Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-19

which had been quoted the day before
dropped dozen points when the Ex~
change had closed It's doors in the aft
ernoon. Remembering the scene at
Maxwelrs room, Mona's lips compressed
his disappearance and imprisonment
had been engineered by those, who ex-
pected to gain Immediately and direct
ly by his absence. There could be
met with foul play at the hands OF
men, who had been following the mar
ket, and who knew the inevitable re-
suits that would follow.
The grounds of Restview Sanitarium
were enveloped in darkness, only occa-
sionally illumined by a fflckerlng arc
lamp, when Mona and her two COM
panions brought their car to a stor
on tie road outside the entrance gate
and prepared to await developments
The building of the sanitarium itself
loomed beyond strangely dark and sim
lister. with only a fitful slant of light
seen now and then through the win
dow of the ground floor. The upper
story was entirely dark.
The driver brought the car we'll un-
der the wall at point for enough re-
moved from the main gate to be safely
out of range of a chance watchman
From the seats of the machine to the
top of the wall was a distance of les,
than three feet. The two men climbed
to the wall, after extinguishing any
tell-tale lights of the mbtor, and
but she waved them aside, and in an
other moment had wormed her way tt
their side. The drop to the adjoining
and inner side was not 80 easily man
aged. and Mona slightly wrenched hel
ankle when she struck the soft eartf
and she saw with satisfaction that thu
sanitarium was still in darkness ant
In apparent repose. The trio stole for
ward until they were just beyond the
front door, and well within view O.
any Of the windows on their side o.
the building. Mary ventured to pres!
the button of her pocket flash light
and saw that 1t was only few mo
ments past ten o'clock.
Returning now to Mary, and trans
ferring the scene from the exterior Il
the interior of the sanitartum, we fin'
young man in an extremely state o
mind, and not at all sure what tn
next three or four hours have in store
1t rs one thing to consent to acting th'
part of insanity when one Is safe ant
sound and with onoaitSo ones friends.Su ,Su
role brings the principal to the mids
of a lunatic asylum, where the mos
earnest plea Is discounted as the va
poring OF an unsound mind by attend
When Mary found herself consigned
to a small, scantily furnished room
and heard the key turn In the lock, sh
felt that she was suddenly envelope,
in kind of suffocating darkness. Sh
sat down on the edge of her bed an,
tried deliberately to reason hersel
back to a more optimistic frame o
mind. It was not an easy task. whel
her watch showed that it was aften i
o'clock, she rose and peered througl
her window. The darkness outsid,
told her nothing. If Mona and tn
others were near her, they were un
doubtedly in concealment.
The girl stepped back and opene
her bag From 1t she took the arti
cles Of her night toilet and smile,
softly to herself as she stole softly (
the door. The fact that 1t was locke
did not bother her, as Mona's thought
fulness had provided her with a skel
eton kew for Just such an emergency
Three minutes of cautious fumblin
with the lock sufficed. The way int
the hall at least was clear.
Drawing back into her room, the CIR
slipped over her outer dress the nigh
gown she had taken from her bae
making sure that 1t covered her skiri
Surveying herself critically in the lit
tie cracked mirror over the wash
SIind. she pulled the pins from her hal
so that 1t fell in a mass about ne
shoulders. giving precisely the effcc
VSich she desired-that she had jus
wen from her bed.
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