South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-24
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NneFe upon u tiny, delicate en-
broidered four-Ieaved clover in olive
green silks. II was oddly designed,
most cIeverlv executed. and once
she had commented upon 70 laugh
ingly.
1T is my crest" she had laughed
a trife BITTERLY guessed that she
was ashamed OF her origin-"everv
biz as distinctive and ten times as
lucky az tho four quarterings. don't
you think"
I had made her a perfunctory an
swer. and had thought no more
about the matter. although I re-
membered now that when she had
reappeared in our lives in the awful
time which had ended with her
I kidnapping Of Junior. there had been.
no mark OF any kind upon any of
I her belongings.
Yet here in my hand lay one of
her handkerchiefs with the familiar
/ embroidery upon it, was as sure
Of it as / would have been had she
suddenly materialized before me
with 10 in her hand. What did it
mean?
I found myshelf shaking as with
a chill. I forced myself 20 lay the
/ handkerchief back upon the bed
and 10 sit down in the nearest chair
Madge Is Terrified.
Ever since the moment when
Grace Draper had rushed out into
/ the night. after her meIodramatic
defiance OF Hugh Grantland, who
had rescued my boy. 1 never had
/ been without the secret fear that
I somewhere. somehow, she would
/ creep poisonously back into my life
again. And this in spite OF the
/ knowledge that Hugh Grantland,
with all the resources at his COM
mand. was unobtrusively yet effec-
/ lively guarding me against this very
| possibility The fact, that in spite
/ of him, she had vanished that night
as though the darkness had absorb
J ed her bodily. had always filed me
Z with terror, for I knew that If she
were alive the obsessing hatred she
f.. bore me was still ahame.
With every bit Of will power I pos
/ sessed I brought myself back to
calmness and the questicn-what
should I do?
Instinctively I felt that Hugh
Grantland ought to know about this
odd happening with its sinister
meaning 10 me. But the last postal
/ card had received from him-the
never-failing notification Of his
whereabouts. bearing only his ad-
\ dress and his initials-had been post
/ marked from the Pacific coast. Was
\ I TO summon him across a continent,
I asked myself sardonically. because
/ I had seen a handkerchief which !
\ fancied had once belonged TO Grace
\ Draper
Ny father OF course! I have
become so used TO thinking OF him
as a man broken by illness that
find it hard TO realize the rejuvena-
rion which had come TO him. I could
pour out 10 him all the unreasoning
/ terror which the sight OF the hand
kerchief had aroused IN me with
out the fear OF being considered
hysterical, which would be mine
should Allen Drake chance to hear
\ my story.
/ This possibility I meant TO guard
against by asking my father TO say
I nothing OF the handkerchief TO him.
I The. rest OF the story Of my meeting
+ with the mysterious Don Ramon, my
1 father would in all probability think
/ IL necessary to tell Allen Drake. But
surely the matter OF the handker-
chief could be kept between our
/ selves.
A knock on the door-Lillian's-
startled me.
With a sudden urreasoning IN
stinct. swept handkerchief and fold
ed note and my personal belongings
back into my shopping bag before l
opened the door I could not tell
why I felt that I must keep from
her AL knowledge OF the message or
4 handkerchief. as I had refrained
from telling her anything about the
mysterious foreigner when I had
first met him upon the stalled train
in the tunnel under the river