The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-12-27

Small apple. he neiu II up III Triumph,
a should like the audience to know that
this Is really genuine. Perhaps SOMEBODY
will kindly catch 1t and hand i -cinc."
And as he spoke, Charler p..cned the
apple across towards where Maxwell was
sitting. 1t seemed to be thrown urnecessar-
lily high and fell awl w rdly; but Maxwell
wa. ready, and cavgt il ess;ly. Chanler
bcsmed across upon-tT in genuine de- \
lFlt y
every cleverly c;rf' 1rssCldr0 Dasen- A
p0t,' he cried out VII G;r emphasis u
"And you arc still puzzlcdi' said Chan
lcf an hour later, Gs vc sat in tic smoke
room. The examination Of "Mr Max
wells" trunks had revealed such Iamning
evidence in the shape Of ladys gray travel
ing-costumc and q quantity Of feminine
jcwclry, that further doubt was irpossi-
bic, and Miss Davenport w:s safely in
custody. But ! WIS yet in the dark as to
how Chanlcr got bis prof
well, 60 back to where VIC LIFT the
problem when we lest discussed it, said
Rao. @Wc left Miss Clara Davenport
:lonc in first -cass compartment between
Edinburgh and Aberdeen, driven by the
necessity Of obtaining her bag at Edinburgh
to postpone till the last stage Of her Journey
her real plan Of escape. You failed alto
gcther to guess what she would do neat.
But, really, the thing had the plairness
Of pikestaff. Her friends at Aberdeen
and, as she fears, the police, too will be
looking for woman; she will obviously try
to escape as a man. And the transicrma-
tion had already been arranged for. The +
bag she claimed at Edinburgh contained the
necessary clothing The reserved com
partment wasinslstcd oproyide private
dressing room. The long run between (
Montrose and Aberdeen will give her the (,
opportunity Of changing, and also OF cutting
of her hair. So she actually arrives at
Aberdeen and passes, with the GOODNESS Of
the cucumber, under the very noses Of her
friends and the officials =
The very audacity OF this step her
boldness in going to hide in the very place
where people were expecting her was al
most enough to have taken the cakes. No
one would dream that she would choose to. !.
20 there But the whole scheme is ruined
by one never-to- be- -got-over mistake. That
little trick Of unlocking the carriage door
originally, i should guess, an impllsivc
feminine device to divert the search frrm
Aberdeen itseli--had consequence 81.
lady had not iorcscen. So NJ. .,'
1T is not 50 easy as you woeid sapi. Sc
fCr a stranger. in an eye-twinklo, to turn
into money a quantity OF new jcwtlry With
out provoking awkward inquiries; ii requires
care, and involves delay Ard in. the
meantime that open raiiway.door, and its
suggestion OF terrible accident, has struck
your public's sympathy In a way that q
mere disappearance could never have done
In three days the eyes ii ell Ehglard arc
fixed on the problem Clearly, TIL this
excitement has abated, she will not have
ghosts chance TO get of at any sclpnrt.
For the present, then, .he will try TO hide
somewhere 10 keep ,'ndcr the rose till The
search is relaxed Ard sfcwil, Of course,
do it still disguised as a yorng man.
Now, just because was sure as tic cock
that she would adopt this method. was
enabled, without small difficulty, to pitk up
the thread where The police n,issedit ard to
trace the lady on here. 1t was a little start-I
ling to find her in a mans sporting center;
but that is only Of the piece with her bold
ness in talking to everybody about tie csse,
and in carrying out her assumed character
SO far as actually to make love to that poor
little Miss Clifford "a boldnoss vi ich byits
very audacity was the secret cl her success.
1t was this that made il so difficult to turn
ones suspicious into proof.
"Thc golf did not help me; for in st,l Of
play, measure Of success, and even in Ian
guage on occasional failure, Ike lady y as as,
thoroughly masculine as anyloGy on the
course / challenged her to throw. because
a woman's throwing is nearly alvsys vi mis-
taxable; but she did it in ] nsrner eflys to
be explained by the fact that frtm Ter tsrlH
est years she lad lived a tem-toy life with
her brothers out in Texas. Ard Sic sal / ibe /.
polo pony--in spite OF a little fsrnltss irri-
tant which had inserted under tie ssddle
She sat the restive animal with knee s,st
that never expected to see in a wsnan.
She was equally successful IN fa 4lg
tfe two searching tests which plsrIed in
OK little entertainment. Tie ucuse let
loose did not startle her into the slightest
fear. And she stropped that razor In .
fashion that was lesson to many man,
Ii was only when the sudden idea occurred
to me Of throwing the spple selcss the
nom to her that she gave the shcv way.
instead Of bringing her legs together, IS
man. when sitting, instirctivey Gees III
ialirs . difficult catch she cperee her
knees wide ,.part 10 make lap--aId I