Show WALLoWED U UP fy M MRS WlL WILTON A t BY y R IT UIt D Wl U y RI Tift M AV AMy BEDIN i frilL if-frilL Y TODO Hope liopo Ranger RAng of ot weal weal- wealth wealth wealth th- th parents ra after afler lun- lun lun lun shon at tho the Plaza Plain A reward ot of o II a hundred hundred thousand I Is otter offer ed for tor her ber l er SAfe sate return Eu and Juarez Charlie adventurer both warm friends of 01 o Ranger Ranker slAt assist the tho father in for tor his hili daughter Frank Fronk Bryan I Is Hangers Hanger's pit private vats vate secretary A message com to Loring instructing him hint to bu buy a 0 lint bat for tor hope and lease leaH It at a S specified place Loring acts acta accor accor- according according ding to Instructions and In duo duc receives a picture of hIs daughter daug taken In the tho hat ho he h pur pur- purchased purchased purchased chased George Georg-e Kelsey Kelly is detained at a 5 sanitarium and makes friends with witha II a girl registered aj as a 0 sister to a nurse nure named Copl bOW fOW GO 00 Oft CM 01 MTH ti-rn STOUT STORY With Ith a sigh of relief Charlie sank Into a ch chair lr and busied buried him him- himself self tolf in rolling a a succession of ot cig- cig ell cle cleared ared arete Perhaps a print fingerprint man mall rn mould could help us Ranger tsa VIM still dl on this theme That let let- letter let letter ter and the photograph must muot have hava been handled by the person who put them in the em envelope and It night mIght be- be beAt beAt be 7 At l last st Charlie could unleash Good Lord Lair LorI Lorn a stas actual entreaty In his Won t you understand 0 Wont ont ou on realize what hat we se e are u up I against You iou talk about making thoi thoo pee pee- peo people pie pay and sit It here hero weaving Ing kind kind- kindergarten schemes to trap them and andall Lii tho the time they they've e got Rot iou ou au ed up Ip tighter than a drum rot got lour our daughter In their hand and the they tell teU i ou plainly that If with hun bun hundred hundred IOU ou dont don't come acro across a dred lied grand by and play square with stith them too you'll too never ever see seo her again What hat ar are ou au going to do about that I 1 Ranger flinched for R a moment etore this vigorous orous presentation but Ut he rallied Why h It If I cant can't do anything else anything else slee I It deposit the bonds as dl- dl di directed and then hate e enough men lose at hand to nab er come omes after orter them And iou ion ou expect em to walk right ht Into our bunch of ot nat t Lorry Larry Lorr Lorry A a iop kidnaper from the East EastSide Side ildo would kno know knots better than to rau all for a game came like lIe that Do ou kno now this place where you re cup rup- posed rup-posed posed to plant the bonds 0 Certainly Behind a loose looe stone hone In the arch archway 8 where the Lone rone Hill road un s-un runs under the racks Got a picture of the locality in our mind 0 1 I know ItI It 11 sell nell I travel tra el that stay ay Or o time I motor out to our plate in So do I know II It Charlie Charlies s mouth widened Got chased through there thero ono one by I a farmers farmer's dog watch and It If you ou au It ii remember youve you've got to bs be b pretty nearly Inside the archway before I IOU ou can tell lell what's hats hat's going on In InI I there boI bo So I with Ith d dozens zon of ot automo automo- automobiles bUe tiles biles of all kinds passing that road all sll tho the time your watchers would ha tate hae e to be planted practically In plain lain view 10 lost to the one that stops tad gets the Jack Ranger Kanger hen elton a hen he ga Rave gate e it thou thou- thought chI fht could not well welt deny the th of ot the tho objection Hi head tho the worried lines lints to reappear In hi his hui face race I And now no this Charlie caught up ii the letter from the tho Combine i You say you ou found round It on sour our teak dek when hen you came coma back form luncheon Any Idea Ideo how It got gothere thero here I I meant to speak about that that Rangers RanCH's mouth tightened tig omin- omin omin ominously maly Ito Ive had everybody body In la the questioned but no one oneL L being being- near the tho office What doe does Bryan