Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1927, Page 12

B e e I TT TR T TP TR O PPR TR resawen ‘seek her out. THE BLACK JOKER BY IS4BEL OSTRANDER. (Continued from Yesterday's Star) | | For answer Ajford picked her up | bodily in his arfns and plunged for- | ward, but the shouts were gaining and the crash of branches showed | that they were being closely followed. | Then & shot . another—and | the girl felt body quiver while the hold of his arms relaxed and she siipped gently tc e ground. “Oh! You're wounc She could scarcely ntter the words. “Not badly?! It was the merest | whisper and he staggered ut cluster of willow trunks, Janet crawled after and, | lifted his head. “You must | Miss Janet! Get to your way and tell him?” | leave vou!" she eried, You could have escaped if me! You risked too, and brought | i rupted “N 8 h. and faithfull He'l bring help—show your watch!” “But they'll kill you!” The crash ind Janet could dampness penetrating her knees. *You're was 1 varm & With a convulsive motion he flung his upper body from her lap to the | moist ground “For father's name—gt commanded with a | ring of in his tones. “That's | the only way you can help me now! keep ve, mever fear! eed 1 sake—in his | me lized the at was the Ip! With a| hand for an then turned and indly away from the | through brambles that cape and tore the creened her face, hout and then silence Jer pursuers had found { abruptly the brambles ended at the shore of a small but seemingly deep pool, for the reflection | e Eiars waa given back as from | illimitable depths, and an inspiration | came to the girl. he had dropped s'\".w‘l f"‘;l‘ r‘.n\\'l v:h“ unfastened her cape and let it slip from her shoul- | the edge of the water, then warily inte it The bank | and the icily cold feel- | r torn feet. i hl showed tha her shoes long ders on If only | jeep enough in the center, | : she could proceed along the edge of the ne far enough to find, an open space leading away from it Where her footprints would not show, | they n think that she had tried %o swim atross and drowred in the effort! A low ledge of rocks loomed seeming to stretch far back, <hape outlined against the arkness with no trees massed behi 1f only she could reach it! She had waded carefully, but all stepped off into nothing- ng downward until the <ed over her head! For senses reeled, but she inctively, her hat float- came gasping to the ledge of rocks was ht at once she ness, plur joy waters « a moment he surface. much nearer’ Janet could only swim a few strokes, for her experience had been gained in a brief v tion at a con- vent of the same der by the sea, but slig 1s it was it aided her now. Unimpeded by cape or shoes, she drew jerkily but surely closer to’the ledge and finally grasped its edge and drew herself up, exhausted, to its slippery top. Pausing only to draw a few deep breaths, she crawled on her hands and knees up the slope, conscious that the starlight would reveal her to sear ng eyes if flashlights did not The ledge ended in a broken heap of rocks and behind t_he bi, of these she crouched, shiv- ering as the night breeze struck through her drenched garments, and Waited, but mnot for long. Darting fingers of light appeared from the di- rection from which she had come and a harsh ery denoted the discov- of her cape. Silence and dark- ness ensued, and then once more the lghts played fitfully about as, her srsuers separated and searched. P SaCot them came £o near her hid- ing-place from the landward side that Janet could plainly hear his footsteps on soft ground and the whistle of his hoarse breathing, but she re- mained undiscovered and after what seemed like hours, lights and foot- steps vanished and silence reigned. Sheer haustion brought sleep to Character Loans The Serviees of “Your Bank” Are Available to All Federal Employes And When Loan Is Paid You Also Have $25.44 4 Monthly Deposit of NOW $46.00 $92.00 $138.00 $184.00 $230.00 $276.00 £368.00 $460.00 Departmental Bank “Your Bank” Under U. 5. Government Supervision 1714 PA. AVE. N.W. 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Her clothes were still sod- | den, but the sun would remedy that, | had dried already. moothing it with her fingers, she braided it roughly and then struck out across the rocks to where early wheat was springing in plowed field and beyond a winding road smoke rose from a chimney hidden among tall maples. , Janet glanced down at her watch. Tt was still safe, the hands pointing mutely in the signal for those to read who knew, but it would be use- less to show it here. No one in this lonely farmhouse could possibly fathom its message and it was too close to the place from which she 1 escaped for her to dare reveal - presence. She crept across the ros theless, and around to the rear the yard under cover of a row of thick berry bushes, and near the Kitchen a tantalizing odor of fresh-baked bread was wafted to her. Peering between the thorny branches she saw, on a window ledge a few feet from the ground, a row of crisp loaves cool- ing and a glass jug of heavy cream. An elderly woman stood at the back door, feeding chickens from a shining pan, and as Janet sniffed hungrily, a cart rattled up to the gate at the front of the house and a cheery voice called out: nt a I'm her hair Sunday haulin’ paper, em to the The woman put the pan down on the steps and went around the path to the gate, and Janet seized her op- portunity. Squeezing through the bushes, she ran across the yard, reached for the jug on the window ledge and drank deeply, then, tucking a warm loaf under her arm, she flew down a path behind the chicken coops and over a stone wall into a patch of woodland. 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Janet Cau. . h. | more. “Do you know him | Somehow, there was somethir. neer Sure!” He turned his back upon | about the way he held his palc and | her and appeared to be leisurely light- brushes, not like other artisi. <he |ing his pipe as he glanced swiftly had seen, and the daub on the as |about. “Where's he now?" in no way resembled the view ht “He helped me to get away but facing! they followed and shot him! I don’t A little thrill ran through her ai “now whether he lived or not, for all, she stepped boldly for maide me leave him, but I'm sure ward, they took him back there! Oh, can't The artist glanced up, his eyes nar- | you reach him”" rowing, and then rose slowly to his|* “\We're going to try!” The words feet, staring at the ragged, dusty little [ wore rot especially foreeful, but the | | figure approaching. Janet noticed {tone in ‘vhich they were uttered held | that his eyes were fixed upon her left "5 certain grimness that thrilled the |arm, and as she reached his side she girl again | extended it. | “He told me to get to my father “Are you sure?” His tone was quick |and tell him!” She halted again and | and eager, “Are you sure it's seven added: “Maybe you don't know who | o'clock 2" vas | | daring he §s? “I do, it Nat told me the truth, and | the chief's going to be wild! ' You | | picked a good time to beat it away | from that school—but listen! I've got to get hack to my painting till sun |down for they may be sneaking | | und yet to Kkeep an eye on me. | v looked kind of leery at me and picture I'm doing, and they me back; 1 couldn't stave ‘em handed if it eame to a fight, not even with my gat, for they'd get me in the end and there’d be one the game and help wish?” but | " Janet exclaimed you think we'd He broke off. “Look here, ) Dane. Dig under | that roll-up and you'll find a file and | a knife-blade that'd cut rock. Hide r. Alford CHAPTER VIT. face of this stranger who had the pseudo-artist eanght her up. vou all day, pretending they're look- Do is a wonder you missed ther i ‘ Written in the Sky. | ANET glanced from the watch [ upon her shaking wrist to the answered its mute call. “What hour do you Her voice faltered i stopped, “It's alw ven! Here, get in that tent, 1 There been a bunch of men scouting around for |ing for a crazy girl who's escaped | from an asylum; they were acro the lake there only haif an hour ag | How'd you get out of that house? 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