The spectator., 1920-09-21

asleep.
 My! my! You went after him-all aloneT'
 Amy blushed and hurrledly ex- | plained: He told me he would go raving crazy if they kept him shut up; so what else could do? We had 1t all | arranged. As soon as the moon went | down, he climbed from his window and l brought him home." Poor Mir. Will! Of course If he would have gone crazy. you done just | right. dearie."
 I'm so glad you think so, because you must help me keep him hid. else they'll come and take him back there. or maybe to jail"
 Tillie cogitated, and replied: "Theres that place In the attic where you and him used to play robbers cave"
 Just the thing. We'll fix 1t up at once. Maybe, though. they'll only ask if he is here. Go and see if he No. keep away, so if they come you can tell them you haven't seen anything of him.
 After breakfast Amy found courage 10 creep upstairs to listen at Clinton's door. Hearing nothing. she slipped under the door a note asking him to remain in his room and raise his rear i shade If unable to reach Tillie in the kitchen by means of the speaking tube
 She returned downstairs to help Tillie do up" the mornings work. but soon cajoled her out into the garden. Hardly were they out of the house when the telephone rang. The call not being answered, the ring was re- peated. not once. but fully half dozen times. at frequent intervals. Blissful ly ignorant of the impatient calls Amy. with hands safeguaried from thorns by leather gauntlet gloves. was training the rose-laden vines over the lattice of her summer house. Tillie supported the stepladder and handed up ties of soft twiae.
 After time the telephone renewed its impatient summons. The garden CTS worked on. oblivious. Presently the telephone was re-enforced by the sharper ring of the doorbell. The re- suit was the same. Three times the bells rang. more or less in unison. Still no response: still Amy remained intent on her thorny blossomy task, with only an occasional glance upward at the rear window of her brothers bedroom.
 l The doorbell ceased ringing. A few moment later two persons a keen-eyed. suspicious young man and an agitated young lady, came hurryins out of the pergola into the garden.
 "There she isl" exclaimed the young lady She waved her hand and called: "O-ho, Amy"
 Amy twisted about so suddenly that she almost fell off the ladder.
 Goodness :" she whispered. "lt's Ellen and Charlie"
 Pooh! Don't fret. We'll fool them easy" reassured Tilue.
 The girl promptly recovered her bal ance and her aplomb, and called ban teringly: "Oh, is it really you? You must be going for a foothill motor drive to be out at this unearthly hour IL almost tumbled me over to see you" | "Then you haven't heard, dear" ex- claimed Ellen.
 Your brother has escaped from the sanitarium," Bemm bluntly stated the news.
 | Amy threw up her hands in realis- | tic stage conSternation. "EScaped? Will escaped? Oh! oh! Has he gone daft again? How? Where did he go? When was 1t? Oh, dear! Wandering about. in his condition ,' | Hasn't he come home?" l "Home," scoffed Tillie. Don't you know anything about crazy folkst Don't you know they always try to get away from their relations? Didn't he want to run away from home the very first night he came?"
 Indeed, yes" agreed Ellen. You re- member he even knocked you down, hc was SO violent"
 | Bemm's face darkened. Hes bit too violent The next time we'll put him where he can't get out"
 "WeT" Queried Amy. "His-er-friends." Bemm hastened to explain. Hen be apt to do himself harm. y know. if he's allowed to run loose"
 Before he is cured" added Ellen.
 Amy raised her flushed face. That most eminent of scientists-Charles Darwin-observed that the expression- al after-effects of spasms of fear. an l ger and mirth are remarkably similar. l There were tears in Amys reddened eyes as she looked up past Bemms l fashionable straw. Suddenly her half compressed eyelids widened-she flung | up her hand and made quick down | ward gesture.
 Bemm spun about and stared up at | the rear window of Clinton's bedroom. | fhe shade was down. but the morning l light rippled on ITS watered surface as l IT 1t were shaking. Bemm confronted | Amy.
 Your brother is In his room" he