Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 70

12 - = i LADY SLIPPER By_Ella Wister Haines ol Author of “MYSTERIOUS SWEETHEART.” | Copyright, (Continued from Yesterday CHAPTER XXVL ‘Anne Again. Star.) ND where was Anne? At th very shour that her f Mr. and Mrs. Kean s of of her, at the same time tha Christopher Frantic endeavors to find her, wa apded upon the deck ..ol abandoned ship, lying half merged on the grown shore o the De Lesseps canal, waiting for th return of the native guide who hac vanished, canoe and all, into the depths of that narrow waterway feelings, as she y ion of her pos Iming and impossible to sup Gone was her former prouc ssurance, her perfect control c own destiny! Anné the capable Competent, the high . the self-sufficient bachelor maid had vanished overnight! She would have given the whole world for sight of Chris or her father—of one she had ever known before! “ one anywhere, in fact, but St for terror of the man w her heart. fact that he was responsible for her Deing placed at such a disadvantage separated from the other X far from the wate ailed ou overwhe! ny aine. known please, my The man is bound to return. 1 haven't paid him yet and these fellows are after money | first, last and all the time. The minute he comes we'll start on our way., Why can’t you trust me, dear- est” Have I ever failed you? “Never till now, Victor,” Anne was not to be sidetracked. direct, honest nature, speaking the truth at all times, the nec deceptions of tle had almost underminec her She felt like a liar «1d a t, and added to the shame of wuch a feeling was the conviction that her subterfuges had not helped . indeed, they had only made her posi- tion more_insecur “And why now, Anne? Surely I've done nothing to hurt you? 1 meant to help you by getting away from that beach where we were stranded with such incongenial people! The guide seemed like an honest fellow, and as- sured me I'd bave you safely in Colon by nightfalll 1 made a mistake, but I don't deserve to be treated like a criminal?” His eyes accused her, and Anne was at a loss to answei. Her fears, however, could not be set aside and again she questioned: “Victor, we'll be at Colon today, won't we”? Please, please promise that! If the guide does mot return I art out and walk through the I can't stay here another night—I won “Why my precious child, you'll be on long before night! Please try to calm down! Your distrust hurts me cruelly!” The sun rose higher, the air grew hotter and hotter. Anne sought the shelter of the cevered space upon the deck, Straine alternately sat beside her or paced about. The silence between them grew and deepened, and still the guide did not appear. The sun was low when he finally came into view around a bend in the river, and Anne could not restrain a cry of relief. “Thank God!” and a sob escaped her. “Now weé can go, Victor.. Come, come quickly.” “Yes, dear, as soon as he comes alongside,”_and Straine stepped over the rail, hfs back toward Anne, and called to the native. A short conver- sation ensued between the two as the man paddled the canoe alongside, and Anne, scarcely knowing what prompt- ed the act, slipped an old envelope from the wrist bag she had carried on her arm since leaving the Hope, and fumbling for her pencil wrote upon it: : “Leaving here safely at 5:00 p.m., Saturday 6th, in canoe with Straine and guide for Colon. Anne Morris.” And before Straine could turn and catch her, she slid the envelope un- der an old coil of rope, leaving a e« ner of it exposed. Then, joining him at the rail, she.took care that he did not look back. “You go first, Victor,” she pushed him toward the board used as a gang- Plsnk. “Take my hand and I'll fol- low. Her stratagem succeeded. Vietor did not look back. A minute or two later Anne was seated once more in the cange, Straine facing her. “We are going a little farther into t canal. Then we shall leave the canoe and cross a strip of land be- tween here and the Gatun accustomed and us at the far opening of the trail and take us across to the far shore, where an auto will g waiting and whisk us into Colon in no time.” “What about the Locks?” Anne questioned, “I remember how they looked on the map, wouldn't it be bet- ter to go directly there.” Victor held another conversation with the native. “He says that quicker time by aut aine report- ed the result of the interview. seems like a good, honest chap, Anne. Let's be guided by him.” Anne restrained her doubts of this “good, honest chap,” but admitted he: self powerless to protest. A short paddle brought them to a point in the shore so heavily - wooded that it ap- peared impenetrable, hut here the guide beached the canoe, and helped them to alight, and here they plunged into a tangled growth of underbrush, %o dense that Anne was willing to cling to Straine, and was kept busily at scratching her face to pieces! It was a long, hard walk, if you could call it that, for it was more like a scramble into a thicket, and al- though the guide wielded his machete constantly, cutting thefr way, it seemed to Anne that she had never been in such a hopeless maz or of snakes, scorpions and other deadly species of animal life possessed her we'll make much Tales of people being bitten by taran. | tulas, stung by the deadly moccasin, kept