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BEGIN HERE TODAY Hope Ranger is held prisoner in a sanitarium eondueted by a group ol criminals called the ‘Combine.” Dr. Kelsey is detained in the same hospital because he knows of criminal dealings of the superintendent, Dr. Bristow. Hope and Kelsey escape in Bristow's car. The two take refuge in an abandoned house. _ While Kelsey sleeps Hope Hears Bristow's voice and knows that he lias followed them. Hope surrenders to Bristow and tells him that Kelsey has abandoned her. * Bristow goes to consult with his partner. Nurse Copley, and with Aiderman Higgins, the real head of the “Combine.” Jaurez Charley, adventurer and friend of Ranger, is following on a motorcycle a clew leading to the sani- / tarium. NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY H l-- ’ IGGINS considered this; but, having neither objection nor . suggestion to offer, turned to another phase of the situation. "How about this cockroach with the motorcycle?” he demanded. “What’s he up to, since he got turned out of the calaboose?” "Saving his hide, I fancy. He knows enough to haj'e a very wholesome respect for that message you sent him. They said he went to pieces badly, when he saw it, and he told Simonds that this part of—the country wouldn't see him soon again.” Bristow thought a minute. “The whole point is this," he said finally. /‘What Juarez Charlie may know or suspect is immeaterial: we can take care of him, if necessary'. But what he nay have toldJianger is another kettle of fish. I hold, though, that every indication points to his having said little or nothing.” Hobo Bill pondered this, thoughtfully rubbing his great, protuberant knuckles. /

HIS FACE WAS PURPLE, HIS BODY QUIVERING. HIS ARMS BEATING ON HIS CHAIR. “You want to be a Master Mind!” He poured out a stream of obscene abuse. "What did you do when you ketched that Kelley gettin’ an earful on you? If I’d ’a’ been here, he’d have been jolted off so quick, 'twould have made his hair curl. Anita saw it was the only thing to do. But you wouldn't listen to her. You was running things. You wanted to try an experiment, and handle the matter on smoother, more scientific lines. A nice mess your scientific handling has got us into.” | He choked, unable to go on. His face was purple, his great, sagging body shaking and quivering, his arms heating on his chair. Anita Copley was at his side. Bending over him she tried to quiet him.

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Bristow stood aloof, whitefaced and very stifT. The gust of fury subsided as suddenly as it ha;d arisen. Higgins, after catching his breath, lay back in his chair. The burple slowly receded from his face, and left it gray and impassive once more. His hands ceased shaking, and again rested motionless on the arms of his chair. When he spoke at last, it was in his usual grating monotone; hut the settled, impervious quiet, of his voice was more alarming than his outburst of anger. "We can’t take no more chances,” he said. “We'll end this Ranger job tonight.” "You mean—?” Anita Copley asked sharply. "There won’t be no such person tomorrow.” CHAPTER XXV One coujd have heard a pin drop. There was dead silence In the room, but it vibrated with the clash of opposing wills. Anita Copley had dropped her lids, but the glitter of her eyes showed beneath her lashes. She was watching Bristow. They were waiting for him, Higgins ready to negative anything he said. Anita longing for him to expostulate, that she might have the satisfaction of deciding against him. But even in this pass, he took pleasure in thwarting them, in following the opposite tack from the one they expected. "Ah? Extreme measures?” He spoke quietly, implying by his tone that Higgins had not given a final decree, but had suggested an expedient which was open for discussion. “Well, If that is the only recourse, I am for It. But to give up without a struggle at this stage, to charge off so promising an enterprise as a dead loss —” Higgins’ wrinkled hand fumbled up to his chin. He showed that in spite of himself, Bristow's arguments had given him pause to think. “You talk like you had something a’ready up your sleeve,” he squinted shrewdly through his glasses. "Judgin’ by recent performances, ’tain't probably worth hell room. But I’ll listen. What’s your big idea, Doc? Spring it.” Bristow laughed deprecatingly. "You could hardly dignify it by calling it an idea. Just a suggestion that’s been floating around in my mind while we've been talking. It's scarcely formed yet. It will take you to put it in shape, and work out the details.” Bristow paused the wink of an eyelash, and then plunged. "My idea, is, return Hope Ranger to her father.” If he had been seeking to create a dramatic effect, he could not have succeeded better. Miss Copley’s lowered lids shot up. She expelled her breath in a gasp that sounded like a hiss. Higgins reared back in his chair. Bristow ignored it. “Suppose then.” he was talking directly to Higgins, “instead of working under cover, and following our original plan of getting all we can out of Ranger, and then putting the girl out of the way, we come boldly into the open? We notify him that we have reason to suspect his daughter is held here as a patient. We give him and his wife the opportunity to identify and observe her. But \y;e do not let her see or speak to them. We explain that the shock might be disastrous in her present condition. Meanwhile, we are doing everything possible for the girl. We enlarge her privileges, give her the tenderest care, distract her mind, buoy up her spirits, and eventually cure her. Don’t you imagine that her parents will be so grateful, fjiat no fee I could name would seem exorbitant? “More than that, I can easily convince them that she will require constant, trained supervision to prevent a recurrence of the neurosis. AlderfTian. we can capitalize that girl Into an annual income. I'll occupy the position of family friend and benefactor, with all the business and social opportunities that the term implies.” “All very nice.” Higgins ran his fingers through his straggling, gray hair. “Got some points, too. But how the devil, Doc, are you ever going to explain her bein’ here, or square this up with your passin’ her off as Anita’s sister?” N "Dh. that?” He examined his fingernails. “Why, Anita will simply have to disappear. Go to Tokio, or Buenos Aires, or some other charming place, and enjoy herself. Then we can very plausibly say. that we were imposed on by one of our nurses, who introduced the dazed girl here as he' sister. Our suspicions became aroused; but before we could ques tion the- nurse, she got frightened and took French leave. We can frame up a suicide for her. if it’s necessary.” The Copley woman’s agitation, which had been steadily rising, suddenly broke all bounds. She flung herself forward to face Bristow, her features controlled, her eyes burning. “So that’s your beautiful scheme, it it?” The low, restrained speech which she so carefully affected gave way to her patural coarse shrillness. “I’m to be the goat, and shoulder all the blame, am I? I’m to be conveniently shunted out of the way, so that you can carry on your love affair? Well, not by a damn’ sight, Harvey Bristow!” “I ought to order you into a straitjacket.” He looked at her with cold scorn. "You’re a candidate for the violent ward, with your hysterical delusions. It’s all too absurd to answer. “Alderman. I ask you,’’ he appealed ter the old man. "who was It that first proposed this abduction? Whose idea was it? We all remember the day Anita .came home chuckling, because a salesgirl in a shop had mistaken her for Hope Ranger/’ "Yes, and you set right to work to see how you could do me and the Alderman.” “No, my dear: it was you who did that. Do you think I haven’t fathomed what is in that warped, calculating brain of yours? Loring Bangui and his wife,” significantly, ‘‘Mght soon die—the weight of grief ■'Hi} nM that von could appear

