Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-05

Or would it be intercepted and its mes
sage read by Captain Goritz? His
cunning had amazed her, but it fright
ened her now. A rtlse 50 carefully
planned could have for its object moth
ing less than the oblteration of Hugh
RenwicS. as n prisoner or something
worse-perhaps death She shuddered.
She. Marishka would unwittingly nave
caused it. She had asked him to come
at midnight and knock upon the door
in the court below and she Knew enoush1
Of Hugh to be sure that If he received
the message. no matter how great me
danger to himself. he would come. Inc
note! If she could recall 1t Sne
would suffer wRafsTerh amgh GoritT couId oniV I be
spared. She had already done. him hurt
enough-without the chance or ia tn,s ,ast
most dreadful sacrifice in her hehanI5
in vain. He would come to her and
she must wait-without the power 10
warn him, and perhaps see him kilieu
before her very eyes.
Her thoughts made her desperate
and the idea of another attempt "a
escape came into her head. II sne couiu
only reach the street. she could ru,- T.,
and If would be better race with her
pursuer than she had given Hush IN lhe
rose gardens Of the ArchGuke oman
| She made the attempt. quietly open,,
| ing the door by which she had entereu
| the room and passing on tp,toe uoMu
| the corridor to the door with the uutap'
She drew aside the curtain Wh,cn mc roh eoh
| AS she peered out she found nerSer'
| staring straight into the eyes OF nupe. .
deb. The woman's look was cold but
| full of understanding. -,
Does the Fraulein wish anything!
she asked without the slightest change
| Of expression. Her voice was co'orless;
! like the speech which might be expected
| from a craven image.
I'll was hungry stammereG Ma
rishka helpessly. II am sorry 10
bother you"
'If you will return to the room within,
I will bring food at once she said
| stoldly. And so Marishka, once more
balked in her enterprise. went back to
the harem. Strong as she was. armed
anew with the sudden strength of des,
| peration, she knew that even II she could
| use her strength she was no match Tor
this massive creature VINO; IN the Sc.
| lamlik nearby. perhaps had men within
call. She went to the windows and
peered out into the street. There was
| no one in sight. except n tall man IN
black who carried an umbrella She
watched him a moment through the
| carved screen. but he went up the street
| and disappeared around a corner The
garden seemed to be deserted. Would
| the gate to the street be locked? She
made an effort to move the lattice of
| meshrebiya but it was nailed fast tG the
main wood work of the house. Her case
! was hopeless. There was nothing to DO
but wait upon the clemency-the mercy
of Captain Goritz. A new idea of her
| captor was being born in her. OF a
/ creature who differed from the courteous
| German official of Vienna and Agram
His eyes haunted her. the dark eyes
set just a little obliquely in his head, a
racial popularity which she had not
been able to identify. She knew now.
! They were Oriental. like Zubeydehs. like
those of the man at the door below.
alien. hostile and cruel And yet it was
curious how the smile in them had dis
| armed her, and she remembered, with a
futile glow of returning hope, that she
had not feared him, that she had even
had the temerity to defy him But her
courage had ebbed-she could not have
defied him now, and in the darkness.
| while she waited for Heva, she feared
him--feared him.
1t seemed strange that Yeva had not
| seturned. She had been gone an hour
| or more. and the Hotel Europa could moi
ments passed she gave up the other hope
turned, to go back at once to the hotrl
get it. Could anything have happened
to her? Marishka wanted her-.-the
sound of a voice. the touch of fem
mine hand. her air and graces-the fol
bles of a child perhaps, but intensely
virile in their childishness and in
tensely human, 1t seemed that even
Yeva was to be denied to her
For when Zubeydeh brought lights