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HAPPY DAYS.
* Dick and Dr. Dan. “Happy Days” Gift Coupon
~ ~ By ¢€. LITTLE,
CHAPTER I.
A MYSTEOUS AFFAIR.
“Ilello, Dick! Where are you going in
such a hurry? You must have had your
breakfast and it isn’t dinner time yet.”
joys of about eighteen years met
unexpectedly in the little park in front of
the United States National Museum, Wash-
ington, D. C.
Dick Darrell was one and Charley Nichol-
son thé other; both were in the employ of
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1 er grub just now, Charley,”
replied Dic’ me “Perhaps you don't know
that I've been under the weather for the
last day or two, but such is the fact. AWasn t
coming down this morning, but
ceived a telegram from old Poynter ‘telling
me to come a at once if I was able to leave
be
my
“Hello!” eried Chaney “What's in the
ougeat Scott! I only wish it was my
luce!
oe ait a pit canes I’m going to get
the grand bow
“I hardly think that. Oh, I know! You
are going to be sent off on some bone hunt-
ing expedition or another. A regular pic-
nic.” Something that will last all. summer,
No such luck ever comes my way.
“You can’t tell. Stick to your work 'a
try to do it the best you possibly can; rae
the thing that brings promotion every
time.”
The boys separated inside the employees’
mv arley’s duties
building, while Dick was bound for Pro-
fessor Poynter's office, on the second floor,
That genial old scientist was at his desk
busily writin,
‘Good morning,
“One minute, my boy,
letter; then I will t
Dick waited yy for fully fifteen
minutes, after which the professor folded
up his letter and motioned to him to draw
up a chair.
“Dick,” he said, “we want you for another
expedition. You did so well down among
the fossil beds “ot South Carolina that we
are disposed to try you again.”
ank you, sir,” replied Dick, “I al-
ways try to do my best. What is it to be
Dick,” he called out.
juntil I finish this
bling over the mass of papers upon his
desk leaving Dick to wonder what it all
aL have the letter here somewhere,” he
said, “but I don’t seem to find ii yes!
Here it is, and here’s the new: spaper out
ting att%ched to it which first called our at-
It’s from the Chey-
Y ke seems to
is certainly enough to make us wonder how
eavy a supply of Cheyenne bug juice he
and the doctor had with them on Y their last
trip. .
“It seems that they started out from
Node Ranch and went into the Bad Lands
as far as Walker's Creek, pretty well cover-
ing the central eastern section of Converse
county; one morning, after climbing a high
mountain—Ike declares they went up at
least 5,000 feet—they came suddenly upon @
lake a mile or more wide and five miles
not down on the maps, and
so Ike took the liberty of naming it for
- himself, Izard Lake.
they went into camp and spent
several days, as the shores of the lake were
well strewn with oossil bones of the sort
both ran out and were nearly paralyzed
(question is if they weren’t entirely para-
e describes it as having ‘a huge oval
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ke and was seen no
Jal more
“This is the biggest yarn Ike has givéa
glad to print apy story that you may have
tell.”
“There!” exclaimed voor ,boynter.
“wht do you think of that, D
“Why, it seems to me, sir, that gomeboay
has worked up the description of the Pleslo-
saurus Dolichodeirus and made a good y
about it. Of course you don’t “yelieve. the
story can be tru
“Such was my “Ast idea, of course,” re-
plied the professor, “but I make it an in-
variable rule to investigate alt these news-
paper stories. Xinet tenths of them, of
course, turn out e fakes, but as it hap-
pens in this ease “nat this fellow Izard is
in our employ and we know him to
most faithful man and entirely a sober
person, I felt all the more interest. in the
matter, so t a once wrote him and re
eeived this r
Tiere the professor unfolded the letter
and read as follow:
CunyEeNNe, Wyo., March 10.
Sir: hat story about the mon-
ster is true is swar it is as I hope for hiven
same and if you
Dan who will tell you that we seen it up to
the lake say jest fer satisfaction i am goin’
to take my oath before a notary publick the
pains was there i never seen nothing like
steers up the mountain which you couldn't.
diebbe it would pay you to gend a feller out
o get a snap shot at it. Yrs
P.
no lye.
—You can bet your bottom “aoa Jes
Accompanying the letter was {he affidavit
duly signed before a notary pu’
here was also one from Doctor” Dan,
who Frofessor Poynter explained was an
Indian guide, who usually accompanied Ike
Izard on his expeditions after fossil bones.
“There,” said Professor Poynter. “There’s
the story, Dick. It is extremely unlikely
that it is true, but still it may be, and wi
have determined to send you out to the
Bad Lands of Wyoming to investigate.
