The daily Alaskan., 1917-08-10

"she was vamIlhg up the beach, and Mf. BIAiney was running after her"
 Guilt seeks out the criminal and fastans her bFShd upon him publicly. PoiiSemen ara but jailers. Detectives arc onls, mon who let nature do their work for nstn,
 There was 6 nasty staccato laugh I did not need to look to know thst if was Bopp
 "Mr. Kent seemS to have c Tery observing mind" he said.
 Lucille looked St me reproachfully. 'Ts this true rs shssasked.
 "Yes." George Warrington could EhATo dons no more.
 You didn't catch herT
 'No."
 Nothing moro was to be said had been tried, convicted and sentenced Ths tslephone rang. Lucille went to answer f. Tho lrest of u" followed moro ae our leisure. When we had arrived doEnstAtrs Lucille was talking to some one over the wire. evidently her mother. ... .,.-
 'I'm glad you're all right" she was saying, "and that you have had some thing to eat Don't feel badly about breaking the fast. No one planes you a bit That's all right We would, too. if We could"
 A pause, during which she listened, 6 frowD gathering on her face
 Don't you worry, mother. We're all r4ght-Nll except Tooties. She is lost Whats tho mRtterf You saw some -one outside tn the moonlight2 A man with whIskersl Nonsense. No one lives, there at this time of yeRr. Ev- eEybody left in September. Just go to bed and don't think about such thingS."
 LDcils sttded e scream.
 'Hello, mother, WhatH Some one ls trying the doof3 It'B opening -hsTio mother
 Euete dropped the receiver and sank backward into vida'B arms. Ipicked up the telephone and held it to my ear, shouting -EeIlo, heIlof'
 There was no response Tho wire was dead
 When Lucille had been revived with cut resorting to any of the violent methods suggested by the resourcetul Captain Perkins I endeaEored to ex- plain away any cause for night
 "Eyep if she really did see a man." said, which seems improbable, be is not going to murder her. Probably he just stopped Co inquire the time of day.
 "But mother said he had whi5kers,"
 tT know" I continued, that is against him, but maybe tets hereditary in his family"
 'AIaybe, she just dreamed it." Kent offered senaIbiy. "Lees call her up again She seemed R little dented on tUp when I hrst saw her. By this dime maybe the attaek is over"
 That seemed a fair enough suEges- ton, and acted on it. I asked cen rsl to give me Hundngdon's island once moro.
 I'm sorry" central answered, ''but can't seem to get them. I've been ringing on that line for the last ten minutes. There's another party trying to get them"
 "Anether parHT questioned ''whoT"
 T couldn't gay. It isn't any ooe I know. Els voice sounds like be was 6 tnn, thin young man from New York"
 Cant get them" I told the listen Ing group,
 ~What can we do nowi I must go tO he(p mother. I must 60, 1 must -Eu" Lucille began to get hysbericaL
 "Wsit dear" Vida said, pdtttng her hand. We cant 90 because we haven't any boat" Turning to the rest of us, Ehe asked. Whom could we telephone eo and ask eo so over thereT
 "The sheriff b the right man, should think," Bop suggested
 "HSd De plumb tekied, too" added Captain Perkins. "He Rtn't had 6 chance to arrest nobody since he's been gwoEe in"
 ~ThRsg it the shert6," Lucille said tevsrishty. Get the sheriff and let no talk to him"
 we don't. want the public to know ehoat this" I objected
 "whRt 6o I care about the public If ny mother fs in osngerT'' Lucile very properly 6smRn6Sd