Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05

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\ ball room it was nearly deserted. Wan
/ dering about looking for Mrs travis
and June. she came face to face with a
young man who was saying good night
/ to one of the hotel guests.
/ why. Mary" exclaimed the name IN
great surprise. where have you been?
Miss Travis was looking all over for
/ you. When she couldn't find you she
decided YOU had gone home without her
knowing il. She and Mrs. Travis have
/ left. I'm going that way. Let me take
. you home in my car.
oh, Mr. Pearson stammered the old
/ woman. Don't you bother, l can walk.
! I've been waiting i'm one of the little
/ rooms. / didn't know il was so late.
Get your things, now" he command
/ ed sternly. You're coming with us
! and we won't say another word about it,
! You shan't walk that distance
When ne put her down at the cottage
I he warned her:
Don't wake Miss Travis if she's
/ sleeping, Mary. The poor girls half
dead. She danced plore than anybody
I there-mostly with that chap Lamar.
Mrs. Travis said she was going to
make her sleep until noon tomorrow"
oh, / wouldn't think of waking her,
| Mr. Pearson" The old woman was hor-
/ rifed at the thought i've brought
Miss June up from a baby and ! know
/ how she needs sleep-you know, all
/ lively people ned a lot of it. | don't
need it, l never did somehow. Thank
/ you for bringing me home. 1t was very
/ nice of you, Mr. PeaTson-but then you
always were a nice boy-even from a
/ little tot
! Mary picked her way up the softly
carpeted steps as adroitly as a post
graduate Raffles. When she reached her
own room she breathed a sigh of relief
and started to undress in the dark, her
mind busy with this queerest. latest
phase of the Red Circle Mystery.
The next morning at 1870. June ran
out on the porch and clapped her hands
over Mary'S eyes just as the nurse wa
/ finishing her happy daily perusal of the
death column-in the Morning Star.
Guess" she commanded.
ITS my lamb said Mary, compla
Gently. trying to smooth her ruf1iel
/ front hair.
Aren't YOU a sly, old lady, sneaking
home hours and hours ahead OF me, Lass
night? / don't dare go near your room
when ! came in. for fear you'd wake
up"
II wasn't there. pet. Mary told her
II didn't leave the hotel until after you
did.
! What
Vita a cautious glance around, the
nurse started to recount the happenings
/ of the night before. She told haltingly,
| fearful that she might omit an impor-
! tant detail When she got to the point
| of her recital where the Woman i'm
/ Black left the room, June clutched her
/ hand excitedly.
And YOU let her co?" she exclaimed,
oil rl,.lf
"Of course l let her go''-tne old
woman was offended to think her judy
ment i'm the matter was questioned
I she could have broke away from me
and made her escape-and then she
would have been warned. This way, she
thinks she's safe and she won't hide.
! Id know her again, the minute I lay
eyes on her
June pulled her up from the chair,
/ impstuously.
You've got to come right over to the
/ hotel and tell the whole thing TO Mr..
/ Lamar Don't YOU see now tremend-
ously important it is to him-and To
use" she added thOughtfully.
"Oh, / don't like to tell Mr. Lamar,
dear. don't want to. feel some
\ how that It'I bring danger to YOU.
/ Mary protested violently as June
dragged her down the path and toward
/ The hotel.
! Nonsense II will turn aside sus-
/ picion," maintained June. smiling mis-
! chievously at the thought. why didn't
YOU tell me all this last night"
( Because AIR. Pearson brought me
I home in his car and he told me net to
wake YOU, precious"
Wake me- Why. don't YOU sec if
/ had known last night there'd be just that
much time gained? Look, Oh. what
! 14f There il spo
! leaving Mr.. Radner at the entrance to
| tho hotel. Hurry. Mary, and Well be
able 10 catch him"
June waved her hand excitedly. Lamar
ran toward them.
ANY newso" he asked quickly.
Tell him. June said briefly.
Mary had gotten almost through her
story. when suddenly her eyes hulged
/ I'm their sockets and she pointed a dra-
matte forefnEer over Lamars shoulder
There she is" she gasped. her voice
1crackinS her throat That's the wom-
Ian. The one with the suitcase, walk
ing down the path on her way TO the
station. That's the Woman IN Black
Are YOU sure" rho pressure of La
mars fingers hurt her arm. sure"
I'm sure" she answered firmly.
/ Tc know her anywhere.
/ 81 have to 90 Immediately. Miss
v
ON the disappearing figure. Tin going
To trail that woman. Here's one time
that Fate is playing into my hands"
! They watched him walk rapidly
around the back of the hotel and take
a snort cut to the station.
/ Two hours later Max Lamar strolled
carelessly along n residential block in
! the city Finding great difficulty in
lighting his cigarette he stepped into
I vestibule, Just as the woman he was
| trailing turned the corner ana entered
! a large apartment house.
/ Giving her time to get upstairs. La
Il mar stepped from his hiding place
lsauntcred toward the same entrance and
leaned against one of the stone pillars"
l3hnlessly blowing rings of smoke sky
ward
! Well my little blaCShirG,' he
unused. your wings are clipped and your
CAGE won't he golden one, either. At
/ last the Red circle mystery is going
To he cleared-perhaps.'
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