Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-29

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strong. and with each blow the group
assumed u new formation. Uniuckily,
a great deal of the fighting was done
over the PROSTATE form of Peter Nj
burg.
But disaster, inglorious disaster,
waited for Milky. Peter Niburg, face
down on the pavement, was grooming,
and Milky had felled one man and
was starting on second with the fight
ing appetite of twenty-three, when
something happened. One moment
Milky was smiling. with cut lip, and
hair in his eyes, and the next he was
dropped like an OK, by blow from
behind. Landing between his shoul-
der blades, it jerked his head bach
with snap, and sent him reeling. A
second followed, delivered by huge
fist.
Down went Milky, and lay still.
The town slept ON. Street brawls
were not uncommon, especially in the
neighborhood of the Hungaria. Those
who reused grumbled about quarrel
some students, and slept again.
Perhaps two minutes later, Milky
got up. He was another minute In To-
eating himself. His cap lay in the
gutter. Beside him, on his back, lay
a sprawling and stertorous figure,
with, so quick the downfall, cane
still hooked to his arm.
Milky bent over Peter Eiburg
Bending over made his head ache
abominably.
'Here, mani" he said. "Get up!
Rouse yourself"
Peter Niburg made an inarticulate
reference to piece of silk of certain
quality, and lay still. But his eyes
opened slowly, and he stared up at
the stars. "a fine night" he said
thickly. "a very fine" Suddenly he
raised himself to sitting posture
Terror gave him siren -th. 'Tve been
robbed" he said. "Robbed. / am
ruined. I am dead"
''Tut," said Milky, hopping his cut
lip. eff you are dead, your spirit
speaks with an uncommonly lusty
voicel Come, get up. We present to-
gether a shameful picture of defeat"
But he raised Peter Niburg gently
from the ground and, finding his knees
unstable, from fright or weakness,
stood him against house wall. Peter
Niburg, with rolling eyes, felt for his
A,n
found it.
"Ahl" ne said, and Strengthened up.
"After all, 1t is not so bad as feared.
They got nothing"
He made a manful effort to walk,
but tottered, reeled. Milky caught
him.
Careful" he said. 1.-THE colossus
was doubtless the one who got us
both, and we are likely to feel his
weight for some time. Where do you
liver"
Peter Niburg was not for saying.
He would have preferred to pursue his
solitary If uncertain way. But Milky
was no half Samaritan. Toward Peter
Niburg's lodging then, they made a
slow progress.
"These recent gentlemen" said Nix
ky, as they went along, they are, per-
haps, personal enemiesf"
Peter Niburg reflected. He thought
not. "But I know why they came" he
said unguardedly. "Some early morn
ing, my friend, you will hear of man
lying dead In the street. That man
will be l."
'aThe thought has a moral" observed
Milky. "Do not trust yourself out-of-
doors at night"
But he saw that Peter Niburg kept
his hand over his breast pocket.
Never having dealt In mysteries,
Milky was slow at recognizing one.
But, he reflected. many things were
going on In the old city in these trou-
bled days. Came to Milky, all at once,
that this man on his arm might be one
of the hidden eyes of government.
'terhese are difficult times" he ven
turEd, 'tfor those who are loyal"
Peter Nlburg gave him sidelong