Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-11-13

II know good one, Miss Florence.
! Shall l send for him."
DO Susan is ILL.,"
! Jones was not prepared for treach-
! cry in his own household; so when
/ he heard that doctor had been called
! to attend Susan he was without the
i least suspicion that he had been be-
trayed. More than this, there had
! been no occasion to summon doctor
! lived here. So Jones went about his
petty household affairs without more
thought upon the matter. The maid
had been recommended to him as
one of the shrewdest young women
In the detective business.
The doctor arrived He was a real
doctor; no doubt of that. He investi.
gated Susan's condition-brough
about by subtle though not danger
GUS poison-and instantly recon-
mended the seashore. Susan was not
used to being confined to the house;
she was essentially an out-of-doors
little body. The seashore would bring
her about in no time. The doctor sug-
gested Atlantic City because of its
mildness throughout the year and its
! nearness to New York.
I'm afraid she'll have to go alone"
! said jones' gravely.
Il shan't STIR declared Susan II
! shan't leave my girl even if l am sick"
Susan caught Florence's hand and
! pressed it.
Would you like to go with her,
! Florence?' asked Jones, with a shy
| glance at the strange doctor. The shy
glance was wasted The doctor evinced
no sign that it mattered one way or
! the other to him.
1T is nothing very serious now"
he volunteered But it may turn out
serious if it is not taken care of at
once
What is the trouble?" inquired
Jones, who was growing fond of Su.
san.
Weak heart Sunshine and good
sea air will strengthen her up again.
No, no." as Jones drew forth his wal
= let I'll send in my bill the first Of
the month Sunshine and sea LII:
that's ali that's necessary. And now,
good-day."
All very businesslike; not the least
cause In the world for any one to
suspect that a new trap was being
set by the snarers The maid re-
turned to the sewing room, while
Florence coddled her companion and
made much of her
Jones was suspicious, but dig in
his mind as he would he could find
no earthly reason for this suspicion
save that this attribute was now in
stlnctlve, that it was always near the
top. If Susan was ill she must be
given good care; there was no getting
around this fact. Later. he telephoned
several prominent physicians. The
strange doctor was recommended as
a good ordinary practitioner and in
good standing; and SO Jones dismissed
his suspicious as having no hook to
hang them on.
His hair would have tingled at the
roots, however, had he known that
this same physician was one of the
two who had signed the document
which had accredited Florence with
insanity and had all but succeeded
IN making supposition a fact. Nor
was Jones aware Of the fact that the
telephone wire had been tapped re.
Gently. So when he finally concluded
to permit Florence to accompany Su.
san to Atlantic City ne telephoned to
the detective agency to send CUP a
trusty man, who was Swallowed from
the moment he entered the Hargreave
home till he started for the railway
station. He became lost in the shut.
f1e and was not heard from till weeks
later in Havana. The Black Hundred
found good profit in the shanghai
ing business.
Susan began to pick up, as they say
the day after the arrival at Atlantic
City, due, doubtless, to the cessation
Of the poison she had been taking
unawares. The two young women be.
gan to enjoy life for the first time
since they had left Miss Farlow's
They were up with the sun every day
and went to bed tired but happy. No
one bothered them. If some stray re.
porter encountered their signatures on
the hotel register, he saw nothing to
excite his reportorial senses. All this
of course, was due to Norton's policy
Of keeping the affair out of the pa.
pers. 49,.
Following Jones orders, they made
friends with none. Those about the
= hotel-especially the young men
when they made any advances were
politely snubbed. Every night Flor.
ence would write to her good butler
to report what had taken place dur.
ing the day, and he was left to Judge
for himself if there was anything to
arouse his suspicious He, of course,
believed the two were covertly guard.
ed by the detective he had sent after
them
When Braine called up Olga he
found his doctor there.
"Well, what's the news?" he asked.