The Wingham Times, 1896-06-05, Page 2•
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By E. W. HORNUNG.
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"Doss% know ass from Adaut, acid fall short of; that would be better than that of the bels
Ell L h' `Wo "iv were at til together," said L junior clerking for Zee a year!" And he sputa I sleep for thinking of our singular
It is my good for no to cherish a re- f' waked up anal down my room laughing rencentre and interview. I undressed, but
enarkaialy vivid recolieetion of the town "1 was your ,a' waren you Suers in the softly to himself I shirked my pildd°ay. I smoked my pipe,
(?f Geelong. Others',snay have found the eleven; I oiled yo r Oa when pan made "P11 join you, i' cried L "191 go in lnut it diel me no giro p
place quiet, or evea{tcolorless enough to your ccentury agal t the Free Fora:sters; for love or honor sand glory, and you shall up my window, a
Justify an eche. of th cheap local enter at I'm proud to mel you again!"
pocket the pound millings and pence!" a sound that into
Its expense: to nee,tos1oping
1araPls I),tla ease ur R®she said, ..+ghat bo h.tngd," &'aid be, stopping triled D mOf low hoes haves1 a Common ter- wearily. -t tha moment I rcolleted In front of me w�h a vey ponetsatiR;," in in rhdistancminus In the bn1 of all Australian fc7iaat bad quite i' aped my memory) his scrutiny. "Ent look here, Beetle; you ing whistle which„
Waters; and Ipfs'pie .8 streets,whosezory ultimate e:;nnisi , and I need confused z'e1 to he a wel pluclred little 'no at telae from beneath the very window at
names 1 have fordo Cep. with faces of D,y my T ta,tadrodtn 5 echelon; will you join me in something which I stood.
extraordinary !anis ss, imperishable 'Brewer, said abashed. sire°„ I leaned out. A white helmet and a
1 "^the B etlo!" 'rasa! Deedes not un- „ ," air of white deg !lashed under a lamp
while memory boldin her seat. So it is f In what:" said p
table 1 should think no less Affection- kindly; a moms tt later ha was shaking :.In vilLainp," h cried. `•In rani;, nn- and was goal. My wiuflaw was no im-
possible
etely of Geelong, even bad I voted it in lay hand and stet ling cn my confusion. adulterateri, whraleh ale sfiliany!" height ram the ground, but I
mil alma the dull tow that 1 have heard "Hang school!' said he "t►here aro "Deader.," said I, smiting. "what the did not stay to easure it Wdth. the of Trac old school fellow, Deedes major.
dt Styled; but dull ieeriaindy was not Son staying?" dickens do yon mean: whistle still in my earn I lowered myself '• e•'or God's sake, Beetle, help me out
during the first few days of my visit, `' `eti ei.," sold, "I'm supposed to be ""Mean: Wbat i' say, my dear Beetle, from the sill, dropped into a flower bed of this!" be whispered.
t rbateser may base ben the case before staying with some€people I brought alet- and gave chase to the helmet and the "Deedes!" Y could only murmur; and
ter of fntruduetio to; but they hadn't a every word of it". hat's the ase of being les, myself Lauf oted and in pajamas. again "Deedes!"
or n dace. ghoperiod sv sin feet an epoch; raven for me, and/twisted d on getting me honest. Look at e. Look at my shirt I saw my pet Iceman vanish round a "Yes, yes," said he, impatiently.
Audi ni ty say at ease that the etton was , " o cuffs that I've got to trim every morning
pone of toy naak'.n�„ 3 y connection with cn8 our 1d.; so th t s winery I am. earner. I was of r him like a dear, and "Think of the old school -and to me
the singular events of that week was a "What's tbelr• name?" said Deedes; like my nails; to at my trousers, as I
even as I ran the position amused me. where they are". Are they gone?"
pure rceiident, the result of one of thew and, when I told im, he made no farther saw you looking a 'em just now. Those Chasing the pail o! He could not hear "Only upstairs What on earth's at the
chance meetings whish are the veriest comment, beyond asking whether I would hags at the knees are honesty; and bon -
my naked feet Z ined on hila splendid- bottom of this: Deedes:"' I asked him,
I commonplace of oat ndish traveL It lake him round to my room for a chat, e by''rapidly n them
thron
ough
ly, and had my ha don his shoulder be- saintly.
