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TRF. ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS. MONDAY. APRIL 28. 1912.
The Dingbat Family
The Juice Raised the Deuce
Copyright, 1913, Tu'.crnational Nm Service.
Herriman
To-day s Complete Short Story
I T bad seerued to me at (lie time that
I could do tli«- thing In entire safe
ty. Our troop!* were ordered out to
take and destroy a village which lay
in the valley by the riverside, ami their
operations would be confined to the
tower ground. The heights above would
be anti rely 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 skirmish
ing. the attack, ami the capture through
* pair of glasses
KYoin a distance it had all seemed
v ery tame. There were little puffs of
gnat 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 • over of the mud and
bamboo village
More smoke arose in puffs from the
lanes between the houses And then a
stream of lilac;. Flag Chinese began
to pour out at the run. some of them I
pitched forward and la' still, and t o
others opened out to pass these by. and
.libers limped .me lagged behind the
general pace; aid unite irregular crack
le fr/nn the village, like tin* burning of
crush-wood, told me what was causing
these things.
But when th. Hale], Flags were out
of range and the firing ceased the val
ley dropped into dread quietude and
there was nothing more to sec. T yawned
over it for another half-hour and thon
walked a dozen yards down the slope,
smoked a couple of cigarettes and began
my dejeuner. The regiment of Black
•Flags which came down upon me must
have started climbing the hill face the
very minute I quitted the ridge.
Ran Like a Dog.
Instinct, as T say, jerked me to my
feet, and instinct must have given me
.1 prodigious start for when first, my
wits came to me I found myself run
ning like a frightened dug.
It seemed as if ten million bullets
whisked past me. and I had n notion T
was hit In twenty places. But nothing
• logged m legs, and although my heart
was trying to jump clear of its moor
ings 1 Tan on at a freshened pace.
There wasn't a more terrified man in
\aiw that minute The shots came drop-
ping after me: shots and cries in bar- I*
batons Chinese, and the world swam in
front.
Terror, undiluted, made me a running
iutomaton.
Beyond a doubt the most cowardly
Frenchman In the Hast that moment
was myself. I did not attempt to con
trovert this fact: L ran on, cringing
from every bullet that rustled past me
or spurted up the ground beside my :
leaping feet; but I sought to find ex- I
ruses for my conduct.
For good behavior they had raised I
me from the ranks to a non-commls-
aioticd officer.
I low long I ran on in tills blindeu i
■date i «annot tell: but a sharp sting
of pain sci tuy wits a-going. It felt 1
like the sc-nr of hot metal burning and
frying, and the hurt came somewhere
from tlie round of the left shoulder.
Instantly my moofi woke again. For
he first time there grew upon me a
vague resentment against the crew who
w ere > alping anil firing In chase; and
as 1 scurried on, and the ill-aimed bul
lets threw their rushing halo of sound
• round my head and. limbs, this in
creased to a wild, poisonous hate.
Remembered My Revolver.
Then, /or Uv first time, 1 remem- I
bored my revolver. With bungling
lingers I unholstered it. and. turning,
bred six rapid shois One man clapped
.hands to his far. , screamed shrilly
like a child and pitched to the earth, !
his pigtail swung up in the air as
bought it had been n black whiplash.
'\ * no longer a French gentle-
»i* n then ! was a savage beast, lust
fal 1o tear n»v enemies' throats.
I turned again and fired on. A whole i
fusillade ot vengeful shots were ex-
Cl nged in return, but none of them
found h mark in me. and I laughed
aloud in triumph. Whatever happened
now I had killed my own weight of
enemy.
*ul. as I s«y, 1 wanteWl desperately
o do more, and now that the paralysis
to terror and es< iteineut lmd flashed
a way m> mind was beginning to
woi»k v\ !i crait and running. Ahead
• •I in und t unning athwart nn course
was a mudd> wallow they, lulled the
i< ad and which -»ur troops had pass
ed along barely three hours before to
the capture <>f tie* village. To the
left were the French lines and safety,
hi front, and a hull's throw beyond 1
the road. was the yellow tyrbiri !
st rt ai.i of the river.
