Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 133, Hammond, Lake County, 21 November 1907 — Page 3

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A Mystery Story o San Francisco BY EARLE ASHLEY WALCOTT J J (Copyright l w'. tho 'ot,l ilerrill Co.) (Continued) At t:.e words there was the sound cf bolts shooting back and the heavy doer opened enough to admit us. As we passed in, it was closed once more and the bolts shot heme. Before us stood a short, heavy-set man, holding a candle. His face, which w:j stamped vith much of the bulldog look in it, was smooth shaven exrr 1 7.0 - CtY CXCirrfZ? iV. IYT TV G'l-zzr cept for a bristling brown mustache. He looked inquiringly at us. "Is he here the boy?" cried Mrs. Knapp, her voice choked with anxiety." "Yes." Eaid the man. "Do we move again?" "At onee," said Mrs. Knapp, in her tone of decision. "It will take ten minutes to get ready," said the man. "Come this vay." I was left standing alone by the door in the darkness, with a burden lifted from my mind. We had come in time. The single slip of paper left by Henry Wilton had been the means, through a strange Combination of events, to po'iat the way to the unsown hiding i

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place of the boy. In a few minutes the wavering light of the candle reappeared. Mrs. Knapp was carrying a bundle that I took to he the boy, and the man brought a valise and a blanket. "It's all right," said Mrs. Kanpp. "No I can carry him I want to carry

i him." j The man opened the door, then ; closed and locked it as I helped Mrs. Knapp into the carriage, l "Have you got him safe?" asked I Dicky incredulously. "Well, I'll have I to say that you know more than I ! thought you did." And the relief and satisfaction in his tone were so evi- ; dent that I gladly repented of my eus- ! piciocs of the light-hearted Di.-ky. j "Have you heard anything?" I asked him anxiously. "I thought I heard a yell over here through the woods. We had better get out of here." "Don't wait a second," said the man. "The south road comes over this other way. If you've heard anybody there, they will be here in five minutes. I'll follow you on a horse." With an injunction to haste, I stepped after Mrs. Knapp into the carriage, the door was shut, Dicky mounted the seat, and we rolled dowu the road on tho return journey. "Oh. how thankful I am! cried Mrs. Knapp. "There is a weight of anxiety off my mind. Can you imagine what I have been fearing in the last month?" "I had thought a little about that myself," I confessed. "But we are not yet out of the woods, I am afraid." "Hark! what's that?" said Mrs. Knapp apprehensively. The carriage was now making its way through the bad stretch in the, lane, and there was little noise in its progress. "I heard nothing," I said, putting down tho window to listen. "What was it?" "I thought it was a shout." There was no noise but the steady splash of horses' hoof3 In the mud and the sloppy, shearing sound of the wheels as they cut through the wet soil. As we bumped and groaned again through the ruts, however, there arose in the distance behind us the fierce barking of the dogs, their voices in anger and alarm. There was a faint halloo, and a wilder barking followed. Then my ear caught the splashing of galloping hoofs behind, and in a moment the man of the house rode beside us. "They've come," he said, "or, anyhow, somebody's come. I let the dogs loose and they will have a lively time for a while." A few yards more brought us to the main road, and once on the firm ground the horses trotted briskly forward, while the horseman dropped bohind the better to observe and give the alarm. - itiirr"- -f ,-r tA

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I I leaned out of the window. Only i the deadened sound of the hoofs of our I own horses, the deadened roll of our cwn carriage wheel3, were audible in tho stillness of the night. Then I thought I heard yells and faint hoofbeats in the distance, but again there ; was silence except for the muffled ; noise we made in our progress. "Can t we drive faster?" asked Mrs. ! Knapp, when I made my report. ! "I wouldn't spoil these horses for ' $500," growled the driver when I passed him the injunction to hasten. "It's $1,000 for you if you get to the ; wharf ahead of the others," cried Mrs. ; Knapp. "And you'll have a bullet in your hide if you don't keep out of gunshot cf them," I added. The double inducement to haste had its effect, and we could feel the swifter motion of the vehicle under us, and see the more rapid passage of the trees and fences that lined the way. The wild ride appeared to last for age3. The fast trot of the horses was a funeral pace to the flight of my excited and anxious imagination. What if we should be overtaken? At last the houses began to pass more frequently. Now the road was broken by cross streets. Gas lamps

