Evening star., 1922-11-26
Me" said Mary Elizabeth.
..lS-,llD'' c.,,I th. MAN

-Mt. Sdiu MAI
'Well?" said the man.
Mary Morley-Sparborou she
answered gravely.
On the way back Mary Elizabeth
tried to figure some way to get the
car back into the garage without
making any noise. 1t was now 2:30.
She couldn't be caught-now. She
decided that if she came in the other
Z way. downhill. and shut off the mo-
tor. the car would run into the drive
on its momentum. She could leave 1t
1 in the drive and then get up early
/ the next morning before anybody
else.
( 1t was only when she was safely iii
the drive that she remembered that
/ the running board was all bloody.
| She went out to the garage and got
pail of water and a sponge and
went back noiselessIy and washed
| the running board and the wheel tina t
! was sticky from the blood on her
( hands. and put the STRAPS back. 1t
was half hours job. and the moon
! had gone down, so it was quite dark,
+ but she did il.
! Then she climbed up the veranda
pillar. stood on the railing. grasped
! the rainpipe. went hand over hand
: for yard and Slipped into her win
dow.
| Her white skirt was streaked with
blood brown streaks. She rolled it up
and thrust it in the back of bureau
drawer She washed her hands care
fully. She lay down to sleep.
! She could see the hands and figures
| Of her watch glowing dimly in the
dark 1t was $50 She must wake up
at $50 She must. For moment
she bent her whole will on the idea
of waking up at $50. And then she
went to sleep.
CHE awOke at $50 and jumped out
| y Of bed. She spent five precious
! minutes dousing her face with cold
water; she mustn't look as IL she had
been out all night.
And by the time the family came
down to breakfast she didn't. She had
taken five-mile spin in the car with
! the windshield open and her cheeks
were flushed with the morning.
| How fresh you look" her father
said. adJmiringly.
IT'S such a lovely day." Mary Eliza
beth said. I've been out in the car
already
II do hope you'll be careful and
never drive more than twenty miles
an hour-fifteen is better" Mr.. Nor
| ley said.
Mary Elizabeth bent to open her
egg.
| At 10 o'clock she couldn't stand IT
!. any longer. She took the car and
ran down to Ossining and found
telephone in a drug store and called
up the hospital to ask how he was.
"Mr. Adams is doing as well as can
be expected" woman's voice an
! swered.
| But" Mary Elizabeth cried, "how
is hep
MIR. Adams is doing as well as can
be expected" the voice answered.
Mary Elizabeth hung up the receiver
with bang. So that was the way
hospital treated you! "As we'll as can
be expected What did that mean?
, 1t might mean anything.
She got into the roadster. She could
drive down there and ask to see him.
Surely they permitted visitors in
hospitals At any rate, she could try.
Mary Elizabeth dutifully held the lit
tie roadster down to twenty miles an
hour all the way. 1t took twenty
minutes. But she had all the time In
the world now.
/ They very obligingly ushered her
up to Mr.. Adams room.
| He was bandaged SO you could only
| see his eyes and his mouth and part
of one ear. And now she was face to
face with him she didn't know what
| to say. She just looked at him and he
looked ait her. And they both looked
at the nurse. The nures smiled and
| left the room.
| Look here said the young man.
"Who am and what happened?'
you're Mr.. Adams-Mr. George w.
Adams of IS Gramercy bark" said
Mary Elizabeth.
: my real name" said the young