The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-31

slavers.
"Oh, please. miss. may l stay here
while till feel better?" she pleaded.
"Oh-if could only work for you and
| the kind lady who ia like a mother"
she sobbed, turning from Elaine to
her aunt.
1t was a touching story, and it
reached the hearts 1t was intended
for
Don't worry; I'll see you through
this AFFAIR nodded Elaine, wiping
away the girls tears ard smiling
bravely at her. Take her upstairs.
Marie. She can find plenty to do In
this big house, I'm sure
Even while Inez was looking her
thanks from her swollen teary eyes,
already the car containing the toughs
had drawn up around the lower cor
ner, and WI and Long Sin had taken
the places of the thugs.
Everything worked fine, MASTER
reported the gunner.
/ had gone over to the apartment
after Kennedy had perpetrated his
little joke with the new cigarette
lighter. and there found several let
tiers waiting for him.
Having nothing better to do, decid-
ed to go back to the laboratory, where
/ left him at work. and take along the
mail in case there might be something
important In 1t for him.
He nnonod 0na ~ tr.,o Lotion. %bor
came to one which had laid on his
desk In plain envelope, addressed
evidently In a disguised hand He
tore 1t open and read it with a scowl.
We'll, Walter, what do you think
of that?" he remarked, tossing it over
to me.
/ read 1t in establishment:
Another attempt is about to be
made to kldnap Elaine Dodge.
A FRIEND.
looked at him and shook my head
i blankly, while Craig took up the tele-
phone and called the Dodge house.
: No one answers" he muttered,
working the telephone hook up and
down. but I'm sure someone took
off that receiver over there and lis
tened in. Operator-will you ring
that number again?"
Unable to get any reply over the
Dodge telephone, Kennedy thought
moment, then scrawled in his familiar
hand on the bottom of the anonymous
note, sealed 1t in another envelope d.
rected to Elaine, and called a messen-
ger.
Inez, meanwhile, had transformed
herself into a full-hedged maid, look
ing very pretty in her neat cap and
apron, and making herself useful in
hundred ways about the Dodge house.
Without being obtrusive she was
seldom out of hearing of the tele-
phone, however. and 1t happened that
at just the moment when Craig called
up she was there to intercept the call,
taking of the receiver, but not an
swering. Instead, she hung up and
wedged the telephone bell with
piece Of paper. SO that 1t would not
ring at all.
She was about to move away from
the desk when Elaine entered the IL
brary
Didn't l hear the telephone bell
ring?' she asked.
Inez was quick. yes" she replied,
my former mistress telephoned that
she is sending my trunk today"
"Oh. very WELL" smiled Elaine, pass
ing on through the library with an
encouraging nod to the girl.
Inez had killed two birds with one
stone. Not only had she disarmed
suspicion about the interrupted call,
but she had laid the foundation for
the delivery of trunk which at that
moment she knew WI and Long Sin
were preparing and packing.
1t was large trunk, and in 1t the
two willy Cinnamon were packing a
chair, as well as the phosphorus ma
| chine
Once Mistress Inez induces Elaine
| to sit in this chair" observed WI, tap
/, ping 1t significantly as he closed the
trunk, half our work is completed"
Uptown Inez, always on guard, was
watching for the safe arrival of the
trunk, when she saw a messenger boy
coming up the steps of the house.
Perhaps, 1t flashed over her, 1t was
some message from Kennedy. She
| must get it, whatever it was.
Without hesitating q moment she
slipped back into the library while the
boy was still at the door and wrote
note of her own at the desk. She
had thought out beforehand just what
plan she was to adopt and the note
read:
Dear Miss Dodge:
The ladies of the First Baptist
church will send collector for our
! rummage sale this afternoon. We
thank you for whatever you can give
him. Yours truly,
Miss Ella Burns,
| Secretary, Woman's Guild.
Inez read over the note she had
written herself as the messenger boy
continued ringing the bell impatiently
Then she hurried into the hall to open
the door,
The boy came in and Inez took the
note he had brought, signing Elaines
name for 1t in his book She had
acted not a moment too soon, for
Elaine had heard the bell and was
now coming downstairs herself.
WAS it anything for me, Inez?" she
asked.
Inez deity palmed the letter and
substituted the note she had written.
Eyes. ma'am," she replied, handing
Elaine the faxed note
Elaine read it. 81 didn't know about
the rummage sale before" she COM
mented. as She went into the library,
, ''but l guess I'll have to give them
something"
She sat down for moment to look
over a new fashion magazine. Out
side in the hallway Inez was reading
the note which the messenger boy
had brought, with the warning post
script written by Kennedy under
meath. She knew, as she destroyed
it, that 1t was only part Of Wu's
subtle plan to alarm Kennedy and
start him on false scent
1t was not many minutes later that
the bell rang again, and this time
Jennings answered the door. disclos-
ing the expressman with heavy