The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-21
The Lady of the Night Wind

the message she had written, hurried
outside again and called to him in
that sibilant whisper.
So Katherine did not discover her,
and she did not see Katherine; and
she was much too wary to risk the
use of her voice even then.
Having dropped her written mes
sage to Belknap, she retreated with
almost the same haste that Katherine
had employed, with the difference
that while Katherine pulled down
the shades and snapped on the lights,
Roberta came to a stop just inside
of her window and, concealed by the
darkness, peered outward, watching
Belknap.
Thus she made several interesting
discoveries-and was separately and
severally alarmed by each of them.
She saw the light flare into being
in Katherine's room behind the white
but Opaque shades. remembered that
Belknap had stopped beneath that
balcony instead of her own-and
asked herself if, after all, he had
made a mistake, as she had at first
supposed.
She saw the flash of Belknap's
electric, and watched him-and then
she saw the light disappear, and dis
| covered the figure Of another man
struggling with him; and she caught
her breath, frightened. although she
made no move whatever.
Roberta could see very little Of
what happened in the deep shadows
beside the thick balsam. She had no
idea as to who Belknap's assailant
might be, or why he had been at
tackled; but she was conscious Of an
insane joy because his life was in
danger, and if she had known that his
life was at stake she would not have
lifted so much as a finger to save
him. After a time she saw n of
the shadowy figures glide swiftly
away, and the other presently get to
it's feet and lurch into the moonlight.
She recognized Belknap and saw
that he was blindfolded and had his
hands tied behind him-and she
laughed; not loudly but with intense
amusement at the chagrin she knew
him to be experiencing; and then she
became grave again, for she remem-
bered that the person who had at
tackled him must have seen him be-
meath her window and have witnessed
the dropping Of the written message
from her balcony.
That suggested a complication that
might prove portentious-lf, as she
began to fear, the unknown hap.
pened to be an inmate of the house
and then she started violently anC
clasped her hands together as she
breathed tensely the words:
Bingham Harvard himself: Th'
Night Wind! Was it he? Gould
it have been wonder!"
It was not of herself that sht
thought then. but of Katherine.
: If the mar were Harvard, he mus
have seer Belknap beneath his wife
. window, and-what might not be hi
: conclusions? "Yet," she unused o.
! unconsciously uttering the word
aloud: &C. B. still lives; he is aliv
7 soft could not have been tn
q Night Wind. He would have crushe
! G. B. into a pulp; he would have tor
Z him apart %piecemeal if he had caugh
| him beneath Katherine Harvard
{ bedroom window at this hour of tn
night"
n She looked out into the darkness
. again.
q Both of the men had gone, and sh
stepped out upon the balcony.
The light was still glowing in Kat
{ crimes window and for a momer
Roberta wished that there was a wa
I to pass from one balcony to the othe
; She would have gone to Katherine
le room and peered into it had it bee
possible; and then she remembers
"a that she was still dressed, havin