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Show t THE WASHINGTON FLAME IN THE FMES HAROLD TITUS llhitrqtiaiw 9 IRWIN MVIRf . w.n.u. fttavic it CHAPTER 1 SMOKE Riled uleao tjta end hie letenea that Heat, It aeemed to be Raid, pound over then. The aouad of thv eetoh BMtor and the clatter of Ita wbeela aa the nneveo , rails waa almoat drowned la the raging voice of the Rn; and Tod, aa arm around him, holding him doao aa they rocked and swayed down the grades waa trembling. But he waant going to cry, ejen If ha waa more acamd than he ever had bees In hla aevea yean of experience. Not much, he waant I Be hugged the precious letter-fil-e In It doaer, with old Jack'a pay-roand tried to look ahead; and when he aaw living flames from the burning can of chemical wood awept aeroaa the track Ilka a curtain, he threw hlmaelf flat and aqueeced hi eyes shut and held hla breath, and did not complain with ao much a a grunt when Tod'a big body sprawling suddenly over bis small ll This Waa No Time to Act Uka a Baby. West sraa juat then coming up the aiders along the creek, looking around In a funny way. aa if bo expected to see somebody or something alarming. When, only minutes later, he heard Tod bawling hla aama bis heart went fllppety-flo- p and almost choked him. "Kerry . . . Kerry! . . . Kerry! And he was running desperately, hugging the Me against hla belly. He threw a look to Ms left where streamer of thick, white smoke wm coming up to mingle with the blue base which had been drifting through camp for three days. Brush wm on Are south of the ban. Tod began trying to mvo the cook shanty and Kerry wondered why he didn't throw water on the offica which wm In gnater danger, but Tod, toa wm terribly excited. eould old Jack, and breaking your "She's goinl" Tod yelled. "Old neck for a man like that would be office's goln, Kerry I" Hla voice little enough to da wm funny, for all tba world aa Jack bad been oo worried since though ha wore glad becaime the the Are started, day before yester- office was being licked by hungry, flames. day I He had been In town when It came up, and had come back, He did not start away at onea driving the englno hlmaelf, snak- Ho stood there priming the motor ing the empties over the steel fit slowly, spilling gasoline, because to shake the stakes out Ms hands shook so much. He kept The crew waa on the Are then, his eyes on the office where flames of course, and old Jack'a voice, were licking at the roof, eating was Into the hewn log aides. generally ao She's goln', Kerry I" be sold and sharp as a knife when he questioned Tod who sraa telephoning gave a queer laugh which made for more wardens. Jack stuffed the boy wonder If grown men, also, the payroll money into the safe as sometimes Isughed when they felt he talked, and then, telling Tod like crying. certain things to do all In one He glanced at Kerry, then, and and licked his breath, he jumped Into the waiting at the letter-fll- e buckboard and galloped to the lips. e front "Sure you got the right one?" southward, where a of slash Bra advanced toward he Mked. "The one you told me," stoutcamp., Kerry waked up when Jack came ly. "Wed better haul, hadn't we?" In that night. Their room was nest "Just a mlnuta now I" the offlea with a Mg bed and a lib He waited, standing there and tie one; and he lay In bis little one watching while a part of the ofand looked through the open door fice roof tumbled la Only then way and saw Jack standing by the did ho shove the speeder ahead unshirt all scorched, hair til the motor caught and coughed. desk, And then they were looming past singed, talking lowly to Tod. It 1, ho said. He'd brought the siding, and he screamed from half the crew In to get some rest; the heat that bMt upon him; ophe'd turn In hlmaelf and try to ened hla throat and yelled and catch a wink, because with all that writhed against the weight of Tod's chopping afira tomorrow was go- body. Then, suddenly, the torture was past and ha was half sitting ing to ba hell Itself. . , , And tomorrow waa with the tri- up and they were hitting It down al hone ringing and help from town the grada Then he felt better and they coming through all day, and the smoke thick and thicker. were clicking over tha switch But at