Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-07-03

! prime IN the library when, not lony
after Wu's car slid out of the maze o
streets of Chinatown, it stopped few
blocks below the Dodge house. Will
Long Sin, WI got out and assisted
Inez out.
Walk up the avenue-you know tht
house." he urected Inez; then, turn
ing to the roughs inside the car, add
ed: you will calculate to catch VI
with her directly In front of the house
After that, meet us just below, around
the corner"
WI and Long Sin quickly walked
downtown again, while Inez went OF
up followed shortly by the car with
i the two toughs.
Elaine had just finished the bool
and laid it down.
Suddenly, almost underneath the Ii
brary window, she heard agonizins
screams of Help! Help"
An instant later Jennings came
rushing into the library from the hal
and threw open the window to look
out
Inez had been just about to pass the
house when Wu's car drove up and
stopped Without warning, apparent
ly, two toughs had leaped out and
seized her.
ooh, they're trying to kidnap that
poor girl" cried Elaine, remember.
ing her own terrible experience.
Jennings was out of the door in a
moment followed by Elaine and Aunt
Josephine in great state of excite
ment.
But the moment the toughs saw aid
coming from the Dodge house they
ran to the car as if thoroughly fright
ened and drove away as swiftly as
they had come, while Inez sank down
on the sidewalk seemingly overcome.
Take her into the house. jennings
directed Elaine, soothing Inez, who
by this time had faxed a perfectly
convincing case of Mysteries.
In the library, where she was placed
in an easy chair, Elaine, her aunt,
Marie and Jennings gathered about,
while between smelling salts and cold
water Inez. weeping and trembling
like the good actress that she was,
managed to tell pitiful story Of how
she was just poor lady's maid who
had lost her position and now was
pursued on the streets by white
slavers.
ooh, please, miss, may I stay here
while till l feel better?" she pleaded.
"Oh-if could only work for you agd
the kind lady who is like mother"
she sobbed, turning from Elaine to
her aunt.
1t was touching story, and II
reached the hearts 1t was intended
for.
Don't worry; I'll see you through
this affair" nodded Elaine, wiping
away the girls tears and smiling
bravely at her. Take her upstairs
Marie. She can find plenty to do in
this big house, I'm sure."s
Even while Inez was looking her
thanks from her swollen teary eyes,
already the car containing the toughs
had drawn up around the lower cor
ner and WI and Long Sin had taken
the places of the thugs
Everything worked fine, master"
reported the gunner.
| had gone over to the apartment
after Kennedy had perpetrated his
little joke with the new cigarette
lighter, and there l found several let
tiers waiting for him.
Having nothing better to do, decid-
ed to go back to the laboratory, where
l left him at work, and take along the
mail in case there might be something
in 1t for him.
He opened one or two letters, then
came to one which | had laid on his
desk in a plain envelope, addressed
evidently in a disguised hand. ISo
tore it open and read it with scowl
"Well, Walter what do you think
of that?" he remarked, tossing 1t over
to me.
| read it in establishment
Another attempt is about to be
made to kldnap Elaine Dodge.
A FRIEND.
I looked at him and shook my head
while Craig took up the tele
phone and called the Dodge house.
mo one answers" he muttered
the telephone hook up an
down, but I'm sure someone toc~
off that receiver over there and Ii
tened in. Operator-will you ring
that number again."
Unable to get any reply over thf
Dodge telephone, Kennedy thought ;
then scrawled in his familia |
hand on the bottom of the anonymcu
note, sealed it in another envelope di
reGed to Elaine, and called a messCl. |
ger.
Inez, meanwhile, had transformct |
herself into a full-fedged maid, loo
ing very pretty in her neat cap al
apron, and making herself useful in
hundred ways about the Dodge hou
Without being obtrusive she "
seldom out of hearing of the to-
phone, however, and it happened tn