Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

with the bracelets on! You'll" red
rage could so no farther in mere
words and he flung himself in feeble
fierceneSs upon Smith, clutching and
struggling and waking the grewsome
echoes again with frantic, meaningless
maledictions.
Smith did not strike back; wrapping
the madman in a pinioning grip, he
held him helpless. When it was over,
and Jibbey had been released, gasping
and sobbing, to stagger back against
the tunnel wall, Smith groped for the
candle and found and relighted it.
Tucker" he said gently, "you are
more Of a man than took you to be
a good bit more. Now that you're CIV
ing me chance to say it, 1 can tell
you that Verda Richlander doesn't fig
ure in this at all. I'm not going to
marry her, and she didn't come out
here in the expectation of finding me-"
"Then what does figure in it?" was
the dry-lipped query.
ut was merely a matter of self-pres-
ervation. There are men in Brewster
who would pay high for the informa-
ton you might give them about me-"
you might have given me hint
and chance, Monty. I'm not all dog"
'"That's all past and gone. 1 didn't
give you your chance, but I'm going
to give it to you now. Let's go-if
you're fit to try it."
"Wait a minute. If you think, be-
cause you didn't pull your gun now
and drop me and leave me to rot in
this hole, if you think that squares
the deal"
I'm not making any conditions"
Smith interposed. "There are num-
Der of telegraph offices in Brewster,
and for at least two days longer 1
shall always, be within easy reach"
Jibbey's anger flared up once more
"YOu think 1 won't do it? You
think I'll be so glad to get to some
place where they sell whisky that I'll
forget all about it and let you off ?
Don't you make any mistake, Monty
Smith You can't knock me on the
head and lock me up as if 1 were yell
low dog. I1l fix your
Smith made no reply. Linking his
free arm in Jibbey's, he led the way
through the mazes, stopping at the
tunnel mouth to blow out the candle
and to pick up Jibbey's suitcase. In
the open air the freed captive tramped
in sober silence at Smiths heels until
they reached the automobile. At the
crossing of the railroad main track and
the turn into the highway, the river
bassooning deep-toned among its
powders, was near at hand, and Jib-
bey spoke for the first time since they
left the mine mouth.
I'm horribly thirsty, Monty. Thai
water in the mine had copper or some
thing in it, and 1 couldn't drink it
You didn't know that, did you-wher
you put me in there, 1 mean? Wont
you stop the car and let me go ant
stick my face in that river?"
The car was brought to a stand ant
Jibbey got out to scramble down thu
river bank in the starlight. Obeyins
some inner prompting which he diC
not stop to analyze, Smith left his sea
behind the wheel and walked over t.
the edge of the embankment wher,
Jibbey had descended. With the glar
of the roadster's acetylenes turned tn
other way, Smith could see Jibbey a
the foot of the slope lowering himsel
face downward on his prOpped arms +
reach the water. Then, in that instant
Jibbey, careless in his thirst, lost hi
balance and went headlong into tn
torrent.
A battling con had passed befor
Smith, battered, beaten and hall
strangled, succeeded in landing the ur
d conscious thirst-quencher on a shelly
ing bank three hundred yards belo7
the stopped automobile. After tha
u there was another con in which h
IL completely forgot his own brusina
{ while he worked desperately over til
L. drowned man, raising and lowering tn
l. limp arms while he strOve to reca
more of the resuscitative direction
d. given in the Lawrenceville Athleti
y clubs first-aid drills.
ie In good time, after an interval S
long that it seemed endless to the d
IL spairing first-aider, the breath can
ID back into the reluctant lungs. Jibbe
III coughed, choked, gasped and sat u
His teeth were chattering, and he We
'e chilled to the bone by the sudde
Il plunge into the cold snow-water, bl
re he was Enthusiastically alive.
"What-what happened to me, Mo
Of ty?" he shuddered. did l tumble in
to "You did, for a fact"
"And you went in after me?"
IS "Of course"
er mo, by CAD! 1t wasn't 'of course
e, not by long shot! All you had
ed do was to let me go, and the score
,n your score-would have been wipe