recurring to her mind, and all Straine’s efforts at comforting her were in vain. “You're coming on famousl brave girl,” he would assure ner from time to time. “I was never so proud ot anY one in all my life. wnat a woman you are, you beautiful, wonderful creature Anne scarcely noticed his ardor. She wanted Chris, only Chris! It became dark in the jungle and the guide lighted a lantern which shed dim, weird light, making the sur- roundings even more terrible, Would their journey never end” At last, when Anne felt exhausted limbs Would not « another step, they emerged suddenly upon the shore of a hody of wate “Gatun Lake, Anne! The wors over! And here’s the canoe, he promised! Oh, Anne, say th 1026, Thompson Feature Service, 0000400000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000, her and | God was in the midst of his |will be much nearer Anne | patient just of an|was tender, possessive once more, an: sub- | Anne shuddered. came into hearted; a e any | ¢ stealing into | Ci Useless to try to deny the | Hers was a | to | Lake, | through a jungle path. The man went | to arrange for another canoe to meet | “He | work keeping the branches from | Ine. Once again she was being paddle | through the growing darkness. Sta | were appearing in the sky, and in th | far distance lights appeared, a biessc | sight! e| “Look Victor, than lights! Oh, t | hat is Gatun Locks, I'm suve Gew York harbop in search | he commented, “'but i The place where we shs in the end His voic t [ Anne. a little lon She hated the man more with every e ssing hour, she reflected as the 17 canoe shot through the waier. How 2 | could sk er have considered marry- 2l of my mean she admitted I don't deserve n like Chris, I'm ernable tempr frankly to herself, 1| the love of a zood 1 £ | not fit to cherish it! Presently her thoughts were divert- ed by the beau'y of the night, and . | still later she became conscious of a 1 miserable fatigue. Her position was mped and uncomfortable, but noe is a ticklish thing in a large body of water, and she dared not stir. “Where shall we go in Colon, or is istobal the place for us to stay? at about the Washington Hotel? o much of that.' to a hotel \ !I've heard *1 hardly ant you to g alone so late at night, Anne,” Straine replied, “there would be question about my arriving there with you. To put it quite frankly we might be ar- rested. Sorry to have to be so plain spoken. “But—but testing. “But, please let me finish my sen tence! 1 have friends in Cristobal, charming people, who I am sure will shelter' us for the night. Tomorrow we can look up Dahlgren and the rest of our felio travelers, Th are bound to be safely in port by this time.” | *“Yes, and Chris will be frantic to find I'm among the missing, Anne 1 bitterly, “Who are your friends, American: |~ “English, dear. Holmes live on sort of representa shipping interests. re they nis Anne asked timid- “Will they have a telephone :s0 ch Chris at the hote! and no doubt he w | come over to see you immediately! | He'll be as eager to recover you as you are to get him back. I know Anne—oh, Anne—it’s going to be so | hard to give you up—I ' “Vietor, I'm terribly s But you wouldn’t want a wife who loved | another man, you know! Try to look | at it that . and some day you'll see anotbsr woman more worthy of | your love: Perhaps it won't be long | before that happens, who Kmow: Another silence, the -lights of | Gatun growing dimmer until they van- | ished altogether. The opposite shore | line grew” clearer and clearer, -drew nearer, and after what seemed fo Anne an eternity they were on land | again! | "“Now, darling, another short cut | through here and we'll reach the open | road,” Straine explained. “Don’t he frightened, the man savs it's not half as bad as the last cut! | His prophecy was correct. The | path,. though overgrown, was not nearly so difficult, and a half hour’s walk brought the party out upon an | open road, a sight so blessed that Anne. overwrought and exhausted | burst into tears, a havpening deeply to he rogretted, as it brought Straine’s arm swiftly about her, enfolding her | in ‘an ardent clasp. “Anne, Anne,-don’t cry, beloved: You're safe now. Oh, Anne, I love you so!” Lifting her bodily off her feet | Strdine set her down on the back seat of a motor, a shabby thing which | creaked beneath their weight. “Now, then,” said Straine to the man who sat in the front seat, “hurry | along.” He spoke in English, but the man | replied with a questioning infiection. He was not an American! | Tmmediately Straine switched to a | foreign tongue, and when the man an- swered they talked for several minutes before the car started forward. “Anne,” Straine took her hand gen- | tly in his, “can you be patient a little | longer?” “Victor,” Anne’s nerves snapped as | she realized that a new disappoint- ment awaited her. “Victor, what has happened now!" “Well, dear, we've missed the ship's party! The government headquarters are in Balboa. at the Pacific end of the Canal. This man says that the party was Janded and shipped through to Balboa this* evening, but it's not far, Anne, 40 miles. We'll go after | them, deéar!” “Oh, Victor, are you sure he isn't Hadn't we better keep on anyway!” late now, beloved, and if | we turn back to Colon we'll have to spend, the night there! No, we'd