Happy Days: Tom Taylor, The Boy Who Worried Blanco — page 10: what you’re looking at

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The whole atmosphere of the place was one of peace and content, and there was not the least noise or confusion. Stout, good-natured looking girls waited on the customers, now and then exchang- ing a smile or a pleasant word, while be- hind a counter stood the jolliest-looking They might get it worse if they did. Whatever the emperor said had to go with all Germans. The two students tried to stand on their heads. They made amess of it. ~ They ought to have succeeded having such flat heads. They did not. Their brains being in their feet, they couldn’t keep a proper balance. Thurston, after looking at the glorious scenery till he was tired, “I never thought there were so many hills in all Europe. Big, little, bare, green, covered with snow and lovely with verdure, we have had all sorts to-day.” ‘‘ Well, there are mountains to burn in Italy, also,” said Tony. ‘‘ There is Vesuv- ius, for instance,” ‘* Oh, that’s not so warm.” ‘Oh, isn’t it? Just take a drop down in with the very witness I wanted, though ~~~ he be a variety performer, one of the class who has driven the legitimate to the dogs,” Bed added old Tony, without allowing his over- — upil to utter a word, Bar have entrusted my note © Oh, T joyed boy ‘** The lady must to the messenger boy. ace, and then he poured the whole story of » his arrest into the eagerly listening ears ager old Dutchman you ever saw. : | . A great fire of logs blazed merrily inthe} Flop! the crater once and you'll change your] of the actor. ee a fire place and lose to ib sata contented Whack! mind.” mi Fe aS eit 2 fae gabe recital we ete cat eka t, i 8 rT t+ I” ‘*T’d rather not,” sa ck, ‘‘lamtem- l , 3 LO1 + taegatee ow omar dog aca ge Mpg lle Rent Pie ts. COM MARGED ENC. “SEDER, perate, and that would be a drop too|had presently related all about the visit of Aan and quie ; “This is something like,” said Tony, as he and Dick sat ata table in a corner. “This is like what you read about in the old German romances.” The boys ordered two big mugs of beer and a bite of something to eat, and pro- ceeded to enjoy themselves. Tony’s face was buried in his mug when he heard someone pound the table in a 3 to cause everything te rattle, hree men then began to talk most ex- citably in German. They were the three students, the yel- low, the pink and the white. Tony saw this much over the top of his rmu “Well, whatis {t?’ asked Dick, coolly. ** Don’t all speak at once. It’s very rude. Don’t they teach you fellows manners in the universities? hat can I do for you? One at a time, please,” **We demand blood !” said yellow. ** You have insulted us !” hissed pink, “You must fight,” said the bow-legged student with the white cap. “ But, really, gentlemen, I can’t see any reason for fighting.” “You must,” said yellow, “Swords,” added pink. “To the death !” growled bow legs. “Oh, that’s it, is it? Swords, You don’t want pistols,” ‘* No !” said all three, | **We want blood!” reiterated pink. ** You have offered us an insult which only death can wipe out,” said yellow. ** And now is as good a time as any to settle it,” said white. ** Oh, is it?” said Dick, as cool as cracked ice, ** You're in an awful hurry, seems to me, Then the three began to jabber in Ger- man, and to indulge in a lot of gesticula- TERE Dick just sat there and laughed to split. The students tried it again, With the same result. Down they went Kerflop. **Once more !” thundered the young war lord, twisting his mustaches. ‘‘ All Europe is to be set topsy-turvy by me; therefore it is necessary that one should learn to stand on his head.” | The students tried it again, and met with disastrous failure, ** You pig-head on the cask, it is not for you to laugh,” said the fake ruler of Ger- many to the fellow with the bow legs and the white cap. ‘‘ Here, landlord, fetch a pail of water and make him drink it,” The prospect of having to drink water was too much for the bow-legged student, He fell off the cask. Just then the other two collapsed again while trying to