Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-02-15

and fingered there d%isturbingly. Why
had n OF these men been shadowing
n other? Why had the pursuer sud
become the pursued? Why had
the running footsteps come to such
an abrupt stop? What was the noise
she had heard? What. was happening
around the corner? Her fears rapid.
ly growing, she was on the point of
arousing her family. But. what ex-
.cuse should she give? What could
n tell them? After all she had
merely seen two men run up the side
street. More than likely they would
being laughed at. Besides, Dad was
always 0 when suddenly awaken
ed. Undecided what. to do she stood
at the window, peering into the night.
Five minutes. ten minutes she stood
there In tremulous perplexity. a
sense Of impending tragedy seemed to
have laid hold Of her. A black hor-
ror seized her and held her at the
window. Something terrible, some.
thing tragic, she was sure must have
happened. z mastering up her strength
and trying to calm her fears she was
about to put down the window when
preaching. straining hen ears Ito lis
ten she discovered the -Aound was
that of the steps Of a malA-one man
approaching from AROUND the cor
ner. AS she watched he turned into
the Drive and came on toward her.
She shrank back a little, fearful OF
being seen even though her room was
IN darkness. 1t was the first man.
She recognized him at once by his
top-hat and his evening clothes. He
was walking even, more briskly than
before. almost running. There was
no siEn anywhere of the shorter
thick-set man who had been follow.
ing him. Something in the appear
ance Of the figure in the street below
struck her all at one as vaguely IA
mlllar. She wondered If It could be
any n she knew.
Presently he came directly opposite
the light on the other side Of the
Drive so that It shone for an instant
full on his face. Jane looked and
shuddered. Never in all her life had
n seen any mans countenance sc
convulsed: not with pain. but with a
soul.terrtfy1ng expression of hate, OF
vlrulent. murderous hate.
Distorted though the mans face
was with such bitter frightfulness, she
recognized him, lot as any ons she
knew but merely as one Of the ten.
ants. IN the game apartment building
It's one of the people next door,
she said to herself and in notification
of her Identification. as he approach.
ed n building. the young. man cas-,
a swift glance over his shoulder, and
then. 'as If satisfied that he was un.
observed. dashed hurriedly in at the
entrance.
Jane. more than ever wrought ur
with fear and dread OF she knew no,
what, sprang hastily into bed and drew
n covers about her shoulders. As
vet she did not lie down but SILVER.
lngly waited. Presently she heard thu
elevator stop. She heard the key
opening the door Of the next apart.
ment. In a few minutes she heard the
man; moving about ,his bedroom, sep.
arated from her own room by a mere
SIX inches Of plaster and paper. o,
Whatever it is that apartment house
walls are made of.
What could have happened? She
was certain hat something terrible
had occurred in which the young mar
next door had played a tragic. per.
haps even a criminal part. She tried
in vain to conjecture what circum.
stance, could have been responsible
for the look of hatred she had seer
on his face. She wondered what had
been the fate Of the man who had
relied and fought? What could have
been the subject of their quarrel?
!. n tried to summarize what she
knew about the people next door. and
was amazed to discover how little she
mad to draw upon. AS in most New
York apartment houses so in James
home all . the tenants were utter
strangers to each other, one family
not even knowing the names of an
of the others. Occasionally, to be
sure. n rather resentfully rode ur
or down in the elevator with some o.
the other tenants but always without
noticing or speaking to Them. James
family had been living in the building
for five years, and of the twenty 9th.
er families they knew the names OF
only two. having learned them by &C.
cident rather than intention. Abou,
the people next door Jane now dis.
covered that she really knew nothing
at all. There was a mar with a gray
beard who ave took off his hat II
the elevator, and there was the hand.
some u chan whom she had JUS
seen entering, But what their name.
were. or theik bushes. or how Ions
they had lived there. or whether the,
were father n SON, what servant
they kept. or whether either or boti
of them was married-these were
questions she could have answered a.
readily as II they had been living IL
Dallas. Texas, or Seattle, Washington
as in the next apartment. Quickly sht
found that she really knew nothins
at all about them except-she coulG
not recall that any n had told hel
OF, how she had got the impression
she. was almost certain they were
some sort OF foreigners.
Just when it was that her troubled
thoughts were succeeded by ever
more troubled dreams she was no,
aware but 1t was noon the next da,
when she was awakened by the maie
bringing in her breakfast tray.
Terrible. Miss Jane, wasn't It,
last night. almost under our noses
you might say"
"suicide!" cried the girl, at ono
w~ide-awake and interested. "Wha,
suicide 2"
"a man was found lead in the sid.
street right by, y building with a re,
volver in his handy
WHIT sort Of a looking man wa.
= OlQnC see MIN, A1Q the maid
almost regretfully. TIC was taker
away before I was up. Cook tells nj
it was the .milkman found him an6
notified the police"
Who was he ?"
Nobody round here knows a thine
about him. He shot himself through
the heart and us sleeping here an no,
knowing anything at all about it,
But didn't any one know who he
was?"
Never q soul. The superintend.
ents from all the buildings round
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