White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-07-18

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frowning.
81 guess you'd better slow up" said
Walt; but the driver did not slacken.
"This automobile is carrying the
mail" he shouted. ut runs on sched-
ule"
II guess you'd better STOP" and De-
wars voice was high and rasping.
"rm-running-this- replied
the driver.
At that Dewar leant forward and
shut off the engine. Followed at once
the intense quiet Of the woods after
the racket of the car.
What the-you mean by that?"
Gall right gentlemen" Dewar
shouted to the men ahead. We'll
stop till you get past"
The driver alighted to crank the
car again, Fiske imagined, but In
stead of cranking 1t he stood In the
road.
Come on here" he said grimly to
Dewar, land I'll show you who's run
ming this car"
Dewar slowly stepped out and
lounged toward him. Then said he,
over his shoulder: "Can any Of you
. gentlemen drive an auto?"
No one answered.
IT got to know before begin this"
: he said. IT can't drive a car and
: want to get to MacIntyre's Bluff"
you'll get to MacIntyre's Bluff all
right, but so as your mother won't
know you," said the driver.
"Can any of you gentlemen drive"
II can," said the man on Jacks left.
9 "That's all right them" said Dewar,
IL but the driver had leapt at him.
8 Then it was as IT, so to speak sec
II ton had been dropped out of the film,
u for the driver was next definitely to
be seen in the midst Of a bush by the
ls roadside He rose and again rushed
a on Dewar, who stepped aside. That
ID was all the Wolfer seemed to do
At step aside; but he must have done
Or more again, for the driver was once
N more down with a crash, greater
ID ash than during his first fall, on the
roadside scrub. He rose and stood
ID glazing.
es "Say, who are you?" he demanded
Or "Dewar's my name-Walt Dewar.'
le "Dewar!" said the driver. PLEASED
s, to meet you. You're Walt the Wolfer
vs. 1 just wondered suddenly when
st thought second about the spectacles
KS 1--we heard Of you. Why in heck didn',
OF you present card before you chal
10 llenged me?"
IT. Dewar laughed.
rs you were the challenger, think,
gn said he.
el That's right" said the driver.
He stepped to the car, cranked II
OF and both climbed In.
Jaffrey looked out at the mountains
De- ut MacIntyre's Bluff was in the mids
un of them. The feeling Of being in
dream, or at play, left Jack Fisk
a entirely when they alighted there
Here was hard reality. In clearin
brawled down out of thick timbe
above. The clearing still showed tn
IN. old stumps here and there. Acros
he the creek was ranch, snake-fencet
High overhead hawk veered
no space. A trail led away into tn
woods beside the creek with the effet
be Of a low door in a monstrous cath
dral Of million columns.
Jul The Wolfer left Jack for fe
all minutes and disappeared into the rec
I'd quarters of the log hotel There JAG
act could hear his voice and girl repl
ing, and then he reappeared.
lex Supper was served to the traveller
lon a long trestle table in that low lo
lite, house, served by very pretty girl
la dainty shirtwaist, and skirt nowif
en- lacking in cut and hang. The hee
a of her little shoes went tip-tapping
the and fro, the chief sound as the trave
car, ers at in subdued fashion commc
as to diners in such places. There WE
ing that queer air Of restraint, hush, 8
4 a most of holding breath, almost Of ba
re- little boys who had been told to see
ed. they could be seen but not heard fl
half an hour. Table conversation
lth. was Of the briefest The driver
the car, who sat down after the othe,
the (having to wash more CRIME from b
hands at the basin, outside at the ia
My Get, than the rest), seemed horrifle
led at the loud noise made by his spoe
on as he circled 1t round his saucer
md secure the last Of the Juice of aprico
ers that made the final course. He snatc
led wooden toothpick from STAG
- of them in small tumbler on tt
tablets center, and with whispere
Pardon me" rose and skunk from tt
room like culprit, but once outsid
he braced up again. The rotund ira
eler rose.
"Your father well, Miss James?" b
asked.