Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-18
Mary Roberts Rinehart's|
Thrilling Mystery of
The Curve of the Catenary"
CONTINUED From Yesterday

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He looked up at me.
ITO your"
ITO Martin"
1 suppose he knew 1t had hit me
pretty hard. Maybe he was relieved.
don't know. He'd rather depended
on ner. In lot of ways. Anyhow.
ne didn't go on with it.
Martin has handed in his resigna-
tion." he said, afer he'd lighted a
| fresh cigar. His views about some
things are rather radical. I am run
nlng steel mill. not an eleemosynary
institution"
1t gave me jolt to think of Mar
tin going. Wed never been what YOU
could call intimate. A fellow could
get just so far with him. and no
further. But he'd seemed to like me,
In his way.
He didn't approve of me, exactly.
and the reason poor Sis had never
had a chance with him was that he
didn't approve of her. He told her
once she belonged to the parasite
class. l guess she was pretty fond
or him even then, for she took II
awfully hard, and started q sewing
class for kids" in Grayton. But it
petered out, because she couldn't sew
herself. and the kids" got into 1t.
When is he leaving?" asked.
when l got my breath.
He will stay until I've filed his
place. II you take 1t he will work
with you until you think you can man
age alone"
Wen. I'd plenty to think of after
that There were two people 1 had
to see. and see soon = Martin and
Hazel. l made up my mind to tell
| Martin the whole thing.
guess If you've followed this
story you'll know that / wanted to
protect Hazel. I was willing to COM
pound a felony or be an accessory
after the fact, or whatever was neces-
sary TO keep her out of trouble. But
shed selected her own champion. as
you may say. and was not it.
L usually see more or less of nv
iamily on Sunday. try to be at home
ior one meal. It's only right What's
going TO become of family life in
america II people belonging to
household only meet accidentally at
dinner parties2
Ia Just as SOON have had luncheon
out that day, however, with the
mater gazing at me when she thought
l was not looking. and Sis staring at
her plate and nowhere else.
hadn't TOLD them about the rob-
perry the night before 1t involved
TOO much that wasn't my secret. But
l nao a queer feeling that the Mater
| kne" ABOUT 1t. She did, as a matter
OF fact. How? Well. that's what I'm
coming TO. Maybe you know ii al
ready But there was something odd
IN the way she looked at me.
Poor Mater, she was having her
own troubles that day. and to think
lhat no one suspected it.
Ihats the way things stood on Sur
day or that week. l was to go to the
mil on Monday. and Martin was to
stand by until was ready to take up
mis- work. Maybe / swelled up some
ABOUT the chest at the thought of go
ing back in my new capacity, But INV
nat measure remained stationary.
wasn't any too proud of the way
nings We're going as to the robbery
When l thought of the mess things
We're in my brain felt like succotash
1t was just as the. Mater got home
from church that a special delivery
letter came from Lottie Murray. The
Mater took it from the boy herself on
the doorstep and after looking at Lot
her nose ~
"Cigarets!" she said grimly. and
gave il to me.
III copy the note, and you can see
where II put me. 1t was we'll enough
when the thing came out later in the
papers for the Mater to throw hys-
terics and demand that the whole
FAMILY go abroad.
neip out a woman in trouble, and if
Lotte wasn't in trouble 1 don't know
what you call it.
Dearest Ollie she wrote. ''I'm
really in terrible way. Anderson
can't dance. and sits all day with his
leg on chair and yaps. It's awful
just to hear him.
I've made real hit here-see the
inelosed clippings. Save and return
them. 1 want to send them to Flo
Aiegfeld. He'll turn green. He threw
me out of the "Follies" Just because
never mind that It's a long story
Here are the facts. I've been
engaged for second week, but And
erson can't work. I've wired to Willy
randolph who was my dancing part
ner last season-and he will get here
on Tuesday. But what about Monday
night?
This is what 1 want, old dear. You
dance like breeze. Do you remem-
Der the time We tried out lot of new
steps together? I want you to go
on with me Monday night.
II you don't want to be recognized
you needn't be. You can wear a wig
and I'll make you up SO your own
people won't know you.
Don't say no without thinking IL
over, Ollie. 1t will be a lark to Won
but it's bread and butter and bookings
to me.
Come around to the hotel and talk
1t over, anyhow. I'm desperate.
IL. M"
What would you have done? DOL
lars to cents you'd have done exactly
what did-clapped on your hat and
gone to the hotel with your lips set in
dogged NO" And dollars to cents
after an hour of Lottie curled I'D in a
damp heap on a couch. with her hand
kerchief soggy ball in her hand. and
her scrapbook of clippings on the
floor. you'd have surrendered. AS
did.
l didn't want to do il. I give Won
my word. l hated myself for giving
in. But a crying girl gets me every
time.
| was struck dumb with stage
right, too. When I thought of II nv
heart stopped. We tried out one or
two of the dances then and there. hnt
my knees wabbled, and Lottie Locked
discouraged. Anderson hobbled In
about that time, looking sour as the
mischief '''e
Lottie was happ. however. at the
solution of her troubles, and she
waltzed over to him and slipped her
arm through his. "ei
Forgiven me yet?" she demanded
He was pretty fond of her Yon
could tell 1t by the way his ewes soft-
tened when he looked at her. And