The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-10-16
SOMERSET. PA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1e. 1889
WHOLE NO. 1905.

the pale-faced telegraph operator, who
bent over her instrument. with tears in
her eyes, and thought bitterly Of the
might have been.p
And neither Of them noticed at all the
darked-faced, evil-eyed man lounging
near the desk. Who drank in Jim Eel
lows boas:fuI words with greedy ears,
and glanced covetously at the black car
petsack which the ex-operator carried.
When the partners lsft the office, he
skunk away.
Presently Jim return Il, and asking for
pen and paper. went into the reading
room to write letter
Suddenly the electric bell. in the indi-
Gator back Of the hotel clerks desk, rang
sharply.
He glanced up at the number, called
''Oiont :" and was about to order the SER
want who responded to go to No. 304
and see what was wanted, when an ex-
clanation Of astonishment escaped him,
and he said, instead:
whats the matter with that fellow :
Guess he don't know what an electric
bells for7g
For the bell was ringing out peal after
peal in quick succession.
"Oh, Heavens
1t was this cry. falling from the lips Of
Maud Harvey, who ,ushed from her lit
tie compartment with terror depicted in
every feature, that further heightened the
clerks bewiIderment.
For fnIl minute Maud stood staring
at the indicator, with her head thrown
forward, and then rushing into the read
ing room, she seized Jim Fellows by the
arm.
~Quiek ~ she cried. ~Your partner,
Mr.. Bigeny, is in danger. Three robbers
are in bis room, about to murder him
He wants you to get gun and come to
his
But before she could finish. Jim Eel
lows leaped to his fee I, and without any
inquiries as to the why and where fore.
ran from the room-
AS for Maud, she uttered 4 moaning
prayer for the imperiIed man, and fell
sobbing across one of the writing desks
Howard Bigonv was in deadly peril.
While his partner was absent, he had
got out his shaving materials and pre-
pared to take of his shaggy beard.
He was busily engaged at the task,
when the door opened.
He thought if was Jim, and rinsing the
lather from his eyes, he turned only 70
find man holding revolver in hisface,
another locking the door, and a third
searching the room for the bagful Of mon
ey which Jim had thrown under the
bed.
Back up against that wall :" comman-
ded.the man with revolver, whose face
looked strangely familiar to Howard and
with the muzzie of the weapon staring
him in the face, heobeyed.
~Put your hands behind you - was the
next command and Howard did as he
was ordered
Keep them there, Bob till find the
stuff said the man who was searching
the room, "and then We, Il slit his throat
and lOpe.
At the same instant Howard BigOny's
fingers touched behind him, in the vain
scot of the wall. little projection, which
he recognized as the eall-button that con-
nected by wire with the electric bell Of
the indicator in the hotel clerks Office.
lnstinctively he remembered bis old
time telegraphie skill. He pressed the
button the same as if it were telegraph
key, rapidly spelling out by dots and
dashes the words which caused the bell
in the office to ring out this message
"JIM-Three reBbers have door locked 10 get
our dust and murder me. 6et stsp-Isdi-r, pdE
a gun tArocsA Lr3ns0tA and saO0C. be quick aad
careful "
During the time acquired to spell out
word by word, this message, he prayed
mentally that his partner might be about
tie hotel Office to interpret it.
he had sent the message, and begun
to repeat it, almost in despair Of succor,
when bang bang two shots were fired
over the trAnsom, and as the man who
had not been hit turned quickly, How
ard sprAng upon him aud bore him to the
floor.
They were struggling there for the
mastery, when the'door was forced open
and Jim Fellows, with q smoking reyol-
yer in his hand, bounded into the room.
He was followed BY several men, and
two Of the robbers were soon secured
The other one who had covered Howard
with his revolver, lay on the floor, with
the blood trickling from serious wound
in the back of his head.
The ex-telegraph operator, after
searching look at the fellows face. reeog-
nized him as Maud's Harvey's cowardly
companion that day in the boai-Mr.
Herbert Fitzmaurice.
Ii WAS when Howard spoke OF this to
his partner that the latter remembered
the girl who had given the alarm, and he
hurried down stairs to thank her.
Howard followed him, and the old I1v-
rseame face to face.
MAUD :"
Howard"
And they were clasped in each others
arms, forgiven and fcTgiving.
Between the sobs OF joy that she could /.
not repress as her old lover strained her
to him, Maud explained how she had /
managed to save both his life and his I
fortune
ut was blessed thing that you taught /
me teIegrAphy, Howard she said. at /
has enabled me to make a living since +
papa lost his money, and if I had not /
known how to read By sound, the mes
sage Tou sent to eyur partner on thselee- I
tric bell wire would not have been IN
dersteod, and those robbers would have (
robbed and killed you
Malaria
means bad air. Poisonous germs /
arising from low, marshy land, or from /
decaying vegetable matter, are breathed /