THE ALLIANCE HERALD. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1021.
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By
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Illustrations bf
Irwin Myers
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' A little nfter six o'clock a clanplni
nd commotion In the train-shed out
Ide. attending the arrival of . a
HirwiRh express," stirred him from
til torpor. He walked heavily acrosa
h. room to the aame ticket-window
tie had Mocked before, but there was
no queue attached to It now: He
rented his elbow on the apron and hie
htn upon hta hand, and for some mo
ments the clerk waited until he should
State hl wishes. This was a new
eJerk, who had just relieved the other.
Weill Well r he snld at last.
T11 take It now,1 Noble responded,
gtntly.
Whnt'll you take nowl" ( .
"That ticket 1" '
What ticket I"
The same one I wanted before,"
tfoble sighed.
" The clerk gave him a piercing look,
(lanced out of the window and saw
that there were no other clients, then
went to desk at the farther end of
i kit compartment, and took . up, tome
Clerical work he had In hand.
Noble leaned upon the apron of the
-Window, waiting; and If be thought
anything, he thought the man was
. . Mtvlng hlra. '
The high, resonant room became
Clamorous with voices and WtUh the
mingling echoes of footsteps on the
, tiled floor, as passengers from the ex
press hurried to the street, or more
gaily straggled through, shouting to
friends who came to greet them; and
mom these moving groups . there
talked a youthful fine lady noticeably
enlivening to the dullest eye. She was
preceded by a "brisk porter who car
rted two traveling bags of a rich sort.
i well as a sack of Implements for
the game of golf; and she was warm
to dark furs, against which the vnsty
clump of violets she wore showed
Oewy gleamlngs - of blue.
At sight of Noble DHL more than
pensive at the ticket-window, she host
tated, then stopped and observed him,
- Here was a coincidence, In a mild
way, for, as It happened, she was her-
elf the most observed person In all
that place. She was veiled in two
veils, but she had been seen In the
train without these, and some of her
fellow-travelers, though strangers to
xher, were walking near her In a hypo
critical way, hoping still not to loso
tight of her. cfcn veiled. And. although
the shroudings permitted the. most
meager Information of her features,
what they did reveal was harmfully
piquant; moreover, there. was a sweet
nets to the figure, a disturbing grace;
d nothing disguises such an air of
wearing that mnny violets as a dally
perquisite and matter of course.
It was Julia's fortune (though her
father had other Ideas concerning the
matter) to be the possessor of a per
. . tonality distinctly pleasing to the
masculine eye, nnd of this the fulr
Julia was probably aware. In any
event she was quite conscious of the
stir which her passage through the
throng created.
So the coincidence came about that
mis observed lady stopped aud ob-
"Nobis 1" Sha Said.
jenred Noble, who In return observed
her not at all, being but semiconscious.
"Noble!" she said.
He stared ct ber. Ills elbow sagged
away from the window; tie whole
person of Noble Dill seemej near col
lapse. He shook, and bad no voice.
"I just this minute got oft the
train," Julia said. "Are you, going
away somewhere?"
"No." be whispered; then obtained
command. X . huHner somewhat
Pi
fill
ItiFj
greater In volume. Tin Just smnumf
here." ' -
"I tl the tarter to pft me a tnxl-
rub," she mild. "If you re troltu home
for dinner I'M drop you at your house.
"I Iiu I" UN articulation
encountered unstinnountnble ditllcul-
leu, but Julia lind biH'ti with liitu
hrmiKli ninny surh trluls aforetime.
She 8ii Id briskly. Tin awfully hungry
nd I wnnt to get home. Coine on If
on like."
He walked wnverlnv'ly at her side
hroiiuh :he -station, niid followed her
nto the dim Interior of the rub, which
became frturrnnt of violets an emn
nation of once Ineffable nnd polxonoiiR.-
I'm so itlnd I happened to run
across you." she sn!d. an they bepin
to vibrate tremulously In unison with
the fierce little engine thnt drove them. I
I wnnt to henr nil the news. Nobody
knows I m home. I uldu t xvi tte or
telegraph to n soul : and I'll be a
complete surprise to father and every
body--! - don't know how pleasant a
one I Xou didn't seem so frightfully
glad to see me, Noble 1"
"Am IT" he whispered. "I meanI
mean I mean: Didn't. If
"Nol" ahe laughed. "You looked
you looked shocked 1 It couldn't have
been because I looked 111 or anything,
because I'm not ; and If I were, you
couldn't have told It, through two
veils. Possibly I'd better take your
expression as a compliment" She
paused, then asked hesitatingly, "Shall
This was the style the Atwaters
held Julia responsible for; but they
were mistaken: she was unable to con
trol It. She at once went cheerily on :
"Perhaps not, as you don't answer. I
shouldn't be. so bold I Do you sup
pose any body 'I I be glad to see me?"
