The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1922, Page 13

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1922, THE EVENING WORLD'S COMPLETE NOVELETT ils To 1F By Willen Ducley Panay. Qi) Loner MASS Go Che Lam] FHAcires Desire ILLUSTRATED BY WILL. B. JOHNSTONE. ~ WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. _"T've played iny cards and lost,"" he and takes their entire output, of- looked down at him then, and In her him, too, would be a woman ho recalled, one of his largest credit- through. If only you could under ' went on. I've tried my best to muke fered him my factory and business. gaze was a great sympathy and a — Rill Hardy's roles had always held ors, had their factory in Taunton stand, MALCOLM E. MacKANE, tired of the grind, ready to confess this factory go—and failed. Day after This is a fifty-thousand-dollar cor- greater pity. ‘Then, bending lower an irresistible appeal for young Mac- A dun! My registered mall! A no- ‘Twenty minutes later Malcolm Mac failure. to-morrow must Cah) ie ine pee poration. I own twenty-elght thou- aaa Ht nying one arm across his Kane. If more vital events were not tice before suit, sent thus in order Kane let himself into the office of his AGNES, the gitl who wanted MacKane to do che thing, but Some ie cg goumtart all over ot reall iotey, owaver, (a PeDMMMENI@S ("SOU chad rie Calypeal YOu—SOme Goer MUN UTE hee re Tee erecta ol Cute Tor ee ronee, Desired) fRHSry: nnd) <urdiag, on ths) regs 1 atimnel or 0 ioney, howeve >prese! callec ‘alypso! Yeq— r m, but now le wrenched card might be shown as evidence that shaded desk-light, sank into b would have stuck by him had he done the other. there in some new line, and try to by the minority stockholders, Pulver, with we. dear! Our Ionian Land 48 away his eyos he. hind’ Been: duly: fotined wWivelschaté saad, 6 PRESTON, the lawyer, who had a thunderbolt ready to launch. forget. Nobody would know me there. Pritchard, Whipple and the rest. I waiting"—~ CAN APL Well, he had waited for the five- How long he sat there, his mind OLD PULVER, the bookkeeper, who with other attaches of the ie alee be a new chance, with you Touesh nd TER a ae sar cH tes Aq Sie at 8 ba bagae HE afternoon dragged to a twenty-three mall And what of it? racing back over the actualities be ; . , ° songshe he'd C evening an agitated man helped a i “ Only another claim against the bust- e possibilities ahead ¢ works may have suffered from the wrong choice by MacKane You mean you're’ extent of twenty thousand, take all somewhat dishevelled woman aboard aise: Ab 4 Ocoee 8 Gil Ih ies Chere Was HOCRAVINE Ib HOW Wane Raven ry Sat eBaaniestn } SCOTTY SAMPSON, night watchman, more important to the «rhe company's bankrupt—yes,"" my product and pay the minority the Montreal express after it pulled Lawyer Preston's office called This dun was the last goad, driving eye wan attracted by an envale me | story than his job would indicate. he cut in stockholders 7 per cent. regularly in to the Paris station from Boston on the phone to learn whether tim from this swiftly complicatin on the floo was me LONGSHORE, who held in his hand the solution of the problem, She gazed at him blankly every year.” Ho had « few moments with her IN ne intended “doing anything” about business dilemma, Petre WEUMEA teen fee coeton teat cea } , who hel “Tm. alck—of everything! Seven “And what about you?” the car before the heavy train con- aise ahd eh faces a eced tonsa | N the fifth day of January, at himself to his feet. years I've struggled tp make things “I'd stay and work on a salary of tinued on {ts way, Her parting that account E turned his steps down toward MRE and must have slipped from his | y ‘tne _ For an instant the woman hesitated. 