Charlevoix county herald., 1916-05-06
THE GRAND
GETAWAY
BY A. n. c. MITCHELL
Copyright by the Frank A. Nun
sey Co.
CHAPTER |.
The Souvenir Stick Pins.


their alma mater in a small New Eng
land town.
These two men in their senior year,
formed one of the most remarkable
batteries that ever graced a college
diamond, for this cogent reason: both
coul1 pitch or catch equally well, AID
ikwas their habit 10 shift positions n
aNgame whenever they felt like it. or
the exigencies of the particular case
seemed to require.
The game was important. from ar
undergraduate standpoint, and the
twins had covered themselves with
dust and glory. George Carteret had
Just scored at the end of the eighth
when his brother pushed single TO
right. He was at the water tanks
when a messenger handed him tele-
gram Tearing it open with sweating
fingers, he read:
Your father died suddenly this
morning. Come at once.
The telegram was dated from San
Francisco, and signed by their faith
eT's attorney.
That night the Carteret twins left
for San Francisco.
The twins were fine, outstanding
fellows. approaching their twenty
third year. Each was exactly six feet
&le-half inch tall, and the beam Quiy-
cred at 100 when either one of them
stepped on the scales after a shower
bath For three years they had been
the main battery of their college nile,
and for three years they had played
guard on the eleven. They were clever
boxers.
In addition to their tIiumphs, afield,
the twins wrote, composed, rehearsed
End produced the annual college
scream. They were in fact. remark
ably clever magicians
Their family affairs always had
been very peculiar. On the death. OF
their mother during their infancy,
they had been placed in care or an
aunt who lived near Boston. Their
fathers home always had been in
California, and they saw him only
on his infrequent visits East. But he
always had been generous with them
and they believed him to be fairly
well off.
Speeding westward in answer TO
the telegram, gloom upon their souls,
the thought of an adventure, howevC:
mild, was far from the minds of the
Carteret twins. But at Omaha they
met their adventure, which didn't
amount to much, certainly, yet months
later they had reason to thank their
Icky thot Trey had taken part
in it.
Killing an hours time in making
Connections, they watched through
train roll in from the West. The col.
ored porters descended and placed
their little foCtstools on the ground
From one of the coaches came two
young women, hand in hand, laughing
gaily. The first steppet lightly to the
track level but the other, ignoring
the porter's outstretched hand, jump
ed from the last step, turned an ankle
and crumpled to the ground.
The Carteret twins were not ten
feet distant when it happened. In an
instant they were assisting her to
arise. She smiled family.
"How stupid of me. Thank you
both very much,'' she said. '1'll be
all right as soon as l stop seeing stars.
| guess I'd better get back on the
train. Edith, where's father
'In the smoking compartment play
ing cards, / suppose" returned the
other girl. 1t was easy to see they
were sisters. The first attempted to
walk, wavered, and clutched wildly At
the young men.
"Why, I'm helpless, and ! can feel
my ankle swelling, and it hurts aw'
fully!" she complained, half between
a laugh and a cry.
The twins made simultaneous
movement, but George, on the left.
was in a better position. He slipped
one arm around her waist the other
around her knees, and lifted her from
the ground as though she were a lit
tie child.
"Only one thing to be done,' he
said, stepping aboard the train.
what section, please?'
"The drawing room, right here.
Thank you so much. I'm an awful
bother" said the injured girl.
George placed her on the couch and
arranged pillow under her head as
the other girl crowded into the state
room with his brother.
Now, I'm the family doctor here"
SAD George with a businesslike au.
thority, land you will all obey orders
on pain of death. Jim, we've got fiji
teenyminutes to spare. Run out and
get paper bucket, fill it third fun
of water, and put chunk of ice in it.
And, say, Jim, small bottle VI arnica.
Now when he gets back turning
to kthe other young woman take off
b>r shoe and stocking-wait, I'll take
her shoe off now while I'm about it
take off her stocking and plump her
foot right in the cold water and let II
stay there for an hour. Get some
more ice from the porter when the