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Show vmU V.' I T I 11 IJ VT SALT LAKE CITY J. UTAH, FEBRUARY 15, 181)5. NUMBER TEN MINUTES "Well, boys, I'll play just one short Wife," he called to Mrs. Dole, "I've game with you," he said, putting the had a telegram, and I've got to take the train tor Daleville immediately." QyDXKY HALL, a messenger message in his pocket. ) y. If there was onlv one more we'd He grabbed his hat and started in stepi.?.i out of tiiii telegraph uiiioe with this message in his have a set," said Julius Howe. great haste. hand: At that instant a boy of fourteen ap"See here, boy!'' called Mr, Dole, i "To Mr. Thomas Dole: Bargain peared on the opposite side of the street- Sydney. "Won't you run and get me a ; pro.npt action rjquirci.l. S. B." "Oh, there's Tom Baggs!" continued hack, or something that will take me to Sydney walked down the street, on J dins. "Tom Baggs," he called quickly the depot, in a hurry?" the way to deliver the message, whist- "coin:? over here!" Sydney ran as fast as ho could.- for The boy called crossed the street and he now saw thai if he had delivered ling in a pleasant boyish fashion. Indeed, Sydney was a pleasant hoy joined the group. the message promptly; Mr. Dole would d and "Tom, we want you to play a game have had ample time to reach the train; throughout s but the Doles lived in a secluded street, ulvo no l.ttiug that he was both a joy of hall with us," said Julius. in his ho:n ; and a favorite witii his "But I can't," Tom replied. "I'm on and there was no conveyance to be seen. Mr. Dole was a fleshy, elderly man companions. my way to Mr. Smith's. They're exAs hj turned a coiner of a st eet pecting my father up there to do and could not walk fast. He had gone he earn j to a vacant lot, on whic.i a some work, and he's sick and can't go a quarter of a mile before a hack was number of boys had gathered, and were and I'm going up to tell them." secured. He gave the driver orders to go as "Yes, but you can stop just ten min-utipreparing to play a game of ball. Ten minutes won't make any fast as possible. The horses were "Oh, lIku'j's ShlP cried s:;vjral voices at once, as Sydney turned the difference' urged Julius. urged to their utmost, but when the corner. "It might make a difference," Tom hack was within a block of the depot, answered. They're anxious to have the train Mr. Dole was to take rolled out "Cj.ii j luip us out with this gun Syd. We're short two players,'7 called the work done, and they ought to know from the station. one of the boys. That gentleman was terribly disapas soon as possible that my father isn't can't," Sydney replied, stopping going, so they can get some one else.' pointed, and. like many other people for an instant. "I've got to go up to "Oh rats!" exclaimed one of the boys, when balked in their desires, he became Mr. Dole's and deliver a message. sneeriugly. "They'll have time enough as cross as a bear. "But you can give us just a few after the game to get a dozen men." "Drive me to the telegraph ollice" minutes, i know," urged another of the "Yes, they may, for all i know. But he commanded the driver. In a short, time he arrived there and boys. my father told me to deliver the mes"Yes, Syd, come on," resisted still sage promptly, and I'm going to do it," found only the operator and Sydney in. He immediately sent a telegram in another, who good naturedly collared replied Tom, decisively; and he hurried response to the one he had received, Sydney and dragged him to the ball, off. "Tom's the most uiviccomodating saying he would be in Daleville on the ground. 4iBe accomoda'ing. Ten min-ute- s won't make any difference to Mr. fellow I ever saw!" said Julius crossly. afternoon train. "If I had received that message ten Dole, and we'll have a rousing good We'll have to play minus one hand' The game was quickly begun but was minutes earlier, I'd have given a game in that time' Svdnev was now on the not so quickly ended. The allotted ten hundred dollars' he said to the operHe enjoyed a game of ball as well as minutes was stretched to fifteen before ator. "Did you send it as soon as it any boy. Moreover, he did not like to it terminated. Mr. Dole himself an- came?M "I did' the operator replied. "It refuse his friends. So he stood halting swered the ring at the door. lie took the paper, and when he read the mes- arrived exactly at nine o'clock, and in between dutv and pleasure that char battle ground which proves sage his face instantly lighted up. He two minutes the boy started with it." 4lm "Well why did'nt I get it. sooner, HIV tllior ii" not onlv of- bovs' wills,' but t.h, drew his watch from his pocket and then?" he asked in an excited, irritated said quickly: .wills of men as well. "Only seven minutes to train time tone. "Does it take a boy half an "Xo, ten minutes won't make much Bat I mutt get there:" hour to go half a mile? If it does, the difference." thought Sydney. ONLY - oUtfL-tUil- . - good-nature- to-da- y s. ball-groun- d. acter-testin- g - Kj |