Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-29

his desk to turn on the light. As he
did so he stepped against chair, APP
parently out of its place. He lnrched
forward and then, with horrible reali-
zatton OF the fact that made him
tremble in every nerve. he stumbled
against something soft that rolled over
as he stepped against it, A young
woman In white, blindfolded, lay help
less on the floor She made no sound
when he shook her by the shoulder,
and then as he lifted her up he saw in
the dim moonlight the golden head
OF Sally.
Sally" he said, and there was an al.
most imperceptibe start, sort of
tremor that passed over the limp body.
HIS hrst impulse was to call for help,
but there would be no one In the build.
ing at this time. His next idea was to
carry Sally to help. Probably she had
come into the laboratory for some
reason and had in some way swallow.
ed some one Of the deadly acids by
mistake. But why the black blindfold,
Why the white dress and the bare
throat and arms? 1t was all hope
less mystery.
Prof. Bangor threw his coat around
her, and coatless. carried his precious
burden out of the the building. in
search OF the nearest physician After
he had gone on minute one fair arm
was raised to remove the edge Of the
bandage. Then there was frightened
whisper.
Prof. Bangor! Is It your"
Sally" said Robert standing still,
Sally struggled in his arms. MAY
get down. she asked, and in sec.
ond she was standing there at his side
trembling
Can they see me?" she asked. "Oh,
hide me! They would never take me
In II they knew had spoken. Tell
me-" she said, clinging to his arm
"are you part Of the initiation always!"
Sally had regained consciousness.
thought the professor, but. alas! she
was still very far from normal. She
was begging him to hide her, and as
this seemed to be her within, he quick
~ humored her by escorting her to the
large vestibule Of the nearest college
building, not the one in which the mys-
terry had occurred.
They were in the shadow now ind
Sally's fear seemed to go as she seated
herself on the stone steps Of the build
ing with Robert Bangor He had her
at last. and somehow the fact of her
arrangement. battling as it was, only
made her all the more helplessly his.
She fingered the buttonholes of his
coat that was still thrown over her
shoulders.
"You just found me by accident?''
she asked. "You had nothing to do
with IT."
Nothing whatever" he said sooth-
ingly. He was untying the black ban.
dage that had slipped to her white
shoulders.
Can you remember" he said gently
trying to probe the mystery, who put
this on your eyes?"
They did" she said. "And they
commanded me not to get up, no mat
ter what happened, till they came hack
and gave the password 1t was some
thing in Greek, think And then you
came, but it is all such secret and
they probably will be looking for me
by this time. had better go back. .
But Robert kept her. Ten minutes
later they were still sitting In the pro.
lection Of the vestibule. Robert had
had the Tong talk he had so longed
to have with Sally.
"You may 60 now" he said, ''but
I would rather you stayed out of that
society altogether II that is the idiotic
kind of limitations they have"
And that was why Sally never be-
came a Bluestocking though of course
she never told the reason.