Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-24
CHAPTER XIV
The Warning Of Polly Ie Brun

| Mr.. Steele, SIR" asserted Carter
with clear distinctness, Mrs. Stethcril
would thank you to come down to her,
sir"
This said he lifted himself upon his
toes and looked beyond Ashc toward the
closed door of the lawyers room.
"Mr. Haddon has not yet returned,
has he, sir?"
No" answered Ashe.
| '"Then, sir, and Carter's left
eyelid dropped with an expression of
rare cunning while Carter's voice was
suddenly lowered to confidential whis-
isn't exactly Mrs. Stctheril who'd thank
But young lady, sir. You were to
come out to her in the gardens at the
| south Of the house. Immediately, sir.
She put this into my hand and said to
me - in a sort of excited whisper,
But Ashe, waiting for no particulars
now, failed to see that this was q gold
coin. That there was any other young
lady in the world than Enid Camden
did not suggest itself to him. Carter,
looking after his hasty departure, sighed
and shook his head.
Just like me when was his age.
ne meultdteO. l. ne very PICTURE
Han some young dog he Is. too. Boys
| for that matter there's nothing like it. u
Bobbic Ashe slipped out Of the house
unseen and hastencd toward the live oak
| in the southeast corner of the grounds.
| For in the dim moonlight his engcr eyes
had caught already something white
which might have been a girls scarf.
ENID" he called softly as he came
to the slim young figure waiting for him
in the shadows. ''Is 1t your"
"Enid!" The girl spoke the name
strangely after a little nervous laugh.
Who's she, Bobbie? The great lady
or the haymaker's daughter.
Polly tVH''S I" he erie cried 'si sharply. "sYou !"
"Polly Me-" she retorted in the old
lighthearted way. "a girl you used to
know a couple of thousand years ago.
| Remember"
What in the world I" 80
"Oh, come alive, Bobbie," shc
laughed. "Glad to see me or not?
You've got a funny way of showing it
| IL you are -
He came forward then, putting out
his hand swiftly.
,of course, I'm glad to, see you,
| ToilS, hc huiu Hturtiis ms manu- grip
ping hers. "Only hadn't any more
idea of seeing you when l came out
here than Of interviewing the king Of
England
Polly looked at him bit wistfully
as her hand clung to his.
| She knew that, II ut any instant dur
| ing these latter, empty months, she had
been told that some one was waiting for
her she would have thought of him. In
spite of her she gave his hand a quick
| little squeeze before she drew her own
away.
"It's great TO see you, Bobbie," she
said breathlessly. 1.-THE same old
| Bobbie."
But he, looking down into the eager
upturned face, saw that 1t was not ex-
actly the same old Polly. This was
some new Polly masking in the manner
Of the old. She was nervous, her red
mouth had hard, set lines about il, her
eyes he thought were anxious.
| But in one thing certainly she had not
changed, her way of going straight
about what she had to say.
did you ever dope il out. Robbie, /"
she said bluntly, that ] slipped you
| the double cross on that diamond deal
When you had to beat 1t with Ambrose
hot on your trailY'
| whats the difference. Polly?" he
returned lightly. They didn't get me,
did they?"
'But you knew" she insisted.
| We'll, then, yes" He hesitated. II
suppose that l did" ~
CONTINUED TOMORROW