was a 3londay after n when I arrived The proposal delighted me; indeed, it Toro he knew me o exist His face, as "A mistake -a beastly mistake," said My idea is that if a man is as good
Paused roe a positive thrill, which S can That's honesty; a d I've had enough of he stopped and turned it, feeling for bis he. "They iaave chase to me shortly after a salesman as he claims to be he
by the boat, to find t .e streets croWdui end the ponulace 'eatly excited by a onlyattribute r an insensible return of it. Think of the fellow who walked off nistcl. I shall remember all my life. I left you. I got in here, but the nne chap ,
alone, and Tripped ,,,,
doesn't need to hunt for a job.
"All right," I Cried. "I'm not the man daren't follow me Plenty of jobs will hunt him."
111E 7 •3: (.T1lAM TIMES, JUNE 5 I }6.
"'Sparer hocr;er' sista I. nwoen you eeiopen. with his years; be had been etc- the other to inexpressible !chef. The th s morning, for whom a whole colony
a •" stain allantria¢ door a�ened,and It was the sergeant neon would hunt all day.
"Xour word2" ho Bald, "YAtt
promised
think It was s a^rt ?•o ty whoa knew' •Metall, relial.for exa milia fo_ re g
the run omen the En wen Banking Cato- lot ertnitnal lai themse:see. but sufnelent whom bis subordinate would have patine- 1. to gain me."
Jany no ; the 1 ayaa.snts into the Inter- le' detemeat1z1tng at a nubile & }O1; and ed. Ho stood there beckoning without a ,lain terms.,'
(le :its lass el thcs I could base sworn word,and so left us to a locked roam next • „iialt•proflts,,, said he "Well I'm
Ea ri aIle , k t Vaasa dark, un=.-;..' Maus eYes and that to the kltcnen. His mate had gone around agreeable to that. 'alien you haven't for -
""t t snip; s=3 e.y s:aa who lg lump
p ear -dente. insolent -and yet attra five the front way to wattle the wlndOvr, we gr our a to thaatlon last you ha
alto it it,t a 1;:er a* s y a s8 In a 131;, itanap manner had done ¢le^o eatnage in Geelong. were to burst in the door and saucy the got
lease I'm glad," I replied, "to see
I,d Fo'f meet w3a:81 day to s, r 3 asyou make no more bonesabo lied, "guilt.
b n a •' cried !Teel s, greenly tekeri with ser there was a fawanation in the roam by storm; and in }t, declared the
In.s t iS'�h. ' a:n tie.+ o a cart I wish I'd des. air as n1 write. on Ile was n strong, and nlY se ge nt not: and again I brewe should End. onr athed. The Where's the money? I want it ell.,,
I: eget e f 5: say �.f-"v -ac ^t would have h .,;ialh ebaracter, one vrlth whom th? will room was n3tonlpetnpty; the Window was You're greedy, Beetle
meant boning the filal to begin with." and the way were elm¢ st synonymona fastened on the inside, and an aceumula-
"Confound you," I oriel, "do yon
1 entangle" susy>nst Emma of these reseed- terms; yet there was that in Mm for tion of the Hoose fittings of the h
o
use, evi- think I want to compromise myself by
able G.Edongesa and B_arwonners of being whish it is harder to tial a name, wbteh dently for sale to ineomin tenants,seem- being fount hero with you? For two
at elm : ottom of thewhoietlaing, though; attraet01 while it repelled, which enfore- ed to explain the corked door. At least I Pins I'd leave you to get out of this as
hest you You mo. Y wast
say's ere respectable, Beetle there's eat admiration in its own despite and said so, and the expkaleation was received that ou can., I ou know to pay beak to
newel. to be villains among 'em! By str.ang ei criticism at its birth. At school better than it deservt3. We now proceed- the bank. Then Ian do what 1 can, but
.dove " tae a :'aei, F ttin„ t his fees vith 's+3 lar: i Leen in:.z e a bus beer and an idol aur failure, to searchar and a bad eg, au four of us, the c liar; burnin t our not until then."
