| Show V of I 1 k I 1 I 1 CLUB I 1 i h 7 W f 11 i it LINES LINES FROM THE LIVES 41 1 t OPLE EOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 vanishing shing corpses 9 I 1 by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter I 1 0 EVERYBODY ou know ow boys and girls ive often noticed notice d in these re e stories how in a good many cases one mishap j another probably because tile the first thing Es s wr wrong ong so upsets tile the fellow it happens to that just loses his head and plunges right smack into ill danger r td d business when a man loses his head in the face of d danger anger ill s same time it has produced a lot of red hot double adventures and the story im going to toll tell you today ly good example I 1 moore of chicago Is distinguished adventurer tho the B yarn deals with happened to him and two other lads in sep 23 1 that time paul was just a kid of twelve living in grand P i alch paul had just heen been given a 22 caliber rifle ride for perfume and one saturday lie he and ills his two friends art I 1 1 and archie lastman eastman started out on a hunting trip I 1 id archie had air rifles paul paid had no cartridges for his 22 but I 1 e knew where he could get some they started out early taking hes s with them and after walking a couple hours came to a I 1 roods 0 ds four miles from the outskirts of town art the cartridge see seem to be any game in sight so they sat down on tile tho small creek to eat their lunches paul had put down his gun ast starting to untie the package that contained his grub when up jp saying there was a wild canary on the other side of the creek have your gun whispered art 1 I cant get it with mine assed over his rifle ride art had the cartridges in his own pocket ne ie out and tried to put it in the chamber it it fit art know that the cartridges he had brought from e the wrong caliber lie he thought this one go into tho the I 1 0 iv t 11 71 e N 5 I 1 P j h oil F I 1 1 1 i I 1 I 1 ail ii I 1 1 i 1 i j 4 V 7 I 1 1 ip 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 i 11 i iliin ibi 11 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 i I 1 1 i 11 I 1 I 1 i 4 1 hii I u 1 j 1 iii 4 11 lii jim T 01 I 1 W 1 I 1 I 1 ina M bezec F aim ca ekr 1 if archie pitched forward on ills his face because the gun was new he tried to force forfeit eit it in with his fingers 1 t in n his haste to get a shot at the bird before it flew away he p a a stone that happened to be lying at his feet k rt hit the bullet two or three times with that stone and i 4 suddenly id denly there was a loud crack ape bullet exploded art ped 1 the gun crying im shot shoil then he fell to the ground lay still L bother two kids stood speechless art had killed himsel fl paul incle ie who lived about a mile away on the other side of the woods 4 first st thought that popped into his mind was to run there and I 1 ald archie to stay behind with art but archie insisted on going ath him they started off on a short cut through the woods runt I 1 fast as their legs would carry them I 1 he other side of the w woods they came to the tracks of the inter ne that runs out of grand rapids there was a third rail along 1 it of t way set up a toot or so above the ground 1 I knew lew about it lie he was well up ahead of archie and he went with a flying leap but he think to worn warn archie about that ed rail all ills mind was too full of the thought of art lying back s v the e creek bank 1 I I 1 archie stepped 0 an n third rail I 1 A next t thing paul knew archie was stepping on that rail ile he t on it t for an instant then he pitched forward on his face and A lay L archias archies Ar tiles chies body was lying between the two tracks 1 I 1 took one at him says paul and decided he wa was s dead then I 1 turned ran as it if the devil was after me as a a long way to his uncles house and by that time paul was put of at breath but he dare stop running he stumbled on he reached cached the house and burst in panting uncle abel quick aled himself with my gun and archies archias Ar chies been electrocute dl ie in the house including two old ladies who were wera visiting aunt dropped whatever they were doing and started tor for the they y hurried through brush and corn fields to the spot where bad fallen and when they arrived there wa was sno no sign of archie le abe be turned on paul young man he sa said id sternly are you p t a joke of some kind but it was no joke to paul lie he thought a passing ssang interurban had stopped to pick archie up ile he crossed 1 k and id started through the woods toward the stream where they I 1 art I 1 both bodies had disappeared women nen turned back but uncle abe followed along after him n through ough the woods in breathless haste tore tord up to the spot where I 1 shot it himself and then paul stopped dead in his tracks art ie tool 0 I 1 as too 0 o much tor for paul his uncle w was as looking at win him suspiciously I 1 hardly lly knew what to say could ud paul ask him to believe that two dead boys had both I 1 ared i one right after the other he stood there silent a minute n he heard sounds of splashing water and of voices coming from iown down the stream together they walked toward those vo voices ices re they ey found art and archie avas ill all explained easily enough archie had been knocked out 1 1 shock from the third rall he had a big bump on his head but s all the damage that had been done to him en he came to he went back to where art ha had d fallen and found thing his leg which had been grazed on the calf by a bit of the I 1 1 ng shell lell er they had moved down stream a ways and I 1 ettere paul found them J B all there Is to this story except that a short time after t t and archie and paul took that 22 rifle and pitched it in the grand i 1 4 copyright service I 1 |
