The Washington herald., 1921-10-23

hands Of a student-directed him TO keep up
the spirits OF the women. Then he darted
down the stairs. Reaching the apartment
house. he found q fire escape that wasn't
working. Through the smoke that enveloped
It he wriggled his way upwards to the roof.
re made his way upon the roof to point
! !thove7 the women. He leaned far out over
the edge-spoks to the women, tod them al
was well
They lifted scared faces to hfr-stretched
out beseeching arms. Thin wisps Of smoke
curled up about those faces and those arms.
These women were two floors below the roof.
Elmer ouayle had brought no rope. From
his position on the roof he could offer them
no help. Scurrying about he discovered a
trapdoor and wrenched it open. From II he
lowered himself into an unfinished, low cell.
inged attic. He made his way to a con-
Evehient window and found that he had called
the turn: This window was Just above the
window where the women clustered The
distance between the bottom Of his window
ana the top OF theirs was short. His window
sash he opened from the bottom-he directed
the women to lower their window sashes
from the top.
Then. while the high school megaphone
cheered him on. he lowered himself into the
room where they were gathered He found
nVe women there, OF assorted Sizes He
found them more than frightened-he found
them desperate. And with good cause. His
swift investigation proved to him that they
were trapped. There was but one solution
to the problem-the thing was up to him.
He picked out the smallest woman Of TIA
bunch; gave her and the others brief dirSe
tons. Then, with some difficulty, he swung
himself back to his vantage point at the
attic window up above. Once inside the
attic, he leaned out Of that window and
stretched down his arms. The four women
hfted the fifth until her finger tips touched
Elmer -Quayle's. Elmer grasped her firmly
by the wrists and slowly drew her upward
a moment later she lay quivering beside him
on the floor. But not for long, for Elmer
ouayle had work for her to do.
Hang on to my legs" commanded Elmer
ouayle And showed her how. She hung on.
adding her weight and her insignificant
strength to his. But she furnished leverage,
At any rate. and that was what he needed.
lie hshed another woman through the win
dow-stopped for moments rest Then,
under his direction. both women hung to
his legs-one leg to each. He ished a third
"a fourth, Then came the tug of war-he
knew 1t for the thing It was. Elmer Quayle
weighed. stripped. one hundred and fifty
pounds. The Ast despairipg soul remaining
on the floor below weighed two hundred il
she weighed an ounce. Fortunately. this
woman was scrub woman of the place. her
muscles were trained muscles; she was as
orawny as she was big. And she had a pair
OF powerful hands and wrists. Obeying
Elmer Quayles instruction, this woman
climbed, somehow, to the window sill Of the
room OF which, now, she was sole occupant.
half seated herself upon the lowered window
sashes, and stretched her long arms toward
Elmer ouayle. Inside the attic four women
hung. In desperation. to the legs Of Elmer
ouayle-two women to q leg
You hang to me-" comma nded E,lrner
ouayle. The woman hung. She was fully
as much interested In the matter as was
Elmer. She gripped him tight. Using his
reserve strength. his second. wind. using
every trick and artihce known to: the trained
athlete Elmer Quayle fought his way back
ward into the attic with that dead weight
eunsing to him. By hook and crook he got