The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-28

"At Midnight ! Let's John and Doc in
With His Torch"
dressing me in terms very much warm
er and more personal than his usual
guarded "Howdy, Miss Fairfax
He rushed over to the windows and
flung them wide.
Vaguely 1 knew that there had been
some sort of fight in the outer
rooms. l had heard shots and shouts
but they had meant nothing more
to me than the hideous phantasma-
goria of the dream in which I was
sinking away from human conscious
ness.
When the taxi in which George Nc
Cabe and Jimmy had been dashing
around corners in the Bronx arrived
at the street in which George remem-
bered meeting Mayme, the chauffeur
was commanded to slow down. They
hailed the first two policemen they
met and enlisted their aid.
Just as they got to the doorway
decorated by Doctor Schulze's card
the consplrators came rushing out. At
once the Doctor" and Silent Sam
pulled their guns. But one of the po-
licemen knocked Sam senseless before
he could shoot.
Then two shots sounded simultane-
ously. Jimmy and the Doctor" had
fired at the same moment. Schulzes
bullet went wild, but-Jimmy's found
its mark and the doctor" crumpled
f,, n,,1 10,
less-dead!
1t was then that Jimmy found him
self turned into human catapult Big
John knocked the gun from his hand,
picked him up bodily and flung him
crashing against the door of the inner
room. 1t gave way and Jimmy whirled
through-to rise from his daze a Sec
ond later and act with a promptness
which saved us from the fumes of the
boiling retort.
A second later George McCabe came
rushing into the room.
Mary, my grill" cried George,
you're safe-and we've got the 9TH
ers. The policemen have handcuffed
the lot-and your George has helped
his bit toward getting back the money
Aoi tiiC ludl = I'LL TlSnI
He was unfastening the knots which
bound her to the chair as he spoke,
and second later she was clinging to
him, laughing and crying and telling
him all in one breath that she loved
him and that she would never be glad
/ enough she'd written to Miss Fairfax
When Jimmy tod us the story Of
his adventures later down at the Jour
nal 1 learned just how he had hap.
pened to appear at the opportune mo-
ment. Just after he had discovered
and freed George they rushed out from
the Defarge hut and leaped into the
waiting taxi. They whirled over to tho
| building where Mary and were cap
tve-though both of them were tempt
ed to stop at the Ryan home, and reas-
sure us of their safety, or, at least, tel
ephone us some encouraging message
But every minute counted" laughed
Jimmy. And even If it didn't seem
so very polite to keep the ladies' in sus-
pense, we decided that when you were
chasing thieves you couldn't stop to
pay party calls. How about 1t, Miss
Fairfax-was it SO awfully improper
of us to ignore our manifest duty to
the ladies in the case?"
The managing editor Joined in the
laugh that followed Jimmy's friendly
little dig at me. But 1 couldn't helm
answering seriously: 81 hope you'll
never neglect what looks like your duty
to any girl, Mr.. Barton-think what
1t would have meant to Mary and me
If you had been fifteen minutes later
those awful choking fumes; you were
just in time to save u.s."
I'VE can't have you venturing into
such dangers again, Miss Fairfax"
said the managing editor-but when
next the need arose ventured-l SIM
ply had tol
"Oh, that's all right. Miss Fairfax
take any chances you like" laughed
Jimmy, airily. "rll always get there
at the psychological moment and save
you from the villain"
And the queer part about that prom
ise was-that Jimmy Barton kept it
END OF FIRST EPISODE.