The Concordia sentinel., 1921-06-11

He had held the traffic at tine moment
when the girls car stopped just above
the crossing. The girl was making fOr
the rear platform; a bevy of children
were being herded across the street
by Dan. From behind the ruck OF
halted cars came charging an AFRO
CANT blue automobile, whose fat. red
faced driver was reckleSsly and de.
family seeking to gain time through
the narrow space next 10 the car
track. Boring and crOwding trucu-
lently, ii came on-and from the i'm
pact of its mudguard the girl was
flung against the standing car.
Casting half an eye, so to speak. to-
ward the girl-whom he would see no
more till tOmOrrOw-Dan was just in
time to glimpse the thing in its hap
pening. In the twinkling Of an eye
all his pOlicemanhOod fell from him.
He was no longer an exponent of dls-
cipline, a figure of the law. He was
mere mainland wild with anger. In
| six jumps he was beside the blue
! roadster. In three seconds more he
| had hauled the driver out upon the
pavement and smashed him twice III
the face with his fist.
The man in the blue car was Big
| Bill Burtis, district leader OF tine
party" Three-quarters of an hour
later Patrolmun Travers was out OF
| his uniform. under suspension, ana
quite sure of being dismissed from
the force. And the girl, unhurt atter
all, had boarded the car and gone
about her business.
"Oficer," said the commissioner TO
Dan, Il have sent for you to subsu-
tute q reprimand for dismissal. You
conducted yourself In that affair with
Assemblyman Burtis in an eXtraor'
binary and violent manner; do you
realize itT
"Yes, sir" replied Dan, as he stood
at attention.
"And you are hereby reprimanded
do you realize that"
ayes, sir"
every well; that's done with. AND
now, by jove, l want to thank you
from the bottom of my heart for what
you did in behalf of my daughter!
"Your daugh-w The dismay In
Dams face was as comic to the com
missioner as the cause of 1t was tragic
to the young policeman. 1t meant
that his dream had gone to smash
He even quite forgot to thank the
commissioner for his coat of white
wash.
Exactly. 1t was Miss Higginsor
that Burtis ran into. Edna goes dowr
to her settlement house as regularly
as a stenOgrapher to her jOb-and al
ways on a street car. She's terrible
: little nut-her mother can't get hel
to dress right even. Edna says she has
: no business to wear better clOthe:
than the girls she's working among
/ full of all sorts of notions about equal
; ity and that kind of thing. But shes
the best little sport in the world
and, privately, l am damned glad yol
, smashed Burtis. Shake hands-ant
report back In the morning"
"Yes, sir" said Dan, mechanically
But he was listening to the fall O
the ruins of his castle. He buy coat
5 for the daughter Of COMMISSIONS
, Higginson, indeed! Why, the girl wa
[ rich-a swell
"By the way, Travers"-the com
: missioner seemed TO have almost for
gotten it-"Miss Higginson told me Il
ask you to call on her this evening
She wants to thank you-and thinl
e maybe she'll tell you. like she did me
what a perfectly splendid soak in tn
: eve that second one was-the one tina
s gave Burtis the sinner"
t "Yes, sir" was all Dan Traver
n could articulate. But all the way W
d town his head was ringing with on
(; wonderful, hopeful word, Equality"