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THE ARGUS. FLATON1A, TEXAS
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Tke House of the
Three Ganders
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By Irria| Bacbcller
(kwillbt by Irvine Bachcllar.
(WNJJ Servlc.) •
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Ragged, and starving;. a tidy or about
alxteen' la found 'In tha wood* by a
camping party, bavin* fled ttom his
brutal father, Dal. M«rryeon. Fad, and.
lavolaan clothei, tha boy 8had (gher-
„______ ad t(Mn
to Canton, w)th a latter
Idan) la aant
to Colonal Blake. _— ------. ..
wlfa, and thalr' young -dv1*M*r ItVh’
a Impressed by tha boy'a manribr
the colonal, $ils
__ Daiq, and
S55,? ftsV&nir
la goaa to work In Amity
boao
vlllaga charactar. ,Bat Morryaon
ad to taka hla aon back
oluta life. Ho la ever-
al Blake, the district
flomaa, detarmlnad to
to hla own dlaaoluta life. Ha l« ovar-
awad by Colonal Blake, tha district
attorney, and hla father paaaes out hf
load’s life. A girl, young tnd pret-
ty. comas to Brown's shack, inquiring
ty. coi
for him.
Irown's shack, lnqu<
Shad applies himself diligent-
to hla naglacted education. Love for
uth Blake takea a strong hold on hla
In an attack made on the Perry
lamlly. Oscar Perry, the father. Is
tally shot, and hla daughter, Mrs.
oollttla, wife of Cyrus Doolittle,
prominent eltlien, seriously wounded.
Clroumstantlal evidence points to
Bumpy Brown as the a
Tasted. Tha friendship
id Ruth Blake kindles
lel Blake arranges to
on
take
guidance. New
up the
art Royca
of Parry.
the assailant. He Is
dshlp between Shad
Into love. Col-
nges for the youth to
study of law. under hla
evidence points to Rob-
tha possible murderer
CHAPTER VII
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The Mysterious Arm.
Colonel Blake's offices were up one
flight from the main street of the vil-
lage In the rear of a brick building.
It Is necessary to the understanding
of a singular event in the case of the
People against Brown, that the reader
ehould have a clear perception of a
part of the structure of these offices
and the points at which the help em-
ployed near their entrance was sta-
tioned.
Th^e was an outer room in which
a young typist received all comers.
The typist opened a panel in an oak
partition and gave their names and
the nature of their business to a clerk
who sat at a table Inside the parti-
tion and against it. Shad was imme-
diately trained for this latter task.
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Outer
Room
I_I
Clerks Office
Col. Blake'S
Office
Slide [] Shad's Desk.
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The evening train for the south was
almost an hour late. Shad ate hla sup-
per with a small bag In his lap and
got aboard the train arriving at the
were not more than half a dozen peo-
ple In the streets.
He went to the office. The ante-
room was dark. The colonel's key
was In the door that opened from It
to the large room occupied, In busi-
ness hours, by clerks and stenog-
raphers. The colonel was at work In
Ills private room the door of which
was open. Shad put the bag on his
desk and removed his overcoat and
muffler. The lawyer came out and
greeted him. They stood a moment
talking together. Colonel Blake stood
facing the door. *
In the middle of a sentence he
stopped suddenly. He was looking at
a man's arm which had been thrust
through the open slide In the oak par-
tition. Its hand seized the little leather
bag on Shad’s desk. Before the col-
onel had quite recovered from hie as-
tonishment it vanished with the bag.
The lawyer ran to the door. It would
not open. It was locked. The thief
had turned the key on Its farther side.
The hag was gone with the man who
had seized It, and they were helpless.
The colonel ran to the telephone and
called the sheriff. With two minutes
the latter, with bis deputies, was out
•n the streets.
Colonel Blake returned from the tele-
phone.
“The Devil and Tom Walker 1" he
exclaimed.
“This kind of thing Is well enough
In fiction, but when it Jumps Into real
life It's going too far. That was the
arm of the murderer or an accomplice.
He may have followed you from the
train. If I had not been here he might.
have overcome you with violence. We
are getting close to the guilty man.
He Is scared. He Is desperate. He
thinks that the revolver Is a vital part
of our case. He doesn't know that It
Is so well known that It Is no longer
needed. Its evidence Is on record."
“My old slouch hat was In that bag
with the revolver,” said Shad.
Colonel Blake went to the telephone
and called the home of Judge Swift in
Ashfleld.
“I have reason to believe that the
man who killed Oscnr l’erry Is In or
near this village. I’lease go quickly
and see If Robert Royce Is In Ashfleld.
