Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1926 — Page 3

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■ The story’ H «r*P’ER I— D« v “ n '« w,a ‘ ■I >ur» on W boutymoon ■ l “" - u ' somewhat Inollned ■ >■■ , theatrical associates, •“ 00 hlat ■ F _,.p- FK IL — La“ rl * who la S refuses to settle down to ■ !“k wnour.clnf hi- Intention rfrtit■J. and “* “ dv « nt “ r »- Fr ,°™ ■ 1 { *,.3 W 1c '■«« York ha aeea th. I SgX o« • beautiful girl In a mlr- ■ £h» the bouse onsite. ■ <<h»w-ER lll.—Levon learn, from ■ ,>‘ratvr boy tn the sirl'e house ■® . „.r name is Mayo. Again In th. ■ S‘ror'l reflection he aeea her with ■ Trevclver and f»ar. » h » means to ■ Unit •u‘c l<s ' >'• bre,ui * ~ her ■ Sftwent and. winning her confidence ■ Sees ter to lunch with him. though ■ J, warn, him of "danger.H CH-'HTEH IV —Perceptibly agitated ■tr the arrival of a man In the 9 rnUurant, she mutter, that he ha. | ■ -found her." I.earr.fr.g that .he la [ ■ Utttarrled .rd the man has no claim ■ ,j' her. Laurie. Incensed. actoata the M ltr»r.ger. 9 CHAPTER V.— Accusing the man of 9 Maying Miss Mayo, Devon warn. 9 Um to end Ms espionage. The etrang--9 er H politely sarcastic, but from him 9 Uur'.s learns the girl's first name Is 9 Doris. She tells him her persecutor I |1 Herbert Ransom. Shaw. ■I CHAPTER VI—To Ixiulso Ordway, ■Ms Invalid sister-in-law, and firm ■ friend. Laurie admits he Is “Interested" ■ Is Deris, not revealing her Identity. ■ CHAPTER Vll.—Dorie resolutely de- ■ Ulr.es to meet Mrs. Ordway, and ■ sternly vetoes I-aurle's suggestion of I .(plying to th. police to protect bar ■ from Shaw. ■ Httie pistol he Tad taken Way Troth’ I bort. In the tragic moment of their I It meeting. I j Bolding It In his hand, he hesttat-’ fid Heretofore, throughout his short lit varied life, young Devon had de■M upon his well-trained flats to ■Mtet him from the violence of othMt But when those others were the toad who went In for chloroform— I and this time there was Doris to think of. He dropped the revolver into his pocket, and shot Into the elevator and out on the ground floor with the expedition to which the operator was now becoming accustomed. His car was a two-seated “racer," of slender and beautiful Hues. As he took his place at the wheel, the machine pulsated like a living thing, panting with a passionate desire to be off. Laurie a wild young heart felt ****«»**ng'iinii a ng .New lork ng ! taught him respect for Its traffi. laws tffid this was no time to take chances. Carefully, almost aedately, he made his way to Third .venue, then up to the Queenshoro bridge, nnd across that mighty runvav to Long Island. Here bls stock of patience, slender at the best, was exhausted. With a deep breath be “let her out’’ to a Binging speed of sixty miles an hour. A cloud had obscured the sun, quite appropriately, he subconsciously felt, He Made the Run of Twenty-Two Mlles In Something Under Thirty Minutes. .nd there were flakes of snow In the “ r As he sped through the gray atmosphere, the familiar little towns he | bew seemed to come forward to m *ft him, like rapidly projected pictures on a screen. Flushing, Bayside, ■ ttle Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, Glenf.d, one by one they floated past. He biade the run of twenty-two miles In •"’tnethfng under thirty minutes, to the “c'ere disapproval of several policeb,en. who shouted urgent Invitations 0 “Im to slow down. One of these * as so Persistent that Laurie prepared “ “bey; but just as the heavy hand u the law was about to TaLL LLs r***-

