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Show j .... v ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS I BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE ICE WALL When the twins saw the high wall of lcn towering up before them, it didn't frighten them a bit. Had they pot crosa-eil crosa-eil mountains and Icebergs since leaving the North Pole, even higher than thlx? yTe ."bail just wl6h ourselves over." aald Nanei reaching out for Nick's hand i as they whizzed throuKn the air in the, I Manual Shoes. j "Sure." eald Nick. "Please Little I know what it is.. It s the wicked fplr-the fplr-the Bohadll Jin. trying to keep us from our errand. He s raiding the wall and he'll never let ns over' Down tin v came t i (he ground, then, to think things over and to try to fnd a way out of their difficulty, that Is, a wa over or through the Ice wall Just then the sun a rays shone on some letters that were froen In the Ice. Thev spelled these words, "The Arcib- Circle 'Oh"' cried Nick, reaching into the. MB Green flhoos, will you kindly lift Nancy j und me over the wall?" l'p they went at once as easily as two little sparrows Who shoot up without effort ef-fort to the limbs of the tallest tree, nut a curious thing hapjieried. Just as they I -i'i tO the top of the Ice wall, up It shot Bgaln .v hundred feet higher.. "OV" i led Nar."v "We shall have to wish I sgaln!" Wh L-h they rlld at once But no I toner bad thej rerhed the top than' the same thing happer.ed again "It must ;e magii '" cried Nick. "'n.' pocket of his liitle bear-skin coat for his golden key. "There must to n t-s.') soin. where' This 13 the cr wall S:uit!i told us about1 "Here It Is. called Nancy who'd gone searching. A lit(Je golden lo..rwuv In a golden archway, swung open as Nick pul the key Into the lock. In an instant they w.-r. through and standing cn the other side. But nnother curious thing happened Hie let wall vanished Instantly. ' (Copyright, 1920, . E A.) |