The Alaska citizen., 1911-06-19

Nowhere; walked" replied Jim
 Warren Can | help?"
 The girl pushed the hair back
 from her face with a greasy glove
 We always seem to meet a.
 critical moments. don't we?" she
 qucried The last time you rescued
 my glove from a dog; this time"
 She laughed Do you know any
 thing about automobiles ."
 Not thing in the world. but
 can help" said Jim Warren. Are
 you 'ay out here all alone. with that
 big-big thing" The tremendous
 size of the car rose up and smote
 him in the eye A girl alone in the
 wilderness with locomotive like
 that,
 All alone" she said. Its a new car and I was trying it out
 He dropped on the ground be- side her and peered underneath the car A perfect mess of joints and bolts and levers and rods and nuts "a million of them. more or less.
 It made his head swim And what. may ask. is the mat ter?"
 T snapped off the pin in my first universal joint" she explained. and the hanges are bent so l cant drive il out
 He looked al her blankly. "You don't say," he commented.
 Where is it? Perhaps l can drive ! il out" :
 But you don't know anything about autcmohiles.' she eXpostulat- ed.
 But I do know something about machinery" he informed her: and
 universal joint is a universal joint 1 in any language Again he started
 10 crawl underneath. 1 Take off your coat and roll up 1 your sleeves. then" she command 1 ed. "You cant wear clothes un- derneath an automoble-that is, if 1 you ever want to wear them again. l He obeyed orders. barring two 1 sinewy forearms that she had only 1 to look al to know that her trou- 1 hles were over. They put their heads i together under the car and she eX- plained the trouble in detail He ! knew precisely what was the matter. 1 but he liked to hear her talk. i And now." he said al the end, a monkeywrench.
 i She handed him one. some five
 or six inches long He glanced at il. mentally compared ii with the great i piece of solid steel 10 be twisted
 back into shape and grinned. My dear madame. vou couldn't i set a watch with that" he said T
 mean monkey II have another. so large I can
 hardly lift it." she explained. 'I i call il Grandpa for short" l She fumbled in the toolbox and 1 produced it a two-foot wrench 1 that would fiji into a mans hands, l with jaws on il like the nav of Doom. He fitted il to the twisted
 flange.
 Are you sure the car won't ] move?" he inquired.
 No. The brake is on l Get back a little please. If this
 should slip il would kill you" There are ways and ways of ! bending steel one the quick, vio-
 lent way. which will snap il off 1 like glass: another. a slower stead l fer way. by which 1t can be eased l back into position. Jim Warren knew ] his metal Slowly but surely the | sinewS of his lean arms feXed, grew | taut. and the massive body of the l car creaked on it's springs. It was 1 muscle against steel The girl, fas-
 cina.ed by the tremendous power ] I,f .hnn1IorS and la i'm hexibility of memorable steel. sud 1 denly felt very weak and puny. She l had tried to turn that with a small l wrench, Might as well have used
 a hatpn.
 l Its moving" said Jim Warren, i without so much as puff then af- 1 ter a moment: There; l think We can drive out the broken pin now. i Have you an extra one?' The broken pin fell out as hc ! spoke; it was five minutes work ! 10 put in d new one; then they both ] crawled ont from under th" car 1 and sat on the ground looking al | each other.
 ] "l don't know how I'll ever be
 able to thank you" said the girl. - cant imagine what l should ! have done if you hadn't come along 1 I've already been here more than an hour"
 l Jim Warren cleaned his hands on
 piece of waste.
 Do you know" he remarked ir- relevantly. T have the strangest 1 impression of having met you some where befOre?'
 l The day in the bank of course" i the girl replied.
 i Before that he corrected. Il wonder where ii could have been,' Il wonder." She was bending 1 over the toolboX. replacing Grand | pa There was d queer, intro l spective light in her limpid eyes. II had that impression the | first time I saw you" she went on.
 "It must have been because l had
 seen your picture in the newspapers. i l know who ycu are, of course,' she added hastily.
 You do?" Jim Warren asked al most eagerly. T am al a disadvant- 1 age. then. I don't know who---' 1 Gro be COntnued) ! . KNa . . . N2N NHN n