Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-15
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Story No. 4
"A WAR OF WITS
Plot by George Bronson Howard.
NeVelization by Hugh C. Weir.
Copyright Kslem Company.

''why-he Is using hyoscine. of
course-and I suppose you know that
that's about the same thing as SEQ
polamine-if you know what THAT Is!
II you don't. I'll tell you-it's a mar
had an Injection Of 1t you're not un-
conscious, as you are with ether or
even morphine. You're just sort Of
pain, but you can talk and move. And
you don't remember anything when
1t stops working in your SYSTEM
OH said Mary, with a deep long
breath. That is clever, Mona! But
we might have known II would have to
be something cleverr'
"It seems she's got a special check
book-or, at least, an extra one-with
her. He suspected that, and when he
had her under the influence of the
drug he made her get 1t out. Then
he had her hide it In a new place
which she would only remember when
shed notice the missing checks,
she was herself?"
"Of course! And. as II is, she does
not see them. She won't find out un-
til she gets her next statement from
her bank! Oh. It's wonderful-from
his point point Of e., view: ,S.o You see1she's
say they were for his professional
services, and I don't see what she can
answer TO that! He does help her
pain most of the timel"
Mary ironically. "The things Tve
heard about her-the mean things
course, he's a crook-and It's better
for US to have some OF the money
than to let him keep 1t. 1t seems to
me our moral position is unassailable,
'Im glad of that" said Mona dryly.
Because we couldn't think OF taking
the money If it wasn't. Of course!''
We haven't got it yet said Mary
but II does make me feel better to
know that were not doing anything
really wrong when we bring off these
coups of ours"'
"oh. I KNOW feel like that, too"
said Mona. And 1 don't think were
hypocrites, either. Just how do you
expect TO go about this? You ought
TO know more than l do about the doc
study him.
i've only begun, really" said Mary
But I know he spends lot OF time
in the Casino. There's a hint there II
I can work out some way of following
1t up. You'd better go back-Tm
going to make friends with DR.. Hy-
oscine. think nell be here soon,
and We mustn't be seen together"
DR.. Hyoscine did call that evening,
as Mary anticipated, and was glad to
find her much improved in health. He
saw IN neTy OF course, the woman Sne
pretended to be-not the social buc-
cancer she actually was. To him she
appeared to be a young and attrac-
tive wcman-a widow. he guessed. or.
at worst, divorced. Her means were
plentiful, he supposed. or she would
not be at yellow Springs. He quite
forgot that he himself was here as
an adventurer; or, If he did not forget,
he did not reflect that her errand
might be like his own.
And so he was glad to find that she
seemed ready to welcome his atten-
lions. He was not thinking of mar
Sage-that, he felt, could not be con-
sidered until he knew about her means.
But he was entirely willing to make
discreet love to her, If she en-
couraged him, being careful to leave
himself a loophole of escape II she
proved financially ineligible.
That was enough of a foundation
for Mary to build upon. In a few
7aS she and DR.. Hyoscine were on
terms that approached intimacy, and
he was a frequent and welcome caller
in her roems-her supposed illness be-
ing excuse enough. Mary, of course,
studied him attentively. And she soon
decided that the mans great weak
ness was his love of gambling; that
Il was upon this side that he might be
most easily approached.