The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-05
A LITTLE WILD WEST
By HAZARD DANIEL YORK

~ No SdIeDredher, lHteuC uPOh HIS sfirst attempt, could have approached .rhe United States post office with igreater trepidation than Hazel Cled- thill felt as she slipped through the Revolving doors at 10:5s o'clock.
 :; The words of the personal" column sglimmered before her
 se Watch--If the person on the Seyms :street trolley who found wtach in finer pocket will be at the post office ,at Ii o'clock Sunday morning, she twill learn something to her adVan- Rage.
 I. She had come, driven by longing sand loneliness. At last, after 1o ,.months of monotony in the city, some . ..thing was going to happen-or al .aeast, so she hoped
 | And she was not to, be disappointed l! She had scarcely moved to the win win .adow which commanded view or le lne llHopkins street entrance when large s.gray car stopped at the curb. Blue .tcoated men began to leap from it's Anterior. l: This was not exactly what Hazel .shad expected. She suddenly felt very !small and defenseless. As stenograph . Ter for Peck Brothers atloFheys, +rr sre .Ixnew that the law looks with stern ijeye upon the possessor of stoien ssgoodsNand she carried in her pocket "a watch which she believed hao been ,.stolen.
 !; A hand touched her shoulder ,Eently, yet with insistenee.
 K 'scome with me- said Voice ss"There's not second 10 iose'
 X She had a confused impression ol Hooking into the worried eyes ol ' iiyonng man.
 {; ''The police" he murmureo. E"S o''i l,-this way-hustle"
 1, She glanced from the window-at 1.-the approaching policemen: Ihen sne ssvielded to the pressure on her arm 3s Tn another second, as it seemed, she lgfoilnd herself in little blue roaostel ,,whirring along the street at sPeeu (which defied all laws or traIllc i;came the big gray car With US ioo0 liof, policemen! u I, They passed the city limits. DOES i.and chickens began to be numerous; Zone hen miscalculated-and passeu i,abruptly from this world.
 i.s ashe,s-a good-little-car the ;Noung man breathed, "Are-theY- ,,gajning%' .,,,o, orisd "Can't s;sS She glanced:at the young man as ne ,ibent grimly over the wheel. SnS sIaeipo, s!ized that he was th1e1, IleSan9 ,smadIv from the officers Of the Ia liEha Tealized that she wanted hlm to lrrin the race-oh, not because ne WaY i,attractive or anything like that put sSrban the monotony of 16 months mas ,sbeen broken it seems as 1T tne 6 iNenture might have some ndppA04 iing than the police court. in,o 4 She looked back and tears cane tleo th ar eyes. The fight was such a hope- pc. isess one! The gray car was n z, . s.ranidly. She could hear the ui u4iiAAA IA 5 s.of its mighty engine. u,,,. .ois the ,s,o,,ns man: T think l can iool- ,Hhese fellows" Lu,
 II The roadster made" the hlll. v aRend over-so that the orancnes 9,won't hit you,' he coinnla t,1,.r.5 bis \, Tbe next moment he had turned ms .s
 from inc road, and brought IL to Ia stop in a pine grove. .A,. snot ,, @Hannened to remember this spot' i5e. commented with satisfactlon'
 <; The gray ear whizzed by the young aig ,.nan backed out upon the i,I, LooU aI,or bis land began doubling back over Hi' .own tracks. .ey1-o,1l he ,a0 miles away before they eaten our i1rail again.? r1azel Ae did not reply. It presently be- ibame evident to Hazel that he was 9sakine a very peculiar course pack igust as she--was about to protest .,i Ihe lear came up over the crest oi 4Ai and .and there before them, blue ana sfnarkiing in the sunshine, lay the Barton Beach," the young man ex- splained. q thought maybe
 f Hazel stiffened.
 .;to take me to the city at once. why HT don't even know your name or isyou mine" i,f T do know yours" he admitted. his seyes on a sailboat far out rom Ishore. "But you don't understand all ..bf this do you?"
 T think 1 do," she responded. You lwere concerned in the robbery at ,iortons jewelry store. On the trolley ,you slipped the watch into my pocket .scaught with it. Then you put that 'sitem in the paper so that l would isbring the stolen watch back to you. Here it is.
 in He smiled slightly-and she had her First clear view of his eyes. Somehow, uhey weren't the sort of eyes she l.Mould have expected a thief to have. z. That isn't quite the way of it. he .said. Jim Heaton-Jim's chum Of ,inine and reporter of the Glope-says .pne day, do you know, Ned Nearing: Hhis old worlds lost every bit of Romance it ever had? Why. if you .happened to be crazy about girl
 whom you didn't know-you un- .t]erstand Jim said this-"all you'd have imagination enough to do would .be to get somebody to introduce you Ao her. And she'd say, Why, you Hreckle faced. snubnosed, redheaded Young ape-Jim has gift of descrip- ifion. gets if from his newspaper work .:You see, girls like a little wild west ishoot-the town-up sort of stuff
 That's what Jim says.
 (, He seemed very intent upon spot