The Huttig news., 1910-10-29
SYNOPSIS.

1hcd nat Robert Orme saves from arrest glrl in black touring car who has "a .sd a tl. flic jam on State street. He 'uys lf " hat and is given in change nVe doli5l hil wit Remember person fo9 pay thls to. a,..sen on it. sec nd time he helps the g.i IF the black dI ana learns that in Tor md Bessie Nallngham they have mutual friends. ut gets no further hint of her identity in his rooms at the Pere Marquette he telephones Bessie Wallingham and agrees 63s do soiI at Arradale on the morrow. He marked bill. which, in a futile attempt to aeelpher it, he coptes and places the copy in drawer.
 Si1APTER U-Senor Poritol. South him S calls, and claims the marked aI olI orme refuses to give 1t up. por- isoi attacks 0rme. is overcome and calls a, im Senor aicatrante, minister from his eyiant[y, trias d to voueh for him. Alcantrante is. s,aes U nlplomaey to get the bill Orne is suspleloas and dismisses them with a piuihise to keep the bill until ten tomor- .bs .bs, morning The office clerk tells Orne silat Japanese has called for him but sage. 'i0ie oi "ieS CHAPTER IIL-orme goes for an eye nins Is walk and in Lncoln park rescues Aieanfrasng 1lsg rom two Japanese assailants faiIs fa 1tt 9Sdh lfIeS diplomacy but turn .o get the rnaraed bill On his re- 5rsaod9 dqln 10 the Pere. Marquette orme is neI41Iist'a tdI1Isea oy two Japanese into the tun- iIs,,s passage to the courtyard jlu- Eftsued Into silent submission and a anoth pSIa exchange of the marked bill for another is effected. His assaiIanfs es. forehead. i"s a seariea reel,i,asER 1ilt4PiER 1V.-In the Pere Marouette ..ar peloh psi'} room he finds the girl of the oil "aairlng arg Tor him. She too wants the Hi1es Fes the Jap with the scar as Maku- hsr aattef aa, Ter butler. The second inscription of ire,, hre olii IS the key to the hidlng place fbar iiip9il laht papers stolen from her ia AoOlH Japanese and ri binn iaas want want the papers. She can not tell paners W h9 she Is, nor the secret of the calls her "Girl.d Orn1e gets hls conv nf Tba 1ue inscription. The girl deeiphers 1t. In ey o,,t start out in the black touring car III Quesl or the missing papers
 SttAffER v.@7n ehe university. 66idn 66iid9anas at Evanston Orme locates the ,huns ,hns place Maku and another Jap are h1', hn,ie ofine feils Maku with a wrench. out the other escapes in the darsness M "ttn the papers. Ornle finds in MaIu,s poghe's a folded slip of paper At the f,'' fo t5a request h he taxes her and the car She Is still just '-Girl''
 CHAPTER vI.-Orme goes hack to tha university grounds and finds out from fioa oaee1i on guard at the life-saving sta uon, mat Mahu is inside. They hear a @ @siosor boat out on the lake and Orme suggests that Maku's assailant is es saplhs that way Sudden stopping of the boats exhaust indicates d break down. 0rme and Porter go out in an other boat and find tne er1pnIed one ir II are the Jap with the papers and
 You took me at my word" said Orme. "and that's good deal in such a case. Goodby. will look you up before go back east"
 At the side of the gi:s Orme TOW walked slowly through the deserted streets It was some time before she spoke.
 After you left me at the home of my friends" she began at last
 Don't try to tell about it." he in terrupted quickly You are tired Wait for another time"
 They were passing under a street lamp at the moment, and she glanced up at him with a grateful smile, pleased apparently by his thought of her
 That Is good of you" she exclaim ed but my story is easily told Let me go on with it. explained myself to my friends as best I could and went to my room. Then it suddenly oc cured to me that Maku and his friend
 
 boat"
 Just as. later. 1t occurred to me-"
 q thought that the other man might be waiting for Maku. The mo tor car that we heard-there was no good reason for thinking that our man was in it"
 She paused
 ''I know" he said q thought of those things, too"
 It flashed on me-" she went on. that if l could find the man, might be able to buy him off. l didn't be- lieve that he would dare to injure me. There are reasons why he should not. My car had been taken in, but had them bring it out, and 1 told them-well, that part doesn't matter. Enough that I made an excuse. and went out with the car"
 You should have taken some one with you"
 There was likelihood that the Japanese would run If l had com panion. AS long as 1 was alone he might be willing to barley. thought. At least, he would not be afraid or me alone. So I went north on Sheri- dan road to the upper end of the low CT campus. There is a cross-road there. you remember, cutting through to the lake, and l turned in. l left the car near house that is there, and walked on to the edge of the bluff. 'Moored to a breakwater below was boat, and man was standing near her. 1 called out to him, asking what time 1t was. He answered, Don know and l knew him at once to be foreign and, probably. Japanese. So I went down toward him. When he saw that l was coming. he got into the boat. He seemed to be frightened and hurried. and in- ferred that he was about to cast off.