The Ordway new era., 1920-03-12
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II a
fiosery store and bought m INK eraser.
fr. Mann passes5 the coor and glanced
IN. roo,iones hIrn 10 walt but 5e pre-
tended not 10 see. He was some dis
rsDee zhezf when I came 0Er- 1 ran
after him and caught op-
I'D hurt yOf, very batiJS- asked
-So-not yery.- be sasxered- eJtng
me narrowly. I'm afraid you're Civ
ing JorrseIf too much concern ose-
1.-THE ser5denf.- He was. ! saT. be
ginning 10 wonder which Of Us -as fol-
iozfnz which.
no. said quietly. I'm not giving
nJsek the least concern oser your
sfepped-On fOe-rr1 simply using It as
an excuse 10 get gooc look at you In
, various llzt.s 50 III know Jou again
in any possIbie tlssuise you may ar
sumo
hare always regarded that episode
| and those last Sords-as a stroke Of
genius on my part. II do say it, II
came TO me On the spur Of the moment
SifbOuf thinking about IT. and nearly
I borled Mr. Man over. Before he had
decided what TO say. or what TO do 10
sliay my suspicion of him. I boiled
across the street. diagonaIIy. dUekef
between Two trolley carr. one Of which
hid me from view long enough for me
! dashed Into the telephone booth and
called Up Mrs. DeIsrio.
had considerable difficulty In get
ting her and ] felt every second YVES
precious. Ny detective man was iprk.
ing about somewhere looking for me.
and I rather guessed she had one
watching her. siy suspIcions seemed
confirmed. for the moment she recog-
nized my voice she said. Il can't talk
70 yon." In a tragic Determined sort Of
way and I felt her In the act Of hang
Ing up.
'-wsitr- shouted perempforiiy.
-wby can't you talk to me? Are yon
~stched7 Is everything you say oTer-
heardY-
Yes"
IAN right-shen I'll do the talking.
You ran answer yes and no. can't
your"
Yes"
-wen. we're both in the same boat
I'm watched iOo-foiio9ed by detec-
tive This IL the first chance I've had
70 get you and don't know how soon
I'll be able 70 get you again. Is your
house wafehedl-
Yes
Gould ! run fIis biockade1"
"So," This was fairly shouted at
me.
"Is there any way / could get those
articles dack fo vou foIavT-
'No-noBe Rhateyer now. So-not
under any consideration
Couldn't you come up and get
theInT'
"No-of course not
Couldn't you send up?"
Whom could send; Impossible
totally impossible" Her tone was 40
emphatic THAT knew there was moth
Ing 10 be hoped for in that quarter.
felt she WAS about to ring OF and
lenve the with that and shouted at her:
"Here-hoId oni don't know what
to do--you'll have to advise me-"
But can'ti You must do as you
think best-you understand it,"
81 d0n'tl That's just the trouble.
Listen. There are some things I've got
to know about. You keep ON answer
Ing yes and no--tbnt isn't going to give
anything away ut your end. and I'm In
drug store and / don't think any
thing Will get out from this end. =
You knew ] was at your house yester-
day7"
"Yes-after you had left"
"You knew ] was accused? And that
I denied everyihlng?"
IL thought II hnppered that wny-I
wasn't sure"
"were you accused. tooT"
"Yes."
''Of the same thing"
Il presume so"
-Yon denied everytiiins?"
absolutely"
"Sow l really must know this-did
you bring those articles In yourseIf?"
"Ycs"
"You sad n friend did"
"weIi-I didn't feel I could explain
at the time. There were circumstances
connected with 1t"
AT The time we crossed tog ether-
this last trlpfv
"Yes. Can't you see how things have
been worked? II I'd followed my in
tuitIons. shouldn't nave allowed"
THE girl to come with you?"
Eyes II was planned"
"wnit There's another thing want
to know"
"I'il tell you later
"No--now. How did they get through
the"
~ cant tell you"
"But must know-lt's matter Of
great importance TO me-"
"One Of those slippers we bought In