Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-09-24

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The thoughts formed themselves
mechanically in her mind Her eyes
sought the ball which had come crash
ing into the room. There was life
once more in her pulses. She found
scrap of paper and a pencil in her
pocket With trembling fingers she
wrote few words:
Police headquarters. / am Sanford
Quests assistant, abducted and i'm
prisoned here in the room where the
ball has fallen Help! am going
madf'
She twisted the paper, looked
around the room vainly for string, and
finally tore thin piece of ribbon.
from her bosom. She tied the mes
sage round the ball, set her teeth and
threw it at the empty skylight. The
( first time she was not successful and
the ball came back. The second time
it passed through the center Of the
opening. She heard it strike the sound
portion of the glass outside, heard it
rumble down the roof. A few seconds
of bneathless silencei Her heart al
most stopped beating. Had it rested
in some ledge or fallen into the street
below? Then she heard the, boys
voice:
Gee! Here's the. ball come back
againi"
A new light shone into the room.
She seemed to be breathing different
atmosphere-the atmosphere of hope
She listened no longer, with horror
| for a creaking upon the stairs. She
walked backwards and forwards until
she was exhausted Curiously
enough, when the end came she was
asleep, crouched upon the bed and
dreaming wildly. She sprang up to
find Inspector French, with a police
man behind him, standing upon the
threshold
''Inspector!" she cried, rushing to-
wards, him. 'Mr. Frenchl Oh, thank
| GodiY
Her feelings carried her away, She
threw herself at his, feet. She was
laughing and crying and talking inco-
I herently, all at the same time. The
inspector assisted her to chair.
Say, what's all this mean" he de
manded.
i She told him her story, incoherent
ly. in broken phrases French listened
with puzzled frown.
i Then he realized that she was on
the point of a nervous, breakdown
and in no condition for interrogations
i ''Thatlr do" he said. 'Ell take care
i of you for time, young; lady, and II
ask you few questions later on. My
men are searching the house. Yol
and will be getting on, if you ca1
tear yourself away"
y y y T.
The plain-clothes; man, who, wal
loungingy in Quests most comfortabl,
easy chair and smoking one of his
! best cigars, suddenly laid down hi
paper He moved to the window. 4
large, empty automobile stood in tn,
, street outside, from which, the occu
: pants had presumably just descend
: ed. He fastened towards the door
which was opened, however, before b
: was halfway across the room TIL
), cigar slipped from his fingers 1t wa
! Sanford Quest, who stood there. fo
lowed by the sheriff of Bethel, tw
i country policemen and Red Gallaghe
t and his mate. heavily handcuffet
Say. aren't you wanted down yor
: der, Mr.. Quest?" the man inquired.
! That's, all right now" Quest tol
: him. I'm ringing up Inspector Frenc
t myself You'd better stand by th
: other fellows there and keep you
5 eye on Red Gallagher and his mate
/ ct guess Mr.. Quest is all right th
: sheriff INTERVIEWED. We're ringing q
n headquarters ourselves, anyway"
S The p1ain-clothes man did as he wa
told. Quest took up the receiver frol
his telephone instrument and arrange
;, the phototelesme-
= Police station No. I, central"
s said--through to Mr.. French's c
It flee, if you please. Mr.. Que
;. wants to speak to him Yes, Sa
e ford Quest. No need to get excited
t. All right I'm through, am
d Hello, inspector
A rare expression of joy sudden
n transfigured Quests face. He W;
g gazing downward into the little mi
ror.
ID you've found Lenora, then,
d spector?" he exclaimed. Bully II
d yout What do l mean? VIII
1t / say! You forget that l am s
in entific man, French. No end of q
u pliances here you haven't had tir
Of to look at. 1 can see you sitting thel
st and Lenora and Laura looking
le though you had them on the rack. Y
e. can drop that, French. I've got R
e- Gallagher and his mate, got the
g here with the sheriff of Bethel. TIL
went off with my auto and sold
re We've got that. Also, in less tn
it, five minutes my chauffeur will
=" here. He's been lying in farmhou