Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-22
LADYFXNGERS
-,,,s STARTS THE STORY
By JACKSON GREGORY
Copyright, 1921, BY Charles scribncr,s Sons

THIS STARTS THE siohf
nLadyfngers, a h,ct our 2 ,Dcn-
.,nor piih a snnny, mcrrp o'spOS
mm'i, !, he object Of trdmc'up mat
'M '..M fdsten the cracking oi SdIg qn
I NJ, and send nm 10 PRISON. Inc
amc.up am Is planned ,by 9gn0s,er
pa%" crook Nth the oid sn,dc dc-
ss sssct;re and q bride OF soooo trcm
% ,,sv,r pho Is anxious 10 &c, rid oJ
,ndvfaoers. ne attempts aidmona
robbery ron t. mo giII gpoiIv Lc % Brvn asSs
Stetherl, oscda" y and he escopcs
lin to get y tor S nor tbo u' dstecS;,r ~ upSs 10
amid pistol shoIs w'," Ia ~ b.., LnockeJ
sursuit. Ihe gem ""v ,yien ~ w tbo
from hS nana ,t'orrord w. e,oaocd os
ground. nc - LIZ on " bc "yfcmnted
iecretdrp ,"d 70 n bn,;nes, roman NTH
10 rob, a ,snrt smrf''% Hidden G under rough
0 ,ccl hedy, JJoa thc iapver rIo
ttfdp'; SS000 bribo. has char1e Of
offered no ryyoV nj III, noman.
the eea' "nr up yr CoNTJNIIES
AND Hhnr "
"wbat do you mean?" she asked,
,,suely alarmed.
ssi moan that what ] am saying TO
"a Tor YOU and me alone to know.
4" Uu %, underestimate
rvs Go on !"
nyou know that last winter Mrs.
c,o,bsril made second willy'
W"yss, But ."
.arbat after n lifetime Of hard years
IA Ind begun to soften toward her
.~, Aesb and blood? That she had
ws bok for her grandson
"But you yourself told me, you told
,.r that you had found that he was
i.od You - you
~ lied |" announced Haddon curtly.
nEor your sake and my sake and the
,ste Of the Stetheril millions, | lied.
Ts Il alive. And l could reach out
nv hand and find him. could bring
Nm here. Do you see oil that l could
nj" .
EVELYN stared at him, her lips parted
her quick breathing.
IAuntie would leave everything 10
k;mY' she whispered.
Haddon bowed, his eyes hard upon
krs,
"You know all about the second
til!" be said quietly. ;,
EVELYN stared at him like one strick-
IN dumb. Bond. so lively memory
brief second ago, was forgotten, her
niger toward Haddon was forgotten.
Haddon's threat was as though it had
beyer been made. The one essential
{bing occupying the whole of her nina
Mas that there was another than she
kho might inherit the Stetheril millions,
J young man, a man in whose blood
eril's blood.
From the beginning she did not doubt
Haddons word. She knew it for
the truth. She did not ask how he
Knew; that did not matter. So SHE
merely stared at him dumbly.
"You are no fool, Evelyn said
Haddon coldly. "And neither am |.
You could do whole lot worse than
marry me; don't see how you could
10 any better. You will need some one
6lways to manage so large fortune
For you and you know that | can dc
i. Yes, better than Bond. For
bave been in touch for years with your
hunts methods, her investments; / car
larry on everything just as she is do
ing. Now, will you marry me? Righ,
bway?
Then at last Evelyn spoke quickly
taying:
"Auntic doesn't know"
mo. No one knows. Not even he,
grandson. And, just rs soon as ! am
ure Of you, l will get him out of the
pay. For good
You :. you don't mean that = :
Again he laughed harshly.
Nothing quite so lurid or tragic oil
w romuntic,' he half sncered. You
Eill remember, perhaps, that when Mrs
Ftetheril dcputized me to find him il
be were alive, she said she didn't care a
Rang what sort he was. she was going
make amends to him and his mother
making him her heir! Well, when
found him | discovered that he wus
80 thief
"A thief"
But young and with an internally
mooth and actually likable way with
PIN, | knew what Rachel Stetheril
ouId do II | produced him; she'd find
aWyers to twist and manufacture eva
ehce' she ID bribc judges with half her
perfume, she'd make thief her heir
FheS mad enough to do it.
And so before she knows, If she ever
ces know, he'll be where he won I
rouble us and where even she can t
ct at him am going to send him to
pc ,pcnitcntiary for ten years and may
twenty. That il, my dear Evelyn,
"I-I-Oh NV Cod -, ,.r,od Evo.
~.
i was Haddon who shrugged
(poW I,u uy Lnan me anu OF course you