The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-11

About the time the 'drOpper' reached
| the earth Tuxall lighted up his we'll
oiled barn.. All Harwick, having had
| it's attention attracted by the explo-
sion, and seen the portent with its own
eyes, believed that huge meteor had
fired the building. So Tuxall & Co.
had a well-attested wonder from the
heavens. That's the little plan which
Bailey's presence threatened to wreck.
It was a big stake. Do you begin to
see the meaning of the big print now?"
"Ive heard nothing about big
prints" said the puzzled clergyman.
Pardon me, you've heard but you
| haven't understood. However, to go
on, Tuxall and our friends here fixed
up a plan on the prospects Of a rich
harvest from public curiosity and
| credulity Tuxall planted a big rock
under the barn, fixed it up appropriate
w with torch and chisel and sent for
the Farleys, who are expert fire.
work and balloon people, to counter
felt a meteor"
"Amazing!" cried the clergyman.
"Such a meteor, furthermore, as had
never been dreamed of before. If you
were to visit Tuxall's barn, you would
undoubtedly find on the bowlder I'M
derneath it a carving resembling a hui
man form, hoax more ambitious than
the Cardiff giant. He carted the rock
! in from some quarry and did the
| scorching and carving himself, l sup
| pose"
"And you discovered all that in a
half days visit to Harwick?" asked
! Rev. Mr.. Prentice incredulously.
mo, but in half minutes reading
of the 'gibberish' which you threw
away"
taking from the desk the reddish
roll which he had brought into the
room with him, he sent the loose end
of it wheeling across the floor, until it
lay, fully outspread. In black letters
against red, the legend glared and
blared it's announcement:
MARVELLOUS MANLIKE MONSTER!
"Those letters, Mr.. Prentice" pur-
sued the Advisor measure just three
feet from top to bottom. had the
combination of circus poster, an al
legged meteor which burned down
barn in a highly suspicious manner,
and an apparently purposeless kid
mapping. All that had to do, then, was
to find the deviser of the three-foot
poster. He was sure to be Bailey's
abductor."
"Say," said Farley with conviction,
IT believe you're the devils first
cousin"
Ice sv,u ov sovr III
Rev. Peter Prentice, before Average
Jones could acknowledge this flatter-
ing surmise, you said that strangers
had done the kidnapping. How could
you tell they were strangers then?"
"From the fact that they didn't know
who Bailey was, and had to advertise
him, indefinitely, as lost lad from
Harwick.'
"And that there were two Of them?"
pursued the minister.
II surmised two minds: One that
schemed out the planting of the
clothes on the shore; the other, more
compassionate, that promulgated the
advertisement"
FINALLY, then, how could you know
that Bailey was injured and uncon-
scious?"
IF he hadn't been unconscious then
and for long after, he'd have revealed
his identity to his captors. wouldn't
he?" explained the Advisor.
There was a long pause. Then the
woman said timidly:
well, and now what?"
Nothing" answered Average Jones.
''Tuxall has got away. Mr.. Prentice
has recovered his son. You and Far
ley have had your lesson. And L"
Eyes, and you, Mr.. Detectiveman,"
said the woman. as he paused. What
do you get out of it?
Average Jones cast an afectionate
glance at the sprawling legend which
disfgured his floor.
"A unique curio in my own special
line" he replied. can ad which never
has been published and never will be.
That's enough for me-"