Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN HEBE TODAY Hope Rar.ger, daughter of wealthy leering Banger, disapperas after a luncheon with friends at the Plaza. A hundred-thousand-dollar reward la offered by the father for the safe return of hla daughter. Ranger n two friends. Eustioe Higby, attorney, and Jaurez Charley, adventurer. aseiet in the search for Hope. Acting upon directions from Hope's • -uptors. Ranger leave? a hundred thousand dollars' worth of bonds at a place mentioned by the abductors. At Dr. Bristow's sanitarium George Kelsey is detained. He meets Verna Copley, patient, who is supposed to be sister to Anita Copley, nurse. A personage comes to spend some time at the hospital and Dr. Morton tells Betsey that he is called Alderman Higgins NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY aT came at last. Kelsey had been so intent on discovering some underlying motive in the request, that he had not seen the advantage to himself. It was a great light, but still he could not divest himself of doubt. "What’s your game, Doctor?" he asked bluntly. "I wouldn’t pull you out of the water if I you drowning, or rescue you from a burning house. But It’s foolish for a man to cut off his nose to spite his face; and I’m pretty well fed up on lo.ifing. Perhaps. on the understanding that I take over this work solely for my own diversion and advantage, and not in any sense to aid you. I might—?"
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‘HE PUT ME THROUGH ALL KINDS OF TESTS SURPRISES EVERYTHING.” "Put it on any grounds you ulease." Bristow interrupted with a Igniflcant movement of the head. . Shall I expect you here tomorrow morning'.’” ■’ Yes,’’curtly. ’"I'll draw up a sort of schedule tonight of the subjects to be covered, and have it ready to submit to you.” CHARTER XIII Days very seldom go exactly as planned. Brislow hovered about all morning helping lay out the work, consulting books, offering suggestions, keeping Kelsey so busy, that he did not have a moment to slip away from Ids desk and look for the girl, and the afternoon was not much better, it was almost 5 o’clock before he felt free to leave the office and seek her. Most of the patients, he saw, with their attendant nurses, were clustered over at the side of the lawn, interestedly watching the destruction of a -wide section of the wall beyond the encircling hedge. He stood looking on with the others, but his eyes were less engaged with the wall than In sifting the group of spectators for a sight of the girl; and he had about made up his mind that she was not present, when he finally saw her sitting on a stone bench a little removed from the rest. Kelsey looked about for the omnipresent nurse, but she was nowhere
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|in sight; so he walked boldly over and seated himself on the bench. He felt the girl start and turn, but he did not glance at her. With his elbow on his crossed knee, chin in hand, he sat watching the demolition of the wall. ‘‘Where is Miss Copley?” he asked under his breath. “Ill,” she answered. ‘‘She's got a sick headache. Another of the nurses is supposed to be looking after me, but she’s busy now. “Oh,” she went on in a fervent whisper, "I’ve prayed that you would come today. I’ve dared so much on the strength of it. It was so necessary that I should see you.” “And also, that I should see you.” he broke in. “I have news. Bristow has engaged me to help him in the preparation of some magazine articles. I will be in his office, in a position to know everything that goes on. Perhaps—?“ “Wait"’ she interrupted. “Before any one comes, I have something I want to give you.” She cast a searching glance about; and then slipped a folded paper from between the sheets of her pad. letting it fall on the seat between them, screened by her frock. He dropped his hand over it. and with deft sleight-of-hand transferred it !o his pocket, bringing up in its stead a cigaret. “It's safe,” he assured her. “And now tell me about your work with Bristow,” she said. He did so briefly, explaining the features connected with it that might inure to their benefit. “Also.” he went on, “I have found out about Higgins as you asked me to.” “Oh, yes?” But the interest she had shown the day before in the decrepit old man seemed to have waned. "He's hand in glove with Bristow,” said Kelsey, concluding his sketchy report. “And I have no doubt is just as big a crook.’ “And Copley, too.” added the girl with conviction. “They’re all three crooks together.” Kelsey himself had much the same t:?eas. but be hadn’t wanted to say it. Strange, that she should speak so of her sister. But already her thoughts seemed to have turned in another direction. She was gazing again at the gap in the wall. “Do you know anything of Dr. Bristow's engagements?” she asked unexpectedly. He shook his head. “Only, that I beard him tell his secretary, he would be attending a dinner of the Medical Society in town tomorrow night.” “Tomorrow nightP’ For some rea son, this seemed to her extremely important. “And Copley’s sick headache will last two or three days; they always do.” She spoke musingly as if the two facts to her held some connection. Fearing that he had already stayed too long with her. and knowing of nothing else to be said. Kelsey rose to .go: but she detained him with a quick gesture. ‘‘Wait!’’ He could see that her fingers were trembling as she guided her pencil; there was an excited tremor in her voice. “I must see you tomorrow. Don’t let anything prevent. I have an idea. We may be able to get away.” He nodded. A nurse was moving toward them, and he dared not linger. “I will lay off about noon, and find you.” He was eager of course to see what the message she had given him contained, hut he deliberately held himself in check. He ate his dinner, talked an hour or so with Morton, and it was not until he was safe In his room and had taken every precaution against surprise, that he ventured to look at it.