It's Important. Let me know at my
office ns soon as possible,” the colonel
requested.
The sheriff came and unlocked the
door.
“We’ve scoured the town,” he said.
**We have seen no stranger. I learn
that a team hitched to a buggy stood
In front of your door a few ralnutea
•go. It faced toward the river. A
woman sat In the buggy.”
The lawyer told what had happened
In the office.
Sheriff Colewell said: “The thief,
whoever he Is, got Into that buggy
with the hag and was a mile out of
town when yon called me.”
Tho telephone hell rang. Colonel
Maks answered It He was aiton-
-«—:-i-—
lslied by the Information that opine to
tym from Judge Swift. It was this:
“Robert Royce Is now sitting by the
fireside at the Westminster hotel in
Ashfleld. Rodney [the proprietor]
tells me that he has h^en sitting In the
ch^Ir he now pcoaples ever singe ho
finished'eating histsuppg^ about quar-
ter past •lx." "
Blake told the Judge of the singular
Incident of the evening and rang off.
Hr came out a£- hhs office- *
“Well, Sheriff,-I'm about rei^ly for
•n-.Important move In this game of
checkers,” he said. Tve .got »* man
in the king row. I’m going to move
for Bumpy Brown's release on mill.”
The County court convened In the
morning.
The district attorney. In view of the
discovery of new evidence In the case
of the People against William Brown,
moved for the release of the de-
fendant on hail freely offered by a
number of responsible Ornnd Army
men. ’ “I am convinced that the pris-
oner If he Is set free can he of some
service to us.”
The motion was granted. Late that
afternoon Colonel Blake cnlled Shad
to his office. He said: “I think that
you now have a chance to render me
an Important service. I want you to
go up with Bumpy Brown tomorrow
and live with him or near him for a
couple of weeks. The old man likes
you and Bony. For you. especially,
he entertains a real affection. Per-
haps you can get him to help us. I
want to know who Is that pretty Miss
De Long who works In South Bolton
and who came to his little house one
Sunday when you were there. I can-
not place her. She seems to have
dropped out of the skies. How does it
come about that she and Bumpy
Brown are on familiar terms? I have
staked out the ground for you. It
may be that love can accomplish what
•fear could not."
“I don’t believe that I ought to do
that," Shad objected. "The old man
has been good to me.”
“And I want you to be good to him.
You are not to he a spy but a friend.
You will be under no obligation to
report anything which he Is unwilling
that I should know.”
“Then I shall enjoy my Job,” Shad
answered.
The next day Shad got a livery
team and an ample store of provisions
for Bumpy’s larder. He telegraphed
to Bony asking him to meet them at
the Fun Shop. They put a warm
brick In the bottom of Dick's cage and
covered Its bars with a shawl. Be-
fore noon they arrived in a sleigh at
Slfrrtf* lt“uUlU£ lnU\
Bony, standing by the door, waved
his hat aa they drew near.
“Welcome home I” he shouted.
Bumpy shook his hand but did not
speak. They hurried into the shack.
Bumpy stood a moment looking up at
the portrait of his wife. Just a faint,
quivering “Hello, mother I” came from
his lips. He hurried to the filled
water pail, took down a dipper and
drank.
Shad winked to Bony ns he said:
“We’ll go out an’ break up some more
wood an’ leave you with the womun a
few minutes.”
The boys went out-of-doors and cut
down a dead tree in the near thicket.
“I never heard him call her 'mother'
before,” said Shad.
“Nor I,” Bony nnswered. “Ye know
I’m kind o’ scared for the old man.
I don’t see how he'a goin' to make a
livin'. It’s winter time. He can't
travel around much. He has to git
home every night to look after that ol’
bird.”
“He has some money saved up and
if he needs more the colonel Is going
to give It to him.”
They returned to the shack. Bumpy
was now in a cheerful mood. The
bird was laughing and going over his
reminiscent and familiar sayings on
the broad window-sill near the oven.
Shad unwrapped the supplies.
“Well, boys, there's some dead
so'gerg layln' around here, hut we
might be In worse shape, ns a feller
used to say that had a hump on his
back,” Bumpy began. “Don't look so
solemn. We'll fix up a good dinner.
You look kind o’ nervous. What’S the
matter?”
“I’ve been talkin’ with some fools
thnt still think you're guilty,” Bony
answered.
“Well, fools are like frogs In a
pond. You can hear 'em preachin' day
an’ night, but nobody is ever con-
verted.”
Bumpy hnd washed at the sink and
was drying his face and hands.
