Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Hope Ranger is abducted and her father. Loring Ranger, offers a reward of one hundred thousand dollars for his daughter's return. Receiving a letter from the abductors. Ranger deposits a hundred thousand dollars' worth of bonds in a specified place according to instructions. Jaurez Charlie, adventurer, is a warm friend of Ranger. He' goes on a quiet . Hunt for Hope. Following a clew given by a girl. Charlie rides toward the Bristow sanitarium on his motorcycle. He comes | across Hope and Dr. Kelsey, who have I escaped from the sanitarium in Dr. I Bristow’s car. The car is wrecked and Kelsey is inlured. Charlie rides for a physician and Hope and Kelsey hide in an abandoned house belonging to Hope's father. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ** L— J ELL, they’re not in the attic nor yet on this floor; we -Z.- J know that." said a voice. ‘‘And Kelly and Weeks don’t seem to have had any better luck downstairs and in the cellar.” The sound of their voices grew fainter. Then they heard other voices raised in argument in the hail downstairs. There was more movement, and finally the banging of the front door. The men ■•• were gone. Hope and Kelsey waited in that unearthly silence for-a long time: someone might have been left behind. might even be in the room. At last, careful not to make the least noise, she slid back the panel and looked out. She made small, rustling noises opening the cracker box. "Good thing I. brought a knife. I’m a wise, old campaigner.” She stifled her laughter. “Oh, it’s hard to spread jam in the dark Give me your hand.”

A THIN, ELDERLY MAN GOT OUT AND STEPPED TOWARD BRIS V TOW. Their fingers touched, and she laid a cracker in his palm. ‘T’ve never tasted anything quite so good,” he affirmed, f “Nor I. The.crackers are musty, but it improves the flavor.” “Yoti were wonderful to think of them. But you always are—the most wonderful—” His voice broke He caught her,'and held her to him erushingly. “You’re safe—still safe. What a night!” He buried his face in her hair. “But they haven't got you. If they do, thy’ll .have to kill me first.” Her arms were about his neck, her cheek ‘‘l almost killed you with that car,” she said. “If I had, I shouldn't have eared It they had taken me.” She ran her light fingers over his eyes. ”H£s dear, broken heady* she said tenderly. ;v * , “Oh!” She drew back with a sudden recollection. “I forgot; we both forgot. That envelope those men gave us!” She struck a macth. The light made them blink. He ripped open the envelope.

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“Liberty bonds!” with a gasp. “A bunch of them.” v She struck another match, and held It until it burned her fingers. “An even hundred thousand dollars,” he said in an awed tone “Ten bods of 10,000 apiece.” “A hundred thous—!” She clutched his shoulder. “Why, that’s my ransom. It must be it.” “We re going to get out of here,” he said stoutly. “They’ll be searching the woods for a while yet, but they’ll get tired of that. Then will be our chance to slip out. Are you : sleepy?” “No; I’m too excited.” “Well, I am. No sleep for two nishts, and-this crack over my head. Here, take my watch, and wake me at the end of an hour. Then you must sleep for the same time. We’ll need clear heads and all our strength, once we get started.” “Let me see the time.” She struck another match. “It’s just 11 o'clock. I’ll wake you promptly at 12. Now go by-by.” Kelsey stretched himself out, and she slipped a cushion under his head. Almost at once he was asleep. CHAPTER XX Hope sat in the cramped dark space beside the sleeper, her chin on her drawn-up knees, her hands clasped about them, listening to his slow, regular breathing. She drew out the watch and glanced at its luminous dial. Onlyten minutes after 11. She resumed her musings Just when she became conscious of the approach of a motor she could not tell. She debated a moment whether to wake Kelsey, but deciding to make sure first that an actual danger threatened them, she softly pushed back the panel and slipped out into the room and over to the window. The ear. a speedy' roadster containing two men, whirled in at the gate and up the weed-grown drive, and stopped with a grinding of the brakes almost directly beneatn her. Out from the shadow of the porch came a man and walked toward it. Kelsey's prudence In not leaving their retreat too soon was justified. The searchers left someone on guard. The driver of the car jumped out to meet him; and as they moved forward into the glare of the headlamps. Hope shrank back trembling. The figure in the long, light motor coat was Bristow. Never taking her eyes off them, and with Infinite pains. Hope unlatched the- window and raised the lower sash a fraction. By a miracle it lifted easily, and without a squeak. Kneeiing on the floor, she laid her

