Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1927, Page 25

| P00 0000000000000 0000000000000 0 LADY SLIPPER Author of “MYTERI se000 By Ella Wister Haines QUS SWEETHEART.” Covvright. 1926 Thompson Feature Service. Ine. 000000 00000000000000000000040000000000000000 CHAPTER XXXVL Saved. SECOND of unspeakable hor- | ror, a shriek of terror, and | Anne, not realizing what had | happened, found herself in Christopher’s arms, his kisses imprisoning her lips. “My darling. my darling, ¥ time—" came his beloved voic in time, thank God™ “Take Miss Morris out,” heard another voice saying, “get her over to the hotel and let them take care of her there.” ard this voice as from a The room had become A blessed sense of relief quite dark. she tried to speak, stole over her lying upon a bed, dayl in the window, and Chris leaning her while M of water to . “Drink Mrs. Winston d Anne com- fully into the “What time is 1y, her Hand re topher’s. ¥ “Afternoon, and by this time your father has the wire! saying that you are quite safe! Nothing more to fear, my precious little girl. Ev thing is over Mrs. Winston was speaking and Anne, still dazed to remember her last conscio! “T fainted?” she asked, and then as memory came rushing back she start- ed up in terror. ‘“Victor? Wherd is he? He came between me and the bullet. He t 18 he—is he— “Yes” Chris answered quietly. “They are both dead. What did you say Anne? He came between you and the woman's bullet?” “Yes! She fired at me, I was blinded and I saw him fall, he must have jumped between us! Oh,” she cov- ered her eyes with horror, ““poor, poor he asked faint- Victor! He wasn't all bad, Chris, he | was never cruel or unkind to me. ~He wanted Dad’s secret—and he—oh!" the agony of it swept over her afresh. “You'd better leave her to me,” Mr! ‘Winston said, “she needs rest and I can tell her what has happened. Come back again in three hours and you'll find her worlds better! There dear, lie quietly i 3 mothing more to “You're all safe s deringly. “You and C and Dad, and Aubrey? They didn’t get any- o “No, we got them—all but Lady de And the last thing Mac told s that he had a line on her, Mac?” Anne looked puzzled. ou call him Aubrey, dear, but his name is MacDonald Bason. I'm mot, his mother, either, I'm a sphster, my name is Marie Hart.” “I knew you were secret service,” Anne said, “Victor told me.” “Suppose you shut your eyes now,” Marie directed, “I'll 'sit beside you, and Chris will come back later. Kiss him bood-bye, that's right,” and Anne, comforted and happy at last, sank into the first rest she had known in hours. Across the town, at the Balboa Gov- | ernment Headquarters, Chris found Mac, Helmer and the Zone officials assembled in conference with the cap- tain and the first officer, purser and doctor of the steamer Hope. *You're just in time,” Carey greeted him, “Mac's going to tell the whole story, and I know you'll want to lis- ten in" “I surely do!” Chris agreed heart- “have you found Lady de Vere?” Sure thing,” Mac smiled. - “Lis- ten.” “Begin at the beginning so that the stenographer can get the full re- port. Now then!” “We were mighty sure that the ‘woman Sonia would try to make the Canal Zone and get in touch with Holmes and his gang,” MacDonald Bacon told his story, “and through a clever ruse we succeeded in getting her to take the vacancy offered by the iliness of Frau Kirsch, stewardess of the Hope. Frau Kirsch was not 111, of course, but the Russian fell for it, and boarded the ship. Marie and 1 went aboard as planned, and began elose watch on the corridor occupied by Lady de Vere and in charge of this Sonia. Our suspicions were im- mediately centered upon Lady de Vere, iwho we were sure was the Russian confederate, and this proved to be true, but unfortunately other events arose which made their capture most difficult, and in order to make these clear I must go back and give you the connecting links. “Straine, a Russian spy, together with this woman, Sonia, came to America some months ago. Straine came in from England with excellent credentials, thoroughly investigated by us as suspicion began to rest wpon him, and which we now know arose from the fact that Scotland Yard was as much deceived in him as we were. He was a clever man, the master hand at disguise, one with- out paralel in the history of this de- partment as far as I can find out. Straine took up his residence with Prof. Morris, having come for that purpose, the news of the death ray having leaked through sources now understood. There, however, he met his Waterloo. The human element | overcame him, he fell in love with Anne Morris and lost his grip, when he found that ‘Anne w: the Hope, having alr separted her from h gren, he decided to getting into the zone in that wi marrying Anne it he could, and so, | getting from her the secret of the ray. It was a good stunt, but in order o carry out his schemes 2 little more clever! a learning also that Dahlgren was sailing, he boarded the ship twic He