Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-11-02
Three Men and a Maid

- as one man They had often paid goo
\ money to see far less gripping sight
> in the movies. They roared applause
= The liner, meanwhile. continued (
! move stodgily out into midriver.
! The only drawback to these life
saving competitions at school. consid
= cred from the standpoint of fitting tn,
competitors for the problems of after
life. Is that the object saved on such
occasions Is a leather dummy, and OF
all things In this world leather
dummy Is perhaps the most placid and
phlegmatic. 1t differs in many respects
from an emotional Swedish gentleman.
six foot high and constructed through
out of steel and india rubber, who Is
being lugged away from cash which he
has been regarding In the light of
legacy. Indeed, 1t would not be hard
to find a respect In which II does not
differ. So far from lying inert In
Sans arms and allowing himself to
be saved in quiet and orderly man
ner. Mr.. Swenson betrayed all the
symptoms of one who feels that he has
fallen among murderers. Mr.. Sven
son, much as he disliked competition,
was ready to put up with it, provided
that 1t was fair competition This
pulling your rival away from the loot
so that you could grab 1t yourself
thus shockingly had the man mIsIn-
terpreted Sans motives-was another |
thing altogether and his stout soul |
would have none Of It. He began i'm |
medlately to struggle with all the
violence at his disposal His large,
hairy hands came out of the water and
swung hopefully In the direction where
he assumed his assailant's face to be.
Sam was not unprepared for this
display. His researches In the art of
ife-saving had taught him that your
browning man frequently struggled
gainst his best interests. In which
ase, cruel to be kind, one simply
TUNED the Brighter. He decided to
tun Mr.. Swenson, though, If he had
nown that gentleman more intimately
nd had been aware that he had the
equation of possessing TIE .hickest
cad on the waterfront he would have
ealized the magnitude of the task.
riends of Mr.. Swenson, in conviyial
oments, had frequently endeavored q
stun him with bottles, boots and bits ,
lead piping, and had gone away de-
'essed by failure. Sam, ignorant of D
lis, attempted to do the job with c
enched fist, which he brought down Il
smartly as possible on the crown "
the others derby hat.
1t was the worst thing he could have a
me. Mr.. Swenson thought highly of IL
s hat and this brutal attack upon 1t a.
nfirmed his gloomiest apprehensions.
)w thoroughly convinced that the
Ily thing to DO was to sell his life W
arly, he wrenched himself round
lied his assailant by the neck, CO
'ined his arms about his middle, and lii
him below the surface.
BY the time he had swallowed his re
st pint and was beginning on his
cond, Sam was reluctantly compelled
come to the conclusion that this
Is the end. The thought irritated
n unspeakably. This, he felt, was Sh
st the silly, contrary way things seq
ways happened. Why should 1t be
who was perishing like this? Why {
Eustace Hignett? Now there was he,
elbow whom this sort Of thing would the
It have suited. Broken-hearted Eus. she
e Hignett would have looked on all est
s as merciful release. her
lie paused In his reflections to try "
disentangle the more prominent of "
. Swenson's limbs from about him. dol
this time he was sure that he had sac
yer met anyone he disliked so in "
sely as Mr. Swenson-not even his fiji,
Mt Adeline. The man was a human loo,
opus. Sam could count seven dis boc
It legs twined round him and at hac
st as many arms. 1t seemed to him 90
he was being done to death In his ~
ne by solid platoon of Swedes. stor
put his whole soul into one last 81
TT something seemed to nv
he was free. Pausing
' to try to kick Mr.. Swenson In the :.
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