The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-02-27

tremendous cloud OF smoke II poured into the han
and into the salon The page girl was choking with
IL They fooled the arst one, and the boss has
been lighting since. trying TO keep the shack
from burning down"
June rushed out through the hall
Not that wayr called the page girl 'The cops
are at the doOrl Wait for the dremenT'
The explanation OF that was slow In coming to
June when the yellow haired woman sent for
husband she had always to fear the police and the
only way to foil a raid was to confuse II with 1re.
Thoroughly frightened June turned back toward
the salon and as she passed the basement door she
saw coming up through the rolling yellow smoke the
dark black Vandyked face OF Gilbert Blyel
This wayP called the yellow haired woman and
with Jerk OF a tasseed curtain cord drew aside
the great yellow hangtngs Of the salon windows,
which ran TO the hoOr
The terrified women threw open the windows In
an instant and were out on the lAtticed balcony,
down the steps and through the yard to the walled
park fronting on the other side.
As June sped away she heard the clanR Of the
Hrc engines and the hoArss shouts OF the gathering
crowd in front OF as Kingley court
Blye bad dashed after her, but he reached the
street only in time TO see her boarding downtown
car lie caught the next one.
All unconscious that she was pursued and grown
careless by her three days OF safety IN the Widow
O'Keefes thoroughly protected house June alighted
at her usual corner and hurried down the cross
street At an Irregular corner, where half a dozen
dingy streets and alleys plunged together and, ap-
parenty dizzied by the impact wandered angularly
and aimlessly on, June met on narrow crossing
being fairly Juggling with alcohol Her heart popped
into her throat and she Rbout TO turn back for
she would have died rather than have brushed
clothes with the object when the creature, catching
sight Of her Immediately stepped FAR over into the
mud, jerked OF his battered cap and with It made
a courtesy so sweeping that he was unable to rise
up for hve minutes afterward
That enough for one day. and June ran down
the street past the little fountain into the sanctu-
ary Of the Widow OKeefes house, up the two
flights OF stairs and dropped into the wicker chair
slippers" was all she said
Marie was on her knees In an instant showing
every gum.
Aunt Debbyw she cried. and from then on IN
III long after the wonderful chicken potpie had been
consumed the conversation flowed with never an
ebb.
II was good to have found refuge like this II
seemed far, far away from the New York which
these two knew. and It II could ever
lind them here. They were safe, safe
Is one ever safer As Ned Warner stood trying
vanly TO eItrnct information from onicer Dowd
Junes car flashed by him, and be caught glimpse
OF her
officer Dowd was astonished TO have his particu.
larly insistent questoner stop abruptly In the mid.
die OF q sentence and go dashing mady after
street car. In half block the young man gave ny
that absurd chase.
The tranic thckened Just beyond so that for three
or four blocks Ned was able to keep sight OF the
car It stopped aud started. Finally It block.
ed and Ned able to catch up with It June
was no longer among the passengersl
rhar n or rinU fuF can
with green tasselT breathlessIy said Ned TO the
conductor.
Bet your life"
"where did she leave your carr"
"On the track"
Ned dropped OF the car left 10 his own logic
June had alghted somewhere within these last two
blocks. One going farther west would In all prob
ability have taken a more convenient car line To
the east lay tenement district and district Of old
small houses On the chance Ned struck east
Have you seen a girl wearing a fur cap with
green tasselT
The young man with the yellow derby over one
ear shifted his cigarette
'Tl be the Patsy What's the answer7
He asked that question OF countless people On
q corner where half dozen streets and alleys had
staggered themselves by running into each other
Ned found a human being swaying gently In the
breeze
Have you seen
Ned stopped after one glance into that Vacuous
face and one whin from that far from vacuous
breath.
Pipe up. pal" husked the Iigged one Ned went
over his formula
Have you seen a girl wearing a fur cap with
green tasselT
We'll, what do you think OF thRtT' And II stop
ped swaying for moment "A guy with black
whiskers" and the human being illustrated the Van
dyke by a motion Of bis hand, asked me the same
thingT
Bye sgalnl Ned clinchcd his Hst Did you see
the girlr
The object winked
"'S none Of your busnessf" he answered with
great dignity and rseed away
Ned gaEed after him in perpleIity There was no
use to question that fellow any further but II was
certain that the man had seen June She had passed
this way then. She was somewhere near And Blye
Blye, too, had passed this wayl Ned chose the most
direct street the one which led to a little fountain
where another street sngled sharply into IL And
this fountain was visible from the third door win
dows Of the Widow O'Keefes house Ned Warmers
heart was full OF murder
Blye had passed that way, but he had gone up
another street Now he, too in bis wandering search
for the runaway bride came down toward the little
fountain from the other angle
June looked out Of the window In the gathering
dusk she saw without recognizing them the two men
approaching each other. with the sharp conered
building between
Az the point and under the light they would meet
Gilbert Blye and Ned Warner. And the husband OF
June had murder In his hearti
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