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Show WAS WHEN CUPID WAS ON TIME HOW LIES 14 YEARS OH GOT GOING SOME RALPH PAINE BROKE RUNNING RECORD. A HER FIRST FLAT CALL WITH HEAD COVERED STRANGE CASE OF WOMAN AT AN INDIANA INFIRMARY APPARENTLY NOT ILL. Spurred to Effort by Flight of Krag so What was Freiberg makin and Mauser Bullets, Correspondmany noises about to you this mornent Hit Ground Only In ing? inquired Miss Reifsnider of Miss High Places. McNamara at the noon hour. As she spoke she removed the rubber band In my own experience, beginning from her lunchbox and slipped it on with college football, those sporting her wrist for safekeeping. Activities which were seasoned with 'Aw, it was about them statements some danger to life and limb are refor the old man," replied Miss Mccalled with the keenest zest. As an Namara, producing a sandwich from Alleged war correspondent in three the depths of a newspaper parcel. She I added shooting and foot campaigns regarded it critically before biting off acing to the list of sports with whoso a corner of it with an air of satisfacules was fairly familiar, says Ralph tion. "Hes always pickin on me about While the Yalo in Recreation. Paine somethin, though. Seems like he Athletic trainers had appraised my at cant be happy without he's jawin to throw as better adapted nhysique She proceeded to consomebody. tha the hammer or ng putting sume her sandwich with energy. the 100 yard dash, I ear than freight He certainly is a fright, agreed lived to overturn those expert judg Miss Reifsnider, cracking the shell of ments. There is every reason to he a egg by tapping with It lieve that through the tropic verdure upon her desk. I cf a valley near Guantanamo, Cuba, He used to be bad enough, redistinction of running but since had the unique sumed Miss McNamara, the 100 yard dash in nine seconds and he thinks desk a him they give mile in close to forty see Ihe hes the whole thing and then some. onds,quarter for farther I went the faster the A kid like that tryin to boss me! I flew. to say, these were Needless Would I stand for it? Not any. I all new worlds records, professional 1 made up my mind the next chance and amateur. got I'd show him. I did it this mornA battalion of husky American maing ood and proper, I tell you those, twice their had been She had come to town to call on a Warsaw, Ind. Her head concealed woman whom she had met in the couna sheet, and seldom uttering a with who and summer try the previous sound, Mary Grim, aged 66 years, has was She in Harlem. flat a in lived By LUCIUS L. WITTICH 14 years on a cot in the Kcs dressed in her best a choice black lain for ciusko county infirmary, near Warsaw, jmw uwiyi pi vwmmmemmmmmm lace gown and a bran new pair of with nothing whatever the matter gloves, pearl gray, and the tightest with her, so far as her physical condifit shed ever got into. She certainly looked trim and prettty. After riding tion is concerned. (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) Time ami again different county for what seemed to her to be hours the let make so very much difference whethhave examined her lu physicians was M1SS Ballard finally opened she finally came to the house she or concluded that the er we are married before sun-uof some defect, but without search a in been had never ter having wisely She looking for. could be establ- after dark. Its all the same to me, "This Is the strangest case that, identity of the author fiat, and when she found herself in a the hut the certainof said ever come to my attention, quicker has of 1 lot a were ished to a greater degree where there vestibule he the T. J. Suddenly Dr. paused. than merely manner Shackleford, present by ty in that letter boxes with names over them and "I have It, he finally ejaculated, of the epistle. As visiting Mis scanning the exterior little buttons above the names she was county physician, after and to of his feet the first time For a bit the Grim performing other missive springing open day. orghe tore the rather at a loss how to proceed in with- an impromptu jig on the plank walk. her head to allowed from she fell two in blue years paper there But crisp, pale der to get the door open. "1 have solved the problem. Mardownward, fitfully in and, fluttering was the name of her friend, who had ie, we shall accept both, ah, er, bribes alighted in the grass at her. feet. said she Lived on the top floor, so she as you term them. Now dont ask A check, a wedding remembrance, touched a button by way of experihard-boileseizing the questions, dear. It is growing late almost gasped, ment. she