Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-09
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Prof. Crosby. waiting at a suburban
station for trolley car to take him to
the Ainslies, where he had a social en-
gagement, encountered Miss Tabor. whom
he had met at a Christmas party the
winter before. She, too. is invited by the
Ainslies. When the belated trolley comes,
they starr off together. TO meet with a
wreck Miss Tabor is stunned and Crosby,
assisted by a strange woman passenger,
restores her finding all her things save
a slender golden chain. Crosby searches
for this and finds 1t holds a wedding
ring. Together they go to the Tabors +,
where father and mother welcome the
daughter, calling her Lady" and give
Crosby a rather strained greeting. Cir
cumstances suggest he stay over night,
and he awakens to find himself locked in
lis room. Before he can determine the
cause he is called and required to leave
the house, Miss Tabor letting him out
and telling him she cannot see him again.
At the inn where he puts up he notices
Tabor in an argument with a strange
Italian sailor Crosby protects the sailor
from the crowd at the inn and goes on
to the Ainslies. where he again encouu-
ters Miss Tabor, who has told her hosts
nothing of her former meeting with the
professor. The two are getting along very
well, when DR.. Walter Reid Miss Tabor 8
half-brother, appears and bears her away.
Crosby returns to the inn and demands
to see Miss Tabor. Reid refuses, but
crosby declines to go until she tells him
herself Miss Tabor greets him in q
strained way and tells him 1t is her wish
he leave and never try to see her again.
He says he will not unless she send for
him. That night she calls him to join
in a hurried trip by auto TO New York.
The chauffeur does not appear to relish
the Journey, but Crosby fixes the ma
chine and they are driven into a crowded
tenement district of the city. Here they
ascended several flights of stairs, and
found the door at the top blocked. Fore.
ing IL open, they discovered the body OF
Sheila Miss Tabors nurse, bleeding from
many wounds, but with signs of life
Carucci, tho strange Italian, who is also
Sheilas husband, is in a drunken stupoi
in the next room. The chauffeur
weakens. but Crosby carries the injured
woman down TO the car, and prepares tC
drive it himself. Crosby succeeds in elud
ing the police, but the timid chauffeur
escapes. With no further adventure th(
party reaches the Tabor home. Here
Crosby learns that DR.. Reid is married &C
Lady Tabor's sister. The details of the
adventure are discussed, and the prospect
of its getting into the papers Crosby 8
informed that his former ejectment from
the Tabor home had been bluff. Tabo
explains how Sheila came to be the WIFI
OF Carucci, and the trouble the Italian
had made for the family. The newspaper
affair of the night before, but no names
of the persons who carried OFT MRS
Carucci Crosby and Mr.. Tabor talk owe
the situation. and Lady is called 10 TN
door, where she meets a prying ana IN
.quisitiVe. young man named Maclean, Wh'
turns out to be a reporter. and frien'
OF Crosby. Together they set about Z
locate Carucci and solve the meaning o
a threatening note received by Tabor; IN
man hunt leads them through lot OF iov
saloons, freuuented by Italians, wher
Crosby finds two suspicious looking mel
are also searching for aCrucci