The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-15
KATE ELMORE, LEADING LADY
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Rose followed The conductor slammed
the door. The two women passed to two
corner seats at the top of the omnibus
AS it drove off Rose leaned forward and
looked out of the window. The man and
woman were getting into hanson cal
together. They intended to follow the ON
nibus.
Rose leaned across and whispered to
Miss Elmore. "When the bus stops at Wa
terloo Station" she said, "get out l shall
do the same. Have you any money!"
The girl blushed. II have shilling
she said. Rose took out her purse and
put some silver into the girls hand" Al
soon as you get out take hanson and tell
Street, Bloomsbury. That is where l live.
l shall be there as soon as you are. Then
/ will tell you more"
1t had occurred to Rose that the best
place for her to explain the situation to
Miss Gilmore would be her own house.
There they could stay as long as they
liked, and concert some plan by which the
detectives. who were evidently following
them, might be put off the scent.
Miss Gilmore didn't venture to ask for
any explanation there. She knew that
there was danger to some one whose name
had not been mentioned by either of them.
She knew that she was being followed by
those who meant him harm If they could
find him. This lady evidently knew 1t too.
matter was to her, the poor girl was too
agitated to even try and think out.
The bus stopped at Waterloo Station
and nearly all the passengers alighted,
Rose and Miss Gilmore among them.
Remember" said Rose. before they left
the omnibus, and she repeated the address.
"Yog will Gomez"
minute afterwards Miss Gilmore had
hailed a hanson and given the man his
directions. AS the cab drove off Rose saw
a hanson which had pulled up little way
off turn round and follow 1t.
The detectives were still on her track,
or at least they thought they were
quarter of an hour later Mrs. Smed-
ley and Miss Gilmore were together in a
little sitting room at Guildford Street.
And outside the door man stood with
his hands in his pockets and whistled in
sheer establishment
WELL I'll be hanged" he exclaimed to
the woman who accompanied him, and who
had just alighted with him from a ham
som cab at the top of the street well,
I'm hanged !" he exclaimed. This takes
girls in with her. John Smediey can't
have been there all the while without my
knowing it,"
tits not likely" replied the woman.
wife would ask this girl to come and see
him there"
you wouldn't think so, but then who
would think of them two being together at
out?"
"well, they are there and it's pretty
certain that John smedley isn't. What do
you propose to do"
nm hanged if know" exclaimed the
detective. 1.-The thing looked straight
enough this morning, but it looks deuced
ly crooked now. It's my belief one Of ems
fly, and having a game with us; But we'll
stop about bit. The girl will come out
again presently and then I'll follow her.
I'm going to see where she sleeps tonight,
anyway"
''Do you want me any more?"
"You better wait q bit. | may want to
leave you while l go after Mrs. Wilson.
You'd better watch from the other end of
the street and I'll take this corner. It's
my opinion that one of 'em's tumbled, and
there'll be nothing done while we're in
sight"
The man and woman separated at once
and took each an end of that portion of
Guildford Street in which Mrs. Smedley
lodged. They were too far away to be
noticed by any one coming out OF the
house, but nobody could leave 1t without
being seen by them.
When Rose Smedley saw how pale Miss
Elmore looked, her first feeling was one
of pity for her, and she hesitated to tell
her who she was.
For a moment the two women looked at
each other in silence.
Miss Gilmore was the first to speak.
Madam" she said, II don't know who
Of me- You told me l was being followed.
II that was so there was a danger in my
going home. Do you know what that dan
ger was?"
81 do" said Rose, quietly 'it was dan
ger to the man who calls himself Wilson
the man you call your husband"
HE is my husband, madam" exclaimed
Miss Gilmore, the blood rushing to her pale
cheeks. miss Gilmore is only my stage
name"
cried Rose.
Certainly. IL"
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