Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1921, Page 22

BY FRANK L. PACKARD. Gopyright, 1981, by Publio Ledger Cs. Copyri 1981, by (Continued from TYesterday’s Star.) Dago-George retreated to the door. He cleared his throat, and hesitated, and shuffled a little awkwardly with his feet. It is that the little bambino will know that I am thinking of her great sorrow, though I have said I tle, that T speak of it again,” he fily. “The master has been long ead? It Is true you have told me he ied on the night you wrote that letter for him, but the letter"—he produced it from his pocket. and scanned it earnestly—‘yes, 1 am right—it bears mo date.” % “My father di=d nine days ago.” Teresa answered tersely, and hait turned away her head. ago!” Dago { s 1 ¢, my little bambino. Good- ed and los d the door hind Dago George—and stood still tant listenin Dago footsteps died on_the She moved a little h her ear pressed of the next otnd. And slowly about and a few minutes later, the ti it would ordinarily have taken her to prepare for bed. she turned out the light—and sat| down in a chair. fully dressed, and stared into the blackness. She pressed her hand a little Wwearily across her eyes. She was here now at the end of those thou- sands of miles, every one of which had seemed to vawn as some im- sable gulf between her and her he was here now. and, spite of her fears, she had that goal—in time. 'She had even out- witted—for the moment anyho True, Dave Henderson lay there in B. B. Davis Corp, possible situation that she shoula warn him of danger from one sourc: only to do to him again what—no His life was not in danger with her: that was the difference. But—but it was not easy to bring herself to this. She was alone now, with no bonds between herself and any living soul except those strange, incongruous bonds between herself and that man in the next room whom she was, in the same breath, both trying to save and trying to outwit. Why was ft have been friends if he were not a glad of a friend now, and she liked him, and he did not look like a thief. Perhaps her mother had liked Nicolo haps Nicolo Capriano then had not looked like a thief. and perhaps her mother had counted on turning Nicolo Capriano into an honest man, and— Teresa rose abruptly to her feet he felt the hot color flood her face. She saw the man as he had stood that fi'st night on the threshold of éht'r father's room. and he had looked ad been no offense in his look. caught her breath sharply. Her mind i was" running riot! It must not do that! She had many things to accom- plish tonight, and she would need all her wits She forced her thoughts violently into another channel How long would it be before this Iron Tavern closed for the night. and Dago George was In bed and asieep? She did not trust Dago George! She knew him as one utterly. without scruples, and one who was insidiously crafty and dangerously cunning. She began to rehearse again the scene that she had had with him—and sud- denly drew herself up tensely. Why at the last moment as he had left the room, had he reverted to her father death and why had he waited until then, when it should naturally have been one of his first questions, to inquire—so plausibly—when her father’s death had taken place? Z Z 7% that he was a thief? They could thief; and she would have been so! 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In a purely literal sense too carly! She dared not for perhaps hours Yet. not until she was sure the house was closed for the night, and that orge—she did not trust Dago had gone to bed. o she must sit here and stare She would not there was no fear of he could not sleep. Already thoughts and memories, as myriad in divergence us they were in numbers. Her lips grew suddenly hard. 3 told him nine da s there any significance 1 that— to Dago George, or to herself? She| had been delayed in leaving San Fran- cisco by her father's funeral. Dave Henderson had left there several days | eariier. but he had only arrived here at Dago George's tonight. True. the difference in time might be accounted for through Dave Henderson's pre- sumed necessity of travelling under but. equally, 72222 BN 95 7 it possible that Dave Henderson had already got that money. and had come here for refuge with that it was | together now | now, at this moment, in that next room She remembered, and she | there, and that, below stairs Dago | could not_forget. th George. too, was sitting, waiting for the hours to pa: and sleep to come thereafter | ¢o all but himself! | had performed—alone—the| She went mechanically to the win- that had devolved upon|dow, and stood for a moment staring had been alone. She had|out ‘upon a vista of dark. shadowy &0 George. It had been|huildings that made jagg. ill-de- o olo Capriano had had|fined points against the s<y-line friends and been powerful in life.|and then. with a sudden start. sh olo Capriano had been alone in ed the window cautiousiy, sound- death. She had lied to Dago George; ly. inch by inch. and leaned out there had been no heritage of power. | Yes sHe was right' The iron plat- She had lied—but then her whole life | form of a fire escape was common to was a lie! her room and to the room next door. A low sound, a bitter moan, came| For another moment she stood suddenly from her lips. It was not | there, and then returned softly across the Teresa now who had the room to her chair Geo t is too early yet!” she whispered | with her chin in her hands and buried her d back in her chair, and stared face In her hands It was the black | P into the blackness. hour, of which she had known ms n.