Word: trailings
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...troop trains, recruits who dug straddle ditches and loaded ammunition until their backs were fairly broken, had one song which helped more than any other to see them through the War. In leaky barracks, smoky cafes and on endless marches ''There's a Long. Long Trail'' was sung rowdily, nostalgically. Last week, in Spokane, Wash., after five months of sleeping sickness, Death took Stoddard King, the man who wrote the words of the War's No. 1 song...
There's a long, long trail awinding...
Down that long, long trail with...
...Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness, whichever seemed best. Knox made Witness Karelsen lie low in her compartment, kept...
...Holmes, using an electric torch instead of the traditional bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...