0. For seven years I've hunted capi- five thousand a year.” He did not words were “Tell Mr. Preston I'm waiting for the wtation—whare be would fh ae Na dheew hin cot deer the obaie ! & quarter before six in the 61 she came silently across the tal, berged loans, fought for busin see the faint smile that came into her Central station—Thursday an {mportant letter on the five-twen Wah ALERTS OGM cL Ea, Ca oh afternoon, three men com- gor toward him. kept the organization together some. eyes afternoon—at 1 o'clock, near the in- ty-three,"” was his reply. But he was Me cee canny Meters ce Use eue eee ea tdi pleted a certain legal task in The desk separating them, she how. For seven years I've toiled and “What did he say?" ghe asked formation kiosk. Right down to the not. He was really waiting for Bill nr zy) CHO! BINDCRNY ONG eomtinte TM: tola ot leig? c thaae L a grubty lawyer's office in the town paused. The man repeated his cry of sweated and worked—overworked! “He sald he'd ‘take it under advise- Municipal Building, a Heenge, an Al- Sheehan to appear with six hundred paused. Well; why not? It would o34 w check, pay bla te hie Aird 4 @e"Taunton, Conn incredulity. T've met payrolls and found orders, ment.’ His board of directors were devman—after that—there'll be the dollars, Bill's last payment on the help pass the time, and he'd always $44,575.16 7 sean he, tanletop. between them wan The git ne pertad, Tovotuntaeiy alvays running fur et babind and sung to moat fo-day_tn Now York Mpninen Cometh way nag rea acKane hed wold him For iked Bil Handy. Me. ewraoed his | Dusedly Ne examined the envtee strewn with memoranda, documents She raised her arms, one wrist feather- x into tm 0 i nis morning. He would lay the whole r ure of hands, an ey ha & penty of the SoMDAnY’S CARH signs watt he came WiHia the ed). BA Peed AAG AeNONd the. doonmbEn | weighted with the muff. ing the deficiency from penny-pinch- thing before them. If they acted parted taking on his fight ef sale and settlement, typed quit- claims and books of record. All three were mentally weary, but they had reached the last item, verified tt, Ghecked it off on a jong list; and thelr afternoon's work—concluding a trus- teeship of eighteen months—was end- ef. On the dusty red blotter before (0s) a nin a sudden sweeping-away of all the senior of the three lay an open Larriers his arms enveloped—crushet Loner nded, “shall we Her. The fragrance of her hair, her rte te bet a check how, and wind UPS, her breath, rloted his senses. ‘J ‘ “Malcolm! Don't!’ She laughed. $& up, or shall we put it off until to- 1+ had all transpired so suddenly bear of i tout, that the man still could hardly credit rete tno oreertin ‘the uae the miracle, even after he had released faced man. tae. evan Ne teveava le) dalle RETRKE eens Te cone oer ¢ ‘ ~ he asked hoarsely. * faced third man, ‘get the check "1" sot in on the five-twenty-three. mailed and let's me tho tast of the rm on my way to Montreal. I stopped Whole bothersome business. because I had to see you. After ‘The senior trustee raised tired eyes Seinleee weer tl Mearee eM LT W the clock, fumbled for his dangling *°Nrontreal!?” @yeglonses and reached for an old- «an exeune to come East, Malcolm fashioned gold pen. he deaf. Tcouldn’t stand tt any longer— It was quict in the room as © out there—alone. Don't you under- preased back the thick stubs, found stand, Muggsy?” Tt was a name she fhe next consecutive ‘blank check, had coined for him the summer before. @ipped the gold pen in the ink and Out there’ meant California, filled in the blank lines. Deut, enc Hara Ina PaeT Vers evbirty-four Mor five hun- mont!"" His fingers gripped the desk id seventy-five dollars an = s th h balance. rt, a Ge SSHiar Dy NAMeredNe Andie che cate aa estate had amounted to a million, it “Nive got just two hours, Mugesy. could hardly have given Us MOr® whe train for Montreal leaves at 7.45. IOUbIs an were Afterward, when I've seen my people The eee NMaries badd tite ease there—accounted for myself—don't ame, blo and pas eae caer ecross to the stout man. The latter YOU unerr® SRied Nis pep aad added bia eign aire hat's the matter, Malcolm dear? Hkewise, The technicality was triplt- 4 oO an ented by the hatchet-faced third. Ro- AMOUNT’ sea with the same Lang on in SMM sag ate othe ete ing erase onpte andthe eer” Na te ased from work, BUl met his wife, — The second show of the evening was qunt, his dead mother's erly sister, « Just starting the “feature film,” pre- whose death, nearly two years befor faced by a comedy. When the feature he had scarcely taken any notice flickered on, the man was ready for Stupidly he gazed about the dingy the story {t narrated. Would he not, ett a Men aad A tae Maes te in three days, be travelling down that ' 1 t trail himself—he and the one woman? @o!lare!