The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19

nothing but a common road agent any
 way and do not propose to be baffled
 by such. Ramorez laughed at this and
 kept MT. Wilson covered by his otto-
 matick.
 "Soon the two men were struggling to-
 gether in the dethroes but soon MT. Will
 son got him bound and gagged his mouth
 and went away for awhile leaving our
 hero it was dark and he wrthed at his
 bonds writhing on the floor while the rats came out of their holes and bit him and vernim got all over him from the floor of that hellish spot but soon he managed to push the gag out of his mouth with the end of his tongue and got all his bonds off.
 Soon Mir Wilson came back to tant him with his helpless condition flowed by his gang of detectives and they said: Oh look at Ramorez sneering at his plight and tanted with him his helpless
 condition because Ramorez had put the bonds back so he would look just
 the same, but could throw them off when
 he wanted to. Just look at him now
 sneered they. To hear him talk you
 would thought he was hot stuff. and they said look at him now, him that was
 going to do so much. Oh. I would not
 like to be in his fix.
 "Soon Harold got mad at this and i jumped up with blazing eyes, throwing
 off his bonds like they were air. Ha. IIa sneered he, I guess you better not talk | so much next time. Soon there flowed another awful struggle and sezing his
 ottomatick back from Mr. Wilson he
 shot two of the detectives through the
 heart. Bing. Bing, went the ottomaticlS | and two more went to meet their Maker FROM AN ISLAND OUTPOST l By Mary F. Waller. Little Brown & Co.,, | publishers Boston.
 Could you read 'The Wood Carver of Lympus," by that charming writer. Mary E. Waller, and not be interested in her | latest book. From An Island Outpost?' l No: I'm sure you couldn't, because whenever she writes anything it is out | of the ordinary, and interesting to any 1 one who has ever read any of her books. This new book unlike the famous Wood Carver of Lympus," is not fiction, but may best be termed as autobiograph- | ical fragment.
 l Miss Waller, already responsible for
 several remarkably successful novels | now finds a certain satisfaction in plac- 1 ing her signature to these extracts from 1 irregularly kept journals and note- books. The impressions of an observant.
 reflective woman, the book as q piece of l literature stands out poignantly alive, and | is rich in the uplifting atmosphere that comes from wide reading, wider sym pathies and a deep understanding of hu-
 manity. The authors own thoughts, her own feelings. the literature that has in. | fluenced her, her experiences in travel
 and in the life of the community, are here
 set forth sincerely and impressvely. It | is not in the strict sense an autobio- graphy: rather it is a narrative of the | thoughts that come to the author as she
 writes from her island outpost of Nan l tucket.
 THE WHITE SAPPHIRE" ! "A MYSTERY ROMANCE" By Lee | Foster Hartman. Illustrated by Har- | per Brothers, Publishers. New York. 1 mystery that really mystifies is con | tained in Lee Foster Hartmans very
 clever story entitled "The White Sap. phire."
 | It is very readable and certainly very
 original for once you pick it up ydh can'i 1 put it down until you have solved al l least one of the three mysteries witf which it deals.
 | The scene is laid at a house party l in the Berkshire country where Eve llyn Winthrop, the orphaned chatelafne Hives. and proves herself very ------- | Besides this young lady, we find an especially strong and clever young man las hero; beautiful ruby which turns | out to be white sapphire, and a
 clever little Jap serving-man who plays
 the part of Cupid. These, with a com
 pany composed of Jack, the Colonel