Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-04-13
Published BY special Arrangement with The
CHICAGO Tribune 6yndicste)
GIN TWO PARTS-PART TWO

TIE FELT distressed. Still he was
bravely determined to know the
"A worst, and he reached the chair and
fell down on 1t. with one leg sticking
out like a warning to the unrighteous.
For a few moments he dared not manip-
ulate the sliding weight on the steel arm;
he dared not glance at the steel arm.
But Oswald had British grit IN him; he
had proved 1t in the war. And now he
proved it again. He looked squarely at
the notched steel bar; he pushed the
pendant weight about until the bar bal
anced itself motionless n precicely
horizontal. Then he faced the figures.
mol His eyes must be cheating him;
they had misread the figures. His heart
was humping. Good news is apt to be
SCATTERING. until it is realized. Oswald
at last realized his luck. Since the last
weighing at a Turkish bath. he had di-
minished by eight and a half pounds.
At the Turkish bath he a worn a
towel; the pajamas must weigh quite as
much as the towel-probably a few
ounce more. He had lost appreciably
more han half a stone. Triumph Ec-
stasyl Romance ITSELF A tremendous
scene in the solitude of the sick cham
berl What a world was this world Why
banker after paradise when it was all
around you? He saw (by faith) Caroline
Otway smiling approval upon him.
And this was by no means all. There
were q few bathchairs in Rustingor which
followed in the footsteps of Brighton at a
distance of twenty-five miles. Oswald
Purhll was being drawn in one of these
vehicles by an aged fellow creature the
same afternoon when he met a little boy
running hard in the opposite direction.
The little boy halted violently at sight
of the bathchair and shouted out to its
propeller: Hi Please stop, you'll"
The little boy was Alec Otway, all in
blue linen. He had recognized his adj
mired friend, and the two shook hands,
where were you running SO fast?'
asked Oswald, with a good imitation OF
casualness.
I'm running after Miss Phipps." said
Alec. She left me on the sands. At
least l mean I left her. Mammals
brought me down here because / need q
sun cure It's called helio-therapy." He
remembered all the funny words uttered
in his heading. We're staying at the
Grand hotel. We've got two rooms and ]
sleep in Miss Phipps' room, but I'm going
to sleep in mammals room tonight be-
cause Miss Phipps is restless and man.
ma isn't, and I'm a bad sleeper for one
SO young. And / shall battle tomorrow
and ride on a donkey this afternoon
But I must catch up with Miss Phipps
or she'll be sulky and won't give me
enough jam for my tea, and perhaps
she'll stop the donkey, too. Why are
you in that bathchair, MIR. Purhll? Is
1t your broken Lego"
Broker leg, brother? What broker
Lego"
You broke your leg. I know you did
because / saw it in the paper and
showed 1t to mamma, and it was just
like a lady driver to go and break your
leg. You know / always study the press
don't you? And mammals wondering
why you didn't tell your friends-us, fol
instance. She says you're fearfully Sc.
c~retive. Are you? Shall you come tx
our hotel2 Mammals lying down. She
says this is the finest beach on the south
coast" Alec ceased from breathlessness
Then he concluded; You said once
you'd teach me to fly a kite properly /
ever we were at the seaside together
Well, we are. and it's the finest beach or
the south coast. I don't think 1t is. bu'
1t must be. I saw it on a poster at tn,
railway station. l say-how thin you
lookl'
The next moment Alec, apprehensiv,
concerning jam and donkey, and perhaps
also uncomfortably full Of a really grea'