Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-06-26


liberation he had almost finished his
task, and the governor was manifest
ing signs of impotence, when az last,
the car came rumbling back on it's re-
turn route into Cheynesboro. Haynes
gave the last flick to his polishing
cloth.
Good" he said. STRENGTHENING him
self. and as he did so, he gave q
slight Kick to the bottom corner Of
the shoe-stand. Instantly the purring
sound grew louder until it became like
that made by a top running at high
rate of speed. Governor Harding rose,
tried to detach his foot, and, to his
amazement, found that the form in
which he had rested it came away with
the shoe. He struggled to free himself,
lost his footing, and fell backward into
the fellows arms. AS Donatello raised
him, he perceived that the bottom of
the form was set with a little wheel,
surrounding a top-like mechanism, and
that both were revolving at an incred-
IDLY swift speed. Harding ripped out
an oath, freed himself, and set his
foot to the ground.
An instant later he was wtizzing
down the street at fifty miles an hour.
making a bee line for the bend of the
trolley track, which here curved into
the open country. He shouted loudly
for help. Then the wheel caught the
line, and, with a resonant click,
snapped fast, and the unfortunate man
raced out of sight, bent for the termi-
nus twelve miles out Of the town in
the midst of the sandhills, and too as
tonished to shout again.
Haynes plucked off his greasy cap
and took a felt hat from the box. He
hid his overalls beneath the seat of the
chair, set down the polishing brushes.
and strolled up the street. A man came
out of a house near by.
did you hear anyone scream?" he
asked.
81 did," said Haynes. Some boy, /
fancy, over in those lots
1T sounded like a mans voice" said
the other. II thought it might have
been another hold-up."
'.Well, If it was, it's over by now"
said Haynes.
The other hesitated and. then went
back grumbling.
Haynes, ascertaining that the road
was deserted, started off leisurely in
the direction which the governor had
so amazingly taken. A car caught him
and deposited him at the end Of its
route, four or five miles away. An
eight-mile tramp now lay before him,
and he set off blithely, quite certain as
to what he would find when he reached
the end of those straight lines of metal.
When, couple of hours later, his feet
fell noisily among the debris of gravel
that heaped the roadway beside the
unfinished track, he heard faint calls
for help coming apparently from be-
meath him. He stopped and looked
around. He saw the flats stretching
away on either side of him, low sand
hills covered with coarse growth of
green-but he did not see Governor
Harding.
That's very odd!" unused Haynes.
somebody CALI"
An answering cry came out Of the
ground. Then Haynes perceived a
deep gravel pit, from which road mate
rial had been excavated by the work
men, Immediately behind che embank-
ment of soft earth which they had
built at the end of the track. This wall
was broken in the center as though by
some heavy body-and behind 1t, in
the pit, twenty feet below the surface
Of the ground, he saw the governor
lying. He was half smothered in sand,
and on one foot, elevated in the air,
the gyroscope was still performing its
duties.
rs somebody down in that pitt"
called Haynes
Eyes, l am" the governor shouted
back Indignantly.
"And I've been here a couple Of
hours at least, shouting at the top of
my voice, and not soul came"
elbow on earth did you get down
there?" asked Haynes.
"Stop your fool questions and get
me out" the governor answered. I'm
nearly buried alive"
Haynes scrambled down, dislodging
a shower Of sman stones, which struck
the governor upon the face and neck
and aroused his angry protests. When
Haynes reached the bottom he, per-
ceived that Harding's fury was not I'M
justified. He was scratched and
wounded, his face and hands we're COW
cred with blood, and his clothes were
almost torn from his body.
"Ah," said Haynes. looking at the
whirring machine. you're a scientist,
sir. You've been experimenting. ! see.
Perpetual motion?"
mot" yelled Harding loudly. "A
fool of shoe-cleaner fixed this infer
nal electrical mechanism to my shoe.
and it carried me along the car line
and plunged me into this hole. Damn
him, I've had to hold my foot in the air
ever since + came here. If / set it
down to rest the Internal instrument
sprays up the dust all over me. I
roi0hf have hrripd Tnvsalf foot deem