Show L THE GARLAND TIMES One Wonderful Week by CS Forester fWNTJ Oopyrlfht CHAPTER BrricO Oo by VII—Continued —25— Harold stood teuse at the head of the stain listening with all hla exhilaration suddenly shredded away from him lie heard no sound not even a groan was perEverything fectly still Then the club fell from his slack grasp Hnd the thump of It reaching the floor roused him again He did not bother to pick up the club he was too busy wondering what to do He would not go on and out of the front door as Wright had Intended The Frankfurters would know of the plan and they might be wuiting for him there Or he might walk straight Into the arms of Borne of Bauer’s henchmen And In nny cnse he would have to pas by Wright’s prostrate form and he could not bear the of that might be thought Wright dead and Harold could not go on past Behis body in that pitchy darkness sides— Wright might be neither dead nor stunned lie might Just be waiting with his hands of steel crouched on the landing for Harold to come within reach No Harold could certainly not go on down the stairs And as certainly he could inot go back through the skylight There was no way of escape from the roof — and Schultz and Hawkins were up maybe 'there by now Harold had to find some middle course At his back where he stood at the top of the flight of stairs was a big frosted window and through It Harold could Just see the lights of the houses In the next street He fumbled for the catch and threw open the window It opened onto a kind of miniature out and Harold Meaning balcony could see fifteen feet below him the leads above a small mews which began two houses away and ran past the house and for thirty yards farther on mind this To Harold’s He was the obvious way of escape in his thoughts for sought frantically t means of minimizing that The only thing at all resembling ftrop a rope which he could think of was his suspenders and he had no sooner conceived the Idea than he put It Into them and practice He unbuttoned took them off extedded them to their maximum length and tied one end to the lowest balcony rail searching back of In his mind for vague memories Then he let how to tie a reef knot himself over the balcony hung by his hands to the rail transferred his grip to his "suspenders and slipped down these to the end Only then swaying and rotating at the end of his ’’rope” did Harold regain any trace of sanity He remembered that In that deceptive darkness he could not be at all sure that the With four drop was only fifteen feet feet of suspenders pnd something like seven feet of Harold at the fulf stretch"' of his arms there might onljrbe four feet between Harold's toes and the leads On the other hand the whole feet— Harold drop might he fall might still hae a fourteen-feedecided not to Harold below him make the drop But even as he came to this coneven as he decided that It clusion might be better to return and face an Infuriated Hawkins hts further course For of action was dlctnted by chance his suspenders tore through at the and narold of their arms Junction It was only a fell to the lends drop after all Harold tried to rally his wits He stole cautiously to the edge went down on hnnds and knees and There were several open peered over garages In stght and In them various men were washing cars shrank back hoping he hnd Harold He stole along the not been seen lends to the end and peered over again this time for safety's sake flat on his stomach The outlook here was much more Below him there was anpromising t drop but that drop other of the took him onto the roadway to his left mews while Immediately the roadway dived through a narrow two houses ifito the entrance between street The street! Liberty and sanity! Harold found himself swallowing hard again as he tried to desperately work out how to negotiate the drop The solution of the difficulty presented Itself at once for at Harold’s to the ground elbow was a drainpipe he thrust himStiffly and awkwardly self toes first off the leads grabbed the pipe In the niche of time and half to the ground fell half slithered It only remninqd for Harold to 'catch a bus and go home — at least that is how It appeared at first sight — Then It dawned upon him thatTy now hts attire hnd reached a degree of which could reasonably dilapidation be described as fantastic He had no collar or tie and his shirt torn open to admit the kindly attentions of Mr Hawkins The once hfat “ShT the & 4 — I block stripe was torn and filthy— there was a huge triangular tear In one knee and me or two small ones here and there In the coat while both coat and trousers were daubed all over with the filth of dozens of square rods of roof lie was hatless and for the moment shoeless He felt In his side and (such Is the queer nature pockets he experienced as great a of mankind) shock on finding that one of his shoes Imd was missing as ever Hawkins At some point In bis given him that shoe had escaped from his pocket ahd now forlorn