breakfast thla morning,' points and here wm town and the leforo the Brat crack of motor stopped and Tod West was dawn, Jack had aald: calling out to somebody with a lot "We got an even break, nc more excitement than he had We'd ought to hold her, but you shown back at camp that Jack's can telL Why, yesterday, headquarters were burning. of than damn birch stubs got A group quickly gathered, mostly burnln dean to the top, nd I'U old men and boys, because the best bet they waa th rowin' live brands man power of town wm out on the half a mile ahead of em." lire Una and they followed Tod ."And they might go further than and Kerry bctom the street to the Tod West commented. bank. that," They might, another Mid; not They crowded Into the bank and likely, but still they might and a man rooe from his desk behind then Jack pulled Tod to one aide the counter. where nobody but Kerry could hear "Jack'd headquarters are gone," and Mid: Mid Tod, handing the file to the "Since thla thing broke Ive man. "But wo brought In the payroll. Did my damnedest to Mve thought no more about than the boys have about pay day. something of camp but I was alone. Showa I'm gettln old. Tonll be Kerry, here, lugged the money out here. Tod. ' Somebody with a he of the office Juat In tlma" on era's got to stay by the tele"Tbafa fine," Mid the banker, phone again. It aint likely shell pressing the catch of the Ilia ua. from If aha does, it "That's suro lucky 1 I happen to get away ain't likely she'll get clean to camp know that If Jack should lose" In a hurry. But If anything should Ho stopped short, then, and Tod Into leaned forward and the others happen, you get that pay-rotown. Silver's all right, but It's pressed up dona attracted by the mostly bills and Mus'd burn aura look on West's face, likely. It was In that old Mfe of mine." a look that even a "They aura would," agreed Tod. boy would notlca Then Jack had looked at Kerry. "Why," tha banker said, "why. "Be good boy, ion I" he Mid Tod, It's empty P A moment of terrific silence folcheerily, as If he were only going out on the Job and not to a Are lowed and then Tod looked down at Una "Be good boy," end tweaked Kerry and said In a queer, unKerry's Mr playfully. friendly way: "And him," he aald to Tod, sud"Kid, which Me did you bringl" The boy swallowed, with a new denly sober and Jerking bis head at the lad. "Twenty-tw- o hunderd, sort of thrill running his small small as It Is, d bust me right now, frama ao get that out If anything pope. "Why, ha Mid, "why, I fetched But Mm If yon get a ehanca . . . Yon told me the one on the eend hla Into town anyurayn" . Mfa Tod So Kerry knew that Jack thought The bookkeeper swon slowly unmore of Mm than ha did of going der his brMth and looked at the bust banker. He Mt there a long tlma feeling "Good God, I trusted him I" he Important It waant much that Hid In a whisper. he eould do for Jack over, but Tha other clicked his tongue. now, watching that flla he knew "Ob-hho Mid, "But that If Are should come Into camp he's only s little boy," ho added hed grab that bon and get to the and slapped the file shut "That speeder floater than he bad surely is going to bo tough for gotten anywhere before In hla life. JaekP HO rose Anally and looked through Kerry's kneM won shaking and the window toward the water tank theN seemed to bo a vanot place where tba speeder waited. . Tod In hla mlddla mb aald Kerry Xoung, swallowed, hla heart going with Tod looking so scared. "Now, listen, careful. I took the payroll out of the cash drawer, seal Ifi In thla letter-fllthis one, right here." Ha laid bis band on the brown bos on top of the oaf" Another flic was on the dMk. and more on a shelf above It; but Tod put hla hand right on that ' Medal odsl "I'm goln' out to scout around. If anything happens, It may happen fast. The Mcedt right on the track, now right by there. ' If I yell, yoe tye water-tank- , bring the file and coma Understand that?" "Bure, Tod," aald Kerry, end swallowed again, even If hla mouth eras' drier than ever. "Good boy I Everybody! got to do hla part, time like this." Be went out then, and Kerry eat down on a chair with hla breath Buttery la hla throat sat heavily on his small shoulders, but hed do Just what Tod had told