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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

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mhhhmhmh Wl hmm MMMB| HMM■M| — hmm hmm MINN. Page Seven AUSTIN, NEWS, COUNTY MOWER 10,1924 Jan. Thursday, WrexKam beard. chuckled in his gained and snapped the badgered He volume, o’ that I” opened the “None dryly. “What about me?” he said Philbrick John here place, that this his first information officer. “He’s on Taking America Off Its Feet! the “You?” surprise lightened in tryin’ hide him —” you’re poet. and if to was a John “Why, you—” of Macarty. eyes Philbrick had hearty laugh. Upon blank Wrexham broke into the pages, a care,” “Philbrick the place in put my Inscribed beautifully I and by aU means! laboriously “Take him with you Overland Success is the Talk of the Country pleasantly. “Legal explained Wrexham of them tributes where he is this minute, his most don't know verses, own here.” I’m I Anyhow, enough, guess. Solomon, the whom girl fact.” delicate to personal and and that’s a long for Macarty silent was a moment; through glanced I’ll take Wrexham just along, “1 reckon The he loved. you ended has the been just car—conceded the be year purpose to pleasantly spoken, these words, here and reading line sheriff’s hand moved toward too.” The the a pages, of all fifteen the of useful wheels. greatest most significance. years motor held strong car on yet very a “You the book his belt. tossed the there. Then he at carelessly weapon Incognito Overland and stared Wrexham smoked history Captain A made in great its place and prob’ly good deal—” year back know into sat a Overland nd , dark that the the fire, ignoring at gaze by curling fingers stiffened trifle. Overlands his cars—the moody silence, Wrexham a great greatest mode|s have (he bigger him. fastened was upon on!” he calmly, his brown beard. “You just said about it try square built Greatest ■ . looks, in ever power, Macarty suddenly, here!” said “See , . . engine—brute with what’s that’s the cigar in front of . lived long, holding “I’ve out power extreme too comfort worth? “What’s in his action, tone. of stir monel's ana anger — with a him. “You just it that’s all I trouble,” last, the he said at a try < , on, •* Leaders economy. in economy game?” your again, silent shoot fingers off hand before sigh. For little he I’ll two was your Look Overland a the Cham- —leaders the road—leaders at new looked him reflectively. on Wrexham at petulantly. man! pull that then he broke forth you can gun, my pion,for It instance bangs quality the satisfactions I don’t they tell the truth, “Well, to a in many all, of it If Philbrick, “What’ve get I want got now out you you can I might load the know! Wish I did. dosed with features and utilities o’ Lechery bang See them Sit him. me—why, just Not much. If in car that I’m here? want you you to owners. schooner with of the pickings some and latitudes, on!” hitherto high it the try in unheard of within reach them women tor Ask their sample of a I’ve and been around here, H. away. Bedford Jones of go By I’ve well. Macarty touched the the Felix in low; o’ strength arm men of first - America's all performance every purse fact.” thinkin’ of it, for a bad and with ’em all, the sheriff. end held up my price?” queried Macarty “What’s your “This worse! I’m with “Be said quietly: here, Now some bluntly. kneWs better ol You’d nothing. fist—and the picture gentleman in my money the met Wrexham glanced up, That’s afraid though I’m for be good. look Copyright tellin’ girl to our man, by H. Bedford-Jone* me a them with level held smoldering a eyes, us.” than he’s slipped h —l you! No for h—l worse look. Wrexham. can’t have “That’s sensible,” put in what that; to ever you see VIII playin’ CHAPTER “Did ever see a man you “Oh, Uncle Neb! The sheriff had once! wants might ha’ but again, tired o’ raakin’ because he straight was for Philbrick. Mr. Show him w’hat’s to to “Don’t know got into arrest me, his made Captain Wrexham, having money?” crooked I ought Philbrick and let him do form, where Mr. is, Runnin’ fact. true to a hesitation. further held Macarty Felix decision, displayed This oblique answer no his Look place, Nautilus arresting. the this junk in the load to over up $495 I- Toledo b. $695 «• b. Toledo o. $795 I. Toledo o. b. o. fireplace, the It He turned from thoughtful for moment. a somewhere sheriff—she’s all yours.” business about an’ my go of decorations, understand the walked the for him to hard to case over sheriff was Smothering oath, the I want Caribbean. Anyhow, down the an before it. himself had and planted Gradually he sensed skipper. antagonism flesh, just turned and left the girl in the sight that to room. blowing cloud wall, hidden, I” he observed, here "Ah stone a his —a moved lie— Felix Macarty had pictures not satisfy myself that to have “It's only fair which he could of to through smoke. powerful, a yet Now ‘I the face of Wrexham. from pleasure o’ saying, have the just to gaze MOTOR INN eh?” of, charge look I’m what in find opening. at took he forward table, no like the aren’t made so!’ They to a told came you from the and shook his cigar Macarty back the He case box, He rose And cigar from the lighted it. swung possible. I you! Not was her, tell fire. As he did he and inspected ashes into the candle closer, wall, held so, himself. rascal cool Wrexham a that old graybeard who’d think as as elaborate question—asked with chuckle it asked safe. A the wall cap’n,” he “Pretty schooner of a night he eh? Only last yours, poet, was a flashed carelessness. teeth White broke from him. said. drunk, If I could drunk. get wild was Gemini? Or the the hear of r “Ever bearj. through his “True enough.” Wrexham appeared some.” it’d help maybe now, ?” Sea-inoon in charge mollified by this down?” “The reft her opening. “Sit old rascal his beard with head sunk, his He sat Wrexham frowned. “You “Eh?” thoughtfully forgot tell Macarty nodded and dropped into o’ to but in his white shirt, a me, brushing an over rainbow? I’ve ’em lunar and Well, if that chair. Wrexham followed suit, seen the combination! mean a pessimistic gloom, of utter attitude of me Caledonia.” often, off New Tm lighted his cigar. ain’t old, safe thirty a own years dejection. Wrexham studied Another silence. Macarty. isn’t she?” “Fast, asked Kanaka.” his he beheld in What pictures his —he that question in mind could “She has lines, that craft.’ forward leaned of Still chuckling, he w’hat visions mind’s past years, eye, Felix Macarty smiled fathom It. her with not “Fast? You ought to the little touched knob. For chances, sneered-down virtues, see and lost a feet. and his thinly, to stiff!” good following wind, rose not too fingers he thus, only his himself The wonder a stood alone. while for were you’re in charge here, if “1 said the skipper with enthusiasm. “Let suppose, straightened had moving deftly. Then he that girl’s picture compelled was a situation? Philbrick the that know her wlng-and-wing, and I’ll out you pleased into such nodding though well this sea-wastrel guarantee a up, as all?” about the dam and told she’ll walk anything in the you picture had over The safe door that with himself. mood. Yet, perhaps, sw’ung Wrexham also, and assented. Why, trades! I remember down rose right once his hand. only the moment to to at come open Why?” all that. "Philbrick explained the Paumotus, thiW French in long-wavering was Captain weight into a its not cast Decidedly, thia was a from Macarty took folded gunboat of poking around after paper a about these us, one balance. tell with Who Wrexham’s encounter first can a it the table. his and laid pocket old those tin that do ten pots on can things? safe! “There’s warning that legal knots pinch! at you there On sound. a Have Suddenly followed flung which was a The a scene install otherwise “Well, she the must sir, around out pumps or contrive Wrexham became different pops the instant the ethical Impulse a light singular upon irrigate this plantation miles to at point of Island, not two an away. by the of this waif man. cast up sea. rice will Otherwise, the We turned tall, I tell you! She crop once. can trampling of booted feet the A been would have in on Another man lost.” be shots two and in put two over Car|l “gallery,” southern us more is the veranda and thought of the coming officers, In —or as Your “Oh!” said Wrexham. “D’you the By that old girl time the water. mean the of his —and out term waiting, but Wrexham! man was not nervous —the dam’s finished?” walkin’ from with the her was away chair in flash. So swift his were a attended the business The skipper to and her teeth “Yes. The down sails down bone in water tomorrow. wet goes that they incredible. movements almost were with cool and unhurried hand in a The rice for —and walkin’, that’s all! will need water went we on another Within five seconds he had relish, enjoyment, air of of an least —and it’s She’ll do her fifteen all’s right.” month if to at up closed the safe, and locked the swung keen satisfaction. Indeed, since he Macarty nodded this confidence. You