Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1925, Page 19

TheAstonishing Adventure of Jane Smith (Continued from Yesterday's Star,) “|whether I am to be eliminated.” Tm afraid you'll have to_ submit to certain restrictions at Luttrell Marches. You see, Sir William is en- @#aged upon some very important ex- periments for the government, and all the members of his household have to conform to ce: n regulations. Their letters must be censored, and they must not leave the grounds, which are, however, extremely delightful and extensive. It isn't much of a hardship, reall “Oh, mno,” said Jane in her best schoolgirl manner. And there the interview ended. They made the journey to Luttrell Marches by car, but, after the man- ner of Mrs. Gilpin's post-chaise, it did not pick them up at the door. An or- dinary taxi conveyed them to Victoria Station, and it was in the station yard that they and their luggage were picked up by the Rolls-Royce with the Carr-Magnus crest upon the door. The mist was thinner, and as they came clear of London, the sun came out. The day warmed into beauty, and the green growth of the coun- cemed to be expanding before . So many long hedges run- ning mln a blur, so many miles of road all slipping past. Jane fell fast asleep, and did not know how long she slept. It was late in the afternoon that they came into the marsh count great flat stretches of it, set with hoggy tussocks and intersected by straight lanes of water. Purple- brown and green it stretched for milesc To the right a humped line of upland, but to the left and as far as the eye could see in front, nothing but marsh. Then the road rose a little; the ground was firmer and carried a black pine or two. They came to a three-cross way and turned sharpl to the right. The ground rose more and more. They climbed a steep hill, zigzagging be- tween banked-up hedges to make the rise, and came out upon a bare up- Jand. Ahead of them one saw a high stone wall pierced by iron gates. The car stopped. Mr. Ember ed out, and after a pause the gates Swung inward, For a mile the drive lay th a flat waste of springing bra with here and there a group of W driven trees, then a second gate through a high fencing topped with wire. An avenue of trees led up to the house, a huge gray pile set against a sky full of little racing clouds. , Jane felt stiff and bewildered with the long drive. She followed Mr. Ember up a flight of granite steps and came into the great hall of Lut- trell Marches with its panelled walls and dark oid portralts of kalt- forgot- ten Luttrells. v opposite |h0 entrance rose the stairwgy which was the pride of the house. Its beautiful proportions, the grapes and vine leaves of its fa- mous carvings, were lighted from be- neath by the red glow of a huge open fire, and from above by the last word in electric lighting. Ember walked straight across the hall and up the stair, and Jane fol- lowed him She thought she knew exactly how a puppy must feel when, blinking from the warmth and straw of his basket, he comes for the first time into the ordered solemnity of his new master’s house. And then she looked up and saw the portrait. It hung on the paneling at the top of the stair where the long corridors ran off to right and left, and it took Jane's breath away—the portrait of Lady Heritage. Amory had painted more than a beautiful woman standing on a mar- ble terrace: he had painted a woman reury. The hands held an .ivory 3, diamond wings rose from the cloudy hair. Under the bright wings the eves looked out, look far—dark, splendid, hungry eves. “The earth belongs despises it,” was Jane's thought She stood staring the portrait Nineteen-fifteen, Henry had said—the year when other women posed with folded linen hiding their hair and the red cross worn like a blazon. She could think of several famous beau- ties who had been painted thus. But this woman wore her diamond wings, though, even as she wore them, Fate had done its worst to her, for An- Luttrell was a name with names in a list of missing, and grave. f metal upon metal e looked quickly to her right Aud saw that a steel gate completely barred the entrance to the corridor on that side. It had just cloged behind a curious white-draped figure. “Al, Jeftrey,” sald a voice—a deep, rather husky voice—and the figure came forward. Jane saw that it was & womap wearing a long white linen overal and a curlous linen headdress, which she was undoing and pushing back as she walked. She pulled it off as she came up to them, saying: “It's so hot in there I can hardly breathe, but too fascinating to leave. You're early. Is this Miss Molloy She put out her hand to Jane, and Jane, with her mind full of the por- trait, looked open-eved at its origi- ral. Afterwards she tried to formulate her sensations, but at the time she received just that emotional shock which most people experienced when they first met Raymond Heritage. Beautiful—but there are so many beautiful women. Charming? No; there was rather something that re- pelled, antagonized. In her presence Jane felt untidy, shabby, gauche. Tady H ge unbuttoned her overail and slipped it off. She wore a plain white knitted skirt and jersey. Her fingers were ba ven of the wedding ring which ne looked for and missed. Her black hair was a little