Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 24

TheAstonishing Adventure of Jane Smith (Continued from Y star.) She wrote steadily, towi after tow name after name. More towns, more names. As she finished each sheet, she | checked it very carefully by its original. | It was a weary. monotonous work; but { the weariness and the monotony like a grey curtain which hung between her and something which she inexpressibly. The idea of descending into the pas- =age again, of creeping up to the laboratory in order to put back the lists before they were missed, fllied her with | shuddering repugnance. To allow her mind to dwell upon this idea was to | become incapable of carrylng it out. She therefore held her attention firmly to the cndle nes, and drove an in- dustrious pen. She had to get up twice for more ink. Each time, as she stretched herself and walked the few | paces ta the table and back, the thought «axe to her like a cold breath, | “It's coming nearer."” At last, in the dead stillness of the | sleeping hours, the lists were finished. | She pinned the copies on to the cup- | hoard cefling in the game way that | she had pinned the o»winals, carefully | covered with a plece of -artridge paper. | Then she took the orlginals in her hand #nd faced the necessity for action. Her feet and hands were very cold. She | felt as if it were days since she had had anything to eat. She wanted most dreadfully to go to bed and sleep. She | wanted to have a good cry. What she had to do was to go down into slug | and possibly rat haunted passages and risk waking an anarchist uncle out | of his beauty sleep. Jane gave herself @ mental shake. “Don’t be a rabblt, Jane Smith,” she said. “It's got to be done. You know that just as well as I do. If it's got to be done, you can do it. Get going at | once.” She got going. dreaded [ First she put the lists | back in her stocking top. Then she put on the old serge dress. Her fancy played hopefully with the thought that | some day she would give herself the | pleasure of burning that abominable gariment. She extracted the maroon | felt slippers from the paper parcel to which she had consigned them They were still sopping. She put them on. They felt limp, damp, and discouraging, | but they had the merit of making no | noise. Then she took up a good length of candle and a box of matches and opened her door. “Well, here goes,™ stepped into pitch darkness. This time she shut the door behind her. As she took her hand off the handle she felt &s if she were letting go of her last hold on safety, an idiotic thought, as she instantly told herself. She knew by now just how many paces took one to the place where the light should have been burning, and just how many more to the stairhead. The rose window showed like a pattern painted on the dark. It gave no light, but it marked the position of the door. Jane felt the soles of her feet stick and cling to the damp slippers as she crawled down stairs. They just didn't squelch and that was all; they only felt like it. She hated moving the big chair in the dark, but it had to be done. Suppose she dropped it with a crash, suppose she pulled Willoughby Luttrell's ~pleture down when she was feeling for the catch; suppose a mouse ran over her foot—there is no end to the cheerful suppositions which will throng one's brain in circumstances like these. Jane did not drop the chair with a crash, nelther did Willoughby Luttrell's plcture fall down, nor did a mouse run over her foot. She passed through the paneled door, shut It behind her, groped her way to the foot of the steps, and lighted the candle. said Jane, and | how were, l a | strange {one might have heard an infant draw | violate. | half-understood | extracted the rolled-up lists from her It was scription. It or By PATRICIA WENTWORTH » t (Copyright, 1925, by Small, Maynard & Co.) o is | se | then that the cheering tnought that she | there are two men use the passages. might perhaps encounter Henry came | O to her, only to fade as she remembered long past midnight it now was However, if she had not Henry she had at least a light. It is much harder to | f¢ be brave in the pitch dark even when, | O n the present case, the darkne: i ally a protection. i Jane walked quite blithely up the |} second passage on the left until she | (d came to the point where she knew that | she must put the light out again.|$! Molloy might be awake. She blew out | {y her candle and began to feel her way | fa d. She came to the corner, and | sed it. Moving very slowly and cau- | tiously, she crept up to the steel gate and stood with her fin listening, and thinking could fe That str If there ev badly scared, Molloy was that 1 when she had sald that the the passages was not confined to him- self and Ember. Yet he had gone to leep leaving the gate ajar. Had he? ' i gave a cles definite | answer. He hadn't, he wouldn't. She had been sure that the gate would be shut, so ready with her plan. She was| going to unfold the papers, push them between the bars, and Jerk the 3 far across the room as possible. Molloy | & might think they had fallen from the ich, or, if he had his doubts, might | well wish to avoid letting Ember know that Jane had been in the laboratory All this she had so present in her thought, that to feel the gate give to her hand staggered her and set her shaking. She quieted herself and listened intently. Not a sound, She did not somehow fancy that Molloy would be @ quiet sleeper. ~She | had anticipated snores of a certain