understand?” at you. before of it, decorations and case was into the pictured of had looked eyes Overhauled “Yes. fell staring the fire embers. Wrexham nodded carelessly. He to into the other side of the He room. on his Aline Lavergne and made decision, “Remarkable craft,” he said after All I’ll it.” right. attend to cigar fire flung his dead into the and there had flash into his come a new bit. “By the I don’t Macarty chuckled at this. It suppose a way, was box. took fresh w*eed from the a resolution into his eye, new manner. a that the knew little of clear seaman The hall door opened. Uncle Jtsb Strange, photograph that should a so plantation. a and said something in the appeared the mind of such to sway a man, even think the “You’d better matter over understand. patois. Wrexham did not his altering life course! 1 i very offer, I If can’t work mean. —my we English. The old spoke in Before the Spring Rush negro laid bare the The safe he open, together, I, we’ll have and you suh, an’ heah, “Sheriff Swords is One by he draw’ers within. one removed trouble.” If he them for his inspection. “Squarely put.” Wrexham his met the Wrexham, “Ask gentlemen in,” said it had expected he found treasure, — “We’ll about it.” see cold passive, gaze. ice. stood He as but in the jewels of in not money, I “Very well. I hear the sheriff returning—good waiting, alert. dead women; glittering things, heirlooms night.” who The entered the two men room Into of vanity and love. the “Glad to’ve you," said Wrexham. met dead halt sight of Wrexham. it,s to at If came a man’s fiercely face predatory came a Obviously the sight of him air. He stayed where he while was, astonished them. The foremost, burly — a “Lord!” he exclaimed throatlly. Uncle Neb the ■ escorted visitors back who bolstered person wore a revolver I’d the when have “I’ve time —” seen the landing and wharf. Then the to prominently displayed, undoubtedly was He had He did finish. drawn not Valve Grinding skipper sank into chair laughed and a the sheriff. forth packet of heart-sacred a papers, softly. He the glanced at girl’s picture “Well?” said Wrexham “Who coolly. family’s documents of the past. These the wide mantel. on Carbon Removal these gentlemen, Uncle Neb?” are he coolly opened and read, and de- un!” “That devil is tough young a The old darky rolled his eyes. ||| confided. he “No mistake, neither! “Sheriff Swords, New Piston suh, an’—an’ Mlstuh Rings ' Got head him; cool please a on as you Macarty.” all the while. Figured for I what me “Ah!” said Wrexham. “Glad to Brake Adjusting just » about. Only he didn’t figure am, gentlemen. meet My name’s Tom ■ you, girl’s picture makin’ fool 1 1 a Wrexham, on a and of the master owner Brake Relining me.” of Nautilus, ■ anchored yonder. How out He silent again, ruminative, was I you?" may serve :|i: General and then indulging in soft Tuning Up now a “Where’s Philbrick?” demanded the chuckle, though he perceived as some sheriff, scowling bit. a inward fact to him. amuse “You refer Mr. Philbrick f to “Trouble with old graybeard,” he drawled Wrexham. thinking said presently, of Philbrick, “Reckon I do." sow “was that he legalminded. too “Well, Mr. Philbrick had sad was news We Can Give You Best his life All afraid off to today.” Wrexham sadly wagged his run •!■■ reg’lar he was! Civilized! beard. to poet, “It that the sea of ; seems owner Too d —d civilized to take chance! this place—a girl, ain’t she? —is a away Service Austin in And the law him in the end. in New got Orleans somewhere, and he or Macarty Was Studying This Man. wo*rd only “That ain’t I got today tell you! Irrigate? that she wasn’t way, my expected live I’ll this-place to after the irrigate inside o’ accident —" you’d consider charter, high at a “W 1 at’s this?” three days! If I’m goin’ Macarty plantation forward to turn came terms?” with “What’s then I’ll this?” make things cry. manager, a “Might,” said Wrexham. “High T' < ■ regarded him happen and mistake, neither! But coolly. no high terms, risks —eh? It depends.” all We’ll Add Miles of Motor “I’i.i ;a’’,.:n',” he did rejoined. what that chap with his “You mean Macarty door; glanced the it at was girl question about the Gemini? There’s by see, t: was run auto, over a an dosed. He shifted little in his chair, a Life Your Automobile and ’ v,: He uted Mr. Philbrick go! somethin’ by it, to trf to see rum meant i that he could better study the so face particular. So he but blessed if I know what!” most went off to of Wrexham. her tl all.” The at’s door Neb opened, and Uncle see ap- “I