The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1931, Page 6

s POLLY AND HER PALS [ JESS LIKE GLASS, AIN'T IT? mooOn SYNOPSIS: Treated kindly by Jacon Divitt and his wife, Molly, Juanita Basara sells cig- arottes to his gambling patrons. Fearing his threat to expose her as an Argentine runaway, che dares not attempt to escape openly. Gabreau and his moth- ¢r, Conchita, are friendly, the former protecting ' Juanita from the evil Umberto, a fellow em- ploye, Adrian Fouche, intrigued by Juanita’s Turkish costume, which conceals her identity, gets Eric Ledbetter to try to lift her veil. The attempt fails as Jua- nita, observing Senor Basara of Mexico in the group which in- cludes Mrs. Belaise and her grandson, Kirk Stanard, flees to her room in alarm. When Mrs. Belaise leaves she does not know Divitt has siyly secured her costly necklace. Next day he tells Juanita she is to return it. p Chapter 10 MYSTERICUS YSABEL Juanita m: ed the impulse to tell Di that she was not his servant to be sent on any of his errands, mastered the suspicion that | this was a trap—as last night's en- counter might also have been a trap. The boat for Vera Cruz—had Basara really taken it? Would he perhaps be at the Stanard home| when she returned the necklace? | She could see no motive for treach- €ry on Divitt’s part. Neither could| £he see any motive for nding her on this errand of lil as he| ealled it As: for dealing honorably, there! was no other way. What would she do with freedom if she had it?| Where would she go? Certainly not to the place she had called home. 8he no longer had the desire ~ven to mail the letter she had begun. ‘What could that letter have done but compromise the one who re- ¢eived it? No, Divitt might send| her anywhere with safety. She| asked only that he should not send | her into a trap. Could it be that some sense of pity had come to him? “Try me, Senor,” she said. shall, of course, wear my veil.” “That's just what you won't,”| Divitt answered. “Did you think| ‘We were going to send you out in your Fatima regalia? No, Senorita, yow'll wear what any lady would wear. But no veils.” “I may go at night?" “You wlll go at four this after- noon. But you will travel in a closed car and you may pull down the shades if you like. Does it never oceur to you, Senorita, that New Orleans is a long way from the ‘Argentine? And on this occasion you will not be Juanita Basara, as you have said to me you are, but —let us say—Senorita Ysabel Flor- es of Spain—Seville, to be exact stopping at the Hotel Tijon. I have had some cards engraved for you.” Divitt regarded Juanita thought-| fully. “It happens, Senorita Flores, that as you were turning into Royal street last night—or very early this morning—you saw something shin- ing on the sidewalk, and, bidding your chauffeur to pick it up, dis- covered that it was a necklace of value. This morning, looking into the paper for some clue of its own- ership, you found this advertise- ment. You would not entrust it to any other hands for delivery. The reward- Surely they are not speaking for rewards to Senorita Flores of Seville!” “It is deception,” in a low voice. Divitt smiled now. the Fatima costume is not,” he remarked. “Nor the name you 1iass said Juanita | by Marganel Bell Houslon “I presume | HEY UNK/ FETC THE HARPOON!/ WE'RE BEIN' FOLLERED BY A SEA MONSTER! of DELIGHT under here. Never mind, Senorita,” | as if she might protest. “What you desire is a veil. The scarf is a veil, and the name B: , perhaps. “So also, the name Ysabel Flor- es, anG her personality, which you are at liberty to make as delightful as you please. There are few diver- sions that I can give you, my so- cial position in New Orleans not furnishing the ideal background.| Yet diversions and contracts, of the| type to which you are obviously ac- customed, are what you must have —or our veiled lady will cease to lure. “One thing, however, it will be well for you to remember, and that is that your arrest will not occur as the result of some casual dis- covery. It will come only should the police be tipped off as to the rest of us, or should I turn you over to the authorities. This er- rand of trust is simple. There is no danger in it—unless you care to in- ject ‘some.” It was not necessary to tell him that she would go. Divitt had al- ready turned to his desk Molly came at three, bringing pleasant | nita. Umberto opened the door of the limousine and Juanita stepped out, following the old negro through a dim hall and into. a great room, {pale blue and rose color, with gilit | framed mirrors reaching to the interior, deliers and deep rugs and a faint pervading fragrance. | la stiver tray, Juanita took out one |of the cards. “Be seated, Miss,” he said. But Juanita stood before the | white marble mantel, looking up at the portrait of a woman in the dress of the early eighties, her arm encircling a little girl Kirk had been at home since noon. Mrs. Belaise, propped in bed had insisted on answering all tele- phone calls herself. Every one, it seemed, had read the advertise- ment, and knowing with what pas- sion Nelly loved her jewels, had called or sent flowers. And Nelly grew more distracted as the day wore on. “It like somebody done died” Pompey had said after he had ap- prised Kirk and Kirk had come home. And now Kirk upstairs, the card Pompey had brought. “Senorita Ysabel Flores"—a new some dresses from which Juanita might choose. Molly prattled brave- |ly, holding the dresses up for Jua- nita’s inspection. “This chestnut crepe with the embroidery on the pockets. And this black satin with the white ber- tha—that's rich, honey. Or this chiffon velvet—a little dressy, wouldn’t you say, for just a call?' And here's a black georgette coat that will go with anything—That’s Gabreau with the hats. Put them down, Gagreau, and shut the door.” Juanita tried on the dresses, se- lecting the black satin. Molly hung the other dresses in the armorie “We'll keep them,” she explained. “Once you get in the best houses —Here! I'd almost forgotten the pearls for your neck. And a bit of lipstick—just a bit. Now you're ready. A grand lady going for call. Wait! We mustn't forget your ‘raisin date’ That's French ‘reason you're there’.” And Molly drew the necklace from her blouse, dropping it into a little silk purse, “Your cards are in there too,” she added. “All right, honey. All set?” Juanita followed her down the stair and to the little gate that opened on the patio of the Hotel Lijon, waiting there while' Molly | went to her room and returned with - the key. The shady Tijon |patio was set with tables around which groups of girls in bright dresses chatted under the gay um- brella awnings. Molly and Juanita crossed Lhe‘ worn flagstones to the verandah, entering a back hallway, and thence to the weathered marble lobby of |the Tijon. Divitt came toward them, “Good afternoon, Senorita.” Div«| itt spoke cbsequiously and audibly. “Your car is here.” And he bowed | Junaita out of the door to the long, blue limousine shining at the curb. The Tijon door man opened the door. Divitt bowed again, spoke to the liveried chauffeur, and Jua- nita was moving through a lane of little shops and into Canal street. | Here were great. stores, traffic of surface cars and automobiles, pe- |destrians in droves. Bright bunt ing hung below the windows. The llnmp posts were garlanded with flowers. Juanita did not know it, but this was the eve of Mardi Gras when New Orleans puts on her trinkets for the stranger. Juanita relaxed among the cush- fons. Here in the soft sunlight, amid the unheeding crowds, she lost the last doubt regarding her errand. The necklace had been lost. Divitt was permitting her to return it. Perhaps she need tell no £ Diamond Briquets CLEAN ECONOMICAL EFFICIENT PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Phone 412 tale regarding her own finding of the necklace. Perhaps no questions would be asked. The car had entered a wide street bordered with tall palms and hous- es set in flowered lawns. Here at| her left was a park and great oaks hung with moss. They entered the gateway of a columnaded house, passed up a drive between magnolia trees, stop- ped in the shelter of a porte cochere. The chauffeur alighted, touched the bell. Then he turned to look at Juanita. It was Umberto. Umberto looking haggard and somewhat pale. Again doubt and fear. To what place had | Umberto brought her? The door had opened, and an old negro in a white coat spoke with Umberto. Mrs. Belaise was fll, he said. Mr. Stanard was at home. The dark senign old face, the glimpse of ! W and Molly disappeared. | ‘ name to him. Some one, of cours his grandmother knew. Yet he would not submit the card to her. (Copyright, Dodd, Mead and Co.) Compelling eyes . . . Juanita reads a message in them Mon- day even as her smile dashes reassured Jua- | | floor. There were prism-hung chan- | The old butler was holding out| people | studied | Kirk's haunting illusion. In the Probate Court for the Ter- ritory of Alaska. Division Num- ber One. Sitk.' Precinct. 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