The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-15
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CHAPTER TX.

VIM Ahs
Sweet Are the Uses of Advertise
ment.
The spurious Stephen Quaint
ance thus successfully launched
on his nefarious enterprise. and
the man whose empty place In his
resolve to have nothing whatever
to do with the dead Miles Quaint
ance's project or the money IL
would produce, time licked away
five full days of the few that were
left before the IL months should
be up and the dead mans adopt
ed daughter become entitled to
all those millions.
The real Stephen Quaintance
felt safely , assured that the
strange precautions he had taken
for her welfare would in due
course result satisfactorily for
her and himself He had paid a
long price, at his own discretion,
for the right to live his own life.
to follow out his own ambitions.
he had only one aim now, and 1t
engrossed him entirely, to the ex-
clusion of all other interests.
He had spent these days in an
exhaustive but fruitless search of
the Long Island suburbs, where
1t seemed just possible that the
girl whom he meant to marry
might have her home. The only
faint clew he possessed was that
afforded by the rat-faced French
mans appearance at Rockaway
Beach. very vaguely confirmed by
what he had overheard from his
own offensive namesake at the
Cornucopia club.
On the evening of the fifth
days futile pilgrimage as he en-
tered his hotel he received a mes
sage from O'Ferral, which mere
ly said:
"See tonight's Telegram, page
nine, second column, ad. 25."
Running his finger rapidly
down the column prescribed,
whose caption was Automobiles
etc." he found advertisement rs,
as follows:
"For Sale-Cadillac, Model O.
|'06, two-seated, with hood. In
perfect running order. $3.50. APP
ply 1895, Telegram"
Quaintance therefore sat down
to composed reply to the adver-
tisement, with the grave risk
hanging over his head that some
other purchaser might anticipate
him, that the advertiser might
even ignore his communication
But he finally solved the prob
lem of what to say, what to leave
unsaid.
Later in the evening he called
up O'Ferral's rooms.
1--WE sent in an answer al.
ready" he announced.
O'Ferral laughed.
"Hope you'll have luck with 1t
Steve" said O'Ferral. I'm only
sorry I can't do better than thai
to help you. I'm off tomorrow
And, say, Steve, don't tell anyone
that I'm out Of town. Goodby
Steve"
For two more long days Quaint
ance secured the country withou
avail, and waited an answer to hi!
modest request that the owner o.
the Cadillac advertised for salt
would not part with 1t before af
lfording him an opportunity of in
spection. Fortune favored hin
with a little encouragement in the
shape of a business-like note tt
say that F. Smith would be GLAD
to show him the Cadillac car. Tht
address given was near Storm
port, Long Island.
He had a perfect day for his ex
petition. 1t was very still ant
restful there on the Long Islant
shore. Amid such setting, h,
thought, the girl would hav,
seemed at home. But when h,
knocked, the door was reluctant
ly opened to him by hard-fea
Itured, elderly woman who nigh
have been either mistress or mait
in that modest establishment, wht
bore no faintest resemblance tt
her he had half hoped to see. Shit
stood there with sharp eyes fixed
on the stranger
my name Is Qu-Newman,
said he, rather lamely and gulp
ing his disappointment down. GO
had a note from f. Smith about
a small car that's for sale here
Come this way, please" the
woman requested, speaking will
a strong foreign accent. She lee
him back toward the barn, ant
produced the identical runabou
which Quaintance had seen a