Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17

sticky hairs caught up that. scrap or paper. which, by his distracted wallOw- in-, was worked into his matted cOat until it clung with burrlike tenacity. Although Black Tony was in ignO- rance that his discriminating diagram had been appropriated in this odd manner. he had an inherent dislike for all animals. which he now mani ! tested by bestowiRg a well directed . kick with his heavy boot upon the struggling Sandy. The injured and much aggrieved puppy gave one yelp ot pained surprise and darted out of the tent. With dropping tail and equally dropping spirits he started as last as his short legs could carry him for the home of Aunty Kicks which was the place of his nativity. and where no such brutal treatment as , this had ever been meted out to him. The rIaltreated Sandy, reaching the old Sray farmhouse which had former y bees his home, raced through the open door into the cheerful living room where somewhat dcjected young nan was sitting with an elder ly, kinGly-faced woman.
 "Sakes alive, if it ain't that pun come back home" :" she calculated.
 Fer yOunger-eyed companion imme- diaiely saw that something was amlss with the pet he had bestowed upon Margery Golden as parting gift. Then he saw the scrap of paper sticking in the dogs matted hair and ! his face grew serious. Perhaps the one he loved was in danger and in this strange way had sent message asking his help. With swift fingers he diSentangIed the paper and. smoothing out it's gummy creases. studied it with frOwning intensity. What he saw was q rough sketch of a large field tent, with tree outlined close beside it.
 To the puzzled-eyed young man came a sudden and startled compre- hensiOn of those apparently meaning less drawings. Only that afternoon he had passed the great manor house and had seen the preparations for the lawn fete to which he had received no in- yi,atiOn. He had noted the striped marquee put up directly under the maumoth oak.
 That time would undoubtedly be the supper hour. Davy's face went white us he hurriedly glanced at the clock on the mantel A fearful apprehen- sion seized him that it might already be too late tO prevent the fright ful massacre plqnned by the one armed criminal Paying no heed to the anxious queries of his wonder ing companion. he rushed from that room ir a frenzy of dread fOrebod- ing. As he flung himself upon his pull Satiug motorcycle and shot out into the darkness. His feur would have been a nuadredfOld intensified could he have seen the murderous Italian. who at Jhat m0melt touched lighted match to the end of the time fuse projecting from the nearly severed oak.
 1t was a race between q spark of fire eating it's way up the ever shortening fuse and wildly driven motorcycle lurching through the night. The stakes of that desperate race were precious human lives Once the race was nearly lost, as the pounding ma chine missed by a hairs breadth heavy touring ear with visiOn-hlindins headlights. Then it careened into the driveway of the brilliantly lighted grounds, raced madly across the level stretch of lawn and into the very tent itself before its whitc-lippea rider lcapei from the saddle.
 Run. all of you, Run for your lives" he cried frantically.
 As his meaning dawned upon the startled guests they stampeded from that threatened tent like a flock of fear-Crazed sheep. Even as they cleared the guy-ropes a dull. untitled detonation split the air and the Strick- en oak swayCd unSteadily for an in- Stant; then it came toppling down on those deSerted walls of canvas with roaS like the mighty crash of thunder clouds.
 AS David Manley rclinquishcd his hold on the white-faced sirl whose life he had saved, Enoch Golden grasped him tremulouSly by the hand in silent thanks for their delivcrancc from dis aStcr. Margery turned to him little Shyly.
 'I don't kuow how to thank you for what you have done, Davy," she said imouisively.
 Isn't thc deeply hurt young man only acknowledged bCv gratitude with a sii1lv formal bow as hc turned aud st=od, A'vev irtp l5e dacllness.
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