The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-07-02
A.anias a.A The widow new-

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 deft rapid
ity.
There's your passenger, A%nanias,'
he muttered In q cboked tone. "Clear
the way, all Of you!" he shouted.
The crowd fell back. Ananias
Jumped nimbly into 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 its land
ing wheels.
1t mounted 4 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, stif1y erect,
sat the passenger, the yelled lady.
On the ground two other yelled la
dies stood shoulder to shoulder and
gazed upward after the vanishing Ana
nias.
For the moment q common grievance
declared a truce between them.
"WhO was she p rumbled EN- Bevis
in her deep tones.
The Widow Rowell cleared her voice
Of emotion.
1T 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 f1eld-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 Ounce
HarbOr bank.
Mr.. Drayton jumped from his motor
car, followed by the imposing form Of
Constable Lee.
Alvin Barker was sliding toward his
W little runabOut when the big con-
stables hand fell upon his arm.
II guess you'll have to come along
with me, Alvin" he said good natured-
~, and as the teller struggled to free
himself the officers hand frightened it's
hold.
BE a good boy, Alvin" he coaxed.
you can't rob the bank without be-
ing punished for 1t, you know"
1T was Ananias," quavered the teller
desperately.
"Ananias Is an accessory; don't for
get that. We must get him." put in
Haywood Drayton.
Hes got a lady with him!" some
one said, and the constable laughed.
"A nice lady-deaf, dumb and blind"
he explained between chuckles-"a
wal 1gger from EN- Bevis' show win
dow, her holler form filed with pack
ages Of greenbacks from the bank. Oh,
Ananias is clipping with an heiress, all
right"
EN- Bevis and Hetty Rowell ex-
changed glances Of dismay.
"LoOkv' screamed some one. HE is
coming back"
We gazed up at the pale star strewn
sky.
Out Of the silence came the throb of
the airship's engine, and the huge
wings were directly over Terry's field.
Down swOOped Ananias Shines air
ship until it was 200 feet above us.
For a moment it lowered, rocking VIC
lently.
Then some one screamed in horror,
for a dark object was falling from the
airship-a human form.
A s%huddering cry ven 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 EN- 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
axe 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 u 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 knOwsehad
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 EN- Bevis, and the other was Het-
ty Rowell. They came to prefer bail
for the aviator's release.
"Cap'n Fish bailed him out an hour
ago." explained Lee. II don't reckon
We can do much agin a mans running
OF with wads Of newspaper-unless,"
he added hopefully, you want to make
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