The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-02

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2 hear him arguing, not gently.
: Another sound" he finished, "anc
you won't get out of here at all, IN
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 un~grateful-
ly, after she had yawned. do you
know what time it is? And thai"
Then she saw Mr.. HARRISON and sat
staring at him.
This is Mr.. Harbison," I said to
her hastily. "He-he came with Anne
and Dial and he is shut in, too"
BY that time Bella had seer how
handsome be was. and she took a
hair-pin out of her mouth, and arched
her eyebrows. when was always
Bella's best rose.
Il am Miss Knowles" she said
sweetly tof course. the court had
given her back her name). land |
stopped In tonight, thinking the house
was empty, to see about "a butler.
Unfortunately, the house was Quaran-
tined just at that time. and-here |
am. Surely there cannot be any harm
IN helping me to get out?" pleading
tone.) Il AVE not been exposed to
any c"ontagion, and in the exhausted
state OF my health the confinement
would be positively dangerous"
She rolled her eyes at him, and /
could see she was making an impress
sion. Of course she was free. She
had a perfect right to marry again.
out Will say this: Bella is a lot bet
ter looking by electric light than she
Is the next morning.
The upshot of ii was that the zen.
tleman who built bridges and looked
down on society from a lofty, lonely
pinnacle agreed to help n of the
most cleaning members OF the afore-
said society to outwit the law.
1t took about Is minutes to quiet
the policeman. Nobody eyer knew
what Mr.. HARRISON did to him. but
for "a hours he 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 n 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 a result Of Max Reeds idiocy.
once, after trying all the other win
and finding them guarded, we
discovered a little bit of a hole in an
corner that looked like
Ventilator and was covered with a
neaVy wire screen. No prisoners ever
their way out of a dungeon with
more energy than that with which we
attacked that screen, hacking at It
With kitchen knives, Whispering like
c~onspirators, being scratched with the
edges of the wire. frozen with
the cold air n minute and boiling
with excitement the next. And when
wire was cut, and Bella had rolled
her coat up and thrust it through, and
was standing on a chair ready to fol-
.ow, something outside that had looked
ike a barrel moved and said, "Oh, I
wouldn't do that IL l were you. 1t,
would be certain to be undignifed,
and probably it would be unpleasant
We coaxed and pleaded and tried
bride, and that happened, as 1t.
out, to be one OF the worst
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
t was the flashing of the jewels we
wore that first attracted his attention.
And that brings me back to the rob-
very.
For when we had crept back to the
litchen, and Bella was fumbling for
Ter handkerchief to cry into and the
man was trying to apollo
,ize for the language he had used to
he reporter, and | was on the verge
If a nervous chill-well, it was then
hat Bella forgot all about crying and
umped and held out her arm.
MY diamond bracelet" she screech-
ID. Look, I've lost it,
Well, we went over every inch OF
hat basement, until | knew every
rack in the flooring, every spot on the
And Bella was nasty. and said
hat she had never seen that part o.,
he house in such condition, and that
( | had acted like a sane person and
,ut her out, when she had no bust
there at all, she would have had
Ter freedom and her bracelet, and
hat IL we were playing a joke on her
as II We felt like joking!) we would
please give her the bracelet and let
Ter go and die in a corner: she felt
'ery queer.
CTo BE CoNTINUEDD