes opened wide in SU surprise twos atwol he exclaimed who bald so io do man what went to do hospital wit me said eld skeeter ake oter and lie he told of the conversation If hully filly jim I 1 exclaimed claimed blink excitedly dero dere must be some class show 1 I tink so skeeter agreed an sly say blink you fell go no an to youse kin kill tell roa me oil all about it lull k flapped pea his knue knee a and na jumped from his hl caulp 1 TI I nyer of dot dat ho bo said ril ill 1 l lt it 1 HW linof of eager new aboya front ff im f all 11 1 1 el D i F i X A y ga T 8 P I 1 1 0 1 r w oliv qt ga ri 1 1 all r I 1 fay di diada aea aee or 1 ai tjien agn lery entrance I 1 I 1 i to 0 I 1 ia isal rou fourteenth 1 iel n th street when mink blink or nr arrived rived 4 u issa M stop step by step ho he moved tile the brilliantly lighted stores from which eliano nn an unending anny of alir christmas things lings ti at last dinst a glittering display of surgical instruments dazzled him his eyes rested on two long pieces lleces of polished wood crossed Rs aa it ft background to tile the shining metal pieces and lio lie stopped wide eyed and openmouthed open mouthed in in moment blink avns out of tho the line in an other hour ho he was honic home standing before his mother and holding a pair fair of crutches up to her astonished gazo gaze with hut but fifteen cents left in ills his pockets haltingly blink told ills his story to ills mother and asked her to wait valt until unell next week for her christmas present at which mr rigan folded the boy in her arms until he bo suddenly I 1 straightened up excited say look derol ho he exclaimed nad pointing breathlessly to a bright glare in the western sky geel gee I 1 will look at it DereB ji loppin wi big ore are it was halt half past ten wh when an kalinic reached broadway the were filled with the usual christmas ova eve croci crowd most of them of tile tho fire toward which was hurry hurrying lug with each cadi step tile the crowd grew denser the er greater Rr enter occasionally a few people carve camo hurrying in the opposite direction and from these blink heard a lot of mixed rumors hut but what lie ha gild alil hear analo him it was the eifle urgent theater nn an explosion that seemed to start it a lire jiro till nil over tho ho theater at af olice n pablp and a score or more of supposed to have been lost ay for aror a moment blink shuddered at nt what ha felt was n narrow escape for alleter Sl teeter mid himself but ills his for had and lie ho bec aim intent upon getting nearer n you stop it 11 1 presently the voices vol ces of two meu caused blink HI ink to draw farther in they stopped ar acar by nod ono one sald said my god theros 1 people been killed there no way vaya ot you stop it 11 1 I 1 ilow how could I 1 stop it cattle the growling reply 1 I lied had tile the two marked int irked stared away in props room fixed sos eoa I 1 could t ut on last tiling thing before I 1 left after the houa closed cladell everything was 0 ac K I 1 tell you until the tanks tanka we had ou on tho ilia calcium lights got weak just ira in tile tho burglary the stage manager got hot end called for them other tanks well there hare was no tillit to it I 1 hall had to get lem cm out 1 I woo makin slow glow work sos tho the scene would bo beaver over but tile the stage was wa fiery ilo flo hud bad them ithem things connected lo in it a second turned em cm on ond when tho easu gasu leno spray lilt them red hot lime stones in tile lamp my god goa I 1 I 1 never seen anything like it both tanks burst bunt together rind you know tile the rest the two men wore were silent for it moment then Wh NVIA crea eres tile the manager jilt atin 1 1 I dont know was the reply rc ply blink heard wo warned him writ well its doneldo done don elno now w but I 1 wish vish we could have burnt his house houma without shut up it man mail somebody might lyer 1 A heavy prolonged rumble followed by n dull crash of fulling falling walla the shouts of firemen and nn an increased crackling of the finies held the men speechless for a moment while blink crawled to the edge of the areaway tach 4 1 illow how about collins ire ile might b lots lets go to tile tho hospital and ana talk to lilia him it 1111 sa nutce fer there was wan another pan pause then I 1 thi the 1 I reply 1 11 I never rot got tho the nume ninny of the hosp I 1 dont know chero tie he Is ads p you dont edmo the astounded voice then we will ivill have to beat it tills li I 1 s iio to place for mo me and you yon J the story had fid become very uPPa blink and before the men started hohag ho had pecked his way down the smoke brooke failed ailed alley turned back