Tiie Deed of consulting Rodney Increased In urgency as the difficulties multiplied. Laurie telephoned to Bungs' favorite restaurant, to Epstein's office, to Sonya's hotel. At the. restaurant he was suavely assure'! that Mr. Bangs was not in the place. At the office the voice of ah Injured office boy Informed him that there wasn’t never nobody there till halfpast nine. Over the hotel wire Sonya’s colorful tones held enough surprise to remind Laurie that he could hardly hope that even Rodney’s budding romance would drive him to the side of the lady so early In the morning. He hung up the receiver with a groan of disgust, and busied himself packing a small bag and selecting a greatcoat for his journey. Also, he .went to j|. drawer and took out the «v—T-mnrrve recognised young Devon, and waved him on with a forgiving I grin. This was not the first time LauI rle had Up" that stretch of i roadway. At the Sea Cliff station be slowed up; then, on a sudden Impulse, stopped his car at the platform with sharp precision and entered the tiny waiting-room. From the ticket window a pretty girl looked out on him with the expression of sudden Interest feminine eyes usually took on when 1 this young man was directly In their ■ line of vision. With uncovered curly head deferentially bent, he addressed her. Had she happened to notice a dark limousine go by an hour or so before, say around half past eight or nine o'clock? The girl shook her head.j She hail not come on duty until nine, and even if such a car had passed t she would hardly have observed It, owing to the frequency of the phenomenon and her own exacting responsibilities. Laurie admitted that these responsibilities would claim all the attention of any mind- But was there any one around who fright have seen the car. any one, say, Aho made a specialty of , lounging on the platform and watch- , Ing the pulsation • of the town's life In this Its throbbing center? No, the ■ girl explained, there were no station loafers around now. The summer | was the time for them. Then perhaps she could tell him If there were any nice c'd houses for rent near Sea Cliff, nice old houses, sfiy, overlooking the Sound, and a lit- [ tie out of the town? Laurie’s newly acquired will power was proving Its , xtrrn'gth. With every frantic Impulse tension he was under, he presented to ; the girl the suave appearance of a youth at peace with himself and the 1 h*ur. The abrupt transitions of the gentleman’s Interest seemed to surprise the lady. She looked at him with a suspicion which perished under the expression In his brilliant eyes. AS hat he meant, Laurie soberly explained, was tlw kind of house that might ap- | peal tn a casual tourist who was passing through, and who had dropped Into the station and there had suddenly realized the extreme beauty of Sea Cliff. The girl laughed. She was a nice girl, he decided, and he smiled back at her; for now she was becorn- | Ing helpful. Yes. there was the Varlek place, a mile out and right on the water's edge. I And there was the old Kiehl place, r also on the Sound. These were close together and both for rent, she had heard. Also, there was a house In the opposite direction, and on the water s edge. She did not lymw the name of that house, but she had observed a “To Let” sign on It Inst Sunday, when she was out driving. Those were all the houses she know of. She gave him explicit Instructions for reaching all three, and the Interview ended in an atmosphere of mutual , regard and regret. Indeed, the lady even left her ticket office to follow the ( gentleman to the door and watch the departure of his chariot. Laurie raced In turn to the Varlek ] place and the Kfehl place. Shaw, he suspected, had probably rented some such place, Just as he had rented the I East side office. But a very cursory ' Inspection of the two old houses convinced him that they were tonantloss. No smoke came from their chimneys, no sign of life surrounded them; also, he was sure, they were not sufficiently remote from other houses to suit the mysterious Shaw. The third house on hfs list was more promising in appearance, for It stood austerely remote from Its neighbors. But on its soggy lawn two soiled children and a dog played In carefree abandon, and from the side of the house came the piercing whistle of an underling cheerily engaged in sawing wood and shouting cautions to the children. Quite plainly, the closed-up, shuttered place was in charge of a caretaker, whose. off»Erln£ iwerfi. 13