When will you baready to start?”
‘ morrow morning;” replied Dick,
promptly, but let me ask one question, have
the fossil remains of the P. Dolichodeirus
been found in that part of thé Bad Lands?”
“Many. times, my boy.’
“Then it is possible that one or two speci-
mens may’ have survived?”
“Just possible, but no more. As you are
well aware, this creature belongs to an en-
tirely different period of the earth’s history
from the one in which we are at present
living. On the other hand, it is a fact that
the lakes of eastern Wyoming are the re-
mt would be an immense discovery if it
was,
“Of incalculable value to science. Should
you be fortunate enough to make such a
the creature that it took a header into m
need an assistant.
our ¢!
“Will “Charley Nicholson suit, sir?” asked
Dick, eagerly.
I leave it to you to make
friends, so I will not object. That’s all,
Dick. Leave me now, for I have a moun-
tain of work ahead of me. It won't be nec-
essary for you to call again.”
Dick left the office, wild with enthusiasm.
was no restraining
him when he heard the good news.
And, indeed, the boys were admirably
adapted to the work, Dick being without
parents family ties of any kind,
Charley's mother had long since been dead,
while his’ father was a sea captain, who
showed dithe or no interest in the welfare
is st
‘thus thes se two boys were practicatly
without ties and it might be supposed that
Diek could easily have named an earlier
hour for his departure than the next morn-
ing, a so he might and certainly would
have one so if it had not happened that he
had an engagement to attend a social gath-
ering that evening at the house of one of
his friends.
Having drawn his money, Dick bought
tickets for himself and Charley for Fort
Fetterman, Wyoming, where it would be
o go off on a branch road to
e boys spent the afternoon in buying
the shecestary things for the trip and in
packing
At ten voelock Dick left a certain house
on B street, N. W., where he had passed the
this time?” 7 evening, and started for 's own room, | had not come.”
“Well, i hu: a 1 t in all my life you couldn’t ketch it and . , uy? , a
protescor, ‘ ana youll De sarpriged when | t there would be no use trying don’t believe a which awe joes he was sacing dor a i sory ice te you ee ae e mia bi
‘ I tell SSOP hat ” yoke of steers could drag the carcass down a t, dee} ye ene ossed i Pp houeht abe ti t. ME ° yon replied Dick, ralsing his
tell you Ww nat itis. aused and b . % Node Ranch even if you could get the et, deeply engrossed in thought about | hat. | “May offer to see you to your
. f yy: paused and began tum. the strange mission with which he had been,| home?’
charged, he saw two young girls come run-
ning down the stoop of a house a little way
ahead of him.
Evidently they lived close by, for they
wore no wraps and the April air was damp
and chilly.
Dick watched them as they turned the
corner and they would pave passed out of
his mind in a moment if hi not been
startled all at once by a piercing scream,
Help!” came the cry ringing out
upon the night,
Dick darted around the corner like a shot,
from the two
There they stood backed against the iron
ne of the corner house, with two young
both y drunk, standing before
them, Saughin
“You can’t pass us that way, Jadtes,” 2 Dick
heard one of the pair say. “We it to
know your names and where you are “eoing
—that’s what.
nganes off those ladies!” cried Dick, run-
nin,
Suing your own business,” snarled one
f the “lushers,” aiming a blow at Dick.
“What is it to you?”
“This!” cried Dick, striking out. from the
shoulder and landing his fist between the
llow’s eyes, tumbling him back against
the electric light pole.
fello
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around the neighborhood of Dick’s heart, as
he backed him up against the post.
CHAPTER II.
plug hat.
and flinging it into the street, poundin;
the fellow about the head and face wi
such vigor that he promptiy took to hig’
eels and made off, followed by his friend, *
“There!” eeclatmed the man in the weet
“There! That's the way to do it!
‘our most obedient! Let m
the Pleasure of addressing Miss Clara Teli
thought 80, Miss £,
“Yours, too, Misg
out ceremony, wrenching away the in
» yes.
your humble servant,
What’s-your-name, and yours, my dear gir,
My name is Mudd. Martin Mudd. I an
always ready and willing to come to the as
sistance of any one in distr
“Tm sure I’m ever so much obliged, sir.”
replied Dick. “My name is Darrell. Dick
Darr
‘What was the matter with Martin Muda?
e instant Dick announced his name he
started back, theatrically, stared, raised his
hat to the two girls, and, Wheeling about,
turned the curner and disappea!
“Is he crazy? He must bet? exclaimed
‘Die!
