The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-09-27

she took che calls slowly, making
hlm repeat several times, until his
voice was like cannon roar with
anger Then she set her teeth. folded
her arms and waited. Once she made
n felnt of receiving reports on the
calls and after giving the bogus in
formation cOurteOusly TO Captain
Henry recorded 1t ON the back Of the
tickets.
300 n. c, (no clrcuiD,
$40 by, (busy),
The girl beside her was watching
her curiously, How queer Jeanette
Whipple was looi;ing.
The fight was on, go called every
other breath.
Jeanette tried to keep him good
naturcd.
The intense strain was telling on
her She tried to hold herself still
and calm that she might think clearly.
She began to realize the terrible thing
that had happened.
Hut 27O was grim reality He was
calling again.
Then for over an hour she stub
hornly fought every inch Of the way.
Captain Henry was a big man and II
smart one, but he could not manage
something he did not understand. lie
had been Obliged to wait for busy
wires before this. II was nothing new
nor surprising. lie never even
dreamed that this peculiar combna-
lion Of busy wires, with other tech.
nicnl terms that sounded perfectly
proper even familiar, was due 10 II
slip of girl, One-quarter his age, in
the central telephone office Just four
blocks up the street.
The numbers danced before her
tired eyes. Her face w;sS hot with the .
excitement. But when siN o'clock .
came she had Just put up the con .
ncction between 30 9nd New York .
She had won.
She stumbled out Of her chair She
was 50 rigid she could scarcely move
She put on her hat and cloul; with
~tiiI fingers. The girls seemed 10 Shun
her, or was 1t her fancy; They must
know it, too. Everybody must know il,
Why, the world was fun of it, Rich.
lrd was a murderer. flying for his life,
md yet, So strange and untrue it
seemed that even as she said it, she
waited at the street door Il minute for
MS familiar figure Then She started
lome alone.
oh, 10 know lie was safe,
She caught her breath sharply and
hurried on.
II had evidently been raining. Fhc
lark was coming early. The mist clung
q her skirts and dampened her hair.
The electric light nickrred on lit
lc pools Of wind-swept water in the
uad.
Susan met her mt the door, her kind,
isterly face placid and smiling. Then
he started
"Why, Jeanette dear what has hap,
cnedE"
But Jeanette could not speak. Some
hing was beating in her throat like
lad thing. She brushed past her and
.ent in. Susan did not shut the door.
heard her saying: Have you
yo been quarreling?"
Who was Susan talking to? 4 mans
picp answered. 4
"It does look like it," he said "She q
IS been over block ahead Of me all
Ic way. going like Il race horse" q
Richard" A
She turned back to the door and d
led to call his name, but it was only IL
gasp. Then he caught her q
Sweetheart, has someone been Il
tightening you? Why. Jeanette b
hy. Jeanette"
It of the darkness that threatened to e
gulf her.
"Thc murder, Richard. yOu-" n
He lifted her up into his arms and, n
rrying her in, sat down in the big, H.
Fashioned rocker with her.
"rhers, there, child. It's all right. b'
anette. Nash FarnSworth shot Lath- ca
p, but hc is not going to die, though W
ny thought he was at first. Did you "
t it wrong? II was mixed at first, o.
the excitement. Did they tell you It
IS Richard Nash who did il? His
st name being my last one. and de- a
Upton being rather alike, did make po
little bother. He got away, guess. he
imagine he got that four O'Clock ne
in. Why, little girl, YOU could not mt
nix it was | who shot him, could itt
u"
And in the hush, while Susan got
Dper. and the light from the fire
we'd on the walls. the rocking chair
aged gently with its burden, while
told him how she had played the arc
t Of Fate to Il man She never saw.
after she was quite herself again
looked at her sOlemnly and shook
head. for
It's just as the poets and phlosO- bla
rs always tell us he said. "A to
door hangs on a little hinge. 1t 7
es II woman TO fool man, every All
e, and to save one. too, God bless
even if it did not happen to be
les,
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