The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
HE BRID DGEPORT TIMES MAGAZINE PAGE
When A Civ
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By ANN LESLIE.
CHAPTER CLXvII.

seizing Phoebe by the elbows sln z swinging her into the place nexY te our trip to Chinatown
 Again Dick West glowered. but be- fore long his rumbling laughter seern' ed to convey the ides. that Eyvvy was managing to cheer him up asj they sli huddied so far in one corner of the tonneau that had most of the biz seat to myself
 Suddenly Tom Mason turrjed from the chair seat he was occupying and gauEed first the empty space and then my face in the serni-darkneSs-
 Always room for one mdre?" he suggested in q wheedling voice
 r'Please. no; I hate crowding." replied in a matter of fact tone thpt scotched the embryonic sentiment al once.
 me. and when we got to Cheng FUey's. of the sinister back entrance, and had passed up into the lantern | hung dance hall. he swung Evvy out on the dance noorf. while Sheldon foi- lowed with Phoebe. leaving me to the now saturnine Dick West ''Dancing2" he asked. | No" I replied as tersely. ''AH right-Tm glad: I want to talk to you Phoebe likes you. Why don't you say . good word for your ] husbands partner?". ''Phoebe's a baby" I countered l 50 Blake calls her-but he doesn't 1 treat aher like one"
 Hes an old friend of Jim's I cS- pect he knew Phoebe in the cradIe.' I replied. trying to make light Of the 1 situation.
 Well. he knows she's out of the cradle now-and a darn attractive girl And I'm Jim's partner-that ought to entitle me to as many priv
 MercifuIly then the music stopped. Or perhaps it wasn't incredibly" for I was just on the point of telling Jim's partner in rather plain Eng fish just what thought of him when our dancers swung back to join us
 Next. Phoebe7' muttered Dick West. thickly.
 She nodded. In a moment I was left with Tom Mason. who was very quiet and disnified again. Presently Evvy and Sheldon came back to the table But no Phoebe waited-a minute. Then I asked anxiously:-
 Where's Phoebe2" l 'Oh. they sneaked down the back stair sand disappeared They often do- Phoebe likes snooping around the funny little shops" replied Evvy with husky sweetness. And Dicks been saying he had one or two ra- vorite haunts he wanted to show
 I tried hard to make my voice calm
 Let's follow them. Play de;ec- tives"
 Tom Mason shook his head. but his voice was kind
 Better wait here We couldn't find
 them in thousand years, Dick knows
 his Chinatown. underground passages and all She's perfectly safe with
 West"
 But somehow I didn't feel that
 Phoebe was safe with Dick West
 We waited long half-hour and still no Phoebe All through those creep
 ing minutes realized more and more
 how dear this wiIful little Phoebe is . T E--- u--r.- II was infinitely worse than anything e Pat had Sugrestesi-this was danger. = Lets try to find her" I pleaded.
 1.-TWO wait here and two go-" y "AH right. I'm with you" agreed ss Tom Mason. "You two wait here. Is and well slip out the back entrance l. and have n look-see-" rt So. leaving Evvy and Sheldon on
 guard. we slipped down the dark Ie stairs. crossed the sinister courtyard
 and came to the narrow alieywav. l. Just as we reached 1.-two arms caugh l. me. and found myself being dragged 10 up against Ton's thudding heart. ! IT broke away-hnding strength in my -e fury.
 h TT trusted you-I needed your l
 heard myself Saspins. as I fled out Df into the street
 Is Then stopped and waited. le You may take me down to the le ly. when Tom caught up to me '',So pt explanations please" I said only one 1T you're a cad md I know it now te know it for all time. wen go in the III iron tway and I'll start O fagain with IS sheldon"
 Then I stalked on. listening neither re to his protests nor to his pleas And V, when we got to the draRon-Euardod le entrance, there fin Sheldon's car sal Ia Phoebe with Dick West V We've been waiting for you. Rur 1t rnd caii Sheldon. Tommy" said Phoe-
 be without any trace of guilt ''l
 told E>vvy we'd wait. Look. Anne = look at my pretties- Dickie knew just where to find 'em.' Fl Depending from Phoebe's ears wer. a ma-nihcently carved pair Of lad. ] pe7dants-and about her throat wa,
 a long chain of the same niarvelou; | green,
 II Were they a gift from Dick West l The Fp-Rtick the cheap fami,isritie. | were bad enough. but WAS Phoebe ac
 tuaI'v accepting such valuable iron -t a man?
 (To Be Continued.)