Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 23

o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Q00000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 LADY SLIPPER o 46 CHAPTER 1. nd Dollars, Wi PO0000000000000000000 very own e must posterou had ons to somebo And as i were not enn young or old, even more alluy nestling stockingz! full upon it $1.0000 It size that Chris The ve of tha wir Kind of a tropical madness had ove taken hi Then as his gaz wande: the window | once n s it drawn by and » ‘apparition remained un nd motionless, he made attempt to climh througl th Jotic n i leveloped bim to and pounds, atripped Yet, something must he done—he eouldn’t let a girl sit there like that— #nh is room at m ht “Who are vou he called with all the courage he could muster, “don't you know you're in my room. and that—t Kkle—is no place to keep your mo: What's your name? No answer. He tried to stretch his arms far b reach the chair but it was provoki beyond sdrew his head. questic next move Presently rris, strolling past him on the llow youngz Winston idiot, threw a glance his way. a ouetted a moonlight which stretched across the tropic sea. Anne was always 5 moment the \ magnet, turning up at the What Anne could see in a mere kid a qmade! Yow comedy tv was beyond Christopher’s compi | sion, but at any rate her discouraged the idea that Jaced upon the hack of Christopher's {M(l the kiss which only a few moments hefore had cansed him to Jump up and peer into his cabin, He could still feel that faint ing touch of soft lips, hear th ering sigh, inhale the light breath lilies of the valley upon the midnight air! The fragrance of those lilies h; sent a sharp, stabbing memo: through his heart, but that was reason to imagine that Anne would | play him a trick like that, Anne, the | girl he had loved so desperately and from whom he had now parted for- ever. No, the ‘banknote, the crystal slip- pers, and all that went with them belonged to someone else! A second glrl was trying to make a monkey of him! He must be the world’s cham- pion easy mark! He'd go right into his cabin and let that piece of fluffy ruffles understand that she had picked | the wrong man! Christopher's jaw set like a hull dog’s. His eves glowered as he squared | his shoulders and strode forth to war. | But in the first passageway, opening from the deck into the main salon some 50 feet down the promenade, he bumped into Victor Straine, the man who had taken Anne from him, the man he was going to kill, when he ®ot around to it! “Looking for you, Dahlgren,” (Straine laid a detaining hand on Chris’ shoulder. “Come into the smoking room, won't you? It's still early.” *Sorry,” Chris chafed at the delay dbut was unwilling to show his eager- ness 1o be rid of this man, whose cabin being directly across from his own, might be fempted to follow him And see what Chris had seen! “Got a touch of headache. Won't tomorrow | do?" “Well” Victor Straine hesitated, *jt's about Miss Morris. You know I'm employed by her father as his assistant, and althqugh he doesn't know that T happened to sail on this #hip, T feel responsible. T can't under. stand the old man sending a beautiful girl like that off alone “Miss Morris ix quite capable of Jooking after herself,” Chris retorted scornfully, “if vou'll excuse me. 4 “Oh, T know that yc \ & misindersta himself firm “and I'm no % v soured. Still 1 don’t want her get into ar e, and that v in the cab te Anne’s ar 10 mine. L. Vere—you ma noticed her ced her, bt my pulse continuea 10 heat - “No de ing of ve de Vere is mo to get chumn; nd just wh { said #he loved him, the girl of his | voyage. ])’L\‘H E”(l Wister Huaines Author of “MYSTERIOUS SWEETHEART.” omyright 0000000000000000000000000 200000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000 00 "he mysterious woman who called | Lady de Vere had compli-| n with a visit to his cabi She was there now, glass | nknote and all, waiting for eturn and suceumb to her "he lines in his face set more rehearsed the curt and 1 which to anni unwelcome visit dy de you do me gre honor to call with such delightful in 1926, Thomnson Feature Service, Inc. | Straine flattered 000000000?00000’0000« incessantly into the passage as if her life depended upon knowing what went on in her vicinity. ‘“Madam Rusyhody.” Chris had nicknamed her. | 1o despised t kind of prying | sity! | \ sure she can hear me chang- ng my mind" Chris had that very day overheard Anne telling Straine, a ark which had amused the man | remendously, Chris bated the way | Annel The fellow | A heavy stunning blow descended upon his head. but your enthusiasm has | I must regretfully insist | 1 not a ladies” man, and just t 1 happen to be extremely hored with your sex. Try Victor