South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28

Blye Offered Her Trip on a Private
Yacht.
then the short. wide man pulled his
SLOUGH hat over one eye. dropped his
cigar and with remarkable agility beat
both Blye and the chauffeur to the car,
where he opened the door obsequiOusly.
Blye and Mrs. Willard talked in low,
quick tones for a moment.
"At Pinknams, then, you think, in
half an hour" And TO Mrs Wizards
nod he lifted his hat, and the car drOv1
away. Blye gave the fat man a quar-
ter and went back into his club.
The fat man stuck the coin into his
pocket went 10 a telephone and hOarse-
~ called for number.
sharp faced woman with a long
nose and high arched eyebrows an
swered that call
"Say. this is Bill Wolf" reported the
thick one say. 1 got him, Do you
know where Pinknam's is?'
Yes" unexpectedly shrilled Mrs.
Blye.
"wen. your husbands gonna be there
in half an hour and meet the gal!'
June WarnerT snapped Mrs. Blye
violently.
That's the name," said Bill Wolf
Il heard him say it half a dozen
times"
Honoria was hastily preparing to go
out when a sudden thought came to
her. and she called up Ned Warner.
He had just arrived at the lonely apart
mentS which June and he had fitted up
with such care
well, Mr.. Warner came the par
rot-like voice Of Honoria. your wife IS
to meet my husband in the Offices Of
Benjamin Pinknam, in the Bond Sc
cUrities building. in half an hour"
The coast was quite clear when Mrs.
Willard arrived opposite the O'Keefe
house.
Sammy came out on the doorstep.
do you know where Mrs. O'Keefe
lives? This lady says she has a young
lady friend stoppin' there, and
rs it Mrs. Villard?' asked Sammy,
and he exchanged a pleasant smile
with the lady.
Yes, indeed. Is Miss June at homer
NO" be grinned, but you come
right in"
The coast was still clear when, q few
minutes later, Mrs. Willard and June
bundle of clothes came out Of the pas
sageway between the O'Keefe and Nc
PheTsOn houses and climbed into the
ear.
In front of one OF the tallest OF those
mighty towers which commerce has
reared as monuments to her imperiOus
sway Mrs. Willard led June through
portals of a majesty which would have
graced a cathedral I'm older days. June,
lost in the beauty OF this entrance, did
not notice a peculiar circumstance.
Mrs. Willard had dismissed her car,
sending Marie and Bouncer home with
the clothes.
She hurried straight back to the ele-
vatOrs with June and shot up 10 the
eleventh floor, where they entered a
suit of offices furnished with the heavy
richness Of a club or a millionaire bach
elor's quarters Mrs. Willard on an
nouncing her name was shown at once
into n private reception room. A Sc
we're looking man came out 70 meet
them a hard man. one with a smile
less face and metallic looking nose
and chin.
4 III see YOU in just a moment Mrs.
Willard. " he said I'm an unbending voice.
and his chill gray eve. rowing 10 June,
specialized approximately upon that
very pretty young person.
There swept into the reception room
a woman who almost stopped June's
breath. She was startlingly handsome.
with a skin like velvet. a complexion
Of exquisite tinting a facial contour
without a flaw. Her nose was perfect
1v modelled her eyes We're fun and
large and round and clear as crystal
and she held her head tilted backward
F ST slight angle which was the perfec-
ton Of insolence she was extrava-
/ gantlv gowned and C'i-tering with
4 Jewels bur the most remarkable thing
+ I'm connection with her was the trans
/ formation I'm the severe man. He had
been changed from metal into way h'-