of tinted writing Good night, dear, and say, by the way precious particle Suddenly, with a great rattling, the to me your material and turning it several times be ready to accompany door flew open all by ilself with norealiz-it- s Uncle Dudleys home shortly before in her nervous fingers before body anywhere in sight, and stepping roll-toshe noon No, not another ques Then full significance. over the threshold she looked cauing and as he turned toward words, in- - tion made out the following tiously around and couldn't for the scribed in a big, mannish hand, on the gate. moment think of anything but spooks The guns and crackers were still as a solution of the mystery. Nor did the face of the check: Garvin thundering merrily when Miss Ballard Pay to the order of Mrs. Albert the back part of a long, dark hall, arose late on the morning of July Mrffuid. Five Thousand Dollars. where the stairs seemed to lead up to EZRA C. HOCHKINS. Fourth. Arriving herself in wedding still darker plans, serve to dispel the rines fighting of D'you call him down? Miss In large, dark red letters across the attire, and avoiding the volley But she knew two nights uncanny Impression. weight of Spanish infantry saw questions hurled at her by mother and face lighted up with sympaso up her to do it. top of the check Miss Ballard a had under she gathering on and harassing end, days Nasisters as best she might, she await- thetic interest. che skirt lace black and her which printed the name: "Springbrook fire swept courage and incessant cross Well, did I? He come out of the the hard-heltional Bank, and she realized that the ed the arrival of Mefford, who soon on the hill. On began the ascent up, up, five steps camp next move appeared in a surrey, with Rev. Mr. old mans office looking awful chesty. gift was not bogus. Her either side of this hill lay small, green to a flight, then a landing and an abI s'pose the bossd been pattln him on to the rush to telephone and tell Stone. vas the enemy keeping under rupt coiner to go around. She was Good morning, Marjle. Tell your the back Freiberg can always get valleys, Mr. Mefford the joyous news, after cover along the opposite slopes. At quite Vine she had never in all her which she returned to the perusal of mother and sisters to drive out to length there came a lull in the action. experience come across a staircase the letter which had arrived in the Mr. Hochkins place, called Mefford, A correspondent, whom modesty for- where she had to keep turning corpulling the horse to a standstill in envelope with the check. observed that far ners all the time and still more certo me bids name, And residence. Ballard of the front never before up one of these valleys lay the huge tain was she that slicd West Springbrook, Kan., July 1. tell them to be there early if they wish in the daydark and in the burned estate, a boiler of sugar gone upstairs Dear Marjorie: I understand that you are planning to to witness the show. that said boiler would he a safe fort time. But that was what she found E've Miss Ballard delivered the message celebrate the glorious Fourth in a rather ress from which to look matters over herself doing then, for after the third For the First Time in Two Year unusual manner. I am glad to hear this, and, seated by her fiance, was soon Uncovered. Be to Head Her Allowed a cluster of steps there wasiit light at a much closer range. Borrowing for I am a strong advocate of early marfive whizzing away in the direction of Dudrifle from a wounded corporal, lie fared enough to see where the next was and riages. You will find a check for sinhe uncovered, and for the first time in residence. Arriving ley Maybrits thousand dollars inclosed, which I toward the sugar boiler amid all she could do was to feel until she the sumo period consented to talk. hastily is There will accept. cerely hope you there, they were welcomed most heartthe profane shouts of a dusty squad had to sit down in sheer exhaustion to one condition, however, which I must She gave her maiden name, saying Mr. Maybrit. by ily Is of marines: this and that get her breath. And how profoundly insist upon, Marjorie, she was Mary Ashbrook of neat that his inhe home chuckled, safe kissing was Aha, turn before be wish you she fool. imVrsod did she the cheek must Conte back, you They'll O.; thut her first husband inlitStirling 18. ushered were You so are still single, eh, reach the age of you niece, stead of all alone in a strange city was David Redman, whom she mini led loose directly." again alon noon to this world at July Fourth, tle girl? In all that pitchy They