Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1925, Page 26

TheAstonishingAdventure of Jane Smith (Continued from Yesterday’'s Star.) “Oh, Daphne, is that you? to speak to you so badly. Are you alone? Good! I'm so glad.” At the other end of the line Daphne was saying grumpily: “I don't know what you mean There are three people in the ronm I keep telling you so.” “Good!” said Jane, more emphasis. “I want to speak to you most particularly. I've been awfully unhappy since this after- noon; I really have. And I wanted 10 say—I mean to ask you not to be upset about Arnold. TIt's all for the best, really. Please, please don't think badly of him. It's not his fault, and I know you'll like his wife very much indeed. He'll tell you all about it some day, and you'll think it ever so romantic. So vou won't be unhappy about it, will vou? I hate people to be unhappy.” Without waiting for Miss Todhun- ter's reply, Jane hung up the re- cefver. After a decent interval she opened the door. Mr. Ember was at the far end of the passage, waliting patiently. I want with a little CHAPTER XV. Jane waked that night, and did mot know why she waked. After a moment it came to her that she had been dreaming. In her dream some- thing unpleasant had happened, and she did not know what it was. She sat up .In the darkness with her hands pressed over her eves, trying to_remember. Tho vague feeling of having passed through some horrifying experience oppressed her far more than definite recollection could have done. She got up, switched on tha light and began to pace up and down, but she could not shake off that feeling of having left something, she did 2ot know what, just behind her, just out of sight. She looked around for the book she had been reading, but o remembered now that she had left it downstairs. She looked at her Seatch. It was 3 o'clock. The house would be absolutely still and empty. It would not take her two minutes <o fetch the book from the drawing ~oom. She slipped on Renata's dress- ng gown, put out her light and opened the door. With a little shock of surprise she maw that the corridor was dark Some one must have put out the light which always burned at the far end. Instead of the usual faintly rosy glow, there was darkness thinning to dusk, and just at the stalrhead a vivid splash of moonlight. After a4 moment's hesitation Jane slip- ped out of her room, leaving the door ajar. Somehow she nad not reckoned upon having to cross that brightly lighted space. She came slowly to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hall. It was like looking into the blackness and silence of a vast well. She could see nothing—nothing at all. The moon was shining in through the rose indow above the great door. heroe was a shield in the win- dow, a shield with the Luttrell arms, nd 'the light came through the glass a great beam shot with color, and struck the portrait of Lady Heritage and the vine leaves and grapes on the newel just below. The window and the portrait were on the same ievel, and the ray seemed to make a brilliant cleavage between the silvery dusk above and the dense gloom be- low. Jane descended the stairs, walking carefully 60 as to make no mnoise. At iho foot she turned sharply to the Jeft and passed the study door, the fireplace and the steel gate which shut off the north wing. The door of the yellow drawing room was straight in front of her. She opened it softly and went in. The book would be on the little table to the right of the fireplace, because she remembered putting it ihere when Lady Heritage made an unexpectedly early move. She stood for a moment visualizing the ar- rangement of the chairs, and then walked straight to the right place. The book was where she had left it, put down open, a bad habit for which Jimmy had often rebuked her. She was back at the door with it, and Sust about to pass the threshold when she heard a sound. Instantly she stood ®till, listening. The sound came from the other end of the hall, where the shadows lay deepest round the mas- slve oak door. “But there can't be any one at the @oor at this hour,” said Jane—*there can't, there can’t possibly.” The sound came again, something between a rustle and a creak, but so faint that no hearing less acute than Jane's would have caught it. “It's on the left of the door, under- Sieath Willoughby Luttrell's’ plcture 5. o Jane suddenly pressed her hand to her lips and made an involuntary movement backward, for there was an unmistakable click, and then, slow PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturing Assets More Than $9,500,000 Surplus $950,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY.......President JOSHUA W. CARR...Secretary Quite often that half sick, well feeling Is due to tion of the system to in the intestinal tract. Water will safely and effec- tively clean out the intestines. 