The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-25
TINS DISCOVERY.
yards. there was a red light that meant

yards. there was red light that meant
| fire.
Where. thought Tim, was his father
Then, obeying q sudden impulse, he
hurried softly and quickly into his
clothes and started toward the mills
with Pete close at his heels
You see, Pete" he said, as they
went, IF / was to wake Mary up
more'n likely she'd think 1 couldn't go
self. if 1 can, cause you know your
self, old fellow, it must be hard fol-
father, only to have one boy, an him
no account"
Something blurred his eyes then, and
stopped his talking, ard Pete licked his
hand in anxious sympathy.
1t was a hard walk for the slight
little chap on his crutches, but the
sight of the Ieaping flame in the yard,
and the thought of his father, gave him
new strength and on he went, until he
reached the office door. and from the
threshold he saw his father bound and
gagged on the floor while a man, with
strip of black cloth over his face,
was working with desperate hurry try
ing to open the safe.
He was on his knees, pouring powder
into his hand, when Tim cried out,
Sic him, Pete" and Pete sprang at
him with such force that the fellow
fell forward on his face. where he lay,
not daring to stir, with Pete's fine bass
growl in his ear.
You tend to him Pete and keep
him still, while / unite father. But,
first, father, shall l ring the bell,' for
his fathers eyes seemed to tell him so.
Then as his father nodded his head,
he sprang to the bell rope, and changed
the bell in the midnight air, until he
heard an answering cry of "Firei Firer'
and the hurrying feet of the men, as
they sprang for the buckets and hose.
TINS REWARD.
After while the young boss came
in, blackened with smoke, and there
he found little lame Tim, chatting his
fathers numbed hands and legs, while
Pete, with his upper lip raised, in a
most suggestive fashion. was sitting on
Canadian Pierres back
Has the lumber gomez" asked Tim s
father, hoarsely, for the gag had
cruelty hurt his mouth.
No said the young boss. only a
little damage, comparatively has been
done. The fellow yonder Numbered.
He started the fire at the wrong end of
the yard, for the wind, and the lumber
was fresh at that end, too"
Thank God,' said Tins father, de-
voutly, then he said, II was making
my rounds bit frequenter than usual,
cause Use afraid he'd be UP to mis-
chief. Something all to wanst hit me
on the back of the head-sand bag
likely-an' next 1 knowed / was in
here, an that boy of mine come with
his dog, an they done. all the rest
The pride in the fathers voice as he
told of his boy thrilled Tins heart
with joy.
Just then Mary. pale and frightened,
came running in, for she had awakened
at last, and missing Tim, and hearing
the fire bells. had followed him with
great fear in her heart Then she
had TO hear it also.
"Oh, Tim she cried, you are a brave
little fellow, but you should have
called me-"
But Tim didn't feel like talking.
He called Pete away so the men
could secure Pierre, for Pete's blood
was tsp. and he had many minds TO
challenge the whole force-and then he
cuddIed his head on the young boss
shoulder. who insisted on carrying him
home. and who asked him a few ques-