Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-25
The Lady of the Mqht Wind
epyrlFht 1919. by the Public Ledger Go
THIS STARTS THE STORY

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fountry home of Katherine and
Binkham Harvard. Among the
<uesfs is one Conrad Belknap.
katherine discovers him cheating at
chrds. Convinced that he is conceal
Ink his real identity and that he is
Z $nere for some ulterior purpose,
Katherine determines to ferret out
Ahe mystery. She has formerly had
Iexperience as police headquarters
|detcctive and has been known as
Lady Kate Of the Police. She in
tercepts telephone call Of Bel
sknap's to woman confederate
named Roberta, and. in turn. speaks
tn the woman. Realizing that he is
xuspected by Katherine, Belknap
ifhreatens TO accuse of crime her
brother, Roderick Maxwilton, who
Is believed to be dead. Bingham
Harvard, who once bore the title of
the Night Wind, becomes suspicious
of Belknap apd of Katherine's ntti-
fuJr toward him. Roberta arrives
on the scene under the name of Sc
jpoiita CervanteS, pianist, who vs.
to entertain the guests. At mid
night Katherine discovers Roberta in
the grounds with strange man
whom she believes to be her sup
poscdly dead brother Roderick. Bel
knap accuses Roberta Of decciving
him. She admits the presence of
R6derick. Her love for him is re-
-eh1ed. Katherine's father suspects
fffiat Belknap is really named Beld-
= Ing. A man named Bclding once was
banged for numbering his wife. n
Il tchild survived. 4 stranger named
fCarruthers, with a scar on his face.
4 comes 70 the house. lie is believed
10 be Brainard, of the Secret Serv-
ice. Katherine agrees to hide Bel
Iknap in case the occasion demands it.
AND HERE 1T CONTINUES
sSTTERE is a letter of yours that l
found under your balcony Bing-
bEid to her while they were on their
way back, giving it into her hand. 1T
IS the one your mother sent, announc
ing the time of her arrival. y
"Oh, yes." Katherine replied without
surprise. 'I was using it as book
mark Saturday. think il must
have dropped out; thank you.
I Bing regarded her partly averted face
10 silence, vaguely disturbed.
( He had hoped that with the produc-
ION and return of the letter that had
ropped from her balcony when Belknap
lad 30 startled her Saturday night, she
would have something to say, some
thing to tell him, about the circum
stances, but she said nothing.
The other paper that he had taken
lrom Belknap on that occasion had been
10 more enlightening.
Bing had puzzled over it so much
Dince it SO strangely came into his pos
session, that he had learned it by heart,
md while he covertly watched his wife.
Ae repeated il in thought. 1t was:
When every arm resists entirely,
We are then concerned how effort,
done before endeavor, will award re-
sbellion's end.
Such had been the senorita' s message
b Besknap that she had deliberately
so II had seemed-dropped into his out
1txetched hand from her balcony, Satur-
Gay midnight. 1t had the appearance
of q meaningless quotation, and the
more Birg thought it over, the more in =
-d' md he became to consider it in much
3 same light as the old letter that
d dropped from Katherine's balcony
ian. accident.
Yet, deep down inside OF him he knew
Mat that was not so, and the thing
that puzzled him most while he rode on
La silence beside Katherine, was the
fact that she did not tell him about the
for appearance of Belknap be
neat her window that night.
~ srow does Mr.. Carruthers impress
Katherine?'' he asked her pres
he impresses me very strongly,
replied, "but just what that i'm
zion Is l don't know. am very
d inclined to like him, " that is
you mean, Bingham.
les; that Is what mean he re
ed.
.bruptly Katherine changed the sub
why didn't you bring Senorita Ger
ites with you today" she asked
IN BuIpTlb6u uOi " sCc i'i ~ SS'
mic. Did you forget to ask herr
s.No. I asked her. She Whispered
ito nv ear, in that breathless way o.
len. that she hoped would make hel
sxcnses 10 you, and clean forgot to dc
|it.o
was she present when Mr.. Car.
ruthers arrived? Did she meet him?
"she was on the veranda when h'
Drove In with Miriam, but she went in
|side while they were getting out Of th'
sr.'
ling drove homerather slowly. They
been the last to iesye the old mil
where they had picnicked. They were
nearly half an hour behind the Others
An returning. When Katherine ascendec
the steps to the veranda, almost the hrs'
thing that she noticed was the fact thai
Roberta was seated on chair at on
Garner Of II while Carruthers was lean
fng against the rail directly in from
Of her.
Belknap came out through one Of th'
w}ndows at that moment, and the fact
a his APPEARANCE at just that instant
Ixsayinced Katherine that he had beer
ustchinE the two from inside of th'
room.
Tho Signal
u1HE cool eifrontery of Conrad Belk
Il mao and his utter Indifference tc
.,,,,ss sauenees were never better exempli
sd than by a Ito Katherine) startling
snisoda that occurred In the evening o.
that day.