Show WHERE STORIES ARE GROUND J 1 f 1 A story 7 A goo good d on one wIt with h bl blood 00 d an and d f thunder and hair breadth escapes I Now hurry up there get to work and dont don't cut it too short because were we're short on material and its it's got gotto to tobe be done in two hours The literary editor fell into a chair and began to look wild I Come now Tom dont don't begin that way I know you haven't re reported reported reported re- re ported at a class today and have written sixteen pages already but I d that dont don't make any difference you'll just have to grind out another story Heres Chubby too hell he'll pull you out of the tight places continued the boss as Tom showed no evi- evi der dep den Pc p c of rf coming back to earth Chubby was an office fixture and anda a good friend of Toms Tom's so when the boss finally disappeared the two commenced a little on the pure cussedness cussedness cussedness cus- cus of life and then with enough paper before them to write an hauled off for fora fori i a story Et f t Tom held the pen which began at once to leave a trail of ink in its wake as follows The stunning Miss J Dashwood daughter of the millionaire banker astounded her obedient coachman by ordering him to take her to the most deserted street in town and to leave her there As the carriage whirled away Miss Dashwood could not help but feel a little lonely al although although although al- al though she was within ten feet of ofa a telephone In one hand she held a small traveling traveling traveling trav trav- eling grip and with the other tightly tight tight- ly clasped her plentiful skirts Tom looked blank What in the wide world shall I Ido Ido Ido do with her now Chub Oh Id I'd get her off the street car track pretty quick Have her meet somebody or something The nen began to scratch again Miss Dashwood stood undecided in the middle of the street car track Oh if I r. am too late she thought but just then there was a whizzing and jarring of bolts from behind and the heiress to millions suddenly found herself comfortably but rather unceremoniously seated in a street car fender And the car didn't slack its speed She heard the cruel motorman say sayto sayto sayto to someone on the platform that they were making up lost time and the gal would have to wait till the nexe stopping place Indeed she did and clung to her grip 11 fhe while Who knows but what it a gold brick The first place where the car stopped was in the middle of a trussel crossing the river and Miss Dashwood didn't get off But before many more blocks the car turned a swift curve for which the young lady was not prepared and to her utter astonishment astonishment astonishment astonish astonish- ment she was neatly landed In m the arms of a pedestrian who was waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing for the car to pass Tom declared himself stumped and Chubby came to the rescue again Oh HOh have a villain track her and andoh oh hang on to that satchel Well We'll get something out of that yet Yes but how will I get her out of that fellows fellow's arms 1 Chubby rubbed his fat chin Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps he thought that it would be a pretty tough job if the man knew a good thing when he saw itOh itOh it Oh HOh I tell you what Just cut that out and let the boss fix it up when he reads the proof So H cut it out and the next heard of the adventurous Miss Dashwood she was dashing up a adark adark adark dark alley aIley grip in hand closely pursued pursued pursued pur pur- sued by a villain The The latter was gaining on his fair fairl l victim when suddenly the form of a aman aman aman man swung swung- down from the lower end of a fire escape directly in his path Ah HAh I have found you at last he hissed and Hand you are still up to your old game f 1 Get out of my road cant can't you see she's got a satchel j Yes HYes perhaps containing the last remnants of her poor wardrobe after af af- of 2 jj ter her landlord has turned her out of house and home Stop I say or I will throttle you I IJ S There scuffle in the dark dark- was a h ness Miss Dashwood who had reached the other end of the alley t I stopped breathless to see who had i come to the rescue and then fell in ina J i UJ a swoon J. J Now say Chubby does that S sound highly poetic Jj HY You ou bet That does her up brown Let some blood and thunder thunder thunder thun thun- der in now and have the Billy M heave in Tom leaned over the page once I J more 4 u The villain was a 1 stalwart fellow L and hardened to crime and he was 1 j 1 r evidently proving too much for his opponent Suddenly a shot rang I out on the night air All eyes were 1 turned in the direction from which 1 it came There at the end of the alley with arm outstretched and 7 flowing tresses stood the lovely wo wo- i man In her right hand was a smoking revolver In her other i was a small traveling grip s ij ijA A crowd quickly collected from l the street and a blue coat in In to see what the crow crowd d meant j jIs i Is he dead asked one j Than a door nail was the an an- Where ere is IS h he e shot so h t I In the leg t it Who Wh o did dd 1 it 1 t J u ui b 3 ti i Blankness on every face All gazed at the cop for an answer The latter as with all cops began to ask to the same question No one confessed confessed confessed con con- the crime the dead man was carried away and the crowd dis dis- persed But what of the lovely woman and her daring rescuer 1 As soon as the latter saw that it was the other fellow who was shot he dashed up the alley and fell at atthe atthe j the feet of the heiress J Oh beautiful vision what canI can canI I do to win you Oh take this satchel quick quick There is life and death in it Flee with it I want to see it no more It has been my fate Throw it from a lofty place that the feet of the multitude may trample upon it and she burst into an ocean of tears The man took the grip and gripped the girl and disappeared Well Tom what's doin remarked remarked re remarked re- re marked his friend when the pen had ceased its scratching Nothing as I can see Heres Here's the villain killed the hero escaped with the prize nothing but a back alley left on the stage About time for the curtain I guess No N 0 not yet Change the scenery scenery scenery ery and put on a new character And dont don't have it end happy and live ever afterwards A few pedestrians were rubber rubber- ing upwards Soon a few more turned their faces skywards and then the whole block were wondering wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing if one of Santos Dumont's airships airships air airships ships had been turned loose Its coming this way ways said one Call the fire department and lets catch it in a net said another It If was evident that whatever it was had been thrown from the thet t till I. I build build- neighboring thirty-five thirty story ing When it reached the fourteenth story the fire department arrived and stretched its net preparatory to catching anything from a human being to a locomotive The velocity was now so great that no one could distinguish what the object was In Ina a few moments more there was a flash the net sank in the middle and anda a little traveling grip bounced up again out of its meshes The crowd burst into uproarious laughter Somebody got curious and opened the valise A cute little kitten was mewing wildly inside On a card around its neck was written Will the finder take the best o of f care o of f my poor little darling Her name is Eglantine and she is a thoroughbred thoroughbred thoroughbred thor thor- maltese A cruel Pa Papa a ahas has ordered me to part with her and I have cast her on the mercy o of f the multitude Tom threw his pen across the room all he gets fromme from fromme fromme me he declared I dont don't care what became of the Dashwood outfit There comes the boss anyway tell him Chubby that here are three pages of the best story he ever read |