know who could such a man use Tlie succeeded. Both peared. Wrexham turned him. visitors ruse to craft,” he said. Chinaman, “A a named flung off balance “Gone, they?” for the have were moment. Ah Lee.” “Aline “Yes, accident!” suh, praise be! Done exclaimed —an gone a Wrexham nodded knowingly, and S Felix Macarty. “See here plenty.” happen —we fingered his beard. know that Philbrick “AU right.” Wrexham's to the tone was was on “Heard of him from Philbrick—he’s place this afternoon!” incisive. “You have d>zen boys curt, very S a makin’ arrack and loadin’ the black Wrexham waiting for grinned. “Well, bells sir, if it two tomorrow at me folk into h—l, ain’t he? don’t Well, 1 Drew He Out Thick Package. a makes happy know it. morning—nine o’clock, I I’m savvy? to not you mind sayin’ that I’ve carried liquor the object. to Sit down, lay that ship of mine close want to man gentlemen! before liberately, this. quite ignoring the obvious So he’d give good me a Have -drink.” here, into the wharf and her a moor fact that charter! he violating the first A of yours?” partner was Macarty watched him with steady. Understand?” an angry of “Of principles gentleman. mine?” In five Felix Macarty a smiled flush rising in his face. “Yes, There suh. Yo’-aJI fixin’ to stop a was no minutes he had thinly. absorbed from “My dear these cap’n, I have no denying that Felix while, suh?” handsome was a Neither tremendous information partners. of has Ah Lee. papers amount a I devil, like “Well— might.” his father; l young there have, about the family. however, turned occasional over caution his And Wrexham whimsically in glanced face, however. was no deals him, There to and he’s little else in the safe of his to was a man Instead the face the at portrait the mantel. to keen, sharp ran on. a word. I don’t doubt his that he’d exploration. Last of all, he make repay sophistication. It (To be continued week) touched with next was the charter drew to thick advantage. What wrapped, out your package, a cruelty. he deals in, I sealed heavily, can’t It and might be addressed Aline to say. Mb No weakness in it—none! A quick rice liquor, and it Lavergne. After might be other A Good IT. Tiling DON’T MISS turning it in his over - brain flamed behind the smoldering things.” hands. Captain Wrexham calmly broke v- ■ Ir»vnJ brows, Send it and address plainly -r, r n see!” your “I name said Wrexham the seals and inspected sagely. the “A contents. the written face of who together with 5 (and this had fought was cents one touch of hop, eh? All the better.” book slip) He found It be —rather Chamberlain Medicine Des to Co., to a an hjrd and cruelly. Wrexham knew the There little Moines, silence. Macarty lowa, and receive in book was astonishing a return .too. a for bad type knew well that this a one, trial package containing Chamberlain’s studying this ready was to Sitting down comfortably the man, in so w’ould type break yield. Cough not Remedy for coughs, colds, or break the law. Presently croup, be spoke desk chair. Captain Wrexham puffed bronchial, “flu” “Has there and whooping coughs, accident?” been said any again. his cigar alight his and attention gave and tickling throat; Chamberlain’s Stomach Macarty slowly. “So old Philbrick hint got and the volume in hand. Evidently, to a Liver 1 Tablets for stomach troubles, at “For all I know, there might ha’ skipped eh? Let him go—he out, can’t John Philbrick had had this book indite;.-ion, pains that crowd gassy been,” and Wrexham chuckled. The much do hurt from the brakes. Perhaps made. thick book the heart, biliousness It with blank and constipation; a was sheriff growled and drew forth a paper. know Chamberlains that needed Salve, in cousin you leaves, bound in leather; the my owns upon e y family for burns, scalds, wounds, this place?” gold, the stamped in : cover, were - "Here’s and ■ for Philbrick's skin affections; these va’ecd warrant a “Heard something about it,” y said “The Book of Aline, Her words: medic, for only 5 Don’t it. charge t-das arrest, of murder,” he cents. aes proclaimed. Wrexham calmly. Beauty—For Her Eyes Only—by John “I him, I and want to mean “Very good. Since Philbrick is Philbrick, Gent.” gone. him get if —” even I’ll here in nntil she Philbrick, returns “John Gent.!” commented move The Jewish Daily Forward “Get him, has the bj’ all I” said the means from New Orleans. The place should the skipper “A sardonically. rum go, largest circulation of skipper. alien language “I you’ll New any suppose to go be. taken of.” I call It I” care Orleans?” newspapers. /