Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY Sallie Peck, employe of the Pair Dell Five and Ten quarrels with her policeman sweetheart, Michael Curtis. That msrht Sallie toes into the back yard to take down a washing for Ma Brennan, with whom Sallie lives A crash shakes the earth and something strikes Sallie a blow on the head. When she regains consciousness, the girl finds herself in strange surroundings. handsomely furnished. A French maid named Therese calls her Alva Copelam and Madame Copeland, a tall, richly gowned woman, claims her as her step-daughter. Sallie is taken to meet Cousin Wheeler, who makes love to her. Sal-, lie resolves to solve the mystery. She discovers that she is being doped and when the nurse gives her a tablet to swallow Sallie holds it in the palm of her hand without placing it in her mouth. Then she feigns sleep. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ‘if ■ j | ERY good!” the doctor mur- ! y | mured. “She will do nicely l J until morning.” They went out,' closing the door softly, and Sallie fanrfid that she heard a key turn in thSMock. After an interval she arose ant? tiptoed again to‘the window. Dr. Quakers’ car had turned and pulled up under the shadows of the trees on the oppv“itr ride of the avenue but a.-.0th,,.' as just drawing in at the curb. It as a huge roadster and a tall, gaunt figure emerged from it clad in ah ulster which flapped in the strong night wind. The man turned for an instant to speak to the chauffeur and in the rays of the lamp his sharp aquiline profile showed as clearly cut as though on the screen; then he turned and started across the sidewalk directly below the watching girl and his car moved on slowly up the avenue. Sallie turned and looked quickly about her. The soft pink bathrobe which Miss Tiumarsly had substituted for her tea-gown lay over the foot of the chaise lounge with a pair of pink mules beside it on the floor and though it was conspicuously light for her purpose Sallie wrapped it about her and thrust her feet in the slippers. The door was locked as she had ; nticipataed, but not for nothing had Mike once shown her the uses to which a bent wire could be put. and •here were plenty of strong hairpins in the drawer of the dressing table. Five minutes of patient, cautious twisting in the lack brought a reassuring click to her ears as the key turned back and in another moment

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she was in the hall with the door closed behind her. Rich, subdued lights glowed from side bracets and up from the well of the staircase but the house was silent. Wrapping her robe more tightly about her she went to the rail and peered upward and then bejow but no one was visible and while she paused a deep-toned clock from somewhere in the house out twelve solemn strokes Sallie plunged forward and descended like a silent little pink streak to the floor below. Here the hall widened and several closed doors i J; I |jjj||(|1 ill ll PPf I SALLIE ADVANCED TOWARD IT! STEP BY STEP. faced her but although she listened at each no sound came from behind I them. The second flight was broader and j curved outward, tne huge, bronze j lamp on the newel post sent warm j ’rays into every corner of the spa- j cious entrance hall and :ts the girl crept downward she heard at last the subdued rumble of masculine | voices from behind the middle door of three on the opposite side of the , house. Sallie advanced toward it step by | step and bent to peer through the j keyhole. The stranger with the i sharp, aquiline features was seated at a huge table almost facing her with some papers spread out before ; him. Bookcases towered against the i wall back <>f his chair and Mrs. Cope- s land’s gray sleeve and heavily ringed hand came within the girl’s range of vision beside h m. while the back of Dr. Quaker's sleek head was before her and a shatfow which moved j restlessly up and down indicated;!, that j Wheeler Sloat was pacing the floor. The rumble of voices went on but j not a distinct word reached her ears and in exasperation Sallie straight- „ ened and made for the next door to ward the rear. The knob turned beneath her hand and she found her- , self in a dining room. he gave scarcely a glance at the massive furniture and grtat crystal chandeliers but turned anxiously toward the wall at her right on the fartbfer side of which that conference was taking place. Curtains hung over an , arched entrance-way and drawing them noiselessly aside Sallie discovered a pair of folding doors. She listened once more but only that maddening monotone of voices j reached her and in desperation she pressed against the doors and | pushed them apart for the barest fraction of an inch, then let the draperies fall in place behind her. “Perfectly satisfactory as far as the gyl's record is concerned." A man's voice which she h id never heard before uttered the words in subdued but rich, carrying tones. “Orphant, j no living relatives known, shopgirl, popular, but no intimate friends among her own sex. except the old Brennan woman, with whom she made her home; believed to have been en-

