Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 17, 1924 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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180 of height in the throw. If Flournoy had not ducked, the brick would have brained him. All of this did not consume much time, but the hunters wearied of the familiar amusement and dwindled. Lois Roone and Everett Kurtin stayed with the hunt. They found each other most congenial company, and they had nothing to do but to see the thing to the end. Lois Roone had laughed until she could hardly sit her horse, and Everett had been on and off of his horse until he was almost too weary to mount or dismount again. Darkness came and with it the end of the chase. A little shower of rain began to fall. A weary monkey de- cided to go home and call it a day. Everett and Lois followed him on his return journey and saw him enter the lawn of the Melhaven home. Beth Melhaven was standing upon the porch, and she greeted him with cheers. He dropped his nicked and broken razor upon the porch floor at her feet and leaped into her arms. The next day it was common rumor in Tickfall that Dago, the monkey, had tried to cut the throats of several of the most prominent citizens of Tickfall. This rumor was subsequently denied. As the two rode slowly homeward, they met Hastie Melhaven going to his house. Hastie looked like he had had a spell of sickness. Lines of weariness seamed his face, and his loose lips trembled as he walked as if there were not energy enough remaining in his body to close his large, easy smiling mouth. They stopped and greeted him, but Hastie merely waved his hand at them in a helpless way, and as he staggered on he muttered: “That monkey shore got a laugh outa me.” CHAPTER X. THE TERRAPIN POINTS, OIS ROONE felt that the arrival of Everett Kurtin was an act of Provi- dence. She had not seen him for more than a year, for he had been away to school. Now he had returned with his diploma, a little white and stoop shouldered from - ARGOSY-ALLSTORY WEEKLY. severe application to his books, with gentle, easy manners, and a pleasant, rather timid smile. He lived alone when in Tickfall in the big old homestead which had been left to him with a comfortable fortune when his father and mother had died in the same week of an epidemic of disease. Two old trusted ser- vants kept the place in good condition, and Everett had continued in his school work. He had always been a quiet, rather unobtru- sive youth, and his years of application to his books had made him even more so. Lois Roone had always liked him, and he had found her always a refreshing and de- lightful companion. When the two saw the little monkey leap into Beth Melhaven’s arms, Lois had promptly invited Everett to go home to sup- per with her. She remembered that Beth and Everett had been more than good friends in the years past, and she noted that he was very much disposed to enter the lawn after the monkey. She imagined that Everett looked at Beth as if he wished that he might enter and leap into her arms like Dago had done. After the evening meal the two were sit- ting out upon the porch looking over a large lake which was at the foot of a hill in the rear of the house. They glanced up, at- tracted by a bright light, and they saw a meteor falling from the sky. When they first observed it, Mr. Roone, who was stand- ing in the lawn had called to them, and they , beheld with astonishment the falling mass, seemingly as large as an ordinary arc light in a city street. In two seconds the sky had become so bright with a bluish light they were blinded, and such a glow was seen as had never be- fore shone upon the earth around them. Then there was a loud explosion, a terrible glare of light, and total darkness. Looking up again, they beheld a part of the meteor, spinning like a wheel, and falling toward them. They watched with breathless in- terest, and the fiery mass fell into the lake not a hundred yards from where they were standing. ‘“ Get a line on it, young folks!’’ Colonel Roone shouted. ‘“ If we can find it, it will be valuable.” Go NOOK (C@