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brief note calling on them to follow.
left this note In is conspicuous place, and
slipped from the house without waking
the lnfalid.
"And, oh, how lonesome those two
miles were thru the snow, when the
trees were crackling in the cold wind
and the owls
The short sob that broke off her words
will now fearsome must have, been her
lrnaginings in the solitude, yet how
dauntless her heart, as she ressed on
with her white face determincdly set to-
ward the rendezvous of the ru ans.
" u y safe!" she ended with
a sigh of heartfelt relief.
"Yes-and I have you," he exclaimed,
drawing her to him in an embrace she
did not resist. There was no house in
sight, the wind was rising and the air
grew colder, but f r t e moment it
seemed to them that all their troubles
were at an end. - '
They had stopped In‘the road for that
first kiss of love which finds no wind too .
dark. no sky too desolate. As Richard
CHICAGO LEDGEHR A
raised his head. he faced the road over nabnthis P
eye -
which the)’ had trudged, and
was caught by a. gleam, a shining in the
winter desolation, as
fallen on the snow. had caught an elec-
tric beam. This knileblade for a. mo-
ment seemed to lie-quiescent near the
horizon, then it approached at lnsensible a bearded
eter Hess’-if that's his name
Starting
e you all the details.
’ ' ring Jack
in right now. I'm going
knifeblade, Kenwood up everyyfifteen minutes, both
at his quarters and at his 9 co. Sooner
or later I'll sure
man named lfess.
Drink a couple of cups of cof-
degrees, broadening. gaining in sheer Vsupner. .
whiteness, till it became burnished sil- fee. Stay out in the air awhile or lie
down and take a. nap for anyhour-and
ver flowing over the white waste of
“.-in automobile!” he muttered, as Dol-
lie turned to follow the direction of his
eyes. . '
"They've missed you from the room,"
she whispered. "What shall we do?"
you'll get all over any weakness from
your bump. The ache will gradually
nass away. And last of all," he added.
smiling, "be sure and make the girj say
'yes' whether, she wants to or no '
I decided to follow his directions-the
first three, anyway. So I walked back
The third and nnnl Invotallnielit of this home. When I reached my Eleni I turned
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story will app
‘ ck. The exalt
tile closing eilupienl will win lhe mule-
right no lo the sensational llniloh. Dun’!
miss Ihe big thrills of the film] devol-
opmentl-I of tile tale. You'll get u Init-
Ilia: linnlrise, mo. in next week's. l..-um-r.
? The Riddle of the Rings
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sooner or later-strolled up,here.
twinkling of an eye, Rand, Just as we
had nothing to work on but a bump on
the back 0! your head, We ran plump into
the name-and no doubt the adclresse
of the man who pulled the stunt off."
"What is The Paris’ that's printed un-
k .
der his name"" . .
“ The Paris. he returned, “is a cheap,
second-rate hotel down on South State
It's patronized chiefly by tran-
tion. scribbled ucross the back of it?"
"You've got me," I answered. “It looks
to me, tho. that he can't be personally
acquainted with Kenwood, for, if he
were. he'd know the exact location of
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Please send in. trial of your meuaau la:
In the‘
the brokerage office.
know.
block for the last five years. This Hes
has scribbled the words: ‘A broker. Of-
fices somewhere on La Salle street, Chi-
Arid Kenwooil, you
"Well, it won't be difficult to catch
Kenwooci himself on the phone, give him
the description and name of this Hess.
and see whether he knows such B- Der-
whole matter.
I pulled out my watch. "‘It's 5:20
now. Kenwood and the whole omce
force have already left for home twenty
minutes ago. There's only one way to
catch him now.
to his bachelor quarters-he's not mar-
ried, you know-or byrtrying to get the
office tonight around 7:30 or 8 o'clock.
sometimes he returns to his private
office after supper and fusses llrouml as
late as 9 or 10 o'clock
"Then put on your hat. llanil,”
whether this Hess is I! friend oi‘ lien-
wood‘s or not, I want to driiw up ll war-
rant against him charging him with :15-
sault with intent to kill, And you‘ll have
not there already. In
the event that he's not registered there pavmy she fgp1[ed'
we're bound to get some dope on him
At any rate the air will do you good.
and made In way over to a little home
restaurant which had lately opened up
in the neighborhood. After had lin-
ished with a meal which was as differ-
ent from one of Mrs. Witherspoon‘s as
night is from day, I found that I was
fe-sling almost as fine as I ever had.
Only a slight drawn sensation existed in
e region where the shillalah had come
into forcible contact with my head. My
nerves. in mit, seemed still a little
shaky, but whether from the effects of
my unlucky encounter with Peter I-less
or from the thought that the coming
evening would decide my fate with the
girl I had hungered for uring a. long
een in the same business the months’ I-cannot say.