"I I" He seemed to hope that
words wonld come, all In their own
good time. .
"Noblel" ahe cried. "Don't be so
glum V 'And she touched his arm
with her muff, a .fluffy contact causing
within him a short convulsion, natural
ly Invisible. "Noble, aren't you going
to tell me what's all the news?"
"There's some," he managed to In
form her.' "Some some newa."
"What Is Itr
"It's It's "
"Never mind,". she said soothingly.
"Get your breath; I can wait I hope
nothing's wrong In your family.
Noble."
"Nooh. no." . ...
. "It Isn't just my turning up un
expectedly that's upset yon so, of
course," she dared to say. -Naturally.
know better than to think such
thing as that
"Oh. Julia 1" he snld,
"Oh, Julia 1"
"What Is It. Noble?"
"Nothlng," he murmured, disjoint-.
Ing the word with a gulp. I
"How odd you hapened to be there
ah the station," she snld; "Just when
my train came In! You're sure you
weren't going away anywheref
"No; oh. no."
She wns thoughtful, then laughed
confident iolly. .-"You're ' the only per
son In town tunt knows I'm homo,
Noble." "
"I'm glad," he snld, humbly.
She lunched again. "I enme all of
u sudden on nn Impulse. It's a little
Idiotic. I'll teJI you about It, Noble.
You see, ten or twelve days ago 1
wrote the family a more or less Indis
creet letter. That Is, I told them
something I wanted them to ke dis
creet about, nnd, of course, when I got
to 'thinking It over, I knew they
wouldn't. You see. I wrote them
something 1 wanted them to keep a
secret, but the more' I thought about
It. the more I saw I'd better hurrv
back. Yesterday It got Into my heed
thai I'd better hop on thenext train
for homei" "
kiie phuwl, then added, "So I did!
About ten or twelve days Is long
anybody tins n right to expect the Af
water frmlly . connection to keep tha
cYadlie,' kind of a secret. IsnT It?"
And as he did not respond, she ex
plained, modestly, "Of course, It
wasn't a very deadly secret ; It wns
really i.l.out something of only the
least Importance."
This wns so frightful . an under
statement thnt the Jur of It restored
Noble's voice to a startling loudness..
"Only the lenst Importance!" be
shouted. "With a man named Crura!"
"What!" sle cried.
"Criiui!" Noble Insisted. "That's
exactly what It snld his name wns!"
Julia, excitedly.
"The North End Dnlly Oriole."
"Whiit In henven's unine Is tlinlV
"It's the children's paper, Herbert's
and Florence's, your own niece iT
nephew, Julia! You don't mean you
deny It, do you, Julia t" .
She wn In great confusion: "Do 1
deny what?"
"Thnt his nnme Is Crum!" Noble
snld pnsslonntc!y. "That his name Is
Crum imii thnt he's a widower nut
he's been divorced nnd's got nobody
ki.ows how tunny children!" v
Julia -tight to collect herself. "I
dtn't know what you're talking
about," Mie snld. "If you inenn thnt
1 happened to pieet a very charming
man while I was away, and that hi?
name l.uppcned to be Crum, I don'
know why 1 should go to the trouble
of denying It. But if Mr. Crum has
had the experiences you say he has,
It Is certainly news to me! I think
someone told me be was only'twenty
t:t years old. He looked rather
younger."
"You think some one told your
Noble crooned. "Oh. Julia. Julia"
And here It Is, all down In black and
w bltev In my pocket !." , '
(To Be Continued)
One of the, most annoying world
problems, is human nature.
The hard-boiled egg isn't as bad as
he seems. All of them are white un
der the shell.