him to da That payroll was old Jack'a money, and hed braak hla neck to help eld Jack, ha would! Good old Jack, who had found him In the house the .tfay before hla mother died, and get the doctor and did an that he could da and wha after It waa all ever and he waa alone, Mm to camp. That had been winter before hud, and It looked-aIf ha sraa going to stay with Jack forever. He certainly hop Nobody In the world eould be ao kind to a little boy who had nobody alas to look out for Mm Bura," e McGoofeys First Reader and Eclectic Primer zz Edited kjYLl. PHILLIPS! ll seven-year-o- ... r P long-draw- a t Begin it now in the FOREST Woods Serial With Action FLAME A Big By Harold TftuE Start sight ham am earn Of Bogin today with Karry the swiftest, emackiuest Young In hla datanelnad adventures nf year whole aeoreh far tha Man wha file. Never befeaw baa evam wronged Mm whan ho was only a hey yenll never give up until you've finished the this anted writer mt outdoor adventure stories last thrilling chapter! Start reached tho peak a t action of FLAME IN THE FOREST two-fist- ho-aa- ao FLAME IN THX FOREST. THIS IS THE s FIRST INSTALLMENT Begin now and follow FLAME IN THE FOREST every week in this newspaper Ho hM Juat beard a feminine acres oi. What will ho do? It aU depends I Jennie end Wilbur wcn poor It aU depends on what? but honest. locating the cry I Their folks weN abort oo of On whether,he after Unde that It comes distress, money but long on principles. from a young good looker or some 8 They tried to guide their children aright, end always emphasized old dame who la no bargala Buppoae the scream comes from a couNga 4 "Be bNve and resoluta as you good looker? Then Gerald will leap Into action, go through lift," tho father used to tear through the crowd and go for tell them. Never compromlaa the distressed party In a big way. fi "Fear," their mother told them fluppoM the bather crying for aid ever ao often, Is pagan and hsi no place In the character of s rest man Is fat, forty and Impossible? Then Gerald will be out to lunch or woman." 5 TbeN was hardly a day that until the crisis la over. womTlien what Is a middle-ageJennie and Wilbur weN not lectured on courage end Its Importsnca an to do when she goes In swimming? la Ufa T Often their parents would put Anything but expect eld from the them to some test calculated to young and handsome Ufe guard. strengthen their backbone and rid them of InblMtlona JUMBLED LETTERS CONTEST 8 Wilbur ee e Uttlo boy wm often sent on long trips st night Rearrange the following letters through the dark, end Jennie was so they spell the names of great made to sleep in a dingy attic room admirals and generals away from the others in tha household ao she would shako off all Pergahln. UcClellna. HgaL Hcof. Bwalltooa Tgran. nervousness end fright Joreff. BonJack. 9 Their parents once rented a Hanaber. Washtonlng. Kitchen ra. haunted house for tho summer Just Ela to show the kiddles It wm all super- Bdanhert ManpuL 8terbaf. Taega stition. 10 Everything possible wm done (If the wind Is right, T hours should be sufficient time lo which to to make them resoluta bold and unaccomplish the above test.) afraid. II They let Jennie go on a lion hnnt with an African expedition RIGHT MEANING OF when she .wm only alxtaea and WORDS TEST during .a summer vacation Wilbur ' got s fio driving Vine of those powChecks the words which properly der wagons; labeled Dangerous. complete the following sentence: High Bxpl vs'vea" duck Mandrake la 12 Ill time they had reached e Japanese title the age d twenty Jennie end Wit an herb a pill bur wei farming utensil. They pretty hard. A fetlock la werent afraid of anything. Timidsomething used a dlatance of to seal doors ity wm foreign to their naturea' an 18 And It all profiled them ground, oaullrally speaking gun used In tho cologNatly. 