—in one check! and made out Perhaps that 1s why the film had more of his attention this night than tt might have had on any other evening. hen tt would be merely pleasure Now it was prophecy. “Malcolm !"" she whispered. It was ing stockholders, hoping the tide vorably, I would get a letter not later The ¢ as if she were uncertain how she would turn, It hasn't turned, Agne: would be received. The man passed the back of a ner- vous hand across his forehead. Then he stumbled around the corner of the desk—put out a hand—touched her sat in one position in the than Wednesday, the sixth of Janu- seat, staring at her silhouette in the to him! “The Trail to Santa Fe."’ His train’ He'd bring them through—he'd show them! He'd bring them through—in spite of hell! And back on the straight trail BUF ype, had alway I Hardy, as 4 type, had always geuin, the first thing MacKane did held a pecullar fascination for the was to lorse tha cl 3. young manager of the MacKane prpip ani mail towne eee Woodenware Company. And the actor tory note to the People's Nationa was In one of his happiest roles this Bank, where it would be entered fo evening—n scout in the days of the coltection with the first. business of Forty-niners. He had been elected t> the comine morning gulde a wagon-train and a hundred — phen with the stockholders’ book in ' pioneers through the multitudinous ¢ront F dangers of the old Southwest, alone creditors’ accounts, he began to writ: the Santa Fo trail. The lives and checks, He wrote checks totalli destinies of his followers were com- $59 899 in the succeeding half hou: pletély In his care. And he was com- Aji’ were dated six days ahead, giv petent to command that trust. Of ing nis lemacy check time to travel t Course there was a girl Taunton and the money to be place BUC Why Feneav (Hei aCny/Ob A CUT? fai hiscoredit me. the, Dank toch rent movie? The point is this: that thom good abil one man tn that little Vermont thea- " "Hy uncovered one of the office tyne tre that night was moved by the bor writers, With two fingers he punched trayal as one in a hypnotic trance. out two and three line statements. For the time being he lived on the exiisining the checks which would old Santa Fo trail of yesterday. He qecompany each. Thus he settled all became Bill Hardy! the claims of his creditors which tt Ah those were thé days! The slory pusiness lacked the ts to cov of those ploneers of an unconquerable tie seated the envelopes and. affixe race, that had pushed on through the stamps * precipitous mountain ranges, over Oiq_ Scotty of him alongside the ledger of Sampson, the night estving the book back, the senior law- yoarsoness, ‘I'm—ill.”" He tried to the death-floors of alkall valleys, and watchman, discovered him workin Yer penned beneath the names: amile. ‘The result waa ghastly. blistering, toll-taking deserts, ad- feverishly at his desk aa the hou asad Bue {Sarah Porter “ihe girl dropped her muff on the ae oleae any a iaiaclie drew toward midnight. He coughed } desk and threw off her heavy neck- logetically Blotting the whole again, he meres fur. He had groped his way back to to-day, milk-and-water creatures: Mr. MacKane," he t my ol } reeapeparnpaea ters a See ecton his swivel chair and lowered his fore- of street cars, automobiles and night woman's sick and couldn't pack. me Justed the nearby check-protector: head upon his wrists. The woman “THEN IN A SUDDEN sweep. [Unch carts, no pail o' grub to-night pure alia the document wi bullet's chain beside fini, Came the great scene in the reel, goin’ to be here fer the next half and svnumoea the handle, Then he "ts the matter, Mugesy ING AWAY OF ALL BARRIERS the cand The A At tor wie ei hour could IT run up street and grab ! Gonoludes: i uu glad to see me? Tell me first the hero would have abandoned