The New York herald., 1921-06-19
KNOT in CATS tail (
REVEALS THE PLOT
hiding Place of Little Hell
en- and Her Littler Sister
Is Unearthed.
TWO RUNAWAYS FOUND
Girls Moved Into Vacant
Flat and Raided Home Ice
Box for Supplies.
TWO RUNAWAYS FOUND
FELINE TRAMP HORNED IN
Pretzel Tailed Intruder Runs
Under Policcman's Feet and
Mystery Is Solved.

Helen Shak of 35 West Hath street
Of her friends she is often referred TO
as a tough kid" but she is not tough
at all in the purely epidermic sense
OF the word. Consequently she regards
spanking as cruel and inhuman pun
ishment and a deplorable and barbaric
custom. So on last Wednesday morn
ing. when her teacher said that a
spanking, and a good one, was in
prospect because she had dug into the
insides OF another little girls talking
doll to see what made it talk, Helen
failed to see the justice of it. She de-
cliaed to be spanked for trying to
add to her knowledge, having no doubt
that once she had found out what
made this doll talk, she could make
hll dolls talk, and thus earn millions.
So she left school, dodging under the
teacher's arm, and went home. There
was nobody there but her sister Agnes,
who is years old, her mother being en-
gagged in janitor work in the basement.
Agnes was having a lovely time drop
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but she listened with interest to a
scheme that they run away and i'm
mure themselves in a dungeon or some
thing until such time as the teachers 8
hand had ceased to itch for contact with
the person OF Helen. So the two little
girls ran away, but frst they invaded
their mothers ice box and took with
them six rolls, two bottles of milk. one
chunk Of roast beef, one chicken leg in
fairly good repair and four prunes.
Tho prunes they hurled with accurate
aim at q boy who made snoots at them
as they came from the door of the tene-
ment but the rest Of the supplies they
carried into a vacant apartment in 29
West 114th street, which was empty
because the persons who usually live
there arc down at the beach for the
summer. In this apartment the young
hermits set UP their establishment, and
the first thing they did WAS to eat all
the rolls, the roast beef and the chicken
and drink all the milk. Then they went
to sleep and when they awakened it was
dark. They had been away from home
either six or eight hours. six or eight
weeks or six or eight years, but they had
no means Of knowing which.
After Agnes had cried and had been
told to shut up they decided to continue
the adventure and lay down and slept
again until morning. Then Helen peeked
from the front window, and when she
saw her mother hurrying away from the
house she and Agnes went again to their
own home and replenished their supplies
taking again rolls and milk and their
fathcyS breakfast prunes. These last
they hurled again at the boy. who ap-
parently had a mania for making snoots
at them, but who in fact had liking
for prunes. Then they went back to
their vacant flat and immured them
selves once more. Thus 1t went until
late yesterday afternoon. the little girls
playing around She vacant apartment
and venturing forth to their own home
for supplies when they became hungry.
PoIrce Enter the Case.
Meanwhile their mother was almos,
frantic. She reported to the police that
not only were her two children missing
but that burglars were making periodic
visits to her house and robbing the ice
box. She asked the police particularly
to induce the criminal TO return the
prunes They were her husbands
prunes and he liked them. He had il
seems, managed to survive somewhat the
disappearance of the children. holding
that II was wife's business to care fol
the kids, but the disappearance of the
prunes filled him with rage and grief
But neither he nor his wife. although she
neglected her janitor work were able
to find any trace of them. Neither were
the police. although Helen and Agnes
were literally under their feet all da,
long.
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had been gone three days, Helen and
Agnes became afflicted with ennui
They had eaten. they had drunk. they