Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1923, Page 68

JIL-BETT Stifling Conscience . BY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Exclusive and First Publication of This Old-Fashioned Love Story. Copyright, 1983, by MoOlure Newspaper Byndicate THE STORY SO FAR. Staples of Lifiany’s, New York, is sent to Arabla with a priceless ruby to be engraved by Bannock. an_expert, who has a beutiful granddaughter. Jil-Betr. Tt in to be inscribed “Mispah gift from the young multi-mil- Ylonaire rmaduke Smith for his fancee, Edward Thorne, college chum of Jax's, iso_in love with her. At Jay's bachelor dinner Thorn persuades Jay to drink until he Is drunk, aud then starts to take him man hi Casey was too astounded to find! words in which to answer. in the cock-pit! his veins seemed to turn to ice, and heart to stop beating. ves, nounced Rhodes abruptly. a wound on his head; 100ks to me as | if he'd been pitched in head foremost, 1anding on his head: it's finishing him. As soon as the breath leaves the body, The blood in he's “assuredly dyin an- out with him.” VIL—THE STOWAWAY. 1o Clairens. TODAT'S INSTALLMENT. HE road on which Thorne had suddenly stopped his car was entirely deserted — immense trees on both sides shut out the white moonlight, shrouding it in almost impenetrable darkness. They were on the outskirts of Mineola, and mear the aviation field, Thorne knew; a little distance to the right was the home of Col. Vail. It was Thorne's intention to convey Smith directly to the home of his fiancee—showing him up in the deplor- able state he was in. It would be a day or so erc he fully recovered, and as Clairena saw him then, she would never forget—or forgive him. Both the colonel and his daughter abhorred liquor. It was never upon their table. Both were intensely in sympathy with prohibition. Thorne believed Clairena’s respect for her lover would cnd then and there; also what affec- tion she might have for him. And the hot-headed old colonel—ten to one he would ortler the betrothal be- tween Jay and his daughter broken then and there. But—"the best laid plans of mice and man, aft gang aglee.”" g An his suddenly cut short “A punctured tire! luck!” he exclaimed, Jumping out to look it over. The glare of the headlights showed him the roud was sprinkled with broken glass. Iic had no time to this. for at that instant two men Jeaped from the shadows of the road- side, cold steel was pressed to his | temple. An order was peremptorily given to “Fork over the contents of Your pockets, and in double-quick time!"” Thorne realized the danger, as well as the uselessness of attempting an argument, and complied with alac- 5 coot! We'll attend to vas the next order given. 1id not stand an instant rony, but, with the best tl he ever made, sprintcd down the road, not stopping until he was obliged to from sheer want of breath not so far away tut he could the clear moonlight, all that ed up the road. One had set to work brushing away the glass, while the other busied himself replac- ing the tire. Thorne acted upon the impulse to retrace his steps under cover of the dense shadows, to learn, if possible, what disposition they wouid make of Smith. At last he was within but a few feet of them, so near every word of their whispered conversation fell upon his car, clear and distinct His hurried task with completed, one of the men tI open the door of the car. “Holy smokes!” he ejaculated. ~“There’s wnother bird inside! He's fast asleep or pretending to be.” In a trice Jay was jerked to the voad and quickly deprived of the roll his pockets yielded. “That’s a mighty fine suit of clothes. What's the mat- ter with cxchanging it for mine, eh? chuckled onc of the men. This was no soures thought of than done. “I believe the bloke's passin’ in his checks!” remarked the taller of the iwo, with 4 muttered curse. “It would never do to have him found here. We'll have to take him along in the car to some convenient place far— “I've a better scheme,” cut in the other tersely. “There's the aviation ficld close at hand. What's the matter with planting him in the big trans- atlantic scaplane which starts at day- break tomorrow for foreign shorés. It could take him along.” This seemed to meet with the ap- proval of his companion. Without further ado they raised the slight, | elender figure, carrying him between | ihem into the fleld, disappeaving within the hangar of the giant plane. A few moments later they reappeared, Tunning with great speed to the car, | into which they sprang, and the next instant they were lost to sight by a bend in the road. Thorne stood quite still, pondering over the events which had taken explosion scheming. Confound the speculate over the glass threw place with such rapidity. If he raised &n alarm how could hé prove that a robbery had actually occurred? He was the last person in the company of Smith. If he had been tossed head- long into the plane, and death had re- sulted in consequence, there would be much unpleasant notoriety and explaining to do. Last, but by no means least, if Smith’ were shanghaied, carried off ere the aviators discovered they had a passenger aboard, he would have a lively time getting back in time for his wedding. This last thought de- cided Thorne on silence—to let mat- ters take their course. He waited there, screened by the trees, until daylight. He saw the aviators arrive on the ficld, accom- panled by the few friends who had zathered at dawn to see them off. The plane had been so carefully and thoroughly looked over the night be- fore, and at so late an hour, that Rhodes and Casey, the expert aero- nauts, did not enter thelr planc until the 1ast moment, s0 busy were they with hand-shaking and answering those who had gathered to bid them “God-speed.” With fascinated eyes Thorne watched the great plane emerge from the *angar, then & moment later mount like a ‘thing of life, and with great Jelocity into the upper alr. quickly disappearing from sight, lost in the blue of the cloudless sky. A harsh laugh fell from Thorne's lips. He remembered reading the ob- jective point of the giant seaplane was the Barbary coast, returning by way of the Azores. “Where was my friend and who my guide? Years have not seen. Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee.” For hours the great plane moved with velocity. Tt had left America far Yehind, now, only the blue, arched sky was overhead, and beneath the great stretch of water. melting into the skyline in the distance. The sun, which had cndeavored to show itself now and then during the day, disap- peared sullenly behind a bank of dark <louds as the day drew to a close. “We are running into the teeth of a storm—getting into a pocket,” re- marked Rhodes, scanning the heavens with his practiced ey “No, we're above it." declared Casey positively, adding the next instant: ‘Did you hear—a noise—in the bottom of the plane?” Rhodes shook his head, laughing amusedly. “You ought to be familiar, by this time, with the songs the winds sing; or, possibly we may have a sea- gull for a passenger.” “It sounded Iike a human moan,” insisted Casey, soberly. ° The sound was repeated again; this time so plainly Rhodes could not deny that he heard it. He lost no time f investigating, calling out to Casey “We've got a stowaway down here the fellow’s unconscious; gravitated 1o the end of the plane, lying crum- pled up, all in a heap.” Casey was astounded. He knew Rhodes would bring him to in short order with the restoratives he carried about him. “*“He's dying!” announced Rhodes from the cock-pit; “been drinking heavily—judging from his breath. How he ever fit in here is & mystery T cannot fathom. Where was thi night-watch, 1 wonder! » Jhe i p— ] | throu, THE- SUNDAY. STAR, . s WASHINGTON, - D.. 0., APRIL 22, 1923—PART 3, ) — — e | “Aye, Aye!" responded Casey. “It|Never tell me again that these ses- | would 'be unlucky to carry a lifeless passenger, on our first voyage. What does he look like?” he queried ab- ruptly. “A tramp of the worst description— apparently nude save the old trousers h which his legs are thrust— ‘»:::d the ragged coat wrapped about m, “He must have been preparing to fo_to roost—taking it essy—disrob- | ing to take a flier in Arctic tempera- !ture. Anyone save an infernal idiot yrouid have known better. Ha! Ha! a! “What does a fellow steeped in booze know about cold; he was evi- dently burning up.” “If "he's done for, why not dispose jof him | as good & place to drop as any. | “No," decided Rhodes, “there's too many sharks right down there. It monsters have no brains, They have intuitions, I tell you, and are sus- piclous of us.” Casey shook his head. “You can have your opinions, and I can still hold to mine. When you see sharks following a ship, or a balloon, or a sea-plane, the® spells danger to those aboard the one or the other, they scent, or sense, a meal a long way in_advanci Rhodes made no reply: his com- panion’s theorles disturbed him more than he would care to own. “If you don’t heave the tramp over- board. we'll have trouble, I tell you,” insisted Casey. “Be patient just a little while,” re- without further ado—this is)turned the other. “This is no time to be prating of fence. I demand to know If it is just that a fellow who won't last ten would seem Inhuman to let him down | minutes longer, by your own admis- be any moment now.” Don't think me foolish or fanciful, sharks were following in the wake of “There's | our plane. Rhodes.” “It's only your fanc other. hey're simply on a voyage of -discov-ry, as it were; having sighted « (range sort of “ird sail- ing in the air o far abc o them. | {but the idea came to me that those | committed A dying | to them, until he pegs out; it might | sion, should be kept here to imperil the lives of two other men!" e murder—no more, no less, if 1 took advantage of even this inebriate's helplessness and tossed returned the | him into one of those huge yawning | mouths waiting for their prey; I haven't the heart, or rather, the want of it, to do it, I say.” “1 supposed you were a man of Corner Ninth and F Streets N, W. 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Was It justifiable, that a tramp who was breathing his last, slowly but surely, should cast a rift in the lute of that lifelong friendship? Casey knew when Rhodes made up his mind to do a thing no argument was likely to shake his resolve. In the depths of his heart Rhodes felt that his friend was three-fourths right, but—well—he had declared the tramp should not be disposed of un- til he was no longer a human being, hut & lump of clay, to give which to the waiting = sharks, would never afterwards trouble his consclence. As had predicted, a Wur- ricane switled about them— great streaks of fcrked lightning tore through the angry clouds, terriffe peals of thunder around and about them deafened their ears. 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