It was impossiJ\!hi reach the camp
even had I risked it. Tim Black Flags
uutl anticipated the move and had de
luded off a party to outflank me in
That direction. B> turning off to the
right I might very well bring down
the enemy upon our expeditionary
force on their march Lack from the
village. They might bo prepared to
recede them, and gn n tlv»y might
not, and I would have died ten times
sooner than any move of mine for my
own safetj should bring disaster on
my comrades. Oftr branch of the
service gets sneert-d at enough ns
it is.
Shots Thick aud Fast.
?*•• I raced on for the road and
oassed it. and labored down to flic
river. The allots eg me fast and thick
now. and two more bullets galled me.
but 1 waded through the shallows
without further hurt aud gained the
deep, tawny river beyond.
A sampan was moored u bundled
Yards out and a little downstream.
I made for it with long, bursting
dives. There were half a dozen men
or b ard. jumping, gesticulating, and
Cvying warnings; mid once, when I
came up from an underwater swim, one
of them lex fij a match lock at me
Another dive and T was upon them,
and they received me with knife-stans
-aud how the tight turned next 1 could
not tell But of n sudden, with a blink
and a gasp and a downward blow l
• •ante by my wits again, and found that
1 waa pn board the sampan with a curv
ed Chirre.se sword in m> hand, and one
man lay dead and bleeding at my feel,
another was ^dead and floating face
downwards with a current astern. Xml
the resi were swimming to the fhore.
and t wenty Black Flags were firing over
their heads as fast os they could.
M.' pistol was gone and I could do
no snore on the offensive. The wish
.»r fight had left me; the lust for
.iff ulonc remained. I cut the painter
and ia on the sampan’s bottom,
whilst s ic -drifted down with the cur-
• - n* into owr *»v n lines
And yet my officers were pleased
i«. .all urn brave, and the general
jft.yt- m* the war-medal. 1 tried to
refuse it. but they laugh* • at me.
' vedette ‘it ■-eeii.ied • had v. itciied
ui*-* through a glas--" fiv.n the moment
..f'fiio first shot b«i»ig fired, a? d they
said no man ••ould hav*- behaved more
*du«kilv.
Dcwt You Da^t eat
Thai Soufe Lemon
IK MV P*E5>EA/CE.
Vov F/aicm
Do ajoT TftiPi.1*. uirm The) x
AffecTioajs of The. Lower'
lemon mv Dove THere. is
much to ctAkiy from it. <
Sill Isaac VeiajToaj ' Vou KwuA
Gaiiajered Much info From i
A MERE. AFPCE- OAICE^_v
IT IS AJOT HAM b SOME- / I ADMIT?
/MR Does it engage iaj The. j
IfeftACEFUL CONVOLUTIONS OF C
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in Poses Pcastiqus., Bor
I PRAY You, D&AW AJEAR Amd'
GIVE IT A CiOse. Look. — y
The Militancy of'
These women
MOW a DAYS IS
.Most exasperating
i>0 •'
’Jr There is one SPoTom
, This >iAMET UlHERe. I would
t uieftt This Eve. KCa-zvt
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f PARK'S Rouj ; inmv s
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Tor That There' Sj
CrHEfts -<
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I ill HAT OTHERS ? .
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Polly and Her Pals
9mwd op aw 1 Lemme
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head Ache, MA
LET DELICI/1
Do IT 1
DtUCIA'^ done all
The HouSe iy/ork
JuSt So'S I Could
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) vy/oRt out!
MV HEART
BLEEDS' TOR
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BUT ILL
WAYE To
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Even the Worm Will Hide
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Tragedy and the Movies
By MALCOLM DOUGLAS
ii T v\ dh Kouili. the might>
I But Booth, alas, is dead!
So now 1 am \ th the m..-
y ies.”
The old tragedian said.
“I11 Chainbersburg and I’ottstown,
And likewise Kokomo,
You can view me classic features
At 5 and 10 a throw
“1 was with Booth, the mighty.
But Booth has long been dust.
So l get me cakes and coffee
From the moving-picture trust.
“Shakespeare, thou wast me idol.
But thee I hadst to can;
Me. oh. Bard, for the movies;
Me for the camera-man!’’
CLEEK OF THE FORTY FACES
The Habit of Lying
By T. W. HANSHAW.
’ ight lr Doubloday, Puge & Co
CO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
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Not What Pa Meant.
. Host's Youngest -Don't vour sho a
I feel very uncomfortable when y >-i
; walk. Mrs. Nury-’he'.’