paused, looking around at the carnest faces before him. “Early in the evening he went aboard as Lady de Vere, occupying a cabin whic by con necting d Chris and A side by side. e 1o 1ir of wooden ment stores to ¢ had also a bills, always convenient room he ch and left the as Victor the trip I occasionally, . blonde wig her head, She never I room, nobody en- tered it but the rdess “And then eached himzelf. Finding ¥ difficult to win concocted Jover still fur chair in Da these legs in sto pers, slipping the around the anl down to his room whi from behind on the hes planted the $1,000 bill by dropping it thro fetting the st lady de Vere's creating all_the nec suspicions 10 convict Chris as a murderer. He might have gotten away with thi even our efforts would have bee little value, had not another hum element entered in Sonia loved Straine, and now she was seized with an unconquerable jealousy. Not only did she help Straine to trap Chris, but she tried to bring Anne into disrepute, forging a mnote which led Anne into Mars cabin at night, using the glass t n held a glass | g out for Chris- | to save me—oh Chris, | slippers to incriminate her as the murderess, employing endless little | tricks which apparently decelved Straine as well as the rest of us. “Then came the wreck, and its com- lications. Once on land and sepa- »d, the Holmes gang ready and waiting, our situation seemed hope- lessly lost. Anne was missing, we could not be sure that she was alive. |1 found a clue in the de Lesseps | Canal, but where to look next? I con- fess that I was at my wits' end when aid came through quite an unexpected source. In the role of genial Pat Kelly 1 had kidded along a couple of native girls and one of them was clever enough, at my suggestion, to get into the Holmes residence as chamber maid. She became trusted | and allowed a good deal of freedom. I suspected myself that nmot a little = | heart interest between herself and | Holmes entered into it, but I was her ¢ love! She helped tremendously, | ana through eavesdropping she learn- ed of this house with its secret in- { ner room, so cleverly built that it had us all guessing, and where we finally found Anne, after Helmer, Aarie, Chris and I had been to every ce on the Pacific side of the zone. . I think, tells the whole story!” E v did you ever come to sus. pect that aine was Lady de Vere?"” Chris asked in wonder. “Well, it took me some time to get round to it,” ac admitted, “but all things considered, she couldn’t have been anybody else, and that wooden leg vou dug out of the bonfire was my last link, Chris, it fitted the slip- | per perfeetly. 1 didn’t need anything more.” “But what were they after?” Chris ! was still in complete confusion. “An invention of Prof. Morris, per- | fectly safe, as it happens, one they | could never have secured, but that ! did not help to safeguard Anne! No, | we were mighty lucky, Chris. It it hadn't been for the man's love for Anne, the woman’s love for Straine, we might not be here now! Straine gave his life for your girl. He was a peculiar chap!” Chris went back to Anne after a time, his mind still whirling, and in her room at the hotel he was delight- | ed to find her quite herself again, and | eating dinner with Marie. Chris lost no time in joining them. He was hungry himself. “Anne,” he said, after he had re- | peated Mac's story, and they ‘had re- | viewed it with an exclamation of wonder at his cleverness, “I remem- ber now where I saw Straine. He entered French Army camps as a pro. fessional entertainer, a ventriloquist! | I saw him several times! He was a spy even then. But never mind that. dear,” Chris wished that Marie were miles away, but he was to chival- rous to say so, “how did you happen to go with Straine to Phil Sand’s? What hapened to you?” “Oh, Chris!" she exclaimed, “that was such a mistake. I lost my tem- per because you were S0 angry and suspicious. You remember that you took me back to Mr. Kean's, put the latchkey in the lock and opened it a crack, and then—there in the vesti- bule, outside the inner door, you kiss- ed me good-night?” most certainly remember that!" Well, when you had gone, Chris, I wanted to hear your footsteps to the vary last—I waited, and when I tried the door the chain was up! T rang and rang. and nobody came, and just then I saw a_ man going into Dr. Sands. It was Victor! He came to my rescue, took me in thers and tried to wake Mr. Kean by the tele- phone, but he couldn’t rouse him so we sat waiting there—and—and you came —"" “You can depend upon one thing,” Chris breathed a sigh of relief, “Straine never really tried to rouse Mr. Kean, who sleeps with & tele- phone right beside his pillow. He pre- tended Anne, that was all, the crook!” “I don’t feel that way, dear,” Anne said gently it for him I would not be here now,” and as Marie saw fit to leave the room at that moment, Anne found further words unneces- sary. Christopher's arms were about her. 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