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as the missing daughter, and lay claim to the estate.” The old man, scowling in his chair, ..ad listened keenly to their exchange of aspersions. Now he seemed to weary of it, and leaning forward, he banged down his fist. “Shut up you two,” he ordered. “We've had enough of this. I’ll settle what’s to be done.” He glanced from one to the other, reflecting. “What you’ll do, Anita,” he laid down his directions, “is dress the Ranger girl in your nurse’s clothes —everything, mind you, shoes, .stockings and all —while you get Into he 's, and take her place. Then she, passing off as you. will go out tonight on an automobile ride and have a fatal accident, all smashed up beypnd hope of recognition. Anita Copley will be dead, and Verna Copley, the crazy sister, will be left on our hands, with no relatives to look after her. We’ll get in anew nurse that don’t know neither of you to take care of her; but of course we can’t keep a dependent girl In an expensive joint like this. And so in a day or two, we ship her off to a public asylum, where she—that is, you—can get well as soon as you please. Then let Loring Ranger, or anybody else come snooping around here, if they want to. There ain’t nothin’ to be found out.” She'-considered his proposal, eyeing him doubtfully, and then nodded her assent. “I’ll take it on,” she said; “but, if you two are double-crossing me, God help you.” “There’s only one point that bothers me,” Higgins debated. “How’re we going to get this girl out to the

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

Charging his wife slept with a butLlier knife under her pillow and often threatened him. Robert .McCliah, Redkey, filed suit for divorce from Mrs. Alice McClish. When the children of Mr. and Mrs. William Lee, Green sburg, with tears in their eyes begged the father to come back is he started to leave the family after the mother had won her divorce case, the couple was reunited. The suit was dismissed. Ground is to be broken for Newcastle’s new $240,000 Y. W. C. A. building about No v. 1. Plans follow the Italian Renaissance style of architecture. * A goal of $185,000 is aimed at in Ft. Wayne during the community fund campaign during the week of Oct. 22. No other drives are to be made during the year. That his wife tore up his clothes and broke dishes Is alleged by Lewis F. Stilwell, Marion, in asking a divorce from Elnora Stilwell. Clinton Chamber of Commerce Is automobile, so it looks like she goes willingly, and of her own accord?” “Oh, I’ll fix that!” the woman promised. “I’ll tell her she’s going to drive with Dr. She threw him a glance venomously triumphant. ‘‘She'll go lilM a lamb.” (Continued in Our Next Issue

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Athenaeum tonight when 200 candidates will be initiated. Since the installation of the Indianapolis chapter two years ago with 500 members, the chapter has tripled Its , membership. Elmo Richey, Edward Gaumer and Marshal Dafoe are the officers. All Master Masons are cordially invited to be present at the ceremonies. Candidates are asked to report at the Athenaeum not later than 7 o'clock. • Population of London is only 18,700 —that’s the city proper. Japan experiences an average of 1,300 earthquake shocks a year.

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