Show E na T U C L VB is the iron tomb td i i by FLOYD GI GIBBONS NS fam famous ous headla ne hunter anade gl sand toast to alex mackall mackail bof 1 of awa Q rt chester q Y fill up alio e lan longest g es t ta tallest lle s t glasses you can find fill up aneja one for each bachof bof the thousand members member s of the adventurers A club and n d still drinking as 81 big g a to toast astas as the 1 ona one alex himself al almost in esidra drak I r alex ale X started working va k ing zin on to atall thil 4 cool one that was 20 feet long jong and 12 feet high and no lemon juice or sugar in L It t e either i it was oni only y b by y the that he managed to get out of finishing that too boys and girls its of a story i i it happened In school alex going totham to that school boget to get a cranium of know knowledge lidga though he was there for the good hard cash there was in if it maybe the fact that the school was in scotland had something ti to iia do with Ith that it was ln in the the jear year 1922 and alex who was just a ikid kid thin then had li nailed himself a job as apprentice with a boiler be ller repairing firm T lufte in atie I 1 1 scottish town 1 of glasgow I 1 I 1 trapped inside a rapidly filling botler boiler the They were working on a huge boiler in the of the clydebank Cly debank public school there were three of alie allem man on that job alex ales his boss and an inspector the Ins inspector had bad climbed out of the boiler room and gone home alexs boss had decided chati d done do no enough work nork for the day and had climbed out after telephone the shop alex ales was going to watt wait until the boss came back from frodi tele telephoning sa so they could both go home together while he waited lie he pulled a copy of a diamond dick nov novel elout out of his pocket and sat down beside balde a guttering candle to read i 1 in a few minutes he had forgotten tl that it he ivies was sitting inside a stuffy old bollei boiler he was out oh on th theolen the open prairie following diamond dick through a series of adventures res that would curl the quills of i a porcupine he realize a vj P lie wall that in another minute or two hed be going through a real honest to goodness adventure of his own an advent adventure ureth that t would make itil all of 0 lamond diamond dicks exploit look like so many af pf pink tea pa 1 pt V ahe he next neit thing alex knew pa VP rash rh of f water atthe t ae far end of toe boiler he jum t c him ro rolled tolfe floor aduf went out out alex looked up then for daylight that tie g oro manhole in the top of the boiler but the ty big an Kaal anah ahli bass had ioree come back and I 1 thinking alex had gone hahie had replaced the manhole manKo lecover cover and started to fill the boiler up 4 v alex lost his head then thed he rushed to the front front of ahe holler and began hammering on it with his bare fists that do any good ahe notie noise of the pump out outside di owned aap make that wai way in 16 a frenzy of fen r the pipe which the water was coming an and maxw made a futile atempa uthe alto his hands that get him anywhere alth ath the e 7 d in ingils his face sort of brought him to his started to ake beep a level head ff bope alj 1 fiur ing in I 1 I 1 I 1 i mabre a he says W was aa CO M ln iii so ba I 1 remembered that I 1 had lef eft a d at theother ih eother end of the koller boiler and I 1 started a arte rte d back R age them bolgeo was Just fee but it seemed ee med 11 r a lii the 1 water was getting gelting higher every V v t Z but I 1 finally nade alf it f fondale fond tle hammerand hammer and started pounding ina on the the sides I 1 hard hlll the water caad youriga pou riga 3 ic vl f kepton kept on 1 knew fleig here must be someone outside to much corn com f tort khonh become be cose water the gau gauge ker level it would bea oscr my head t vy 4 aviv m in u Al bale began to get dizzy the pressure caused aused ly th Y N t of auter head stal he pounded away not atcas ew 00 baw ll 11 fo bodd but because in his terror he ehte th te 4 fi Q e scythe nearly fell ke r cars his mind what would his Is moth motheral eray wh ca her bar coheh co bov wat night would anybody eair ever i ifland hani ant when they lit the fire in the morning f tt I 1 s baya ays alex that I 1 went insane I 1 started stalled screaming and bearling earing te arling 1 WI thIng pare ands at thern sty iron wall of the boiler I 1 beeme seemed to saying hold on alex ill get you but I 1 was too far gone to realize what it meant I 1 even noticed that the v water ater had stopped coming in I 1 seemed to lose my senses somewhere anther In ln there ther and the next thing anew I 1 was ying lying on mg jay back out dut MV beir yes alela aleis dragged him blin out of cf bollar he had fallen in a faint and had talen so much water into his lungs that the boss had to respiration before le came cama tealer to tg alex Aler Is a aron grown man now but he iii fifteen tan minutes when he be was wag trapped in a 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