Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929. The Wolves of By Edgar (Copyright, 1029, by North mn'erlan {Continued From Yesterday's Star.) YWENTY-SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. | ‘OLLY OAKS strode down the| ' hall to the door of the apart- § ment occupied by Lila Smith and Anna. Lila, who admitted him, was glad to see that he| was in good humor. “You girls enjoying yourselves?” He Jooked at the scattered playing-cards) on the table. “I must come in and| Jearn you a few games. You're sleeping | here tonight, miss,” he added, ad- dressing_Anna. | “Yes, I'm sleeping here tonight.” Her | voice was steady and calm. She had; 8 look of serenity that so entirely| changed her appearance that he would | hudfi have recognized her as the| woman he had brought to Arbroath Building. He strolled carelessly to the door,| opened it, and looked at the newly fixed bolts outside. “You don't mind me loc! g you In? Fhere's lots of burglars in this neighbor- | y hood. It's disgraceful the way crime is spreading. The police! Fat lot of .oof they are! ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes’!” “How long are we staying here, Mr. Oaks?” asked Lila timidly. ly shrugged amiably. “A couple of days, and then we are off to the country. Nothinz like the «country to make you feel fine!” “Mr. Oaks, what has happcned Lord | Biniford?” It was Anna who asked the question. The question was so unexpected that | he found it a little disconcerting. She | might know things that he thought she | did not know, and she might have seen things that he thought she hadn't had intelligence to understand. Golly regarded the woman with new dnterest. How much did she remember? How much had she heard? There had been some rather frank talk in her presence, for he and Atkness had re- Frded her as something of a lunat it had not been for John Wade's warning, Anna might not have lived to hear anything. She was becoming an embarrassment. “Lord Siniford, I regret to say"— there was a note of irony in his volce— “has passed away.” “He's dead?” Golly inclined his head and gave to the re a suggestion of sadness. sententiously. “He was killed by light- ning.” Golly was inclined to pictur- esque invention. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” ‘There was a silence, “I'm terribly sorry,” said Lila. She seemed very depressed. He guessed that she was connecting the death of “Mum” Oaks with this new tragedy, and reading into the situation ml.n ething that was sinister and alarm- 8. “He was murdered.” said Anna, ihel' cite- usually quiet voice vibrant with ment. “It was in the newspapers. Golly looked at her keenly. She was & problem. -She might be very trouble- some. haps it wouldn't do to take her to South America as Lila’s com- n. Her attitude was an offense, memory too accurate. She must ve heard things . . . He turned to “Sleep well, my cear. I'll be seeing in the morning. Good-night, mis: His cold eyes struck terror into Anna’s irt. “Be sensible,” he said to her, in an undertone, and went out into the little hall. A moment later the door closed and & bolt clicked into place. Lila tiptoed in to the hall and turned the door. The door had been so fitted that it could not be opened from the inside. She determined, however, that 1t should not be opened from the outside and pushed home a little bolt before she Also Here best grapefr spaper Service.) .and the Year's Finest Florida Grapefruit Are Best of the world’s brimming with vita- min-rich juice... packed with delicious, fine-grained meat.One of thefirstrequisitesfor shealthful Springdiet. the Waterfront Wallace. Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan returned to the living room, where Anna was waiting They stood looking at each other in silence. “I don't know what to think,” sald Lila at last. “It seems almost impos- ble that he should be such a terrible man, I can't even feel afrald of him. Surely he's as helpless as we are.” Anna shook her head. “No, he isn't. All I've told you is true. There are so many things I re- member only dimly, but every word I have heard since they took me from | She | that house by the river is here.” laid her thin hand on her forehead. “And I'm not stupid now, Lila . . I was looking at myself in the mirror a moment ago and it made me feel sick to see what I had become. It is as if I have been turned from a girl into an old woman. All the years between los- ing and finding you are like a moment. There's a hymn with a line like that— it used to be my lady's favorite—A thousand ages in Thy sight . . .! I suppose I went off my head when I lost gy “Don’t talk about that, please.” Lila took Anna’s hand in hers and patted it. “What are we going to do, Anna?” “You still think I'm a little mad, ? You think I made up all this story about your being rich and Lady