did. It happened that the pil- house on those stairs most 18 years ago, so In order to comply in Ohio, and that her second husband we have deUncle Yes, Dudley, a necessaridarkness! will was wearing with my one condition you grim was James Grim of Milford, this conn cided to, to er, er, she glanced helply have to enter the holy bonds of matristraw hat taken from a deEvery bloodcurdling story she ever ty. When asked why she had for 14 Spanish noon 12 of hour oclock, mony before the lessly at Albert. ceased soldier of Castile. The Ameri- had heard flashed into her mind about next Fiiday. You cannot, of course. Inyears kept a packed suitcase on the inis quite right, Mr. Maybrit, She can marines had no other targets than innocent country people being have before actually you dorse the check edge of her cot, she fell hack on her explained Mefford, we have decided as glimpsed in the veigled lo their doom on some plaushats straw become Mrs. Mefford. these pillow, covered her head and refused We shall reAbout a year ago I made a small wager to accept your offer. They therefore ible pretense or other; and she fairly to dense undergrowth. speak again. That is the most tin to the 12 oclock. as she main single until after with your uncle, Dudley Maybrit, fire from their hillside shivered with apprehension a brisk opened matron a woman has talked in more than tm effect that you would become "Good, ejaculated Maybrit, but it at this solitary straw hat bobbing up thought how easy 't would lie to have years," said Alva Rockhill, former su before you reached your majority. Ten unclock had the valley. The Spanish troops, know- a trap door on those stairs for thousand dollars was the amount of the was not until after the hall of the infirmary, and down suspecting country callers to fall into. perintendent was men stake and your Uncle Dudley took the tolled the hour of 12 that he looked of their none that ing former as So, Superintendent Sherman Mirk to her feet, negative end of the proposition. entirely satisfied. Then, glancing at there, fired with much enthusiasm at Then suddenly she Jumped a door who has long been interested in ey, you are to be wedded on the Fourth, I his own timepiece to assure himself, had The bullets for somewhere up above the same bull's-eye- . leel confident that my little offer will in the unusual case. duce you to select the forenoon for the no doubt, that It was actually noon, hummed both ways. They raked the slammed and she wanted to let someThe physicians who have had charge would If some relief. of you he heaved a great sigh ceremony. I would be happy from left to right. The body know she was coming; hut atmosphere of the sick at the county farm are surof marriage, select my home as the place she took a wrong The wager Is won, he croaked. poor fool whom friend and foe were way, in her hurry, over the fact that Mrs. Glim Wishing you and your prospective husprised will The ten thousand Is mine. What to pot had not the wit to think step and before she knew it had gone band a long and prosperous married life, trying seemingly remains perfectly well, , landing-placeold Ez say? Mad, oh, wow, but hell 1 remain, of discarding the straw hat as he headlong all over a the fact that she has for many e twenty-milhe hoppin. Itll he worth a Your affectionate uncle. for the shelter of the sugar bursting both gloves and tearing the years neglected to exercise her body. sprinted hear It ripping. walk to see the old codger take EZRA C. HOCHKINS. boiler, which appeared to have been choice lace she could 14 years she has reclined His Face Begun to Get Red. The laugh of vicshe arose she During the as ha, ha! and on, ha, miles awful, Twas away. moved at least eighteen on the cot she has had medicine only Evening came, and so did Mefford tory was still ringing in the air when but hack to who again; go was half tempted witnesses alive To the latter Miss Ballard disclosed the wedding party left, shortly after. round him and he strutted up to my There are and once, and that was a headache tablet. If he's six foot will swear that when his tracks were she felt she must he near the top as to look desk unaccountsome in tryin the secret which, to stand even The check, by the way, had been proptrying sawed-off- ! followed next morning brown patches so kept on, not REAL SEA 8ERPENT CAUGHT. able manner, she had kept from her erly indorsed by Miss Marjorie Wini- tall the little his flying feet had upright, just creeping along, till finalwhere of found How were me: to MefHe many says took And it mother and sisters. on had the some and fred Ballard