appeared, flicking faint and yellow in the morning air. WTe were once more within city limits. The panting horses never slackened pace. We swept over a long bridge, and plunged down a shaded street, and the figure of the lorseman was the only sign of life behind us. Of a sudden there sounded a long i . roll, as of a great drum beating the reveille for an army of giants. The horseman quickened his pace and galloped furiously beside us. "They're crossing the bridge," he shouted. "Whip up!" I cried to the driver. "They are only four blocks behind us." The hack swung around a few corners, and then halted. "Here we are!" cried Dicky Dahl at the door. "You get aboard the tug and push off. Jake and I will run up to the foot of the wharf. If they come, we can keep 'em off long enough for you to get aboard." The tug was where it lay when we left, and at my hail "the captain and his crew of three were astir. It was a moment's work to get Mrs. Knapp and her charge aboard. "Come on!" I cried to Dicky and his companion. And as the lines were cast off they made a running jump on to the deck cf the tugboat and the vessel backed out into the stream. When the mist and darkness had blotted out shore, wharves and shipping, the tug moved at half-speed down the channel. I persuaded the captain that there was no need to sound the whistle, but he declined gruffly to increase his speed. "I might as well be shot as run my boat ashore," he growled, witi a few F West of

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seamanlike adjectives. I did not know cf any particular reason for arguing the question, so I joined Mrs. Knap. "Thank God, e are safe!" she said, with a sigh of relief. "We shall be in the city in half an hour, if that is safety," I said. "It will be safety for a few days. Then we can devise a new plan. I have a strong arm to lean on again." Returning to the deck I found that

the light of the morning was growing. Vessels were moving. The whistles of the ferry boats, as they gave warning of their way through the mist, rose shrill on tho air. The waters were still, a faint ripple showing in strange contrast to the scene of last night. "There's a steamer behind us." said Dicky Dahl. with a worried look as I Joined him. "I've been listening to it for five minutes." "It's a tug," said the captain. "SbA was lying on the other side of the wharf last night." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Put on full steam, then, or we shall be tud down in the bay. It's the gang we are trying to get away from." The captain looked t me suspiciously for a moment, antf was inclined to resent my interference. Then he shrugged his shoulders as though it was none of his business whether we were lunatics or not so long as we paid for the privilege, and rang the engine bell for full speed ahead. We had just come out of the Oakland Creek channel and the mist suddenly thinned before us. It left the bay and the city fair and wholesome in the gray light, as though the 6torm ! had washed the grime and foulness i from air and earth and renewed the i freshness of life. We had come but a j few hundred yards into the clear air ! when out of the mist bank behind us shot another tug. At the exclamation that broke from us our captain for the first time showed interest in the speed of his boat, and whistled angrily down to his engineer. "We can beat her," he said, with a contemptuous accent on the "her." "That's your business," I returned. and walked aft to where Mrs. Knapp was standing, half-way up the steps from the cabin. "Can they catch us?" inquired Mrs. Knapp, the lines tightening about her mouth. "I think not the captain says not. 1 should say that we were holding our own now." At this moment a tall, massive figure stepped frpm tho pilot h&use of the pursuing tug and shook its fists at us. The huga bulk, the wolf-face, just distinguishable, distorted, dark with rage and passion, stopped the blood and I felt a faintness as of dropping from a height. . "Doddridge Knapp!" I cried. Mrs. Knapp looked at me in alarm and grasped the rail. (To be Continued.) iiter1ii4''iiht'ni' mi rm r tHI i'i Mmtrriiri'ii'i