man was not there, and I began to tell I saw his dark eyes blazing as they had
myself bo was not in the house at all, blazed in the candle light. lie was be-
Thas, as my companions lost their heads tween mo and tho door, and I knew that
and rushed to the attic as one man, 1 for any gain to him I never should have
found mine and elected to remain below. loft that room alive. At least I believed
The room we had broken into was the so then; I believe so now; but at that
ane 1 chose t3 vraltin. for 1 had explored moment his planner changed, he gave
no other, and, wherever else ho nitwit be, in to me and yet maintained a coolness
the robber was not here. Judge then of and a courage in bis peril which more
my feelings when 1 heard him moving than fascinated me. They made me his
under my feet Horror glued me where I TO BIB CUZCCLI7DLrD.
star(! unable to call out; unable to move;
my eyes fast as my feet to the floor, , He Made a Bad Mistake.
watching a board that moved in the dim '
light of a candle -end found and lit by one ;
f h constables at our tint inspection. 1 Two business men were talking
a sinister 19ght in his handsome, dissipat- influence; at on
83 countenance: "I'll go for the reward front the respect!
to Tlctiaaes ma <,r, then,
he they put it up! Four figures it can't ters and bays.
e points of view of mat -
Sy own view was still
could not help it; nor
ad.Finally, I threw
d, as I did so, I heard
ated, and another that
rat was a whistle blow.
;the second an answer -
made me jump, for it
o the
The boar.. moved upward; a grimy face sU ic.udly at lunch the other day
appeared throueh the aperture; it was that
that no one within ten feet could
Help hearing them.
"X-ealled on you a week or two
ago, didn't he ?"
'Yes.'
'You didn't hire him?'
'No.'
'Why not?'
"Becaused he asked me for a job.
sudden ran on one of he banks. On the the email boy's props.
attune itis y,, +_
'Wednesday, another bank wialch had no- a distinguished ender. We wore 28 and then think of me. tWoaldn't you like totoriouyou're after, Hu
24 now, instead 18 and 14; but, as we be in his shoes? N, sip stars, you don't along to see the fu
vrithdsly received Minch of the mousyknow what it is t live, Beetle; honest
withdrawn fiesta the". Barwon Banking walked, only oneif us was a man, and Y He swore in like Compmay,Limited,wasin its tum the vita was once more hfag. I was proud when idiots like us neve do. But I'm going to stuck to hien like
he norepted a •snetto from my case, turn it up. I've bad enough of this. If vague threats to s
elm of a still 'uglier fate. The GeelongR not to be done.
prouderyet where he took myarm, The one can play at that game, two can; why
branch of the Inters n.3Rial was enters;! not three? Como °n, I3eetlo;maken third,
in brad. daylight be ah man masked. and feeling stuck to a until we reached my qq ,,, whistle was blowi
room,svhea it su
IT
collapsed. He had and we'll rob anat8ler bank to -morrow. We had reached the
armed to the beard, soh*a stayed ranne ton "You're j eking "said i, returning his t
minutes and then w3tdked into thin air asked ;no what as doing. I had told. u , , ! and were nearing the sena); and suddenly, up the bank when I was out au my lunch. 'What he asked.'
with no less a sum then nineteen thous- hien of my iilnesssand my voyage,and had smile. "Still, If I vias gcd.zg in for that sort on turning a corner, we came upon an- Did you ever hear such rot?"
and and odd ;mends
_,.: ,.+» question. of thing,Deedes don't know who I d "I don't know; if you're an innocent `Does he earn in it?'
and g.old. -countered ownhe rather ave on m adds than you!" other drill-trousered,pitlabelme.ed gentle-
man why not behave like one? Why hide 'Bet COnI' life! The fact is, he is
y up, I'm coming this floor and got under wnl:n o .oma
whistling away outside. I spotted a loose 'I'm glad you didn't hire him.
eeth and rushed on. I board by treading on it, and that bit of "• thy le
leech. He tried with luck just saved my bacon." 'Because I did.'
eke me off, but it was "Has it? I'm not so sure,"said I,
11 this time the first walking to the door and listenng. "What 'You did ?'
through the night. do they want you for?•' 'Yes.'
