The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-08
OUTSIDE THE LAW
By STUAR RIVERS Co-author of Glove Afr airs of a Lonely Woman"

, ease. Thought you did, guess. Come | here, I'll show you'' l She led the way into the outer room and Frances followed until they were | half way up the stairs leading to the floor above.
 | Now" the woman went on, pausing and turning. "Try to get back into that room we just left
 1 Incredulity was large in Frances eyes as she gazed curiously into the others S | face. You mean to say" she began. but her companion interrupted with a laugh
 GO ahead: try it." she exclaimed. | A moment longer Frances hesitated, l then walked down the steps and opened the door through which they had just 1 come. To her utter anlazement she faced | a room totally different than the one l they had left It was presumedly the | kitchen of the establishment, for big range occupied the wall between the win dows that looked out across the wooded 1 valley.
 l Mother sarahs laugh again sounded | from the stairs and Frances turned to find her immense form qualing in silent | amusement
 | Slick she gasped breathlessly, the girl gaped around at her surroundings. hardly ready to believe the evidence of her own senses. You can't beat Alack for bein slick He built it. Now how do you suppose you'd get back into that
 other room?''
 "I don't know" Frances confessed. How would you?"
 Look here," Mother Sarah explained Isuddenly turning and resting one hand
 against the wall. Come here. I'll shny you. Feel right there Feel two l'.''' bumps? We'll you press the first one and you can walk downstairs and go into
  go into the room where the old woman lis"
 "But why?' Frances insisted Its the same door"
 Looks like the same door, Mother
 Sarah corrected with another fit oi
 chuckling. "Watch.'
 As she spoke her finger pressed the
 wall over the spot she had indicated and
 Frances, staring at ihe foot of the steps
 saw the floor, the walls and door move
 silently out of sight. to be replaced by a
 second floor, a second set of walls and
 a second door, exactly like the first.
 "The whole wall moves with it. the
 woman exclaimed, waddling back dowr the stairs and entering the cellar-like room in which Frances first found her self. "See?" She pointed to the flool and for the first time Frances noticed g series of groove-like tracks. These wall: are made of solid concrete the other continued With SatlSfled nod. 'On you're as safe as a bug in rug wher
 you get down here'
 Frances face was a picture of puzzled
 astonishment, but her wonder originated not so much from the clever device sh' has just witnessed, but that she ant Judge Crane had managed to effect thei
 escape that other time when she hat found herself shut in this same place. 1 "I wonder If we were really in thi , room?" she unused to herself It wa
 not exactly familiar. true there was { telephone instrument standing in tn, I middle of the table, but-no she decided she couldn't be sure She had viewed the place before under circumstances to- peculiar.
 I don't know how you feel dearies, Mother Sarahs voice broke into Frances reflections, "but I'm about starved out You go in and watch the old woman an. I'll scare up something to eat. I guess, she added as an afterthought, .Id bette l show you what to do if she hollers'' | AS she finished speaking she passe, into the inner room and paused by tn comfortable.
 | Give her shot of this'' she ex claimed. holding up a small bottle an, a hypodermic syringe. This keeps he quiet. Otherwise she yells her head off i Frances nodded. a sudden exultatio | | qrickening her heart. That bottle ha, II presented the first means of saving Mrs H Darrow
 H Gro Be Continued Tomorrowo l Copyright, 1920, Thompson Feature HI Service.)