“I was brought here,’’ it began without preamble. “I don’t knowhow. The next day—lt must have been the next day—Dr. Bristow told me that I had been very ill and was In a hospital, but that I would see my father and mother soon. I believed what he said for a little while. But when the effects of the drug wore off— I felt well and strong. My parents did not come, there were excuses. I insisted on going home. Dr. Bristow and the Copley woman wouldn’t let me. When I tried to go. they prevented me by force. I screamed and struggled. Then the doctor put a strong drug into my arm. These scenes happened several times, and always ended In the same way. They never let me get out of that one room. Then one day when Copley thought I was asleep, 1 hard her talking outside my door to another nurse. This woman said: ‘ls your sister getting any better?” and Copley an swered in a weep-y voice. ‘No; she ll never be any better. I’m afraid.’ They talked a while, and then the other nurse said, ‘lf you were a little younger , dearie, and hadn’t been here for years, I’d try and get the hundred thousand dollars reward for that missing Hope Ranger. You’re almost a dead ringer for her.’ “Then it all flashed over me. what they were doing; why I, Hope Ranger, was In this plaoe—” The sheets of the letter shook in Kelsey’s hands. "After I heard these women talking and understood what It meant, I nearly went mad trying to think what to do. I had already tried to bribe Copley, but she is In love with Bristow and absolutely ruled by him. So I Just sat thinking: plans, plans seething through my brain—” "I know all about that," muttered Kelsey, as he paused to turn the page. Then she quickly resumed: "I was so furious, so despairing, so bent on finding some way out, that I wouldn’t even look at those two, the only persons I saw. I wouldn’t speak to them, or notice them in any way. They couldn’t understand the reason for the change in me. and were surprised. I saw them exchanging glances. And then it camt to me, I don’t know- how, that if I pretended to be silly and not remember anything, they might let me out of that 'room and go about as I saw the others doing from my window. "T worked up another scene with Copley, when I know the doctor was away. I fought to get out the door, and, when she gave me the drug to quiet me. I accused her of having given me an over dose In her excite-
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ment. She denied it, but Was both ere-d. Then I pz-etended to He in a stupor for almost an entire day. When I came to, I acted as If I were stu pid, as If I were someone else. 1 said I was a writer and asked for pencils and paper, and wrote pages of nonsense. "I heard Bristow talking to Copley. ‘Shamming,’ he said at first, but she was convinced by this time that she had given me an over dose, and flnallv got him to thinking so, too. I heard him explaining to her about ’shock’ and something about *a congenitally weak brain.’ She was upset about It all, but he told her, 'Better sd. If It’s true.’ "He put me through all kinds of tests —surprises, everything. It was dreadful, but my nerves are strong, and I was fighting for my life. He talked to me about my parents, my home. T was Indifferent. Then he got to trying to make me remember things that aren’t true. He told me my name was Verna Copley, and I repeated it after them like a parrot. I have only forgotten my pose with them once. That was when Copley tried a hat on me and I caught a glimpse of myself and burst out laughing. But it was so grotesque that, even an Imbecile would have laughed. “I have been afraid to make myself known to any one. To say that lam Hope Ranger would only convince most people that I am the lunatic I appear. But T am Hope Ranger, I am. And I know that you will believe me. just as I believed you.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) No serious earthquake has been felt In England since 1350
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For the first time in history, th< Johnson County board of educatioi uas ruled that no township teacher may attend the State Teachers’ Association convention to be held at In'J ianapo Us. Mrs. Ida. M. Hedgewood, Conner, vllle, is the new president of thi Women’s Relief Corps of the Fourtl. District. The 1924 convention will bi neld at Columbus. Smith W. Brookhart, United States Senator from lowa, Is expected to speak at IT. Wayne Oct. 14. The oc caaion is a Farmer-Labor demon •straticn. Members of Clinton County lodges, Knights of Pythias, plan a reception soon for Elmer Bassett, ShelbyviHe attorney and new head of the Indiana Grand Lodge. Golfers from Greenville, Portland, Union City and Winchester will hold a tournament. The four-city match la scheduled for next Sunday. Columbus members of the American Legion are planning a club home. Aid of either the Red Cross or the county commissioners In buying the property is sought. The Kendalvllle city council has voted $46,000 for the Improvement of the city light plant. Many friends and relatives paid
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bershlp teams hop* to increase the total to 300. The new six-year high school building at Lebanon has been oompleted and classes are moving in.