outskirts of the town, "Would you believe it? For sticking ' +1�=hat do you pay him ?'
playing ` - -- a laugbel eonternp ously, setting on
I wewfrieydng, lawn e!mes frith my He was grave a d eager in an instant, man in the gateve
then new friends -whet we !meal the man- ed"e of wy bed. "Will you go intfor it?" be cried. "I'm "That's about
and it h to*aiaed our game, The bank roan- "Clerk in a ban+ "said he. jokingfar less tha a you think. My life's pocketing his whi
agar's wife' a friend of nix friends arrived "rant the Interco oniad? I oriel. sorid failure I m sink of it and ready ready on the las,n
y of an empty house.
oemelt of us," said be, -they're comm„ down now'." 1 broke working like a tiger. He is making
-ie. "I've got a man al- off, hearing them. Stop where you
are! Yon can never get out in time!" a big drive for your customers. He
at the back. The hoose ds Lace in tale candle -light gleamed says you insulted him just because
the biotobes of dust and he was poor, and out of a job, and
ed it brightened at my
Herself tepees the wens, inc>,herent with That's it," be answered, nodding. t is empty and he's In it like scat in a trap.
ley "Then you weredbere to -day. This is for a fling. Will you come in?" very pale bewee•
genas, and at
, llerdaugiat n,"d ", But who's this you've brought along with
And 1 heard at flrst•leand a few broken, luck; I've been so awfully keen to know Iso, said I, i9 won't,", , , dirt, bar. I fan e.
And we lookedleach otber steadily in you, mate.
a
hysterical wnrls tracij the white ]ip, of 3x"1 wash not there,
„ the eyes until he led mo back to laughter, "A volunteer,'r said L "Come, you involuntary uwilt olhelp )met" he whispered
trouble
elderly }wady, and. blue ey the t the giri
r I was thyrl replied Deedes. I with as much ease. ns be had lengthened won't refuse to lot me lend a hand if I get
trouble in the wide eyes of Ry was having my luiich. I can only tell a chance? Who is it you re after" eagerly. "For the sako of the good old
before it struck me to relics The family you what I saw whet) I got back There "Allmy a mvmenty before school,"' be wheal 1, playing still upon
i was our cashier sprawled across the right• old Beetle." said he. "I "You'll gat y ur brains blown ant, the soft spot I h d discovered to him
bad been at funchc k in the private part voanttr, and the teller in a heap behind won't chaff any more -not that it was replied the cons able who had given the earlier In the night. It was a soft spot
of the bank, anduknew not}a'.ng in the d all chaff by any mEt•ans. I sometimes feel alarm and on w' se sleeves I saw a sir- still. I remembered him in the eleven;
affair unlit the junior cleric ]se.,, • np. it, both knocked on the head. And there the like that, and so v aid you in my place. geant's stripes You'd bee gohaute,the
tor -
en thane like a lunatia> at iarat,a .18, tui. was the empty safe, Wide
a bull's- yehLent• Bunked from scb all In disgrace at though I won't y but what we want all then overcame e s nuivemory and saw him
home! Fent out eresto be got rid of; the men we can got. the town s as.eep- "Hush!" said from the door. "I
thrown away like a broken cup! The as "usual. Can you face powder? want to listen."
things I've done fob a Iiving during these 111 eco, said I, lauything, for I „Where are they owe"
ten years -this ds tees most respectable, I scarcely suspected ha was in earnest. "Looking on the .owe"
landing."
can tell you that. And it's the respeot- "Wiho is it you are after? Somebody very <<r
ability drives mo rd!" clangorous?' C Then now s my time.