gaged to—” "Oh, for heaven't sake, cut an that and let us get down to brass tacks, Bellows’'' It was unmistakably Sloat’a exclamation. "Sallie Peck is dead and burled! Wasn’t her funeral yesterday?’ Sallie reeled and clutched the heavy j curtains for support. Sheer hcrror overwhelmed her for a moment, but i fff sharp cry from Mrs. Copeland brought her back to her senses. “Wheeler! How can you be so—so inruman! How can you speak so callously of the—the dead!" “Well, we’ve got to face the facts as they stand, haven’t we. If we're going on with Sallie held her breath and peering through the crevice between the doors she saw that Sloat had halted suddenly beside Mrs. Copeland's chair. “We don’t care anything about the girl or her past as long as there Is nothing to reach out from it and interfere with us now. -and it can't if It w’as sealed up yester; day in that grave’’ Sallie felt the horror rising again, but back of it a fierce, resentment that burned it up as though by fire. She’d show that beast in there that she was very much alive before she was j through with him! i "Graves sometimes open, Mr. Sloat!’’ The judicial tones of Mr. ■ Bellows replied. “I was about to got I down to ‘brass tacks ’ as you term i it. when you interrupted: or perhaps we had better say brass buttons. The young man to whom —er—the late Miss ‘Sarah Peck is reputed to have been engaged, is a member of the local police force, a detective sergeant. in fact His name is Michael Curtis and his record, though broken by overseas service, is a comparatively brilliant one. If any doubt fchould enter his mind, even now that the funeral Js over, he may prove a positive menace to us.” “You could have him broken, couldn't you? ’ Sloat demanded coolly and Snllie clenched her hands. "Os course —and give cause to those whose influence T world be compelled tc employ—for wonder why I. the peisonal attorney for a prominent fami’y Vhc were minor victims of that catastrophe, should desire the removal of his obs.uie voung official, particul.iily .f there were any hint of trouble in the future from the young lady u - stairs.’’ / will be none.' | Sadie's stout heart quailed at the miplacahle

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liardness of the thiid masculine voice which entered the conversation. Could those be’ the suave, unctuous tones of Dr. Qualters? “I can anower for that Whether Mr. Sloat’s lilans succeed or fail that .rrave can he permitted to give up Its dead.’’ The level, unemotional tones made the monstrous utterance all the more horrible and a sickening nausea swept over the listening girl, but she fought back desperately, for the lawyer was speaking again. <

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN —By STANLEY

“ What do you think of the girl's possibilities, Mbs. Copeland? You had an opportunity to study her today. In the event that she proves tractable, can she be trained so that she will pass muster?” "She Is a common little creature, slangy, half-illiterate, but I should not consider her stupid, by arfy means.” Sallie’s face stung hotly at the contemptuous drawl. “She has a temper and a will of her own, but she conducted herself father cleverly today.

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Don’t you think so, Wheeler?" Sloat laughed shortly. "Oh, she’ll do!" he replied. "She tried to pump me about the accident when you left us alone this afternoon, but aside from that she was purely on the defensive, trying to discover why we had brought her here, without showing her own hand. Oh, you won’t have any trouble wlht her! I know her kind Give her jewelry and clothes and luxury, show her a little life—she probably has been nowhere except behind the oounter and te a cheap mo-

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tion picture or on an excursion-—and she'll be glad enough to forget that hole she came from and every one in itl” “Not If she h&ppenß to be in love in the silly, romantic fashion of girls of her class.” Mrs. Copeland observed. Sallie leaned her head against the door for a moment and blinding tears stung her eyelids, but she winked them fiercely back. “Oh, she’ll forget this young sleuth of here!” Sloat’s easy assurance made Sallie straighten suddenly, i "We’re

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

hioky she hasn’t a pack of relations and that the Brennan woman made the identification with such gullible oonfldence! Lord, when that old creature came storming half-cpnzeil through the emergency just as we were getting the girl out, all wrapped up, to the ambulance to take her to the special, I thought it was all up with my brilliant scheme!" "That’s bad!” There came a rustle as though the lawyer were moving the papers about In annoyance. "Did any one pay much attention to her?"

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924

—By MARTIN

—By TAYLOR

"The confusion and excitement were Indescribable!” Mre. Copeland put her hands to her ears as though to shut the sound of it forever from her memory. "It was merely a sort of first-aid establishment set up hastily in some sheds, you know, and the few railroad officials who were there could not cope with the equation. The old woman clung to one of them and described the girl she was looking for. with her name and oooupatlon and many tWnn about bee* (Continued te Oo teM itecm|