"The People ag’ln' Brown!" he ex-
claimed, looking downward In *
thoughtful manner. “Boy*, to tell y#
the dead honest truth, ol’ Brown has
been s fool himself. If there's any-
thing that fools hats It's competition.
Folks used to say that Brown was
quite .a feller. I thought so myself
but I’ve turned ag'ln’ him. Well, boys,
let's not git excited. Yoo’ve worked
up some wood. Le*a sklrmlah around
for soqae happiness.”
He began to prepare a t venison
roast for the oven. - s »
He turned to the boyf and said:
“Boys, 1PU be e kind of e grinflstun
for yer appetites If. ye keep on with
the wood Job till I git dinner ready.”
They went to the’ rsvfne-and i%-
sumed their work* with Bumpy’s ax
and buck-saw. In gji hour of to thw
old man came out ^nd^ shouted' to
theqst “Don’t tear flown the woods.
Can’t ye aee when,ye’ve gone Tiff'
enough? Conte do to dinner.”
As they came he added}. "I don’t
dare let ye git Aoo hungry. I want
suthln’ to eat myself. Go an’ wash
yer hands."
They sat down to their dinner of
venison and baked potatoes and bis.
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ZUIDERZEE IS NOW
CALLED IJESSELMEER
Holland’s “Old Man Sea’
as a Name Is No More.
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Its Hand Seized the Little Leather
Bag on 8had’s Desk.
cults and coffee. Bumpy was happy
again.
Their dinner eaten, Bony asked him
to tell about his life in JalL
“I don’t want to think of it,” said
the old man. “This mornln’ I got into
the sheriff’s bathtub an’ washed It all
off me.”
The boys helped with the dishes,
they sat by the fire Bony drew three
Amity ..Dam cigars from his pocket
and generously passed them.
“No. I’m too tired. The pipe fer
me,” said Bumpy. “I don’t like Eph'e
cigars. They're kind of quick-tem-
pered. I want peace tonight. Cigars
are like Indiana, hostile an’ friendly.”
‘‘I’ll take a chance,” Shad resolved
as aa auu tawj msm-wfr
* The boys sucked hard |tut could get
no smoke.
Bumpy got a piece of wire.
“Ram that through 'em,” he sug-
gested. “Then maybe they’ll behave.
Learn 'em who's master.”
The obstinacy of the two cigars was
overcome by the wire, but tho boys
spat frequently and seemed to be
getting the worst of It.
“I think that Eph's cigars are made
to keep boys good,” said Bumpy with
a laugh.
“They have gizzards in ’em,” said
Bony with a sad look. “They’re as
hard to kill os a cat.”
Simultaneously the boys gave up,
having decided that as an aid to hap-
piness the cigars yvere a failure.
“I ought to have known better," said
Washington.—Dutch engineers have
I divorced Zuiderzee completely from
the North sen by an 18-mlle (like. Part
j of the former salt-water gulf will be-
come a fresh-water lake, to be known
as IJessel lake, or, in the Dutch, IJes-
j selmeer. Most of it, however, will be
pumped dry and developed Into neat
Dutch farmsteads.
"In separating the Zuiderzee from
| the ocean the Dutch are no more than
j reclaiming their own,” says a bulletin
j from the Washington (D. C.) head-
: quarters of the National Geographic
1 society. “Six hundred years ago
j much of the late Zuiderzee was dry
j^giland, protected from the North sea by
" sand dunes. Then the sea rolled In.
Today a huge man-made dike will
make possible un Increase In the total
land area of the Netherlands of 7 per
cent, and In the arable land of 10 per
cent.
Played Important Part.
“The Zuiderzee basin, with an area
of more than 550,000 acres. Is almost
as large as the state of Rhode Island.
STTunren m me.vary >—'■■■> qf
Holland, It has long played an Impor-
tant part In the commerce and social
life of the country. While Holland Is
rejoicing with her engineers in their
greatest victory over their ancient
foe, the sea, the tlshlng villages and
quaint islands of the Zuiderzee, be-
loved of tourists, are silent. Most of
the sea ports along the shores of the
Zuiderzee are destined to become In-
land farming villages, connected with
salt-water only by canals, while is-
lands may* be hillocks, ontYpillghtly
raised from encircling flelil^of grain,
vegetables and flowers. „
“Among the ports which*. will be-
come rural centers are Edam, famous
for Its globular cheeses. It once was
the water-gate to Amsterdam when
“Perhaps the most lamented change
will be that affecting the Isle of Mark-
en, which is destined to become a part
of the southeast polder, or drained
section. This island, detached from
the mainland in the Thirteenth cen-
tury, lies out of the ordinary routes
of travel. Its Inhabitants have kept
the quaint costumes and queer cere-
monies that prevailed when their land
became an island. The ground is
barely above the water at high tide,
but the houses are built on hillocks
of earth obtained by digging drainage
canals. On seven of these mounds
brick and frame dwellings are grouped,
while on the eighth is the silent home
of the dead.