a gnack off the lunch cart?" “T'll inclose this in the envelope petreentaal HIS ARMS ENVELOPED—CRUSH- the task that Fate had set him, had — “Yes,"" consented MacKane, “—and | along with the letter and papers we ‘Ph CTT nee yout He raised his Gictated to Jane. Tl mall it on MY 1604 ana seemed about to break out way up to supper. been captured by marauding Indians. gwing around by the station. Drot ‘The scout hud one of two alternativ this big packet of letters into . th He could desert the hundred souls de- mail train lett ING HER.” of r box so they'll go | The three arose. The lean man 1B 68. exp Ge lon Oe a2 eran Sonne i pending upon him to lead them down country on the 12.35. This sin } gripped the sleeve edge of his coat, the woman saw It. Production has always fallen just @ ary. If I had not so heard from him darkened car window, until the train Came over to the MacKane plant and through tn safety to the end of the gle letter to the bank, drop in. tl Preparatory to thrusting the arm into ““iweaicoim! something's the matter, Dit behind. Little leaks have drained by that date, I would know he wasn't had nearly reached Sherbrooke. Then !ald thirty twenty-dollar bank-notes trek, and could go after the woman box in front of the Vost Office, whe @ heavy ulster. It's not just this surprise I've given ™Y Tesources that I seemed powerless interested.” her whole figure shuddered as though 9 the young president's desk. He he loved better than he loved his life; it'll be collected the first thing in the “Only one thing about a job of this 01 "Gait you tell me what it is?” t© help. The time hos come when I “Then why lose hope? There's still she was emerging from a trance. recelved ..ls bill of sale in exchange. or he could leave her to her fate—the mornir wind I regret,” he declared, “that “To-night, ‘Aggie,’ he said, “y was can't hold out any longer; the result chance,” eee MacKane pulled a deep breath when fate of one—in order that a hundred “ri do that, str, replied «th \ after all the bother and work I can't planning any Soave ‘everything here— C2n't be worth the price. Always the “It's too slender, that chance. And ACKANE was late at his the transaction was completed and he might reach the end of the journey watchman and I'm much 1 see the legatee’s face when he opens and go to you!" Inevitable Nemesis — the knowledge there's no avoiding Preston's ugly ul- ai és was again alone in his office. Nothing in safety. Banal and trite as the situ- When th r closed b the envelope and discovers what's in-~ “", 0°. th etant @ look, half fear, that sooner or later the crash must timatum.'’ office the following morn- hindered now. With two hundred ation was, the moment was no less man, Malcolin Mackune side. Why, I wonder, in this particu- half puzzlement, flashed. into her come. So-—I was going uway!'’ “Preston? Who's he? What ulti- ing—the morning of that more up in his room, he was finan- tense, the audience no less electri- in his creaking swivel-sad¢ Jar case, did old Sarah bind us to keoP gen then was gone. She drew her , She leaned forward quickly and matum?! last day. Old Pulver, the cially free to catch the midnight train, fied, Yet every man, woman and ‘And this,'’ he muttered aloud, * ft all dark until the money was ready tOyur 1p between her teeth. touched his arm. “He's a local lawyer who's been !n- bookkeeper, came to him as acon as PFOMptly at 6 o'clock he left the of- child knew there could be but one how it feels to be a hero! After : for remittance?” “Leave everything here? Go to _Malcolm—have you done anything structed to file a petition for bank- Mac was ready for business, the com- *!