running purposely stumbled taeia nn stood blood venting fa breath V t xa 1 1 say lio ho said between breaths could guys guya toll tell mo me where I 1 could find and mister gallagher the men eyed blink suspiciously alint ayou wint with him asked one ot of them theys a guy sick alck in ali tife 0 city hospital wirt what 24 willits wants to tight t wety blink they pifei sent befit nio hp here on a lend inn i nn rk another great crash and all then tha in the 1110 alley became blinding but blink saw tile men run and lie ho funded d lie ile saw also a grin of satisfaction I 1 close on oil their lieola hunk blink ran to tho ho tip nearest arest telephone and CRINI called tile tho city editor of tile ho record lie ile ans not a 0 stranger to flint ollIc lol and ho hd solid dig ts Is mink blink corrigan know me file yes yes what Is 10 it came a n hurried voice ive got great for fer youse and tho ilia record nhouy tha fire answered illick excitedly send in man and two plain cops to meet lit do city hospital right away tell lem em to wilt for fer nio me it if I 1 dont get dere ahead of dom ill point out do men inen they got to arrest aro are y bouso on oil cause ot of fire questioned tile tho cit city editor sure nn all a stunner at tho the hospital blink stationed himself in tile tho shadow of ono of tho ilia big biff columns allt it ilia inala entrance en presently tile tho twomey from the ilia theater appen appended red blinks heart started to sink but ns as they turned to mount tho the steps the record ninn and two headquarters men turned tho ilia cor cop nor ncr blink slid out from behind tho the ran down tho the stops steps and wildly waved ills ariles to tile tho detectives tec tives aluch cral ho cried ns they hurried up tho the two men inen turned about Wl inta his tats for asked one 0 1 excitedly blink hurled blurted out the story it caused it laugh from tho the men looks of incredulity on oil tile port part of tho detectives even a question oil OH the face of tile reporter but blink instead of losing hla bla nerve remembered stories of ilia third degree boldly corked lilu his over ills his thoi ilder tin and haij so no uso time It lunin its till nil up will youse yoi iso iles confessed got scared tc ired when lio lie heard of ai fire blink plucked nt at tho the sleeve of ono one of tile 10 lo do and pulled him ashlee lio lie whispered dat was a bluff about nebout illin coll ill 1 I know it you scamp 11 the officer replied but he will fion dont you worry the mental preparation of tile tho injured man within tile ho hospital by ilia police was a slow elow and ana tedious process through which illicit was waa con hy by nnnie roua winks from tho the reporter it was long offer after press civic before the detectives culled called upon UK tile newspaper tuan luan to down the confession which verified clinks cs batory lit in the meantime the reporter had written tho main features of ilia story in anticipation waited only for ohp and motive and when they came was off on in nn an instant belinic followed and laid in a stock of papers which promised to contain nn an unusual tind selling story they did find they sold moro more rapidly then film ever before tit in nil all blinks professional experience only after tile edition was exhausted link went homo home tinned armed with the proceeds in ilia iho form of two bundle iles ono one for lila his mother and one for skeeter it wits was a glorious christmas Chrls tinna morning the un hat had brightly ond end blink went in whistling just as lio lie passed into tho the copin a messenger arrived onil handed lit in nn fill envelope and a copy of c tho Il It ecord it was tile first opportunity illick had had to spell out tile headlines headline alid on a tile the front paige lit in big block black type supported hup ported by halt half a dozen subheads sub heads and encircled hy by ft heavy blue blua pencil wark mark were tho ilia words A A newsboy detective tec tive tivo blink past with the expression slush V opened tie ho envelope and passed it to tits hla mother matt ivr mrs corrigan react baly door dear blink 1101 led and check for W 50 in I 1 a part payment for last nights york work by your tour friendliness to us the delay tn in securing the con fessino fes slon sinn and the fact tnt tent tho the men on tho the othni papers were c hosing chasing up lie he manager of the ho he gent in every avery comer of cf new york for a story or the tha cause of ohp th fire clr tho the record trado tho the great eilt cst scoop to in bi history I 1 sq tile the I 1 in aa closed la Is in part payment please come to tit th onico tomorrow night prepared to go to work woric C C I 1 |