Show J mom THE TAPPED W WIRE IRE by GENEVIEVE GENEVIE VIi ULM ULMAR A R copyright 1918 newspaper union umon V anaf liia neither acrobat nor gymnast nit but ills college c training taken in filat muscular whit 11 mikea it nuin agile und nil tit table it was well for or ned line flue repairer r that tills till liia its xo so just jai sa s1 us its illsley s chanced chat iced to be pits the ta I 1 e mm it aloft on oil tile the telephone received it a shock uttered littered it cry cr and tell f eif upon the crosstrees cros apparently insensible ile he wits hanging li with hl his shead down and slipping slipping lippIng ti the only j deto it a sheer earthward plunge being it a loose wire in which the climbing chooh lio 0 k had h nd e i i g 1 it 1 illsley ll 11 sl ey sprang sl ri t i 1 g it at the pole pulled p 1 I 1 I 1 e d himself self up and fourteen feet accomplished a e e I 1 i i i shed grasped thu the victim of the accident ODO cue hand of tile the latter showed a 11 bad hill tile body was limp the eye e Y 08 s closed the fi fice ice ghastly pale but walters breathed jis slowly painfully ho came canid back to f seii and illsley iley eased him lalni inch by inch down clown the t he pole abu you got me lit in time you faltered falt pred valters Vl it was a narrow graze im 1 1 in 1 not 61 likely to forget you Y au soon I 1 illsley remained with the man until un t 11 lie he saw him fully out of danger at tills ihla especial period illsley was not very happy ife he was a man mail lit in love but something more than that a man in love who hail had confessed the same and had been ruthlessly lessly discouraged the blow had bittl been it a crushing one these were the circumstances um stances ills ley had come collie to Mo orvllle to visit an old invalid uncle find his 11 I 1 s intended sojourn jau rn had glided into it month because lie ho had met breda lorn lome so convinced was lie that lie he had net met its hla fate so apparently pleased 1 leased did miss lorne lome appear with ills attention that two dilys before his necessary retain to business in the city it a pov powerful erful impulse led him to write to her frankly clearly telling her ber oi of the true state 0 of his mind and asking ask ang for the r ho be hoped to receive two mornings after that illsley received a brief note that seemed to seal his fate fate it was arns signed with the initials B L rind informed him appeal was hopeless its as the writer was already engaged to another illsley closed the chapter of ills his one life romance by striving to forget which was impossible and arranged to goeback got back to the city where distance fin might assuage the deep heart pain lie he experienced twice lie ho passed Mis sLome on oil the tha street ito simply bowed hla his manner finner in grave and constrained breda acknowledged the I 1 salutation and flushed half halted as though expecting lie would address iier her andt lien pas passe sedon dpn a certain hurt ex pr eslon upon her face both times fillies slie she was with her constant companion corinee mayhew who was a visitor from another town and whom illsley had met several se arai times fit at the lorne lome home ile he had never liked the young lady hidy for she had certainly set her cap for him and her hold bold forwardness la in this respect had bad led him to evade evabe her illsley had said aid goodby good by to his uncle and liaa had reached the railway depot just at dusk three days d ays after ills his timely services in behalf of ned walters when just as the train bound tor for his destination came in view a swift figure rushed up to him and seized ills his grm it was its ned himself and he was waa breathless bre a thle ss and a ild perturbed just in time the line repairer panted out mr jr ll lsley sley you must come with me for nil an hour bour or two but I 1 have ninde all arrangements to take this train you will defer it I 1 ant am sure when I 1 tell tel lyou you that your future happiness and that of miss bliss breda lome loene depends upon your learning alint I 1 know dont shinki nm am prying Into Anto your affairs but I 1 owe you my life and in my humble calling I 1 have conie come to obtain information of great value to you what do you wean mean questioned elsley sley that a certain letter you received wits was never biever written by miss bliss lorne lome who never ne ver read your own that tha t a miss corinne mayhew has been scheming to discredit you with wit bliss lorne lome in the interests of her brother other by 11 illsley was astounded almost incredulous until walters took him to a room which had a wire running into it to a temporary receiving recell ng instrument listen tit at that thai receiver until there passes over the kirea message from miss bliss mayhew to tier brother c I 1 happen to know will occur within the next hour I 1 have caught many uch euch E in the course of my work during the past few days twenty minutes later illsley bhear aenid d miss bliss mayhew inform hir her brother that illsley had abandoned the field and that her ber brother brot lic must the next day begin the siege of breda s henrt heart that thac breda loved illsley Ill but her very hu mutation mH tation at his apparent neglect would arouse her pride arid add ma keher pliable for a new suitor stilton stil tor illsley did not leave the town tow that night nor the next in fact fa ct not fa at ai all ail ild he saw savo breda and the situation was ivas cleared at the sacrifice of her false girl friend illsley bettler down in and left leff it only temporarily a abear year inter iliof that occasion loii was their happy honeymoon |