The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-15
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6Y Mele Goyrison


any sudden terrible happening
means either fainting spell or a
tit of hysterla.. There are others who
when confronted with an emergency
no matter how awful. nerve themselves
to meet il, reserving their tremors for
time when there's no more need OF
| their brain and spirit
Lillian Underwood IS ,onc OF the la.-
Ter kind of women Danger OF any
sort seems to make even more acute
her naturally quick perceptions, 10
clcctrify, as it were, her whole being
Instead OF being panic-Strlcken at the
discovery that some one had ranSackcd
the secret wall safe in her library,
evidently in search Of something spc-
cial she appeared far more composed
than either Katherine Sonnet or | who
had Just returned with her to her Ii
brarv through the secret passage from
the adjoining house.
Only the whiteness, rather the al
most ashen grayneSs OF her face, be.
trayed the mental strain under which
she was laboring Her voice was as
composed az had ever heard 1t, when,
after she had turned from the wall
safe, she said quietly:
Il must look up the other places now
and | want you to observe them Gaze.
fully Anything might happen to ne
at any time, and you ought to know
how to find my papers And | might
as we'll tell you how that il that emcr-
gency should ever arise you arc to get
everything from here and take it ll-
Iectly TO -"
The Seventh Square.
She put her lips first to katherinc's
car and then to mine, whispering a
name mighty enough to make us both
| start i'm aStoniShnlCnt and look at each
other with a new sense OF the import
ance of the work to which we had COM
lmitted ourselves.
Then there were revealed 10 or
eyes still mere ama1ing things Lillian
went swiftly around the room. making
| doubly sure that every window was
locked and shroudcd in heavy curtains,
and that the sound -defying velvet cur
tainS over the doors were in place.
Not until she had satisfied herself that
there was no possible peep hole through
which a watcher could see did she pro-
Ceed to the work OF searching the hldN
ing places of the important papers OF
which she was the custodian
And such ,hiding places katherine
and / held our respective breaths al
Tic ounningly devised places Lillian
| revealed in her search
She rolled back her beautiful Per
sian rugs revealing the polished inlaid
mosaic of the flooring beneath. 1t was
laid out in squares, and Lillian, be-
nning at one corner stepped diagon-
ally across the ROOM from one square
to another evidently counting each as
she stepped.
When she had'rcached the thirteenth
she took a direction at right angles
to the one she had trayersed and pro
ceeded for seven squares At the sew
cnth she stopped and signalled for US
to come to her side.
Watch carefully" she, whispered ,
AT the Door.
She knclt down beside the seventh
square and pressed hard with her hand
upon it, As she did so it turned upon
itself and slid back into some hidden
groove, disclosing another block sx-
actly similar TO itself beneath it, Rea-
Soning now that somewhere around
this opening we're concealed the docu-
ments Lillian guarded so carefully, |
naturally expected to see her press
another spring in this second square.
Rut instead she thrust her shand and
arm into the aperture beneath the ad-
Joining blocks which the turning Of
the first had revealed, " iumbled for a
moment, and the next instant a small
section of the flooring fully ten feet
from us, opened wide
Lillian rose, and with Katherine and
me following her, went 10 the opening,
and with a tiny key which she took
from her dress unlocked the strong
box within. She went rapidly through
the papers in it. and Looked up vita a
sigh of relief when she had finished.
Nothing disturbed here" she whis-
pered. Nov are YOU sure YOU remem-
her how to do thiS2 Thirtcep squares
squares diagWally from that corner,
then seven squares in this direction,
press on the seventh square, and fam
lie in that opening until you find tiny
push button, which YOU press There s
70 use showing you how 10 Mess those
springs Y, myself. had to tumble
around until ! hit upon it. ingenious,
!Snt it1"
katherineS shining eyes were lcr
only answer As for me, ! could not
repeat the word Ingenious" in an awe
stricken whisper
She AScIoSed other hiding places, two
other wall safes similar in conStruc
ton to the one behind the buill-iu book
cases, and then she mounted chalr
and pressing upon one OF the tiles
around the fireplace, disclostl another
cavltY-ln which strong box rested.
Lillian drew long breath when sh,
had finished her inspection, and re.
stored things to their usual order. mi.
She did with infinite care, polishing IN,
flooring and the tile so that mo- trace
OF fngerprintS showed upon them.
ut must have been Betty meddlmp
IN that safe TO which she accidental,
discovered the secret she said. "Tm
so sorry for il means giving her M
but that's nothing now that we know
everything else is"
| A low knock at the door cut short her
| sentence