Strnine, across the passage from my | room. I have a feeling that you'll find him diverting. He is more your | type!” | formality misled y¢ ¢, Chris reflected, Straine was the o attract the vampire, the Jast he had ever supposed Anne! Not that Chris | er hack—Hell no! A girl | that would drive a man crazy, | cr or later. Probably sooner, Christopher, was well rid of her. | would never make the smallest | wdvance to recover her favor-—-not if| ed till Doomsday! himself. straine’s face haunted | the night Prof. | new assistant had turned up in Dr. Phil Sands’ waiting room, the night which had rur cur- | tain’ upon Chris’ and rapturot it stormy, ement to Anne, Chris cked his brain to remember he could have seen that fellow Could 4 Straine, while report which had s=ent him upon this trip through the Panama Canal in quest of human interest? Human interest! Barrels and barrels of it! Chris was fanly smothered in it aboard this ship contatning the girl who had once Straine could successful rival, Straine! L3, following the collapse of his ailed out of New York ewell to the Iy to be vio- | aunting, bur * she had explained d quite by accident or warned him that e s on the verge of a nervous breakdown and must take this sea I had no idea that he was to be on board, and of course if 1 had known you were coming: ¢ Chris had not given Anne the satis- | faction of an explanation. If she wanted to think that he had followed er, she could! And now Straine was adding to his misery hy making in sinuntions concerning that spectacular Lady de Vere who had the cabin directly opposite Anne's and next to Straine's. An artificial-looking person, | who never left her room, yet peer thousand “Tho tentic as ins “how iy of vellow 1ol him tc e gave a low whistle 10 notice that him with shrewd gracting a tiny fraction o “Yes!" Straine repeated, $t! Suppose someone else fo out? Suppose that money isn't hers Suppose—ol suppose anvthing! Do you war mixed up in trou nds of morrow, h d I'm off to hed mes here, Straine, the lady in eahin next tn yours is none of my ness or yours, either. The less we both know the better, Good night.” He shook off the delaying hand and burgled to his cabin, Bo that was 'HE offender doesn’t notice it— but everyone else does. At times, everyone of us may be guilty — without knowing it. Even when we think we aren't perspir- ing, the pores constantly give off odor-causing moisture. Don’t risk embarrassment — use i ! So refreshing that millions bathe with it every day. It purifies pores — gives freedom from per- spiration odor. Healthier complexions Lifcbuoy's mild, antiseptic lather buoy for face-hands:bath | return from college, laden with hon | way I | brightly, and the big chair which from A Perspifatién odor kept away easily when you use this purifying toilet soap was too old, foo worldliwise. Why, he must he 40! “A promising young scientist em- | ployed by Dad to help with some of | his formulas,” so Anne had once de- bhed Vic Straine. “There are such _endless, minute details in re- search work! Dad and I can't carry the whole burden, Chris. Oh, how I wish that you were a chemist!” “One ntific investigator is going to be enough for our family,” Chris hud replied, laughing. It had been so | easy to laugh in those days! He had | been so proud of her that it hurt! Ifis | girl, the brilliant young daughter of a famous man-—Morris, the radium | wizard | “Iree, 21, and not afraid of any- | thin she had boasted after her ors, “behold me from now on as Dad's right hand!” be had—but at this point fn his eflections Chris entered the pass: ding to his own cabin. Anne door was open, but a heavy portierre was pulled across it, revealing a_tiny | ray of light beneath its folds. T. de Vere's door was closed, but Chr own door was open, the.room in d ness. The moon, = however, shone the outside had appeared to face the passage had now been turned so that again onlv those, crystal slippered feet were visible! Christopher took one step into his | cabin and reached for the electric | light. Then, hefore his hand could press the switch, a heavy, stunning blow descended upon his head, stars danced hefore his eyes. He was con- & stretched upon the ng to rise. Then a wom —coming from a Chris! Oh, Chris, is that you! , And blackness closed in. (Continued in tomorrow’'s Star.). About half the meat eaten in the United States is por] keeps complexions clear, smooth and glowing with health because it purifies the skin. Better still, it removes germs from hands, as well as dirt — safeguards health against germ diseases. You'll, learn to like Lifebuoy's clean, hygienic scent — so who{r; some, so assuring of greater safety, yet so quickly vanishing. 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