Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-09

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4 Going mad in this
room JUOuId be far
\ worse than dying.

Help me to my room" I pleaded.
4 Donna Camfllai I've been here three
days! You can imagine the condition
u my nerves I'm-T'm almost insanei'
Gonna Camilla threw a quick glance
that strange apartment and end
kIrvey with a triumphant shrug
broad shoulders.
MATT she murmured. "Others have
nd it easy to go mad-in this place.
Donna Camilla! We have always
n friends" I said. sat least, you've
avs insisted that you were my
nd" 1 protested.
Rpsalie was my child" she broke in
abruptly.
"ROsalie-your daughter7 Impossiblel
You-you are a lady, She-the girl
was mott Impossibler' I stammered.
"Nothing-of that kinds impossible
lis Mexico" she replied. Never mind
Rosalie's story. She was the child of one
Of Mexico's great rebel leaders-that IS
enough for you to know. She was my
daughter. loved her father Now she.
Is dead. You killed herI' The old wom-
an turned her face from me as if the
sight Of me was more than she could
s. bear.
at was an accident You know
God does-I never meant to hurt her or
any one else" I said. ''I am not a muir
deress-"
people go mad in this room. That
is far worse than dying, Isn't 1t, Mrs.
Lorimer?"
didn't reply, I might have to die,
but I did not have to beg anything from
that creature. I would keep still. I
would be very quiet and very watchful
/ wouldn't let move she might make
escape me. BY watching. I would dis
cover the secret spring OF the door.
"Xou Americans hate all of youi"
] the old woman flung at me. I felt as
If she were, for the first time, far nearer
to being crazy than I. ''I have the girl
you call Chrys," she raved. Don Man
uel loves her. He deserted Resale for
her. Now my girl is dead. You Ameri-
cans-you bring ruin with you to Mex
leo"
you do not understand" I said. eve
bring prosperity and happiness-if only
you had the sense to see it. It's your
own obstinacy-"
Donna Camilla interrupted me with I'M
patience.
'Bread-rn bring that to you-and
somebody you're mighty anxious to see,'
she added.
gs@A.Who?"
Zone who is already a little mad" she
replied. Then she walked straight up
to the panel above which hung my in
visible horseshoe. 1t opened before her
as If by magici She passed through
and it closed with q snap
Then I walked up to the door exactly
as she had done, but it didn't open the
Z width Of a crack for met I surveyed
the carved buds and twigs Of its frame
8 work. Not single spot had been robbed
& of its color by the pressure of fingers
II II was most bewilderirgl
I dared not undertake. the making OF
the rope which was to help the ranchers
imprisoned below me- dared not speak
to them until after the old woman had
brought the food.
She was gone, perhaps half an hour
Looking up suddenly, l saw Chrys be-
!. nilla.
- Don't come in Go backr I calico
I. But Chrys didn't understand. Per
S she was under q hypnotic spell.
came straight toward me holding
both hands and smiling amiably.
"a. Camilla set down a huge basket
disappeared.
- put my arms about Chrys and cried
kept on smiling like a little child
e was a child-a woman without
hl.
ia 'I'm afraid my luck is changing"
thought eff I could have one wish
come true-and only one-I know what
it would be: I'd wish for Prince Charm
Ing to come and wake this Sleeping
Beauty
How could guess that Prince Charm
ing was already on his way?-Copyright
1919.
Ito Be COntinued.)