The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-31

LOIS while l was waking In front or the house. It. too. was deserted As I searched the room with eager haste my eyes spied a single object. Un- der the edge of the front window, a1- most hidden by the curtain, and ap- parently placed there to prop up the window, was a photographic record.
 I burst into the store of my friend, the dealer in photographs, with the impetuosity of a runaway train. Be- fore he could restrain me I had placed the record on small photograph and started the wheels of the machine.
 ''Oh. Frank" came the trembling voice of Lois from the megaphone horn, i've are going away-my aunts and I. They told me tonight that l should never see you again. I don't know where we are bound for event. nally. but we go to Everville from here. Come to me, Frank, won't you? Thy aunts are coming and I must hide this record. I pray that you may find it."
 Everville found to be a little rail- road junction. It was easy to trace the three women to a hotel. They had occupied double room No. 16 the night before.
 Anybody in room 16?" demanded of the sleepy clerk.
 Guess not" he grunted, studying the register.
 'I1l take 1t, then" announced, hur- riedly.
 Before he was through insisting that single person could find no use for a room with two beds in 1t I had thrown a bill on the counter and was half way upstairs. In a drawer of the dresser I found the record for which was searching Without second S delay slipped 1t on the phonograph I carried. The voice of Lois presently broke the breathless si- lence.
 Aunt Rebecca thinks I am crazy 1t said Perhaps I am, but it is not be- cause I talk to my phonograph all the time but because they are taking me | away from you. Somehow. Frank. l feel that you will follow us. do not know where we go from here, but you may be able to learn from the ticket agent. We leave at eight thirty to- morrow Wednesday, morning." r That was all. But 1t was the voice of Lois, and 1t cheered me and filled me with fresh determination: I shut my lips firmly and swore that I would follow the two aunts and Lois through every country on earth rather than lose the girl
 Think I can remember everybody | that buys tickets?" growled the agent | at the station when I accosted him for | information. I cursed him for a fool. | It was evident that the aunts were using Lois's money for bribes. | It seemed that I was off the trail at the very start. But the porter of the parlor car on the S:30 train the next morning set me right. | Am yo name Frank Bomer?" he
 asked, cycling me as I boarded the 1 train.
 When I had assured him that 1t was | he handed me a package. From a pow'ful scared gal" he
 chuckled.
 With the sight of it came the awful recollection that I had forgotten my | photograph.
 The situation was appalling Here
 was within sound of Lois's voice, but to
 all intents as deaf to it as a man with
 out ears. True I could buy another l phonograph when the train reached the city, but the chances were a hundred
 to one that the aunts would bundle | Lois off at some little junction close at | hand.
 | Again the porter came to my aid He had been walking past me several
 times IS I sat thinking and was evil | dently deeply curious as to the con
 tents of the package he had given me
 Now he stopped by my seat.
 Dat part of a phon graph. sir?' he
 asked looking at the record
 yes I explained. it represents the
 vocal organs"
 He grinned. Am yo' de owner of