The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-07

/ Interfere now WIN ner nlSn nanQ-
ed procedure.
He had no doubt that the girl
had gone off with her, and to New
York, since the touring car was to
be redelivered to him at his hotel
| there. And for that reason he
could not well take any steps to
intercept it en- route. He would
rather suffer it's total loss uncom-
plainingly, if Mrs. Smith cared to
take such further advantage of his
complaisance, than have the girl
subjected to any annoyance which
he could save her.
Some thought of pursuit crossed
his mind, but he soon dismissed
that. The fugitives had nearly
an hours start already, and it
was not likely that the runabout
could overtake the touring car un-
, der any such handicap. There was
obviously nothing for it but to
make the best of his way back to
Manhattan, reserving the right to
call Mrs. Smith to account for her
| piratical conduct at the earliest OPP
| portunity.
But he was in the worst of tenn
| pers as he once more made for the
porch to procure the key Of the
barn. The atmosphere of mystery
in which the girl seemed to move
was extremely distasteful to him.
He found Mrs. Smiths manoeuvres
intensely irritating, and could by
no means divine the nature of the
alleged necessity which had de-
prived him of his anticipated re-
ward for having recovered the
missing bracelet.
| 1t was partly magnanimous i'm
pulse and partly a plan In further
ance of his own interests which
caused him to stop at the station
in Stormport and send on the wire
whose delivery at the dock in Long
Island City had so alarmed Fan
Ghetto. And, having done that, he
settled down to his long, lonely
run, fretting all the way to New
York over these complications, by
no means the least of which was
the young man in the light tweed
suit and panama.
| 1t was after eleven when he
reached the garage off Broadway
where he kept his car, and there
the car was in It's usual place. The
hotel had called up soon after nine
clerk told him, to ask that some
one be sent to take Mr.. Newman's
automobile away from the Twenty
fourth street entrance.
Quaintance had his new pur-
chase installed at Its side, and,
having left strict injunctions that
the smaller car be very carefully
cleaned and tended, hurried off to
cross-question the. Twenty-fourth
street doorkeeper. That worthy had
a letter for him, and earned an
easy dollar by imparting to him the
details of very brief interview
with the gray-haired, elderly wo-
man who had delivered II with the
car. Whereupon the recipient of
that attention hurried of to his
room, there to peruse the precious
missive at leisure. He had already
noticed that the address had not
been penned by Mrs. Smith.
Believe me, ! regret the trouble
| have caused you," II said. In clear,
straightforward handwriting which
somehow brought back to him still
more wildly the writer's fair, frank
face.
IF you will kindly keep the
bracelet as, AS had been crossed
out and until" substituted--"If
you will kindly keep the bracelet
until l find an opportunity to send
for it shall be still more CRATE
full TO you"
1t said no more than that. and
was signed simply "Dagmar" Pa
per nor envelope held any single
clue TO where 1t had been written.
She did not mean that he should
know her whereabouts. Quain-