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TTTF ATLANTA OF.OROTAX AND NEWS. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1913.
The Dingbat Family
The Juice Raised the Deuce
Copyright, 1513, Tn'rrnatlonal News Se-ric*
By Herriman
To-day s Complete Short Story
I T had seemed to mo at the time ihat
I could do the thing in entire safe
ty. Our troops were ordered out to
take nd destroy a village which lay
In the valley by the riverside, and their
operations would be confined to the
lower ground. The heights above would
he entirely untroubled, unoccupied.
And so I had gained these. after walk
ing five miles over gentle slopes of short
scrub grass, and then had lain me down
on the ridge and watched the sklrmlffti-
tng. the attack, and the captu-e through
a pair of glasses
Prom a distance It had all seemed
very .ame There were little puffs of
*tray smoke men fell, others came on
at run, zigzagging In and out In entire
disorder, made their weapons and ac
coutrements glitter In the sun, and they
disappeared under cover of the mad and
bamboo village.
More smoke arose in puffs from the
Janes between the houses And then a
stream of Black Flag Chinese began
to pour out at the run, some of them
pHdhed forward and Jay still, and tl|e
others opened out to pass theee hy„ ami
ethers limped and lagged behind the
general pace; and quite Irregular (jack
to from the village, like the burning of
brusb^wood, told me what woe causing
ftieee things
But when the Bafek Flags wese out
of' rang.* and the firing oeased the vafl-
]try dropgwd Into dread quietude and
ttewvM nothing more to see. I yawned
ever ft for another halt-hour and then
walked a doaer. yards down the dope,
necked a eon pie of cigarettes and began
xttf dejeuner The regiment of Black
Flags which came down upon ms must
hnre started oltrnMng the hill face the
wary minute I quitted the ridge
Ran Like a Dog.
Insttaofc, as I say, Jerked me to my
feet, and taftinol must huvn given me
a prodigious start, tor when first my
wits oiuue 10 me 1 found myself run
ning Tike a frightened dog.
ft seemed as If ten million bullets
Whisked pant roe, and I had a notion I
was hit In twenty places. But nothing
otaggped mr tegs, and although my heart
was trying to Jump alear of Its moor
ings I ran on at a freshened pace.
Tliore naan't a more terrified man In
AslafhnA radnute The shots came drop
ping after me; sheds and cries in bar
barous Chinese, and the world swam In
front.
Ternnr, tjndfbitod, made roe a running
automaton.
Beyond a doubt the most cowardly
Frenchman in the Fast that moment
was myself I did not attempt to •con
trovert this fact; I ran on, cringing
from every' bullet that rustled past me
or spurted up the ground" beside my
leaping feet; but 1 sought to find ex
cuses for my conduct.
For good behavior they had rained
me from the ranks to a non-commis
sioned officer.
How long 1 ran on in this blinded
state 1 cannot tell; hut a sharp siting
of pain set my wits a-going It felt
like the sear of hot metal burning and
frying, and the hurt came somewhere
from the round of the left shoulder.
Instantly my mood woke agHln For
the first time there grew upon me a
vague resentment against the crew who
were yelping and firing In chase; and
as I scurried on, and the HI-aimed bul
lets threw- their rushing hate of sound
around my head and limbs, this in
creased to a wild, poisonous hate.
Remembered My Revolver.
Then, for tb£ first time, 1 remem
bered my revolver With bungling
fingers 1 unholstered it. anil, turning,
fired six rapid shots One man clapped
hands to his face, screamed shrilly :
like a child and pitched to the earth,
his pigtail swung up In the air as
thought it had been a black whiplash
I was no longer a French gentle- i
man then I was a savage beast, lust
ful to tear my enemies' throats
I turned again and fired on. A whole
fusillade of vengeful shots were ex- i
changed in return, but none of them I
found a mark in me, and I laughed
aloud in triumph. Whatever happened
now I had killed my own weight of
enemy.
But, as 1 say, I wanted desperately '
to do more, and now that the paralysis '
of terror and excitement had flashed
away my mind was beginning to
work with craft and cunning Ahead I
of me and running athwart my course
was a muddy wallow they called the |
road and which our troops had pass
ed along barely three hours before to
the capture of the village To the
left were the French lines and safety
In front, and a ball's throw beyond
the road. was the yellow turbid
stream of the river.
