The mystery of the missing eyebrows

he opened one blade, the thinnest of the three in his knife, warmed it with several breaths, then slipped it under one of the frozen eyebrows on the window pane. THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING EYEBROWS By STEPHEN RUDD The Newspaper Boys’ Series Illustrated Published by the R. H. Gore Publishing Co. Copyright, 1921 R. H. Gore Publishing Company All rights reserved RENFRO HORN STORIES TO FOLLOW SHORTLY By THE SAME AUTHOR THE LUCK OF A RAINY NIGHT THE RISE OF ROUTE 19 THE WHITE BAG’S SECRET THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED PAPER THE LONG LOW WHISTLE THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE MILK THE LEAK AT COOGAN’S CHIMNEY THE GROWL OF THE LOST DOG THE COURAGE OF RENFRO HORN THE FALL OF THE EAST SIDE BULLY THE SCOOP OF THE CUB REPORTER R. H. Gore Publishing Co. , TERRE HAUTE, IND. A WORD TO ALL NEWSPAPER BOYS This volume, the “MYSTERY OF THE MISSING EYEBROWS,” is the first of twelve books written about newspaper boys by an old newspaper boy, and the picture of Renfro Horn is the likeness of a flesh and blood newspaper carrier, the real Renfro Horn, who inspired these twelve books, that the newspaper boys of these United States might understand the responsibility they bear to the world. The newspaper that you take each night to your subscriber’s door plays a great part in the life of each subscriber. Thru rain and snow and cold you go, and if you are a good carrier, as all newspaper boys should be, you will overcome all problems to have your paper there at the exact time each day, as early as you can get there, regardless of weather, unmindful of play, striving all the time to be first to deliver papers in your territory. And if you are to succeed later in life, you will constantly strive to make route gains for your newspaper. A new subscriber each week, a gain of only one new subscription each week, if you do it regularly, will mean that you are a good carrier, as good as Renfro Horn and Renfro is one of the best, for he carried papers on a route for the writer of this book who is a circulation manager. When your subscribers quit, make them give you a good reason. And collect your bills. When folks do not pay, tell them about the six or seven…