The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-24


windows In an instant and were out
on the iatticed balcony. down the steps
and through the yard TO the walled
park fronting on the other side.
AS June sped away she heard the |
ciang of the fire engines and the hoarse
shouts OF the gathering crowd In front
OF ~ Kingsley court
Bye had dashed after her, but he
reached the street only In time to see
her boarding downtown car. He
caught the next one.
All unconscious that she was pur-
sued and grown careless by her three
days OF safety In the Widow O'Keefe's
thoroughly protected house. June
slighted as-her usual corner and hur-
ried down the cross street. At an IT.
regular corner, where half q dozen
dingy streets and alleys plunged to-
gether and, apparently dizzied by the
impact, wandered angularly and aim
lessly OF. June met on q narrow cross
ing a being fairly juggling with alco-
hol. Her heart popped Into her throat,
and she was about to turn back. for
she would have-died rather than TO
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 sweep
ing that he was unable to rise up for
FIVE minutes afterwnrd
That was enough for one day, and
June ran down the street, past the lit
tie fountain, into the sanctuary OF the
Widow O'Keefe's house. up the two
/ dtOhfa nP cfofr1 and dronnad fnfn 10
wicker chair.
slippers" was all she said.
Marie was on her knees In an in
slant, showing every gum.
Aunt Debbyr' she cried, and from
then on until long after the wonder
full chicken potpie had been consumed
the conversation flowed with never an
ebb.
1t was good to have found q refuge
ike this. 1t seemed far. far away from
the New York which these two knew,
ard it was as IL no one could ever End
them here. They were safe. Safei
Is-5ne ever safer As Ned Warner
stood trying vainly to extract informa-
tion from Officer Dowd June's car
flashed by him and he caught glimpse
Of her.
Officer Dowd was astonished to have
bis particularly insistent questioner
stop abruptly in the middle OF SEN
tence and go dashlng madly after a
street car. In half block the young
man gave up that absurd chase.
The traffic thickened just beyond, so
that for three or four blocks Ned was
able to keep sight OF the car as It
stopped and started. Finally It was
blocked. and Ned was able to catch up
the passengersl
There was a girl on your car wear
ing a fur cap with a green tasselP'
breathlessly said Ned to the conductor.
bet your life"
where did she leave your carr
ION the track"
Ned dropped or the car. left to his
own logic. June had alghted some
where within these last two blocks.
1 One going farther west would In all
: probability have taken a more conven-
lent car line. To the east lay a tene-
ment district of old, small houses. On
the chance Ned struck east
I "Have you seen a girl wearing a fur
I cap with green tassel?"
The young man with the yellow der
: by over one ear shifted his cigarette
''I'I be the Patsy. What's the an
d swerr
he asked that question OF countless
people. On a corner where half a doz-
l. en- streets and alleys had staggered
5 themselves by running into each other
: Ned found a human being swaying
gently In the breeze.
"Have you seem
Ned stopped after one glance into
that vacuous face and one Whit from
u that far from vacuous breath.
"Pipe up. PAL" husked the jiggled
, one. Ned went over his formula.
e "Have you seen a girl wearing a fun
cap with green tassel?"
We'll. what do you think OF thatT
II And 1t stopped swaying for . moment
u "a guy with black whiskers." and the
u human being illustrated the Vandyke
by a motion OF bis hand. asked me the
II same thingT"
D. Blye again! Ned clinched his fist.
). did you see the girl?'
The object winked.
"'S none of your businessr' he an.
, swered with great dignity and reeled
le away.
le Ned gazed after him In perplexity
ei There was no use to question that Eel
10 low any further, but 1t was certain
a that the man had seen June. She had
&c passed this way then She was some
T. where near. And Blyei Blye. too. had
" passed this wayi Ned chose the most
I'd direct street. the one which led to LIT
er tie fountain. where another street an
,e. gled sharply into It. And this foun
n, tain was visible from the third hool
of windows of the Widow O'Keefe'I
IN house. Ned Warmers heart was full
n OF murder.
g Blye had passed that way. but b.
m had gone up another street Now he
nd too. In his wandering search for thu
ed runaway bride came down toward the
10 little fountain from the other angle.
ghl June looked ont OF the window. II
st the gathering dusk she saw without
m recognizing them the two men ap
preaching each other. with the sharI
au cornered building between
cd At the point and under the light the,
o. would meet. Gilbert bye and Mex
"a Warner. And the husband OF Jun,
:, had murder in his heart!
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