It was Impossible to reach the camp
even had I risked It. The Black Flags
had anticipated the move and had de
tailed off a party to outflank me in
that direction By turning off to the
right I might very well bring down ;
the enemy upon our expeditionary
force on their march back from the
village They might be prepared to
receive them, and again they might
not. and I would have died ten times
sooner than any move of mine for my
own safety should bring disaster on
my comrades Our branch of the
service gets sneered at enough as
ff is.
Shots Thick and Fast.
Bo I raced on for the road and
passed it. aijd labored down to the
river The shots came fast and thick
now. and two more bullets galled me.
but I waded through the shallows
without further hurt and gained the
deep, fawny river beyond.
A sampan was moored a hundred
yards out and a little downstream,
i made for it with long, bursting
dives There were half a dozen men
on board, jumping, gesticulating and
crying warnings; and once, when I
came up from an underwater swim, one
of them let fly a match lock at me
Another dive and 1 was upon them,
and they received me with knife-stabs
-and how the fight turned next 1 could
not tell. But of a sudden, with a blink
and a gasp and a downward blow l
came by my wits again, and found that
1 was on board the sampan with a curv
ed Chinese sword in my hand; and one
man lay dead and bleeding at my feet,
another was dead and floating face
downwards with a current astern And
the rest were swimming to the shore,
and twenty Black Flags were firing over
their heads as fast as they could
My pistol was gone and I could do
no more oh the offensive. The wish
for fight had left me: the lust for
life alone remained. 1 cut the painter
and lav on the sampan's bottom,
whilst she drifted down with the cur
rent into our own lines
And yet m v officers were pleased
to call me brave, and the general
gave me the war-rnedaL I tried to
refuse it* but they laughed ut me
A vedette tit seemed) I *d watched
me through a glass from the moment
of the first shot b^ing fired, and they
said no man could have behaved more
Iduc&ly.
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Copyright, 1913, International New* Barrio*.
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REASON
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No More “Port” or “Starboard”
All “Left” and “Right”
Re* tterad United State* Patent Office
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MEAN LEFT
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By Tom McNamara
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Tragedy and the Movies
By MALCOLM DOUGLAS
ii I WAS with Booth, the mights.
But Booth, alas, is dead’
Sc now 1 am with the mo
vies,”
The old tragedian said.
“In Chambersburg and I’ottstown,
And likewise Kokomo.
You can view me classic features
At 6 and 10 a throw.
“1 was with Booth, the mighty.
But Booth has long been dust.
So 1 get me cakes and coffee
From the moving-picture trust.
Shakespeare, thou wast me idol.
But thee 1 hadst to can;
Me, oh, Bard, for the movies;
Me for the camera-man! ”
CLEEK OF THE FORTY FACES
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: Lying
Not What Pa Meant.
1 Host's Youngest—Don’t your shoes
feel very uncomfortable when you
walk, Mrs. Nuryche?
Mrs. Xurych—Dear me, what Jin
extraordinary question! Why do you
ask. child?
Host's Youngest—Oh, only 'cos p.i
said the other day. since you’d come
into your money >ou'd got far too bi^
for your boots.
By T W. HANSHAW
Copyright by Doubleday, Page A- Co.
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
H K did so forthwith, and the mo
ment the-dry leaves fell on the
remnants of the fire which the
caravanners had used to cook their
evening meal, there was a gush of
aromatic smoke, a sudden puff and
then a broad ribbon of light rushed
upward and dispelled every trace
darkness. And by the aid of that rib
bon of light Mr. Nippers saw some
thing which made him almost collapse
with astonishment and chagrin.
Recognition.
The great of the world may—and
often do—forget their meetings with
the small fry. but the small fry never
cease to remember their meetings
with the great or to treasure a vivid
remembrance of that immortal day
when they were privileged to rub el
bows with the elect.
Five year.- had passed since Mrs.
Maverick Narkom. Peking a place
w herein to spend the summer holidays
with the little Narkoms and their
nurses, had let her choice fall upon
L#ynhaven-Old-Bridges and had dwelt
there for two whole months. Three
times during her sojourn her liege lord
had come down for a week-end with
his wife and children, and during
one of these brief visits, meeting Mr.
Ephraim Nippers, the village consta
ble. in the public highway, had
deigned to stop and epeak to him and
to present him with a sixpenny cigar.
Times had changed since then; Mr.
Nippers was now' head constable for
the district, but he still kept that
cigar under a glass shade on the
drawing room what-not, and he still
treasured a vivid recollection of the
great man who had given it to him
and whom he now saw sitting on the
ground with his coat off and his
waistcoat unbuttoned, his mustache
uncurled and wisps of dried grass
clinging to his touseled hair and all
the dignity of office conspicuous by
its absence.
