The daily Alaskan., 1915-07-13
toward Ananias aud the Widow Row

ell.
 Before she reached them there was shout. Alvin Barker, q teller in the bank, jumped from his automobile and half carried a yelled lady to the air ship and lifted her into the passengers seat, strapping her in with delft rapid l ity.
 There's your passenger, Ananias," he muttered in a chOked tone. Clear the way, all of your he shouted. The crowd fell back. Ananias | jumped nimbly iI3o the pilots seat, was strapped in, Barker whirled the propeller, the engine started, stopped, started again, and the ungainly bird teetered over the ground on It's land ing wheels.
 It mounted a rise, then lifted and rose obliquely toward the pale moon.
 From the pilots seat leaned a gnome- like figure, Ananias Slime.
 In the passengers seat stlfily erect, sat the passenger, the yelled lady.
 On the ground two other yelled h. dies stood shoulder to shoulder and gazed upward after the vanishing Ana nias.
 For the moment a common grievance declared Q truce between them.
 "Who was she?" rumbled Elm Bevis In her deep tones.
 The Widow Rowell cleared her voice of emotion.
 Tt looked like that Underwood girl from Snarling Hollow" she muttered.
 The shout of applause which had arisen when Ananias Slime sailed away died down as the airship became a dark speck against the moons face.
 Silence fell upon Terry's fleld-si- lenCe which was broken by confused shouts.
 We turned hastily to discover Hay wood Drayton's big motorCar plung- ing across the grassy field. Haywood Drayton was president of the QuInce Harbor bank.
 Mir. DrNyton jumped from his motor car, followed by the imposing form of Constable Lee. Alvin Barker was sliding toward his own little runabout when the big con- stables hand fell upon his arm.
 "I guess you'll have to come along with me, Alvin" he said good natured- ly, and as the teller struggled to free himself the officers hand frightened its | hold.
 "Be q good boy, Alvin" he coaxed. You can't rob the bank without be- ing punished for it, you know"
 Tt was Ananias," quavered the teller ! desperately.
 "Ananias Is an accessory; don't for get that, We must get him." put in Haywood DraytOn.
 He's got a lady with himw some one said, and the constable laughed.
 "A nice lady-deaf, dumb and blind," he explained between chuckles-"a wax fgger from Elm Bevis' show win dow, her holler form filed with pack ages of greenbacks from the bank. Oh, Ananias Is eloping with an heiress, all rightw
 Elm Bevis and Hetty Rowell ex- changed glances of dismay.
 "Lookr screamed some one. "He is coming back"
 We gazed up at the pale star sTewn sky.
 Out of the silence came the throb of the airshlp's engine, and the huge wings were directly over Terry's field.
 Down swoOped Ananias Slines air ship until it was 200 feet above us. For q moment 1t lowered, rocking viO- lently,
 Then some one screamed in horror for q dark object was falling from the airship-a human form.
 A shuddering cry went up as the yelled passenger struck the ground and was still.
 Some one remembered what the con- stable had said about the wax figure in Elm Bevis' show window.
 Lets see" he shouted, and ran for ward.
 Sure enough, the poor yelled lady was the familiar figure We had often seen in Mrs. Bevis' window. But her waxen head was smashed to atoms, and her broken form revealed rolls and wads of newspapers-that was all. Cunning Alvin Barker had tempted Ananias to run away with the stolen money, while all the time he had hid den the money in a safe place and had stuffed the dummy passenger with pa- per.
 Ananias, conscience stricken-per- haps fear stricken, who knows?-had repented and returned to drop the lady and the loot upon Terry's field. He might have made his escape In the Hawk had not something happened to the engine.
 So the Hawk came Hopping to earth, and Ananias crept out of the ruins and sought Constable Lee to give him self up.
 An hour afterward two yelled ladies appeared in the constable's office. One was Em Bevis, and the other was Het- ty ROwell. They came to prOffer bail for the aviator's release.
 "Cap'n Fish bailed him out an hour ago." explained Lee q don't reckon we can do much agin a mans running off with wadS of neWsDaDer-unlesS,"