The Elbert County tribune., 1918-01-25
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ushered her to a table as was his
wont, and prepared to- walk away
when she called him and invited him
to sit down. He looked surprised, but
did MS the woman asked. The stranger
smiled and leaned over to Satsu. Sud-
denly she put her hand over his.
"And, oh, Afissus Fairfax, when I
see thnt-how she smile to him and
take hands. dragon come into my
heart and claw SO 1t hurt. bear
that-but what / cannot bear is when
waitress girl bring him In hat, coat
and stick He get up and go out
with she-with that stranger. think
she not SO much prettier than Mmosa
San, but he go and pretty soon i fol-
low.
1T think If he can go anywhere
with her, l can go after. He find
Mimosa San little, but she fight. He
go with her to what you call apart
ment fiat. l stay outside. l think
to myself, Mimosa San she like to kill
| Spanish lady, who make secret sign
| to Hako."
And with startling suddenness at
just that particular moment Jimmy
| Strengthened up from his slouching po-
sition of boredom and became abso-
lutely alert.
But / knew that James Barton was
on the trail of a big story.
In order that the tale of the Nip
pom Tea garden may be clear to
you, shall tell the reason for Jimmy's
interest now. That morning the city
editor, Howard Barnes, had assigned
to Jimmy an interview with John
Brayton, inventor of the Brayton rifle
sight.
At the end of his visit with Bray
ton Jimmy got nothing more than
promise that the inventor would give
him an interview when his plans were
in the government vault the next day.
Mr.. Barton wasn't In the habit of re-
turning to Mr.. Barnes with excuses
and promises for "Manana."
And so he determined on a second
effort. Back to the Journal he came,
made his arrangements to take me
to the Nippon Tea garden, and then
right-about-faced and returned over
the road to the Brayton home.
Later we both blessed the fates
which had made Jimmy, the modern,
buy little old car" instead of trust
ing to subways.
Jimmy's little car travelled at leis-
urely rate out of difference to its age
and when he saw big, high-pow
cred limousine tearing down the road
at a terrific speed. he drew to the side
of the road conservatively.
About half an hour later Mr.. Bar
ton reached the Brayton home. And
Jimmy n story which filed them both
with mingled emotions of anger. cha
grin and terror.
LESS than twenty minutes before
you came, Barton" said the inventor.
there was an accident on the road
| just outside my house. A wheel came
off big car that was passing by, and
a woman was hurt.
"Her chauffeur shouted for help, and
I went to give it; Of course, why not ?
You see that, don't you? I had just
been addressing an envelope to Briga-
der General Haynes of the war de-
partment at Washington.
"The blue-prints for my rifle sight
were inside 1t. 1 left that on the
table when / went out to rescue the
woman. She might have been hurt
dangerously hurt. 1 had to 60
Well, 1 helped the driver carry the
woman into the house; she was bad
ly bruised, unconscious. And then
| 1ofa of ha nj had
helped us lay her on the couch and
had gone to get basin of water,
leaned over to reassure myself. She
might have been dead, you know
Then something struck me sharply
1t was here, l think-I still feel a lit
tie pain"
"Jiu-jitsul" exclaimed Jimmy. "Was
the man Jap?"
"Oh, 1 didn't notice. He seemed
an ordinary enough young chap-yor
couldn't see much of him. A lont
coat and goggles covered him pretty
thoroughly. Just few minutes be
fore you rang the door bell 1 became
conscious again, but 1 had a pretty
bad time of it managing to get up ant
unite the maid"
"But the envelope-the blue-prints
Are they here?" asked Jimmy.
mo. They got away with them
that's the bother of it."
| Then Jimmy remembered the car hi
had passed on the road, the big speed
demon.
"That's more than the bother O
It, Mr.. Brayton, said he. "There's thu
deuce to pay. The man was a Jap
The woman looked Spanish; some O
the Hidalgos have never been recon
structed since Manila bay"
"Come on. man." cried the inventor
with sudden influx of violent energy
1--WE are wasting time. We must fol