Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-04
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mystery of the priceless Flaming
Jewel.
The Flaming Jewel was a~s
stolen from a refugee countess o
Esthonia by
QUINTANA, the great internationa
thief. He loses possession If j.
and writes to his New York agent
SARD, that 1t is now held by Mix
Ciinch.
to recover the jewel for tx
countess, robs Sard, takes the let.
ter n goes to Clinch's cabir
where he. works under the name
HAL SMITH. He is trailed by State
Troopers, but Eve, who knows his
arrest will cause more trouble fol-
her step-father, warns him to hide
while she deceives
STATE TROOPER STORMONT.
Go on With the Story
CHAPTER w
When State Trooper Stormont
came out on the edge of Owl Marsh,
the girl was kneeling by the water,
washing deer blood from ner slender.
4 sun-tanned fingers.
What are you doing here 90 she
inquired. looking up over her shoul-
der with a slight smile.
Just having a look around" he
said pleasantly. That's a nice fat
buck you have there"
Yes, he's nice"
you shot him 2" asked Stormont.
"Who else do you suppose shot
him" she inquired, smilingly. She
rinsed her fingers again and stood
up, swinging her arms to dry her
hands-a 1.-THE, gray-shirted figure in
her boyish garments. straight, sup
pie and strong.
grave.
who else was here with your
he asked quietly.
She seemed surprised. ibid you
see anybody else?"
He hesitated, flushed, pointed down
at the wet sphagnum. Smiths foot
prints were there in damning con-
trast to her own. Worse than that,
Smiths pipe lay on an embedded log,
and a rubber tobacco pouch beside
it.
She said with a slight catch in her
breath: 1T seems hal somebody has
been here. Some hunter, per-
haps-or a game warden. -"
s.Or Hal Smith, said Stormont.
A painful color swept the girls
face and throat. The man, sorry for
her. looked away.
After a silence: 81 know some
thing about you," he said gently.
And now that I've seen you-heard
you speak-met your eyes-Vl know
enough about you to form an opin-
ion. SO / don't ask you to
turn informer. But the law won't
stand for what Clinch is doing
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And he must not aid or abet any
criminal, or harbor any malefactor."
The girls features were expires
Eionless. The passive, sullen beauty
of her troubled the trooper.
Trouble for Clinch c sorrow
for you" he said. ~ don't want you
to be unhappy. / bear Clinch no Ill
Will. For this reason I ask him, and
ask you too, to stand clear of this
affair.
Hal Smith is wanted. I'm here
to take him."
As she said nothing. he looked
down at the footprint m the sphag.
nun Then his eyes moved to the
next imprint to the next. Their
he moved slowly along the waters
edge, tracking the course Of the man
he was following.
The girl watched him in silence
until tie plain trail led him to the
spruce thicket.
Don't go in there!" she said
sharply, with an odd tremor in her
voice.
He turned and looked at her, then
stepped camly into the thicket. And
the next instant she was among the
spruces, too, confronting him with
her rifle.
"Get Out of these woods!" she
said.
He looked into the girls deathly
white face.
Eve" he said, lit will go hard
with you If you kill me. 1 don't
want you to live out your life in
prison"
Il can't help it. If you send my
father to prison he'll die. I'd rather
die myself. Let us alone, 1 tell you!
The man you're after is nothing to
us. We didn't know he had struck
up anybody"
eff he's nothing to you, why do
you point hat rife at me?"
Il tell you he is nothing to us.
But my father wouldn't betray a
dog. And | won't. That's all. Now
get out of these woods and come
DAth III ONs 4NObOoJ a.
with you then"
Stornmont smiled: "Eve," he said,
psdo you really think me as yellow
Is that?"
Her blue eyes flashed a terrible
warning, but, in the same instant,
he had caught her rife, twisting 1t
out of her grasp as it exploded.
The detonation dazed her: hen, as
he flung the rife into the water, she
caught him by neck ad belt and
siuug him bodily into the sprrces.
But she fell with him; he held
her twisting and struggling with all
her superb and supple strength;
staggered to his feet, still mastering
her; and, as she struggled, soboing'
locked hot and painting In his arms,
he snapped a pair of handouts on
her wrists and flung her aside.
She fell on both knees, got up
shoulder deep in spruce, blood run
ming from her lips over her chin.
The trooper took her by the arm.
She was trembling all over. He
took a thin steel chain and paddock
from his pocket, passed the links
around her steel-bound wrists, and
fastened her to a. young birch tree.
Then, drawing his pistol from It's
holster. he went swiftly forward
through the spruces.
When he saw the cleft In n
rocky flank of Star Peake, he walk
ed straight to the black hole which
confronted him.