Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1923 — Page 8

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F CHAPTER I H*“ OPE RANGER walked down the hall to her mother’s sitting room. The moment she had passed inside fend closed the door behind her, a (nan servant stepped out of the autofcaatic life a little further along the fcorridor and followed her noiselessly, lie had some letters on a tray, but it Apparently was not his intention to deliver them at once. Instead, he paused close to the sitting room door, fein head Inclined, listening. As Hope entered, her mother looked tip with a smile from some notes she Vbjs writing. “Going out, darling?” she asked. “I’m to meet Lucia at the Piaza,” Sope explained. “Her mother will i there with some people, but we Shan’t bother with them. After luncheon, they are going on to a tnatinee —that is, Lucia and her mother are—but it’s 'Philander,' and I’ve seen it three times, you know. Bo I begged off. I’ll pick up some veils and a few things I need, and then home.”

HOPE TURNED FROM THE INSPECTION OF HERSELF IN THE GLASS. The man outside had his ear Against the door now, unwilling to tnlss a word of the conversation; but Et the same time his eyes were watchig alertly along the fyall and down the staircase. “I don't know, though,” Hope reconsidered, "but that I’d better drop Into Silcott's and hurry him up with those fittings. If by any miracle he ts ready, I could telephone you to pome down. Or, better still, come to Juncheon with us, and then go there Jtrtth me. Do, mother,” she urged. "No-o; I’ll not tag. You jand Lucia “Will enjoy yourselves more alone. Besides, I’ve no end of things to look after. Are you driving down, dear?” “I need the walk,” Hope shrugged lightly. “My skin is crying for air and exercise.” She scrutinized her reflection in a dim mirror with a Quaint, tarnished gift frame. Everything in this Intimate room of Mrs. Ranger’s was old and faintly tarnished. In her days she hful been a beauty. Southern as her name, Mary Louise Beauchamp Carter—poor as poverty with generations of 'Wealth behind her —born to a leaking family roof-tree, old family silver, old family pictures, old family servants, the latter dwindled in number until pone remained. Her mother had pinned her last pope to Mary Lou; but before the Cash girl was 20 she had lost her neafl over a rising young nobody at 811, Loring Ranger, with less background than a chipmunk and no particularly substantial foreground, and had recklessly married him. Mrs. Garter shed tears steadily, and only abandoned them for equally steady smiles when she realized the genius of her son-in-law for making money hand over hand —lucky hands that turned everything they touched into gold. Then, completely reconciled, she give them her blessing, bestowed Upon them the family heirlooms and departed this life in peace. Hope turned now from the inspection of herself in the glass. Mischievously she ruffled her mother’s sleek head, cuffing her affectionately first on one ear and then on the other, and, bending down, kissed her cheek. “Goodby.” “Oh, wait a moment!” Mrs. Ranger caught her hand. “I forgot to tell

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you, your father won’t be home this evening. He’s having some out-of-town men at the club. Why shouldn’t you and I do a play?” “No reason on earth.” Hope nodded. "Choose something neither of us has seen. A slushy, weepy one—the kind you like.’ She had reached the door when her mother stopped her again. “You’ll telephone from Silcott’s you say, if he’s ready for your fittings? That will be about three o’clock, I suppose?" “Or even earlier.” The man servant was at the head of the stairs with his tray of letters as Hope came out. “Anything for me, Fitch?” "No, Miss Ranger; they’re all for Mrs. Ranger." Hope ran down the stairs. A moment later she wns walking through the cross-street on which they lived, and at the corner she turned down Fifth Ave. She walked on down the avenue, and crossing over at Fifty-Ninth St., arrived at the Plaza Just as her friend, Lucia Thorne, and the latter’s mother alighted from a limousine which had drawn up before the entrance. Meanwhile, the man who had been listening at the keyhole stole furtively out of the house by an area door and made his way to a telephone station in the back of a nearby store. CHAPTER II A western manufacturer, one of I/O ring Ranger's two guests at dinner that evening, was Just reaching the point of a story which had been interrupted by frequent bursts of laughter when the club hallboy approached the table and Informed Mr. Ranger that he was wanted on the telephone. Ranger laid down the cigar he had lighted. He made his way through the dining room, a big, good-looking, dominant man .and into a telephone-booth. “Loring!” His wife’s voice came qu&veringly over the wire. "Oh. I am so glad to get you. I’m terribly worried. Hope went out this morning and hasn’t come back yet. And It is 9 o'clock." “Where did she go?" he asked. “To have luncheon with Lucia Thome. Then she expected to do an errand or two and come home.” Ranger laughed easily. “She’s gone to some party with Lucia. Probably she telephoned, and they’ve neglected to give you the message."

“No,” Mrs. Ranger’s tone was positive. “I’ve questioned ail of the servants. Then I called up the Thornes. Mrs. Thome says that Hope left them a few minutes after 2, telling them just what she told me, about attending to her errands and then coming home. She and I were going to a play this evening.” "Now, now, Mary Lou,” he spoke soothingly, “there’s no reason to get excited. “You know as well as I do that Hope’s perfectly able to look out for herself—no one better.” But he was frowning as he uttered the reassuring words; the Incident disturbed him more than he cared to have his wife know. “You’re all in,” he said, pretending to be concerned only on her occount; “so I’m coming home at once. If she isn’t there before I am, I’ll trace her for you in no time." He glanced at his watch as he hung up the receiver. Twenty minutes after nine. He lost no time in excusing himself to his guests, and, hurrying out to a taxi, told the chauffeur to take him home, and "step on It." Making a brave effort to control her agitation, Mrs. Ranger recounted as faithfully as she could the conversation between Hope ar 1 herself that morning and the program the girl had outlined for her movements. Ranger, who had listened intently to her report, gave a puzzled shake of the head, and, stepping Into the hall, spoke to the butler. “I’ve sent for Higby,” he said, returning. "He’ll probably laugh at us as a couple of fools. But I don’t care. We need the cool advice of an outsider.” Eustace Higby was Ranger’s attorney and a warm friend of the family, with on apartment only half a block away. “The trouble Is. we’ve given her too free a hand, Mary Lou,” Ranger grumbled. “Ah!” starting up as he heard the hall door close. "There she is now!” But it was Higby, the lawyer, not Hope, who, in response to the butler's direction turned Into the library. "Something wrong?” he asked sharply. But as the explanation proceeded, the lines about his eyes began to crinkle, and at the finish, as Ranger j had predicted, he gave a mirthful chuckle. "I’m atlsfled you two are making a mountain out of a very insignificant molehill,” he insisted optimistically. "Still, to relieve all of our minds. I’ll make sure.” He busied himself at the telephone, his investigations lasting some time, owing to the extreme care he took to avoid any opportunity for publicity; but in the end he was able to announce that no young woman answering to the description of Hope Ranger had been reported at any of the hospitals or station-houses of the city as the victim of an accident or sudden illness. The lawyer sat thinking, pulling at his chin. Then he got up with an air of decision and raeched for his hat. “I’m going down to talk to Lucia Thome," he said. “She was the last person we know of that Hope saw, and her most intimate friend, wasn’t she? Well—” in answer to Mrs.

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