say nl had a 0 chance to talk to 0 him yet et He tie left before I did to togo too toRO go o to Nov Nev ark arle and bean bann t got back backet yet et I J dont don't pee pee- ewe l- l lb Ho He shook hook his head But l anho ho 10 gre gross grew grim again 1 m ra going to gh iso 0 him hi hiI his walking stalking I papers papers-on papers I I t Charlie demurred You nant stant I ant a fellow of or that kind hind where ou tou ou can ke keep p an rio ese e on him urn Sho Show him this letter and con con- con con-bult bUIt him about it II You 1 earn earli an thing but It will make mae him feel teel elUl nay y Then hi his salary Toll Tell urn you iou ou tant ant to show shots your sour ou r to- to appreciation ap appreciation of ot hi lila his faithful Ben en Ice Ices He Ito rase and will walked ked up and Iowa down the room motioning to 0 silence Ivo Ive ivo got an Idea Lorry Lorri he I IL L A CHARLIE CLIMBED RACI BACK ON lip HIS MOTORCYCLE AND RE- RE RETURNED RE RETURNED TURNED TO THE TIU JUNGLE JU said at last but I dont don't want to 10 talk about it C even eten en to you You just follow r instructIons Instructions ou oue e got to anyhow r Ranger on 5 on t I stand for tor an thing thine else and else place thos those bonds bonda 03 as they've they told 3 ou Then heat leave ea e c the rest reet to me I But a you ott au tt will Ill iii need ned help of at rome come ort 1 Ranger Rang puckered hie his br broas You re not going to this I l cro croad d alone handed sing 0 Well ell led not exactly dras dra Cl You used to go o to the ra- ra race ra race cot ce I remember Then Ihen tr if you aou ou don t mind Id I'd like liko to bor- bor borrow borrow bor borrow row a 0 watch stop-watch and a IL pair ot of offield CHAPTER X Where the Lone Lolle lull Hill road roLd one oneo or of County's main tras- tras trav traveled elod dips under the railroad tracks track It passes passe through nfl an archway of masonry een 60 50 and 79 feet teet f t long an and I as os this l ay I Is high enough to nc- nc ac a 0 load of Isa ha hay and tile the surrounding is one of level fields tile the approach on either rither side tide I is h a steep leep walled wall cut But Charlie thought he saw Y s w a away aWay away way to get around these 1 king conditions condition He did not go home that night after atter leaving Ran Ran- Ranger's Ranger's gers ger's office but Instead registered ree at t a cheap chea East Side hotel chere III he spent the el In an cx- cx e an automobile map road road map map of County About two o'clock ho came doan downstairs n stairs and passed posed out re- re remal re mal king to the night ht cler clerk that he heI I sta was IlS wakeful and thought ho he take a a walk stalk before he turn turn- turned turned turned ed In InA A At t a garage guage eight or ten tn blocks block oay where her he had left heft hi his motor motor- motor motor-c cl 1 he lie got It and chugged brIsk brIsk- brIskly ly ly Iy over oter the Williamsburg burc bridge as astr asif asIf tr if heading for tor bin lodgings lodging One the theother th theother other side though he deviated de from the direct route and t Isted aimlessly through a 0 succession of lighted ill-lighted tenement streets until ho was waa sure ure he ho had thrown throan II oft off any anyone anyone anyone one v who aho ho might be tf Ing- Ing to trail lila him when hen be lie turned north and crossed back to the Manhattan by byI byway I stay ay of Queensboro brill bridge go at tift ninth ninth Street Dawn n found him at a little patch of woods along the railroad rl track about half a 0 mile distant from the archway at the Lone Hill lull road road- road road-Ing ing where I here the ashes of a burned burned- out burned out camp tire fire and a scattered litter ot of rag rags rag's ne old tin can cans and worn out shoes betokened a 0 hobo Jungle lunele Beside It ran a back boch road little littlemore more tha a w wagon on crossing the railroad hero here po n a level hotel le el and forking Into a a- amile mile From hla hi study of ot the tha map he be knew I that tb this way by-way again Inter intersected the main road about a II mile and a 8 ahalt half above and he remembered I that It was wa marked as s rough roUKh and alsO andI bumpy