The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-11

aDo you see any thing Z" she asked.
Not get" returned Elaine.
.TryLlet yourseff go-forget thas
room, forget time. urged the gypgy.
Craig looked from my glove to the
.'wsers is Mr.. Jameson" he de,
manded sternIy.
4 don't know. she replied. facing
him dedantiy.
You do know contradicted Craig.
forcing her to accompany him and
leading her into her back room.
AS they entered her boudoir. Ken
nedy saw my foot protrudinG from the
blanket she had thrUwnsover me. He
pulled It on.
Welt" he exclaimed. starting back.
'I1l be-
His exclamation was cut short BY
the ringing OF the teiephone bell.
Inez took step toward; 1T.
None Of that" Interrupted, KEN
nedy. stopping her. You keep quiet.
I'll answer It. Hello!"
It seemed that. perhaps half an hour
after he had dispatched the messenger
to 1nez. WI decided to call her mp to
see whether everything was going as
Ne udu p1AuA0Us 110 A4uS 'tA61AgS& 49, lAAOA
number. Az the operator gave him
the call, he heard q mans voice an
swering.
Instantly he was all suspicion. He
waited to hear no more, but quickly
hung up the receiver. Soft happened
that Kennedy got no answer.
lyon have remarkable face" Ken
nedy remarked at length. Your com:
posure is wonderful. But, young lady,
Ibelieve that was your Chinese friend
WI Fang. At any rate I am going to
try to find out. Do you think you can
locate that call?. he asked when he
finally got the operator.
No, I can't locate it exactly" came
back the reply minute later from. the
girl ut the telephone exchange. But
it came from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
on Pell street, think"
Kennedy thanked her. hung up the
receiver and faced Inez. He was Just
In time to prevent her destroying Wu's'
message. There was the crumpled
note. He took it and read 1t.
Kennedy looked UP quickly from the
ominous message to the inscrutable
face OF Inez. As hea considered the
note, his mind! worked rapidly. Quite
apparently it was Elaine against whom
the new peril was directed. But what
was it that could blind her? He
thought moment. Gould 1t be "a.
dium?
Craig seized the telephone and
called the Dodge house.
-
some minutes passed after Elaine
had bound the handkerchief over her
eyes. She sat opposite the gypsy. but,
try as she would, she could see no
vision that she did not herself conjure
up.
"Mr. Kennedy on the telephone" an,
nounced Jennings.
.swfll you answer 1t, auntie?" asked
Elaine. Tell him I'll call him up In
few minutes K -sss7.-
Aunt Josephine followed Jennings
out and went down the hall to the, IL
brary., where she picked up the re.
ceiver which Jennings had left.
ooh, Mrs Dodge, is that you?" Craig
asked anxiously. Where is Elaine?"
she's in the conservatory. There's
a gypsy here. They're sitting there
like a couple OF ninnies waiting for
vision Of"
Good heavens" interrupted Craig,
mot with handkerchief over her
eyes, is she? Yes? Qufck-tell her to
rip it on yourself quick-q quick"
Aunt Josephine knew Craig too well
to stop to ask why. In great excite
ment she dropped the telephone and
almost ran from the library. As She
entered the conservatory she could
hear the low droning voice of the gyp.
sly. She had pulled the bandage from
her own eyes and was watching Elaine
keenly.
The gypsy was on her feet in an in
slant with an air of sneering triumph.
"You-you criminal" cried Aunt
Joshephine. "Helpi Jennings. help."
In the apartment OF Inez. Kennedy
was now endeavoring to get Aunt Jo-
sephine on the telephone again. But
neither he nor the central could seem
to get any answer from the Dodge
house.
Meanwhile was slowly recovering
consciousness and had managed to get
ON my feet. Dazed though still was,
could see that Kennedy had discov-
cred something terrible. In order to
have had to neglect me SO long.
He was working the receiver up and
down franticaily. now. Finally he hung
It up. BY the expression on his face
I gathered that, whatever 1t was. he
feared the worst. His face wrfnkled
in thought. he gazed. perplexed, first
at Inea, cold and defiant. then toward
me. He seemed greatly surprised to
see that was myself again SO soon.
after being laid out fiat.
Walter" he asked earnestly, do
you think you could watch this girl
now?"
'why-yes-I can do IT, replied
veassnHngIy.