and solitary on roof or on lead or on balcony marked some stage of his passage But he could not wait to ruminate over the point he had no time for regrets as It was dangerous to hang ahout where at any moment attention Blight be drawn to him lie thrust his foot Into his remaining shoe and He glanced passed but Into the street ra'ilnd to mnke sure no furtively was near and set off wiifi one enemy foot shod and the other in a ilely holed sock for Paddington station Bauer’s thev myrmidons although had gone very thoroughly through Harold’s pockets had taken nothing which hnd no bearing on the matter of King letters Harold's money In Raphael’s silver and copper still remained In Ids trousers pockets of ttds Harold was sure for his hands were thrust Into those pockets In order to keep up Ids trousers — he had no sfpendors lie It remembered So In this fashion Harold hobbled along to Paddington station scrambled onto a 1ms and rushed t upstairs to lie comfortable darkness where his foot would be Invisible and his rags less noticeable It was In this fashion that H irold returned to Sene Fell View nt eleien o'clock nt hours of unexnight after thirty-siplained absence occurred on the Nothing untoward bus but ns he climhed stiffly down the stairs at Morlcy Park station some one saw him Some one turned agitatedly to his companion and pointed hlin out Some one began to follow him along the quiet streets Harold his steps the steps of his quickened pursuer quickened likewise But rolling down the road came deliverance for Harold A burly form Into the lamplight emerged hands In belt and that reassuring aspect of preternatural s which so endears the London policeHarman to Londoners old’s faltering steps regained their lost he walked on serenely past rhythm Rene Fell View was the policeman now less than a quarter of a mile away The policeman eyed Harold curiousIn ly as he passed In the lamplight that Intensely respectable suburb It was not usual to see young men with scared faces with torn clothes and yes-without collars and— by George The policeman shoe missing thought It might be as well to know' he turned a little more ahout Harold and rolled along with nnhurrled gait keeping up easily with Harold's frantic but weary stride The policeman saw Harold reach the gate of Sene Fell View saw him enter boldly and open the door with a latchkey saw him pass In and heard the He decided door shut behind him cltl that Harold must be a zen of eccentric attire and turned away satisfied And all round him Ir the gloom of the night the emissaries Erdol of the and of the FrankGehlef Gesellschaft furt Kartel and of his majesty the faded king of the Huus and Avars back Into the dnrkness to resume their watch once more In their webs There were still lights In Sene Fell View as Harold entered nnd the sound of his key In the door brought forth Mrs round In the hall from the But Harold mortally drawing room scared did not tired and desperately He dragged his leaden even care banhall the feet along the grasped isters and began to climb the stairs Mrs Pound observed the missing shoe the missing collar the torn clothes the fact that Harold she remembered hnd been out all the night before and some seconds before she could it And when she did Harold was rally up the stairs ) (TO BE CONTINUED GARLAND UTAH he goes to work" In the evening water? With that he gave m® a United States Praised the first word he says la Where Is glass of water crammed to the top in Cuban School Boobs the paper?’ And that'B the last of with the grandest Ice Ilonestly I As I walked about the streets of ' him till bedtime” fell dead because he Just nearly “Have you ever In your life seen hates to get me a drink I thought Havana and rode through the counIn speaking anything to eqjal the way they leave ’My stars Is Dick going to be sick try districts Bewildered Young Wive their clothes lying around the house? or something?’ I took a sip of water Spanish I wondered what could be In the minds of these CoDick never hangs up anything lie and It was nasty and warm I shook Have Confab- Americans They drops his clothes off wherever he Is It around to cool It off and took an- bans concerning Two years ago she was a bride but standing Actually It’s uncanny the other sip but it was still nasty and are embarrassingly polite It was retain the shape of his warm now she has Dick was pulling on his Bock hard to find the truth graduated Into the way they In our school look The “Why don’t of trousers his and you legs with his eyes on the celling singing realm of the “young marrleda” and body! the sleeves of his coat don’t co- ‘Do do deo’ in the nonchalant man- books and see what they teach us I learneL about the strange behavior of husbands from her Although she llapse so that when I stumble over ner the way he does when he’s been about the United States?” one asked me I followed hla exIs still nindly In love the passage of them It’s like coming upon his disup to something My