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"Miss Malone: Your baseball play
ing lover has another girl. II you
doubt II, watch at the Wilton Inn to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock. A
Friend"
An anonymous letterl Despicnble
refuge of evil-intentioned mischief
makers.
II don't want to spy on Bert, but
can't bear to have him think he is
held II he wants to be free of me
-. And we had the dining-room
furniture picked out I" sobbed the girl.
l tried to reassure her. swell, /
hope some day you will invite me to
lunch off the dining-room table. We
will have to rise above this letter.
Maybe 1t is some silly jokester who
sent it; in that case don't let him
have the JOY of laughing at your
misery.
"If it was meant to make you sus-
pect your lover. just prove your faith
either by forgetting 1t entirely OF by
showing 1t to him and assuring him
that it had no effect on you. Anony-
nous letters are generally as untruth-
full as they are cowardly, Miss Why.
you are almost anonymous yourself I"
Il did forget to introduce myself !"
laughed the girl. swell, I'm no one
in particular-just Rita Malone. very
much at your service. But my boy is
a celebrity. He is Bert Kerrigan, star
pitcher of the Giants. May / intro
duce you to him at the Polo Grounds
tomorrow"
Rita Malone seemed restored to
faith when she left me. II 1t had
been more than seems" l should
have no story to tell!
When Jimmy came in to pay his
respects the next morning gloom still
had possession of him. Since 1
couldn't quite understand his view
point, l made no attempt to discuss
it, but instead tried the cheering eff
feet of bit of gossip.
1.-The pretty girl you so cavalierly
ignored yesterday afternoon was Bert
Kerrigan's fiancee. Nov, aren't you
sorry you didn't try to make friends
in high places?"
That simple remark had rather
dismiss all consideration of his own
affairs for a very earnest considera-
ton of my bit of news.
"What did she want? Why didn't
you tell me?" began Mr.. Barton ex-
citedly and his interest showed no
signs of waning when 1 found Rlta's
letter and showed 1t to him. He read
1t with more care than that ill-written
anonymous epistle seemed to deserve
upon me with an mir of generalship
more in keeping with J. B. and his
previous manner of gloom.
"Call her up. Tell her not to go.
It's trap" he calculated so forcibly
that Immediately 1 was constrained
to make every effort to obey.
found Mrs. Patrick Malone's num-
Der in the telephone book and asked
Mollie to get it quickly. A moment
later a voice with bit of the brogue
Informed me that this was Mrs Ma
lone but that Rita had gone out.
why, bless your heart, dearie, she
didn't tell me where she was goin'
at all. She just came out on the porch
where 1 was settin' spell ago and
when she started away, asked her
where she was goln', and Rita says
to me, ON important business and
that's not at all the way she's after
treatin' her mother generally.
"And the worst of it is, just after
she went, the phone rang and her
young man wanted to speak to her
too. When I'm after tellin' him that
she isn't here, but had to go and meet
someone, he seemed almost us ex-
cited as you are, now, Miss. I don't
understand 1t and I'll thank you If
you be explainin'."
In the interests of her daughters
fate had to leave Mrs. Malones re-
quest unanswered for the present.
well, Jimmy, you may have gath
cred from my manner that / wasn't
talking to our pretty little Rita" said
l. ut was her mother and Mrs. Ma
lone informs me that her daughter
has left the house without. any word
as to her destination. In other words,
she's gone"
All animation was Jimmy now.
II IS trup, tel you, MISS talr-
fax. We've got to find that girl and
do it quickly. Martin O'Day has a
hand in this and I'm thinking his
other hand is on the ticker. Certain
ly 1t is trap"
On the day before the benefit game
ODay and two of his most trusty
minions We're in secret conclave In
that office in the rear of his saloon
They had met to consider the weighty
problem of how to beat the game
tomorrow.
'Kerrigan is the only man that
can beat the Yanks. If we dispose
Of him, we can safely play the Yanks
| fo win " said O'nav