The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-03-30

Orme explained to the girl. ut will
be better not to take the Lake Shore
drive. They may be watching the
Pere Marquette"
You are right she said. "As pre-
caution. we'd better not pass the ho
tel"
How surprised l was to find you
waiting for me there last evening,
mused Orme-"and how glad!"
"a never called on a man before" she
laughed.
Il had made up my mind only lit
tie while BEFORE" he continued, 'tc
stay in Chicago till found you"
"I'm afraid that would not have been
easy" She returned the pressure oi
his hand. which had found hers. IF II
hadn't been for those papers, we might
never have met"
1--WE were bound to meet-you and
l." he said. Il have been waiting all
my life just for you"
But even now you don't know who
uIlls may OO pOllIlS1l duNSu
turess-or woman detective-or-'
You may be-" he said, "but you are
the woman l love. Your name-youI
business, If you have one-those things
don't matter. l know you, and love
you"
She leaned closer to him. Dear,
she whispered impulsively, II am going
to tell you everything-whoI am, and
| about the papers"
Watt" He held his hand before her
mouth. Don't tell me now. Do as you
planned to do. Be simply Girl to me
for while longer"
She moved closer to him. Their er
rand, the danger, were for the time
forgotten, and the motor hummed along
with burden Of happiness.
You haven't looked at the papers
yet" said Orme, after q time. They
were turning east toward Lincolr
park.
do need to?"
Perhaps not. I took them from the
envelope which you saw at Arima's
But here they are. did not look a
them, Of course"
He drew the parchments from with
in his coat and placed them in hel
hand.
While she examined them, he looked
straight ahead, that he might not see
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folded them-could hear her sigh o.
content.
And then something occurred tha
disQuieted him to a degree which
seemed unwarranted. The chauffeur
suddenly turned around and glanced
swiftly through his goggles at the gir
and the papers. The action was, per
haps, natural; but there was an as
sured expectancy in the way he turned
-Orme did not like it. Moreover
there was something alarmingly famil
lar in the manner of the movement
Somewhere Orme had seen a mar
move his body like that. But before
his suspicious could take form, the
chauffeur had turned again.
The girl handed the papers back tt
Orme. These are the right papers,
she said. "Oh, my dear, if you only
knew how much they mean"
He held them for a moment in hi:
hand, Then, after returning them tt
his pocket with as little noise as pos
sible, he caught the girls eye and, will
a significant glance toward the chauf
feur, said in distinct voice:
Il will slip them under the sea
cushion. They will be safer there"
Did the chauffeur lean farther back
! as if to hear better? or was the sligh
movement false record of Orme'i
imagination?
Orme decided to be on the safe side
so he slipped under the cushion of thu
extra seat another mining prospectu!
which he had in his pocket, placing 1
in such way that the end of the pa
per protruded. Then he put his lip!
close to the girls ear and whispered
Don't be alarmed, but tell nae, doei
our chauffeur remind you of anyone? ?
She studied the stolId back in from
of them. The ill-fitting dust-coat masked
the outline of the figure; the cap wa.
| so low on the head that the ears wer,
! covered.
no" she said. at last. Il think not