The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-07-02

lTonL. we cnuH-cnuHed out OF the
stable door.
For heavens sake!" hollers Baker,
take care Of the thing. / don't know
what'l come to me for this Job when
Shearer hears OF It."
We got down to the street. I looked
at my watch. 1t was rs minutes past
six.
Now, SOL" says Hartley, you must
help me II I need you. l can use only
one hand, 80 you pull whatever lever
/ tell you to.
We went-oh, yes, we VENT I'd
never rode in a buzz cart afore and
inside Of five minutes Twas figgering
that I'd never live to ride in one again
Suffering! how we did fly!
Lucky twas early. We didn't meet
a soul on the road. II we had they'd
had lively times getting out Of our
be a house with a dog scootlng out OF
the gate, his mouth open ready to
bark. Next minute we'd go past that
house like a sky-rocket, and the pup
would be digging a breathing hole
through the dust behind us. I didn't
have to pull a lever, for we had a
clear field. Good thing I didn't, be-
cause I was too scared to know my
hands from my feet. The stable man
was actually blue. Next time I see
Baker he told me that the Teller had
nightmare for a fortnight afterwards,
and they could hear him yelling
"Whoa!" in his sleep as plain as could
be. And they in the house with the
windows shut.
Afore I had time to think straight,
scarcely, or remember to say more
than a line or two of Now 1 lay me-"
we was sizzling through Brantboro.
We whirled into the big yard of the
Cold Spring house and hauled up by
the steps. Hartley piled out and /
followed him. We'd used up Just Is
minutes.
"Here!" says he to the clerk, a
twin brother of the one at Wapatomac;
take this to DR.. Jordan's room"
He scrubbed something on a slip
Of paper and chucked it across the
desk. The clerk yelled for a boy and
the boy took the paper and lit out.
Pretty quick he comes back.
HE wants you to come right up.
mister" says he.
Good" says Martin, tossing him
half a dollar. Lead the way"
The %youngster started for the stairs,
grinning like a punkin lantern. /
Topped into a chair and felt myself
all over to make sure / hadn't shook
no part of me loose on the trip. Like
wise watched the clock.
In ten minutes more the Twin comes
downstairs, and DR.. Jordan was with
him. The doctor was a big gray-haired
man with a pleasant face. He looked
as though he'd dressed in a hurry, and
he had a travelling satchel in his
hand.
TN send you a check for my bill
later" he says to the clerk. "An
ready, Mr.. Hartley"
We went out to the automobile. Maj.
tin started her up and we whizzed for
the depot.
Great Scott" says the doctor, Il
feel as II l had been pulled out Of bed
BY the hair. Nobody but your fathers
o could do this to me, Hartley.
Have you fellers fed YETI"
The Twin was too busy with the
steering wheel to answer. / done It
for him.
mo, sir" says I; moi since yester-
day noon. Nor slept since night afore
last"
Martin run the automobile into M
of the horse sheds by the depot. Then
he passed the stable man the bill that
happened to be ON the outside of his
roll. Twas a tenner. for l caught q
glimpse of It.
Here" he says; take this ana
wait here till the shofer comes for the
machine. Well. skipper, we're on
time. after all"
So We was, and ahead OF It We
waited on the depot platform. I no
ticed that Hartley want saying much.
Now that the excitement was over. he
seemed to me to be mighty quiet.
Once. when he walked, I thought he
staggered. And he was awful white.
SOL" he says to me, just as the
train hove In sight; you needn't come
with us. unless you want to. Maybe
you'd like to stay and attend to your
boat"
l looked at him. NO." says i,
I'm going to see 1t through. The
boat can wait"
had to give him q boost up the
a steps. As. he got to a seat. he
staggered again.
Skipper" he says. quiet and with
little stops between words. "I'm-afraid
-youll-have-to-look-out for the
doctor. I'm believe I'm going-to-to
make a fool of myself"
And then he fiops over on tbs
cushions In a dead faint.
Doctor Jordan. was at him In . sec
ond.
ITS his arm. ! guess" says L "He
bruised it aboard the sloop."
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