Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

"But-" Pamela began with little gasp, Il the
one that was afraid you angry with me-be-
cause II began it,
And then there two rather tre1nulous contented
long drawn breaths, apiece for them. and their
hands found each other and nestled down between
them.
"Where to- Mister?" inquired the taxi driver
"They re teln' me to move on He didn't mind wait
ing, especially the ticking away merrily;
but really there were limits.
"Anywhere said John. 1T doesn't matter. To
restaurant, And then to Pamela. "You haven't had
breakfast yet, have your"
Il don't believe so" she told him absenty; then
came to enough to laugh and add that of course she
hadn't.
They tried afterward but with no sure success, to
identify the restaurant the taxi took them 1t
big and at that time OF day, sparsey populated
place. with table that looked out into the
street That about all they could piece together in
the way of description; though Pamela remembered
corpulent waiter, who stood about with pad and pencil
waiting for their order. Probably he got it at last
though neither of them could remember giving it.
what they had had to eat.
THEY must have been there good while, when
Pamela gave funny little laugh and laid down her
knife and fork. "You haven't told the news" she
explained, "the thing you brought me all the way
to Chicago for
@And you've forgotten to ask he reminded her.
say what they We're. Then sWea" ~ '1'' '''e' "
John looked at his watch. you're not to be told
until quarter to ten We've lots of time left, to go
But her face sobered "We've no more right to, have
we John dear, than had the night before | went
away9 Oh, what time ago that was! And it only
last Friday night. Tell me what you've been doing
1t wasn't easy to begin; but he Strengthened up with
shake of the head that acknowledged how right she
Il won't say anything about Saturday. Satur
day simply horrible, and perfectly endless. 1t
didn't do any good having you away, because you'd
grown into everything SO that there was reminder Of
you everywhere turned. So Sunday just stayed in
my And after I'd read the papers began to
think and at last struck idea At least seemed like
idea, and the thought about it the better it
seemed. So Monday | sat down at the telephone and
started finding out whether there anything in it.
had classified directory, and | went right through
And at three in the afternoon | found out that |
right And then began trying to get you on the long
distance"
a suppose the idea is what I'm not to be told till
quarter to temp
He nodded. @You haven't forgotten your torn dollar
bill and your key, have your
They're here" she assured him, patting her little
black handbag. @But that doesn't leave much to
talk about till quarter to ten, does it?'
"Theres one thing can tell you which happened last
night after I'd telephoned. | had call from Ashley.
She hesitated instant before framing her question
"Did he try to-
3Blaclmail me? Yes he did. Or he would have if
I'd played the game little better"
"Better' she exclaimed.
"You see your letter had in that morning, and
| absolutely agreed with you that had nothing to
fear from him. that nothing he could possibly say against
your father could carry the least weight and that the
But to have really got him going ought to have pre-
tended that afraid of him. Instead of that, let
him that really wanted his information, and that
you did too So he finally asked what I'd pay for that
We arranged that, and he started in.
HE couldn't be of the mans name thought it
- Stone He encountered him away up in the
headwaters of the Sabus River where it supposed
white had been. They together for
awhile He tried to make out that Stone was fugitive
who wanted for something serious the British
side of the line. The Sabus is the Dutch side.
asked him how he to be there himself and he only
smiled. He didn't seem to mind admitting that the
story would bear telling way well another.
"But Stone had found lot of diamonds and Ashley
said he offered to go into partnership with him. but
Stone refused. Then Ashley turned vrtuous, went