Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1924 — Page 8

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BtXilN HERE TODAY Sallie Peek, employe of the Fair Deal Five & Ten. quarrels with her policeman sweetheart. Michael Curtis. That night a storm comes up ami Sallic volunteers to tke -lown a washing left hanging iu the yard by Ma Brennan, with whom the gi-1 lives. A crash shakes the earth and something strikes Sallie a blow on the head. When she regains consciousness Sal - lie finds herself in strange surroundings, handsomely furnished. She is waited upon by a maid named. Therese and a nurse. Miss Tidmarsh. They cal] Sallie by the name of Alva Copeland. Madame Copeland. a tail, richly gowned woman, comes in and calls Sailie her step-daughter. She tells the girl that she was injured in a train wreck. Sa lie is taken downstairs to see Cousin Wheeler and. when a Mrs. De'.apierre is announced Madame Copt - land goes into another room to receive her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ft r—IAS Aunt Flo told you about HJlrs. Delapierre?” Sloat had moved a low chair close to hers and his peculiar eyes were regarding- her with a penetrating stare. “You seemed surprised when she was announced.” “Did I?” Sallie shrugged. "I don't feel as though much would surprise me. lately! But tell me about the v. reck.” “Don’t you recall any of it—Alva?” He hitched his chair a trifle nearer. “Nothing of what's been told me — jet.” She e>-ed him steadily. “I'd like to know how you happened to find me.” “Naturally my first thought was of you!” Sloat responded quickly. “Your mother and Therese were safe but you were buried under a heap of wreckage that had caught fire from the engine of the train which ran Into ours and it was a miracle that I could manage to reach you in time, for people were being burned to death ali around you! It was horrible!” Sallie glanced at him in amazement for the note of bravado had left his tone and it sqook slightly as though with some genuine feeling, hut his face expressed only a sickened revulsion. "It must have been fierce!” she echoed with a little shiver. “I guess people could easy get mixed up, dying like that, and maybe buried for somebody else.” “What made you think of that?” he demanded. “Oh, I don’t know.” Sallie was looking into the fire and she spoke as though to herself. "It might be kinder hard to tell ’em apart—afterwards. Why. suppose somebody else had found me and I’d waked up as the doctors were afraid I was going

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to, without even being wise to who 1 was myself? I mightn’t even be who people doped it out I was!” “What do you mean?” He turned again and fixed his oblique gaze on ! her, then forced a laugh. “That (would be absurd! Mistakes like that I don't happen, Alva!” “Did you ring, miss?” The voice |of the footman ©'itch sounded from ; the doorway. “Shall I take away the j tea?” • Sloat turned, his small mustache bristling, but before he could speak Sallie replied: “Yes, please.” There was something more than mere curiosity in the covert glance j the man cast at her as he obeyed and 1 SALLIE SMOOTHED OUT THE FRAGMENT. Sallie wondered anew, but nothing ' more was said until he hail gone. 1 i Then Sloat exclaimed: “That fellow's too confoundedlj' officious! I'm going to tell Aunt Flo to i get rid of him!” “I didn't remember that you were j in as strong as that with her!” Sallie j laughed. "She did tell me how slick | >-ou fixed it out there where the aeci- - dent happened to get us all away so quick ” * "Good heavens!" Sloat's tone bordered on exasperation, “lion't let us go back to that awful affair!” “All right.” Sallie replied obligingly. I “I don't believe in crape-hanging my-' self, hu. what else have we got to talk about?" “You!” H<* rested his arm along the small table behind his chair and hers. “Do you know, Alva. I like you lietter —in this mood —than I ever did j before? I think we are going to understand each other.” “Haven't we alwaj's?" she asked. “Not as thoroughly as we shall." | i He looked down the length of his long •nose at her “You’ve got common j sense and nerve, and you’re ever so j much prettier in spite of y-our 111- ! ness !*’ “Am I?” His arm was moving slow : ly toward her along the table top, but j Sallie scorned to budge an Inch. She j wondered w'hich of his eyes was looki ing straight at her. and choosing one I gazed steadily back into it. “I do hope you ain't going to do what you were told not to!" “Who ?” He drew back slightly in surprise. “What was I told not } to do?” “Make me tired.” He removed his arm and an ugly j expression crossed his face, but he i checked himself in time and observed j mockingly-: “I should be sorry to do that —little | cousin. You seem to have forgotten ! more than I thought and perhaps I ! had better remind you—!” “I hope I have not been long!” j I Mrs. Copeland entered hurriedly and i her anxious gaze traveled from her nephew’s irritated countenance to I the girl's serene one. “Alva, my; j dear. I am sure you ought to rest I now: I will send Miss Tidmarsh to , you. Wheeler, you are dining here. iof course? You know Mr. Bellows | may be with us later.” “Thanks .Aunt Flo." He nodded carelessly, but the gleam of resent i ment had not yet died from his eyes, i “Had Mrs. Delapierre any news?" “A vague clew, but a most arnaz- ! ing coincidence—!” She broke off. | “Come, my dear.” The girl had already risen and to avoid shaking hands wlttl Sloat she j nodded and smiled at him over her j shoulder as she moved quickly tor ward the door. “Don’t forget those things you were < going to remind me of, the next time I see you!” "That twill be tomorrow, I hope.'* He bowed, but his mustache lifted | slightly. “I shall not forget!” Mrs. Copeland closed the door bej hind them and remarked as she led ! che way back to the bedroom: “I hope you have not been quarrel- ; ing with your cousin. You will "not j find it wise to do that." I “Quarreling? Oh. no. He gets me perfectly!" Sallie stopped with a little , gasp, foi Mrs. Copeland had opened the bedroom door and then stepped aside for the girl to enter without , noticing the tiny scrap of newspaper ; which lay just over the sill. It mjght | have come there by accident or design. bfct Sallie promptly put her foot on it and slid it along. ‘T don’t need to bother Miss Tidmarsh or anybody-. I can get to bed by myself and I’m going to take ' these slippers off first of all; they hurt!” Seating herself flat on the floor with her back to Mrs. Copeland Sallie deftly palmed the bit of paper and then removing the maligned slip- ; pers she tossed them carelessly aside. "Therese will have them changed for you tomorrow." The older wornj an spoke quickly, in evident anxiety !to get back to the sitting room. “I I will look in on you in a little while.” ; The door closed and with a hasty | glance over her shoulder to assure j herself that she was alone Sallie ! smoothed out the fragment of newspaper It was evidently torn from the center of an article and read: “ —tective bureau is confident that the woman seen in the North Avenue Station at Philopolis on Monday night was the missing Delapierre maid whose description tallies exactly wift 1 . ~ the records of Bess alias Tv I-- B< It

