The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-30

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supposed TO handle the business for
her. ~ you don't learn all that n 20
be learned about srbe Master Key
mine In the next two days you are
more than the fool I take you for"
She drew him back 60 where Ruth
stood AMID the suit cases and bnnd
bags and said. "Miss Gallon. Mr.. Ev-
srett has been telling me that he. too.
has heard from John Dorr about your
coming"
Ruth scanned him politely. But the
saw what sorS OF a man he was. He
might he a friend Of Johns; he might
be the man TO rescue The Master
Key from bankruptcy, but he did not
interest her.
Drake. trying to play the part Of the
busy broker and. being thoroughly and
temperamentally aD actor. felt the chill
OF this lack OF Interest and would GER
talnly have fallen down on bis part
had be not been prompted 0y Mrs.
DarnelL. Tie was glad to hasten away
10 nBd the elusive taxi
The real George Everett got out Of
his limousine on the corner OF Wander
biit avenue and buried through the
revolving doors: brisk. debonalr. alert.
decided; with that happy style which
denies foppery and avoids surveillanoe.
IL seemed strange that he should have
n photograph IN his hand az which be
looked intentiy until be got In the con.
course There ne stopped aud, with tho
picture still In his hand. commenced
watching the faces Of the people
thronging through the gates under the
vast dome. As he waited be frowncd
slightly. why had John Dorr sent
him during business hours on "A Wild
goose chasef" He thought OF this or.
ticulateiy and then smiled TO himself
"a wild goose!' be muttcred. IL
brought Up darkllng sunset vistns.
lakes smooth as quicksilver under the
evening sky. ana slim. gray. beautiful
birds homing downward The frown
left his forehead.
after all it win be good TO see some
body from out OF DOORS" he said to
himself
Half an hour later he discovered that
be had i~rretrievabiy missed the ar
rival Of the Chicago express and with
Il Ruth Gallon. lie went back into
DTS car and drove 20 his Office. Once
there he called his head clerk. an IN.
cient and fragile man. as crisp and
bloodless as the money that passes on
wall street and told him to see az
what hotel Miss Ruth Gallon was stop
ping. Then be wired John porr;
III Broadway. New YORK
John Dorr. Master Key" Nine Silent
valley. Cal;
Gould not nnd Miss Gallon az train. Am
the buslness be settied Immediately. Wire
GEORGE EVERETT.
Far out on Broadway. above the
eighties. an operator was ticking or
another message addressed 70 Harry
Wilkerson. IL read:
q a West EiEhty-fourth 81. New YORK
Harry Wiikersnn. Master Key Nine via
Vale Vista. Cal:
Everything AL right George me, Ruth
sire is nov with me and waiting further
particulars Have seen Everett under
Euise Of prospective purchaser Of stock
Tho gtri q charming
JEAN pARNELI.
some houses. like some people. shouiG
never be Wumincd With sunshine. and
Mrs. Darnell's residence. overlooking
the Hudson. was OF this type. Its dull.
red stone front. marked hy windOws
that seemed blind 10 all that went hy.
was not distinctive "a that %noighbor
hood. A thousand doors within n miic
would have suggested 60 the passerhy
nothing more nor less nan the great
oak portals within which she lived To
Ruth Gallon. OF course. the house
seemed tremendously formal and state
~. Within she found an atmosphere
so absolutely strange and alien 10 all
she bad ever known that she shrank
within herself and had nothing to say
uutil she mad bccn conducted 20 her
own room on the. third floor ana n dis.
Greet maid was busy u~npacking her
things. Ruth felt that society had a..
ready laid lis restrictions on her. She
recognized the maid as the gown and
bat" policeman
This silent but exceedingly obtrusive
parsonage having retired az last. Ruth
studied her surroundings. When she
had completed her survey she thought
10 herself that there were two things
wanting One xas 3 SIX haired Per
sian cat aud the ether n flaming color.
Cd scarf across the bed that completed
the altogether OF an apartment severe
" luxurious. Then she tried 20 aaa,
bye the odor. delicate yet lnsistCut.
which she was ever afterward % asso.
cinte with Jegn Darnell and her expe.
Renee IN New York.
AZ last she traced n 20 some palid
covers In the great green and dark rec
vase whose unwholesome beauty was
shat ot plauts whose roots hive never
been IN good. sound soil They looked
60 her much like lilies. whose pads bad
COATED On some dark n opaieaceut
pool. vlscid win odors os the night
She was sul staring az these and
smiling their scent through widened
nostrils when Mrs Darnell knocked on
the door IND entered slowly She had
changed her street gown for a negliree,
which instantly caught The girls ap-
preciatye eye