The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-09-29
SEVENTH EPISODE

SEVENTH EPISODE
When Flip caught Peg in his arms,
after she had accused yound Lund of
being head Of the band of counterfeit
ers, his strength was not suffi cient to
combat her youthful vigor, plus the
force her hysterical condition gave to
the circus girls movements. She
broke away from Flip and again at
tackled the young physician ferocious-
~.
Too utterly dumfounded to make
more than pu~rpOseless efforts to pro-
tect himself from Pegs attack, young
Lund was being badly scratched and
pummcled before the secret service
men, with their combined strength,
were able to completely overpower
the excited girl. Instantly her hys-
terra changed from violence to weep
ing. and the girl was tenderly trans
ferred to the keeping OF the old clown.
Flip and one of the circusmen car
ried her into an adjoining room, and
placed her at ease upon a couch.
Young Lund moved from the excited
group that surrounded him. and mo-
toned the secret service men to fol-
low. Lund led the way to his labO-
ratory and there told them who he
was.
This strange accusation that has
been placed against me-. can be read
lily disproved," said young Lund.
MY father will be responsible for my
appearance, and l will come to head
quarters tomorrow and fully explain
this unfortunate incident"
We'll. II your father will stand
good for you, it will be all right with
re-" said the leader of the govern
nent officials. Lets find him and
see what he has to say"
OF course Doctor Lund very eager
~ made himself responsible for his
sons appearance. and the secret sery-
ice men left the house.
Next morning young Lund made his
way to the headquarters Of the local
secret service and when he arrived
there he found Flip in the very act Of
explaining the strange conduct Of his
little girl.
When the officials heard F1ip's story
they were convinced OF young LGnd's
innocence. or, at least. were willing
to accept the explanation as valid for
the time being.
Flip and Lund departed, after shak-
ing hands all round with the detec-
tives. And when they had gone the
chief said as IL for the benefit of all
Of his men present:
THAT circus girl is as crazy as a
woman's watch-but we are on the
right trail. Just the same"
"When we hear from our man who
has gone to e Mrs. Lund, we'il know
4 lot more than we do now" the chief
continued. I'VE will give those guys
we rounded up at the den the third
degree, and see II that will bring us
any closer to the main one. For the
present you men have done all you
Fan on this case"
Some time later the man who had
been sent to the Lund home made his
report.
There's nothing there that / can
and, chief" said the detective. "Mrs.
Lund stands mighty we'll In this town.
you know, and unless we a get
more than we have on any OF the fam
~. wish you would call It all off,"
..Weil, we've Just had young Lund
here and the circus clown has ex.
plained about his girl being afflicted
with something that changes her dis
position" said the chief. There real
u % nothing more that we can do
inst now: 80 ! guess you better 60
hack to Mrs. Lund and explain to her
that We have no charge to make
against her son and that we are salts
sced that our clues are wrong"
And y the detective started to
feaye the room, the chief called him
nack aM5Naeid: but a. q word to
you. there b something very wrong
nn.fhere Ct Lundssr and w will keep
our EYES open for anything that may
develop-but you be ure TO convince
her that IT. al on
II suppose you know the show is
am ~ the lot?' said Flip to young
Land after the two men had left the
,necret oervlce emce.
No. h1oe1,t didn't know II" Lund
lnouesad. 7onppoeed ION had stayed