Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-30
CHAPTER XTIT.

Myra sat down to plan her next move.
Should she go to Abner and demand ac-
cess to Mnlicent? On what grounds !
The window was not her relative. not q
minor needing a guardian.
Mechanically she packed her bag. Her
mind kept pounding at the question
Why? why? WHY? Why this de-
termination to throw N1ilicent back into
the sewer of Chinatown?
She closed the bungalow and went
home. Her mother met her at the door,
put her finger TO her lips and led the
girl into her own room.
On the bed, exhausted, but smiling,
lay Milllcent
The strange woman Of the Mamaro-
neck abduction was Myra's own mother.
After twenty years Mrs. Farnham was
taking her revenge on A0ner CampiOn
This child shall not go the way Of
Ben she declared
Millicent. however. was far on her
way to some other destination. Though
she smiled she was almost too feeble TO
move. She fell into g troubled sleep
which lasted through the night.
In the morning Abner arrived with
Miss Lampson, a typical alienist nurse,
not one kindly line IN her face. Before
she let him in, Myra sent her mother
the door. She faced the doctor and
nurse.
4 thought It better to bring her here"
she explained. Mother can help me to
attend her"
Dr. Campion was his smooth self.
Perhaps 1t may be as we'll. 1 will
take a look at my patient"
You cannot see her"
Il must insist, my dear, on seeing my
patient"
Mrs Campion desires to stay with
mother. She instructs me 10 say that
she no longer wishes your services"
Abner nodded to Miss Lampson. She
looked towards the door Of the inner
room
THAT door is locked, said Myra calm
ly. "If you attempt the slightest force
I win rouse the house and call in the
police"
Miss Lampson paused, looked to the
doctor for al order
My dear child" he said. 7 cannot
understand this sudden change Of front.
Why DO you. n nurse. interfere between
a physician and his patient
"She is no longer your patient"
;
but he was never the man for quick ac-
ton. Temporize, was his guiding prin-
ciple in life.
Then l must resign the office Of ply
sician." he said with q benevolent smile
and speak to her as a friend"
You cannot see her in any capacity"
"Ahe you aware, Miss Campion," he
cried in a sudden burs. Of anger, as he
saw all his schemes shattered by the
girl, "are you aware that you are har-
boring a Iunatic; that Mrs Campion ,un-
der the stress OF her grief, is the victim
of decisions; that you are keeping her
from treatment IN a sanitarium; -
-'She is as sane as you are"
Are you aware that she may break
out in violence? 2"
we win risk that. Please go"
and that 1t is a case for public au-
thorities ?"
y am prepared to defend my actions
in court?"
HUH he sneered. 4 see. You have
Joined the insurance combination. You
have been promised your $4,000 and
have turned against your fathers
friends. That spy, Brownson, has got
you again and"
Enough. You insult me. Co"
one opened TIC uOoE duu stepped INTO
the hall
Another word and I shall call in the
police to eject an intruder"
He beckoned to Miss Lampson. Myra
watched from the window till she saw
them leave in a limousine.
Millicent had heard everything. She
was Gelirious with excitement as Myra
entered her bedroom. Her long copper
braids had become unbound. Her hair
fell about her, tossed on her breast like
an incarnadined surf.
send for Ben" she moaned. Send
for Rem"
This was what the doctor called "in-
sanity"
I'VE can't send for Ben, poor dear"
said the mother, smoothing the hair from
her eyes "Xeu know Benjamin has
passed on"
Past? Past what?"
PASSED on, dear. Ben is dead
Dead nothing! He amt dead"
Mother and daughter looked at each
other To Myra the words did not seem
insane.
ITO Be COntinued.)