Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-09
I'll
The Palace
of Darkened.
Windows
'.,Ah--Behill."

"Ah-Behill."
MOB. Hill. The B is an initial"
''0f what?" said the other casual
ly. and Bily's cheeks grew sudden
~ warm.
"Of my middle name" said he,
with steady composure. IF we are to
do any teamwork you will have to
let it go at the William and the HILL"
What teamwork do you sug-
gest?"
Find out where she went yester-
day. Find out where she is now.
What worries me-" he burst out, with
untsoveFnable uneasiness, yet with q
hint Of humor at his own extrava-
gait lmaginings, rs her talking to
that Turk fellow yesterday-that
Captain kerissen, I think she called
him. She had told me the night be-
fore that he was going to get her
sorae ball tickets Or other, and /
didn't think anything of it, but yes
teraay l thought he had his nerve
to come and call upon her. You see
| passed thru the hall and saw them
talking. l went out to the yernnda
and after he had gone l came in
again, but she was nowhere in sight
Then I went back to the veranda,
and in a few moments she came out
in white with a rose on her hat. and
went off in car that was ready. OF
course Kerissen wasn't in the car
and haven't any proof Of his con-
net'tion with the thing, but he might
easily have induced her to look at
sorae mosque or other off the beaten
ira ck-
But she returned. for later she
| sent that telegram from the station"
Falconer argued
BILLY was silent. Then he burst
out. but all the same there is q
mystery to this thing. She
she's too confoundedly young and
pretty to run around alone in this
painted Jade OF q city"
This city has law and order
much moro OF them than there are
in your national hotbeds of robbery
and murder"
"H'm-well. don't hold any brief
for Chicago suppose Chicago 10
the target--so, won't defend that
But I've heard stories"
Queer ones, should say"
"Devilish queer ones! *, How
about that young Monkton or Monk
house who dropped out Of things last
wiilter?"
T'alconer looked annoyed. "oh,
there are rumors-"
Yes. rumors that he f1irted with
2 Turkish lady-that he was on
horseback just outside her carriage
during the jam at the Kasr-el-Nil
bridge. and they looked and smiled
ana afterwards met in q shop. And
rulnors that she gave him rendez-
yols at her home and that he told
an other man about 1t at the club.
WHO warned him sharply, and he on
~ laughed. But it's no rumor
that he disappeared. He's gone, all
right, and nobody knows where he
went, and nobody seems to want to
know. Officially they said he was
drowned out swimming-or lost in q
sandstorm riding in the desert-or
spiked on top OF an obelisk or some
thing equally reasonableAbut pri-
vately, people say other things.
NC international law intrudes into
tho Turkish woman question"
what Of TT" Fafconer looked
stubborn. Il dare say the fellows re-
ceived his deserts. But the
case hardly applies-whatY'
WELT makes one feel that any
thing can happen here-that the
city is quicksand where a chance
step would engulf one" Billy stared
frowningly out on the vivid street
ahead Of him. A pretty English
BRIDE and her soldier husband were
out exercising their dogs. Two ladies
in victoria were advertising their
toIlettes, q blond baby toddled past
with his black nurse. 1t was all very
peaceful and charming. It did not
look like quicksand. Into the
pi,ture came a one-eyed man with a
stuffed crocodile on his head, stalk
ing slowly along, scanning the We
ra nda with his single, penetrating
eye. calling his wares in harsh gut
turals, and with him came suddenly
the sense of that strange background
be fore which all this bright tourist
life was played, that dark watching,
secret East, curious and incaIculable
Falconer folded his paper with a
sharp crackle that recalled young
Hills wandering thought. "That's all
very we'll, but it doesn't apply" he
Observed, with conviction.
Then where is she?" Billy was
bluntly belligerent.
The other put his paper in his
pocket. In Alexandria, to be sure
ard not at all pleased, either, to have
you bring her name into such ques-
tioning." He looked squarely at Bill
ly as he said that, and the eyes of
the two young men met and ex-
changed secret challenge of hostil-
ity.
BILLY rose. "Oh, all right" he re-
turned. Il daresay 1 am as much a
fool as you take me for. She
may be all right. But If not-I
thought I'd give you chance to
take hand In it,
| 1.-THE sporting chance" said Fall
coner, with an appreciable smile
I'm much obliged-but 7 don't at all
share your nisgivings &. And
what in the world do you propose to
do about it?"
For minute Billys gaze blankly
in terrogated the sunlit distances. His