The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1915-10-01
TWENTY-sIxTH EPISODE
THE MASQUERADE BALL.

THE MAsoUERApE BALL.
30 confident was Elaine that Ken
4 nedy was still alive that she would
not admit to herself what to the rest
OF as seemed obvious.
She even refused to accept Aunt Jo-
sephine's hints and decided to give q
masquerade bali which she had
planned as the last event Of the sea-
son before she closed the Dodge town
house and opened her country house
on the shore OF Connecticut
It was shortly after the strange ap-
peaHnce Of the fussy old gentleman
that dropped in one afternoon TO
md Elaine addressing Invitations,
while Aunt Josephine helped her As
We chatted, / picked up one OF the
pile and mechanically contemplated
the address:
M Del Mar Hotel La Costa. New
York City"
II don't like that fellow" re-
! Rarked. shaking my head obviously.
oh. you're ~ jealous. Walter"
laughed Elaine, taking the envelope
away from me and piling 1t again with
the othera
Thus It was that in the mornings
mail. Del Mar, along with the rest OF
{ ~. received neatly engraved little
lnvitation:
Miss Elaine Dodge
Requests
the Pleasure Of Your Presence
~ >nA
Masquerade ealI
af- 70 De
0lvsn at Her Residenee on Friday
Evening, June list.
-Goodw he exclaimed. reaching for
= the telephone, "I'n CO."
O. 80
In q restaurant In the white light
district two OF those who had been en-
gagged in the preliminary plot TO steal
Kennedy's wireless torpedo model. the
young woman photographer who had
betrayed her trust and the man to
whom she had passed the model out
Of the window In Washington. were
seated at . table,
90 secret had been the relations of
all those in the plot that one group
did not know the other, and the
atrangest methods OF communication
had been adopted.
The man removed a cover from a
dish. Underneath. perhaps. without
even the walters knowledge. was
note.
Here are the orders at last" he
whispered to the girl. unfolding and
reading the note. Look. The model
Of the torpedo Is somewhere in her
house. Go tonight to the ball as
masquerader and search for it,"
"oh, splendid" exclaimed the girl.
I'm crazy for q little society after
this grind. Pay the check and let's
. get out and choose our costumes
\ The man paid the check and they
IT hurriedly. Half an hour later
t1ey were at . costumer's shop choos-
snA their DISCUSSES, both careful to get
~ fullest masks that would not ex-
sit3 suspicion.
! was the night OF the masque-
ne.
During the afternoon Elaine had
zen thinking more than ever Of Ken
4aedy. It all seemed unreal to her.
More than once she stopped to look
ut his photograph. Several times she
checked herself on the point Of tears.
No." she said to herself with
sort Of grim discrimination. "No-he
10 alive. He will come back to me-.
10 WILL.
And yet she had . feeling Of ter
RHO loneliness which even her most
powerful efforts could not throw on.
9he was determined to go through
with the ball, now that she had start
"a II. but she was really glad when
e came time to dress, for even that
took her mind from her brooding.
A. Marie finished helping her put
On very effective and conspicuous
costume, Aunt Josephine entered her
dressing room.
"Are you ready, my dear?" she
asked. adjusting the mask which she
carried % tnat no one would recognise
her ~ Martha Washington.
In Just Q minute, auntie," answered
Nlaine, trying hard to put out Of her
naind how Craig would have liked her
Gs0aA
oomawhat carrier. In my own apart
0ogt, / had been arraying myself a.
1875 Oun and modestly admiring
- txinsisa ! EAAs Of . circus clowA