°® outcome, With the flicker of a long- no man’s a hero unless there's sor The senior lawyer was busy ol- p49 criminal?” ruptey against me if I haven't pald pany check book in his hand When at 6.28 the afternoon mail “go campfire playing upon his mobile one to appliud. I guess heroism, af lecting the papers, but he answered: “No! Thank God—No!" She a certain bill by 7 o'clock to-mor- train came up the valley on schedule, f “We're getting frighttu the man fought out his battle all, is just duty with the spotlig “I was planning to leave everything ly short at “She probably didn't want to put ie ay ® searched his face again with her deep- row evening. He'll do it Thursday the bank again’ \ seo) Mac was in his room at his stepsis- with self and won, turned off. Preston won't start ! femptation in: her nephew's path, Reme®50 80 to you! Don't you un- soos ovey morning as soon as he can interview deeiared henitantle ee an®” B® ter's home, packing the last few arti- He gave orders for the wagon train bankruptcy proceedings, but. there derstand what I mean? I was plan- °°¢! . declared hesitantly. 4 Boys who know they have a chunk of ning to leave everything here, go to . “Then haven't you the right to go Judge Harmsworth. MT RRO ety ned the manager i810 his bag, The moral absconder to move—himself at its head, Fight- little future for the business now, ai money coming some times plan to do 4 away?'’ she asked. He waited in the silence that fol- did not care to eat a last meal with !mg every inch of the way—Indians, more than th has been in the pa you, begin over again, and let every- with Assumed indifference. ‘We'll ix foolish things. thing h Mide to—to hell!” “Technically yes; morally, no,"" he lowed. Would she appeal to him to jt. When the old nan his sister and her family. He donned drought, treachery, pitiless desert I've saved only salvage—a mass ¢ ‘Ten minutés later all three had FARES Page pees replied. wait and take the chance—or to stand MacKane spans hara estab hat and overcoat, picked up his bag forces—with no further thought of junk! And for this, Bill Har Gescended to the street and separated. oh “Morally no?” by to the end? But she did neither. poor old P ! He * and a well-filled suitcase, and toted self but with every thought for those you're responsible! “What a queer coincidence!’ she ess ‘oor old Pulver! He did more worry- The letter with its enclosures was “The atocitholders' Instead she pulled off both gloves ing over his eighteen hundred than i oth of them to the station, where he who had put their trust in him, he exclaimed, lamely, as if she were not ow on . 0 a clean! T 12.85, old Scotty returned properly posted, and the senior ad- Certain of her ground What of them? slowly, unbuttoned the heavy coat the rest of the stockholders lumped left them in the care of the baggage came through clean! He stood by his ministrator climbed the hill toward You were planning to leave gor Gent “If you knew them as I do, you'a and Inid {t aside. ‘Then, still without together. And yet, why net? ees Clerk. followers to the end of the trail! “I mailed your letters,"" 1 home and supper. yon ern panes understand. There's Charley Priteh- speaking, she walked ‘to the office ‘The young man’s imagination ran _ It Was twenty minutes before seven A moving picture story—admission announced, ‘*Comin’ back, a@ 6 “No, to-night I was only perfect. ®'4i he put in two thousand dollars window and stood looking out in the morbidly riot aa he visualized the WMD he sauntered moodily down 20 cents and war tax. That's all. met Tim Medbury just go T the moment when the three ing my plans to leave, Twa meec, of his father’s Insurance—borrowed it dark. probable events of to-morrow. The Main Street smoking an after-supper But the God of Things As They Are jomo, ‘Tim's post office box 1s d trust ctfielais. Gare alaciam (nm to start tocmomow wienecar fon ne mone a he's got that In the tensity the moment devel- Sheriff would probably appear aome C!