Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 42

S el LADY SLIPPER By Ella Wister Haines I | Author of “MYSTERIOUS SWEETHEART.” Copyright, CHAPTER XXL The Mountain Trail. HRISTOPHER, sleeping sound- | Jy in his room at the Wash- (Continued from Yesterday's Star) | ington Hotel, Cristobal, was about 5 o'clock on | Sun morning, 48 hours | after leaving the Hope, by a violent knocking at his door. It required two or three minutes for him to et hi bearings, for his slumber had been | the profound one that follows ex-| haustion, and his sudden awakening | in w niliar surroundings bewildered | him. The knocking continued until he came to himself sufficiently to rise | and open the door, confronting a good | Jooking young fellow in civilian | clothes. =M. this note for y nd it to | Winston left | Dahlgren? Mr. aid to be sure ou, sir, ou myself.” | . Chris took the envelope, *any answer? ) B “No. Mr. Winston said he'd be| I hope 1 didn't| r, he said it was very important that you should get it | the first thing in the morning.’ Chi still sleepy, thanked the mes- | senger and closing the door of his yoom sat down on the edge of the bed to read Winston's note, praying as he tore it open, that some news of Anne might be contained therein, and | reacting to its contents with a whoop of joy! “Hurrah! Hurrah!” and then more| quietly he said: “Thank God!" for “the message did indeed contain news of his beloved: i “Anne safe at Acon. Take first hoat through canal in the morning, | ghe’ll be waiting at dock. Will call you there by early afternoon. Win- ston.” 4 g The blessed sense of relief which stole over Christopher, following the reading of this note, shut out all other | feelings. Anne was found, safe and welll In a few hours he would see her again, hold her close, kiss the sweet lips so long denied him! His| pulses throbbed, his whole being re- sponded to the tremendous thrill of joy that overwhelmed him. Five minutes were passed in this realm of ecstasy, then more practical details loomed once more into the horizon. He must dress and catch the first boat through the canal, sending a wireless to the steamer bringing Anne’s father and the Keans, to the scene of action. How re- lieved and rejoiced such a message would make the little party! Chris- topher, jumping into his clothes with- out further delay, pictured the thanks- giving abogrd the boat, and concocted his message to Prof. Morris without regard to expense. He was writing it down, to save time, when it occurred to him that he had better leave word for Winston, and it was then that he penned the message received later that day by Winston, the message which so startled that young man: “Got your note. Following your in- structions, Chris.” “Now, then!” Christopher said aloud, as he opened the door, “Lafayette we are here!” And stepping into the hall he stopped to remove his key when he felt a light touch upon his arm, and turning in response stared into the face of a woman flattened against the wall, her head and body enveloped with a dark shawl. “Shhh!” she whispered, ‘‘not speak here! Come by house where see fire last night, quick!” and before Chris- topher could reply she had slipped away around a corner of the corridor and vanished from sight. Chris stood stock still, wondering what this strange appearance por- tended. Where had he seen the ‘woman before? Her face was vaguely familiar—yet he had not met any woman on the Zome. It was not Marie—not Sonia—a chambermaid of the hotel, perhaps? Certainly he was not going to follow a blind lead of that kind! He must get to Ancon without delay, and he hurried down stairs and into the lobby, leaving his key and the note for Winston with the hotel clerk. Then without delay he set out for the docks, still wonder- ing what the woman could have had in mind, and he had almost reached the waterfront when he suddenly re- membered where he’d seen her! She was one of the girls Winston had brought to meet him the night he had come in upon the tug, the Banana Baby! Christopher stopped short, his mind one big question mark. This was ‘Winston's girl, and he had learned that Winston never made an un- mecessary connection or lost a trick. ‘There must be some reason for her peculiar call, for unless she knew something of what was going on she could not have been aware of his presence at the bonfire the night be- fore. The house belonged to Holmes, a man under Government surveillance, the home of the carrier pigeons, the m 1926, Thompson Feature Service, ' Inc. scene of the discovery of the wooden leg! | Christopher stood irresolute. To obey this call meant the possible loss of ‘the first steamer through the canal, and Anne might think he was | not coming and be lost to him again. | Yet to disobey it might mean even | more serious complications, and after a struggle with himself he gave in to | reason and turning his footsteps went tly toward the Holmes .residenc roaching from the rear alley or lane, much overgrown with tropical vegetation. Here he paused, taking care to conceal him:| self in the undergrowth, and he was not a moment too soon, for the sound of horses’ feet arose,| ntrance, | | came nearer, and from the back gate of the Holmes pl riders emerged, ce two horseback man and a woman, | and rode rapidly aw: The faces of these two riders were not easily distinguishable at his di tance, but the woman was small and in gener: bearing suggested the S and Chris, knowing that she must