Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND HELPFUL HUSBAND LARGELY Weelc Wonderful Forester By Cm Sm WNU SERVICE CHAPTER CopyriKl - VII— Continued —24— was a confusion of sounds He from the house beneath him heurd Bauer’s harsh voice blaring in German Doors were opening and shut ting People were running up and down stairs Clearly they had already found that he was missing He was and swallowing twice as hard now his grip on the skylight frame was IBs other hand tighter than before gripped his club but It was rather a slaek and nerveless grasp Footsteps Some on the stairs sounded hearer one was running up the topmost flight and to the attic A match scraped flared and some one entered the attic Harold shrank aside from the skylight The flickering light from the match showed through the glass for a second or two and abruptly went out again Two hands appeared on the Harold’s eyes grown skylight frame accustomed to the dark saw them Then a head pale In the dim light came through It was the opening Haw bins For Investigating rashly an Infinitesimal portion of time their eyes met Hawkins' mouth opened to emit a shout and he grabbed for a Hut before he could reach weapon his pistol before even a sound passed Ills lips Harold’s right arm reacted He brought his club spontaneously down with a dull crash on Hawkins’ forehead at the place where the brow ended and the hair began So that Ilnrold's years of tennis playing were of some use to him That There H Brought His Dull Club Down Crash With a blow automatically delivered had prototypes In dozens of unrehearsed low volleys at the net Hawkins’ hands lost their grip and he fell back Into the attic where fortunately the empty trunks broke his fall so that his collapse did not cause a sound Harold listening tensely at the skylight could hear nothing He stuffed his club into his breast pocket and set out along the roof His which right foot was in the gutter constituted a good foothold as long as (Harold gasped and shuddered as the possibilities occurred to him) the gutter did not break away and was not at any unexpected point His missing left foot sought eternally without findHis ing a safe grip on the slates two hands rested on the roof and In this way In a sort of sidewise fashion (with one of the four Harold unable to get Into action) He crossed idnifricd along the roof it came to another wail scrambled his panting over It nnd continued course Seventeen houses Wright had said That meant seventeen— no sixteen of these Infernal low walls to pass He could feel his strength falling him as he edged his way along his arms ached intolerably and there was a deadly pain In his right ankle whore It rested on the edge of the time he had passed By the roof over three houses every Joint within him wns clamoring for rest and his head swam with giddiness him Yet the knowledge that behind were a Hawkins a Hauer and an unurged him forward known Schultz Perhaps even now Hawkins had reIn hand was nnd covered pistol over the roofs after him Korapihling Harold did not want to encounter kick Hawkins again — If an accidental in the stomach could make him ss rens he had displayed himself vengeful a head from club on the a crack with all the strength of Harwielded old's right arm would rouse him to heights which Harold did not care to think about to make his way along He continued And as he did so a rethe gutter markable change came over his feelthat wet warm wind ings Perhaps ruining his hair had something to do with It perhaps it was Just a fuller appreciation of the fact that the blow he had dealt out to Hawkins was an ample repayment even for the enormous cruelties of that unsavory char(and this seems the acter perhaps Harold's explanation) most probable him merely driven misfortune had quick fierce Mania C should be high up the roof close ’ side the ridge and far out of reach of anyone standing In the gutter “Come along” whispered Wright fiercely through the darkness "You’ll have to climb” That was obvious and Harold did not shrink He started to clumber on his hands and knees up the steep slope of the roof Seemingly his made him careless as he came nearly within reach of the skylight he reached for It off handedly— and missed It He slid down the roof again Spread out face downward on the slates he felt himself slipping Then his toe slipped gradually down off the last slate and landed in the The gutter creaked ominousgutter ly but held together Harold was brought up gently all standing on the roof He began to climb up It again this time he reached the skylight nnd held on “1 thought you were gone for sure then you blinking fool” whispered "Can’t you ever be careful?" Wright Clearly Wright's nerves could not stand the strain of seeing five thousand pounds of Ills own property slipto blazes ping did It on purpose?” "D’you think snapped Harold speaking up for himself for the first time in years no Wright made He shifted reply Ills grip on the frame neatly doubled himself up nnd pulled himself feet foremost through the skylight Into the He hung by his bands from the attic frame and ttien let himself drop Harold heard his stockinged feet land on the floor without even a Jar "All clear” whispered Wright "Come along" Harold managed to pass his legs Into the skylight nnd to Induce the rest of his body to follow them Wright caught him as he