ruffied, and above the temples, where Amory had painted diamond wings, there were streaks of gray. Bewilderment came down on Jane Iike @ ghick mist, which clung about her during the brief interchange of sentences which followed and went with her to her room. It was a queer room, with a round- ed wall set with three windows and to right and left irregular of line, with a jutting corner here and a blunted angle there. It faced west, for the sun shone level in her eyes. Crossing to the window, as most people do when they come into a strange room, she looked out and caught her breath with amazement. The sea—why, it seemed to lie just beneath the windows! They had driven up from the land- ward side, and this was her first hint that the sea was so near. There was a wide gravel terrace, a one wall set with formal urns full blue hyacinths, the sharp fall of he cliff and then the sea. The tide was in, the sun low and % wide golden path seemed to stretch Imost from Jane's feet to the far orizon. - Overhead the little racing @louds that told of a wind high up ‘rere golden, too. The humped ridge of upland, which Jane had seen as they drove, ran out to sea on the right hand. It ended in low, broken cliff and a line of jagged Tocks of which only the points stood clear. Jane turned from all the - beauty outside to the ordered comfort within. Hot water in a brass can that she uld see her facé In; a towel of such fine linen that it was a joy to touch it; this pretty white-paneled room; the chintzes, where bright but- terflles hovered over roses and sweet peas—she stood and looked at it all, #nd_she heard Renata's words, “At her, and she By ‘PATRICIA WENTWORTH (Copyright, 1925, by Small, Maynard & Co.) Luttrell Marches they will decide This curious dual sense remained with _her during the days that fol- lowed. Life at Luttrell Marches was simple and regular. She wrote let- ters, gathered flowers, unpacked the library books and kept out of Sir Wil- liam's way. Sir Willlam, she decided, was ex- actly like his photograph, only a sood deal more so; his eyebrows more tufted, his chin more jutting and his eyes harder. For a philanthropist he had a singularly bad temper, and for so eminent a scientist a very frivolous taste in. literature. One of Jane's duties was to provide him with novels. She ransacked library lists and trembled over the results of her labors. Sir William did not always join the ladies after dinner, but when he did so he would read a novel at a sitting_and ask for more. Mr. Ember was never absent, and when Lady Heritage talked it was to him that he words were address Sometimes she would disappear inside the steel gate for hours. Jane soon learned that the whole of the north wing was given up to Sir William's experiments. On each floor a steel gate shut it off from the rest of the house. All the windows were barred from top to bottom. She also discovered that the high palfig where the avenue began had on its inner side an apron of barbed wire, and it was the upper strand of this apron which she had seen as they approached from outside. Sir William's eexperaments employ- ed a considerable number of men These, she learned, were lodged in the stables and neither they nor any of the domestic staff were permitted to pass beyond the inner, paling. On the coast side therg was a high wire entanglement, electrified. There were moments when Jane was cold with fear and moments when she told herself that Renata was a little fool who had had nightmare. CHAPTER VII. When Jane stood at her window and looked across the sea, she saw what might have been a picture of life at Luttrell Marches during those first few days. Such a smooth stretch of water, pleasant to the cye, where blue and green, amethyst, gray dnd silver came and went, and under 1 play of color and the shiftin, and shade of day and eve unchanging black of rock showed for an instant and then le one guessing whether any really broken the beauty peace. Over the surface all was pleasant enough, but incidents, some of then almost'negligible in themselves, fept recurring to remind Jane that there were rocks beneath the sea. The first incident came up sud- denly while she was writing Lady Heritage's letters on the sccond day. She had beside her a little pile of | mostly about trifles. | Upon each letier there was serawled. | “Yes,” “No,” “Tell them think it | " or some such direction | Presently Jane arrived at a letter | in French, upon which Lady Heritage had written, “Make an English trans- lation and inclose to Mrs. Blunt.” Mrs. Blunt's own letter lay immedi- ately underneath. It contained i quiries about some conditions of fa tory labor among women in France. The French lettér was an excellent exposition of the said conditions. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) How the SUMMER TRIP PLANS OF COOLIDGE INDEFINITE Acceptances of Invitations Are All Tentative, Although Some Have Special Appeal. Tentattve acceptances only are be- ing glven by President Coolidge to some of , the invitations extended him, involving trips away from Washington during the Summer. The Executive has made no irrev- ocable decision with respect to any of the invitations, although some of them have a special appeal for him. 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