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that her intention was to double bach to New fork City and that she may have been a passenger on the ill* fated Gotham Arrow. No trace of her has been found.” CHAPTER IV Players of the Game How had that particular scrap of paper come to be under her door? The Delapierre robbery seemed to be of interest to Mrs. Copeland and Bpr nephew because of their friendHup with the family.

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, She remembered Mrs. Copeland’s answer to Sloat’B query for news: "A vague clew but a most amaaing coincidence.” She had meant the possibility that the woman crook was ;on the Gotham Arrow, too. It certainly was queer. . . . Sallie tore the paper Into tiny pieces and opening her bathroom window scattered them wide and when Miss Tidmarsh appeared she found her patient curled up half undressed upon the chaise lounge. A

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light dinner was brought to her and a little later the nurse approached her with a glass of water and two more tablets Identical in appearance with those which the doctor had administered that morning. There was going to be no more doped sleep for Sallie if she knetv it. Extending her hand In seeming willingness -for the medicine she rulsed it to her lips and then drank iL>me water, but the tablets were in 'the closed fingers which rested so Jnnocently across he rbreast. Miss 'fcld-

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marsh settled herself by the low night-light with a book for an hour and then satisfied that her patient slept she left the room. She had scarcely gone, however, when Sallie was In the bathroom, washing the moist, sticky white paste of the melted tablets from her fingers. Tht little French clock Whose silvery chimes had first caused her to open her eyes that morning was ticking softly on the mantel, the hands pointing to five minutes before

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tea, and Sallie stole to the window, pulling aside the heavy draperies Which the nurse had lowered. Mr. Bellows was apparently in on this scheme, too, and Sallie meant to know when he arrived. Eleven o’clock came and half after the hour and at last a car pulled up before the door. In the rays from the street lamp it appeared a large and magnificent machine and yet there was something about its outlines which reminded Sallie vaguely cf the cars in which the more pros-

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perous doctors of Shaftstown had made their rounds. In swift premonition she orept back into bed, forcing herself to breathe lightly and regularly and In a. few moments the door opened and Dr. Qualters entered accompanied by Miss Tidmarsh. His examination was brief, but more of an ordeal than Salllo had anticipated and It re Qulred all her self-control to keep her eyelids from fluttering whetft he paeeed a small flash-light, before'' them. (Continued in Oar hteah-iepuej

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