The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-09-27
By vAEfek vANARDY AutAor FL
'"The Two-Faced Man, "Alias; the
Night Wind" etc.
The Lady of the Night Wind


wait! It is is Cranshaw Beld-
ing?"
What? You know?" Roberta ex-
claimed.
eyes. l know" Harvard returned
quietly.
while I was in Idaho" Roberta
continued slowly after a moments
contemplation of Harvard's face, sI
met, and learned TO love, and was
loved, by another man. I had zlready
secured my divorce, so there was no
obstacle of that character to our mar
rage. But, there were two Obsta-
cles-serious ones both-nevertheless.
One of them was occasioned by his
own. He was living under a cloud, in
disguise, and was known by a name
that was not his own; and there were
many eaSon beside the actual cloud
to which | have referred why ne
should not resume his own name and
seek to prove-as he believed he could
do-his innocence of the act which
had been charged to him. He would
not ask me to be his wife until ne
could stand clear before the world,
clothed in his right name. But, Mr..
Harvard, even so, l would have pre-
vailed upon him, and we would have
fought out our battles side by side
but for the one great and insurmount-
able objection that / had
ut vas this: I knew that if Gran
shaw Bedding should find me, and
know that l had married aBOther man,
he would kill that other man, or have
him murdered without compunction.
| knew Cranshaw Bedding better than
he knew himself. l knew that my
marriage to another would be the
death warrant of that other. And
now, Mr.. Harvard, l have another
surprise for you. The man whom /
would have married in Idaho bore
the name mot his family name, re-
member) of Bruce Brainard."
Bruce Brainard? Carr1therS?
The Sc" He stopped.
eyes" Roberta calmly replied
"Fhe secret service operative. who is
called Bruce Brainard, whom you
l~icitatior of your friend, Morton
Salisbury, under the name of Daniel
Carruthers, and whose real identity
l know as well as | know yours, is
the man I love, and who loves me; is
the man who has been wrongly
charged in the past with a crime with
which he had nothing to do; Is the
man whose battles / have helped tt
fight, and who has helped to fighi
mine; is the man Of all others whom
| have ever. known who is the soul o.
honor and upright manhood"
Harvard drove on in silence for
time. Presently:
Have I permission TO mention yoi
to hira 2" Bfng asked
eyes. want you to- do so, please.
did you know that he was cor1in'
to Myquest before lie actually sp
| peared2'
she told me Saturday night tina
Mr.. Salisbury would bring him t
call Sunday 10 ask you to receive mir
+ the following day, under anoShe
name, as a guest. He also told m
= that his chief was to- arrive at. Ml
7 SaulsbuRy'sA home Suncsay night q
T IL O'Clock, and thst he had decide
; TO tell the entire story of his lifeet
his chief in the presence Of III
Salisbury. Last night / met hi
again by appointment after midnigh
He told me thEn that his chief ha
= merely cfTnckleai when he heard VI
= Brainard's story, and had replies
= why, Brzmy-that is what hs,
called by his -intimatss in the servi'
I'll have Known the truth about tho
matters two years. ever sinceas
months after you became N Of us,
fact It is part. of nT duty to kHo
thoroughly, the men vino work f
me. The man who wa guilty eft
T things you were accused of has be
in federal prison at atlanta for mo
than a year. You are, like some dc
tors I have heard absIt-entirefyy
ficient when another is III, but<abs
Iutely Inefficient whsr they GET, 81
themselves"
efk "'You aren't WORTH your salEtwf
it comes TO doeEoring yourself. TT
he adder I have nCE mentioIred t
fol- ID you because [ preferred to let
AFT tell me about IT. yourself in your o
oft good time after you had screwed
ND the necessary moral COURAGE to
on
.ax ~Sencrita-I will continue to
dress yvsr so-are you willing 10
ms who Bruce Bralnard really is z
mo, please That is one of
subjects that I referred to IN the
lightning when I tsEd you that. II
NV are things which Z must leave un'
an for others to inform you about"
"Brsinard himself, r.Aokhers?'
"Bfainard himself and others
"Why did you pretend TO be- VIC
has less when you came to Myquest?'
for Because l had spoken to Mrs.
rad ward over the telephone and did
knew until she greeted me that
ONT that she was the person with "
vice l had talked"
now @Wait Was your talk with
and that you refer to in the niiedle Of
not night?"
eyes. Before I was summone
come to yon as q pianiste-"