The Washington times., 1911-12-24
THE TIMES DAILY SERIAL s.To-Y
The Yellow Sard By SIDNEY n. rREDnm ERIC,

some way out Of the predicament
almost at once came the idea OF es-
heart Of an American that ne is no
sooner deprived of It than he begins
70 wonder how he can get II back. So
Eiise Dexter. at che moment resigned
denly decided that the American way
was to help things to happen.
She sat up and began to look about
her with more attention. The room was
seemed definitely closed by q sort OF
sliding door; but the doorway through
which she had come was merely hung
NTH W.T. cur. curtains; There was no NOISE on
woman. after serving her, had gone
TO another part OF the house.
Elise got UP, tiptoed TO the door, and
peercd through. The place was empty.
wall giving out a feeble glicmer that
put the objects In a short OF penumbra.
An inoongruous piece OF furniture
was little nickel clock, OF the kind
Ing earrulously on the table. Curiousiy
enough. the sight OF this timepiece gave
the American girl sudden relief from
her loneliness; It was like seeing an
She drew the curtain further aside,
ana Was about to step through, when,
happening to glance down, SHE got q
rude shock OF SURPRISE. Lying at her
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VAS the negto slave. He did mt now,
although In h,r seitation, she dropped
the curtain and II came together with a
After listening a moment she again
peered through. examined the sleeper.
and calculated the probability of step
Ing over without waking him. She gave
that up, however. and turned to a
The door at the other end refused to
bulge at her touch. Next she went to
the lattice window. which was on the
side, at about the height OF her chin
food had been placed she was ' able n" 10
see out. An electric light twinkling in
the distance caught her eye, and she
discovered that she was looking into
meath the deep. but gradually she saw
the lay OF the land.
The room in which she was confined
vas built In one Of those archways
that span the street from house to
house. and her window gave directly
on to the thoroughfare. In q nash she
saw that II she could get the window
open II might be possible to drop from
u to the ground, for the arch was
She fingered at the lattice. 1t did not
open. In the semi -darkness she could
not at first tell whether II was set in
to the wall or ONLY fastened to the
sde MSnrns b her fo nser; along the
held In place by what seemed to be
It occurred to her that perhaps she
could pry them out. From her hat,
pin and. working the point under ono
Of the stapies, she pushed the pin
through nearly to the head and pried
with 1t. 1t was imbedded In a soft
WOOD and to pull 1t out was no great
Here, then, were two possible means
OF egress: she could remove the lattice
or she could try to get past the guard.
The second was more uncertain; for.
negro. there was no way OF telling what
she would encounter beyond.
The window seemed easiest. II was
not far from the ground. and perhaps
herself down. Indeed. the getting out
OF the window after II was open was
the smallest difficulty; the problem was
at tn. door woad ny, ssss o the ssrs
hack to the curtains, she looked at the
ton in which she had iirst seen him.
with extreme caution she went to work
One after another she removed them.
until. at the end Of an hour, all those
; on the lover lover half of the Lattice were
reaching those at the top. She dragged
the rug of her bed and folded it so
that, laid on the tabouret. II added at
least sly inches to its height. From this
she could reach the top OF the window
But she had barely set TO work again
when a noise in the outer room sent
her scurrying back to her-bed. Some
one had entered. At the same time she
heard the negro get to mis- feet. He
had been easily reused, and she thanked
Heaven she had not tried to 20 over
him.
He was talking to some one and his
voice, as 1t came to her seemed some
thing Of challenge. She had a wild
hope that succor was at hand
She waited for something to happen,
but nothing did. Now and then she
heard low word from a strange voice
but the slave did not answer At last
the suspense was unbearable, and she
got UP and parted the curtain
The negro was seated at the table,
and in front Of him stood an unknown
man: He wore a long, sack-like gar
ment, belted at the waist. while on his
head was a black cap. or his features
she noticed chiefly his eyes, which
seemed to burn like live COATS.
They were turned on the negro. who
sat stolidly, almost helplessiy, Elise
thought. She saw that he was nodding
and, even as she watched. he Topped
forward with his arms on the table
and his head on his arms
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