Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1927 — Page 14

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED DTANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter of ROGER BROOKS, owner and publlaher of the CATAWBA CITY TIMES and a chain of nine other newspapers, wag kidnaped and in a few days released, unharmed. Her father redoubles bis scathing attacks on politieans of the ring "and leaders of the underworld, then himself disappears. DONALD .KEENE, literary editor of the Times and guardian of TEDDY FARRELL. reporter and SOB SISTER, learns that Brooks newspapers stock is being manipulated and suspects JOHN W. WALDEN, prominent lawyer, of being Involved in a plot to wreck the Brooks organization. Don gets a clew to Brooks where abouts and enlists the iad of CHARLEY COSTELLO, member of a feudist gang. 'Teddy accompanies them in their search. \Don and Charley are shot by Charley's enemies hut escape into a sub-cellar, where they remain entombed for fifty hours. After twenty-four hours Costello dies and Don develops pneumonia. Teddy has resigned herself to death, when she finds a pickaxe and digs her way out. She calls BILL CANFIELD, city editor of the Times, and she and Don are taken to a hospital. Dianna is informed of what happened and hastens to her sick friends. At the hospital she is told that Don’s condition is serions. NOW GO ON

CHAPTER X Diana’s face blanched as she bent over the sick man. His lips were parted and a hoarse rumbling Issued from Ills lungs. He was oblivious to the presence of his two friends beside him. “There’s nothing we can do to help here,” said Bill in a hushed voice. “We might as well go.” They were about to enter Teddy’s room further down the hall when an elderly nurse stepped from It. She put her .finger to her lips, a signal for them to be silent. “Miss Farrell is asleep,” she whispered. “You’ll be able to see her in th’ morning. It’s better if she isn’t disturbed now.” Diana and Bill nodded and withdrew. “We’ll come down th’ first thing In th’ morning,” said Diana, as they parted at the entrance to the hospital grounds. “Let’s see," she added, “you’d better come out to th’ house, I think, and Lola and you can ride down with me.” Diana’s inability to be of help Irked her. She lay in bed that night wide awake, thinking, thinking. In spite of the search her two friends had made and which had proved so disastrous, her father was still missing. She thought too, of Teddy’s part in the adventure and wished that she herself had been there. . . Her eyes were shaded with dark violet circles when she joined Lola, her cousin, at breakfast. Lola too, was downcast, although to a lesser deg^fee. Diana was toying absently with the grapefruit that the maid had set before her when Bill Canfield accompanied by Dinny Morrison, arrived. She rose to meet them, leaving her food untouched. Although touched by the gravity of Don’s condition, it was about Teddy that Dinny was most concerned. | "I’ll never forget th’ way she looked in that drug store all covered with mud and her face swollen,” said the young reporter. “Are you sure she’ll come out of it all right?” he asked Canfield, anxiously. The city editor smiled. This was the tenth time, at least, that morning he told himself, that Dinny had asked that question. “If only Don were as safe as your Teddy, I’d be happy,” the young man was told. “My Teddy! I wish to th’ Lord that she was ‘my Teddy!’ ” sighed Dinny, sadly. There should have been drama in what happened next, but there wasn’t. The girls and the reporter heard the front door open, then hurried steps In the hall, then —• “Daddy!” “Diana!” The first exclamation was almost a shriek. On the threshold, his white head towering above the bronze one of his daughter, stood Roger Brooks! Joyous cries sprang simultaneously from the lips of Lola, Dinny and Bill Canfield. Diana, her arms thrown around her father’s neck, was sobbing and laughing alternately. L “Dad! Pop! What? Where? For five Mays! What under heavens hapRsened?” i The interrogations were being F fired at the new, arrival with ma-chine-gun rapidity. “Hold on!” protested Roger (Pop) Brooks. “Give me a chance to get my breath, and I’ll tell you although I really don’t know myself what it’s all about!” Pop's voice rang out In a musical hpom. “Yes, yes, daddy!” cried Diana, eagerly, excitement turning her gray eyes almost black. “We've Just about died with worry.” She sank down, limp. Now that he was back, all her composure was gone. Tears rolled down her cjieeks. Pop Brooks ran his hand tenderly over her hair. "Oh —I forgot in th’ excitement,” said Diana, getting up suddenly. “We wfcre on our way to th’ Receiving hospital. As briefly as possible she told her father of Don's and Teddy’s experience. - He listened Intently, bewilderment and anxiety playing across his countenance. “We’d better go on right out to them,” he said, when Diana had finished. “I can tell you my story on the way there.” <y“Then you’re not hurt—or anything, daddy?” she queried as they were entering the car Pop Brooks had presented her on her last birthday. “No,” he replied. “I’ve not been abused in any way, although I suppose I was kidnaped, according to all the rules and regulations. Was there any ransom asked that you folks know about?” he questioned, a humorous twinkle in his keen eyes. “Now, I wonder,” he went on musingly, after they had all replied to his query in the negative, “I wonder why I was abducted and then released like this —in Just the same manner, Diana, as you. But let me tell you us much as I know about it.” Diana drove slowly, her mind hardly on what was ahead of the wheel. “You all know how I left the office five days ago to go to luncheotj.” he said. “Well, I’d walked about half a block from the Times when I heard someone call my name. I’d been walking close to the curb to avoid the noon-day rush. “I turned around, curious. A man —-I don't kn4w him—never saw him before—was sitting at the wheel of a

large touring car. He was beckoning me. ’ You're Mr. Brooks of the Times?” he asked as I stepped up to him, I told him I was. The next thing, as I remember, the door of the tonneau slammed open, a hand reached out, grabbed me and I was literally dragged in and thrown on the back seat. And I'm no featherweight, as you’ll agree. There were two men—and they were powerful fellows. One of them stuffed a handkerchief—and a damned dirty one, at that—right into my mouth, while the other held and blindfolded me. The car, of course, started off at once! “It was mystery to me, you understand,” continued Pop Brooks, his glance shifting from one attentive

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