14 For they became public links nial ware part of a bone. A modicum la a college degolfers. email house on tba deck 15 And what la more, they gree a email a bird of s boat played Saturday and Sundays without steel helmets, leather vests or quantity. A sampan la a Chinese boat shin guards. a chara type of eloth MORAL You cant overemphasise any quality In character build- acter In nursery stories vis: the a cooking ing. Japanese sampan k well-know- com-uillt- d "Kid, Which File Did You BrlngP a sense of having been abused, outraged. Jack had gone bust because his pay - Nil was burned up but he had done Just as he had been told to do. . And befON ho knew what he wm doing, he was sobbing Juat put-npo- that: "I fetched the one you told me I did I I dldl" He got that far befoN his sobs choked him and ho slunk to a corner, burying his face In his anna Old Jack wm bust and they said It wm because he got rattled when he had done m he'd been told and tried his best to help! ' I ' CHAPTER II toward evening and got to town at dusk. Ha had heard about Ms camp, of course, but he had not heard about l. And when the loss of bis they told Mm he Mid nothing for, perhaps, a quarter of a minute but In thoM seconds he aged. Befora men had called him Old Jack because they loved him. . . . Afterward, he was an old man, In fact, The first thing he Mid after ho knew the worst that had happened referred to Kerry. Ha looked at the boy and winked and managed a sort of grin and Mid: "But youre all right, son P aa If that won air ho would admit m being of any Importance. And after that he Mid but little tor days. He appeared to listen when people talked but If he heard he seldom answered properly. Once he Mid to Kerry, when they were alone In their room at the mill boarding house: "TOugh, to let a coupla thouMnd bust yon. , , . But it waa that RAINED ITJack Snow pay-rol- OF LIFE Be neat In ell the things of Ufa Be ruled by tidiness; Let order guide you day by day And bring yon bapplnesa coming. Put everything where It e youP (TO BE CONTINUED) " ' utenaiL PSALMS dost" He began to be feverish and talked at night In bis sleep, holding the little boy close In his arms while the tremors ran through him. Tod West camo to say, good-by- e and declared again that It was his fault, that he should have fetched hlmaelf. the letter-fllJack roused from his lethargy. Fault, hell?" ho snorted and spit; the way he nsed lo da "You done your damnedest, both ot s, b-- i Help mommer keep the bouse quite nMt Dost litter up c room; When others have to tidy up It fills them full of gloom. He managed to rustle enough to pay off the crew; that la those who would taka what they had die-Mtl- -- THE STORY OF JENNIE AND WILBUR mile-wid- no they raed n statement explaining their position which, though tactful, wee none the less direct In expressing their action. hra long been a Hunting senatorial pa In the meantime, the Morgan tlma It ta a practice, a gaum, which hM been need by some senators over partners, heeded by J. P. Morgan and over again to obtain tor them- hiiMeir, Mt In the wltnese chain selves personal publicity, usually at wllh nothing to da They Mt tor th expeuM of private Interests three days with virtually no queswhich always ora smeared In sena- tions being put to them. From their standpoint, I believe torial Investigations whether Justitheir climactic appearance ns witfied or not nesses tree quite fitting. The comLately, however, headline hunting, m a paitlme, took ao awful mittee that had tuned out with bales end bales of records from blow on the chin. And when headline hunting was the recipient of a which the Investigators were going flaw-bacfrom Ita own devices, It to prove how terrible was the House n senate fig- of Morgan bad found U wm givcaught two ures In th whirlpool of the reac- ing them n rather clean bill of heultb. They found tlint the tion. Probably one of tlia senator Instead of proving tlint they was largely responsible for the terrific explosion that took place end had brought on the war, wm provhe caught the full force end effect ing for tba limine of Uorgan that of hla own statements aa they came It bad served the United States govIn reverse gear. ernment; that Its policies were of The Incident to which I refer oc- more value to this country than curred In connection wllh the In- they ever had been publicly shown vestigation of munitions makers and to be before and that In the end bankera by Senator Nye, Republic- they had enabled the governments an, of North Dakota, and this spe- of Great liriluln and France to cial committee of which he la chair- maintain their strength and fight man. Thla investigation