The Washington times., 1920-09-20
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Directed by George d. Baker
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BY Jane Mclean.

((CTOP that" cried Mabel, is
- suing from a dressing
room, and as the two EN-
barrassed young people separated.
Jimmie sought TO cover his con-
fusion by a little coup he had
planned the night before:
See these" he asked. holding
out TO his sister. a theatre envelope,
"tWo tickets for a matinee for you
and Dad-and for me and Alice an
Afternoon strictly by ourselves In
Central Park.
Mabel laughed. That's a nice
way to improve your visit TO the
greatest city OF the world" she
said. There are parks all over the
country"
Alice looked up and smiled-she
was opening various mysterious
bundles and spreading out the con-
tents.
And watching her with eyes
slight with greed and cunning was
Joe Hasdock kneeling on the mat
at the DIOR that separated her room
and the girls.
She had seen Jimmie embrace tho
girl he was to marry. and she had
seen the look of alteration in her
daughters eyes, and her only COM
ment was a smothered pretty soft
for me-"
tf she felt shred OF maternal
Affection as she saw this scene OF
loNemaking she did not show 1t;
her heart did not beat a stroke the
faster as she looked on the lovely
Young woman for whom by every
law OF nature she should have been
willing to make any sacrifice.
Instead, she looked on her as le-
ultimate prey thrown in her path
by the angel of darkness who
sometimes makes things easy for
souls as lost as his own.
She rose noiselessly from hel
vantage point as Jimmie left the
room and. settling herself in an
casychair, began to rock back and
forth. reading a magazine and nib
bling a chocolate.
So far there had not been a hitch
In the plan she had mapped out. nor
the smallest suggestion of cloud
on the horizon. -satisfaction
filled her being; she rocked con-
tentedly.
a slight rustling sound caused
her to stop; sound as though
mouse was scratching at the floor
vas not a mouse but an envelope
being thrust under the door. She
paused a little worried, but only
tor a second. Some one had mis-
taken her door for another's, per.
haps for the door of Alice. Here
was another treasure trove. Good
luck is coming my way" said Joe,
rising and picking up the white
enyelone curioulsy
mo, it was for her; properly ad-
dressed in a hand that seemed ia
miliar.
Mrs. Josephine Hasdock." she
read, a little uneasily now. and
opened the envelope with uncer-
tainty. 80.
Within, a blank sheet of hotel sta
tionery. She turned it over again
and again. Nothing was written On
either side. This was puzzling. She
stood there, frightened, then walked
back to her chair and crumpling up
the paper tossed 1t into the waste
basket
But her self-confidencc was gone.
Here was a mystery with an alarm
ing note in it. She picked up an
other bit Of candy; then, with hor-
ror depicted in her eyes, paused with
the sweet nalI way 10 Her. upS- Whdt
was that strange odor? She stared
st the candy-"Helliotrop NUT
tered. and let the chocolate fall.
Who had sent the note? Who had
dropped the perfume on the candy?
She rushed to the door, and opening
it peered up and down the hall No
one was visible. She removed the
key from the outside and locking
the door on the inside sat down,
trembling. to think.
She rose and walked, and to every
suggestion that cropped UP in her
fevered brain there was but one an
swer-Heliotrope Harry.
But he could not have done it
he was safe--safe behind prison bars
for life. No--she stopped short
not Heliotrope Harry, bpt Spike Folsy
acting for him. She laughed nervous
ly and again sat down. reached over
to the waste basket and tore up the
offending envelope and its blank en-
closure.
Josephine Hadsdock was wrong in
her surmise as to the identity OF