His bitter voice he linos upon his face, "The Intl t I, putting my back
his gray hairs 2S, all appealed to me plied the serg ^h through the floor,
with equal and !irresistible force; my yon say now?"
hand went out td him, and with it my I said nothi g at all. I know not his dark eyes bL zing, bis right hand
heart. what I had expected; but it was not this; thrust within his at; and I know what
"I am so sorry Deedes," said I, ner- and for the moment my own density con- was in the hand 1 ould not see.
sanely. "1± a five or two-yes,you muse rerned mo as mush as my fears. "Sheat away," 1 jeered. "Yon haven't
let mel h'or the aka of thr. chi school!" "Oh, its all right," said rho sergeant, done murder yet. Yon daren't do it
He shook his he d, and the blood rush- with an intolerable sneer. "You cat away now 1"
ed to mine. I o. Bred him a handsome and send along d grown man when you "I dare do
'd
apology, but he cu me short. sox one!" "Bat yon you;
"That's all righ , Beetle. It was well :i1y reply need f of be recorded; suffice chap away,Beetle'
meant and you' a good chap. Well it that a mome later one of the men, ' Yon'll give yo
foregather to-rneow, If this wretched both of whom ea rrriii'ed firearms, had hand- get under that
business leaves us fa spare moment in the ed me his truncheon, and I was on any canting down. . top where yon are and
3
bank; meanwhil®, good night -and way to ;cin the/third constfx}a?e on the Ill sea you as :lei; try to get oaG of tt,
thanks!" lawn beland thethoose, while those two and I promise y u you're a gone coon!"
And he crept dawn the stairs at my re- effected an entry%ce in front. He tlisappearecl without a word, and I
quest; for I was xlot in the position of an i____
' ran out to sal app comrades in the
hall
bad gone out for hie lunelt. and re•uraae:I to :=nn shinin¢
find teller and cashier a'i;te intens -bis ern! No, I only wis
and. the safe zi'icd. `f hat eves ail 1 stayed it's such a chance a<
to gatdrar eve that tae i;ahhappy lady was agai'ou'd leave shown, fight "said I, gaz-
•
agitated by a yid n tissue far worn! to her •
than the hank's Ios, Them leo ;nen • ing at his long athietiolimhs,ancl apprcci-
no bloodshed. The revolver kept beneath - ating the force of his Wish as I perceived
the counter bad been nee but usal in in what thrsabarc rages they were impris-
oned. "Yes, you'd have stood up to the
Vain. It was not toasted. Her husband chap,Iknow; I can sea you doing it!"
'would bo blamed, bay, diecbarged to a "There would 14tve been nothing
certainty in his till age And 1, too, wonderful in that;" was the odd reply.
walked down the street with the picture "1 should have hall everything to gain
of an elderly couple brought w ruin, and and nothing to lose.,'
a blue eyed girl gone for a governess, "Not your life?" a;
appealing more to fine than the iinmedi- "That's less thantnothing."
ately dramatic silo of the incident. "Nonsense,' Deedq ," said I, although
Z found my way to the Intercolonial or because I soul$ see that it was not,
bank; there was . no need to eek it. A "You don't mean 4word of it!"
crowd clamored at the deers, but these "I do, every wan; but that's neither
were shut for theeat. And I learned no here nor there," he. answered. "Give me
more than I already knew. eave that the another cigarette, Pestle; you were ask -
robber worn a baiek beard and was de- In.; about the rookery, and if you don't
clared by some to he a secon:l Ned Belly, mind we will coniine ourselves to that.
from the Sttathbegie ranges Nor did Z Pin afraid old I'At)son will get the sack;
acquire mom reaif infuruhation the rest of he's the manager, and responsible for
that day; nor Isolio for any when late at the bank revolver being loaded. He
night I tlion„ lit 1 recognized an old swears it was; Nee all thought it was;
schoolfellow in the street. but nobody had Ioiked at it for weeks,
"t)eodee maker!" I cried, without pans- and you see it was 't. Yos, that's a rule
ing t.n make certain, but I was certain in ail banks in this country, where stick -
enough when my Man turned and favored Ing them up 15 aubiio industry. The
me with the stela of studiedin;iolence yarn about Neel die Ifs son? Well, there
which made our honse.master's life a bur- may be something n it. I've hearts there
den to Ilim some°ten years before that Is such a fellow. and. a chip of the old
night. Among a thousand, although the block too. lent if feu ase me, we must
dark eyes were sunken and devil -may- look a little nearer h"me for the man
care, et.d the pato face prematurely lined, •• -- - -,.. f'a••11:.' Ibis afternoon."
I had been there;
I shall never get
,
11,4
3llealt tT,•111
e- n
'!:Ills 'I'1J.T,iai Ali l)
000e
(Ames t Aetna: incarenteetel.
lonial hank robber," re- "Not it, ' sai
nt, grimly. "What do against the door.