light Dudley Maybrit them statements have you got done? scorched the grass. Bullets aimed to ly a skylight shed Two Maine Fishermen Have Desperate-Battlford just three seconds to settle the witnessed the signature. awful stop him passed twenty feet to the scene, and the weary climber, literstatements? I, What says with Monster. question decisively. the drove reached minister From Maybrits the when they crossed his trail. These ally gasping for breath, as rear as innocent and sweet you please, dear the we shall accept Of coifrse at the toward West Springbrook. Across the I knew what hes talkin about, all troops had not been trained as wing top floor, where, gazing sadly Portland, Me. A sea monster weighold gentlemans offer," he said, and Kansas prairies, and torn where the sun but and gown gloves handicapped. were therefore and ruptured shots 15,000 pounds, 45 feet In length, of right. ing land the off into to then they drifted I gleamed with an intensity that was Veering to the first person, for am- feeling her hat clinging dejectedly in appearance much like the faThem statements I give you and was herself air castles. told far from pleasant, they sped. It of those sprinting rec- the side of her head, she he proud honestly sea serpent, was caught by two says. bled afternoon, yestdy Next morning Miss Ballard found ten minutes past 12 when they crossed of a she could have fought over a bargain I liable to have ords (and why make pretense Albert Rlelmrdson and a am How fishermen, many the over five times script the B. U. & M. tracks, which marked herself again puzzled which is supei fluous?), I counter all day and looked five miles off Orrs island. modesty when didnt 1, give you companion, done, says on the smooth side of an envelope and the division between the two Spring-brookatmosphere as respectable. clove the of em yet? other morning, after It the Casco no for me hay, any figures of the preceding But she was at the friend's very bird made a pursuing her tactics sound and a distinct whistling with he em? me for ask desperate effor t to escape Whynt you in forenoon, she opened the missive. As By Meffords watch and by the flew so high with each ter- door. Not wishing, however, to go heels incslroB of the big market el the my from blue says. she decided she did so a bit of crisp pale watch of Rev. M. Stone it was just 20 rific stride that they clattered against breathing like a porpoise, I ast you three times, says I. side of the hall- net. the shoes paper fell from within and, fluttering minutes past 12 oclock when they lean to the like head against of my back the This finally wound Itself so tighly Whyn't you remind me again? he fitfully downward, alighted in the drew rein before the home of West horse. At length way to rest a moment before rlngina about It that the gills were tied flat to of an in the gown grass at her feet. Springbrook's wealthiest citizen, Ezra says. boiler, I dove into the hell and to put a dn fish was drowned What dyou want me to do? says reaching the sugar Then, its body. The big Mr. Hochkins, Mrs. BalC. Hochkins. A check, another wedding rememthe together. and gloves and pull its end with tremendous velocity not, however, until he had stove a rail clock under an off alarm I. Set your was close were by, she almost gasped, seizing lard, and the two Misses Ballard a button that brance, off one motor boat and nearly lay panting while I listened to the touching rap Its she continued to lean and rest until sized the other. tlie precious article of tinted writing there beneath a big cottonwood tree chair every 15 minutes? bullets of against drive pelting to proface red, get His fell times she begun and to welcome the arrivals, and it was material and turning it several roof. the door suddenly opened The oldest fishermen never him This aint sides like rain on a farmhouse in her nervous fingers before .realiz- there in the shade of the tree that ceeded Miss McNamara. were shat- in back ward on tire girl, who shrieked seen fashion In this spirited anything like it. The fish's head he to no time says. she the wedThen get funny, Rev. Mr. Stone performed the and snowed under for help and jumped aside, letting ing its full significance. obliterated a was tered, shark's without teeth, his body inwords Who's tryin to be funny? says I. on top of two or made out the following ding ceremony a few minutes later. all known sprinting records, ancient invader fall over with a spiny hack fin; hiu serpentine, and me face at real Then he looks ugly scribed in a bold hand on the Mr. Hochkins was in an ecstasy of were achieved