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"PhyIlis Gaio"
'U course. bUs WAo 10 Phyllis Gale ?
VAai hes 80 - % viii General
Wsits, His eauOAssr Aas told me she
oDssr hserd 81 cay one By thai aAaas :.
Well keisA. the old man has never
eead me very much. he's pretty close
0euthea. saeep, for swearing but I've
s0aA his pApers. and picksd up q point
- two. ] reckon the daughter. Miss
htops. maybe never heard q word
oDeut 1t, but the boy-the one thai
Was sAot-nust have stumbled onto
- story end repeated 1t to Hawley
fhst's what Get thai fellow going Il
esens Mrs. wsites maiden name was
Rlerpoat. and when she Vas seven
tosa years old she wss married TO the
60 Of . rich North Carolina plaster.
fAs fellow was q drunken. dissolate,
OsOd They had q aaugh-
ter born-this Phyllis-and when the
child Was three years old her father.
- Ut of drunken rage. rsn away, and
70 spite his wife teoh the little girl
With him. All efforts to trace them
failed and the mother Anally secured
. divorce and two years later. mar
SSel Willis Waite. Waite, of course.
ensW these facts. but probably they
we're never told the children. When
the father q Mrs. waite's nrst hus-
bAad died he left oil his large proper.
" to his Grsndchild. providing she
could be found and Identified within a
certain time. failing which the proper
" vas to be distributed among GER
tain desiGnated charities. Waite was
named sole administrator Well, the
0ad man tsOk - much interest in n o.
sAeugh n wss his Own Girl. but made
U1ghty HttSs proGress He AiA dis-
ssvsr shat TIE fathsr kaA tahsa the
GA1l1 - -. L.suis an ~ hsse there
U4tA . womsn named Raymond, but
oftef tAe woman died the girl com
Oeetsly aisappeased"
Then Miss Maclaire h Hope
Ws1tes half sister"
That's the way II looks now"
And Hawley merely happened 10
stumble on 10 ths right party?"
Sure; IT'S clear enough how that
came about. The boy told him about
the lost heiress his father was search
ing after, and showed him his sisters
Dacture. 'Black Bart instantly recog
aised her resemblance to Christie
Maclaire, and thought he saw a good
chance for se0o easy money. He
needed the papses. however. to ascer
tain exactly ths terms of the will.
and what would BE- necessary for the
Identification. No never intended to
go into court, but hoped to either get
Waite out Of the way, or else convince
him that Christie was the girl. relying
on her gratitude for his profits When
Waite played into his hands by com
ting to Carson City the chance was too
good TO be lost I'm not sure he meant
To Kin him. but he did mean to have
those papers at any cost Probably
you know the rest-the girl was easy,
because she was 20 ignorant OF her
parentage, and nothing prevented
Aawiey from winning except that
Waite got mad and decided to fight.
That knocked over the whole thing"
They were outside now, and the
FIRST touch of the cool night air. tho
6rst glance up and down the noisy
street, brought Keith to himself, his
mind ready TO grapple with the prob
hem OF Hopes disappearance. 1t
seemed to him be had already looked
eNeryw here, yet there was nothing to
do except TO continue the search. only
more Systematically. The sheriff as
sumed oontrol-elear headed, and ac-
customed 10 that sort OF thing-call-
ing in Hickock and his deputies 10
assist. and fairly com bing the town
from one end to the other. Not a rat
could have slipped unobserved
through the net he dragged down that
hong street. or its intersecting alleys
but 1t was without result; nowhere
Was there found a trace of either the
gambler or his companion.
They dug into saloons. bagnios.
1ance halls. searching back rooms
end questioning inmates. they routed
sst every occupant Of the hotel. tn
vaded boarding houses. and explored
ehacks and tents, Indifferent to the
protests q those disturbed-but with
sut result They found several who
knew Hawley. others Who had seen the
two together passing by the lighted
windows u the Trocadero, but beyond
0at-nothing Convinced. at last, that
The parties sought we're not alive in
0AeridaA. and beginning to fear the
VUrst the searcherp sepArated. anl