dear do you membered know what that boy had done? Ile’d cellent advice two years has revealed certain oddiparts!” There are two standard school hist“That’s nothing to what narry filled the glass with cellophane off ties In the man of her choice that the cigarette packages so that it ories In the Cuban schools on® for In can do with the bathroom rug she never tires of delineating the primary grades and one for high looked exactly like Icel I was simplfact she tells me that the only way you know that cute little handwoven she can convince herself that the square that I got for a wedding y furious and he was Just delight- schools I turned to the pages that I so Well can see as far ed That’s a sample of what Dick told of the rescue of Cuba from cuckoo In present? la not absolutely youth does Spnln spots Is to hop In her flivver of an he most nothing but stand on It In thinks Is funny!” innocent There was Roosevelt’s picture and manner as he And so the young wives go on ad afternoon and make the rounds of the General Wood’s and her married contemporaries It Is shaves but when he quits the bath- Infinitum when they discuss the Taft’s the room conacts had It If as rug Bill then that she discovers th t her strange behavior of husbands a In the primary it’s In the vulsions history there are positive tumor Is not unique but most strangely three solid pages of praise for the like onto Tom Dick and Harry At floor I Ami then he bawls me out Color ia Market Baikt and how they “Norte Americanos" such times young wives air their when I leave the lid off the tooth The newest findings Indicate that Can you Imagine the nerve?” drove the Spaniards out of the land the yellow plant pigment termed grievances and the conversation runs paste! “Bill thinks It’s simply terrible carotone It la embarrassing praise for It covIs the forerunner of vitasomething like this “The first six months that we were when leave my toilet articles lying min A In the body although It la ers the Rtars and Stripes with glory The high school history goes Into married Bill bated to see company around but you should see his fish- potent In extremely minute amounts He said tlie hardest detatl It shows how we challenged come He resented the calls of his ing tackle For some time It has been obfriends as an Intrusion upon our thing about me to get used to was served that various yellow vegetable old Spain how we sank her navy and drove out and then It tells running Into spilled powder all over food products seem to furnish But now If the doorhappiness the how ourWeyler place yet he has one special reel equivalent of vitamin A the food government scientists helped bell rings he almost knocks me the If It Is a that has laid In full view on the sec- factor that Is abundant In butter Cuba to conquer fevers and miasma down to see who It Is two for and make Our the country a safe and years neck happiness retary his nnd In cod liver oil Yellow corn Is visiting gent he falls on with loud cries of 'Hello Tom old would bo ruined If I moved It! Isn’t more effective than the white vari- beautiful place In which to live he crazy?” This praise of ua has been put Into kid Have a drink have a cigarette eties the yellow sweet potato Is “Tom’s pet names are what get heads of Cuban children in their anyhave anything! richer than the ordlunry white po- the me down He called me grand way V ” tato and the yellow carrot abounds school rooms for almost two generatThis little Incident has been re- things hefore we were married like In something that can avert the lack ions It Is there yet In the minds nnd ’sweetheart’ nnd ‘beaof all adults— William G Shepherd of vitamin A In the dietary peated time after time In every home ‘darling’ In Collier’s to the mystification of bewildered utiful’ but now If he says ‘hello old dear’ I’m lucky For the most part young --wives who cannot understand That’ th Rtou me Now ‘fat’ I ask calls he woman you From War to Commorc® that however charming no Is Itotstuff the down running “Why Is man who your opinion of a Two former United States navy can be all things to her husband for- what yelling like a house afire? the Worden 287 and th ever When this Idiosyncrasy Is ex- thinks that ’fat’ Is a term of en- street destroyers "Because his housq Is afire” — PathfPutnam 288 built to run down subhausted of Its possibilities they move dearment? Besides I’m not fat or inder Mngnzlne not I’ve at because least Just of very! marines retirement will be used to carry on to the exasperating five were since wo pounds from Central America to New gained the male behind the newspapers he calls me ‘fat!’ Query It’s InOrleans They have been bought by “My dear It’s been months since married a novel about surplus “Here’s a fruit company I saw Tom alone when he was not sulting!” wheat” sense of hardIs the “Their humor the view from dally screened by Once there was a philanthropist-"What about surplus novels ? 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