Tip Top Weekly No. 118: Frank Merriwell, Engine Wiper — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Bw | TIP TOP WEEKLY. ‘Why, blow ye!’ grated Hicks. “You don’t dare!” ‘(Ves I do,’ returned Old Slugs, sul- lenly. ‘J don’t like you none too well, and I’d as lives see you get out of here as not. It’s my duty to report what Isaw, an’ I’m goin’ to do my duty.” “Ah—a—ah! You're thunderin. par- ticular about your duty all to once! I won't fergit it! I’ll have a score to settle with you!” “Pil keep watch for ye better than Merriwell did. You won’t get the chance on me.’’ ‘But you shall not report this affair, Mr. Hall,’? came firmly from Frank’s lips. ‘Who says so?’ a | da. +? ‘*But you ain’t got any night to say so. > ‘‘All the same, Ido. If you report it, Vij———? Frank. - hesitated, and Old Slugs quickly asked: SWhat'll you do??? “Ill give you another thrashing it will be worse than the first!’ flared Frank, looking as if he were ready to start in on job : at that moment. ‘‘I’ll fix you so you will not work for more than one day!?? It was plain —_— that Frank meant exactly what he said. Old Slugs could not doubt it. ‘“Why,’’ said Hall, ‘I’m your friend now. Lcame here and stood by yeu inl this matter against Hicks.” “You are not my friend if you say a , and word about it to the old man. be iny enemy.”’ ‘“You must be foolish! If Hicks stays here, he'll get at you agin, and he may. ‘do nie, too. The only safe thing for us now is to report him, and then hie’ll be fired.” “YT will take iny chances. As for you, you can’t be afraid of him, for you can | handle him. Give him another show. Perhaps he will appreciate it.’? | ‘All right, if you say so but i it seems like a fool trick.”’ | ‘SVou'll keep mum ?”’ ‘If you say so.”’ ‘“Tdo. Ihave your promise. break it.”? | Old Slugs went away grumbling and growling, and Frank turned to the engi- neer, “Tt have saved you from being dis- charged,’’? he said. ‘‘Of that there can be no doubt. AIlI ask of you in return is that you let Jack and Nellie entirely alone.”’ Hicks nodded. “Tf you do not,’? cried Frank, his fine eyes flashing, them! Thatis all.’ | Then he turned and walked into the roundhouse to go about his work. [THE END. ] The next number (x19) of the Tip Top Weekly will contain ‘‘Frank Merriwell Fireman; or, The First Step Upward,’’ by the author of ‘‘Frank Merriwell.’? READ THE LIBERAL OFFER ON PAGE 29. You will Do not by the eternal skies, Vu make you ‘regret the day you ever saw comnicloooks EO mn