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THE STORY CHAPTER I.—Barbara Devon’s wedding and departure on bar honeymoon leaves her brother "Laurie,” successful playwright but somewhat inclined to wildness, without her restraining Influence. Hie theatrical associates, Rodney Bangs and Jacob Epetsin, promise to "keep an eye on him." CHAPTER IL — Laurie, who is wealthy, refuses to settle down to work, announcing his Intention of resting and seealng "adventure.’' From l-.is window In New York bo sees the reflection of a beautiful girl In a mirror In the hduso opposite. CHAPTER IH.—Devon learns from the elevator boy In ths girls house that her name 1s Mayo. Again In the mirror's reflection he sees her with a revolver and fears she means to commit suicide. Ho breaks into her apartment and. winning her coafldence. inducts her to lunch with him, though sho warns him of 'How'long have you been In America ?” "All my life, off and on.” This as least was reassuring. He imagined he saw a gleam of light. The girl had declared that she was not a spy, nor Involved in war propaganda : but It was quite possible, he reasoned, that she was enmeshed In some little web of politics, of vast Importance to her and her group, of very little importance to any one else. “I suppose,” he suggested cheerfully, "that net you’ve said so muck about Is e political net?" They had been speaking throughout In low tones. Inaudible at any other table. Their nearest fellow diners were two middle-aged women at least thirty feet away. Rut she started violently under his words. She made a quick gesture of caution, and, turning half-around, swept the room with a frightened glance. Laurie, his cigarette forgotten in his fingers, watched her curiously, taking In her evident tension, her slowly returning poise, and at last the little breath of relief with which she turned back to hltn. "I wish I could tell you all you want to know.” she said, “but—l can't. That's all there Is to It. So please let ns change the subject.” His assurance returned. ‘‘You’re not a crown head or an escaped princess or anything of that kind, are you?” he asked politely. This time ?he really laughed, a soft, low gurgle of laughter, joyous and contagious. "No.” “Then let’s get back to our bank account. We have plenty of time to run over to the Fifth avenue branch of the Corn Exchange bank before the closing hour. What color of check book do you prefer?" “I told you,” she declared with sudden seriousness, "that my bargain did not ilnclude sponging.” For the first time In the somewhat taxing Interview her companion s Lear girt, be said, almost impatiently, "don’t beat the devil around the bush 1 You've got to live till we can find the right work for you, and that may take some time. You have intelligence enongh to see that Tra neither n gay Lothario nor a Don Juan. In your present state of mind you're not fit to decide anything. Make up your mind, once for all, that I’m going to decide for you. It will save us both some trouble." He stopped. He had discovered that she was not listening to him. She was sitting absolutely still, her head a little turned. Her lips were slightly parted, and her eyes, wide and staring, were fixed on some one across the room. Laurie’s eyes followed hers. They focused on a man sitting alone at a little table. It was clear that he had Just entered, for a waiter stood by his aide, and the newcomer was giving Judicious attention to the bill of fare. He was a harmless-looking person, of medium height and rather more than medium stoutness, carelessly dressed in a blue serge suit. His Indifference to dress was further betrayed by the fact that bls ready-made four-ln-hand tie had slipped the mooring of a white-bone stud, leaving that useful adjunct of the toilet open to the eyes of the world. His face was round, smooth-shaven, and rather pale. He had dark, slightly veiled gray eyes, which blinked near-sight-edly at the menu. Altogether he was a seemingly worthy person, to whom the casual observer would hardly have given a second glance. While the two pairs of eyes across the room stared at him, he confided his order to the waiter. It seemed a brief order, for the brow of the latter clouded as he wrote It down and detachedly strolled off: The newcomer leaned back In Ida chair, and, as he did, so glanciff! around the room. His projecting eyes, moving Indifferently from table to table, suddenly rested. fixed, on the girl. . They showed Jn