He rose waist
ything," he growled.
never go and give a
irself away if you don't
this instant They're
"CLERIC "IN A nt." SAID DE.
ordinary 1od11cr; anti having followed
and closed the door noiselessly behind
hint, I retnrl
I dill not w
know that I
my disl;osal
lead ongaga,rl
After all, I v
I }lad behave
a man at mi
venation with hila until two o'clock in
the morn! a. Deedes moreover, as I
suspected fr
tloned theta
Q
o,, my Erle..
llis rci,Utati
bare bean su
Ho hint bee
the very 1+
Other trait]
d as stealthily to my room.
411 my hospitable friends to
tad need lodgings, placed at
as their guest, as though 1
them on my own account.
09 a ghost, not a lodger, yet
d as the latter introducing
night and sitting up in con -
CHAPTER. IL "Well," cried I, "what luck?"
shat "None at all." replied the sergeant,
The `bird e'd ata%aie t<e-:r>yti: mg angrily, "I could have sworn it was this
tltaroagia t e afete lea rete tat, "1'da tar utaaCe
Lamm, but - suppose we must try the
a1 i11s /Zr'`"'1 +<a^:a;'t.;_ 3'�' e= �I nd`r"'v a`n next. How WO have missed him is more
^'n'3 s"',1 azo^i.'•lf «e frr->n�y,-
rs art..,+ i"
a i+ c^ then lean fat.haatn,.
T> aA I "h:` �, aFJ .`� r *a"� u'3i f*�'a
cares e 1 oeo a
than this f;.aao fa
Brave be w es 1,
cool to was oat„
laevo the o,1a, ti rj s.,rr;rant !gc
than elb0wl 1?" la 9 roam n a e e . a' ti eri*; speech of ttfanl:s and recommended highest T
stead aver Fez ,.' i '' �> k` `� It high, is the highest peak in New
. }- r :Le to my clothes If they needed further
inch of falt� F:z e < + ". >' s�':l o a . =- 9• as-lFtanca they could got it next door, but , Hampshire.
Yet if r,1ir gm. rey nen n e i ter. neat r ao-
ment to make a most foe at r.-ea'?:fs t:'.!•
should have loom stem f:�' 1-.1ra "',Y we- i tight than tit
stable was metfering;to ;town reetr�Y : r, 1' rwtearr.ed to th
discreditable than oats -re ;r;' >. tui 12:: L?a; rhet r laver, thor
fray, l l the read. at
Would that
self. Already
absurd proceed.
my heart to ese
the question.
ofuclouely to 111
stay; and as it
my position, ac
in investigating
upon which I h
over in my min
feet in the cold;
pose I had bee
vane g .,l .t e recess l "A sia.7 sk7
1n .f, on taw Leek f:;rst., stn �,v emerged fr
v i 9a Fn tet! Ti• toot f ela.vn was in t
�{{ a{ r notseing hut pa
;.1 Y )3 ewe L-;:..E:F.'1 wf, ba,-
eee ass.•- Bea rsol Ilive attalates remarked
noted imminent dawn
the !mese; tho chill
air and :here was I in Wyoming has 44 mountain peaks
mss. Ono of the con- each of more than 10,000 feet.
pan my condition, and .
man) made me a pa- ? Mount Washington, 6,288 feet
that he will work nights and Sun-
days to get even. I think he will.
You made a mighty bad break."—
Brockton Titues.
High Places of the Earth.
The Eiffel tower is 990 feet high.
Vesuvius, the famous Italian vol-
cano, is 3,932 feet high.
The famous Mount Hood, of Ore-
gon, is 11,570 feet high.
The Washington monument is 555
feet from base to tip.
Pine Knot is the highest place in
Kentucky, 1,428 feet.
One of the highest peaks in the
Andes is Sortaa, 25,380 feet.
The towers of the cathedral of
Colonge are 511 feet high.
Mount Shasta, the celebrated vol-
cano of California, is 13,450 feet.
Stromboli, the island volcano off
the Italian coast, is 3,850 feet
high.
There are 27 mountains in Neva-
da more than 10,000 feet high.
