Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-30
GOING SOME
AT KRUGER'S
By FRANK A. WARD
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Hank looked at the monkey, perched
on the window sill, and the monkey
looked back. There matters rested
maybe you're real" he gasped, out
then"
He shook his head as If, in the dim
light of the single oil lamp, he could
not be certain Whistling to keep up
his courage, he let his weight fall in
the rickety chair and picked up the
pen. -
He paused. slanting an eye at the
visitor 5y1ing there like craven Bud
dha Never in his nine months at
Kruger1 Crossing had he seen such
phe6onJenon. 1t frightened him..
Mean lille the creature shifted bit
,on the pst. Instantly Hank robbed
his eye nd sat up with a jerk; for
now tw monkeys grew where one
had grdwn before. and swaying
branch utside showed their means of
- HE had been in the depths
- Iholia. and the climax had
lat evening when he settled
8 write his letter of reSigna-
reasons for his leaving, there
Ieral.
ambition-rot TO be gratified
i've dollars month and post
-nal-tower. placed where monot-
Iony wasy.ing and a passing tramp was
an evenN Second. third. fourth and
all the rfst there was Mollie Carey,
she of tha frightened eyes and round
Na face, Saughter of the nearest
faMner.
But it was upon monkeys that the
aperator's mind was busy just now
and creeping each moment shade
nearer the edge of masculine hys-
Eteria.
They're not real, or Ah-h-h,' y
A howl, slicing the silence of the
night, like knife. fioated in at the
windows. ard with it the mans sigh
was Of poignant relief.
sTdiot.' he exclaimed. 81 might
have remembered :"
Three miles away and to windward
the cry Of the coyote arose once more.
even as he had heard it on many
dreary nights. recalling the wildani-
NAL farm on the hill.
He knew that all kinds of queer
beasts were there. living wire-pen-
ned existence till shipped to zoo.
or private estate. So often had be
heard their nocturnal cries that they
had become part of his lonely life.
There were now three, sitting there
with beady eyes which followed his
movements AS he walked across the
little room and threw one of the signal
levers
A red eve down the line winked
white. and few seconds later the
monkeys huddled closer together in
fear as fast freight roared past with
a shrek of the locomotive whistle.
Again the animals watched the op-
orator as he threw the lever back to
danger. They were evidently keenly
interested, for as he sat down they
began an eager chattering that grew
/ louder with each minute.
Twice as he paused for reflection
he put the business end of the pen
holder in his outraged mouth anti
jumped up sputtering.
In the silence between the visitors
grew bold. There was moment of
excited whispering among them, then
the biggest dropped to the ground.
The rest followed.
Here y Hank yelled. "None of that.
now"
But they were too quick for him.
In a rush they were upon the nearest
signal lever, trying their best to imi-
tate the man who had thrown it be-
fore.
One of them, hard pressed by Hank,
d,rted under the table. and in flash
was tangled with the wires which
ran from the telegraph instruments to
the batteries on the floor. Fighting,
clawing. swearing, the ape went free;
and the batteries, upset, sent biue-
stained stream of water across the
floor.
AS If at a signal batch of monkeys
Hank swears there were twenty
leaned from the branch to the window
ledge and thence among their breth-
rem. The place was broken out with
them. like the measles. They shot
through the air and landed on the
levers: two of them found Hank S
lunch and fled, shrieking, from MS
wrath.
AT length, with perspiration stream
ing into eyes already half blinded by
dust, Hank stood still.
A great calm descended.
This he painted grimiy, rs no
Mace for a minister's SON."
With one despairing glance at the
whsrling dervishes, he darted for the
stairs and went down, three steps at
lump. At the foot he just missed
collision with woman's figure.
"Mollie-
rs tit robbersT
"Worse," he grunted
AS her speech had fed, he sketched