Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-17
CONFESSIONS
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I Hear Bob Is Entombed in the Ha-
cienda by the Earthquake.

I Hear Bob Is Entombed in the Ha-
cienda by the Earthquake.
Something dreadful has happened to
Bob. know. 7 continued with a calm
ness which astonished myself And I
think DR.. Spence. that you wanted to get
me safely on the yacht with Daddy be
fore you told me- That is now In,i,os-
sible. So please tell me at once. Tell
ME be truth. Jordan Spence. YOU cont
know me. | viii not faint will not
scream Will not have Mysteries -nu
matter how dreadful your news may he"
81 am sure you are a brave little WON
an, Mrs. Lorimer,' Spence said. but in
stead Of looking a. me while he talked.
he looked at Tr3vers, quite helpiessly.
Even in the midst of my suspense it oc-
CURED to me that men are often Gu
riously helpless in tine intimate social
relations Jordan Spence was ono of
the cGuntrys most famous medical men.
He must have been the bearer Of bad
news to hundreds OF human beings i'm
his time and nOhsdy couII doubt that he
had bestowed his honest sympathy rs
we'll as his skin upon strangers in need
Of it. Nevertheless he was finding it al-
most impossible to toll me- the worst
about his friend, my hgspan1.
Go on, DO not be afraid to tell me
everythIne.' I murmured.
Bob went with Donua Camilla to the
secret chamber. That WAS the 1as,
saw OF him. That was after we had
found your sister-whieh is quite another
story. Bob and I we're always prepar-
Ing each other for any emergency He
had instructed me to get his sister away
from the hacienda without delay. He
went with Donna Camilla to lie paneled
room-where Certeis was hitlden-''
and Bob did not return? And you
knew-you must have known-that that
fierce old woman was ready to xiii ally
American
That is not the fear which tortureS
mo. Mrs. Iorimer. The earthquake
reached its climax within FIVE minutes
after your husband left us Your sister
In law and were in the auto We felt
the earth tremblc-we saw walls crum-
BILE about us-we heard the crash Of fail
ing rOofs-the tower of the old church
wavered and fattened out in Z mass Of
sand and gravel. The bells GLANCED
sharply as if they were crying out against
their own destruction" Jordan Spent
went on spinning out his words in order
TO delay telling me the truth about Bob
] shiyered and Trayers leaned over and
pulled rug closer about me-
II went over the ruins. Mrs. Lortmer
as soon rs the earth was s.ill again. I
got working gang together We could
locate the secret chamber. but We couldn't
get into it. The walls still stand. like
prison walls, Mrs. Lorimcr. That little
room was originally a fort, 1t seems aud,
made to last forever"
Don't be frightened, Mrs Lorimer."
broke in Travers. Prom what Spence
says. feel sure that Bob is not dead. lie
is simply immured with Certeis and the
old woman"
Nobody about the place has the least
idea how to get into it," Spence con
tinued. The quake seemed to have
shaken the brains out Of the Mexicans
And the earthquake had heaped up
mounds of debris all around the secret
chamber $50 that even Donna Camilla
couldn't get out through any of the pam
els which slide so mysterlously in the
walls. | had to abandon my plan 20 res
cue Bob at once. Don't blame me, Mrs
LOrimer. Miss Lorimer's condition was
such that | had to get her to the coast
and to her father. decided to make the
effort. What disaster followed, you al
ready know. Be assured that as soon rs
We get ashore, | am going pack to the
hacienda for your husband.
And Lam goinG With you, Or Spence,
| said.-C Copyright, 1920
('To BE C0ntinucdD.