Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
"Mouie Actor Who Was
Trained in Stock Company
When the Cartridges Failed
Edison

higgins, slouched down at his desk,
his face ridged in heavy frowns
gnawed yiciously at thick yellow
pencil. Tho Gathering typeWriters
and the scratching of the booklSeep-
ers' pens that filed the room did
not penetrate his consciousness,
which was wholly absorbed by the
problem of how to pay a debt six
times larger than his yearly income,
when he had no credit and no par
ticular reputation on which to Sc
cure any. If 1t hadn't lteen for that
second little flyer-if he had only kept
his hands off and waited-his strong
white teeth ground on the lead
His thoughts took u new channel.
1t wasn't so much what had been,
as what was to be, and he pictured
to himself how he might profit from
this unpleasant episode If only he
might get away where he wasn't
known and begin over ITS not the
getting away alone, though" he med
itated you've got to have some
thing to get away on. II I had, say
just what the company sends out to
it's worlSmen on every Saturday the
firm wouldn't really miss 1t, and 1t
would set me up in life
lie was interrupted by unusual con-
versation on the other side of the thin
partition which separated the office of
Mr.. North, president of the Globci Con-
struction Company, from the part de-
voted to clerks and stenographers.
The words came through In boys
shrill voice, Hes took sick sudden
an cant go out with the money to-
day" This was followed by a low
rumble. broken again by clear toned
feminine voice he knew as that Of
Eleanor Cooper. the chiefs secretary:
81 can take ii Just as we'll as not, Mr.
North I know how to run the car
It's broad daylight, and no one would
think of a girl being on such an En-
rand. so no one would think Of holding
one up"
There was another vocal rumble
and then iGleanor's clear response,
Eyes, can shoot. and I'll take the re-
volver If you want me to-"
higgins had grown alert, and he
bent over his ledger intently, his ears
straining to hear all that went ON i'm
the small Office. After some rummag-
ing through the contents of n drawer
there was a moments silence, an ir-
ritated rumble. and then Eleanor's re-
ply, 20, Two cartridges will be plenty
This Is a peace expedition Mr. North
and / don't need a whole armament"
Higgins got up from his desk and
strolled down the Office. Two car
tridges, a lonely road, a girl, and
SIG, 000--fate was playing in his hand
He went out of the door and saw the
runabout Of the company used for its
errands drawn up at the curbing. He
hurried on across the street and
boarded car
a little while after higgins had
disappeared, Eleanor. carrying a
..1l i
the car, spinning off toward the
works. She enjoyed the freedom and
the outdoors, and had almost forgot
ten her errand when she felt the cars
motion lessening. She put on more
power. She urged with all Of the
mechanical devices with which one
can urge an automobile, but ii jolted
to = standstilI. Eleanor was dismayed
at the accident. and the lonely
stretch of country in which Ii had
happened. but she saw the cloud of
smoke resting above the works ahead
OF her. and she decided to walk the
short distance.
She had gone only q few feet. when
a man sprang at her from behind
some shrubbery at the roadside. She
eluded him and dashed down the road
but he gained upon her Just around
some bushes she saw a tumble-dowr
shack, and made for it with all
| speed, Higgins close at her heels. She
just managed to slip in. slam tbs
door shut and drop the wooden bar
before he reached her
She gasped with relief, and Their
| thankfully drew out her revolver,
/ There was a scramble outside. and
| then the top of a hat began slowly to
rise above the ledge OF the little I'M
glassed window. Eleanor, fearing the
man would crawl through, leveled heI
revolver and fired. There was the
sound of a. lurehing body, then more
scrambling. and again the hat begar
to rise. Eleanor, thinking she hao
| fired too high. waited until the brin
| almost showed, then took aim again
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