ba gone off the Oenirul Powers until the on for some fifteen months and has men and money from the United coat approximately IllXMNW, RHSjOtK) Slates were brought Into play. of which came out of fundi approThrough the lung year that J. priated to feed the hungry of New P. Morgan end comimny hoi opYork dly. It hae disclosed some erated In New York the name hM questionable practice by some of been aynoiiymiiiia with Wall Street. the email dealers In munitions But It wm synonymous with Well m a srhola I believe the eonecniiie Street because demagogues end Id Washington Is that llr. Nye1 those politicians who profit by haltInvestigation, called a fishing expe- ing big hualnesa m popular (port Alhad created thnt ImpreMlon. dition by many newapaper hM added little or nothways when It wai profitable for a representative or senator to coning of a constructive character. jure up a picture to win votes for Once befora In these columns I hlmaelf you could find allusion! to reported to you how Benator Nye the "mighty power of Morgan." It will be recalled how In rewas proceeding Tm Groat about the country cent years two former senators, Flan-Bac- k making speeches Itrookhart, Republican of Iowa, and In which ho Heflin, Democrat of Alabama, made charged munitions makers and In- mince meat of the "money changers ternational hankers and even air- of Well Street." Always the "money craft and shlphiillddera with being changers" were headed up by the Instrumental In promoting erar. In- House of Horgim. I mention these deed, he asserted numerous times two former senator because their tlinM that banker! and munition! maker attaeks are typical. Thehad' forced Hie United States Into In tlie senate today who do tu ume thing for the same purposes. the World war. lie and InvestigThe committee Investigation of ator, employed by the committee, were constantly engaged In telling the House of Morgan showed thnt capital correniHindiiita of terrible the Institution had profited by actthings which the Investigator! had ing m commerclul agents for the stdug up while they mulled through ile end thnt In handling about private files of bnnke and business three billion dollars In purchases house. These brought plenty of of wheat, cotton, coal, oil, sheila n and other munition of war for tho headllnea but now thnt the Investigation In vlrtuully over, allies, a commission of 1 per cent one can hardly agree In making a had been pnld to the House of Morfair appraisal of the committees gan. The Inquiry also revealed the work that the chargee have been extent to which Morgan and comsubstantiated. pany had taken bonds of the French Benator Nye Is an advocate of and llrltlsh governments and had old them here. Evidence showed peace end he bed many opportunities, therefore, to epiienr In the roll that after the United States entered of n pence lender In speeches be- the war, the United State government took over the Job of financing fore various organizations Interested. It develoited, however, Hint he those nations whose business ami received honoraria, gifts of money financial transactions had been handled by the nrmae of Morgan prior or fees, for the speeches. But to get bark to tlie headline to April 0. 1017. So. the mnnltlons Investigation, hunting and how It flared back, the climax of the munition Inquiry whs Instead of smearing the House of the Investigation of the gigantic Morgen, apparently has told for the New York financial house of J. P, first time the details nf how It d Morgan and comimny. It was while dnrlng n period when the the Morgan partners were on the United States government conld do witness stand that the explosion nothing, a period when the vent macame end It did not Inrolre Mor- jority of our citizens were proved gan In any way. The Incident to hare been sympathetic wllh tho around which the storm blew hardlllcs against the central powers. est came when Benator Clark of Missouri, a eon of the distinguished At the outset I Mid thb Investigalate Speaker Clerk, read Into the tion luu flared buck on lls committee record documents show. sort. Time uluna Senatorial wi tell bow alg- ing how President Wilson had diplosena evaded Informing matically olficant thb ex Inquiriea ate committee of the existence