Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-09-25
Copyright: 1882 By News Syndicate Co Inc
Wherein a Crook Gives
A Girl a Scare and a
Secret Thrill
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO

Inc young man shut I'D. He did not
speak again even when they reached
the small white farmhouse that had
been remodeled into a summer house
70 meet someone's urge for isolation.
On the front veranda to which he
had led them, with most of the Young
mans weight on his arm, the driver
tried the front door.
III get you two in here. I'll send
a doctor and driver back with YOUR
car. That's all I'll do and a damn sight
more than most fellas would do in nv
place. You can hustle for your lights
and fires and grub. They amt I'D my
alley"
He was trying in turn the KEYS on
a bunch he had drawn from his rocket
One OF them worked. The lock clicked
and the front dooI swung open.
so long, said the man. I've got
to get that train"
He was gone even as he spoke, while
Mollie stared incredulously after him.
If l get inside" the young man
gasped, I'll be all right"
He plunged forward into the hall
even as he spoke. She caught him but
went down with him. Her desperate
$500 W VIZ uiiNti loublll OILY IIle
response OF casual wave of the hand
as ne Shot back into the road and dis
appeared around nearby curve.
Mollie looked at the young man at
her feet. He had, as she mentally put
II, passed out. Her momentary panic
passed too, as she remembered that
at the drivers rate of speed he ought
to be at the Junction-only five miles
n
that at the most the doctor and driver
he had promised her should be here in
20 minutes more. Half an hour to wait.
That was all. In the meantime. she
must make her patient as comfortable
as she could
She looked around The hall-a mar
row one running to the rear of the
cottage-was small and bare and cold.
She dared not try to move the uncon-
scious man. There was too much of
him for her slight strength. He was
only about five feet six inches tall, but
he was well covered with flesh. He
probably weighed 14O or $50 pounds.
She herself was five feet tall and
weighed little more than a hundred.
If she tried to move him she would
merely hurt him and herself.
She passed his inert young body and
went into the living room at the right
of the hail. 1t was a sizeable room, evil
IDENTITY made by combining the original
front and back parlors. Like the hall
it seemed bare and forbidding, swathed
as it was in brown linen dust cover
ingS. But under one of these, on the
divan, she found a chintz-covered
cushion which would support the
young mans head and the linen cover
ings would supply some warmth. She
put two of them over him and raised
his head to the level of the pillow. As
she adjusted it he opened his eyes
stared blankly for an instant, and
spoke.
''Still-the-m inistering-ang he
brought out with bleak smile at her
whats your name, and where do you
live?'
Mollie told him. But there's mighty
little ministering I can do" she added
regretfully. IF I could get you into
the living room and near the fireplace
1 could make fire.
He waved his head in a weary mega
tive.
Don't try it. You couldn't move me.
Besides, I'm getting out of here as
soon as can move
Nollie Pearce was as determined as
she was small.
Nonsense" she said briskly. you're
doing nothing of the kind. You're