The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-21
SYNOPSIS

Lamar escapes death at the hands ot the fanatical Borden by the timely ar rival of the police. Borden kills himself. The gas has axphyxiated the son. Think ing that the circle branded family is eX- tinct, Lamar is surprised to see the Red Circle on the hands of woman in swiftly passing automobile. He manages | to get the license number. 1 Grant, notorious loan shark, is locked l in his vault and @ batch of valuable notes are stolen.
 Fastening to notify the police, he finds his chauffeur and car to be missing. He | reaches the police headquarters in taXi- | cab and tells Chief of Police Allen of his | loss. Lamar is present.
 | As they speak, the missing car is seen passing, the same one that Lamar is in 1 terested in. They overtake the car, but occupant has gone. The chauffeur shows a forged order for the car. The woman 1 in black sinks into a nearby park and
 turns her coat inside out, exposing a dress and hat of white.
 | The woman in black is no other than | June Travis. At home she writes let ! ters anonymously informing Grants clien- | tele of the destruction of the notes. Mary,
 her old nurse, finds a piece of one of | the notes.
 This task finished, she stacked the little | pile of letters, ready for mailing. With out waiting to put on her hat she ran downstairs and out of the house by rear l door, to a nearby mail box. In this she l posted her stack of letters, and made her
 way back to her sitting room, unnouced. 1 After which she once more picked up the documents stolen from George Grant desk; curmpled them into a ball, set a match to them; held them until they were ablaze, and tossed them into the fireplace. There goes a sheaf of heartaches?' she sighed. "Oh, if only all poverty could
 be destroyed as easily" Mary June's nurse, was more mem Der of the Travis family than a servant. She had lived with Mrs. Travis since long before June was born she had comforted the stricken wife when her husband died she had loved June from the day of the winsome girls birth.
 In early years it was Mary who had 1 stood between June and every punish ment in later days the nurse was even 1 more closely her confidante than was Mrs, Travis herself.
 When June had come that day and, l passing Mary and Mrs. Travis on the veranda had gone on to her room, Mary s l anxious eyes had read the girls face and 1 had seen trouble lurking there. l The nurse had said nothing: but later when June did not reappear, she followed | her upstairs. Softly she tried the door 1 of the girls sitting room. It was locked. Mary bent down to see through the key hole if June were still in the room. She
 had had brief glimpse of her, kneeling 1 at the fireplace, watching some papers 1 burn Wondering. yet not quite daring 1 to intrude, the old woman had tiptoed away.
 1 But early next morning, while she was putting the sitting room to rights, Mary .chanced to see half charred piece of paper lying on the hearth. She picked it up On the unburned half of the paper 1 she read:
 Seven days from date, or-to pay | George Grant ten-third installment on
 my loan of fifty-plus interest at the rate per week. Total payment due $15- Signed Jos. Bro"
 | Mary puzzled over the fragment in l stark perplexity. To her. it meant noth- 1 ing. And she could not understand how 1 her darling should have happened to pos ! sess such a thing or why she had tried
 to burn it. But as she placed the morn ] ing newspaper on the table, for June, a
 few minutes later, the old woman's gaze 1 fell on these staring headlines: 'VEILED WOMAN IN BLACK ROBS LOAN BROKER GRANT.
 Notes of Clients, Owing Money, Are Miss l ing-Thief Borrows' Victims Auto and Escapes.
 Mary let the newspaper fall to the floor 1 from her inert hand. Again she examined
 the charred note. And now she knew
 what it was.
 | MT. George Grant had come late to his office that morning. He was in the sort | of humor that makes a poisonous snake | bite itself and die.
 1 He was loud in his denuncations of the