The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-08
Page of
Interest
wien MARRIES
lhenoEIfom which fhe NSEyNDNSvaS made
BYfLARI ROBERTS RINEfART
Author Of IhECRQlAR STqRCAHoo' THE MANN LOWERIEN
COPYRIGHT. 1905. The posss- Merrtn Company

resolution. and led the way down the
stairs,
He said nothing when he saw Bella,
for which / was grateful she was
sitting at the table. with her arms in
front OF her. and her head buried In
them, And then I saw she was asleep.
Her hat and veil laid beside her, and
she had taken on hcr coat and draped
Ii around her. She had rummaged
out cold phe8sant and some salad.
and had evidently had n little supper
supper and a nap. while ! worried
myself gray-headcd about her,
'Shes-he came in unexpe ctedly--
something about the butler" ex-
planned under my breath. And
she doesn't want TO stay. She is on
bad terms with-~ith some of the
people upstairs. You can see how inn
possible the situation is.
Il doubt If we can get her out
he said. as IL the situation were quite
ordinary. However We can try. She
seems very comfortable. It's a pity
to rouse her"
Here the prisoner in the furnace
room broke out afresh 1t sounded
as though he had taken "A lump or
coal and was attacking the lock. Mr.
HARRISON followed the noise, and ]
could hear him arguing. not gently
another sound" he finished. and
you won't get out Of here at all un.
legs You crawl III the furnace pipe"
When he came back BELLA was r0us-
ing She lifted her head with her
eyes shut and then opened them one
al a time. bllnked and sat up. She
didn't soc him at first
You wretch" she said migrate
fully, after she had yawned, DO you
know what time il is? And that
Then she saw HARRISON aud sat star
Ing at hime
This is Mr. HARRISON" ! said to
her hastily. "He--he came with Anne
and Dal and--he is shut IN. too"
ny that time Bella mad seen how
handsome he was1 ana she took a
hair-pin out OF herfmouth. and arch
ed her eyebrows, whfcn was always
Bella's best pose.
Il am Miss Knowles" she said
sweetly (of course, the court had
given her back her nance, "aud I
stopped In tonight, thinking the house
was empty, to See about IA but
Ter. Unfortunately. the house was
Guaranteed just at that time, and
here ] am. Surely there cannot be
any harm in helping me to get out2'
pleading tone.) Il have not been
exposed to any contagion, and in the
exhausted state OF my health the
confinement would be positively dan
erous."
She rolled her eyes at him. and l
could see she was making an impress
sion, OF course, she was free. She
had a perfect right to marry again,
but ] Will say this: Bella liz a lot
better looking by electric light than
she is the next morning.
The upshot Of II was that the gem
tleman who built bridges and looked
down on society from a lofty, lonely
pinnacle agreed to help one of the
most cleaning members of the afore-
said society TO outwlt the law.
1t took about fifteen minutes to
quiet the policeman. Nobody ever
knew what Mr.. HARRISON did to him,
but for twenty-four hours he was
quite tractable. lie changed after
that but that comes later in the
story Anyhow, the HARRISON man
went upstairs and came down with a
Ragdad curtain and a cushion to
match. and took them into the fur
mace room, and came out and locked
the door behind him, and then we
were ready for Belias escape.
ITO be Continued1