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'1 FREE -aMuaso om plie .wlda beaer, judo.exiaso- end cha.c te".. f rom the his upon Minerstown, usual- Iy on paydays,, to pillage and rëb thé workers, homeward bound with their. monthly pay. Sheri fs and posses made repeated at- tempts to capture him,- but without suc-ý cess. It seems police, protection -in Minerstown ivas, poor,. and the miners had grown weary of asking for relief-. The time finally came wlîen they took' the law 'in thieir o 'wn, hands, and as a result, the streets of Minerstown more1 then once rati red-mîttb the blood of, innocent vict ims. L.a ws vere ýpassed -and en.forced against the carrying of firearms, but no ifnatter hoôv severe the penalty, sev- eral hardware stores iii Middleton:were burglarized and enxptied of guîns and revolvers bv Don Petro's men. Storkepers put,. double boits audl shutters on their doors and windows for extra caution. Fortunately, Samn JSharp's hardware store hiad been over- lokdin these raids, perhaps because the robbers knew Mr. Sharp was in the I habit of sleeping in the back part oft thé store.r BEut noxw that lie w~as in Middletont jail accused. of having sold liquor t Rudolph Rosenkranz, from which it wvas said the latter died. the hardware Y ou nad netter :not -uraruru er. uuw; Dan !"' urged the, doctor. LHe was pet- mnitted 'to peep 'into the room, and was then hurried, to bed, ..where he. was warn ed'to stay until ail signs of illness had pass«l. About three o'clock -int the morii ng, Dan was suddenfly awakened by ýthe fury,,of.the storm whichhad now de- veloped into a hlizzard. By the.glare of a street light4 which shone through his window. he could see the snow falling. in great batches cuvering,,thé branches of the trees like a-thick downiy blanket. The wi nd wliistled.and moaned under the eaves of- theý housep t-hat trembled to. its, very foundations with each f resh sweep of the hurricane. WVithin theý house, however, every- thing was still. His room adjoined that of bis mother, whose heavy breath- ing lie faiîîtly héiàrd seS'eral iUmés by putting bis ear to the 'door. His sleep had'been restless 'and d ,is- turbed; somèethiiîg weighed his troubled niind. Hie begani to think back over the events of the day; he could hardly remember wvhat bad hiappened from the time he ivas called to the telephone, except that lie becamie çonfused and hurrjed .avvay to his mother in sort of a trance. Thoin he thouglit of Mr. D..an" stories publlshed every weeic in WiLýmzivTE LiPE by Mr. Hurst. Write a * letter telling what you would do>' andayou, too, may win the one'dollar trading certificate. Just à iword about the rules: I en. ad- dition to the addiess, each let ter, should, give the nameé and, age of the ch ild trying foi: the prize. Letters must reach 'WTiL mleTT Li PE by thc first Tuesday followvirg the' "Deeds of Dan'. -story. Letters. about the story ini this issue, -must reach WiLMETTE T*i.E on or before. Tuesday, February ý28. Betty Ellis' p)rizeé-winningË letter reads as foll ws: 8--S3 Greenwood avenut., Wiimette, ni. February 18,iI*. Pear M.Hurst: If 1 were Dan I Would. go to il I. Sharp and tell hlm that it was unia\-- fui to seli on the bfrthdaY of MWashing- tona nd If he wotild confese 1hïs sellng. it would be much better for him. Dan wvould probably be allowed to keep his job, and Mr. Sharp wouldn't be put in jail for so long. 1 amn 13 yýears of age and I enjf.y the." atornes of Dan. Yours truly, Betty E]Ii>ý Kenilworth Youth Has Role in Academny Play R~oger Alian -Crowe' Son of Mr. and straighitened-out-. -Althoughi, --up t o. th i s 'hen, like. a flash, Dan. sat upright in aca time, Dan had worked for Mr. Sharp bed, exclaimfing, "The door! the front fesi only on Saturdays and ôccasionally door of the store!1 Did 1 lock it ?" He~ boy after schjl, it was necessary for hini remembered putting up the shutters and tbe to miss school for a whiie, to open the bolting thé back door, but he could me] store in the morning and lock up in recail nothing of his last movements. sdi the evenings. , He had pretty well For all he knew, lie may have run out o learned the stock and Mr. Sharp's cost leaving the door wide open. tifl mark,- but what bothered 'him most was -'The rnoney! What did I do with 'f- hei tin i ademy for the school's nîidwinter tivities week-end Mardi 10-11. The. 'Y of the cast are rehearsing uuîder edirection of J. Hobart Tucker, a mrber of the Lake Forest prep hool's faculty and a former meniber Princeton university's Theatre In- ne. Roger is a member of a group twenty Lake Forest academy bois io will hear the opera "La Tosca" General Elèectric Dealers snowing furiousli was falling rapidly *ha * *v* *h* * * .y over ih stop to pu g about lea- lizzard, espt moaned to eif lie said any: Haîf aloud, he cried, "Oh! What shall he bouse in such 1 do ?" in his condition. Ciîildren, z'hat zwould you do ,ff loit f- iii utter despaiîr. iw're Dait? Frigidaire OoaEoe.ý