The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-28
FIRST EPISODE
THE MAN WITH
THE BLACK VANDYKE
CHAPTER ~.

the wash room of the smoker, with
- pleasant smile on his lips, making
the most elaborate toilet of his ex
3 istence. He was to have the honor
Of dining alone for the first time with
his charming wife.
Thoroughly complacent, he strolled
back through the car to awaken the
sweetest girl In the world.
"Junei" he called, and turned TO
bend over her. seat,
She Was not there! He hurried out
to the vsstibule. Not there! And now
Z for the Arst time he. saw the three
y ten-dollar bills on the seat One OF
them WAS slightly torn, all OF them
crumpled.
Z Frsntically he rang the bell; then
he rushed out to meet the white
toOthed porter on the way.
'where's my wife?" he demanded.
The porter's eyes widened until
they made his teeth look gray.
~'Deed I don't know, boss!" he re-
pied. as scared by contagion alone as
: II he had been accused OF throwing
the pretty little bride out OF the win
y dow. Honest to the Lord, i don't
\ know"
The delirious search. began from
& that instant In about two minutes
the conductor, the brakemen. all the
4 porters and half the passengers were
searching for June Warner
Ned. In his most lively vision of
4 All, saw her dropping on the train.
crushed and mangled beyond all rec
IGNITION. ~
No vision, however, portrayed to
I him his bride slowly crossing the
tracks toward the black Vandyked
man! Az she approached the man
4 ave her a sharp lcrutiny, smiled and
atroIled across the station platform
( 20 the bulletin board. New York To-
z ca1 was due at 4:10. An express was
due at 4:20
June Warner was helpless and be-
w1ldered. She had no money, no
friends. She could not even tele-
Graph. Why had she done this fool
4 inh thing? Her dream! She saw her
so1f again standing In the posture OF
4 = piteous beggar and accepting Ned's
( gikts. She saw Ned tipping the white
y toofhed porter q dollar and then, with
: t1o same jovial geherosity. handing
\ her thirty. The touch OF that money
still burned her fingers! Foolish 40
kor revulsion might be, II was keen
au1 real nevertheless. and until she
4 hod thrashed out this question with
III woman which had suddenly grown
uD In her she could not make OF her
3 Marriage with Ned the sacred rela-
< tiooDhip which she had held as her
idol. The black vandyked man
possed quite near her. gazing ct her
I With smile. She walked around
WHARF should she 60? Home? She
could see her father and mother ply.
Ing her with question upon question,
. diving her to tears with their wor-
rjod insistence and their utter lack OF
& understanding. How could they un-
3 dGrstand problem which had grown
I ~ since their youth had passed? Not
7 honne, then.
8 70 not home. where then? As II
81 her-just New. York, 30 big and SO
iutent upon itself that friends may
dVsll around the corner for years and
ucyer know.
Ned q that moment was extracting
oIoW Information from half deaf and
totally dumb old woman with cross
A grained disposition. Yes. she had
oesu young woman get OF the train
at = station back there. She didn't
{ know II the station was Farnville or
, not, but the girl had rice in the brim
OF her little hat.
June Warner. alone on the station
platform. had grappled meantime with
s the 1rst problem OF her independence.
That problem had to do with the
( means of getting to New York. and
1t wos concretely expressed in her
beau<1ful gold watch.
In the meantime Ned's train had
3 drawn up at the next stop, and he had
the station master In Farnville In a
minute and was inquiring for lonely
B br10e.
why. yes" huskily shouted the sta.
Z ton master ut Farnville, "A young
refDon Of that description has been
Ioa1ng around here on the platform,
md she's just getting on the down
!, Ioco1' reported the station master.
She's with a tall fellow with pointed
black whiskcrs. He's helping her on
4 tho train" ~
& a black vandyked stranger. Ned
& oxmoet reeled. So that was why she
1n1 left the train. =.
50 stop themlD he yelled. But the
E Dhono was dead Station masters are
k1ny people.
6 - train thundered ina down
lBn1n. Ned looked at the bulletin
lard. The New York express! II
oEP1ved In New York ut the same time
E - ne local. The first passenger to
oo94 that train was q perspiring
~1U young man, swinging four
1900 Of white ribboned luggage.
- IUno, paying but little attention TO
~ man who had helped her. turned
IOouoly into the car. day coach.
Moved the interior with despair.
HAT coach there were only two
1ongers, man and a woman, sit.
r0 foeether.
Would you like to buy watch?''
~ June IN her smallest voice az
r ooofronted the riRid woman and
out her merchandise.
~ returned the woman without
~ . muscle. Only her feather
Id The man cast at the mer
Ne look Of contempt.
3 very nice watch" urged
~Ito solid gold case and
&noV how many jewels. only
1cnoy enough to get 10 New
~ 1m't want f." observed
~ Ioo1ing straieht ahead