ear close to the sill. The voices floated up to her distinctly. “No doubt about their having given you boneheads the slip,” Bristow was saying. He did not raise his voice nor storm, but the man cringed at his tone. “You’re sure, they didn’t get inlo the house?” “I don't see how they could have. We went over It with a flne-tocth comb.” “Then it’s no use spending further time here. You say the others have been down in the woods for an hour? That ought to be long enough to look under every bush and behind every stump. Call them in.” The man drew a "whistle from his pocket and blew piercingly cn it. Bristow was tramping up and down the drive below. She saw him step short and turn his head toward the road in the direction opposite to that which he himself had come. She caught at the same time the thrumming of another motor. “Who’s that?” Bristow exclaimed. He had not long to wait for his answer. The car. -i physician’s runabout. turned in at the gate and drove up. A thin, elderly man got ..out and stepped toward Bristow. “Ah, Dr. . Creamer; you?” Bristow reverted to his more suave and courteous manner, although there was interrogation In his tone. “I see you got ahead of me,” said the other. “Was it a serious injury?” “Injury?” Bristow stared at him. “I don’t know what you're talking about. I’m out after two runaway patients.” '‘So?” Creamer clicked his tongue commlseratingly. “But I got a call to come out here to an automobile a- - I was away from my office at the time.” His voice like hlmseV was rather mild and vague. “Oh. I see.” Bristow nodded. “That must have been r.y two patients. They took my ,r and made kindling-wood of It jr the other side of the hedge there. But,” abruptly, ‘ who gave you word of this accident. Doctor?” “Well, tha* was the funny part of it,” Cream r began In his slow way. “I was ou>_ on a call, and when I got back Jiy wife told me that Tom Simond’ he garage man, had been trying o get me. I called Tom up, and he fid that about 10 o’clock some fellow on a motorcycle had come dashi: up to his place and wanted to know how to get to the nearest doctor, raying there had been a terrible APt.dent out this way—car overturned with a man and a women In it, the woman apparently not hurt but the man either dead or dying.” “Did Simonds know this man on the motorcycle?” Bristow interjected. “That's the joke I was just coming to. Tom, it seems, had been talking over the wire to his brother Ben not two minutes before. You

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and started a garage up in Westchester County. Well, he had been' swindled earlier in the evening by a slick stranger that came along and sold him an imitation meerschaum pipe. He gave Tom a description of the chap, and asked him to look out for him if he ever happened to come this way. And, sir, Torn had hardly got through talking to him and rung off, when in popped the identical fellow with this story of the accident. “Tom’s a deputy sheriff. you know, and he walked Mr. Swindler right over to the calaboose. He wasn’t inclined to take much stock in anything the fellow said, but the man was so persistent about this accident, that he finally telephoned to me.”

“When I get my flown birds, I may drop over and have a talk with the feUow. At present I'm too busy directing the search. We tracked them to the point where they had overturned the car. but since then they seem to have vanished into the air. It’s certain they're not in the house, and we’ve been going through the woods for over an hour without any results." “Look here, Doctor,” Creamer laid his hand on Bristow’s arm; “wasn’t It from the Rose heirs that Loring Ranger bought this property? I’ve got a sort of a dim recollection of a story I heard when I first started in practice here, that one of the Pcee houses was built with a secret hid-ing-place in it for escape from the Indians.” “What?” Bristow's voice like the clang of steel on iron. "You see,” he explained to Cream-

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

An address by Gypsy Smith, evangelist, proved the feature of the Indiana W. C. T. U. convention at Frankfort Sunday. Thousands attended. A garage at Shelbyville has marked lines on the street and arranged a place where motorists may test brakes on their cars before being called before the police for such a test. Clinton police charge W. E. Moore, 23, attempted to hold up George Minnett at his miners’ supply

er, "I've got to get those two without loss of time. Yhe woman is a sister of my head nurse, Misa Copley. She’s in a terrible state about the girl. The man is dangerous—marked homicidal mania. He made a, murderous attack on me just before ha left. I don’t dare to think what may happen.’* Hope knelt at the window frozen Into Immobility. That was the end of their brave adventure. They would be taken. She realized It Impersonally, the whole ignomlnous capture; but it didn't seem to mean anything to her. One great, heaving sob broke through her lipa. In the pocket of her Jacket was a pencil and some of the paper she had used In her senseless scribbling. Hastily she wrote on one of the sheets: (Continued in Our Next Issue)

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