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•<mpvi..ry (Tv.- .?i ' Laurie Inspected other houses dozens of them. He made his way Into strange, new roads. Nowhere was there the slightest clue leudlx>g to the bouse he sought. It was one o'clock in the afternoon when, with an exclamation of actual anguish, be swung his car around for the return Journey to the station. For the first time the hopelessness of his mission came home to blip. There must be a few hundred bouse* on the Sound near Sea Cliff. How was he to find the right one? Perhaps that girl had thought of Borne other places, or could direct him to the best local real estate agent*. Perhaps he should have gone to them In the first place. He felt dazed, incapable of clear thought. I As the car swerved his eye was caught by something bright lying farther up the road, in the direction from which he had Just turned. For an Instant he disregarded IL Then, on second thought, he stopped the machine, Jumped out, and ran back. There, at the right, by the wayside, lay a tiny jagged strip of silk that seemed to blush as he stared down nt it. | Slowly he bent, picked it up, and, spreading it across his palm, regard-1 cd it with eyes that unexpectedly were i wet. It was a two-inch bit of the Ro 1 man scarf, hacked off. evidently, by ■ the same hurried scissors that had severed the end in bls pocket. Ho realized now what that cutting had meant. With her hare-and-hounds' experience In mind, Doris had cut off other strips, perhaps half a dozen or more, and had undoubtedly dropped them as a trail for him to pick up. Possibly he had already uuseeingly passed several. But that did not matter. He was on the right track now. The house was on this road, but farther up. He leaped into the car again and started back. He drove every slowly, forcing the reluctant racer to crawl along, and sweeping every loch of the roadside with a careful scrutiny, but he had gone more than a rqjle before he found the second scent. This was another bit of the vivid silk, dropped ' on a country road that turned off the I main road nt a sharp angle. With a heartfelt exclamation of thanksgiving, he turned into this bypath. It was narrow, shallow-ruttfd, and apparently little used. It might stop anywhere. It might lead nowhere. It wound through a field, a meadow, a bit of deep wood, through which he saw the gleam of water. Then, quite suddenly. It again widened into a real road, merging into an avenue of trees that led in turn to the entrance of a big dark-gray house. In a somber setting of cedars. Laurie stopped his car nnd thoughtfully nodded to himself. This was the place. He felt that he would have | recognized it even without that guiding flame of ribbon. It was so ah- ! solutely the kind of place Shaw's ' melodramatic Instincts would lead him to choose. 1 There was the look about It that ' clings to houses long untenanted, a look not wholly due to Its unkempt grounds and the heavy boards over Its windows. It had been without life • for a long, long time, but somewhere In It, he knew, life was stirring now. 1 From a side chimney a thin line of smoke curled upward. On the second ' floor, shutters. newly unbolted, hmm : And, yes. there ft was; outside of one of the unshuttered windows, as If I dropped there by a bird, hung a vivid bit ribbon. Rather precipitately Laurie backed his car to a point where he could turn It. and then raced hack to the main road. His primitive impulse had been tn drive up to the entrance, pound the door until some one responded, and then fiercely demand the privilege of seeing Miss Mayo. But that, he knew, would never do. He must get rid of the enr, come back on foot, get into the house In some manner, and from that point meet events as they occurred. Facing this prospect, he experienced nn Incredible combination of emotion* —relief and panic, recklessness and caution, fear and elation. He had ' found her. For the time being, he frantically assured hts trembling Inner self, she was safe. The rest was up to him, and he felt equal to ft. He was Intensely stimulated; for now, at last, In his ears roared the rushing tides of life. CHAPTER XII The House in the Cedar® Less than half a mile back, along the main road, Lnurle found a country garage, in which he left his car. It was In charge of a silent but Intelligent person, a somewhat unkempt and haggard middle-aged man, who agreed to keep the machine out of sight, to have It ready at any moment of the day or night, and to accept a handsome addition to his regular charge In return for his- discretion. He was only mildly Interested In his new patron, for he bad classified him without effort. One of them college boys, this young fc"a wbl-, and up to some lark. Just what form that lark might take was not a problem which stirred Henry Burke's sluggish Imagination. Less than twenty hours before bls seventh had been born; and hfs wdfe was delicate and mikk was seventeen cents a quart, and the garage business was not what It hfid been. To the victim of these obsessing reflections the appearance of a handsome youth who dropped five-doilar bills around as IT they were seed potatoes was in the

