The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-22
BY Harold
MaCGrath


his shoulder.
what's this / hear about an In
sane woman" he demanded.
She was insane. all right They
had papers 20 prove a. She kept
crying that she Was Stanley Har.
grcayea daughter"
My Cod" The young man
struck hts forehead in despair.
You ass. she was Stanley Har-
greave's daughter. and they've kid.
MAPPED her right under your nose,
What was the number OF that carr"
Cut out that line OF talk. young
fellah. ] know my business. They
had the proper documents"
But you hadn't brains enough to
Inquire whether they were genuine
or not You waltz shrllled the
chauffeur. 'Fll have you broken
for this work" He wheeled and
ran back TO his car, to find Susan
and the countess I'm a great state
Of agitation. They got her. they
got herr And | swore on the book
tina, they never should. so long as
! drove the car"
'1NNa NfFAs anu tue countess
tried In vain 10 console her.
And when Jones was Informed
he frightened even the countess
with the snarl OF rage which
burned across HIS lips. He tore
into the hall. seized his hat. and
was gone. Not a word OF reproach
did he offer TO the chauffeur. He
understood that no one Is infailible.
He found the laundering policeman.
who now realized that he stood I'm
for a Whit OF the commissioner
carpet. All he could do was TO give
a good description OF the man AMI
woman. Word was sent broadcast
through the city. The police had
to be Informed this time.
Late in the day an officer whose
beat included the ferry landing al
Hoboken said he had seen the
three. Everything had looked all
right 10 him. II was the motherly
face OF the one and the benign
countenanee OF the other that had
blinded him.
At midnight Jones. haggard and
with the air OF one beaten. returned
home.
mo wireless yeti" asked Norton.
The George Washington of the
North German Lloyd does not
answer. Something has happened
TO her wires: tempered with. pos.
sibly."
so long as we know they arr
At sea. we can remedy the evil
They viii not be able to land AZ n
single port. ] have sent ten cableA.
They can't get away from the wig
IL could only get hold of fhh
names OF those damnahle dootofs
who signed that document Twefy
years"
Jones bent his head In his haulis
and Norton tramped the floor Kan
the sound OF his footsteps th1at.
ened TO drive the moaning Sdsan
into Mysteries.
1T is only a matter OF a Ifew
days"
But can the child stand thJ ter.
rorsY questioned Jones. iWho
knows that they may not teally
drive her insane9'
On board the George Washington
every one felt extremely sorrv for
this beautiful girl. 1t was a flight.
ful misfortune to be so stricken M
her age.
She is certainly insane" said
one or the passengers. who had
known Hargreaye slightly through
some banking business. 'Har.
greave wasn't married. lie lived
alone"
After the second day out Flor.
ence was permitted to wander
about the ship as she pleased,
A good many of the passengers
were nightly worried when thew
learned that the wireless had IN
some mysterious way been tam.
pered with after tho boat had
made the open sea. IL was impos.
sible to put about. The apparatus
must be fixed az sea.
And when finally Norton's wire
less caught the wires OF the George
Washington he was rravely In.
formed that the young lady re.
ferred to had leaped the rail- off the
Banks ut night and had been
drowned. She had not been infused
till the following morning
Ito Be Continued.)