5 ,.
IGHT o"clock found me all dressed in
readiness for the visit with-Aline;
as for composure. I was now Well forti-
fied by 5. short nap. After 9. final ap-
lllication of cold witch hazel to the
swelling on my head, I donned my straw
hat and left the house. A few minutes’
Perhapsulienwood can clear ul7 this ‘as, walking brought me to the big red
house at 106 ,Walton place, where Aline
Burnett-alone like myself in a big city
-boar: e .
I must surely have been in love, for.
when she walked into the stuffy parlor
“V5 by “1e"h""i"g I could hardly refrain from catching my
breath at the sheer wonder of her. Clad
in a blue serge skirt and a short-sleeved
white shirtwaist, and with ii little red
our
more interested you'll get.
"I was going to suggest that myself.
“That's why I had
my hat on when you came in. I've got
1!. piece of news for you, too-but Idon't
It'll !reshen you up after your trying believe it will interest you either one
experience of a short while ago.’
the ii
I clapped on my hat and turned down -
ght.
way or anothe
Together we left the house. Soon we
turned the corner of “’alton place and
‘Well, O'Rourke," I said, "1 want to found ourselves on Lake Shore Drive.
feel m as a riddle tonlght, xmwood with its magnificent residences, and its
told me this afternoon that beginning
with next I'm to be in charge of
ng now
and propose to the most wonderful Kirl
on earth. Frankly, I'd have (lone it five
months ago when I iilst met her if I had
not been scraping along on money that
wasn't enough to keep two people."
"T en come along with me," he
plied. “You'll forget all about your
head after you get outside. Have I ever
seen the young lady who's going to he
dozens of young couples like ourselves.
lallghlng and talking as they walked
along. w moments later we swung
to the concrete walk that fringes
a
which we appropriated
without any clay.
Now I was in for it! How to begin-
that was the iiestion. The more I
thought about the business in hand, the
more my coniidence and courage dwin-
tiled away. As we settled ourselves on
the bench I wondered vaguely how, it
Allne's answer should be "no," I could
presented with the chance of becoming ever adjust myself to a life from which
Mrs. David Rand?"
So as we rode down to the Central Bu-
reau in an opvnatreet car I told him all would be. indeed-
about Aline Burnett, and the hard strug-
gle I had had to appear nothing more to
her than s. mere friend until such a time
that money matters might render it pos-
sible Ior me to ask her to be the great-
est of all 9. man's
w
On our arrival at
tive Building. on IVorth
O‘Rourke took me straight to
Dresided over by a uniformed official.
the Central Detec-
he should be totally absent. What a
dull, hopeless sort f an existence it
"Now, asked, seeking vainly for
some excuse for delaying my task.
which, since it was directly up
e.
loomed up as formidably as the Panama
Canal must ave loo'me up before its
possessions-his nll- builders, "tell me this piece of new
the-time-sweetheart-In other words, his which you claim Ian’! likely to interest
‘me
bolder.
lips would in-
became a little
Dill‘
at all." 1
"Any news from
we“, sheet, tergt me beyond anything else."
.. h -
she said, with what I imagined
was a little catch in her voice, “you're
The latter, following the usual red tape Just saying that because it sounds nice.
methods. asked me a. number of ques-
tions and then wrote out a warrant and
signed it. After this procedure was fin-
ished. O‘l'2ourke drew me to one sirle.
“Now," he said, "forget all about the
affair of this afternoon until You return
home tonight from that lislt with your
2' our board-
here till midnight-
and I'll let you know all about how we
came out, and. in the bare event that we
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David. Why don't you tell that to your
sweetheart?"
went on e all your news hrst
-and then I'll tell you nline-and after
that-I guess-I guess we'll have to go
home,"
For the life of me I couldn't grasp the
meaning of her words at that time, al-
over the dark waters toward the twink-
lingllng lights on each side of the Gov-
r-rnment Pier, I began:
11. Aline, as to your advice about
telling it to my sweetheart, I'll have to
confess up that aven’t ever been
Kenwood
has been paying me the enormous sal-
ary of one hundred dollars per month-
illltl one hundred dollars per month won‘!
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Don't send a penny-just, write Mr.
Leaveiigood and he will send you a big cm! 0.
bottle of his prescription on 10 days‘
Free trial. If it cures pay $1.25. Other-
wise you owe nothing.-Adv. '
.i
know that."
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She made no reply, so 1.
em on.
"But yesterday Griggsliy put I-.lg‘om.
. on zi personal by Kenwood
that they join together in :t arge New
York brokerage nfllce. Since you've han-
dled Kenwnods L . espondence. you un-
-loubtediy knew that the thing was hang.
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