®r. He had eaten in Ned Farrel's has witnessed greater glories—un- aoe 12:88, You see, if I'm going at al, mother, a wife and three bables de- oped, the man criediout in protest: time during the early forenoon, but Achroom. The front of the Olympic wept, unhonored and unsung—in long Peetly under yours, Tim sald thi their names to that check— +239. Q Solng al * pendent on him. There's old Amos “I want rest. I want peace. I MacKane would be missing. The ™OVle show was {lluminated, People forgotten actualities than the scen- darned Jim Ruggles was always stich I've got to be out of here surely by to be exact, at ten minutes aitsaay morning.” Pulver, the | nee ner ee, pus 2 pool ad ALN bappiness| a young man pictured the stopping of Saigon ete te > out of th in arto writers of a hundred generations {ng mail into his box that belonged i o el hundrec nd there's Peter evi ard work al exsatic Y . curing their evening ma’ Same o'clock (on) the Afiemmeeh (of Eile oye) fell), gndiin’ that moment ienuien Mlle. Ca pony: eG! anaiegs, applicatianscetetpaliy, Goakte. cect ee a oe ee ene My eRina alii ttn the tawlan Of me wopeate. yours. And he gimme this. It be Meecary Eth, 1030: Axo hundred Balla’ here pecan canis aon pple, c t work in the front office, the quandary From the screen straight to the jongs to you! And that new Wester : pi fi vested a whole lifetime of savings— Motions or concentrating on some of the employees, who would buzz leaving, Mac had almost forgotten goul of a small town manufact ones ts to the northward, in a little Vermont T haven't been happy a day sinoe money he and his wife had laid dollar Problem that has taken its toll of @ around the cashier's window like @bout 1t, He entered the oftice lobby. on the eve of vane ae poturer Union feller from Bennington was factory office, young Malcolm B, 1 returned, Aggie, with the memory py dolar from each week's salary boy's priceless heritage—just boy- angry hornets because there was no His company box was No. 366, direct- trouble to solve it, plereed the mes, (to, lumch cart and sald @ telegrar MacKane was staring at a ghost! | of What real happiness could be. check—thinking this was @ good busi- hood. That trip to California Inst money to settle their felly.bean wage. IV Opposite the door. The young man gage of the tive.” je rape came for you ® spell ago that De He had been alone in his office for Things have gone from bad to worse ness and ultimutcly he would have the S¥mmer when I met you for the frst accounts. He could see old Amos drew a long breath before he looked — At 10.80 that might Mack, AT TIE gee Rearly fifty minutes. Immediately the here, until now there's no way out. opportunity to come Into the office t!me—even that was partly business, moving about in a daze, the white in. The arrival of the Longshore let- himscit wandering around meteors od, bis you was here and he went five o'clock whistle had blown, his fac- Always the memory of that evening here and perliaps even head a bual- but it was the first great relief from faces of many stockholders when the ter, the contents of his Post Office box thy Olymple Theatre He Coes te a nd unlocked an tory had been deserted with @ rush— UP Alamitos Bay has been with me. ness of his own. And there's the the grind I'd known for years. You news reached them, the scandal that on this night, would change the entire atrect to the Conny ey crossed the = MacKane tore open the telegram except for a night watchman down in Out there—three thousand miles Wriston sisters, with their uncle's 40M't understand. You can't under- would spread over the town, the macl- course of all his days’ His bent over, Gomimon and sank upon and spread it under the cover: of Ligh the botler-room who had just come on &Way—happiness has called to me— iegaey inv« n my stock. And the Stand. That evening when we rowed strom in which the Mackane Wooden- peering through the square of glaas. ie avn Natd iron settee In the shadow to rend: t the Job. At the end of those fifty and forgetfulness. I wanted other panke—they janed me money largely UP Alamitos Inlet was a fairy time!” ware Company would mort {ts end. ‘The box was empty! PEE ca topside Sas eer c Ly ctype zpraned the minutes the young. manager had nights of stars Ike that—always, cone in’ | 1 optimism." He — The girl still stood by the window, The President and General Manager Realizing that after all tt really winter nieng ie one noo that mid You would st ub Eon had hentia step in tua cuter coats, And so I had it all planned to’go, I've ‘sneered selt.cont:mptuously. staring out into the darkness. Bel d troubled eyes to gaze through mattered Httle now, he moved around wa yen pent it all became as clear he SY WOUIY TIES 