Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-02
THE DAILY NOVELETTE,
ON TRE TRAIL OF GLENNON
BIZ Jane Osborn

"WHAT do you think Of Mr.,
W Brown7, Dorothy True asked
with an effort to appear casual in her
interest. Dorothy was the younger Of
the two pretty True girls--the brown
haired, blue. eyed sister who went in fof
athletics and wore boyish clothes.
II don't know as I had thought yet" "
answered Alicia True, two years older
than Dorothy, the sister with light hair
land lansuid brown eyes, with taste for
domesticity. "Why do you ask?''
For no reason especially" lied
Dorothy. "Of course I know you don't
60 in for ana lysing characters the way
I do, but he's been coming to see you
"1'm not at all sure he comes just
to see me,"' smiled Alicia. "You car
Thanks awfully," snapped Dorothy.
"You needn't treat me Ike a child.
Don't notice how you and he are MI
ways exchanging glances? guess I've
eyes in my head. But what do you think
of him
"Oh. I think he is talllsh and broad L.
shouldered, with q taste for gray tweed
and green neckties and"
.,. mPialss %h..j CALCULATED .SI tied Dorothy and
tnen, w HuL j INC use
With that the younger sister, with
folded afternoon paper that she ha6
been sitting on from its hiding place
rose, walked to the fireplace and neatly
deposited 1t above the blazing logs.
Alicia was too intent on the needle.
work in her bands to wonder why
Dorothy had burned the paper or tc
comment on her curiosity concerning MIR
Brown, the young man whom they
had recently met at q dance In town
and who had been coming out from the
city to the True home with consider.
able frequency ever since.
In the afternoon paper that was now
blazing up the chimney was scare
heading that had attracted Dorothy
attention to an account of a culprit
whose real name was Glennon, but
who went by half dozen or 80 aliases
Hence her curiosity concerning Mr.
John Brown. Culprits seeking aliases
reasoned Dorothy, would always select
some name like John Brown or Henry
Smith--colorless names that woult
suggest no family relationship In par
ticular. The paper had described Glen
non as q professional heart. breaker. HI
was now wanted by the police for having
made away with $500 that he had "bor'
rowed" from young woman in the cit!
gaining confidence. A dozen other youn,
women in different parts Of the countr!
we're ready to make similar charges. IL
some cases he had disappeared with val
liable jewelry.
"The young man V fairly tall, vel
built and Of singularly fascinating ap'
pearance and manner-or at least thi
Is the opinion Of the young women wh'
will appear against him That Il
what the paper said. Dorothy hat
nodded her head afRrmatively. Johl
Brown was certainly entirely fascinat'
ing, conceded Dorothy.
The night after Dorothy's discover!
she lay awake for many hours making
plans that were deep and full Of con
cern for Alicia. It would be mis-
take to tell Alicia, because she woult
never keep the secret. John woult
know. that he was suspected and es
cape. The important thing was no
only to protect Alicia from falling deepl!
in love with the culprit-if this wer'
possible-but to get sufficient evidence
against him to make 1t possible to ar
rest him before he suspected that h
had been discovered.
| This COulQ De OOHe, DOTOtuv ue'iu''
by getting him to transfer his atten
tions from Alicia to herself. If Alicii
felt that 1t was Dorothy instead o
herself for whom he cared she wa
not the sort of sister who would inter
fere. So Dorothy decided to make i
appear that Glennon, alias for tn
time John Brown, was really her ad
mirer. .,
She would encourage him, see hin
as much as possible and watch hil
for suspicious actions. This was no
especially easy for Dorothy. She wa
pretty enough. and she knew 1t In
vague way, but she had never bee
a ''boy girl'' and she was ignorant o
the first principles Of coquetry. Still
she would play the role.
How proud Alicia and her parent
would be Of her when shc caught til
villain in the act and thus saved he
sister from being another Of his vic
tins and revenged the others whom h
had wronged. No wonder Dorothy la.
awake that night hours after the res
of the True family were lost in s!umber
Mr.. Brown called the next evening
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