rich bass quality. Here was silence in which R M id was a4 =~ ti d h w w 1k Tz w Te its breath—a silence undisturbed, only the That ed in- silence which odd, dim, only which some to her that | It was not spoke to Jane. people possess clam, the place was empty. As she stood and the seconds dragged into | minutes, the sense became so insistent that she found herself resolving to act in obedlence to its dictates. | She pushed the gate and heard the rm ring. With her ears she listened for the sound of a man stirring, walk- ing and starting up. At the first move- ment she would have been away, and | Molloy, new roused from sleep, would never have caught sight of her. There | was no movement. The bell went on| ringing, a little continuous trickle of | metallic sound, not loud but as confu ing as the buzzing of a mosquito. | Jane switched on the light, slipped | round the gate and closed it. The bell stopped The jarred | silence settled y, as dust settles when it has been stirred. There was | no one there. The unshaded light showed every corner of the chamber. | Molloy's bag was gone. Like a flick in | the face came certainty. ‘“He's gone.|® Molloy's gone too.” | Slowly, almost mechanically, Jane | there, stocking. She was still holding the unlighted candle in her left hand. The lists bothered her. She moved toward the bench to put them down, but first she laid the candle carefully on its side | 50 as not to stub the wick, and, sitting | = down, began to smooth the papers out upon her knee. It was while she was doing this that she saw the note. It lay on the end of the bench propped up agalnst a book. It was addressed to Jeffrey Ember, Esquire The capital E's were magnificent flour- ishes; an underlining like an orna- mental scroll © supported the su Jane, like other well-brough up people, was not in the habit of open- ing tary scruple so much raised its head tough hand and legible withal. me the away doesn't at the old place.” not come down, if she had shirked put- | it rather touched tion | WHEN YOU NEED A KEY THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C letters not addressed to herself. may be sald, however, that no soll- 1 this occasion. She tore open the envelope, and unfolded a Molloy wrote a good, bold Every word linen rdly sheet. ood clear. “My Dear Ember,—I'm off. The place getting altogether too crowded. I've en Renata, and she tells me that ne has thel beard, but ske couldn't tell names or describe them fur- She knows all about the pas- es herself. She confessed to having sund them through following Numbery ne. She has also seen you come in d g 1 don’t think this place is ry heo oy, so I'm making my get- while I can. Drop the whole nd out quick is what I ad- I'm stanch, as you'll find. Why id you take the lists after saying ou'd leave them for me to look ough? I'll not work with a man that trust me. You can write me hing The letter was signed with a large an three. It ‘appeared that Mr. oy wis more careful over his own | entity than over that of Mr. Jeffrey 1ber. Jane sat her looking at the letter. 1t | feel rather sick ude 1f she had | ng the papers back, if the letter ad- ressed to Jeffrey 'Ember, Esquire, | ad reached leffrey Ember's hands— ll, it was a good enough deatin- arrant, and Molloy must have nown that very well when he wrote | “It's exactly like a moral d Jane. “I hated coming d 1 did it from a sense of du nd this is the reward of virtue." She put the reward of virtue down ather zingerly on the bench beside . about touching it had felt when slug. She wanted to hands. 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The sooner she was out of Luttrell Marches and with her precious papers in a place of security the better. For a moment she contemplated tak- ing the originals of the lists; Ember would nuturally conclude that it was Molloy who had gone off with them But on second thoughts she decided that it would be In the highest degree unwise to put Ember on his guard. His distrust of Molloy might be so great as to induce fght. She decided to leave the originals and to take the coples—but she had left the copics in her room pinned to the cupboard celling. Go back for them she could not. Even if she could have forced herself to the effort, the risk was too great. They must_ stay where they were, while she found Henry. The sooner she got off the better. She had no watch, from passing as his[and if Ember were to his head to come back: ‘The bare idea brought Jane to her feet. She picked up her candle, 1it it, and with feelings of extreme satisfaction set fire to Molloy’s letter, making a little pent roof of it like the beginning of a card house on the stone floor. She had often admired the way In which masses of compro- mising documents are consumed in an Instant by the hero or heroine of the adventure novel She used four matches before she censidered that this particular letter was really harmless. The envelope took two more. Then she collected the ash very carefully, crumbled it up well and scattered it among the rubble in the broken-down passage where Molloy had found her. Then, having taken a good look round to make sure that nothing compromising re- mained, she picked up her candle and passed through the gate, leaving the laboratory m darkness behind her. When she came to the turn she hesitated,, and finally, went straight on, following the passage which she had not yet explored, down which Molloy and Ember had come tie day before. 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