Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-24
I The
abandoned
I Room
By WADSWORTH CAMP
AUTHOR OF
.THE HOUSE OF FEAR"
WARS DARK FRAME" ETC.
CHAPTER III.
By WADSWORTH CAMP

CHAPTER III.
"rli be in the next room. Bobby. Il
rou're restless or need me you've
My to knock on the WALL
Bobby didn't leave the library VIII
hem. The warmth with whicf
katherine had just filled him faded
y he watched her go out side BY
de with Graham. Her hand was or
Sra hams arm. There was. he fan
eed. In her eyes an emotion deeper
Ian gratitude or friendship. he
arhed as the door closed behind
hem. He was himself largely &c
blame for that situation. His very
.eyolt against its imminence had
fastened its shaping.
He walked anxiously 10 the table
Ie had remembered the medicine
Doctor Groom had prepared for him
hat afternoon 70 make him sleep
1e hadn't taken 1t then. If 1t re-
NAMED where he had left II. which
sas likely enough in the disordered
rate Of the household. he would
rink Il now. Reinforced by his COM
,lete WEAKNESS, It ought to send him
INTO \ sieep profound enough to
rown any possible abnormal i'm
,ulses Of Inconsistencies
Tho glass was there. He drained
z and stood for a time looking at
M pir1ish sediment in the bottom.
That was all right for tonight, put
.fterward--he couldn't shrink per
,eu,aily from sleep. He shrugged
liz shoulders, remembering It would
make little differences What ha did in
iii sleep when they had him behind
Prison barn. Perhaps this would be
liz Last night OF freedom.
He found Paroles still IN the hall.
The Panamanian, with languid ges-
urea continued to play his solitaire.
lis box OF cigarets was much re-
luced
II thouxhs you were tired, Carlos"
Paredss glanced up. His eyes were
,either weary nor alert AS usual
ria EXPRESSION disclosed nothing OF
lis thoughts, yet he must have read
a Bobby's tone a reproach at this
Indifference.
"The game intrigues me-" he muir
nured, "and you know" he added
lreamily. IT sometimes think better
While amuse myself"
Bobby nodded goodnight and went
IN IN to his room. Even while he
,ndressed the effects Of the doctors
,arcotic were perceptible. His eyes
lad grown heavy, his brain a trine
numb
Almost alphabetically he assured
himself that be couldn't accomplish
hese mad actions in his sleep.
yet last night he murmured
That finishes me in the eyes Of the
aw The doctor will TESTIFY TO
lphasia. According to him l am two
nen-two men,"
He yawned, recalling snatches OF
books he had read and one or two
scientific reports Of such cases. He
climbed into bed and blew out his
.andle. His drowsiness thickened. In
lis duIled mind one recollection re-
NAMED the picture of Howells coldly
.hallenging him with his level smile
o make a secret entrance Of the old
bedroom in a murderous effort to
,scape the penalty of the earlier
rhine. And Howells had been right
His death would give Bobby a
chance. The destruction Of the evil
lence, the bringing into the case OF
Predetermined man, man with
,ut q carefully constructed theory
i'll that would help Bobby, might
ave him. Howells, moreover, had
Indicated that he had 50 far with
,eld his evidence. But that was
probably q bait.
In his drowsy way Bobby hated
moro powerfully than before this de-
tecfive who, with d serene maievo-
ence, made him writhe in his net
rhougi,t ceased. He drifted into a
trance-like sleep. He swung in the
black pit again. fighting out against
brushing odds. The darkness thun-
tered as tho Informing him that
graveS forces than any he had ever
imagined had definitely Erasped him
Then he understood. He was in a
blaS,G cell, and the laundering was
The steady advance Of men along an
IRON door to take him
'.Bobbyt Bobbyl"
He 1Inng out his hands. He sat
Upright opening his eyes. The
Alacieness assumed the familiar
Yielding quality Of the night The
lht7ndeN thu footballs, became a bur-
lfoA knocking at his door.
sDobbyi You're there" It was
lCA4hsrins. Her tone made the night
- frightening as tho blackness o.
Ihe pit
essUhAfAn the n1atter?'
You're there. didn't know. &c,
%. Hartleys putting some clothes
bn- Hurry! The house is so dark
10 strange"
Tell me what's happened"
She didn't answer at first. He
truck q match, lighted his candle
threw on a dressing gown, and step
"a 70 the door. Katherine shrank
hsainst the wall, hiding her eyes
IrOm The light OF his candle. He
thought II odd she should wear the
lroe0 In which she had appeared al
MINER. But 1t seemed indifferently
eastened, and her hair was in dis
brdsr, Graham stepped from his
loom
What 10 TT" Bobby demanded.
You wouldn't wake up. Bobby
lou were 20 hard to wake" The
dea SEEMED to I'LL her mind. She
epeated II several times.
ITS nothing" Graham said go
ok TO your room, Katherine. she's
Nnciful--"
She lowered her hands. Her eyes
1870 full Of terror. mo. We have
10 70 that room as went last
light - We went today"
Graham tried to quiet her. ''We'll
to satisfy you"
Her voice hardened. II know.