Need for More Farms.
“Colorful as the ports and Islands
of the Zuiderzee may be, they have
outlived most of their usefulness. Hol-
land’s rapidly growing population de-
mands more farm lands. The Zuider-
zee,- the greater, part of which had
hardly more than 15 feet of water
at low tide, offered a source of new
land.
“The land to be reclaimed will be
roughly divided Into four sections, or
polders, by Lake IJessel, and the
jjjouths of Jhe Amstel anjl IJessel riv-
and I
Shad. “I haven’t smoked since I quar- **** only npproach to the greatest of
reled with a clgar'named Eph's Beet
in Bony’s room on* night after Miss
Spenlow had gone to bed. It almost
crippled me. How do you get along
with that woman?”
“Same as ever,” said Bony. "Sniffs
an' looks me over every night when
I come tn. Sometimes she makes me
go an’ take a bath 'fore I go to bed.
It’s awful.”
"How Is the Home for the Friend-
less?”
"Gosh! She’s brlngin’ me up fer i
the Home. Miss Benson has made |
her chairman of the infants' commit- f
tee. She's terrible strict now.”
Bumpy got out his fiddle, tuned It
up and played while the bird sang. It
was time to light the lumps when
Bony left. Shad and Bumpy were go-
ing up to the Dam In the morning to
get kerosene, saleratus and other
needed supplies.
“I’ll see you tohiorrow,” said Bony
as lie went away.
Bumpy lighted the lamps. He had
strung a clothes line and put out a
lot of bed clothes to air In the breeze.
Muttresses, sheets, covers and pillows
were now brought In and heaped on
chnlrs around the stove.
(TO UK CONTINUED )
Dutch cities was via the Zuiderzee.
Now a deep canal connects Amster-
dam directly with the North sea. Art-
Ista will miss the water front nt Vo-
lendam, and the arrival of the little
fishing schooners each Saturday morn-
ing. Hoorn will live In the annals of
the sea, however, In 'Cape Horn,' the
southernmost tip of South America,
named after the home town of Its dis-
coverer, Willem Schouten.
ENGLISH ORATOR
or s. 11,
age operations are completed, will be
a long, funnel-shaped body of water
running back from the new sea dike
to the city of Kampen. It will be a
mere shadow of the former Zuiderzee.
Most of the new land will be re-
claimed from the huge, stomuoh-
shaped southwestern end of the Zui-
derzee.
"One polder, the Dutch word ap-
plied to any area of land protected
by an encircling dike and drained h.v
Its own system of pumps, back of
Wleringen island, consisting of 50,000
acres, has been completed, and this
year crops were harvested from Helds
which In 1930 were covered with wa-
ter.
“North Holland has undergone many
changes In its water-washed boun-
Chinese Girls Bring
$13 in Flood Area
Harbin, Munchuria.—Daughters
of the poor were offered for sale
lor 50 yen (.$13) apiece as floods
and guerilla fighting with Man-
choukuo and Japanese troops re-
duced millions of Chinese to des-
peration.
In Harbin, flood waters of tha
Sungari river rose In the streets,
carrying away the small posses-
sions of destitute families. Mobs
gathered, clamoring for aid. Act-
ing at the request of local Chinese,
Liuetenant General Hlrose, of the
Japanese forces, assumed com-
mand of the district and declared
what amounted to martial law.
daries. The first efforts were precau-
tionary, the war with the waters be-
ing wholly on the defensive. The hold-
ing of the streams in check, keeping
them within their proper channels, al-
lowed some of the marshes to become
dry. This gain of land whetted the
people’s appetite for more. Dutch
farmers yearned for thousands of
acres too shallow for fisheries but
Ideal for pasture land to produce
cheeses for foreign markets. This led
to draining of inland lakes and coastal
strips by windmills—the most charac-
teristic feature of Holland land-
scapes.”
Stray Dog* Are Problem
on Streets of Istanbul
Istanbul.—Although more than 4,000
stray dogs uhave been killed by the
authorities here in recent months,
they still remain a plague In certain
quarters. Popular sympathy with the
animals handicaps the task of getting
rid of them. There have been many
instances where sympathizers, espe-
cially women, have administered
emetics to dogs which had been offi.
dully poisoned.
i
London Hat 20,392 Copt
London.—According to official sta-
tistics there are 20,392 men tn the
London police Jorce, of whom 1,396 are
engaged in traffic control duties.
