The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-01

recall later on. For long ten minutes
II was nip and tuck. - Deacon Green
her word and the young man had won
the victory. There were no signs of
detection ON her part. but the victor
held out his hand with q smile and
6aid:
You did nobly. Let me say to you
dictionary. and NO word goes into It
until have spelled it,
II am glad that had such =
worthy antagonist" she pleasantly re-
piled.
The next morning there was great
excitement in Freedom. Mr.. Camp
bell was missing. He had not returned
to the inn after the spelling school.
He had not left town in any vehicle.
He had not taken any of his effects
with him. Would he take the highway
thus on foot? He had been. seen leav-
ing the schoolhouse. but after that all
traces were lost.
The constable got busy, and with
him q score Of people. It could not
be that any accident had happened,
villages failed to ASCERTAIN that the
missing man had arrived there or been
seen upon the highways.
All day the hunt and the talk went
on, and it was far iA.to evening that
Miss Bird remembered the whispered
words behind her: If he spoils her
down it must come tonight. Is every
thing ready?"
Roy Campbell had mysteriously dis
appeared. Her would-be lovers must
all sitting together. There was nc
lake or river into which they might
plunge him. II they had menaced him
into leaving the village, he would not
leave without calling at the hotel
What then? 1t must be case Of kid
NJ oh hot - =
an offense for the young men to COM
init.
II it was a case of kidnapping. where
| was the victim being held?
Mr.. Davis was quiet, even-tempered
man. Not once a year did he get angry
at anything, and he had never been known
to strike man q blow. 1t was to be ex.
pected, therefore, that he would be be-
wildered when the daughter came to hil
bedside at midnight and awoke him.
IF Father: you are to get up and come
Il think I know where Mr.. Campbell
Good Lordr'
her downstairs. she said: Il believe thu
young men have kidnapped Mr.. Campbell
, and are holding him in the old cider mill
We are going to see."
I'VE do not want him with us. We ART
going to manage without him. II we flint
Mr.. Campbell in there alone he will b
bound, and we can release him. II thu
young men are there you are to sail il
and knock their heads off!'
''But I'm no fighter" he protested.
But you've got to be or I'll deny 70,
l as a father!'
The young men had made prisoner o
Roy Campbell and borne him on to the oil
cider mill, thinking to drive him ava.
| from the village by threats. When h
! defied them-when he was missed and
| search began, they knew not what to d.
except to bind and guard him until som
plan was formulated. They were all there
seeking to bribe and renewing thei
! threats.
''fIit every one Of them, and hit hard =
i the girl whispered in her fathers ear q
they listened at the dilapidated old door
| Mr.. Davis spat on his hands. kicked tn
door down and sailed in," and non
| escaped him. The town OF Freedom ha
never learned the full particulars Of tina
| adventure, and never will. 1t has to b.
| content with the marriage that took plac'
a year later.-(Copyright 1914, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)