New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 14

\ S LIA BY-DOUGLAS_GRANT BEGIN HERE TODAY Sallie Peck, employe of the Fair Deal Five & Ten, quarrels with her policeman sweetheart, Michael Cur tis. That night Sallie goes into the yard to take down a washing for Ma Brennan, with whom she lives. A crash shakes the earth and something | #trikes Sallie a blow on the head. When she regains conscibusness, the girl finds herself in strange sur- roundings. A French maid calls her Alva Copeland and Madame Copeland, a tall, richly gowned woman, claims her as her step-daughter. Sallie dis- covers that she has fallen into the hands of crooks and is being sub- atituted for the real Alva Copeland. A man servant thinks he recog- nizes in Sallie a member of a gang of | | | N \ © w24 NEA_STRUICE ING | She’s that Delapierre jewel thief, ain't she? Bleached headed, fine-looking hussy! How them society women'll take that kind into their homes as trustgd servants beats me!"” | *‘Bleached? " Trevor, still dazed | from the shock, eved his friend | vaguely, “Alva's hair was bleached | |a trifie, too. That wretched step- | mother of hers made her have it done in Paris and she grieved like a child | over it. That is another reason why | I T should have known that girl at the window was not she, for her hear is a ruddy gold.” | “What! roared Mike. “Come, | {man! Let's get out of this, for we've | |work to do at last! Goodby, Mrs. | Jennet, Thanks for your informa- diamond thieves and helps her escape | from the house at night, Michael Cur- tis and his friend, Captain Trevor, are trailing Sallie and Alva. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Dear Mrs, Janete: “8orry not to have let you know last night but I met an old friend of my family and am visiting her now Please give my bag to the bearer. “Youry, sincerely, “Alice Smith, “Well?” Trevor looked up. *‘Well!” Mrs, Jenneet repeated, “I went straight ou to that elegant- looking chauffeur and told him that the bag had been taken away not half an hour before by a young man trom the police station!™ “But why in the world—!" “Because the handwriting wasn't the handwriting of the ‘Alice Smith’ who'd come to my house the day he- fore! I'd remembered it from the torn-up pieces of that letter she'd started to write, that 71'd brought down from her room and stuffed in that vase, and after that chauffeur tion; youw'll hear fram me again.” No attempt was made to molest them on the way back to Trevor's | rooms and once there the latter burst out: | | “My God, Mike, if she finished a | second letter to me and went ont to | mail it, it never reached me and she | disappeared! Do you know what |that means? It means she she has fellen into the hands of that gang of thieves, the worst band of criminals in | the country! since!"” “You're going to be a lot of help |in getting her out, Trevor, if you go |to pieces like this!” him on the shoulder. “If you could only think where it was you saw that ‘Fred the Ferret' iwhose mug you Five days have passed recognized at Headquarters yvester- |day—-1 “Rut T can't! T do! the new servants at the louse!” Trevor sprang to He's one of Copeland his feet, had driven off-—and he went mighty | fast—I took the scraps up to room and pieced 'em together, past- ing 'em on a sheet of heav Your friend’s got that, too.” “Trevor,”” Mike spoke in a sudden- | ty hoarse tone, “I'd rather not show you this now but it is necessary if you want to' question Mrs. Jannet turther.” He held out the large sheet of pa- | per with the irregular scraps pasted upon it edge to edge and as Trevor's eyes fell upon it he shook and grew Wwhite, “Carin, my dearest,” he read “Come to me quickly at the dress above and take me away for | am in great danger. I escaped from | mother in the wreck of the train this | morning to go to you, but a terrible man is following me and has twice threatened me. He insists that I am | & woman named ‘Diamond Tess’ of | whom I have not heard. T dared not go directly to your rooms, for 1 feared mother would wire ahead to bave them watched when she found I bad run away from her, so 1 came to this boarding house, and within ad- | my | paper. | the hour that terrible man has fol- lowed me and taken a room here also. | Come and take me~" { The letter, the delicate handwriting #f which had been growing more and more agitated, ended in a great | blotch as though a tear had fallen | upon the wet, spreading ink and a| groan of despair came from Carin | Trevor's lips. He raised haggard eyes to his friend “Mike, am 1 going mad! This is Alva's writting, the little notes she | used to smuggle me on shipboard, and the dear, quaint way of expressing herselt, Great God! But T have Seen her three times this week at her window!"” “You hawe seen a girl with golden | Pair who didn't even recognize yon or understand your Ngnals and who | finally waved to you to go away,” Mike reminded him. “Miss—Alva's hair has been dyed black, remem ber!” e “But the scoundrel who followed | her here! In heaven's name, madam why didn't you have him arrested after you had read this letter?” “Because he never come hack either,” Mrs. Jannet responded simply “His bags had nothing in "em but a eouple of bricks apiece and the hags themselves he'd bought at & pawn shop 'round the corner the night be fore ,as I found out later, T've got the young lady’'s two hid attic Do you want to see ‘em?” » “Not now: we haven't time." up Mike } vose and dragged Trevor aimost bodily | €0 his feet. “You know who this Diamond Bess is, of course Mrs. Jennet nodded. “T never mins a case in the papers “Busy Little Store” Give Yourself a Treat Best Creamery BUTTER S1clb. 21bs. $1.00 2 25¢ Fancy Ceylon Tea 5% RUSSELL BROS. 301 MAIN ST. Pure Lard SQUIRREL CHOKERS £5.00 up Hudson Fur Shop 13 Franklin Square i Mike clapped | s Diamond Bess, who is supposed to [and we'll make them talk! gave. gotten on at DPhilopolis ,and | CHAPTER XI. Sallie Peck—my Sallie——who was out ’ Therese Speaks in the yard when the derailed train| To the anxious Mike it scemed an crashed in upon her. The poor crea- [ unconscionable time before he was ture who lies buried in Sallie's grave | put through on the re to Police get Long Distance 'on your wire— |was identified only by her hair—and | Headquarters at aftstown and thank the Lord, it's a provate one!— |it was bleached, although the old ! meantime Carin Trevor plied him and then we'll be ready to act!” | woman who made the identification ;\\'ifl| questions whic htried his soul. “Long_Distance?” Trevor repeated. 1\\‘as too grief-stricken to notice it, “You don't suppose she's dead, haftstown,” Mike nodded, “My | That’s what started me on this hunt, | Mike? That they've killed her?” captain told me before I left that if |for Sallie’s hair Is natural and ruddy | *“Great heavens, no! If you want 1 found out T wasn't the whole gold! Miss Copeland's was dyed [to know the truth I don't think it cheese to get word to him and he'd [ black the same day, so that lets her | was she they were after at all, and help . Headquarters here owes him | out even if we didn’t know any more, | I'll bet that gang would be mighty a favor over a certain murder case |The third girl—the girl at the window | glad to get her .Jff their hands right and it pays its debts, 1t'1l do for [—is Sallie and she never left Shafts- | now if they could do so with safety him what it wouldn’t for me and 1 town of her own free will! The | to themselves!” want a full raiding squad tonight!” |police of the city here wouldn't take ! “What do you mean, a chance on raiding a family of such |Trevor's eyes brightened. | prominence for the sake of a little “Did you see Miss Copeland’s hand | shopgirl from a small town, but by luggage on board ship?”’ Mike in- {the Lord, T will! I'm going to raid | |the Copeland’s like a den of thieves | saw him two or three times last week when the place was put in order for the family to come home!"” “And he's one of the gang that Diamond Bess belonged to!”. Mike supplemented grimly. “I'm going to old man?” ;o o (Continued on Page 24) o PR National Tea Importers 123 MAIN ST. Cor. CHESTNUT §' Orange County Creamery Try A ound BUTTER SOC 1h. Strictly Fresh Eggs FROM NEWINGTON 40(: Doz. OUR FINES}I‘ COFFEE ELGIN CREAMERY BUTTER Other (.'r:}éz(::'c. :lz};'c. 13¢ 47(: b, Extra Good NEVER i SAID. “What for?” demanded Trevor. “A few plainclothes men could go fo the Copeland house and nab the Ferret, | but if he doesn’t know where vour girl is or—or mine either—Great | 8 ! That girl in the window!" xactly. 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