Bayard Man Who
Kidnaped Child Is
Sought in Alliance
A real ' honest-to-goodness kidnap
ing, was staged in Bayard Wednesday
ni'ternoon when Asa Vulls seized his
five-ye3r-bld ton, Viigil, who has been
livng with hl mother At the Hotel
Layard the past six months, and ef
fected his escape in n raving- car in
the direction of Alliance, says the Bay
ard Transcript.
I he detai s of the affair are sub-
4Q-,nii . vii.
About 3:30 that
,ri,mnnn t mn
drove ..past the
noti jn a red racing car, slowed down
at the corner where the little fellow!
was playing, when one of the men!
Jumped out, picked up the little boy
and, returning to the car with him.
speeded out of town. Someone who
saw the kidnaping ran into the hotel
and gave the alarm. At that time the
kidnapers were unknown and volun
teers went in pursuit of the little rac
ing: car. Fred Heil drove his car out
on the Scottsbluff road accompanied
by Mrs. Walls and others, while I O.
Palmer, who is employed at the hotel,
'
sutried ouivun puny in u car irom
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the Armagost Auto company in. the.
direction ol Alliance. The latter party I
overtook the kidnapers .with the child.
about twenty-five miles northwest of
Bayard. They recognized the father, I
Asa Wells, and a man who had reg-
MmXne
they could not bring the boy back, but
they returned with the information
and Mrs. Walls left on the night train
me nigm iram .
for-Alliance, hoping to locate them
ann secure uie cnu.u .
j a -- it l
. ine two men nan wen in oayaru
for several days, it is said, one of
them stopping at the Hotel Bayard
one night, while the father stopped
at a rooming house nearby. The red
car is said to have been hidden in the
i. . .1.- i ...u -1 u
weeds back of the Lutheran church
while the men were here. ' " refreshments and all -report a fine
Mrs. Walls has sued for a divorce time.
in Judge Hobart's court and the case ' Mr. and Mrs. Norval Hurlburt and
is to be heard November 8,-. Authori- -Mrs., Langford took supper at the
ties at Alliance and other places were" Satott home Thursday evening.
Wired to hold the men and take the .. James Kennedy and sons are busy
child away from them. - - - -- -'.hauling potatoes tot Hemingford.
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Citv and countv DoJice officers re-
ceived telephone instructions to be on
me ouuook ior mr. vaiisanu nis.eon,
1 4. : A ikni 2HmaM:AMa ha
bv. telegraph in order to protect them
if an arrest were made and it should
turn out they, had no right to hold
the couple. After keeping up a watch
until midnight Friday, it was decided
that the automobile.containing the kid-
naned boy and his father had headed
-elsewhere. The mother left for Gor-l
don Friday to continue the search.
RESOLUTION OF CONDOLENCE.
Be it resolved by the Alliance ;Vol-'
unteer Fire Department, in regular
session this 26th day of October, 1921,1
that
WHEREAS, death must come to all,
and in this instance it is deeply re
grettable because our deceased brother
had not fieen permitted to live out the
span of life allotted to some of us, and
WHEREAS our brother,' Adolph
Brppt, a valuable and highly respected
inember of this department, was called
to answer the death summons on Oc
tober 22, 1921, therefore be it ' i
RESOLVED . that the members of
the Alliance Volunteer Fire Depart
ment united in humbly submitting to
the will of Amighty God, yet while we
deplore the death of this brother, we
realize that this department was bene
fiitted by his existence, and we offer
to his bereaved family our tenderest
sympathies in ther sad affliction, and
we place before, them our sincere con- j
dolence, and be it further
RESOLVED that these, resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of this de- j
partment, that a copy be sent to the
relatives of our deceased brother, and
that they be published . in the local
newspapers.
LLOYD C. THOMAS,
WM. MAUNIER,
C, W. GRIFFIS,
Committee.
The table needs a new utensil for
the fellow .who miscalculates and is
left to butter a last single row on
the ear of corn.
. Prospects for a bumper crop cheer
everybody except some farmers who
contend that the bigger the crop the
greater the loss.
The new Russia might well take for .
her rational motto, "Rough and
Red-y."
ALLIANCE TEAM WINS
VICTORY FRIDAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
makes 3 off tackle, and Garvin adds 1
through line. Dailey makes 1. Dailey
fails to gain. Jo.ler drops back to the
35 yard line and kicks a perfect goal.
