Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM [Illustration: NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO MR. TRIMM.--_Frontispiece_ (_Page 18._)] THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM _HIS PLIGHT AND OTHER PLIGHTS_ BY IRVIN S. COBB AUTHOR OF OLD JUDGE PRIEST, BACK HOME, ETC. GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, 1912 AND 1913 BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913 BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913 BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY [Transcriber's Note: A List of Illustrations has been added.] TO MY WIFE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM 3 II. THE BELLED BUZZARD 54 III. AN OCCURRENCE UP A SIDE STREET 79 IV. ANOTHER OF THOSE CUB REPORTER STORIES 96 V. SMOKE OF BATTLE 142 VI. THE EXIT OF ANNE DUGMORE 179 VII. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN 202 VIII. FISHHEAD 244 IX. GUILTY AS CHARGED 260 ILLUSTRATIONS NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO MR. TRIMM. Frontispiece "TWO LONG WING FEATHERS DRIFTED SLOWLY DOWN." Facing page 70 "I WAS THE ONE THAT SHOT HIM--WITH THIS THING HERE." Facing Page 164 HE DRAGGED THE RIFLE BY THE BARREL, SO THAT ITS BUTT MADE A CROOKED FURROW IN THE SNOW. Facing Page 193 THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM I THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM Mr. Trimm, recently president of the late Thirteenth National Bank, was taking a trip which was different in a number of ways from any he had ever taken. To begin with, he was used to parlor cars and Pullmans and even luxurious private cars when he went anywhere; whereas now he rode with a most mixed company in a dusty, smelly day coach. In the second place, his traveling companion was not such a one as Mr. Trimm would have chosen had the choice been left to him, being a stupid-looking German-American with a drooping, yellow mustache. And in the third place, Mr. Trimm's plump white hands were folded in his lap, held in a close and enforced companionship by a new and shiny pair of Bean's Latest Model Little Giant handcuffs. Mr. Trimm was on his way to the Federal penitentiary to serve twelve years at hard labor for breaking, one way or another, about all the laws that are presumed to govern national banks. * * * * *