Newport daily independent., 1911-03-06

Another sound" he finished, and you won't get out of here at all, un- less you crawl up the furnace pipe!"
 When he came back, Bella was rous- ing. She lifted her head with her eyes shut and then opened them one at a time, blinked, and sat up. She didn't see him at first.
 You wretch!" she said ungrateful- ly, after she had yawned Do you know what time it is? And that" Then she saw Mr. Harbison and sat staring at him.
 This is MT. Harbison," I said to her hastily. "He-he came with Anne and Dal and he is shut in, too"
 By that time Bella had seen how handsome he was, and she took a hair-pin out of her mouth, and arched Bella's best pose.
 T am Miss Knowles" she said sweetly (of course, the court had given her back her name), land l stopped in tonight, thinking the house was empty, to see about a--a butler. Unfortunately, the house was quaran- tined just at that time, and--here l am. Surely there cannot be any harm in helping me to get out?" (Pleading tone.) q have not been exposed to any contagion, and in the exhausted state of my health the confinement would be positively dangerous"
 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 I will say this: Bella Is a lot bet ter looking by electric light than she is the next morning.
 The upshot of it was that the gen. tleman who built bridges and looked down on society from lofty, lonely pinnacle agreed to help one of the most gleaming members of the afore- said society to outwit the law.
 It took about 15 minutes to quiet the policeman. Nobody ever knew what MT. Harbison did to him, but for "A houlss-ha was quite tractable. He changed after that, but that comes later in the story. Anyhow, the Har- bison man went upstairs and came down with Bagdad curtain and a cushion to match, and took them into the furnace room, and came out and locked the door behind him, and then we were ready for Bella's escape.
 But there were four special officers and three reporters watching the house as result of Max Reeds idiocy. Once, after trying all the other win dows and finding them guarded, we discovered a little bit of hole in an out of-the-way corner that looked like ventilator and was covered with heavy wire screen. No prisoners ever dug their way out of dungeon with more energy than that with which we attacked that screen, hacking at it with kitchen knives, whispering like conspirators, being scratched with the ragged edges of the wire, frozen with the cold air one minute and boiling with excitement the next. And when the wire was cut, and Bella had rolled her coat up and thrust it through, and was standing on a chair ready to fol low, something outside that had looked like a barrel moved and said, "Oh, wouldn't do that if l were you. It would be certain to be undignif1ed, and probably it would be unpleasant later"
 We coaxed and pleaded and tried to brlbe. and that happened, as 1t turned out, to be one of the worst things that we had to endure. For the whole conversation came out the next afternoon in the paper, with the most awful drawings, and the reporter said 1t was the flashing of the jewels we wore that first attracted his attention. And that brings me back to the rob bery.
 For when we had crept back to the kitchen, and Bella was fumbling for her handkerchief to cry into and the Harbison man was trying to apolo- gize for the language he had used to the reporter, and I was on the verge of nervous chill--well, it was then that Bella forgo. all about crying and jumped and held out her arm.
 My diamond bracelet" she screech- ed. Look, I've lost 1t"
 Well, we went over every inch of that basement, until I knew every crack in the flooring, every spot on the cement. And Bella was nasty, and said that she had never seen that part or the house in such condition, and that if I had acted like sane person and put her out, when she had no busi- ness there at all, she would have had her freedom and her bracelet, and that if we were playing joke on her Gas if we felt like jokingD we would please give her the bracelet and let her go and die in corner; she felt very queer.
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