Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1925-06-05

Wild Bills Last
Spree
BY ELIZA M. HARVEY
t9. 1875, Western Newspaper Union

YOUTH sat heavily upon WtI ,lE
WATSON. Just now Wild Bill 80
learnlng-nOt to his taste, exactly
but learning, for all that.
His girl had thrown him down for
the iu0asly Kelly, who hadn't the
courage to be so wild as he. His
career In life was wrecked-jus as his
motorcycle had been wrecked In the
last race. II he hadn't hit that skid
he wOald certainly have walked away
with nne thousand dollars, Il perfect
ly good pair of legs and perfectly
good girl.
But the chap who did win the nine
thousund-wlld Bill cursed him under
his breath, then he suddenly said
aloud, deiiantly-to no one and no
thing in particular
I'm going on one wild spree They
call me Wild Bill-just because drove
a motorcycle hell-bent where any other
guy is afraid to make more than forty
miles. WE'LL got mine, all right
But FIN not done yet, just because I've
got game leg. Wait till get on my
feet.
He got on his feet several months
later, with slightly perceptlble limp
IA bitter heart-and recklessness
that boded Ill for anything that stood
in Its way. Money had been showered
on Wild Bill with lavish hand by the
fates-and an indulgent parent He
was like any other man who had come
too early to the age Of twenty four.
IL any man ever earned sobrlquet,
Wild BIZ earned his from then on.
Wild parties and wild women knew
VIII Bill as thlck-as-thleves init.
mate; TIL Wild Bills old girl, being
selfish and a coward ut heart, shook
lnwardly at the havoc she had wrought
and wondered what would be the end
There's no knowing what the end
might have been-if Kelly's old girl
hadn't been In the Blue Owl that night
She danced with Bill as a silvery cur
tain dropped from nowhere around the
dance tloor-cutting the jewellers at the
tables completely from sight The
huge shaded chandelier over the dance
floor went dark, Wild Bill Rugged the
girl up to him and said under his
breath:
Give us kiss" The girl pulled
back quickly, and answered with a
sharp intake OF breath.
mot unless you take me away from
here in that big blue car outside"
Bill kissed her with grin. And five
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