Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-29
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SH, Hss,ect boarding house and arc the to'0n
yiTeICE TRASH. 1e0a, heir Of Dr.. wortno.
IRA BASCOM. to,on. busybody. Uho ands
Aths ruby pin IN Anitas room.
The Tell.tal Buttons
NNI1ELL, Trask remarked, at last
w "you people are not very talka-
No. ouess III take the helm myself.
Wss Austin, will you be good enough
- set up and turn around!
The request was so simply made,
A. almost without thinking OF its
strsneeness, Anita did exactly as she
vas asked. .
- buttons down the back of her bodice,
snd another row across the sailor collar.
At a nod from Trask she sat down
s1ain. and then the storm broke.
~ told you SOL" cried Helen Pey-
tan. "Thats the very dress that made
He marks on that chair back! Dare
sor deny, Miss Austin. that you were
Il DR.. Warnings study that night he
The dark eyes of Miss Mystery opened
vide in horror. She seemed fairly
osralyzed with fright, and glanced
Tldly from one face to another.
Maurice Trask's showed only frank
admiration. He looked at the girl as If
ke had never before seen any one so
attractive.
Gordon Iockwood's face betrayed no
smotion of any sort. Had he been in
different to Miss Mystery instead of
loving her, as he did, he could have
shown no less expressive countenance.
And all the others present showed
definite and decided suspicion, scorn and
hatred.
Except one. Old Salt looked kindly
1t the agitated girl. He even held out
Z protective hand, and with a gentle
infection, said:
"Tell the truth. dear child. Did you
know DR.. Waring?'
Slowly Miss Mystery's eyes travelled
round the room. Looking at each face
IN turn, her own expression became
more and more hard and stubborn.
Then, seeing the kindness on the face Of
Old Salt, she broke down utterly and
sobbed out: "Oh. he's dead--he's dead.
what shall do?"
The Truesdell Eyebrows
Maurice Trask looked at Miss Mys-
tsry with rapidly growing interest and
curiosity. She seemed so young and
helpless and she was SO pretty and so
pathetic that he Immediately decided
she could not be mixed up in any
wrong doing. He also decided, for he
was man of quick conclusions. that
this was the girl for him. Having his
him enjoy 1t, and where could he find
Austin?
Straightforwardly he asked:
"Did Doctor Waring make love to
youi Did you love him."
The others looked aghast at these
suggestions. and then Mrs. Adams
said,
Yes, she did. / saw her one night,
Kissing Doctor Warnings picture.
Cray turned on Anita.
Did you love that man. he asked,
sternly. IF you cid, you surely didn't
kill him"
"Of course, she didn't kill him."
Old Salt put in. Impossible to imag-
Inc such a thing Speak up. little girl.
Why did you kiss the picture Of a man
you had never seeni'
Several of those listening waited
breathlessly for a response.
Gordon Lockwood. for one, could
scarcely control his impatence to hear
the answer. For. only too we'll he re-
membered the letter he had found in
the Doctors waste basket. The words
were craven in his brain.
Darling Anita: At the first glance
OF your brown eyes love was born in my
aeatt, Life is worth living-with you
In the world"
II love at first sight had been born
IN the mans heart. must 1t not have
found response in the girls? Or, even
II not, could she have killed a man
VINO felt thus toward her? Truly she
was a mystery. For the very fact
mat Waring had fallen in love with
her made possible, even plausible, her
elahaestine visit to him. and her pos
session Of the money and jewel.
4, Gould 1t be that the pretty little
Hg H1nlng was merely a sly adventures?
iihat She cajoled Waring into giving
heS the valuables, and then
NO, Gordon Lockwood could not and
would not believe any evil Of the girl
ne loved Even though she should ad-
inlt her love for Warng, he would not
lose faith in her.
Answer me-" Cray demanded. "An-
s"er this direct question directly. Did
you love DR.. Waring?"
=, Almost like one hypnotzed, Miss
Mystery gave helpless glance at her
;nqulSitor and murmured low, almost
inaudible YES
why uld you XII MIN: cray
stormed at her.
II didn't"
1ou We're tt re, in his study the
night he--he died. :"
Mo, I wasn't"
lou We're Its been proved. You
vent over from this house, across the
ono" held, and YOU went in the study
Snd you sat on the plush chair, near the
DESK. Didn't you?'
me great dark eyes seemed unable TO
var themselves from Cray's face, and
again the half -breatbad uhisner waS