“No, I don't think s0,” replied the girl
addressed as Clara Eglinton, a beautiful
blonde of about Dick’s own age. “Ie is
very eccentric, though. He sometimes has
business with my father. Oh, Mr, Darrell,
I want to thank you ever and ever so much
r your brave act. Those insulting fel
lows! It was just dreadful! I don’t know
what Susie and I would have done if you
“Why, it is right here in the next house,”
replied the git. “Good night, Mr, Darrell.
We must 27
Invidently, Miss Eglinton did not care to
pursue the acquaintai
Dick tipped his "hat again and the two
girls ran up the stoop of a handsome house
and vanished in an instant, leaving Dick to
continue his wi
wal
“A pretty girl!” he murmured, “A very
to get better acquainted, but I suppose she
will forget all about
He walked on, wholly oblivious to: the
fact that Mr, Martin Mudd, with rubbers
on his feet, was stealing after him, staring
forward with gleaming eyes,
prompted Dick to turn suddenly
and look behind him just before he reached
the next corner?
Surely there must have been some goo!
angel watching over the pov for there was
ean close behind h with the very
e the “lusher” had
in his band a dropped clutched
e got you,
Dick m
hissed. and he mate ick Darrell!” he
hot attempt to repeat
it With a sharp cry h
like a deer, Pp cry he turned and ri
that was the end of th
Deeply puzzled over the ears.
fair, which he could \ pnly attribute to in-
sanity on the part of the man with the
muddy name, Dick wer nt home and w:
in bed, where he lay tossing i Was goon
He seemed to take in whe situation at ge
He was a tall and very thin person, shal eae
bily dressed in an old ulster and a batter: e oe
\ ? wn to think up a bigger 8 m Bot,
another prize?” wonder? “Have you dr us yet, but he Provttip into the Bad ds. “He is rather young,” replied the pro-| glance and pounced upon t! lusher” w wie
“Can't tell.” Send it along, Isaac. We shall always be | fessor, “but still I know you are. great oe
wh
they were out a mains of an old prehistoric sea which once Ae
Freee Ou tte the third day Tke'was | covered all this section, The Great Salt | yee tue ate a Tee hee ae ar Dig outed atte Here um and followed back |"
; suddenly awakened by a strange bellowing, | Lake is another remnant of it and there | jumped in and caught Dick by the throat, | corner first and’ when ‘Dice aay wmed the | yt
_which seemed to come from off on the | are others still. The chances of the story “Pll kill you for this!” he hissed, whfp- | had disappeared. en Dick got around he Tee,
water. He shook up the doctor and they being, true, however, are exceedingly re- ping out a long knife and flourishing it Yrs
discovery you are authorized to spare no til mornin de awake un-
poay’ *ounde a turtle, about twenty | expense to pen the creature into some cove, ANOTHER MYSTERY OF A DIFFERENT SORT, tw: as the tone in which
feet long, from which rose an immensely | jf such a thing is possible, but we prefer | Dick was in a dangerous ch Martin Mudd Sen
long neck—Ike declares it was half as long
again as the body, ending in a comparative-
ly small head, like a snake’s head in shape,
but with an enormous mouth full of mon-
strous teeth, .
“Ike says that the monster swam very
gracefully, being provided with fins, which
you should not kill it. Of course if you see
it you will telegraph me at the first possible
moment and I will come right out. Every
effort should be made to take it alive, in
order that we may study its habits. You
can go to the cashier and draw what money
you think you may need. You will go first
8 fix.
The fellow who had caught hold of him
was very drunk and had a grip like a vise.
The two girls screamed, while Dick tried
to grab the knife which the “lusher” kept
flourishing, swearing horribly at Dick all
the while.
How it would have ended if help had
had spoken his name and
given when Dick first in
that bothered the boy.
“He psc seemed to k
said to himself a hundr
can it all mi va tie
He gave up thinking about
ing came and hurried to the
the start he hi
troduced himself
” Dick
newt
it when norm
acted as paddles, two on each side, Heand|to Node Ranch, where I have instructed | not come promptly i sta
2 i y y it is impossible to say, | tion, where he met Cha Bla
the doctor cach took a shot at it, but in cone Doctor Dan to meet you; Izard himself is | but, as it happened, just at this critical no. journey. ney all ready for the
. ence of their semi-paralyzed condition | off on another expedition and you will not | ment a man came dashin, d the cor- 0 vi
the shots did nothing more than to so scare | see him. ‘That's all, except that you will ! ner. & frown eer The tan te Chico was made in good
ime and without adventure,