\.d!m;u that fearful nigh 4 v surged and swept 3 L D uDon tier o THE THIRD GUEST. It whirled scencs and thougints past, and pictures of the future <ie Skarvs t fore’ her like some bewildering and| Bookie Skarvan. alias the fat G tormenting kaleidoscope. She could|in the taxicab who chewed on the not define to herself her feelings rela- | butt of his cigar, leaned back In his e (ST father's death: grief|geqt and rubbed his pudgy hands to- seemed to mingle indissolubly with bitter abhorrence at his act of treach. | Bether in a sort of gratified self- ery. But in another way her father's | applause. death meant something to her that| wBaggage and all” repeated Bookle ghe was coming to grasp more clearly. | Skarvan to himself. “I guess that's It seemed to release her from some- | good enough—what? I guess that's thing. from—from a tangled life. where she's going to hang out, all Al her life- had been a lic. She|right. And I guess the place looks was the daughter of a criminal. and| the part! The Iron Tavern—eh?’ He all her life had been a lie; her en-|read the window sign, as his taxi yironment had-been a le. In big things | rolled by. “Well, leave it to Bookie! ind little things it had been a lie. She|I guess I'll blow back there by-and- hiad lled to herself that night when she ! by and register—if the rates ain't too had let this man in the next room|high! But there ain’t no hurry! I've here go withoit a word of protest|been sticking around now for five from her 1ips to carry out a criminal | years, and 1 guess I can take a few act. She had been a coward that|minufes longer just to make sure the night, and it had shamed her. She|numbers go up right on the board owed something to her father, a loy- | this time!” alty to her father; perhaps, funda- (Continued in_ Tomorrow" mentally, that was the basis for her refusal to face the issue squarcly that night; perhaps it was because the habit of years, the lies, and only lies. | that had been lived around her, had strangled her and weakened her Perhaps it was that; but if so, and if she had owed and given loyalty to ner father, then she had glven more than loyalty—she had given her soul. And her soul turned miserably away from this pitiful landscape of life upon which now she was forcing it _to Zaze. s But this was a picture of the past, for if it were true, or in any degree true, her father's death had brought her release—her father was dead. And so she faced the future—alone. In so many a different sense—alone. She was alone now, a free agent to mold her own life, and the test w. before her; whether the life, for ex- ample. she had acted that night when she had sent Dave Henderson away 2 5 was tlhehoutcan;e ofltglnga extrane- PRAISE is never given ous to her soul or inherent in that soul itself. Her hands that clasped unless deserved. Gold her face tightened. Thank God, she crown work is_the most knaw! 'l:'hank ‘flmrl. dnmz from' the difficult form of dentistry moment her brain had staggered out and our_patients give to offlta Ding it of orror and dark- their friet:-xclse unreserved ness on that night, she ha n her B - L praise of our work. 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Very g i specially priced at— 3 ELE | stand between Daie Henderson and 5 the personal harm that threatened him through the trust he reposed in olo Capriano, and she would do this at any cost and at any sacrifice to herself: but she could not, and she would not, connive at anything that would tend to keep the stolen money from the possession of its rightful owners. Her hands lifted now and pressed hard against her temples, which had begun to throb. Yes, and she must do even more than that There had: been mnot only treachery on her father’s part toward Dave Henderson, there had been treachery and trickery toward the police in an effort to cover up the stolen money: and. tacitly at least, she had been an accomplice in that, and therefore morally she was 48 much a thief as that man next door, as much a thief as her father had Intended to be—unless now, with all her strength. with all her migh she strove to undo and make restit: tion for a crime in which she had| had a part. If it lay within her| power, mnot adventitiously, not | through haphazard. but through the employment toward that end of every ; faculty of brain and wit and courage | she possessed. she had no cholice now | [fi but to get possession of that money and return it to the authorities. Her conscience was brutally frank on that point. and brutally direct; there w: no room to temporize. no halfway course—and here was the flnal, ulti- mate and supreme test. Her face in the darkness whitened. Her lips moved silentl. It wi strength and help she asked now. Her mind was already made up. She would fight for, and, in any way or by any means that offered, get that mone{. and return it. And that meant that she must watch Dave Hen- «derson. too. There was no other way of getting it. He alone knew where it was, and since it was not to be expected that he would voluntarily give it up, there seemed left but one alternative—to take it from him. 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