The dome of the capitol in Wash-
ington is 300 feet above the pave-
ment.
'> I 3:e Was afraid hi man had made a longer There is no mountain 10,000 feet
Anti, indeed, when 1 high on the American continent east
spot, in my clothes, an of the Rockies.
was no sign of rho police
f `ail"1 87 afi '�; t'zq- the empty house unobserved. r
I entirely' revolted day * i an o en window the sea, is regarded as the highest
I was enabled to slip in Popocatapete, 16,765 feet above
ng, a:'l Iery>`'a. -w are eat
pe heli is r.4',s 4r;4.; r f
had p°a; v 7 cane! wont
plow, edit theta it tweet
as tele late te) .T"i'.•L: cadet
there was now t e thole
the haro•brattoin ys.al:n�0sa
d acted, T,tr;t I teane"l 11
, there with ten naiad,+i
101, and could only see -
actuated by an innate de.
sire of mine to "eco fun" wherever tern
was to bo seen.; One thing Is certain, if I
reckoned at all it was without the bank
robber, for m;t old schoolfellow had put
him quite out
1 m;, head. And here they
house, We caw their Ian -
1 get nthroughn ' elevation in Mexico.
broken near the hasp, by which the fuait-
Iro hi:nceif had first effected an entry. In Mount Olympus, whose summit
tat: nearly morning light the place looked a
�'1'"'eeett and very dirty• and as I entered Blamer made the home of the gods
'tla roo;n with the burst door I thought it is 7,761 feet high.
oleo v,ry still.
awl uttered an
entipeo'] horrii
Itetele a wc,s gon
the level of th
neian of him um
again, however, thorn was a soft step on 'foe.,ebut about thirty feet of the
the threshold" and h0 stoo(1 t ,oro in his former `op was ages ago removed.
so zg, smiling, with a revolver in his °
)land MOUnt Sinai, the mountain from
had him In th(�t
For ono instant I doubted hie intention, r ,bleb the law of Moses is Said to
terns moving eonh room to room oil tho tho next the weapon dropped into his
ground floor; (nti I should be sacro to say pockot.ancl his smile broadened as though ; have been delivered, is 8,000 feet
torn up the loose boards, 1
exclamation which re. 1 The cross of the dome of St.
y in the desolation. Peter's in Rome is 4.8 feet above
I poked my head below the pavement of the portico.
floor, but them was no ,
rnoath. As I raised it I The pyramid of Cheops is 543
ho had read me fear. ' high.
which of us. Inwood most (from what "No, no, Be tie," said he; "It's not 1
different can es), the third vonstable or for you. 1 co ldn't be sure it was you, ' Pike's Peak, where gold was
myself. that was alt, o you're as good as your fist diseovert'.d on this side of the
How long le waited I cannot tell now, word! I bard y expected you so soon -cif ' ,
1 cutis
ti
+'
11
n o d i
1 wardP
refuel b
in manner _ at all! 1)0 ou p
,gas most probably no friend behind tiro lr .09; the hent had ovi(iently said 1, tnoanln ly, for his coolness ireitat' . high.
1s; indeed I had no clue to none 1pstal , and in the daiei:noss we on me beyond measure. Ills verse face l
n In the town, ail should heard a sou d as terrifying to 1110 as It and hands ho had contrived to cleanse at
111,11 peaks are numerous in Colo-
n
to fill) it a poi <1h0.
"At
evident: wolcollt0 to nay 00111p 1tti011 5011te of the taps. Ile !night have been in tilde ; there are in that state 1 78
a rezkless boy at school; et At last aid 110, and crollt u;1 to the bed all night and negloetod nothing but mountain peaks each Of which
st ho WM a reckless mean, bac,: door', o• it -armed. Wo had hoard the his obin and itis hair. And th
lagan o height greater than 10,000 feet.
uoviinei}, on of tie, t(n lien; l:ointintent, .
hist anner when Y Inca but in a littoltht Laverne erased to flit r y allOunLaitls, is 14,320 feet
Old
was the towel's above the sea leach to a
111111111, too, muss halo dc- ste a"1thP dry inn of butts but we were f whom a whole colony would talk
alan