Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-18
Wire is still busy. will call you,

CLOCK and waited. 4.a5-S0e uIe" q
long breath. and passed the call. IN
few moments they were talking :
Captain Henry gave the same de
tails that he had given to Ridgeton
gave them like faen. Then having
evidently learned wisdom, he passed
calls to Lakeville, New Burn anu
New York at the same time.
jeanette had not thought he would
do that. The train did not get INTO
New York unit, nearly six O'CLOCK
Dared she delay that call so long q
time?
She took the calls slowly. making
him repeat several times, until MS
voice was like cannon roar WIN
anger. Then she set her teeth. loloeu
her arms. and waited. Once she maui
a feint of receiving reports on inc
calls and after giving the bogus in
formation courteously to Captain Hen
~ recorded il on the back OF the LICK
cts.
500 y. C. Ono circuit.
$40 BY tbusy).
The girl beside her was watching
her curiously. How queer Jeanette
Whipple was looking.
The fight was on. go called every
other breath.
Jeanette tried TO keep him good
natured. If he should call No. % and
complain. an investigation would
quickly settle everything. She would
be sent away on the spot. Every min.
utc's delay meant hope. perhaps life
The intense strain was telling or
her She tried to hold herself still!
and calm that she might think clear
". She began to realize the terrible
thing that had happened The agony
o. it sank in slowly. Perhaps she
would wake up suddenly and find that
she had been dreaming.
But go was grim reality. He was
calling again
Then for over an hour She stub
Gorny fought every inch OF the way
Captain Henry was a big man and
smart one but he could not manage
something he did not understand. He
had been obliged to wait for bus!
wires before this. II was nothing ne"
nor surprising. He never even
dreamed that this peculiar comb!na
ton OF busy wires. with other tech
niral terms that sounded perfectly
proper. oven familiar. was due 10 a
slip of a girl, one quarter his age. in
the central telephone office just -four
blocks up the street.
The numbers danced before her
tired eyes. Her face was hot with the
excitement. But when six o'clock came
she had just put UP thcN connection
between go and New York She had
won.
She stumbled out OF her chair. She
vas so rigid she could scarcely move
She nut on her hat and cloak with
stiff fingers. The girls seemed to shun
her, or was it her fancy? They must
know it. too Every one must know
il. Why. the world was full OF IT.
Richard was n murderer. flying foT
his life, and yet. so strange and IN
true il seemed that, even as she said
it. she waited at the street door a
minute for his familiar figure. Then
she started home alone.
Oh to know he was safe 10 know
where he was,
She caught her breath sharply and
hurried on.
IT had evidently been raining. The
dark was coming early. The mist chung
to her skirts and dampened her hair.
The electric light fickered on little
pools of wind-swept water in the
road
Susan mot her at the door. her kind.
sistcrly face placid and smiling. Then
she started.
why, jeanette, dear. what has
happened"
But jeanette could not speak. Some
thing was beating in her throat like
mad thing. She brushed past her
and went in. Susan did not shut the
door. Jeanette heard her saying,
Have yon two been quarreling?:"
Who was Susan talking TO? A
mans voice answered.
III does look ike H." he said.
"Shc has been over block ahead o'
me all the way. going like a race
horse"
Richard,
She turned back In III" door ana
tried 10 call his name. hrt II was only
y gasp. Thcu he caught her
sweetheart has some one h"@n
frightening you? Why. Jeanette
Why. Jeanette.
With a great effort she struggled
out uf The darkness that threatened
20 cnCulf her.
Tho murder. Richard. yoti---"
He lifted 'ir; MP into his arms and.
carving her in. sat down in the big.
oldrashinneh rocker with her.
There. there. child. is all right.
Jeanette. Nash Earnsworlh shot
Iaihrup. bat he is not going 10 die.