Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-07-03

He soon ound out Before he
knew how she had managed il she
was standing on the railing between
the two houses. Then she reached
as far as she could up one of the
wooden pillars supporting the porch
roof and drew herself upward.
The ease and grace with which she
went III the pillar seemed to the
astonished young man something
superhuman. Also it was beautiful.
She caught the edge of the root
with her delicate white fingers and
hung there for moment perfectly
still. There was no convuisive kick.
ing, as Jack felt would have been the
case if he had attempted such feat
The girl seemed throughout to b,
mistress OF the situation.
After taking a deep breath she
eaised herself steadily. 1t was done
by sheer muscular strength. Jack
could see that her arms were as tau
as the steel-wire cables of ship in
I hurricane.
1t was all done in about three sec.
onds. At the end OF that infinite.
sinai period she had overcome every
difficulty and was standing in
triumph on the porch.
From his position at the bay win.
dow Jack Ladd could not see what
she did then. But he could distin.
guish her light footsteps on the tin
covering. Soon he heard a window
open, and he knew that she had go,
into the house.
Almost Immediately the front door
opened and she came out. Calmly
she picked up her hat, the bundle
and the bottle of milk, went inside
and closed the door.
Gee" calculated Jack. THAT was
one of the finest athletic stunts
ever saw. She wasn't even breathing
quickly. 1t never bothered her at
all. Talk about your second-s.ory
work. This beats all l ever"
If somebody all at once had stuffed
hot potato into his mouth he could
not have stopped more abruptly. |,
had come to him like shot from
gun that this expression second
story work." was in the evening
paper he had glanced over just be-
fore supper. 1t was part of the head
ing on a newspaper story of the
burglary last night, which was sup
posed to be the work of the mys-
terious two men and two women
dressed in black.
For more than minute Jack Ladd
sat there, thinking. Then he got up
and went out to the porch. Taking
his favorite seat on the railing that
separated the two houses, he stared
at the door of No. 80.
But this did not give him any help
in arriving at a conclusion. He was
about to go indoors for a cigar
when, CHANGING to glance up the
street, he saw three men and a
woman coming toward him, engaged
in earnest conversation. Something
familiar about the walk of one o.
the men made him look little
harder.
by Jove. it's dad! And those
others? If they are not"
AS the four persons came neare,
Jack went indoors to inspect them
from behind the curtains of the ba,
window. He had not been there
long before his suspicion was con-
hrmcd.
This was when they passed tho
street lamp, by the light of which
Jack had good view of the three
companions of his father. He saw
that they were the two men and
middle-aged woman in black who
with Therese made up the mysteri
GUS family next door.
His father didn't come into his
own house. He went with the others
past No. 81. where the Ladds lived.
and entered the gateway of No. 80.
There they did something that, TO
Jack, seemed queer. Instead of go.
ing into the house by the front door.
they slipped swiftly around the other
side toward the rear of the premises.
what are they going in the back
way for?" muttcrcd Jack. "And
what is dad going in at all for?"
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