American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-03-07
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Kidnaper
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Bv MILDRED WHITE

vistfully up and down the street.
Here were the trees all crimson anu
rold her long summer visit coming 10
a close, and this glorious afternoon
free, with no amusement an store
Peggy's wide eyes seeming not 10
find that for which they sought sle
wandered almlessly up the broad roau'
Near it's top stood a great mousse ne,
hind a stone garden wall. Peggy had
always admired this wall, the trees
dropped over it So protectingly' ana
there we're glimpses Of ~oWer-bOrdereu
paths within.
Today. on the walk before the house
stood a baby carriage, and smiling ell
chautingly from beneath the carriage
hood was a dimpling love Of a BABY
"You darlingw Peggy responded to
the smile, while the baby put f0rth Il
chubby hand with an evident invitation
for its clasping.
you friendly little thlng!' Peggy
exclaimed.
Goo answered the baby.
No attendant was in sight probably
the child's mother had left it while
she stopped at the great house. Peggy
decided to visit with the baby until
her return.
Gratefully the little one put forth
efforts to entertain. The girls laugh
rang out at its dr0ll tricks-hide and
seek with the tiny skirt of its dress,
peek-a-boOs between chubby fingers.
But no mother was forthcoming.
Loath to leave the adorable little
thing, Peggy made a trip OF investlga-
ton up the fower-bordered path.
The baby's lusty cry at her deser-
tlon caused her to go farther and ring
the front-door bell. To all appear
ances, upon this glorious October day
the great house was vacated.
"Some careless nurse girl" Peggy
Indignantly reflected, chad forsaken
the baby for her wv pleasure. she
must already have been gone some
time. No wonder the tiny one had so
gleefully welcomed her presence"
Peggy returned, to find baby's smile
of greeting banishing the tears. She
decided to push the carriage slowly
down the stone walk until the one In
charge should appear. But no one
came.
Baby, indeed, seemed the only object
of life in all the silent surroundings,
Peggy continued to push the carriage
"Just as well to give the neglectful
one a scare she considered. And
as she went on, new vistas of fall seen
cry invited.
, She had never looked before from
1 the hill to the valley. Baby cooed de
lightfully, while Peggy's thoughts went
/, wool-gatherlng.
'"Thls was the first day of her Ions
I stay in which the nice man had no
4 passed her sisters home"
o In her W thoughts-and strange Il
say, he was often in her thoughts
Peggy referred to him as the mic,
: man."
There was something so wholesome
Il ly frank In the goOd-natured face, ever
In the mans swinging carriage. Peg
y gy wondered dismally how it was tina
Il they had not become better aCquaint
- cd. Her sister introduced them ON
day, in passing.
, "Oh, that is Tom Price" she care
! lessly remarked.
n. If the married sister had guessed a
r. the wild commotlop the chance encow
u ter with this same Tom Price ha
raised in Peggy's usually adamantin
heart, she might have been more c,
- pllcit In her description.
= In some ineXplicable way, in III
y many places where Peggy had haI
pened to be during the past changiu
;. year, this mice man" had bobhed u
~ until recognition between the two b
cume an astonishing fact. Peggy faI
=, cled him eager for II meeting yet, n
=, ter her sisters Introduction, Tom Pri,
a. passed on his contented way-with bl
n daily, distant bow. And now 81
must go home
-. Goo" reminded the baby.
Peggy glanced about in Surpris,
she had gone farther than she kne,
~ Then suddenly, apparently "out of Il
nowhere into the here" n mans hgu
doomed up before her.
A. "IIow de do?" said Tom Price.
w. Peggy stared, then she laughed.
~. 81 might have known that 1t WON
- he you" she said. 'ThiS Is about I
y, only corner where we had not met"
na The nice mans grin expressed sat
n, faction.
Couldn't he toe often to suit M,
y he remarked pleasantly. where 4
=. you get the babyP"
"Oh !" she murmured 81 did not
allze II, but | guess-T've kidnap
him"
"Severe penalty for that said T,
Price, and his eyes twinkled.
cit Is really serious" Peggy prote
ed. ~ have been most thoughtle
Perhaps some distracted mother is n
- wringing her hands over his abSen
He was so captivating, you see, | 3
US kept pushing him on from before
big stone house, where l found him.
The house Is at the top Of the