un- three umbrellas in the hat rack. modern. and They a whale's, four feel was like tail be says: You better cut that out, der the most flawless amateur status, of the cneck: There's no kind of use in trying to long and six feet broad. delight. l know Winiptiys-leaof feelings, I knew I would win, he kept re- young lady, or first thing you Tay to the order of Miss Marjorie moreover, because no financial induce- describe the variety it took the two fishermen's motor the assailed fred Ballard, Five Thousand Dollars. show you where you get off at. that Ill I told old Dud that I would and mental, from start to me led have could ments peating. three hours lo tow the carcm-- t boat DUDLEY ARTHUR MAYBRIT. the Well, wouldnt that astonish and Mau- caller as she laboriously extricated ashore. Poor old Dud, how I fooled him win. of a Krag with the flight across scratch letters red In large dark Miss Reifsnider. at a safe distance, saw this time, haw, haw, haw. Wont he Dutch! exclaimed ser bullets and beat them to the tape. herself. The maid, with an open sirs- top of the check Miss Ballard in that! of him idea The say her at was wait Jest gazing Whoopee. Na- be mad though? Wive Are Traded. with printed the name, "Springbrookgenu.no me red headed, You bet it made the old feller hears the news and N. Y. The morals of Norpirion mixed largely Norwich, A tional Bank, and she realized that the till Speech. Winning I just looks and asking who she was and wich received a severe shock the other said Miss McNamara. be somethin doin. tharll fright move next Her with indignation. She was white gift was not bogus. ashim in the eye and I says, just as sarwhat she was doing. The country call- day when it was announced In a newsThe old gentlemans hilarity was was to rush to the telephone and tell "You shall never go down to that a ' when awful sarcastic can I be er, realizing vaguely that only paper that two residents of this place suming alarming proportions when castic James Henry. Mr. Mefford the joyous news. club again, horrid measure In would any Well, you inI want to I says to him: speech bride his Mefford that had exchanged wives, and It is said suggested I But, Martha, Thus the early morning happenings such a critical situation, that the articles of agreement, whirl: most ignorant person the are retrieve time limit before the check certainly the dorse I said. what "Never mind. You heard of two eventful days were identical. hastened to collect the remains of a were substituted for a divorce, were that ever come up the pike, I says. You had expired. remember when I bring n, r must remarked: After phoning, Miss Ballard returned Not I off at! where get You show me local divorce badly scattered dignity and drawn by a Why, sure, ejaculated the host. foot down on anything it bears lo the perusal of the letter which had all certain what at not r am one Ill I tell you thing. sonny. check. you, the about near lawyer. the Id with forgot purty I arrived in the envelope when I weight. that is, who I am Just at present. in one of the transfers the differ- But I reckon youse hadnt. Marjie, get off where I please and "Nonsense! I was calling, hut please check. be at least am and likely it youll aint is said to have been $500 price come with me, and the two hastened please What? You mean to ridicule my t(llj Mrs. that I'm In quite a hur and a paid "Springbropk, Kan., July 2. Dear into the house to procure pen and ink. there to see me do it, I says. Then I horse, which the wife James Henry Butler?" somewhere else the missive began, and in as I must be-e- r Marjorie: received as her walked off and left him standin there, assertion, ry, of one of the parties wished I was Mefford Mrs. puzzled dear. merely greatly "Oh, no, my Besides 1 don't feel very share of the world's soon. dickens. many respects it was a similar producthe very maddern goods of her the mana herculean effort, she that a foot as small as Then detaching hersHf from tion to the one of the morning before. but, by well. Miss Reifsnider, 1 to remark e sighed "My! from not herself to could restrain possibly asking differed aged In one detail, however, it an especially aggressive ttnibiclla s ip of them sarcastic ane you possess Qnfl r0llples j(.ft on a honey-hurriesoon questions until she and Mefford were wisht I could think own bear weight. into the ha am I I but taken to the station materially and Miss Ballard when mad, moon to get being trip, say and in things the alone spin seated surrey There was a long pause. reached the detail in question. saying to herself as I bet thatll a stairs, afterwards. and do