bet- |ter go on to Balboa, it's the only way!" Anne broke in, pro- Mr. and Mrs, the Zone. He is a ive of the English (Continued in tomorrow's Star.) Wig-Wagging Lovers. From the Philadelphia Ledger. For several weeks the occupants of a Broad street office building had | been amused by watching a courtship conducted hy means of the wig-wag | system of signaling. Every afternoon | they saw a young man in a_high win- |dow waving two small flags, and then they discovered that the signals | were being read and answered by a | girl in a window across the street. | Former Army and Navy men and | those with Boy and Girl Scout train- |ing were able to decipher the mes. | sages, and %o kept progress with the |love affair. The other day the girl, discovering that she was being | watched from many windows, wig | wagged a message to the spectators: | “Will be married tomorrow.” My in: | formant tells me that immediately a :d en men, Ww handkerchiefs for | flags, signaled, “Good Juck!” [ RS (S tiind Rriei | The United States uses more than | half the world's output of tin. The oldest known boats belonged to prehistoric men of the late Stone Age. Oh Anne, | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON., D. ¢ . SEPTEMBER 11, 1927—PART Whitney a Versatile Boy. From the Kansas City Star Ell Whitney, whose fame mostly upon his invention of the cotton ‘ gin, always liked to tinker with tools. | He came naturally by this trait, for father was a mech, farmer. TRe boy lik his father’s hop better than the farm. One Sunday he feigned illness and | e family went to church without m. While alone in the house he took watch apart and put it te ain and it ticked on as well rests pointed department aid de camp on |Street northeast. the staff of Comdr. Albert Michaud Mr. Brower has been one of the active the " as well as at the national Spanish War Command of Chic of the District for v vears. He srved as sen vice command ind commander War he ms tablishing 'a small but_ profitabl winess, After the war, fashion sed that young women should w ‘nnets that had to be fastened to t ey ir with long pins. So as the demand | ' & o ,“”\‘,',',’,’mf. e ¢ nails fell off, Whitney made s RbeL A Teetitn s and his lathe turned out walking R b L L and Vet- | from the Whitney learned as a ant folfit. oo soliaiy iolin and he was more competent in | mittee. e is also epairing the instruments than any i therbes ot man of the neighborhood. Tt is not | tional Capitai| surprising that Whitney, upon 1 Post, Veterans of| The of the need of a machine to sep; S ol the lint from the QOLtOI; | hins movvedonits boaifl-of Vraiien Tor| it veadily succeeded in producing a suc- | three years. In the Spanish-Amer | : an | officer cessful cotton gin. War he served in Company G (Old |eral, Ma de nail er | | District | hoy fo play a to MR. BROWER. fantry, 1 Capt. Iirst Lieut. Dan econd ut. Le 1 Caney, e - Ought to Know a Lot. From the Boston T “I'm a man of few word “What, .after the cross-wor craze has heen running for I'm surprised.’ scniu speare of sdith judge advoc Pennsylvan - | struetor, - | Roy W, Herron articipated in the render of a Mr. Brower, who is fore {man of macerator, Bureau of Engrs puz years te, '| Spanish War Veterans Clarence P. Brower has been ap-|ing and Printing, The following of ene Veted general, »pointment of as qu of The delega nomination in the convention. National L 4 its convention in Detroit concurrently . Manion of Wis national - S 5 tucky: national historian, Effie King of Tilinois; national musician, Vivian Tallman of lowa; national council members, Anna Miller of Nebraska, Florence Rollins of California, Pearl | Lane of Florida, Lisette Sommers of | Colorado, ¥ Coney of Georgia, Louise Sichert of Missourl, Flora awn of Texas, Grace Alexander of | i e | Arizona: membel the scholarship | AbEaL f,'["":,,,l,iygnn:x, Lillian Hutchins of Virginia. | ns at Detroit: | The officers w ed by John J. Garrity y. nder-in- resides at 2815 Fifth Richard J. Harden Camp at its reg- meeting elected and mustered into | active membership Frank Hall, George Mair and R On ccount of the mp officers Iti- {at the nations apment at De- ity | troit, Adjt. H. L. Leslie and Officer of | s|the Day Leo M. Devlin were the only | 1| permanent officers filling the chair | the acting offic being Harry wood, commander; Past . Brower, senior v ; Past Dept. Comdr. . junior vice comm rd Doran, chaplain, and George W. officer of the guard. A Albert W. Evans, Amp as one of its tes at the national encampment | Detrolt, announced the election of John J. Garrity as commander-in- and the selection of Havana, Cuba, the 1928 convention city Past artment Comdr. James Maynard referred to the record of the new commander-in-chief and also call- od attention to the fact that an hon orary member, Miles Poindexte, bassador to Peru, was in the city. am_ of Lexington, r C -in-Chief rtermaster national was the fi ¢ held e del at Gen hief ind_the following | President gen- con- ident general, | { Michigan: junior Lulu Shake- chaplain gen- Ohio; national Minnie Lenhart of patriotic _in- er of Ken- Bec] Past | ¥ Acting Comdr. Sherwood directed that a letter be sent to him inviting him to addr the next regular meeting of the camp. The report of Agjt. 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