stand on their heads, All these were terribly mixed ae The supposed emperor grabbed up the little stick that white cap had dropped. Whack! Spat ! Biff ! German students of the fighting corps wear tight breeches, These three got it good and hot where the trousers fitted the tightest. They yelled and squirmed. The women laughed. The landlord exploded, Dick shrieked, Then Emperor Billy the Two Times re the stick out of the window, and said : ‘*Get up, ass heads, and remember that you do not attend the universities to make fools of yourselves, Apologize to the American and leave ten marks apiece with the landlord to pay for beer for his much,” ‘*Oh, drop that !” “Sure!” laughed Dick, ‘‘ but how about keeping up the racket and giving those slow Europeans something to talk about.” ‘* Why, we'll do it, of course,” said Tony, and youcan make up your mind that he kept-his word. ' [TO BB CONTINUED. ] ett an ET DON’T FAIL TO READ **A PAPER OF HIS OWN,’’ C. LITTLE’S NEW STORY, WHICH BECINS IN THE NEXT NUMBER, J ° In Peril of Pontiac. (Continued from page 7.) the disguised scout, when he led them away from Don’s SEE oe ‘“‘How came youin the hands o’ Cardal- ac’s band?” asked Long Rifle as they ap- proached the river. Don explained. | And in conclusion he said: ! ‘“Tt must be that Ethel Merton is a capt- ive in the power of Cardalac,” ‘‘ Yes,” assented the scout. ‘‘ But the white maid is not at Pontiac’s village. I have been there in disguise, as the medi- cine woman, and I know Ethel Merton has not been brought there,” ‘*Then where can she be? Oh, Long Rifle, my friend, we must find and rescue her !’ “Yes. We'll try to do that.” “Thank you! Thank you! I knew I could depend upon you tohelpme. But how came you to know I was a captive and so come to rescue me?” ‘* Well, you see, I know old Waheta the mysterious veiled lady, the veteran ~~ So Carel thespian exclaimed : “It’s a shame and an outrage! ¥ ton means to deceive your little sweet. — heart? It shall not be! Asto the veiled” ~ woman, Iam as much mystified as you ~ are. But the evidence of Sam Field, the variety actor, will clear you.” ‘How so! Qh, explain all, Tony !” * ‘* Well, you see, Sam Field was there—_ in the cafe I mean—when you had the little — scrap with Carton, andSam will swear that he saw the fellow who was talking ~ with Carton, slip the pocket-book in your ~— ocket! Hal! there’s a climax for you! ~ ike the curtain scene of a play, eh? =< Judge Brooks has granted me a hearing in our behalf, and accepted bail in yourcase. ronson Lewis, the dramatist, is on your ~ bond, and you will be free presently.” Horace was aeemny: moved. Tears came - into his eyes, and his voice was broken ~ with emotion as he thanked the old actor, — Tony Tripton made no idle promise when. 7 eet he declared that Horace would soon be ~~~ free, nees Half an hour later the boy actor was ree leased, and he had the certain assurance that he would soon be cleared, even from — 9% the shadow of suspicion, for Tony had se — = cured the arrest of the fellow who,was ev- idently the accomplice of Carton in the at- tempt to make Horace out to be a the police station, the lad hastened toward the home of Ethel Maynard, He reached the door of the house in which the young girl made her home and hastily rang the bell. The door was opened by Ethel herself,” ’ 2 and what was the joy and delight of the boy actor one can readily imagine when it — ag is stated that the young girl hastily said: ‘‘Oh, Horace! My brave, true Horace;>~ tion, ’ - | ; beca gue sts,” pretty well, and I’ve given her many a dso badly! How can~_ i aciernnes. dies gee ry pes Sai, Yes, sire,” said all three, bowing very | flask of fire water in days gone by. She poem - eoeie iteaking a tran spell - humbly. lives alone in a wigwam beyond Pontiac's | of fascination and saving me from a wick They didn’t know him, He could have tackled the lot of them, Singly or in a bunch, and cleaned them out, but he didn’t see the use, The girls in the place were getting ner- vous, the kids were beginning to cry, and the landlord scented trouble, He hurried from behind the counter and begged the students