Score: Alliance 16, Scottsbluff 7. Cross
kicks off 40 yards to Cox who returns
20. Cox makes- 1C. Pickett makes 10.
Pickett fails to gain. Roland makes
8, and Harrison 5. Pickett makes 1
around end. Half up with ball on Alli
ance 20 yards line.
Third Quarter
Cross kicks off 25 yards to Roland
who returns 10. Cox makes 3. Cox
fails to gain. Roland fails to gain.
Chrisman kicks 30 to Joder who re
turns 12. Garvin makes 15 around end.
Dailey fails to gain. Dailey makes 15
on a shift. Garvin fails to gain.
Dailey loses 2. Pass Garvin to Dailey
intercepted' by Cox who returns 20.
Ppss, Pickett to Chrisman net 5 yards.
Wyatt makes 3 through line and Cox
makes 2. Pickett fails to gain. Pass
Pickett to Chrisman for 20 yards.
Chrisman makes 3 around left end
from punt formation.' Pass Chrisman
to Pickett intercepted by Dailey who
eludes four tacklers and runs 65 yards
to a touchdown. Garvin kicks goal.
Score Alliance, 23, Scottsbluff 7.
. Cross kicks off 30 to Roland who
make. no return. Wyatt makes 1. Cox
makes 2. Alliance offside, 5 yards penalty.-
Roland makes 8. Pickett makes
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Fourth Quarter.
Roland goes 20- off tackle. Alliance
penalized 6 yards for offside. Alliance
finalized 15 yards for holding-, putting
ball on Alliance's Six inch line. Pickett
fails to gain. Roland goes over for
touchdown. Chriiman kicks goal.
Score: Alliance 23, Scottsbluff 14.
Chrisman kicks off 20 to Fowler who
returns 5. Dailey makes 8. Dailey
makes "2. Garvin loses 2 on a criss
cross. Dailey k;cks 4" yards to Pickett
who returns 4. Roland makes 2
through line. Wyntt makes 2 off
tackle Cox makes 3 through line.
Wyatt makes 1. Pass Pickett to Cox
incomplete.- Alliance ball on downs.
Dailey makes 3 around right end.
Cross makes 2 olT tackle. Dailey makes
8 through, line. Garvin makes 6 around
left end. Game ends with ball in Al
liance's possession on Scottsbluff 28
yard line.
The line up is as follows:
. Alliance - Scottsbluff
Beal re Cox
Purdy rt Harrison
Nolan rg (C) Winner
Brown c Over -street
Herman lg.. Brown
Fowler - Jt Doviiwn
Brennan .le.
J oder ob
Chrisman !
Pickett
Garvin - -...:.ih love
Dailey (C) Ih Wyatt
rv. - ru ' r..i .-.l
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Score by Juarters!
Alliance 6 10 7 023
Scottsbluff 0 .7 7 014
Yard9 from' m. Alliance 871,
Scottsbluff, 18!.- Touchdowns: Garvin
" mblet. Scottsbluff. 2 of B for 27
yards,
Punts: Alliance 2, average 45
.1wj-. ofcMv a ii i.
"ZZAJVnZJ- o
e 33 ya
Garvin 2,
Chri8man 2.
vFOWLING
The Farmer's Union held a social
meeting at the Moravek school house
ent.. Tk. lo.ii
Saturday evening. The ladies served
1 4I "Pn f?1?1 me "r :
tie Friday. Mr. Banks accompanied
the shipment- They shipped several
-earn m wwn. iso.
M a H AHlaVDAH UTUB O AH A Or TRa
Hall home Thursday morning.
. Mrs. Anna Hall and .sister, Mrs.
Nola Eaton spent Thursday -at the
Jake Henderson home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lenzen of Mit-
chell, formerly of this vicinity, are
the proud parents of a baby girl.;
Mrs. Nel Peterson is enjoying a
. visit with, her parents and brothers
and sisters of Oregon, who arrived one
dav last week. The came overland in
their car. -'
John Caha spent a couple of days
last week at the Joe Kennedy home.
Mrs. Chas. Hall is expected home in
a couple oi weeKs.
Nola Eaton was a caller, at
the
Army
S.PE
Folks Pay Us a Visit and Save
Money on Your Fall Needs
Just received a large shipment of leather Puttees,
made of the best of leather, worth $9.00.