185) Pay He had assumed for a moment that got to wait until to-morrow after- “How much dos it all total—this her the man picked up @ pencil and the window beside his desk, Across to the window where Jim Ruggles 2% the frosty light to him. It came So T am ng to you for ome of the office force had returned noon, anyway—for several things. moral. inde the girl asked began making aimless designs on a the cluttered factory yw, and far- was selling stamps. smashing home to young MacKane We shall win together for some personal belonging, forgot- And yet Thursday morning will be quietly pad, while he ran on bitterly across Water Street, his glance vening mail all distribute, > 'P® Sreat comparison! Hal not he be ntea bi ees 55050 ten in the rush of closing time. The too late." He swallowed perceptibly. “Over thirty thousand dollars."* “I've lived those moments throus? threat lipon) the ard be- Jim?" also been placed in charge of a With a ab Mackane’s Chis one who entered, however, was not Then he ooncluded: ‘And now, “and itt ses down, how & thousand times—the stars, the v m Batson's he Wal- All opi’? But as Mac turned “SSR train? Had not ite members sank upon his breast, an employee. Young MacKane had you're here! much would ti ts pay vet, purple sky’—— 8 blacksm! op. A away, the postal clerk called: ‘Hey bed ‘the: mame simple: faith: in hig: Old Beatty lesned: closer, ance? ‘Bad news, Mr. MacKane—some gu raised aching eyes—for he was ailing eee “Twenty ce 1 the dollar. Suddenly, with a little squaring of twelve-sheet poster i thereon Wait a minute, Mac jot a regis mt tha Gacmant oner cate cad ae cies y ere’s—absolutely no way her shoulders, as rn Je up announced the evening's attraction at tered ; ace And the girl? hody’ deauy: tally, He had called out interrose- SILENCE fell between them, gypnns *Y De neeoina et nateinn atria oat Olymplo Motion Etoture ‘Theatres bea teas to eae ARH ete , SAS NOR a Cea ee tively. Immediately a figure was out- a silence broken only by the — Iie was a lone time in answering, window: “Well? she asked jam $, Hardy, in ‘The Santa Fe box." oes ANOOUM.. MACICAND pang: (anette olds “eeemied “one: Abays Ined in the open doorway of his pri- ticking of the old wall- She had to rc nestion twice, — “T want It all back again 1 z Mao's heart turned over. 't Long- Brom Shak Gold: (rams hengh 7a tt bod muons a greyed oo me SOM Theda li clad er Bet MARS a ho ig ed inter of ht tm mora feataed ap anon, AWA tt orceied wiv meh Sem sea" 4 von idanit your nderaneaon her. dear. Don't blame me, kground, mammoth he would of course acnd t r t to the Western, Kipped green drop-lamp above his desk. And He 4 Ser Sey ‘a Pleaded brokenly. “It } ned “close-p'' of the actor, istered mall, I ne tement he saw the ghost. Based deep into her eyes. “‘Agnes"— €¢ gavoes eset eM rine. ansata shir and-ready i Maskane Gis teint Becomes, burray'e harngne: t _ : Mette patie The apparition took the form of a It was little more than a whisper— te frail BORO; MO Tiling, kasuehinemana a Ie hia sideenthese held MecKane’® return carat theta Ge oaed tore r was new, trans : woman. She wore a great turban ‘this is husk of a business! & frail 11's nonsense to talk us disaster, T couldn't envelope. are lane * ngton, and wouldn't") ave aadided trimmed with fur, and a long coat. ae! Going ut all. In des- - r Li t “The Santa F In anoth bys : Shout her shoulders were otter tare eWar—to you—meant starting all eeeodie 3. Ae ain't stand it now. I ¢ 1 Sr Ariens Pe e prall Aa \* ae He steeled himself ty look at ] he only thing to ¢ t your . Are ABA DAE SLANASEA AER GINAE AUTRE Nowe da eure WERE Toe Raraiion tal am York teat saat ‘ » oF three days he—-Matcolm Mas; corner card as he had 1 limself do--now, And so, that nixht the sing Mr. Warner to and she carried a similar muff. But ing to tell you?” Week. I lad » proposition before a 18 wm Pent above him, oné Fe DRAM far ene, kinwlons. OF: hen ee ee omic BOX ‘ing wires carried to a girl waiting, © nent of her dress the man took note after- She looked about the office as man named Longshore. 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