Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-08
OUT-O'-LUCk
BY DOROTHY PIPER
20 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,

lows who run out Of luck on the very
day OF their birth. If any kid gol
caught and chastised for going in
swimming in April il was Jimmie.
Jimmie was crazy about Nellie Read
and when he was twenty-three he asked
her to marry him. Jimmie's humble
salary would not permit him to sup
port two homes, and when lie told his
bride-to-be that she would have to
share his mothers abode that little
lady created such 81 scene that Jimmie
was forced to postpone their marriage
indefinitely, or, at least, until he could
establish himself in more profitable
business.
Nellie refused to wait, and when she
returned Jimmies unpretentious little
tiamond-the diamond that was net
yet paid fort was the last straw.
After that Jimmie did his work in list
less silence, and every evening after
he had made his mother comfortable
for the night he would whistle to Pal,
his dog, and the two would go down
to the sea beyond lis home. There
they would romp and swim in peace
full solitude.
The boy suffered acltely when Nellie
broke their engagement, but his suf-
ferlng then was nothing compared to
the sorrow caused by his mothers
death shortly after. He missed lifting
her in and out of bed, he missed comb
nj h ic, nj, linz
fingers, and how he yearned for the
soft, THAT you, Jinmie?' when he
opened the door
Jimmie resigned his position at the
drug store because there was always
a trace of Il tear in his eye and q
conspicuous sob in his throat that
made him ashamed to meet his pa.
irons. lie still sought the sea at the
end of the day, but, instead of lullinc
his troubled spirit, it seemed to be
hooking him in his misery and to be
beckoning him on to eternal solace in
it's cold, Shiny depths.
"Why not?" thought Jimmie Fate
had been exceedingly cruel to him,
had offered him happiness Only to
snatch it away. Why pretend to gel
any joy out of living. why continue
this loathsome farce called life? There
was no one left to care, so Jimmie
, planned
He arose early next morning anG
was pleased to find that he had rot
weakened in his purpose. lie bathed
and dressed immediately then went
to his mothers weil-stoc,led medicine
closet and pocketed a bottle marked
poison" Pal followed him about,
seeming to wonder, and Jimmie kissed
him between the eyes as he tied a note
to his collar. The note read: won't
someone please adopt Pal? I know
what loneliness is, and wouldn't wish
1t for a dog
Jimmie was all unmindful of the
, beauties surrounding him. He went
swiftly and directly to the cliff, and
without hesitation uncorked the bottle
He was about to place it to his lips
when girl in dilapitlated motor
boat arrested his attention. She had
evidently lost control CT it, and the
heavy surf was driving her toward the
rocks. Her faint cries for he,, were
barely audible. Forgetting his OWL,
| trouble, Jimmie cleft the water with q
| perfect dive and went to the girl with
powerful, overarm strokes.
The girl had swooned when Jimmie
reached her, but with considerable diff
ficulty he managed to drag her from
the boat and to tow her to the shore,
where he was confronted by strange
| ly CARRIED group of people. One man,
/ wearing puttees waved megaphone
with one hand and tore his hair with
the other. Great suns!' he beloved
at Jimmie, you've gummed up the
whole scene!"
"Gummed up nothing" interrupted
another man, "this gentleman has
saved your stars life! Why, look at
her! She's out-head split open. Tell
one of the boys to call doctor Some
craft that captain let US take-busted
rudder''
The man held out a friendly hand
anu CUuSIdIululCu Jlli!Illlc. 'irGHt
work, my boy" he exclaimed. "Pret,
TEST swimming I've seen for some
time Say, what's your name and
what's your form Of employment? |
need man like you for some South
| Sea island stuff expect to shoot next
week. II you photograph as we'll as
! you swim, I'd like to take you on
| Jimmie Dutton did photograph well,
and proved to be one OF the celebrl.
ties that grow" over night The sal
airy he received astounded him, and
! the first thing he did was to erect n
magnificent mausoleum over his moth
er's grave. Old Pal escaped adoption.
and rides on the trout seat of an ey.
| pensive car with his master-.that is.
he rides on the front seat when Polly
Graham, whose life Jimmie save..
does not; then Pal is relegated to tn,
tonneau
One night, after strenuous day OF,
| location, the two sat together In the
J twilight.
"JimnieI' Polly WHISPERED. "vhv