Part 11 (1/2)
His long curly hair, shi+ning with oil, escaped in disorder from his marvellously shaped top hat, and the ht hirasped in his gigantic hand He s crowd, and the procession moved proudly up the streets till within half an hour the people following and cheering must have numbered many thousands
We reporters rushed off to our various offices, and the streets were soon afterwards lively with newspaper-boys shouting the news and waving sheets of terrible and alares,” and the ”strong hastly battle for his life”
Next day the reat event; but in the advertising columns of every newspaper appeared the prospectus of the travelling circus just come to town, and in particularly bold type the public were told to be sure and see Yellow Hair, the savagelion, that had escaped the day before and killed a valuable horse in a private stable where it had been chased by the terrified keepers; and, in the paragraph below, the details followed of the wonderful strong le-handed, armed only with a crowbar
It was the best advertisement a circus ever had; and most of it was not paid for!
”Guess you kneas all a fake?” queried the news editor next nment
It was my first week on an A for the rest
”That lion hasn't a tooth in its head They dragged in a dead horse in the night You wrote a good story, though Cleaned your pistol yet?”
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THE SECRET CAVE OF HYDAS
CHAPTER I--THE FIGHT AND THEFT IN THE MUSEUM
A tall, muscular, black-bearded, dark-eyed, beak-nosed native strolled into the Lahore Museu stick with a crook handle, and studded with short brass-headed nails from handle to ferrule He sauntered about until he caers and swords, which arrested his attention for some time
About a dozen other visitors were in the rooether from one object of interest to another; they were fine stalwart natives, and each possessed a stick of ordinary size
These twoopinions on the various curios until they ca at the antique weapons
”What! art thou here, thou badmash (scoundrel)?” exclaimed one of the two
”Ah, thou son of a swine, take that!” replied the tall man, and, with a quickness which proved hi of a stick, struck the native who had addressed hi protected by ari, the strokeany serious injury
In an instant the fallen man's friend struck at the assailant, and, the other , two against one, and the noise of the sticks rattling together in powerful strokes, and the insulting taunts thrown at each other by the coht-seers and the Museuhters had been turned out of the building; they had done no da a charge against the other, so they scowlingly went in opposite directions as soon as they were outside
”A family feud,” said a bystander
”Yes, I expect it is a vendetta,” responded another
These remarks, however, were very far froreatest friends and bound together by the ht had been pre-arranged with a definite object, which was successfully attained, as indeed the Museum officials discovered later
The day after the fracas Doctor Mullen, Governist, called at the Museum; he was accohteen, as preparing to follow his father's profession, and with the man of twenty-four, tall and extremely active