Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-11-14
CHAPTER VIII.
GIsce Resunoes the Narrative


For minute after heard Connels
message over the wire 1 felt sick ant
dizzy, and my senses reeled.
OF course, you have read Miss
Foote's story Of what happened; bu
at that time / could not know how
much Of the thing was a part of the
fnscrutable plans of Dual.
Coming as it did on top of an after
noon full of uncertainty inspired by
Semi's most unusual actions. the in
formation from Connel pretty nearly
knocked me off my feet
slid the receiver back onto its
hook, turned, and walked slowly to a
chair and sank down.
Sheldon shot me glance and jump.
ed up. whats the matter?" he rasp-
ed. whats happened now? Glace,
what ails you, man."
1 told him as best I could, and he
swore.
Lily Lawton put down her head and
began to weep in nervous terror.
"My God. Gordon!" the colonel
burst out, "do you see what that
means? l told you you hadn't ought
to have let that leetle girl go up there
the way you done. Course they saw
you and her go to the police station,
an when you come back here an she
went up there, they laid for her an
roped her fust Off
"Well, that ends 1t, reckon. You
phone to Connel, an tell him to kick
them two out. Let 'em have their dirty
scum, II that will git Lucille and Nc
Kabe turned loose"
He paused, breathing hard.
please, Mr. Glace," Lily sobbed
brokenly, "if there is any way to help
poor Miss Lucille, you will take it,
won't you? Oh. she was so good to
me! l can't bear it to think those peo-
pie have caught her."
She resumed her tears.
didn't answer for a moment. Some
way. it seemed that the excited out
cries of my companions served to
steady my own disturbed balance, and
show me the need of cool thought and
action in this new crisis.
On the face, it looked pretty bad.
First McKabe, old hand at the game,
had been taken; then Lucille, a woman
who for three years had matched wits
with this very society of banded evil.
had been seized in broad daylight, If
/ was to accept Connel's statement at
full value.
To cap all. Dual had gone off and
10 oft I14 xr,st n,ll
await message. And as yet no mes
sage had come.
Against that, however, was my
knowledge. now several years old, Of
the man whose gray suit had come
back to us with the cryptic bit of
writing stuffed into shoe.
True, Sheldon had failed to pick up
any trail leading to the mysterious
Kim Lee; but I could only admit in
fairness that the colonePs methods ga.
vored too much of brute directness to
avail against the secretiveness of the
people he had questioned. Certainly
Semi Dual would not have written
that name without well-founded
knowledge upon which to proceed.
The best answer / could find, then,
was that there really was a Kim Lee,
and that Semi Dual and he were some
where under cover, with hands on the
pulse of affairs.
The thought steadied me yet furth-
er. looked up at the flushed face of
the old fire-eater before me and shook
my head.
Colonel" said ], II do not be-
lieve this is the time for us to mix in.
The Lord knows I wouldn't spare any
effort TO save the girl who gave us
such noble assistance; but IL turning
Reich and the woman loose will save
her, they hsve Doubtless told Connel
as much and he will do 1t without any
urGiro from me. He said as much this
mornirg."
To he Conrinuah.