to go out behind the house somewhere if they wanted to do any shedding of blood, and not to soil his clean floors or create a panic among his customers. ‘ Tony, meantime, seemed to have been forgotten, e three students did their chinning at Dick, and so did the landlord, and Tons was out of sight. Suddenly, however, there was a tremen- dous thump on the table, and a deep, gut- tural voice exclaimed : ‘* Ach, donnerwetter! For wh make so much foolishness mit der kaner ?” The students and the landlord turned. So did everybody else, All hands were thunderstruck, There, standing at the table, frowning upon the students from behind a big blonde mustache, and from under a pom- you meri- **And get out of here very quickly, if you don't want to have to serve ten years in the army. It isI, William, the war lord of Europe who says this.” All hands bowed very low to the bogus emperor, and the three fire-eating students dusted, Tony saw that each left his little two- fifty with the boss of the beer shop. Then he gave Dick the wink. “A private room for myself and this fine young American,” he said. They got it. The landlord would have given them anything. ‘*My house is more than honored by your august presence, your majesty,” he said, hat in hand, and bowing low. When they were alone, Tony said, as he fixed his transformation coat and dropped his royal whiskers into his hat: ‘* Not a bad imitation, eh, Dick ?” ‘**No, you bet it wasn’t. This fellow will advertise himself now as beer provider to his Imperial] Highness, William II.” “Sure, but there'll be a crowd waiting to see the emperor come out, so we'd bet- ter skip.” ; They skipped out.by a door leading to a village. I went there to-night and got the old hag to drink all the fire water in my flask, When she lay dead drunk I appro- priated her medicine mask and blanket as well as her staff and went into the village to see what I could find out for the major. While in the village I saw Cardalac-and heard him tell a warrior that he was going to meet a band of reds, who were waiting for the coming of warriors whom he had sent to capture you. When Cardalac left the village I followed him and you know he led me to the camp where you were held. But—hist! Someone comes,” an- swered the scout. ' + [TO BE CONTINUED. ] —_————___ > Oo, o> ——_—_______— **A PAPER OF HIS OWN,”’ BY C. LIT- TLE WILL COMMENCE NEXT WEEK. BE SURE AND READ IT. A Star at Sixteen. (Continued from page 8.) doing, which he could not even imagine the nature of, As the time passed, after the departure ed man?” HORACE HAS A FISTIC ENCOUNTER, “say THE young lovers were presently alone, ~ and when a tender scene of reconciliation 9 had ensued between them, and Ethel had Ze CHAPTER V. a assured him that she had never really cared. = for Carton, who had merely exerted a sort of mesmeric fascination over her, and play- ~ ed upon her ambition to become an actress, the lad asked : : ‘Dida lady give you my note of warn- — ing ?” | who was closely veiled.’ ‘** Did she say anything ?” **Merely that you had which she gave me.” ‘ + ‘* And you did not see her face? ee “No, Shedid not enter the house, 1 met her at the door, and as soon as she had placed your note in my hand, she hastened Lo enter a waiting carriage, which - driven away as soon as she had taken her ‘a place in it.” : eS es “That lady is a very mysteriaus person=— e ” sent the noted peepee head of hair, was the young war | back alley and no one was any wiser. of the lady, the lad became more and more| ‘‘ How did you come to know her ? ord of Germany,the Emperor Billy him-| Tony was right. 5 uneasy because Tony Tripton did not come,| ‘I domot know her.” | 2 es self, It had got around that the emperor was | for the note which he had written to the| ‘ But you entrusted your all-important — “f He wore a military coat, and had on no| in the shop, . old actor contained an appeal for the im-| note to her.” =. 