Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-12-24

| mo. That's the secret. | went for
him in the coupe after you were sound
asleep"
My! myI You went after him-all
alOneY
Amy blushed and hurriedly ex-
| planned: "He told me he would go
raving crazy If they kept him shut up
so what else could do? We had it all
arranged AS soon as the moon went
down, he climbed from his window and
/ brought him home.,s
poor Mr.. WIFI Or course, If he
would have gone crazy, you done just
right. dearie."
I'm so glad you think so. because
you must help me keep him hid. else
they'll come and take him back there,
or maybe to jail"
| Title cogitated, sand replied:
There's that place IN the attic where
you and him used to play robbers
| cave"
lust the thing Wen fix it up at
once. Maybe, though. they'll only ask
| If he is here. Go and see If he No.
keep away, so If hey come you can
tell them you haven't seen anything of
him.
After breakfast Amy found courage
to creep upstairs to listen at Clintons
door. Hearing nothing, she slipped
| under the door note asking him TO
| remain in. his room and raise his rear
| shade If unable to reach Title in the
kitchen by means of the speaking tube.
She returned downstairs to help
| Title "do up" the mornings work, but
| soon cajoled her out into the garden.
Hardly were they out of the house
| when the telephone rang. The call
not being answered, the ring was re-
| peated, not once, but fully half dozen
times, at frequent intervals. Blissful-
| ly ignorant of the impatient calls,
| Amy, with hands safeguarded from
tborns by leather gauntlet gloves, was
| training the rose-laden vines over the
lattice of her summer house. Tillie
supported the stepladder and handed
up ties of soft twine.
After time the telephone renewed
its impatient summons. The garden
ers worked on, Oblivious. Presently
the telephone was REINFORCED by the
sharper ring of the doorbell. The re-
suit was the same. Three times the
bells rang, more or less in unison.
Still no response; still Amy remained
intent on her thorny blossomy task,
with only an occasional glance upward
at the rear window of her brothers
bedroom.
The doorbell ceased ringing. A few
moment later two persons, keen-eyed,
suspicious young man and an agitated
young lady, came hurrying out of the
pergola into the garden.
"There she is I" exclaimed the young
lady. She waved her hand and called:
"O-ho! Amy!'A
Amy twisted about so suddenly that
she almost fell off the ladder.
Goodness !" she whispered. "It's
Ellen and Charlie y
"Pooh! Don't fret. Well fool them
easy" treasured Title.
The girl promptly recovered her bal
ance and her aplomb, and called ban
teringly: "Oh, is it really you? You
must be going for a foOthill motor
drive to be out at this tnearthly hour.
1t almost tumbled me over to see you"
Then you haven't heard, dear !" ex-
claimed Ellen.
"YOur brother has escaped from the
Sanitarium," BENIN bluntly stated the
news.
Amy threw up her hands in realis-
tic stage CONSERVATION. Escaped?
VIII escaped? Oh! oh! Has he gone
daft again? How? Where did he go7
When was it? Oh, dear! Wandering
about, in his condition."
Hasn't he come home"
"Home!" scoffed Title. "Don't you
know anything about crazy folks?
Don't you know they always try to get
away from their relations? Didn't he
want to run away from home the very
first night he Gamer
Indeed. yes" agreed Ellen. "You re-
member he even knocked you down, he
was so violent"
Bemm's face darkened. Hes bit
too violent. The next time We'll put
him where he can't get out"
'WeT" queried Amy.
"His--er-friends," BENIN fastened
TO explain. He'll be apt to do himself
harm. Y know, If he's allowed to run
loose"
Before he is cured" added Ellen.
Amy raised her flushed face. That
most eminent of scientiSts-Charles
Darwin-observed that the expression
al after-etfects of spasmS of fear, an
ger ard mirth are remarkably similar.
There were tears in Amy's REDEEMED
eyes as she looked up past Bemm's
fashionable straw. Suddenly her half
compressed eyelids widened-she flung
up her hand and made quick down
ward gesture.
BENIN spun about and stared up at
the rear window of Cl-<son's bedroom.
The shade was down, but the morning
light rippled on its watered surface as
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