have taken shelter with the Holmes people, was convinced that it was none other than the Rus- sian enemy. Yet, even should she prove to be that person, what could Christopher Dahlgren do about it? He was not an intelligence officer hunting aliens! He was a harmless citizen, seeking his lady love! Sonia and her scheme meant little to him unless—unless they involved Anne. Should he take time to report the woman’s departure to headquarters, and were they not| n all probability aware of it? The riders had gone out of sight when he emerged from his hiding place, uncertain as to his next move, loath to lose a minute in going after | Anne, vet hesitating, thinking, von- dering, when suddenly his meditations were brought to wift conclusion by the sound of hor s feet at the end of the lane, and the figure of the girl who had come to him at the hotel came into sight, leading a saddled horse, and beckening him to hurry. “Well?” he questioned, running to her, “who sent you, what does this mean?"” | “Meestair Kellee tell me to watch | and tell you when the woman goes v, he think she go after girl, you have they gone? How ana Baby replied. rse, follow me, but wait, I tell you now! There is only a bad path from here to Gatun, no road. so they must go on horse. I show | you road, you go on so they not see, | but when you come to road I get Meestair Caree to send car there | for you. I go now and tell to people Meestair Kellee say should help you | it you go to follow Maestair Kellee he know me, always I help him, I| know Meestair Holmes, much, much | bad man.” “But how did you find all this out?” | Christopher couid still not convince | himself that he should take up the | trail of these people, particularly as | he had received such implicit dircc»l tions from Winston himself, and then and only then did Christopher have an inspiration! Suppose that Winston had not written that note to him at all, suppose it was a decoy, like the other notes, cleverly forged! The girl was speaking again, in an- swer to his question. “Long time I am employed by Meestair Holmes! Meestair Kellee he make me go there. I see lady come from ship, I see lady burn much last night. I know lady go away to- day, Meestair Kellee he go in night, he say tell you when lady goes away! Meestair, you go now, I see Meestair Kellee and tell him everything, he come help vou I know, only now go, Meestair Caree he send you car to road I know!” Her words, together with the sin- cerity of her manner, convinced Chris- | topher, and without further delay he mounted the horse and followed her lead through the town, keeping a suitable distance behind her, and com- ing at last to the outskirts where the girl gave him detailed directions and bid him godspeed. “Road much narrow and rough, over mountains, very hard to ride, but go slow. I think they not hurry, I hear them laugh much because get away from ship so easy, too. Very hot to ride, I think they go slow, not worry, cannot lose path if keep straight on where horses have gone before.” Christopher saw her turn back with regret, but time was passing and activities of the day had begun. The girl must not arouse suspicion by be- ing ahsent from her work at the Holmes residence, and now that he was safely on the road he did not need her further guidance. It was indeed a rough and difficult road, a mountain trail, winding in and out of that wild country bordering on the Canal. «(hristopher had heard that the highway from Colon to 8 ar | escape me this time, and perhaps I You | Add Pounds of Weight to - THE EVENING although there was a good road be. tween Gatun and the Pacific entrance to the Canal. “Funny they'd leave such an impor- tant connection unfinished,” he mused as he rode along, and again, “Clever girl that, wonder where she got this horse? Good boy!” he stroked the willing animal, #no hurry, watch your and Christopher, "settling com- | fortably into his saddle, relaxed some- | what, enjoving his new adventure in spite of his renewed anxiety for the safety of Anne. m bound to get to Ancon, any- he assured himself. can get a line on this woman for Win- ston at the same time. She may lead aight to Anne, for all I know in thunder is the whole crazy business about, anyway? What can Russian Reds want of poor little inno- cent Anne?” The sun rose higher and the heat set in once more. the awful noon of the tropics when man and eck shelter from its scorching But Chris kept on, encouraging with kind words and pats, ng at every stream for rest and reshment. Perspiration streamed from every pore, his clothing w soaking wet and his faithful hor white with foam, but still he pt 1 his way until at length a broader road came into view, and her stopped and dismounted, peering ahead for a sight of the other riders. He had had no trouble throughout the trip in following their fresh trail. Two horse: : mountain now emerging into th way there was still no one in and atter some deliberation he decided to push out into the open and con- tinue, keeping h The road at this point would have been passable for a wagon, a_Ford | might ‘e gone through. Gatun | must be near. Did he dare to venture into that populated spot? STAR. WASHINGTON. And as he considered an automobile nce over the brow | r, a man jumped * he cried. | “Hop in the back seat. Carey caught me just as T was pulling out, and 1 passed our hird st a K We'll be up with them in no time!" 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