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If some | ne had come out of the darkness ‘here there was no door she must know who it was, Her bare feet made no sound as she moved from the shel- tering doorway. Step by step she kept pace with those slow mounting foot- steps. She passed the stecl gate, and, feeling her way along the wall, came to a standstill by the cold black hearth. Then, with her whole body tense, she turned and looked up. There was a @arker shadow among the shadows, a shadow that moved upward, toward the beam of moon- light. Jane watched, breathless, and from where The Portrait hung, the somber eyes of Raymond Heritage seemed to watch too. Out of black- ness into dusk a something emerged; one step more and the moonlight. fell on a dark hood. Up into the light came a cloaked figure, draped from head to foot, shapeless. On the top step it turned. Jane caught her breath. It was Lady Her- itage. She stood there for a long minute, her left hand just resting on the newel post with its twining ten- overhanging shone full upon her face was sharpened, blanched and sorrowful. Her eyes seemed to look into unfathomable depths of gloom. The amber, the rose and the violet of the stained glass fell in a hazy iridescence upon the black of her cloak. In front the cloak fell away and showed the stralght white linen of an overall, and cloak and overall were deeply stained with dull wet smears. A piece of the stuff hung jagged from & tear. Jane loolked and could not take her eves away ‘Oh, she's so unhappy,” herself. With a quick movement Raymond Heritage pushed the hood back from her hair. Then she turned, faced her own portrait for a moment and passed slowly out of sight. Jane heard a door close very softl She stood quite still and waited, | gathering ber courage. She would | have to mount the stairs and pass| through that light before she could reach the safely shadowed corridor.! Just for a moment it seemed as if she | could not do it. Her feet seemed to | cleave to the ground. Five minutes passed, and another five. Jane felt herself becoming rigld. and with a tremendous effort she took one step forward, but only one, for as her foot touched a new cojg patch of floor some one moved overhead. | For an instant a little pencil of electric light jabbed into the dark- ness and went out again. The next| she said to | moment Mr. Ember stepped into the moonlight. He, too, wore a linen overall, and in his left hand he car- ried the masklike headdress which was fn use in the laboratories. His right hand beld a torch. He came down the stairs, walking with astonishing lightness. Half way down the torch came into play again. He sent the little ray in a sort of dazzle-dance about the hall. With overy leaping flash Jane's heart gave a jump, and she only stopped her testh from chattering by biting hard upon the cuff of Renata's dressing gown. She had covered her face in- stinctively and peered, terror-strick- en, between her fingers. ‘The light skimmed right across her once, and but for the crimson flannel she would certalnly have screamed aloud. If Mr. Ember had been look- ing he could have seen a Semi-circle | of white forehead, two clutching | hands and a quivering chin. But his eyes were elsewhers and the dancing flash passed on. Ember crossed the hall to the far corner out of which Lady Heritage had come. Suddeniy the light weit out. Jane heard again the véry, very small creaking noise which she had heard before. It was followed by a faint click, and then unmitigated si- lence. The seconds added themselves together and became minutes, and | It was shut. THE there was no further sound. Tha‘ minutes passed, and the beam of moonlight slipped slowly downward. Now The Portrait was in darkness, now the newels were just two black shadows. It was a long, long time before Jane maved. She climbed the staircase with terror in her heart. At the edge of the moon- light she waited 50 long that it moved to meet her. When the edge of it touched her bare, hesitating oot she gave a violent start, and ran the rest of the way The dark corridor felt like a haven of refuge She came panting to her own door, and suddenly there was no haven of refuge anywhere. The door was shut. hie had left it ajar. It was shut. Jane stood with her outstretched hand flat on the panel of the door. She kept saying over and over to herself: “I left it open, but It's shut. I left it open, but it's shut.” Once she pushed the door as if it could not really be shut at all, but it did not yield; the latch had caught. At last she turned the handle slowly and went in. A gust of wind met her full. Perhaps it was the wind that had shut the door. She left it ajar, moved to the middie of the room, and waited. For a moment there was a lull. Somewhere {p the house a clock struck four. 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