The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-16

to tourney to Newport, Parr was ar
rested on q warrant charging MN Wltll
assault and battery on the person Vi
one Jules Edouard.
Protestations and credentials ahke
availed Captain Parr nothing. lie WAS
without choice other than TO accom-
many the detectives who served tle
warrant. And by the time brief talk
with a magistrate had set MIN Tree
1.-THE complainant in the case being no
where to be found) he had missed MS
boat.
He did not for an instant DOUBT MS
arrest had been deliberately planned
in order to prevent his accompanying
Miss Claiming.
But it was too late to do more than
send her wireless explaining what
had detained him, promising to be with
her in Newport the next morning, and
warning her to be on her guard.
Patria wandered uneasily, unhappily'
about the decks long after the major
itv of passengers had sought their
staterooms.
Even after midnight Patria fingered
on deck, rather than return TO the
STIFFNESS of her stateroom.
0 Resting her forearm on the rail, she
stared blindly into the clear DARKNESS
r of q moonlight night.
r A light football started Patria out
of the somberest of reveries.
:. Without the least warning a thick
soft cloth, like q heavy wooden Dand-
', age. enveloped Patria's head.
IT She essayed to scream, ana the
g folds of cloth settled between mel
1t teeth, well-nigh choking her.
lie Other hands seized her legs. She
re fought desperately, in blind panic, &c
lg no avail. Relentlessly she was hfte'
d, and thrown bodily athwart the rail-.
K Then she was free of the hands
re but hurting down the side OF I'M
ship.
RI Shouting waters leaped to receiv
n her. She went under, came up strar
ng p,inp. then let the waves nav
to their will of her while she fought I
mt free her head of the bandage.
eu BY the time this had been accom-
Is plished she was far aseern. =.
eu In the stateroem adjoIGsRs that o.
cupied ay-Fanny xdafr. a woman ii
nurses garb consulted wrist watci
~ then nodded brusquely to a girl wh
III stood supporting herself with bot
hands on the foot of brass be-
ria stead-a girl whose eyes, watchin
air the nurse, were as the eyes OF Patrl
raj Charming, wide with fright, even as IL
VI rest of her was Patria Claiming to tn
i'h life.
zap "You'd best shift now" said II
WI nurse with q nod toward the forwal
stoteroom. "In two minutes more
as she grinned grimly-"Tm going
zen whoop and carry on about your 81
mo eide"
OIL With a short, dry gasp of terri
giy and disgust, the girl who looked jill
JIM Patria tore herself away from the b.
as 5sa,reeled out to the deck. -
neu The door to the next stateroom "
mt omen. The light within silhouette
her the form Of Mrs. Adair-Fanny WI
nth ',,e 80 ord eyerv limb trcl
49, CHASTITY lace anu e'I' ~,
'e bling beneath her frivolous siih
to- negligee.
nm Rlindly the girl stumbled in and sh
,nl. the door and put her back TO IL.
,.,th For a moment the two stared
~ each other with eyes Of horror.
, 90 Then Fanny gasped one woi
ion 'Elaine!"
sina The other interrupted with passi'
on. ate protest informing her in tremui'
fud- accents:
,ord "Don't call me Elaine! Don't
had dare. I'm Patria Channing-dc
nlon Won understand. I'm Patria Cham
no now? We-we're both guilty-gu
long as sin-and you've got to stand
a END OF FOURTH EPISODE