Pattison and the fire and everything?” a shook her head. don’t think you're mad at all, I believe every word you say. It is diffi- cult to realize whas happened, but I believe that you ars speaking the truth. The hardest thing to understand is about Mr. Oaks—that he's one of the india rubber men——" “He is! He is!” said the woman ve- hemently. “You only think of him as a silly Ifttle fool who believes he can sing, but I've seen big men cringe be- fore him. That captain was so humble in his presence that even I was ashamed. One night I heard them talk- ing about marriage, but I didn’t realize that it was you they were discussing.” “Me?" gasped Lila. Anna nodded emphatically. “They never mentioned your name. They were sitting in the cabin of the barge and they let me out of my room to have my food. Because they thought I was mad they took no notice of me. ‘The captain jeered at me, but Golly never jeered. He was looking at me as if he were wondering whether it would be a good idea to put me out of the way then and there.” “Oh, don’t—don’t!"” shuddered Lila. “Anna, you make my blood run cold.” ‘The woman’s arm went around her. “You'll think I must still be a little crazy to frighten you so, my pet. But T'll be sensible. He told me to be! Now, let us see if we can get the rest of that wallpaper off.” “I've bolted the door,” said Lila. “If he comes back we'll hear him.” It was Lila who had discovered, be- hind a strip of wallpaper, & small sec- tion of printed notice, over which the paper had been hung. At some period there had been pasted on the walls of every floor of the building certain no- tices that set forth the county council regulations for the safeguarding of workmen. Lila, of course, did not know that the building had been used as a munitions factory, but when she drew Anna's attention to the little scrap of printing, the old woman saw its sig- nificance. The fear of interruption had made her defer the uncovering of the notice until later in the evening, but now they dabbed water on the wallpuper until it was soaked and then, with the greatest of care, they scraped it away until the notice was fully revealed. Lila read it aloud: “In case of fire, emergency squad will stand by hydrants and all other em- ployes will pass in an orderly manner to the lower floor. In case of fire on the lower floor or in the basement, pull uit FIORIDA O Tatra Juice down ladder above and trap will open automatically. Move to the end of roof and throw out rope ladders placed in lockers at regular intervals along the parapet. Keep calm. The greatest dan- r in a fire is panic.” “There’s a trapdoor somewhere in the ceiling,” said Anna. Lila went out into the dining room, brought in & chair, mounted it and felt gingerly along the ceiling. She pressed a surface in the center and it bulged upword. Cracks appeared in the plas- | ter. “It’s here,” she whispered. Just then' there was a gentle rapping on the outer door of the flat. Lila gave | !a cry of alarm, for the floor of the room was specked with bits of white plaster. | One had only to take a look at the ceil- ing to realize that there was something wrong. “Lock the door, and don’t come out,” said Anna_quickly, and then she went |into ‘the hall. Golly was impatiently | rattling the knob, and she hastened to admit him. “What are you up to?” He looked at her suspiciously. “Where’s Lila? Why was the door bolted from the in- side?” “Lila’s having a bath,” said Anna, “and I was looking for the towels.” The reply seemed to satisfy him. “I want to have a chat with you,” he said. “I suppose, miss, you've never been to South America? | “No,” said Anna. “Fine_country. I made a trip there | once. Flowers. Warm in _Winter. Nothing to do but just live! Plenty of money—or you will have books, motor best of food. How does that you?” sounds wonderful,” she said | | quiet | “That’s what's coming to you,” he sald, pointing his finger at “her, “if oure a good girl, and don't give me any trouble. Help me with hem"—he | jerked his thumb in the direction of | | the adjoining room—“don't make any | more scenes, and that's what you'll | have. Do you get me? But suppose you're not sensible; suppose you start kicking up a fuss, telling her this, that and the other about me? What do you think’s going to happen to you?” T. They'll be picking you out of the river, and people will be saying ‘Who's she?’ and ‘Oh, she's nobody.’ That's all the notice they will take of ‘an unidentified woman,” and that'll be your finish.” “That will be my finish,” she re- peated slowly. intelligent lady,” said Golly. He patte her shoulder paternally. “We under- stand each other. Give my love to Lila, and, when you're got nothing bet- ter to do, you can say a few words | about me, T'd make a good husband T've sowed my wild oats. 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