till never given parting kissing, without toward Springbrook. "You really think so, James? Weh, recklessly round and round curves while! a "There is one thing, though, she ning for by the other parties. however, him rice, truthquiet and keep the exclaimed Mararent you both clever "Why, darling, and corners, the quarter of a lace read,' that I must Insist upon, it had ought to, now, dont down if it "Well, I go to have let will her the answer and you in I query, believe ful: indorsed groom ruffle trailing on the floor, jorie. The check must iot be Explosion Beside Casket. if youll promise solved the mystery, as you returned Miss McNamara, much grati- to the club no longer, hanging pearl-graPa. Miss Lida Dull until after 12 o'clock, noon, of July not you gloves, McKeesport, It's so simple, dear, that there fied by Miss Reifsniders appreciation. to come home real early. in shreds to her fingers' burned about the face lunch-bo- x was Fourth. Following this was an ac- callit? horribly her Reifsnider wrapped Miss Is really no mystery about It. We No human being ever called after and hands by the explosion of a botcount of the wager made 12 months neafly in a piece of manila paper No mote when we crossed time changed the if simply that 1,000,000 a while attending going in a door like th:1 request before and also Iceland Can Support the rubber band which one and some tle ol smelling salts, & M. tracks. replaced U. have Its B. without just me the the for was calls deputo flat l who cared accept of bride her funeral friend, the McNaThoroddson, Prof. Miss it. prospective And next earlier on this side than it is she had taken from of Denmark to study thing on that won't tear. from the effects of died who the offer she should appear at his home, hour on king tized her cake Penny, of desk, by a laid piece added as on the other. There, you can see the mara resources of Iceland, re- time I'll carry a lantern." she swallowed, apparently, unmarried, at. the hour specified. wadded up the newspaper in which the economic and made carbolic acid, off there in the distance. stieet the now, tracks into to able murmured be will she stepped island suicidal intent. the with and that "Oh. the horrid creature," luncheon her ports carried of your uncles she had wasn't mortally afraid tl.c This is not a real, Strange that neither waste-pape- r The services were held in the home Miss Ballard. basket. provide food and living for a million believe she on the corner would com that time is just an threw it into the fact the recalled either. of scarce.y instead policeman In the Penny family, and the room of future, sure enough wedding present, said. she people 20 minutes yet,' than in "We got in Springbrook to halt and explain her ap was later hour her othmand the like now. bribe as horrid a very dose. Miss Dull held 79,000 Its only But it will be You eat half this piece of choclut pea ranee. of salts in her hand, and, fear-- . er check was. And the worst of it is West Springbrook. minds soon on our things enough, to their cake and then lets get she would faint, placed the that we cannot accept it if we accept Uncle brought ing A Shakespearean Jolly. and go over to State street and rubSmall Price for Badge of Honor. now. Oh, wow, I'd almost be willing the bottle to her nostrils, of jr.onih ol windows." curl C. Ezra's, and we cannot accept Uncle to to little Major medals awarded He That elusive one of those checks to see ber in at the store up Eight s. give there was an explosion, Uncle Dudley Suddenly rewe Ezra's if accept All right, acquiesced Miss Reif- yours, darling, is so mean It always old fellows when they get together Stuart, including the small gold medal and the contents of the bottle, to--' Mefford studied over the proposition the Shakeswhile in cake the and rapidly, Army minds me of a character for the battle of Roleia to settle their wager. Its dollars to snider, eating the r with dozens of pieces of small a long while that evening. see the she stood up and brushed the crumbs peare. wont A India medal with five clasps, realthat they to wero I 'own Into ter face. Her doughnuts seems "it glass, we said, he In finally that? skirt. London. is "Well, "Say She (shyly) How from the front of her ized $1,050 at auction side of the affair. condition is serious. he a else of five thousand for us any funny Dailv News. He Because it is such a shy lock. Chicago io, didn't. And they t doesn wav wff fix it. I reckon It i p ie-su- d Reif-snider- wide-brimme- den-pil- e bullet-spattere- over-reachin- - well-chose- well-know- n "I-c- j hob-taile- Miss-Haze- the-bottl- j |