terest liut no 'surprise. Tie Lowed . with a half smile—an odd smile, bland, tolerant, and understanding. Then, I disregarding her lack of response, he fixed his eyes on the wall facing htm and waited patiently for his luncheon to be served. Laurie’s attention returned to the girl. She was facing him again, but her eyes looked past him as If be were not there. "He has found me. even here.” she j muttered. "Os course he would. Be always does." Laurie locked at her. “Do you mean,” he asked crisply, "that that chap across the room Is following you around?" She looked at him, as If abruptly ■ ' recalled to the fact of his presence. ' , Her eyes dropped. "Yes.” she muttered, dully. "I may | escape him for a time, but he always j learns where I am. He will catch ; ma when he chooses, and roll me about under his paws for a while, and then—perhaps —let me go again.” "That sounds like a certain phase of domestic life." commented Laurie, i "Is he by any chance your husband?" Her eyes held a rising anger. “He Is not,” she married.” Laurie dropped his dead cigarette Into the ash tray, and rose with a sigh. “It's all very confusing.” he admit- , ted. ‘‘and a digression from the main Issue. But I’m afraid I shall have to ' go to the exertion of reasoning with 1 him.” She started up, but before she could i protest or restrain him, he had left . her and crossed the room to the stran- , ger’s tabl% ( CHAPTER V Mr. Herbert Ransome Shaw The man In the shabby blue-serge suit detached his absent gaze from the opposite wall, and looked up quickly when Laurie stopped at his side. Ha was clearly surprised, but courteous. He half rose from his chair, but the -x WL J Jeik’ fir 1 II A “I Came Over Here,” He Said Caeually, “to Mention to You That You I Are Annoying the Lady I Am With.” I newcomer waved him back and I dropped easily Into the vacant seat I opposite him. He was smiling. The I man in blue serge was not. He looked puzzled, though vaguely responsive. A third person, watching the two, might almost have thought the episode the casual reunion of men who frequently lunched together. - I Laurie leaned forward in his chair, rested one elbow on the table, and, opening his cigarette case, extended it to the stranger. The latter rejected it with a slight bow. “Thank you, but not before lunch," he said, quietly. Hla voice and manner were those of an educated jzumo. The quality of hla tone was slightly harsh. Laurie lit a cigarette, blew out the I match and looked straight into the stranger’s projecting gray eyes. He had acted impulsively. Now that he was here, he was anxious to put the job over concisely, firmly, but, above all, neatly. There must be nothing done that would attract the attention of the few persons In the big room. "I came over here,” he said casual- 1 ly, “to mention to you that you are annoying the lady I am with. I want to mention also that the annoyance ' must stop.” The glance of the stranger held. La’:rle observed with Interest that the veiled look of the projecting eyes had changed a little. The change did not , add to the stranger’s charm. _ ‘-‘Befora L answgr yajj. telj, me_ one . »~r* I

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thing?'* fie suhl' formaify. 'By what right do you act as the lady's protector?" Laurie hesitated an Instant. The question was embarrassing. "Has she authorized you to #et?" "In away, but —” "How long have you known her? How well do you know her?" Command of the Interview was slipping from the younger man. He resolutely resumed It "Look here.” he said, firmly, “I came to this table to tell you something, but I will decide what that Is to be. 1 am not here to answer questions. It is enough for you to know that circumstances have given me the right to protect the lady from annoyance. I want to make It clear to yon Unit 1 shall exercise that right. Hereafter you are to let her alone. Do you understand? Absolutely alone. You are not to follow her. not to enter places where she can see you,” he recklessly ended. The stranger looked at him through the light veil which seemed again to have fallen over the projecting eyes. "I should really like to know," he said, "when and where you met her. I saw you starting off together In the taxicab, but I am not quite sure whether your first encounter occurred this morning.” “And you won’t be.” Laurie stood up. “I've warned you,” he said curtly. "I don’t know how well you understand our laws In this country, but I fancy you know enough of them to realize that you cannot shadow a lady without getting Into trouble.” ■'She admitted that?" The stranger appeared to experience a tepid glow of emotion. “She must know you better than I thought,” he added reflectively. “Doris is not the type to pour her confidence Into every new ear,” he mused, seeming to forget the other's presence In bis Interest in tlijx — ——.

