Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1928, Page 23

Miss ‘Brown of X.Y.O. y E. Phillips Conyright. 1027, by E. _(Continued from Yesterdny's Star) Miss Edith Brown, pretty stenographer, s Jitted from her i it ot “routine into ® land of adventure and romance by a Chance Dit of dictation which she fake: & man who saya he Tenowned explor- g, whon she st her notes and o h she has been i Posit box as instructed ns and saves her bag had _strapped it acquamtance ea of “all sorte alth b r. o the documents with trusted in A safes ahe s only b wrist ought a opl Tankiar fes ) likes least no_one ibe them . she finds the .. both realize that h heentam s Brown than_ Dessiter heen annou enemies Off the track, im enliste her to heln to thwart any et her notes into the opponents enemy_has an & fter 9 o'clock the morning. Brown prised She answered the summon and nding, hat in whom at | Miss Brown Greatson—E 1 am Abel at . you know. | Deane's secretary. We| the Cosmopolitan one remember ou Miss Brown admitted. “Of course, I know I'm intrudin at this hour of the morning he interrupted eagerly, “but 1 want just one word with you, please. It| is most important.” | She allowed him to pass into the| room a little ungraciously. Although ghe had only been up an hour, her| bed was already made, the window had been opened and the room itse was the picture of neatness. Never- theless, Miss Brown had strict ide: with regard to the reception of vis itors. “If must be only one word, then."| she insisted. * v friend nor | 1 receive visit W you want, please?” He fidgeted with his hat. Miss Brown stood before him, cold and in- | hospitable. Knowing what a feeble| explanation he must offer, he re: ized how hopeless his task was likely to_prove. | “Miss Brown,” he began, compelled to remind vou of thing I know you don't wish to d cuss. You have become involved inl s matter which you do not under-| stand in the least. It isn't your af-| fair. | now,” at is it You have been forced andl cajoled into taking unfair risks i life." Miss Brown’s manner was as frigid a8 the wind that was whistling down the entry into the street id | “It appears to me,” she said, you are interfering in a matter x“‘h.rh‘ do not proceed a: “But I've g0t 1 can assure you I hate my errand, wouldn't have come if there wasn't 2 grave reason for it. Some one—you.| 1 believe—is going to a bank in South Audley street this morning to fetch away a packet which has been de- posited there. 1 don’t want you 10} go. 1 am here to stop your going if | Ican” Miss Brown's blue eves were large now with astonishment. She forgot| for a moment to' be angry. She| looked at her visitor incredulously. “You are here to stop my going to | the bank about my own business this | morning?” she repeated. “Have you suddenly taken leave of your senses, | Mr. Greatson?” “] dare say I have, to some exten! bhe groaned, “or I should have let | things take their own course. I've! been awake most of the night won- | dering what to do. 1 hoped that per- baps you might listen to me it you | realized that I was in earnest. Do you believe that I am in earnest, | Miss Brown?” | “] dare say You are. *“but that doesn’'t n ence. I shall not te am going to the bank or not. only tell you this in the hope of get. ting rid of you at once; if I have al- | ready planned to go, mothing tha t | you could say would stop me. ])ul You want me to add that 1 resent interference from strangers? take advice, it is from my friends.” He looked at her with a pathetic HNttle furrow of the brows. “You are making me feel” he re- marked, “that there is nothing left for me o do but to go down on all fours and crawl out.” | “Then why don't you do it”” she she admitted, t, 5t 1 ez en't , 1o con- wince you that min t idle in BROMO QUININE a cold without discomfort ~ Whytake chances with a cold? Bromo Quinine et rid o coming « Bunce 1559 the siguature /_’4 W}/’IU v | her hat | two stolid-looking men descended THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. and proceeded to an apparently casual but close investigation of the jmmediate neighborhood. It seemed to Miss Brown that a couple of loi- terers who had been arguing outside the photographer's shop opposite faded away. Another pedestrian, however, a typical street lounger, came slouching along the pavement and stood looking at the car. The chauffeur watched him keenly. ““Move on ther he ordered in a surprigingly official tone, The man only grinned. Suddenly, Oppenheim. Phillipa Opvenheim, terest,” he sald, earnestly. “Serious harm is likely to happen to vou if you go down to the bank this morn- = he errand you are contem- platin “And how do you know of th She demanded. “How do you even come to know that I was thinking of going to the bank “1 learned it by accident, because I went down to a meeting of one of of our party with deane last ) “The chief wanted rankland down at the House. and 1 had to go there to fetch him. What was going on at the committee meeting I cannot tell you | in detail. 1 am breaking contidence enough as it is when 1 beg you, as 4 value your life, not to leave this or 10 this morning. It o affair. It's a_ cowardly » expose you, who are not c in any way., to a very reas suppose you mean,” she said, me of your friends and are planning some sort of to prevent my carrying out * he protested s for “It’s not your ¢ ble . 1 am not respon: We have a ¢ and it must be fought in the waylay me? They once hefore, you know. t of way to conduct pposed to be begged mind at ‘I am not go: . you can set . she assured to the ban kb ive ame iy vou promise me this, then.” he pleaded: “it isn't much to ask?