of plosion bun been, which treaties among the allies by end time alone disclose whether it there would be a dlrlslon of the will have the effect of reducing the colonies of Germany and number of senatorial excursions If the elllee won the World Into the affaire of private buslneia documents war. Subsequently, The senate hM rut power end bowed that Mr. Wilson wan aware they ere susceptible to abuea of thoM treaties end when thin wan Thera era many unblued students disclosed, Senator Nye charged In of government who bold the conA committee hearing that Ur. viction that there have been unhad falsified the records. warranted Investigations by the Mn-at-a Thera followed the explosion. and that these Investigations senWord reached the floor of the amount to persecution of private ate, then In session, and Senator business. Obviously, some Inquiries Connolly, Texas Democrat, blew off have turned up reel dirt. Take tha the Ud. He openly aernsed Senator oil scandal that came out of the Nye of besmirching the Dimes of Harding administration, for examMr. Wilson and the bte Secretary ple. The tecta In that conspiracy of State Lansing, and charged et probably never would have been the same time that the North Da- disclosed except for the vlgorene kota senator m as a publicity seeker. Job done by the late Senator Watah, Senator Clark wm criticised also Montana Democrat Thera are end the In terra ra wm east out In Illustrations of the truth of the vicious senate debate that the tli- - statement that some InvestigaMissouri nenstor was Indirectly tions are valuable. On the other biased because hb father had lost bend. It teem to me that headline th Presidential nomination to Mr. hunting such, represents n gam Wilson In that famons and bitter somewhat outside of the mice of Thus fair play. 1Q12 Democratic convention. Senator Clark got caught In the If the bitter testing that wm demem but not to such no extent aa veloped from the eliuntlon centerSenator because did Senator Nye ing srnnnd President Wilson's warGbes, the Virginia Democrat and n time actions serve as lesson for administraWilson tender In the the future, I feel sura that them tion, alio took up the cudgel end will he fearer aenatorial Inquiries, lambasted the youthful North Da- It showa. or ought to show, thnt kotan without the benefit of glovea there should be some hauls estabOn top of thla Senator Pope of lished before senate committee Idaho, end Senator George of Geor- goes whole hog after the hides of withboth stalwart Democrats, gia, any business men, largo nr amalL draw from the Nye committee pro O Wasters Nampa par Ualea. a ceeding. In doing Headline hunting Washington. n term originated by the gulilied writer, Headluto t'luyd Gibbons . pay-ro- ll riba bend out of shape. No, air I Thla was no time to act like a baby I Headquarters waa going, sure enough, but they were getting good dd Jacks money out to safety. That was hla lob: to help save good old Jack from going bust When you've got a lob like that, for a man like that, you cant let on you're scared, can youT No; not even at seven, you cant! Ha had been outside the office, standing In the deserted camp clearing, staring off up the road which Jack and the crew had taken before daylight, and where the cook had lust gone with dinner tor the when the bookkeeper called to him. "Listen, Kerry," Tod bad Mid. 1 want you to alt right here until I call you or come back. Wind's fettlng worse." Hla big, ordinarily d face was white, and line beads of moisture pricked out above hla eye- hla Tod, - what's the matter?" he asked shrilly. "Tod, Is tha money back yonder? Did It burn ua Todr And then, summoning all hla vigor, Tod, I done Just what you told mol" West shook his head. No, you didn't understand," ho Mid In a moan. "You didn't understand, and tha money's burned sun as hell and , . , By God, boys. It's my fault I" Someone Mid: "It ain't your fault Tod. The kid, ha got rattled." Another Mid: "ItH be all day with old Jack now I" They all looked at the boy and ho knew they weN blaming him. All but Tqd. Tod did not look hla way; theN wm something funny about Tod's eyes. Hiq nostrils smarted and a lump swelled In his throat suddenly. 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