hr.fure of a fhltacTe - ftfifan | Ing relief. His mind centered on the i five-dollar bill*, and bls lively Inter- | eat In them assured Lnurle of Burke's j presence in the garage at uy hour when more bills might possibly be dropped. While he was lingeringly lighting a cigarette. Laurie asked a few questions. Who owfied the big bouse back there iu cedar grove, on the bluff overlooking ‘the sound? Burke didn't know. All he knew, and freely told, was that it had been empty ever since he himself had come to the neighborhood, 'piost two years ago. Laurie strolled out of the garage with a well-assuuied air of indiffer- | ence to the perplexities of life, but I his heart wus racked by them. As be I hesitated near the entrance, uncertain 1 which wuy to turn, he saw that be- { hind the garage there wus a tool shed. ! and followiug the side path which I led to this, he found in the rear of the shed a workman's bench, evidently little used In these cold Janu- 1 ary days. Tacitly, It invited the dis- ' coverer to'solitude and meditation, j and Laurie gratefully dropped upon I It, glad of the opportunity to escape ' Burke's eye and uninterruptedly , think things out. But the daisied path of calm reflection was not for I him. them — I (TO BE CONTIKVED,

Mm hi- - ■■■■■ ■— " I IT’S TOMORROW- I I 1:30 p. m. Rain or Shine -- Night Sale 7:15 I AUCTION SALE 50-rDRD MRS-50 I Every One To Be Sold To The Highest Bidder I I One At A Time Regardless Os Price I . -J.il I inir- -r—'»■ !■■■■■■ imii— nvmr -T-r jiuuLii 1 1 Burioh SiiHich tou i'NW -PW Almost any style of Ford will be offered at Auction. The price has been taken off now. | Come and get them for whatever you want to give for them at AUCTION. These cars are on display at the Adams County Auto Co. (Used Car Show Room) now ard will be | demonstrated to anyone calling at the garage before the auction, Thursday afternoon, August 19, 1926. I Practically all of these cars have been re-painted and re-built and are guaranteed to be in good running condition. I An Opportunity To Buy A Good Used Car At I I Your Own Price. Be On Hand I j Tomorrow August 19 j I~>lt/f O sums of SSO and under cash: above that amount | ft/ 40 per cent cash; balance in monthly payments. Adams County Auto Co. . £ Madison Street Authorized Ford Agency Decatur, Indiana

■ ■ ” 11 "" I Huntington To Have . City Swimming Pool i Huntington, Aug. 18. —Plans are b. - < Wig formulated for the construction 1 of a municipal swimming pool, u juvenile wading pool and a rose gar- I I den, as features (of additional Jim. 1 provements in Memorial park, near 1 the city. l r is planned to utilize u 1 rock ba.-dn in the upper section of 1 the creok through the park reservation tor a swimming pool, while a shallower basin in the lower reaches of the park slopes will be constructled into a wading pool for the chll ( ' dren. A rock shelf on the east side I of the sunken garden is to be covered with dirt and a large bed of roses I planted. ■ o Sunday Dance Results in Fine for One Man Hartford City, Aug. 18. —The lead •' of the orchestra at t’.ie Adelphia Gard- . ens dance hall, seven miles north of t here, was fined fl and ccstt. undtr the i name of Richard Roe. fxr desce.ation ‘ of the Sabbath In the court of Justice ’ | Elisha Pierce Monday morning. The charge was Tiled against the <■

orchestra leadre by Prosecutor Hugh Maddox. Fixe other cases of a similai nature filed against the members of the orchestra were dismissed by Prosecutor Maddox. Action of the prosecutor has displeased the farmer: of Washington township, who see In the cases filed by the prosecutor an ittoit to thwart their avowed purposrot co ting the I hall. — ——o Ensigns Killed In Crash Waukeagan, ill., Aug. 18. —(United Press)—Ensigns George Hammer and Edwurd Stone of the Great Lakes naval training school, received fatal injuries today when tne seaplane in which they were riding crashed into Lake Michigan. Both died within an hour after the accident. —o Realty Company Cleared Indianapolis, Ind , 4 Aug. 18.(U.P.> —Exonerating the Adair Realty and Trust company of Atlanta. Ga., of any fraud In connection with the firm's activity in Indiana. Secretary of State, Frederick E. Schortemeier today lifted the suspension imposed on the firm on June 15. when the state chamber es commerce brought charges of 'misrepresentation."

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