The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-03-18
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CHAPTER XVI.
rreaeherx in the HousehoId.


ward, was but twelve hundred q
year; and here was five thousand in
advance, with the promise of five
thousand more the minute her work
was DONE And it was simple work..
without any real harm toward Flor.
ence as far as she was concerned;
The whole thing rested upon one diff,
Guilty; would Jones permit the girls.
to leave the house?
One day Florence found Susan sit
ting in chair, her head in her hands.
"Why, Susan, what's the matter?"
cried Florence.
81 don't know what is the matter,
dear, but haven't felt well for two,
or three days. I'm dizzy all the time.i
I can't read or sew or eat or sleep.
why didn't you tell me?" said Flor
ence, reproachfully. She rang for the
detective-maid. ELLA, don't know.
anything about doctors hereabouts."
II know good one, Miss Florence.
Shall send for him."
do; Susan is ILL"
Jones was not prepared for treach-.
cry in his own household; SO when
he heard that doctor had been called
to attend Susan he was without the.
least suspicion that he had been be-.
trayed. More than this. there had
been no occasion to summon doctor,
in the seven years Mr.. Hargreave had.
lived here. So Jones went about his;
petty household affairs without more
thought upon the matter. The maid
had been recommended to him as.
one of the shrewdest young women
In the detective business.
The doctor arrived. He was real:
doctor; no doubt OF that. He investi-'
gated Susan's condition brought
about by subtle though not danger
GUS poison-and instantly recon-
mended the seashore Susan was not
used to being confined to the house,;
she was essentially an out-of-doors
little body. The seashore would bring
her about in no time. The doctor sug-
gested Atlantic City because Of its
mildness throughout the year and its
nearness to New York.
I'm afraid she'll have to go alone. .;
said Jones, gravely.
ri shan't stir!" declared Susan 81
shan't leave my girl even IL am sick. =
Susan caught Florence's hand and
pressed it.
Would you like to 60 with her..
Florence?" asked Jones. with shy
glance at the strange doctor. The shy
glance was wasted. The doctor evincedi
no sign that it mattered one way or:
the other to him.
1T is nothing very serious now"
he volunteered. But it may turn out
serious II it is not taken care Of at
once"
What is the trouble?" inquired
Jones, who was growing fond Of SUI
san.
Weak heart. Sunshine and good
sea air will strengthen her up again.
No, mol" as Jones drew forth his wal
let. 'I'll send in my bill the first Of
the month. Sunshine and sea air:
that's all that's necessary. And now,
good-day."
All very businesslike: not the least
cause In the world for any one to
suspect that . new trap was being
set by the snarers. The maid re-
turned to the sewing room, while
Florence coddled her companion and
made m0ch of her.
Jones was suspicious, but Gig in,
his mind as he would he could find,
no earthly reason for this suspicion
save that this attribute was now in.
stinctive, that it was always near the
top. II Susan was i'll she must be
given good care; there was no getting
around this fact. Later, he telephoned
several prominent physicians. The
strange doctor was recommended as
a good ordinary practitioner and in
good standing; and SO Jones dismissed
his suspicious as having no hook to
hang them OF. 8
His hair would have tingled at the
roots, however, had he known that
this same physician was one Of the
two who had signed the document
which had accredited Florence with
insanity and had all but succeeded
in making a supposition a fact Nor
was Jones aware OF the fact that the
telephone wire had been tapped re:
Gently. So when he finally concluded
to permit Florence to accompany SUI
san to Atlantic City he telephoned to
the detective agency to send up q
trusty man, who was Swallowed from
the moment he entered the Hargreave
home till he started for the railway
station. He became lost in the shut.
fe and was not heard from till weeks
later, in Havana. The Black Hundred
found good profit in the shanghai
ing business.
Susan began to pick up, as they. say,
the day after the arrival at Atlantic
City, due, doubtless, to the cessation;
of the poison she had been taking
unawares. The two young women be-;
gan to enjoy life for the first. time
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