Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

turned to give chase and one or two ladies
on the sidewalk even screamed out in alarm,
evidently under the impression that they had
seen the wreck of some dreadful runaway
but now the cyclists were at the corner
OF Of : Second and Summer streets The Pringle
building was only three blocks below, and
Don was already beginning to wonder if they
nad not better slow up, when ''The carl"
cried Charley, with kind of despair in his
voice.
Yes, there it was, almost directly in front
OF them, and they rushing on like the wind.
Turn off! turn off" the driver was shout
ing, as he bent over the brake with all his
strength.
Don looked up from the rail for one in--
slant, and IN that brief glance. recognized
pressed against a window of the car. Then he
seemed to feel the hurrying of the crowd to
the scene of the collision, and dimly wondered
Il she should be the first to bend over him.
But all the while he kept his hold on Charley's
arm, and drove his wheel onward with a des-
perate eagerness.
The seconds seemed like hours, and then Don
felt his right hand brush past something soft
and hairy. 1t was a horses ear. gentle
man on the front platform had seized the
reIns and turned the team to one side lust
IN time.
So the boys were saved and went whizzing
on down Summer street
"Sow up! dropl run I'll keep your ma
'nlne, cdHeu out Cnarley, on the next block.
Don obeyed, and Just before he sprang back
ward to the ground glanced up to see that
the clock in the brick church steeple pointed
to a quarter to three. Before its long hand
reached the figure ten, he had freed his father
and was sitting pantinp in the office easy chair
waiting for him to come back from the bank
with the news that the Milburn good name
had been preserved In about twenty minutes
Mr. Milburn returned to say, with proud
smile, that, thanks to his sons promptness,
it had
Then in answer to Don's eager question.
ings, he proceeded to explain how he had
come to be placed in his awkward prediea.
ment
"At noon-time," he began, 1T told my book
keeper that we would close early this after
noon, as I wanted him to do some business
for me across the river. | was to go to the
bank at a quarter tof two, and he was to
leave Immediately afterward. Well, started
promptly, but remembering an account wish
ed to look over before Monday, came back
in here Henry was busy figuring in the outer
office and suppose did not hear me return.
became absorbed in my work, and forgot
everything else till rose to hurry off ten min
utes later, and found myself locked in"
At this point the door opened and Mrs Mil.
burn, a black woman and Charley Dent ap-
ooh, Don, and you are safep' exclaimed
his mother, as she threw her arms about
him
! The new cook showed her white teeth in
broad smile of sympathetic 10y, but Mr.. Nil
burn only stared at his wife and son in i'll
concealed amusement.
"Oh. hasn't Don told you?" broke out Char.
ley, and forthwith launched forth on thrill
ing description of the famous "douhlerail'
riding feat. an account of which also ap-
peared in the next morning. Advertiser.
But both Charley and Don have since de-
clared that the occasion was "positively the
first and only" and they have found no mi
| tators.