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By DANCING THE BEST EXERCISE FOE GIELS. Social (iraee AYtalch Some of th Children ever I. earn Are Also Imparted. "Mary is at the awkward ago and I ! can t do anything with her cried a i despairing' mother. "She i.s so round shouldered, and lopsided that I tremMe i for her appearance whew she is a young : lady." If your Mr.ry is a like affliction to ' voir aesthetic sense, why not send her j to dancing school? Iancinfr will train ! more the angles out of her than a solid year of napglngr, to say nothing of the difference in the effect on her disposi- . tion. j Dancing, properly taught, it; a perfect i exercise. The children like it. and take : to it like ducks to water. Heeausi- it i-t pleasurable, they get three times the ; benefit from it they do from a stupid j half-hour of gymnastics such as many public schools offer for exercise. The , girl who walks with her elbows out ; nnd her head thrust forward will stand straight and be more compact after a winter's course in dancing. There Is so much in the imitative instinct in children. A g'rl may hear lectuies'by the hour on how to stand correctly without avail, but once put her under the influence of a graceful dancing teacher whom she admires, and without knowing it herself she will begin to straighten up and 'try to walk as Miss Pirouette does. Besdlse, many of the little social graces which the child of parents in moderate circumstances never learns are a part of the instruction at a good dancln 5 class. KV DANCIXI ru.MPS. Every wee maid who goes to dancing school this winter will need a pair of shoes with gold or silver heels for the more formal matinees. Ordinary dancing pumps will do well enough for other times, but on occasions of importance juvenile fashion threatens to be Insistent that the heels of little girls shall glisten with one or another oi' the precious metals. Tiie conceit is likely to impart a carnival effect to a dancing class. Hut "all is not gold that glitters," and a bottle of radiator gilt will accomplish wonders on the heels of an old pair of slippers. XKW MII.I.IKIIV, With the popular long, limp skirt, only a wide-brimmed hat seems in order, and the ample cloaks and long skirted coats of the season emphasize the demand for head size. There are some attractive small models among the new millinery toques and turbans, etc. that will be smart with short-skirted trotting costumes, convenient in motor cars, easily tied down Avenue

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BEATRICE IMOGENS HANSEN

by veils, but the dress of the winter hat will be large. Ostrich plumes, in all the new colors and shadings, are as popular as ever, but plumes denominated "fantasie" run riot and fantastic they most assuredly are. Some of the finer specimens of this type are actually beautiful, though often extravagantly used; but amazing productions of the feather worker's art wave wildly over many of the imported hats ami 'fantasie" beeonn s absurdity in many Instances. 1: w 1 1 v Mv 1 : h i -1 1 1 k v s . Handkerchiefs show some strikingly new notes, especially in tise introduction of color. Among the favorite colors is pale lavender crossed off with hairlines of deep blue purple. Another model lias a band of color above a narrow hem, with embroideied dots and other dainty designs in colors above their scalloped edges. Pale tan can lie found barred by every color obtainable, so that a handkerchief can always be selected that will harmonize with unobt ru si ve, 11 cut ral counting for nothing Park brown bars one s gown shade of the tan nt all. on a tan background arc the rest of exceedingly smart when the toilette is carried out i'i shades of brown. If, however, a touch of color is introduced upon it, then the kerchief should show faint lines on it of the same shade. owz day's .mi:m' Pears. real and Cream. birred FgKs. Coffee Graham Gems. Luncheon. Ham and Cheese. Lettuce Sa ndwiehes. Celery. and "Whipped Cream. Minced Potato Chips. Gingerbread Tea. Dinner. Peef Proth. Chops. Tomato Sauce. Paked Potatoes. Veal Puttered Peets. Coff.' Apple Pie. (irnlmin piiin. Mix together 1 cups of coarse graham Hour and one cup of white Hour, into which have been sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and half a tablespooriful of salt. Pub a tablespoonful of butter into a cup of sugar, add one beaten egg and three-quarters of a cup of milk and stir into the liour mixture. Peat well and bake in gem) pan's in 11 hot oven for 15 minutes.' Serve at once. j Minreri llnm nnd ( lx-rnf. A dainty luncheon dish is made with j cold boiled ham minced fine and mixed! with a little cream, p. little grated cheese and a dash of paprika. Blend ; the ingredients thoroughly and spread j on rounds of fresh bread that have been fried golden brown in the deep fat kettle. Sprinkle each with cheese after spreading, and then bake until Av

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I A CHARMING BLOUSE. I Pattern No. 5934. This design was developed in dark blue taffeta. . trimmed with blue and green plaid ; silk, and makes a dressy waist to j wear with any old skirt. Fine tucks ! in front and back give graceful full- ! cess and a pretty feature of the mods V - 9 Is the shaped trimming band that out lines the neck and armholcs. Th9 sleeves are shown in elbow length, but may be extended to wrist by dorp cuffs of the material or laeo. A modish blouse can bo reproduced in silk. w.,ol batiste, voile, crepe de Chine and pongee. For 3fl-lnch bust two yards of 27-inch material will be required. Si7.es for 32, 34, 36, 3S, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. 1 j Tills pattern will be Fent to yon cn j receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders i to the Pattern Department of this paper. He sure to prive size and number of pattern wanted. For convenience, write i your order on the following coupon: No 5934. S1ZR. NAME , ADDRESS. delicately browned In the oven. Slice a plmola over the top of each Just before sending to the table. p ri'i Tri

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