| Will you wait until 5 minutes past 10 hefore you leave her | “1 “\1‘1‘10 1“[;1»‘(:“"}*“1 l",_\'\’_‘l So:‘:r MY | with the blade already open and de- he—and 1 shall not tel ‘\!3?;1‘1‘9 f\“‘l:""’ll ‘i!;o the tire at c a o . 1" vas gazing. you what they are-l shell, ¢iiY |, Twice he achieved his object, and care a fig about you and your as sins and vour underhand way of nducting your aff 8, You may mean well your f—1 don't care Whether you do or not—but I hate vou all.” He turned away. He was a young man of understanding, and he kenw that he had as much chance of mov- s Brown as one of the pyra- id, when the nearer of the two attend- m simply “Please remer ites late in keeping an ap- I haven't come here for nothinz. Please believe that.” She watched him from the window ross the road and disappear in the | : walking slowly deep in thought. Then she put on hesitated for a moment over of outer garments, and. ough it was raining a discarded the brown mackin- tosh and slipped on the fur coat She glanced at the clock as she set- tleda down to wait. It was 20 min- tes to 10. her choice final! 1t At 10 minutes to 10 precisely things began to happen. A limou- sine car drew up outside from which A THREE DAYS' | " COUGH IS YOUR DANGER SIGNAL | Persistent coughs and colds lead to serious trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion, an emuisified creosote that is pleasant to take. 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I don't know He stabbed one of our tives." mer's ear and was at once greeted with a salute. “I'll come along quite quietly,” the offender promised. “I don’t want to get away, neither. You needn’t grab me as though I was a criminal. I just stabbed that there tire. That's all I done.” “What did you do it for?" The man grinned, showing a line of yellow, horrible teeth. “Ten quid,” he answered, “and I'd have had to go at the lot for half the money. ‘Willful damage,’ that's all they can charge me with. If I get a week in quod I'll have a good spree when I get out.” “Who gave you the ten quid?” the other demanded sternly. ‘The man grinned once more. “Come to think of it,” he remarked, “there might be a bit more in this for me. Look 'ere, Guv'nor, how much for a description of the bloke what forked out the ten quid His questioner turned to the police- man. Where shall you take him?" he inquired. riborough street, sir.” ‘See that he's kept there until I turn up,” was the briet command. “I'll see to it, sir."” The prisoner was marched away. A plain clothes attendant.ensconced Miss Brown in the car. “The chauffeur will have the new wheel on directly,” he assured her. “We shall only be a few minutes be hind at the bank. And you needn't be nervous, Madam. You won't notice them, perhaps, but we've a score of men und the bank. “I'm not In the least nervous,” Miss Brown said composedly, as she took her place In the car. very seldom am. 1 was just wondering who had given that man ten pounds just to de us these few minntes, o a “We'll get to the bottom of that. If | you'll allow me, Madam, I'll it inside With vou, and escort you across the pavement. Miss Brown welcomed him with a smile as he stepped in. “Thank you very much,” she an- swered, rtheless, Miss Brown was not escorted across the pavement to the doors of the bank that morning. . . . . . . The car had already turned into South Audley street when the gray- ness of the Decenber sky overhead was suddenly split by what seemed to be a tremendous sheet of lightning | | good Miss grasped her com amazement Brown | Her lips were parted to utter some of there as though the earth un amation wonder when s a ro The policeman took the misdemean- | gerneath were opening all around them ant, who m to e captor br pe, into custody. thed a word into the for- de not the slightest ef- | The street itseli seemed to be rockin His | the ¢ taxicab just in front ran up the curb | r gave a vielent swerve, and a 1 why?" | the windc C, MONDAY, JANUARY- 16, 1928. and crashed into the wall of a house. Miss Brown thrust her head through the shattered window, gripping the side of the car with both hands, looked upon the most extraordl sight of her life. A little ahead, on the left-hand side, was what had once been the bank. There were flames of lightning still shooting into the air, a lava of mason- ry going up like a bunch of rockets in all manner and shapes to descend agaln, making hideous havoc of the street and everything upon which they fell. A fragment of a marble pillar came down on a boy on a bicycle, and Miss Brown closed her eyes. The two near- est standard lamps were twisted round and round as though some nervous ! wiant had been playing with them in | his fingers. The front door of the bank remalned, curiously enough, | standing. and through the fram work was a glimpse of a great pit, a_counter upheaved against the crum bling wall, with not a fragment of root Upon the pavement were a number )Y}Mm'k objects lying in quaint shapes. | Miss Brown suddenly realized what | they were and drew in her head with | a little sob. Her escort, who had step ped into the road, looked in through the window. Even he was obviously shaken. . “It's a terrible job this, Miss," he announced. I've told the chauffeur to drive you straight back to Shep s Market." What is it? An explosion?” sk “Bombs,” he confided. ve s this sort of thing in Madrid and ¥ celona—saw the first one—a clumsy affair it was, too—in Petersburg, whe I was a lad. He's taking vou back your rooms, Miss. Don't look out of again. Il bring you word whnt's happened presently. perfectly all right,” Brown assured him. “It wol use going on. I suppose? Not the slightest. 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