but passable for tor machine In cue case of emergency The 1110 irl e c campaigner though leaves nothing to chance In order to make sure that it was wan open and 55 obstructions Charlie rode roCe out to the Intersection with Jon Lent Hill Hili road and circled back by way of this to his hi lii Ung point L I In the tha archway at the railroad ho he dismounted to take n a alook alook look at the place designated as a a depository for the Liberty bonds bond and from the tho Instructions In the letter found no difficulty In locatIng locating ing log It lust Just about midway of ot the and at tho the height of a a mans man's man I shoulder there thero was ass a I streak on the masonry caused by dampness and the mortar had bad crumbled from around one of the I stones leaving heating It loose I Testing It with stith hi his fingers Char Char- Charlie Charlie Charlie lie found the block easy euy to lift out Behind It was wu a crevice shallow but sill atil large enough to hold a package of securities Charlie climbed back on his mo- mo motorcycle mo motorcycle and returned to the jun jun gle gle Ho lie appeared as aa he ho had bad cx- cx ex expected to h have hate 0 it wholly to him him- himself himself self This was stas a a season seaon when hen Its It nomadic were acre more apt to be In the et we t following the tho ae aal e of ot circuses and street fairs or answering the tho need for har bar harest bartest harvest vest test est hands hand The Tho of the last fire fire camp I were acre tro cold Z as a proper mess meas measure ure of or precaution ho he the entire patch of or meae-I meae and s ns the light grew stronger trong climbed a Ire tree to the surrounding country I i He lie oil slid do down doan n from the tho tree nd after hiding biding his motorcycle cle care core carefully carefully fully under n ii II pile of or blush bl ush laid l do doan n In a sandy hollow an and pul- pul pulling pulling pul pulling ling hi his hat ot over r er hi his 0 v eyes e es prepared to sleep II When lie awoke loke several hours hour lat later the sun was warm on him and ho lie lay luxurious luxurious for tor a a bile listening to the tho ailed and wood sounds all long familiar to him Finally he ho rolled 01 over oser er and pulled out his watch latch ItI It I was stas as almost 11 o'clock He lie ate nto from hi his package of sand sand- sandwiches Iche uncorked tho the thermos bot hot hottIe bottle tIe tic then rising rising- swung wung himself up I lIh a a good deal of or agility into Inlo the tho tree under which he ho had been sitting The hours passed on The un had the tho and and declined declined ed Cd toward tollard the west nest cst Charlie In his lear leafs retreat disposed of hi his ho- ho ho sandwiches lehe andI and I what hat was left lect of the coffee cortee In his thermos bottle The Tho rest resl of ot the tho time he put In at timing the automobiles At past halt three Ranger Rangers Ranger's big touring car como came along alone from the direction of or tots to town n 0 Through h the I glasses Charlie could recognize the figure of the manufacturer himself In the tho drivers driver's seat He was WIlS quite alone and as he be neared the crossin crossing seemed to be glancing to right and left Wondering what Im I'm up to I Iguess guess chuckled Charlie Yet lila his complacency did not keep him from very sery carefully tim tim- tim timing ing log the pace pac of ot the c car r aa a I it t swept olon along over the marked course Aa As it happened there was Vall no- no nothing nothing no nothing thing thing- else in sight eight when Enger reached the cut and he dro droe e straight ahead At the rate hes he's he travelling he ought to be out In one minute and 17 1 seconds Charlie calculated Well get net a a line hino now on just how howlong howlong howlong long it takes to pull out that stone stono and put it back again I But it was almost five before Ranger reappeared on the tho further side aide of ot the tho crossing Hed h be careful and a a littie slow Charlie reflected so 0 that's no fair criterion Id I'd say though that anything that stayed do dean n there longer than two tIVO minutes minute wasa was a 8 pretty sate safe bet to follow tallow up Continued In Our out ext Issue |