The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-06-23

hut that was him, Ill right-the fore
man Of our room. So that's where
he's been spending his time pretending
he was out getting new ideas about
the work."
Suddenly the sub turned into the
alley where numerous motorcars were
parked.
Nearly all of them bore the red
cross, and even as he hurried her into
one of them, she sensed the fact that
he was preparing to kidnap both q
girl and q machine.
She sat still and held onto her hat
as t.ey drove out of the city and in
the direction of that dre.> Mike garden
OF enchantment. the White City.
Il thought you said you was a sub
stitute conductor" observed the kid
| naped lady as she leaned back COM
fortably. "Was that just some Of the
romance?"
"Wh0 wants to known" he asked
calmly. IF we're pinched, the less
you know about me the better, amt
it,"
"But this machine?"
He placed one hand on hers.
"Nix on the worry" he answered.
"You're here to enjoy yourself: IL
there's any fines to p:>,. I'm 1t. Do
you get met"
you are white" she said at last.
He could not hear her SO she re-
peated 1t in his ear and he grinned.
"When we get there" she decided
'ft'll be Dutch treat, anyway"
When they reached the White City
he did not abandon the car, as she
halfway expected. While he was park
ing 1t she watched him with unassumed
! interest
"Gee," she frankly commented,
you gotta nerve! What IL the owner
sees it?'
, Slowly, solemnly, he winked.
= Maybe a little white chalk can
change license number-long enough
for a getaway" he suggested. ANY
way, don't you expect some nerve to
60 with this kind Of map?"
Mary Eleanor Edith gazed steadily
. at his face.
!. You amt no Gibson man, for .
n fact" she acknowledged, "but I'm sat-
a isfied with It,"
\ As the factory whistles were blow.
% ing six o'clock Mary Eleanor Edith
\ put the last bit Of sticky popcorn bali
into her mouth
,. II don't know who you are" she
!, said, "and don't care. You've give
;. me a sure-enough picnic-day-and
feel like getting back to work again
\. If you get into trouble about the auto
"A will you come over. to-"
He held up a demonstrating hand
IT won't have trouble" he reassuret
~ her; "you seen me put it back whert
:, it come FROM"
~ "Well," she went on, II sure thanl
you for the ride and the movie.
!, paid for all the rest-my share
didn't II"
you'd orter let me-" he began
~ But she laughed, and he mated tn
n, ring of happiness in 1t. TT was! bar
gain, remember" she returned. II
t. all went into our adventure-day."
ON Fright you are" said he warmly
oh "Good-by. Mary Eleanor!"
;s "Good-by, sub" said she, disappear
a ing in the street car. "rm glad I ri
,re Off" she thought. I'm glad!"
IN 'Mary Eleanor E-e-d-u-th!"
w Mary Eleanor Edith swallowe
70 quickly as she squared her shoulder
,+o "Yessum." said she; what Is 4
,,n maw?"
hot "Guess where me and Mrs. Yeage
went today"
70 "How should 1 know?" queried he
RI. daughter evasively.
"Well, we went out for adventur,
,ou That's what we called it-though r
tenn it just picnic. We went to II
White City, and we saw"
we Mary Eleanor Edith swallowed agai
q a and more quickly. her heart hamme
ing unanimously in her thin ches
roo I'VE saw you there. What In th
10. name Of sense did you quit your jo
mo for: Or was you Just OFT"
doS II was just off," replied her daugl
mn. ter, gulping. II was tired and nee
ed Notwithstanding diferen
,as. I'm going back tomorrow"
mr.. Her mothers eyes narrowed.
At "How do you know they'll take ~
back?"
sha Mary Eleanor Edith's imaginable
pictured the foreman when che to
him Of the moving-picture AFFAIR.
nm. "Oh," she hazarled easily. II que
obs. they WILL al lie"''
hea. What was coming next3
eo. Her mother rocked a few moment
he while Mary Eleanor Edith rearrsng'
for her tumbled hair. Then:
"You had right to tell me Seu. y
flrst Mrs. Yeager's nephew. viii, was q
lick quainted. She see him and You o
ON there today, Jest as We was goil
at out"
"He amt got a steady job. So
larry we just went for little outing" tel
sub pcrixed her daughter.
Ill "Steady iob?" repeated her moth,
"If swell. n running Doctor Wricht,s Z