Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 214, 26 July 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND Si JN-TEIiEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1916 before her Innocent confidence was betrayed. Emily Brunell came straight to him, and placed the letter in his hands. "There can be nothing In this letter which could harm my father, if all the world read it." she said simply. "He is good and true; he has not an enemy on earth. It can be only a private business communication, at the most. My father's life is an open book; no discredit could come to him. Yet if there was anything in the cryptic message written here which others, not knowing him as I do, might misjudge, I am not afraid, that you will. You see, I do believe in your friendship, Mr. Morrow; I am proving my faith in you." CHAPTER XII The Cipher It was a haggard, heavy-eyed. young man who presented himself at Henry Blaine's office, early the next" morning, with his report. The detective made no comment upon his subordinate's changed appearance and manner, but eyed him keenly' as with dogged determination Guy Morrow told his story through to the end. "The , letter the cipher letter!" Blaine . demanded, curtly, when, the operative . paused at . length. "You have it with you?" " Morrow "d rew' a deep" breath and unconsciously he squared his shoulders ' . "No, sir," he responded, his voice significantly .steady and controlled. ' . "Where is it?" " "I gave it back to her to Miss Burnell." - - i "What! Then you. solved it?" the detective leaned forward suddenly, the level gaze -from beneath his closedrawn brows seeming" topierce the younger man's impassivity. : "No, sir. It was a cryptogram, of course an arrangement of; cabalistic signs instead of letters,' but I. could make nothing of it. . The message, whatever it Is, . would take hours of careful study to decipher; and. even then, , without the key, one' might fall. I have seen nothing quite like ,it, in all my experience." . . (More Tomorrow) The "Crevice" It seemed to him that an interminable period of time passed before he heard her light, returning footsteps descending the stairs. A wild desire to flee assailed him to efface himself

He -waited for her reply with a suffocated feeling as If a hand were clutching at his throat A hot wave of shame, of fierce repugnance and .eelf-contempt at the role he was forced to play, surged up within him, 'but he could not go back now. The die was cast She looked at him a long, searching look, her child like eyes dark with troubred indecision. At length they cleared slowly and she smiled, a faint, pathetic smile, which wrung his heart. Then she rose without a word, and left the room. s TheTwo Sisters Was it the duty of an elder sister to make such suspicions on the part of the foolish young girl impossible? Should she decline to see this man who was her only stanch friend in this great city? And at the suggestion of severing all friendly relations with him her -heart gave a throb of pain, and she whispered quickly, "Oh, I can't!" The pain and the involuntary exclamation were a self-revelation, and she tried to hide from her own soul the fact that she was learning to love this man whom she had met only a few times. Surely this feeling was only friendship, she declared fiercely. Since he was her friend, she could ask him his opinion of these new acquaintances of Caryl's. By the time she had come to this conclusion Julia Marvin had reached Baird's. Here after calling up Delaine's apartment and delivering to his servant Caryl's message she took her place behind the counter with the reassuring thought that today, at least, she need take no steps In the matter that was troubling her not until she had a frank talk with- Caryl this evening. During that talk she would try to win the child's confidence, and would learn the names of Caryl's hosts of last night. XXIII A Telephone Message and a Scheme Mrs. Halloran, in accordance with Julia's request, mounted the stairs at 10 o'clock and rapped on Caryl's door with a thump that made the girl spring to a sitting posture, "What under the sun is the matter?" she called out tartly. "Don't knock so hard!" "Sure, your sister told me to be sure to wake you at tin o'clock," called back the strenuous landlady, "and it's that time now!" "All right!" grumbled Caryl. "Thank you!" The thanks were uttered in such an ungracious tone that Mrs. Halloran did not carry out her first kindly impulse of telling the late riser that she would bring up to her a cup of coffee. "Indade she can fend for herself, all right, all right!" she muttered, as she went heavily downstairs. All the trace of annoyance had disappeared from Caryl's fair face as she greeted Kelley Delaine an hs' later. Intuition warned her that if he and Julia were on friendly terms it would be as well for his stenographer to be in his good books until she ould make arrangements to better herself. Her evening with Hadley had awakened in her silly and vain mind wild hopes for love and marriage. Had Ben Hadley not told her that she was different from all the other girls he had ever known, and that he wanted her to learn to care for him before he went away? Did that not mean that he would ask her to marry him as soon as he was sure of her affection? Might it not be a case of love at first sight, such as she had read of and heard of? Why should any man even if he did have lots of money (and she thrilled with the conviction that Hadley was rich) take a girl to , pucb a dinner, and to such a stunning thow at the theater the best seats in the house too! if he was not desperately smitten with her? All that was needed now was the opportunity to see him often. If only Julia would recognize what a chance lay before her sister and would not make matters difficult by her prudery and fusslness, how happy she, Caryl, might be at last! She saw, as in a vision, herself engaged, then married and dressing in beautiful clothes, moving in fashionable society, meeting and flouting Somerdyke and his "stuck-up" girl friend. But how could she pull wires so as to remove all obstacles to such a blissful consummation? Perhaps if she kept on the right side of Delaine he might persuade Julia that any persons whom one might meet through any friend of his were suitable associates for his stenographer. But to have him do this Caryl must plan some way to make him think that be knew the persons with whom the was supposed to have spent last evening. To carry out this scheme he must see Hadley. Ah, well, she knew she would hear from him before the day was over! And, thinking this, she smiled brilliantly in returning her employer's grave 'Good morning!" "I hope you are feeling better, Miss Marvin," remarked Delaine as his stenographer took her seat at the machine. "Oh. yes, thank you, Mr. Delaine," Caryl replied. "I hope that my coming at eleven Instead of ten was not inconvenient to you?" "It happens that it was not inconvenient on this particular morning," returned Delaine, "as I chanced to have a bit of work on hand that I could do while waiting for you." "I suppose my sister telephoned you?" queried Caryl. (More Tomorrow)

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