dropped and they stood together In the attic Then and not till then Wright produced an electric torch and let It light up the little room for a tiny terval of time But Its glow vanished almost as soon as It hrid begun He “This way" muttered Wright opened the door and then began to descend the stairs Wright had succeeded wonderfully He had devised a brilliant plan and had carried It through with exactitude But Wright with all his nerve and skill had made no allowance for Harold turning As they went down the stairs gether Harold realized that every step they took was carrying him nearer to another and perhaps worse bondage He realized that Wright’s airy promise about good treatment by the Frankfurters might be as valuable as the Bepromise he had made to Baner sides Harold was sick of the whole All things considered Harbusiness old would much prefer not to be delivered up to the Frankfurters They had descended four flights of stairs At the head of the next Wright once more allowed a little glow from Havhis torch to light up their path ing once more taken In the lie of the land he pushed on down the atalra He had a yard In front of Harold extended his foot to descend one stair but his stride took him down all he when ended twelve and only reached the bottom In a senseless and For Harold lump of the exhilarated by the memory smiting of Hawkins drew ont hi bar of lead and struck Wright with all his strength on the back of his head— Just as Hawkins It had had smitten narold yesterday only been a slight miscalculation on the part of Wright but It Is the slight miscalculations which upset the soundest plans CONTINUED I (TO : MYTH Gained by Letting Him ‘Tinker” Men are supposed to be handy with the hammer and good at doing odd Jobs round the house but from what 1 hear from women who have them (husbands I mean not hammers) If a It’s a tradition lacking in truth trusting wife asks her spouse to repair a chair leg or an electrical fix ture it cannot be done until a suitable kit of expensive tools Is bought When the tools arrive he doea not know how to use them In the end the wife has to hire a workman and instead of saving money Bhe la out the price of the tools One wife decided it was ridiculous to pay a carpenter to hang the porch swing when hed husband and grown and reasonably son were Intelligent The twain were willing to lend both brains and brawn and started operations by tapping the The porch roof to locate the Joist sound told nothing to their untrained ears so they bored eight experimental the ever touching holes without secretive beam Eventually the lady of the house sent for a carpenter who filled up the eight holes and the hung swing One summer this same father and son tried to snve the family budget by building a coal bln In the basement In which to hoard coal bought Their fancy carpenat low prices ter work loosened the brick foundation so that the cellar leaked all winter and In the spring a brick mason repaired the damages at considerable expense Then there’s the woman who hated to spend $10 for an outside aerial for her new radio She Insisted that her husband could save money by building one Accordingly he bought the He crawled unnecessary material der the edge of the house to ground the wire properly and as he wqb a hefty brute he got stuck under the foundation and pulled a Floyd Col lins dug him out and he went to bed to nurse hla bruises while a hireling built the aerial Jnstead of saving money he paid a doctor’s bill Tlie ‘most “ Interesting trait these helpless husbands show is their willingness to spend hours In Inventing a way to escape the work their wives This tendency has assign to them led to most of our Important household Inventions Of course it was a man who first thought of washing Ironing sweeping and beating eggs by electrical power Probably his wife asked him to help her one day when she was sick As often as not his inventive powers lead him to as In the grief instead of success Instance of the man too lazy to carry out his wife’s garbage pall She kept the garbage In the rear by the garage door and asked him to put It on the curb each Monday morning Therefore when he backed the car out he would place the garbage can on the running board and stop at the curb long enough to park the can thus saving at least a hundred feet of uncan carrying One mornnecessary ing he forgot to remove the garbage can from the running board and never gave It a thought until he made a quick stop at a prominent traffic Intersection There was a fenrful clatter on the left of the ear and he looked out In time to see his breakfast grapefruit peels rolling neath a (lossy limousine not to mention coffee grounds and potato parings strewn all over the scenery This husband Insists that he never recovered from the resuitnnt inferiand his wife lost her ority complex gat huge can which he couldn't possibly stop to collect The fond father who spent $2 for a bomb to amuse his children on the Fourth of July “meant well” when he put it on top of the grape arbor before lie lit it His idea was to remove it ns far ns possible from tire It fell bodies of his young hopefuls off and exploded In his wife’s ‘favorite flower bed uprooting the pride of her life nnd undoing months of hard lnbor There nrc some women who can do more with a hairpin 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