(TO BE CONTINUED) ten“deaths~anK $15,000,000 LOSS DUE TO HURRICANE (COS'ml EDJ-' K<>i.M PAGE ONE) cd storm in the last 24 hours. Heavy rains resulting in flooded streets, and high titles which inundated islands caused more damage than the wind today. The storm is believed to be headed over Georgia and eastern Tennessee, and is expected to sweep up to the Ohio valley, but no serious damage iexpected inland. —_— ... o Chicago Grain Close —r Wheat, July 14G 1-2; Sept 144 1-8; Dec 147 7-8. Corn, July 78 3-8; Sept 85 5-8; Dec 88 3-4. \ Oats. July 42 1-8; Sept 43 3-4; Dec 46 1-2. o Sunset Dancing Pavilion Square Dance tonight. Thursday evening r e g u 1 a r dance, music by Ludys orchestra. Dancing Class Friday evening. Saturday evening dancing will be featured by Fort Wayne Night Owl orchestra, starting at 8:30. 2t

X-GOQD- - -u ....... ■ PLACE TO BANK You go to your home or your place of business regular. Make it a part of your work to be a regular visitor at this bank with your savings. You will acquire the habit and before long your regular visits will have proven most profitable Start your visits this week and watch « your savings grow. Old Adams County Bank WE PAY YOU TO SAVE.

COMMITTEES AND DIRECTORS PLAN FOR CHAUTAUQUA (CONTINUED FHOM PAUM ONB) country. The advertising committee will place the advertising this week and the tickets will be distributed in the next few nays. Il la estimated that the largest crowd ever to attend a Chalauquu tn this city will attend this year, according to advance Infosmation from the ticket pledging committee. The tent will l»e located on the government lot on the corner of Third street ami liberty Way. Every dav will be a banner day this year, with afternoon and night programs and also a junior program each morning

HALL-MILLS CASE SLATED FOR JURY - X Somerville, N. J., July 29. — (United Press.l- The Hall-Mills murder case will be taken before the grand jury, Prosecutor Francis Burgen of Somerset county, announced today. His statement was taken to mean that th« i lfc w evidence which caused the state to arregt Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the clergyman found slain with Mrs. Eleanor Mills in 1922, will be presented at once to the grand jury. Somerville, N. J., July 29— (United Press.)—Arrested in connection with the murders of her husband, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, the middle aged widow of the clergyman was held in the Somerset county jail today. formally charged with the two murders, each covered by a separate complaint. Branding the arrest as "ridiculous’. Mrs. Mali was taken to the jail shortly before 2:45 a. in.. today. She was< held without bail for the grand jury. "I will make no,.statements until I learn what the murder charge is based on.” she said, when arrested at her home in New,Brunswick, N. J. Z o — '

PASTOR SLAYER INDICTED TODAY Fort Worth, Tex.. July—(United Press)— The Rev. J. Frank Norris pastor of the First Baptist church today was indicted for the murder of I). E. Chipps, wholesale lumberman by the grand jury in criminal district court. Chipps was slain in the study of the First Baptist Church. Criminal Judge Hosey .said at noon he would require bail of SIO,OOO on recommendation of the district at-

torney’s office. 1 The trial probably will he at | ‘September term of court. Man’s Body Found In Bottom Os Huge Ice Box Miami, r:». Ju>> 29.-(Vnlted Press)-Miami today was confronted with a baffling murder mystery with the discovery of the dmost nude body ; of Raymond Smith. 25. truck driver,, stuffed In the bottom of a huge ice box Which was unloaded at a warehouse yesterday pfternoon. The body was discovered by <’■ IlAllen, superintendent of the warehouse, when ho examined the refrigerator. Murderer Must Serve 25 Years In Prison

Michigan City, Ind., July 29—(United Fresh) — Arthur Smith. Alias Edward Barber, must s< rve his sentence of 25 years' in the state prison here following the denial r f a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Harry Crumpack•r. ♦ Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a Terre Haute policeman but escaped the electric chair when a stay of excution was granted. The supreme court granted him a new trial ami he was sentenced for auto banditry. Judge Selected For Impeachment Trial Muncie, Ind., July 29. — (United Press.) —Judge J. Frank Charles of the Grant circuit court. Marion, will be asked to act as special judge in the impeachment trial of Sheriff Harry McAuley. Judge Charles was selected as the trial judge after the state had stricken off the name of Judge Alonzo Blair of Shelbyville and the defense the name of Judge Will Sparks of Rushville. • The trial will be held in September. Leaders In Strike Are Held In Jail Without Bond Indianapolis, Ind.. July 29. —(United Press) —Two leaders in the strike of Union street car men were held in jail without bond ‘.ure today atw dting sentence tomorrow for contempt of E'ederal court. The two men. John Parker and Rob- — - No other blue like Russ Bleaching Blue Insist upon the name. All grocers sell It. TT

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