The Dermott news., 1916-06-08

eDga You See Anything of Yelled
 Woman in Biaok2a cause that is the only way you can hep ne And need help so. dear
 And in less than a minute she had gone, her face wreathed in smiles, waving gay good by with the gloves she was drawing on.
 Al the foot of the stairs Lamar was waiting for her His manner was now q trife oyereourteous.
 Upstairs at the window of the girls sitting room. Mary stood behind the 4raaeries Mouunless and watched them go
 cod. lie suspects her. There IS danger for my little girl God tell me what to do God hear me in nay treuh5e-teIl me what to do'"
 Prom far down the street the echo of 1We.s merry laugh came back to her as she prayed II agony
 You Will remember precisely where she Passe3 you Lamar was saying, sH5Ea3- You see ordinarily. II is enoaea ae remember just about where IH#e happened But when you're 5~a-EHe criminals 1t must be exactly where
 Haa become any more profession s4 and technical l shall get SO mixed aH won't remember anything. Junf warned h4m 5ekHElY I'm all shiv erT= right how, n thinking 1t grea' fun to be a sleuth
 aB,a3ly1" observed Lamar eyeinl her keealy T trust you will continu, to Ind f great fun, Miss Travis"
 "Heret8 cried June mock-dramatical }v right on this spot IS where l should say passed the yelled woman ir black that is. where she passed me l mean
 She was pointing a tragic forefngei a small spot in the Tagging Ther suddenly a startled cry burst from hen and she raised her arm limply-an pointed
 Turning the detective saw womaJ in black q long coat hid her fguro a thick veil shrouded her features. Sh stood motiouless on the walk, in iron of a huge tree.
 Ineredulous. Max looked from th, sabledraped figure to the half-faint .He girl beside bim-then back agair 1 The woman hadn't moved. She scene unconscious of their presence.
 .Is that the oue?' he muttere, hoarsely. "Is that the woman wh. passed you2"
 stunned by the horror of it all. Jun ! nodded her head Immediately Lama ] left her side and started 10 stroll aim lessly toward the woman in black.
 The sound of his steps on the pay mcrJ reused the yelled woman frol her letharey She turned her hea. i with 8 quick. startled movement an walked rapidly away. Lamar qHcEened his pace June fearful of what she had done, starte. after him. Suddenly the woman fl black, c4t across a lawn, breallin' into run
 June saw the crime specialist clenel his fist dfrcely His quarry had giyel him the sltp The girl found a wonder l ful eXhiiaratiou in the fact.
 As she watched him his chin sud denly shot forward his eyes strained from their sockets, and smile, crue yet suare, dawned around his mouth
 At tho rear of the house stood a gar age. Across it's freshly painted, light l gray door sprawled q blotch of inkJ black plastered there by the wind
 The breeze died. The black patel futtered and fell, hanging in limI folds With three bounds Lamar had reached the garage door and was pull ing at the soft cloth. He strained al the door, thinking it would give under 1 the pressure, But it was locked.
 When Lamar turned to June grea beads of sweat stood on his forehead and rolled from his temples.
 At last!" he said exultantly, "t have the yelled woman this time, ant perhaps-the mystery of the Ret Circle!"
 June stared at the edge of the blacl cloak that he gripped so tightly. Sht recognized it. It washer own!
 Inside the garage, fiat against tn, door (imprisoned by the cloak edgs she could not tear free) the woman il black pushed the veil back from hei gray-white face and prayed:
 God keep my lamb from harmi" l (END OF THIRD INSTALLMENT)