“Oh. lummy.” said Mr Nippers with
a gulp. 'Put down the hammer? of
them guns, you two—put 'em down
quick! It’s Mr Narkom—Mr Mav
erick Narkom. superintendent of
Scotland Yard!”
Hullo!” exclaimed Mr. Narkom,
shading his eyes from the firelight
and leaning forward to get a clearer
view of the speaker. “How the dick
ens do you know that, my man? And
who the dickens are you, any way?
Can't say that I remember ever see
ing your face before.”
Mr Nippers hastened to explain
that little experience of five years
ago: but .the circumstances which
had impressed itself so deeply upon
his memory had passed entirely out
of the superintendent’s.
Just Discovered.
“Oh, that’s it, is it?” said he. ‘‘Can’t
say that I recall the occasion; but
Mrs. Narkom certainly did stop it
L.ynhaven-Oid-Bridges some four or
five summers ago; so, of course, it's
possible. By the way. my man. what
caused you to make this sudden
descent upon us? And w’hat are these
chaps w ho are with you bearing arms
for? Anything up?”
“Oh, lummy, sir. yes! A murder’s
just been committed, sir—leastwise
it's only just been discovered: but it
can’t have been long since it was
committed, Mr. Narkom.. for Miss
Renfrew, who found him. sir, and give
the alarm, she says as the poor dear
gentleman was alive at a quarter o
eight, 'cause she looked into the room
at that time to ask him if there was
anything he wanted, and he spoke up
and told her no, and went on with his
figgerin’ just the same as usual.”
"As usual?” dropped in Cleek. “Why
do you say 'as usual,' my friend? Was
the man an accountant of some sort?”
“Lummy! no, sir. A great inventor
is what he is—or was. poor gentle
man. Reckon you must a heard of
him some time or another—'most ev
erybody has. Nosworth is the name,
sir—Mr. Septimus Nosworth, of the
Round House. You could see the
tower of it over yon if you was to
step out into the road and get clear
of these trees.”
To Be Continued To-morrow.
“I
DON'T know wffiat on earth
makes people lie!” sighed Mc-
Billip. "They just naturally
do it. 1 suppose. That’s the only way
I can account for it.
“Now. there’s my own daughter,
Annabel. She took a notion into her
head that she would do some lying.
She was staying down in the city and
some neighbors of ours went down
and called on Annabel there.
“Annabel turned loose. Such a
string of stuff as she told them!
Every night, she said, she had been
out joy riding until 2 o'clock in the
morning!
“'Who did the chaperoning?' the
neighbors asked, breathlessly.
"'Who did the what?’ asked Anna
bel.
“ 'Why. the chaperoning. Didn’t
you have a chaperon?*
“ ‘Well, I should say not,’ said An
nabel.
"Then 'Annabel went on to tell that
she hau been having such a good
time with actors and actresses. She
knew Maude Adams well, had taken
a joy ride with Maude, and Maude
wanted to take her with her and make
an actress of her, and had promised
her $100 a week as a starter. Anna
bel had also met Sothern and had
liked him very well, but she had been
obliged to treat him coolly because
Julia Marlowe was so jealous.
Sue had met a famous aeronaut
and he had coaxed her and cc
her until she finally made a ;
with him, and she enjoved the
perience very much and had rec
several letters and photographs
the aeronaut since he left town
“Soon after the neighbors got
home with these thrilling tale
what was going on in the citv
word of it. 1 took the first tra
the city. Every bird In the ,
thought might be some aeronaui
ing off tvith my daughter. I had
up my mind to yank her out o'
aunt s house, where she was via
without a word of explanation
get her home at once.
‘ But when I got to the hot
thought better of it. ‘What ir
world do you mean.’ 1 said to
aunt, ‘hv allowing my daughter i
of tender years, to fly around
aeronauts and actors, and go out
ing at all hours of the night wii
a chaperon?’
" ' A re you crazy?’ asked her
'Annabel has been with me <
night and has always gone to bi
10:30. There have been no aeroi
nor actors near her that I kno’
I have been with that child t
minute, too.’
“When I saw Annabel she salt
had made up those yarns Just for
She said she was bored and want
start something. Th? neighbors
been so easily shopked when
1 ailed on her that she couldn't
giving them the full voltage.-