FORETOLD PROGRESS
OF THOUSAND YEARS
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Mankind Yet May Have Weather Made to Order
The rainmaker Is no longer the only
dispenser of tailor-made weather, ac-
cording to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Counterpart of the gentry who once
ronmed the prairies in dry years, nnd
bombarded the heavens for moisture,
nt the behest and after the payment
of drought-stricken communities, is
the Porto Rican tornado buster. The
theory Is that a shell exploded In a
tornado will break It up. The theory
sounds Just as plausible as the rain-
maker's conviction that • similar oper-
ation would Jolt the ak; Into surren-
dering • thunder shower.
The Porto Rico Progress, only Eng-
lish periodical on the Island, presents
the tornado-busting theories of a con-
tributor who has even more ingenious
plans for worsting the wind. He pro-
poses a system of underground con-
duits with occasional upright air
shafts. A tornado, striking such a
shaft, In his opinion, would suck into
11 self a volume of air that would de-
stroy the vacuum of which tornadoes
are made and Immediately deflate the
storm.
Deep Stuff
Diplomacy sometimes is ^'matter of
repudiating the Interview, nnd both
sides taking hack what waa said.
Toledo Blade.
C-. P. G. Smith, fifteen years old, a
pupil of the Windsor Country Boys'
school, who was chosen from ail of
England's school boys to represent his
country In the International oratori-
cal contest In Washington.
Bed Boy in Court
Tonawanda, N. Y.—Charged with
threatening harm to his mother, a
twelve-year-old boy was haled Into
court The woman complained he
had a gun. Search disclosed a loaded
.82 caliber rifle and a "billy.” The
youth waa reprimanded severely and
then dismissed.
Monk, in 932, Predicted the
“Astonishing” Advances.
Paris.—One thousand years ago the
monk Theodosius sketched in broad
lines what might be expected of the
world in 1932. He foresaw a great
Increase of population, astonishing ad-
vances in the sciences, especially in
botany, zoology and astrology, and so
great an increase In the demand for
liooks that "pious monks will sit night
nnd day copying and recopying the
manuscripts of the great bishops of
long ago."
Some of Theodosius' guesses went
as far afield as others went true, ac-
cording to Charles ltichet, who gives
In Le Matin, a translation of per-
tinent parts of the manuscript, which,
he says, he discovered by chance in a
Frnnclscan monastery at Ravenna.
"Will there be u year 1000?" Theo-
dosius asks. "Many good Christians
imagine that the year 1000 will see the
end of the world and the final cata-
clysm. But this is probably an error
God is too good to wipe out the human
race.
"What shall we find after the year
lOOOt To seek to know that Is not
impious. One thing Is certain, thnt
well before the 1000 years which 1
have in mind, the terrible religion In-
vented and propagated hy Mahomet
will be destroyed together with the
hideous book called the Koran, which
was dictated by Satan himself. The
armies of the infidels, triumphant as
they seem today, will have disappeared
as dust In the wind. There wilt he
none but God's servants. The Cross
will have conquered the Oescent.
Safety on the roads would encour
age travel, Theodosius said.
"Aa to the sciences, they will make
astonishing progress. I do not speak
of magic, that redoubtable science In-
spired by the Spirit of Evil to deceive
unhappy men, but of botany, zoology
and especially astrology. Thales saw
that amber attracted small bodies
when it Is rubbed . . . but that
Is a trick of nature and there is noth-
ing to be hoped for from It. Archytaa
of Tarentum thought he could build a
flying machine, but it Is madness to
think that man could raise himself
into the air like a bird. Icarus gave
sad proof of that.”
Artist Colony in Iowa
Lives in Ice Wagons
Stone City. Iowa.—Gaily decorated
Ice wagons, painted in the gay grand
manner of a gypsy caravan, have re-
vived the crumbling ruins of Stone
City, deserted Ice (tutting camp whose
stone towers have been a curiosity
here for several years.
Almost 160 Middle Western artists
have taken over the camp, installed
pallet and brush In the old ruins and
are using It ns a summer studio. The
artists live In deserted ice wagons, re-
decorated In modern lines. Some of
the early arrivals established them-
selves In a round stone tower which
formerly was an Ice house.
The artists have hired a business
manager who pays living expenses
from tourist trade which has flocked
here to see the exhibitions and view
the nrtlsts at work
Rare as Pink Elephant
Dunnesburg, N. Y.—A yellow wood-
chuck—the second reported In this
section In 15.years—was shot the other
day on the Weaver farm by Frank
fleck pr
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