About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1924)
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 26. 1924 OW-CK ' ©1924 -by NEA Service inc begin here today The “Nervous Wreck,” an eccen tric yqphfi easterner, is driving Sal ly Morgan from her father’s ranch to the Staton when they run out of gasoline'. At the point of a gun the Wreck takes five gallons from a passing _car. Later Charlie McSween, foreman of a ranch along the way, hides the Wreck’s car and forces Sally to act as cook. Then they discover that’Mr. Underwood, the owner of the ranch, was in the car which they held up. Sheriff Bob Wells, who is Sally’s fiance, is unwittingly search ing the countryside for the “ban dits” who held up Underwood, son of the owner, chances upon the shed in which McS'ween has hidden the Wreck’s car, and tells his father. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Excellent advice; but Underwood himself had omitted to follow it, and he actually had his hands on the bandit car. “Get a lantern,” he said. “Let’s go down and hav e a look at it.” Chester fetched a lantern from the kitchen, and they went down to the tool shed. Jerome Under wood examined the mysterious fliv ver with more attention than h P had ever given to his own imported car. He studied the license plate with a searching eye, trying to make him self believe that it awakened recol lection. He could not be sure, but the more he looked at it the more familiar it seemed to be. Uncon sciously, .he was creating a memory of it, which might, after all, serve just as well. The missing wheel baffled him. Ho could not invent a reason for it. Had there been a smash-up which crumpled a wheel, there would al most certainly be other marks on the <,?!• But all it showed were a few ordinary dents a myriad of scratches, common to hundreds of thousands of other flivvers all over the world. Standing there- on its thre.i wheels, with a soap-box serv ing as a crutch in place of the You Know a Tonic is Good when it makes you eat like a hungry boy and brings back the color to your cheeks. You can soon feel the Strengthening, Invigorating Effect of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC 60c. NEW FALL BEADS I/' Match yotir new Fall Dresses with some of our new Fancy Beads. We have a fine selec tion, and the prices are right. THOS. L. BELL See Our Window Display ATTENTION Poultry Raisers ~ OPPOHUNIiyPAY IF hat Is It? Mrs. G. P. Murrow, poultry . expert from Edgar-Morgan j unusually low prices that we want our out-of- Company of Memphis, Ten- I town patrons to know about it first and to make nessee is with us for a few I plans to be here. 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It is our sincere purpose to give our patrons the i pleasure of taking the lead in styles without / ilt excessive expense. -. | Ch amberlin-Johnson- HAPPY FEED STORE D t T “ f ~ 808 EDWARDS POULTRY AND STOCCK FOOD OF THE BEST Headquarters For Poultrymen and Stockmen 307 Cotton Avenue Phone 86 , . , r rtf 1 - AX. BWr || OB O '3W 'I I U “SHE’S A FLIVVER ALL RIGHT” REMARKED CHARLEY, fourth, the dusty thing possessed ar. uncanny faculty of annoying him. ll e was aware of a feeling of re sentment toward ’t. Re had hated flivvers alwav,; the people who •J. eve them, as he say them, never had any road manners. It was use less to pass them in the highway and leave them sputtering in your wake, because there was always another one ahead. Now it seemed that his diffused hatred came to a focus on one solitary specimen out of all the millions. He led the way back to the house, swinging in the lantern and trying to make something out of Chester’s discovery. When they entered the living room he did the obvious thing. “Go get McSween,” he said. “And let me do the talking.” Chester found the foreman in the bunk house, getting ready to pull off his boots. Charley wasa be liever in going early to bed when there was nothing else to do. He went up to the ranch house, won dering what the boss wanted. Mr. Underwood always' tried to make it a practice of getting im mediately to the point, particularly with subordinates. “Who owns the car that stands in the tool shed?” he asked. “What car?” asked Charily. Then and there he pased a Rubi con, and r -iozctr it. Frobab'y he bSc passed if foolishly, too But the question pad taken him by sur prise, and his own question it. re turn had snapped itself out auto matically. That was the wost of speaking without due reflection. Why hadn’t he said that the car belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams and" let the truth have its way? “There’s a car down there, a | three-wheeler flivver,” said Under wood. “Who does it belong to?” “A three-whepjer flivver?” re peated Charley. “I reckon that’s a new kind. It ain’t any wonder they keep takin’ chunks off the price.” Mr. Underwood stared at his foreman. “Mean to say you didn’t know there was a flivver in the tool shed?” he demanded. “First 1 ever heard of it,” re sponded Charley promptly. Having inadvertently set a course for himself he proposed to sail it. He had a superstition about turning back. What was all the fuss about anyhow? “Well, we found one there. My son and 1 have been taking a look at it. Do you know what we think?” “U’m! No. I can’t say as 1 do, Mr. Underwood.” Charley was becoming cautious and curious. He scratched his chin i and resolved to be deliberate. "We think it’s the same car that was used by the gang that held us up.” “Well, I’ll be dog-goned! And standin’ down there in the tool shed? Why, I’ll just be damned, that’s all!” “And you mean to say you don’t know anything about it?” “But I’m a goin’ to,” said Char ley. “I’m going