J .Mrs. Xnrych -Dear me. what -n
! eNtraordinary question! \Yh\ do ;
! ask, chile'* .
ilust's YoiUig'
said the other •
1 into your money
1 f«»r > ouj b ■ ■ *■
♦111. Ml
E did so forthwith; aud the mo
ment the dry leaves fell on the
remnants of the tiro which the
| caravanners had used to cook their
evening meal, there was a gush of
aromatic smoke, a sudden puff and
then 1 broad ribbon of light rushed
upward and dispelled every trace of
darkness. And by the aid of that rib
bon of light Mr. Nippers >nw some
thing which made him almost collapse
with astonishment and chagrin.
Recognition.
The great of the world may—and
often do forg t their meetings with
the small fry. but the small fry never
cease to remember their meetings
with tin great or to treasure a vivid
iernembrance of that immortal day
when then were privileged to rub el
bows with the elect.
Fiv* years had passed since Mrs.
{ , ; \ Xurkc! » 1 kipg a place
v. '•< r in to r.d t’a summ» r holidays
with th.- little Xarkoms and their
nurses, had let her choice fall upon
Bynhavon-Old-Bridges and had dwelt
there for two whole months. Thr< e
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.
Ephtaim Nippers, the village consta
ble. in the public highway, had
deigned to stop and ‘ peak 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 vfnder 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 raw sitting on the
ground with his coat off arid 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.
'•« ‘ . lumtiv} ." said Mr. Nippers with i
a ga p. “But do\v:i the lutthuierc cfj
them guns >u»u two-i*ut ^**m down
quick! It's Mr. Xarkunt—Mr Muv-|
erick Narkom, st.-arint;. lit. u i
Scotland Yard!”
"Hullo!" exclaimed Mr. Narkom.
shading In's 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?!
han’t say that I remember ever see- I
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 at
Lynhaven-Old-Bridges some four »r
five summers ago; so, of course. : t’s •
possible. By 'the way. my man. what
caused you to make this sudden
descent upon us? And what are these
chaps who are with you bearing' uynvi
tv* ? -Ain"'! S' Fp
“Oil. lummy, sir, y s! a murder’s
just been committed, sir—leastwise
it’s only just been discovered; but it
can’t have been long 'since it w.15
committed, M . Narkom. for Miss
Renfrew, who found him, sir, and mve
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
ami told her no, and went oh 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. Xosworth is the name,
sir—Mr. Septimus Xosworth, of the
Round House. You could see the
" to A.
er of it over
yon’
if you was to
: ste;
of t
out into Hit
hose ttVt-s."
roue
und Let cl.-'.r
“I
To Continued To-morrow.
IKiN'T know -. ..at on earth
makes people lie!” sighed Me-
131]lip. "T.my just naturally
do it, 1 suppose. That’s the only way.
1 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 cailed on Annabel there.
"Annabel turned loose. Such 1
string of stuff as she told them!
Every night, she said, she had been
out joy riding until ? 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 had 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
he. $100 a week «*s n starter. Anna
bel had u’fo mot Sothern and had
lik-jd him very well, but she had been
otfiigec to treat l :m coolly beca.us**
.lu : 1 Mar owe- Wav s • jealous.
'*i r ’i-- had .net a famous a^'otiaxir
and he had coaxed her and coa
her until she finally made a fij
\.;th him. and she enjoyed the
perience very much and had rocei
several letters arid photographs f
the aeronaut since he left town
"Soon after the neighbors got h
home with these thrilling tales
what was going on in the city 1
word of it. I took the first trail
the city. Every bird in the a;
thought might be some aeronaut
ing off with my daughter. I had m
up my mind to yank her out of
aunt's house, where she was visit
without a word of explanation
get her home at once.
"But when I got to the hous
thought better of it. ‘What in
world do you mean.’ I said to
aunt, ‘by allowing my daughter, a
of tender years, to fly around \
aeronauts and actors, and go out
ing at all hours of the night witl
a chaperon?’
" Are you crazy?’ asked her a
'Annabel has beer) with me et
night and has always gone to bei
10:30. There have been no aeront
nor actors near her that I know
I have been with that child e^
minute, too.'
"When I saw Annabel she said
had made up those yarns just for
She said she was bored and wante
start something. The neighbors
been so easily shocked when t
cai>d onMicr that she couldn’t 1
giving them the full voltage."