Special Price $4.85
All-Wool Army Blankets, worth
close them Dut, at
$2.95
All Leather Vests with sleeves, sold
they last, at
$5.85
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
.'Army & Navy Store
LOOK FOR THE BIG LETTER SIGN
Open Evenings until 8 p. m. 119 Box Butte Avenue,' Alliance
' '' ''
Mann home Wednesday morning.
Lon Wood and family were Alliance
callers Thursday.
Jake Henderson and wife and child
ren and mother motored to Alliance
one day last week. Mrs. Henderson,'
jr., having tome dental work done. I
Theodore Johnson and Fon motored
to Alliance Wednesday afternoon, re
turning Friday evening.
N. E. Hurlburt and wife and Mrs.
Lnngfonl were Hcmingiord
callers
Saturday,
James Eaton aqd wife spent Wed- Our streets and crossings as a.
nesday night at the Albert Hall home, whola are in good shape. We have a.
Pete Farrell and Mr. McCarty are little more work of cleaning out the
busy putting up hay on the Klemke septic tank and then all will be in
place. Marshall Sheldon helped them good shape at the farm. In our water
a few days last week. j system we have a few hydrants which
Mrs Hutchinson motored to Alh-
ance Friday evening to
week-nd with home folks.
spend the
' -
John Brus was absent from school
Thursday and Friday.
Raymond Kapper and Mr. Feather
kile rode down to the Elsea ranch one
day last week after some of Mr. Kap-1
per's cattle, that were on pasture
there,
"Scotty
Henderson of Sioux county
shipped eighteen carloads
of cattle
Sunday. Mr. Henderson and son,
Jake, accompanied the shipment
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Mann were Alli
ance callers Thursday. '
James Eaton was a caller at the
Laursen home one evening last week.
Miss Zoetta Nichols and brother
were absent from school Wednesday.
May Identify Man
Who Killed Himself j
in Alliance Recently
County Attorney Basye Friday morn
ing received from F. L. Williams, city
editor of the State Journal at Lincoln,
a photograph of Leslie Redenbaugh of
that city, whose wife is seeking him.
mat wno recently com-
i ule young-man n recently com
Mrs. Redenbaugh saw the picture of.
mitted suicide at a rooming house in
this city, and thought it resembled her
husband. Redenbaugh was last seen
in Lincoln last May, when he said he
was going to Lincoln to work. Mr.
Basye said the photograph he received
did not resemble the suicide.
Another Lincoln woman who saw the
' suicide's picture believes it is a distant
. ,i ,,-,. ,i u .i.- .
whcther his whereabouts are known.'
: She has not vet received a renlv.
I w
Red Cross Drive
From Armistice Day '
to Thanksgiving
" The executive board of the Box
Butte county and South Sheridan coun
ty lied cross are making arrange-
ments for the annual roll call, which
this year comes from November 11 to
( 25. The plans for the membership
, canvass are not complete, but efforts
are being made to secure an officer
from the Chicago division headmtar-
ters to be in charge of the campaign,
vorrlin? to one member of the board.
CIA
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City Manager's Corner
(.By N. A. KEMM1SH)-
The first wintry storm finds us in
pretty good shape. The threatened:
railway strike of November 3rd left.
U3 with a month's supply of coal on.
hand, to that our only worry alone
this line is the coal cutching on fire
in the pile.
we would like to repair and we want;
to flush out our mains shortly all over-'
the city. There is always a certain
amount of rust and black sediment,
collects in the water mains especially
where there is not much water being
used. .
In time of war, the problem is to
' silence the big guns. In time of peaces
the problem is to silence the small-.
bore fellows.
It isn't difficult to believe in infant,
damnation if there are about six inu
your neighborhood that howl all night.
Your Shoe
Doctor
Our
Prescriptions -
Look through th& closets.
You'll find old shoes that :
you have worn and think;
are useless. Bring them to
us and we will, repair and
. sew them up so that you'll-
" be surprised.
.... ...... . , ?
Don't hesitate, no matter
; how badly worn they appear
to you we'll let you know
-what can be done with 'em.
. Leave it to us.
B&B Electric Shoe
. Shop
Boelter & Brazda, Props.
Under Alliance Nat l Bank
T
...
$6 and $8, will
at $10.00, while
B-B
Store
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