9 end of medals and orders. There was a portrait of him over the fire- place, and everybody recognized its like- ness to him in an instant. How he came there no onecould tell, but that he was Emperor William the Second, no one doubted for a moment, The three students stood aghast, Every German thinks that his emperor is a little tin divinity on wheels, and re- gard him with little less awe than they regard the devil himself, o see Emperor Billy the Twice suddenly earner before them, therefore, was enough to give those three bellicose stu- dents a cold chill, It took Thurston a few seconds to catch on, the apparition of the young German The street was packed by a crowd wait- to greet him as he came out. o doubt they are still waiting, Tony’s father was fooled like all the rest. **Did you see the emperor?” he asked hisson ‘** Heis in town, I understood,” _**No, I did not,” said Tony, never turning ahair. ‘‘I heard so, too, but I don’t be- lieve it,” . The Heidelberger Tageblatt had a long account of the emperor’s visit to the town in its next morning’s issue, and there are three German students who to this day proudly acknowledge having been whacked by the emperor himself, and are looked up to accordingly by their deluded companions, such is the slavish adulation given to kings and princes by some folks, in mediate presence of the veteran of the stage. At last as the hour of sunset came and yet no one hdd entered his cell, Horace became desperately despairing, and he began to almost wish that he had fallen in with the bold plan for his escape which the veiled igh ad proposed, iven if he had by so doing sacrificed all chance of establishing his innocence, the young girl whom he loved might have been warned against Carton in time. And Horace was chivalrous enough to make almost any sacrifice in behalf of sweet Ethel Maynard. But fate was evidently determined to turn a smiling face upon the boy actor, after placing him under the shadow of her ** Vll explain that.” ; The lad did so, and incidentally he re — lated all about his arrest and subsequent — liberation, a ‘What a scoundrel Ralph Carton is! — Oh, could I have allowed myself to be so — deceived by him! But youhave savedme! — Oh, how good you are to forgive me! ton agreed to call for me at eight to tak Be me to—to a minister,” said Ethel blushin : and evidently consumed with remorse, —— ** At eight !” exclaimed Horace, gla cin at: the clock on the mantel, “Its aimosbs eight now !” : ae ‘So itis! Carton may come at any MO — ment! Oh, Horace! You must not meet” him. He would try to harm you. You — must go. Leave me to dismiss the villain war bs was so startling. ‘It was safe enough to take off the em. | frowns for a time, forever,” said Ethel, anxiously. | tet Banging his fist on the table, the bogus] peror in a little place like this,” laughed} At length, the door of his cell opened,}| ‘*No, no! I cannot leave you. Carton 74 and the capable of any villainy and you ma need — William said in husky German: ‘* You—you So emeee son of a beer barrel, you want bloo ,do you? Go strad- dle that cask yonder !’ £7 ber sire.” ** And you, you misfit copy of a man,” to ‘hurston, ‘‘ but how about Berlin ?” “ Just the same,” said Tony. ‘‘I did it here because I happened to think of it and to have everything handy.” There is not very much to see in Heidel- berg and the doctor skipped out after a prisoner in a rather shame-faced way, ushered Tony Tripton into the narrow, little room, "er ix, me boy, so I find you in durance vile eeper who regarded the young But cheer up! Richard shall soon | now ! resolutely. or,” replied the lad, 7 elgg oe Gi at the door, ust then there came a ring “Step in here!” said Ethel, opening &— door, ‘I believe Carton is at the door a ” - ony, 1 thank ier you for aertea so promptly !” began Hor- "fie Re se . * ¥ s 2 : ele ee => . ina ~~ ‘ , « oe : ¢ A Dine: ye % JP ee Vee i} . te an, 2 Parte no . ae nb “Kes Ma : oad P>u.s a2 Leaving Tony as soon as he was clear of — § My as 7° = —— “Yes, a tall, beautifully dressed ‘lady, ~ 2 ~ ye | eos: the guy with the pink cap, “ stand on your | couple of days of it. ¥ be himself again !” cried the volatile actor,| ‘ But, Ethel, I—” ‘a a “ | ros Pia BNE RGB Nee Se fac ER iy NOt a ee Se 42 Vi x : vs, | | ? —~ ad | ce Ree eee Lo Ne pe OPE Mahe Te et ae an NCR “pt ator ae 1ICNVG cu