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Most of the BOOKKEEPERS and STENOGRAPHERS now holding positions in the Railroad Offices, Law Offices, Commercial Firms, and Business Houses throughout this Inter-mountain country received their Special training in the Salt Lake Business College. Templeton Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. VOL. III DECEMBER, 1902. Dan Mason's Wheel. BY C. LAURON HOOPER, [CONTINUED FROM LAST ISSUE.] Elias was much older than Dan, but they were often companions, especially since Dan had bought a wheel. One day in September, Mr. Mason came home to dinner very much disturbed in mind. More than three hundred dollars had been taken from the safe the night previous, and there was not a sign of the perpetrator. "Had the safe been unlocked as before?" Dan asked. "Yes; it was some one that knows the combination all the time. That is cer tain." "Who can it be?" wondered Mrs. Ma son. "Yes, who, sure enough?" Mr. Mason questioned, angrily. "There's only one I know of, and name, "But surely you do not think—” "Yes, I do!" Mr. Mason replied; for though neither mentioned the both were thinking of Elias Walsh. don't believe it," said Dan, "I warmly. "What do you know about it?" Mr. Mason sharply responded. "Are you going to have him arrested?" Dan continued, not noticing his father's ill humor. Mr. Mason studied a moment before he replied: "No. You keep still about it, and I'll have the store watched." And he did. . In addition to the general merchandise business of a country town, Mr. Mason also bought much grain for shipment to No. 8 the city, and the office, in front of which were the large scales where farmers weighed their wagons before and after dumping the grain into the elevator bins, was placed at the rear of the big store. In or about this office, Johnson, the watchman, was instructed to remain night after night, to watch the store, and if he should see any one attempting an entrance, to ring the bell of the telephone which connected the office with the house, for Mr. Mason wanted to be present at the capture. Two weeks passed without an alarm. Then, very late one night, there came a decided ring on the telephone bell. Dan was out of bed and dressed as soon as his father. They went out of the house and down the street as rapidly as possible. On approaching the office at the rear of the store, they walked noiselessly. Leaning against the office door they saw the dark figure of the watchman, who motioned them to come closer. In an instant they were with him. He pointed to the rear door of the store, which stood open, and he said something to Mr. Mason which Dan did not hear. It seemed to surprise Mr. Mason, who answered, in an audible tone: "Well, that's strange!" "Under the circumstances, there is only one thing we can do," said Johnson, the watchman. "That is, to follow him and see what he does with it." "All right," Mr. Mason agreed. "We'll do it; so don't make a noise.” They entered the office, and for a number of minutes waited in silence. At length there was a slight sound of feet at the store door and the click of a key in the lock. A man walked rapidly toward a coal shed a few yards away, entered, and in a moment came out, pushing a bicycle. He had in his hand an oblong tin box, such as a certain brand of tea comes in. This he fastened to the handlebar of the machine by the straps used for carrying bundles. This done, he mounted the wheel and rode out into the street. "Elias Walsh, as sure as I'm alive!" exclaimed Dan. "Be still, sir!" admonished Mr. Mason. "We must follow. Come on quickly." They pass out of the office door and around the corner in time to see the spokes of the clerk's wheel glisten in the moonlight as he turned a corner to the left. "He is going down Grimster Hill," said Johnson. "We'll never catch him." "Won't we?" cried Dan. "You two wait here a minute." That Down he went at full speed. half-mile was a short run, though an exciting and somewhat dangerous one in the faint moonlight. Dan had just come to the bottom of the hill when he saw Elias rolling leisurely along on the embankment beyond the bridge. In his heart he was sorry that Elias could be so wicked as to steal, but he kept on, determined to obey orders. By the time Dan had crossed the bridge, he saw Elias disappear in the woods at the left. There was a road there, about three hundred yards beyond the bridge, which led up a coal shaft. It was into this that Elias had turned. Dan's wheel sped along the embankment, and was soon gliding along the road through the woods. It was not long until he could catch an occasional glimpse of Elias where the moonlight shone down through the trees. At a point where the road ran near the river, Elias so suddenly dismounted that Dan came near going close enough to be discovered, as he thought; but he succeeded in getting to the ground without And he ran off toward home as fast making a noise. as his legs could carry him. The two blocks were quickly passed over, and it took but a short time to get his wheel from the back porch, run it into the street, bound into the saddle and go spinning toward the store. "I will follow him. You come on after," he said to his father and the watchman as he passed them. "Watch him, but don't speak to him,' called his father after him. And a moment later Dan had turned the corner and was on the hill. Grimster Hill was more than half a mile long, very smooth, and wide enough for safety, though there were deep gulleys on each side of the road, and it was a fine place for coasting. Half way down. there was a slight turn. At the bottom there was the river, spanned by an iron bridge. When Dan turned into the road leading down the hill, he could not see the young man in front of him. Placing his wheel against a tree, he prepared to watch Elias, who was unstrapping the box from the handle-bar. Dan crept up closer and looked on, trembling with excitement. There could be no doubt about it. It was Elias Walsh hiding the stolen money. Yet there was something about his actions that puzzled Dan. The clerk looked neither to the right nor the left, as a thief is supposed to do for fear of detection, but went about his work without hesitating a moment. When he came out of the store he had not even glanced around once to satisfy himself that no one was watching. Having unstrapped the box, Elias laid his machine over on the ground and prepared to ascend the steep bank to the river. Dan rushed behind a hazel bush and watched closely. Elias carefully braced his foot against a projecting root, stepped down and placed |