to have a look.” He seized the lantern and hasten ed out of the room, before Mr. Underwood could utter another question. Down near the shed he paused for thought. There was no • need to go and look at the Wreck’s flivver; he knew’ all about t. What he wanted was a little time. Tw’iee within the space of a min ute he had been surprised and he proposed to get himself in order be fore they did it again. It had never > occurred to him that.any member of the Underwood family would take the trouble to discover the flivver. That was the first surprise. It was : entirely unnecessary, too, he reflect ed; he might as well have left the thing in the open. Nobody could use 1 it, anyhow. But the other surprise ■ —the suspicion that this was the ' flivver! “The sons of guns!” he muttered., i “The sons of guns! Stickin’ up the boss and then buttin’ into his own ranch and askin’ for breakfast! 1 ’ ain’t sayin’ they did! I ain’t cot vinced. I’m always in favor of pre servin’ a judicial mind and bein’ fair 1 to ail concerned. But when you come to think of it—h’m! There’s Henry .Williams now. It’s always been puzzlin’ me to figure him. Ac cordin’ to Mort, and things which I’ve seen with my own eyes, he’s a rampagin’ rhinoceros. I wouldn’t pick hjpi to be in the stickup busi ness, and yet I wouldn’t say he don’t possess qualifications. The main thing is, he’s got all the required nerve. The son of a gun!” Charley stood tweaking his ear and frowning at the tool shed. “Admittin’ the indictment—Which THE AMERICUSTIMES-RECORDER ’ Tilden 9 s Rival MB- . U J , , A' »- f' j i • NHh x „ v u■ ■ « Now look Who’s going in for tennis honors* None other than the former Crown Prince of Ger many. He is getting to be a wizard on Berlin courts; reports say, and it is rumored he might . go in for championships and such. I ain’t necessarily, but admittin’ it for the sake of argument—W’hat am I goin’ to do- I said I didn’t know there was any flivver here. If Igo back and say I did, I’m a liar. There ain’t anything I hate to be accused of worse than that. Besides, if 1 admit I knew all about it, and it turns out that Henry lives up to what may be justly expected, then I’m makin’ myself a sort of acces sory after the fact. Which ain’t true and is damagin’ to my reputation. I may be rough and untqtored, but 1 ain’t any Henry Williams—-the four eyed son of a gun!” He picked up the lantern, turned toward the ranch house and paused again. “Furthermore, here I’ve been tell in’ the boss how I got him a prize cook from out east, along with her obligin’ husband. He’s liable to form a kind of poor opinion if I admit he came near havin’ no cook at all. It’s a reflection on foresight and management. And it’s too late, anyhow’. I can’t tell him it’s Hen ry Williams’ flivver. I can’t tell him it’s mine. I can’t admit havin’ any guilty knowledge appertainin tp it: It looks like I had bettter keep right on bein’ innocent, which is one of my best points. But—the son of a gun!” Deciding that they had been away, long enough, he went liack to the house, where he found Underwood and Chester waiting for him in the living-room. “Well!” demanded the boss of the establishment. “She’s a flivver ail right,” re marked Charley as he set the lantern on the floor. “She’s just what you said, a three-wheeler.”., fi . “And you don’t recognize ?t?’’ ‘No sir. It’s a new sight to me. Its an amazin’ visitation, so far's I’m concerned.” “You mean you didn’t know there was a car locked up in that shed ? Jerome Underwood’s eyes were fixed in a glare of incredulity, but Charey McSween gazed back with ■mild steadiness. “Did’t know she was there. Didn t know the shed was locked. Hadn’t been any call for anything that was kept in the shed.” “But—damn it—how could it get there” Charley looked thoughtful. “I’ve been tryin’ to think,” he said. “If she had four wheels, I'd say she got there by herself. I can’t figure her.” “Anybody around this ranch own a car?” “No, sir. One of the boys had a motorcycle once, but he couhln”t learn to stay on the seat. We ain’t had even a bicycle around her since.” Underwood continued to regard him with unwinking amazement. “You're supposed to know what’s going on around here, aren’t you?” he demanded. “Yes, I reckon I am,” said Char ley. “But it’s a fair-sized ranch, and sometimes I’m travelin’ around it.” “Do you wan| me to understand that a hold-up gang can use mv place as a headquarters without my foreman even knowing it?” “No sir. I don’t aim to be perfect but I don’t aim to be too careless, either. I take it you’re feelin’ pret ty certain it belongs to the gang?” “I am now. I only thought so be fore, and so did my son. But when I m told that you don’t know any thing about it, then I’m convinced.” “It looks reasonably convincin ,” admitted Charley. “What went on here the night be fore I arrived?” “Nothin’ that I ’specially recall. 1 reckon we all turned in pretty early.” “Could they have run a car in here without your knowing it?” “Looks like they did, Mr. Un derwood. It certainly makes me feel kind of foolish, bein’ such a sound sleeper. But there she is, set-' tin’ there on three wheels and a b ° x - There ain’t no argument about that.” i Charley knew that he was looking' sheep 18 h, and felt it was the right Way to look. .(Continued in Our Next Issue.) gas treatment for ATT ivt? LDS IS DELAYED ATLANTA, August firadv hospital officials here have an-1 nounced that the installation of the apparatus and materials for chlorine ; gas which will be used in the treat-’ ment of respiratory diseases will re- 1 quire about 60 days and that no treatment can be given before that time. 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