The Press., 1922-05-04
On the Trail of : Glennion
 By JANE OSBORN .a
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thy was the younger OI the TWO pFel'N True girls the brown.haired. bIue- | eyed sister who went ill for athletics and wore DOyish clothes.
 "I don't know as l had thought yet" answered Alicia True, two years older than Dorothy, the sister Wiih light hair and languid brown eyes, with taste for domeSticity. "Why uo you ask?
 For no reason especially. lied Dorothy. Of course l know you don't go in for analysing characters the way do, but he's been coming to see you so often and-
 I'm not at all sure he comes just to see me smiled Alicia You can have him if you want
 "Thanks awfully," snapped D"r"- inv. You needn't treat me like child Don't notice how you and he are always exchanging glanrFS. guess I've eyes in my head. But what do you think of him
 "Oh, I think he Is tallish and broad sh0uldered. with taste for gray tweed and green neckties and"
 "Pif1e," ejaculated Dorothy, and then, "What's the use!"
 With the younger. sister, Wlfh second effort 10 appear casual. took q folded afternoon paper that she had been sitting on from it's hiding place. rose, walked to the fireplace and neal Iv deposited It above the blazing logs.
 Alicia was too intent on the needle work in her hands to wonder why Dorothy had burned the pnpep or [" comment on her curiosity concerning Mir. Brown. the young man whom they had recently met at dance in town, and who had been coming out from the city to the True home with r"nSld~ erable frequency ever since
 In:the afternoon paper that was now blazing up the chimney was scare heading that had attracted DorothNS attention, to an account of q cHlpfH whose real name was Glennon, hnt who went by half-dOzen or so aliases, Hence her curiosity concerning MT. i John Brown. Culprits seeking aliases, req soned Dorothy. would always SC Iect some name like John Brown or Henry Smith-cOlurleSs names that would suggest no family relationships in partcuIar. The paper had de scrlhed GlennOn as a professional heart breaker He was now wanted by the police for having made away with S5OO that he had "bOrroWed' from a young woman in the city whose heart he had won as a means of gam ing confidence. 4 dozen other young women in different parts of the c"un- try were ready to make similar charges. In some ca. eS he had dis appearpd with valuable ieWelry.
 "rhe young man is fairly tall. well built and of singulary fascinating ap- rparance and mannPr--0r at least this Is the opinion of the young women | who will appear against him. That is what the paper said Dorothy had nodded her hand atlimmattVeiy- John Brown was certainly entirely faSrinh'- ing. ronceded Dorothy
 The night after Dorothy's discovery she Iav awake for many hours making plans that were deep and full of con teru for Alicia. Ii would he mis, take to tell Alicia, because she would never keep the secret, John would know that he was suspected and es- cape. The important thing was not only to protect Alicia from falling deeply in love with the culprit-if this were pOssible-but to get sufficient evidence against him to make il possi, bIe to arrest him before he suspected that he had been discovered.
 This could be done, Dorothy decided: by getting him to transfer his atIen- tions from Alicia to herself. If Alicia felt that it was Dorothy instead Of herself for whom he cared she was not the sort of sister who would inter- fere. So Dorothy decided to make 1t appear that GlennOn, alias for the time John Brown, was really her admirer She would encourage him, see him as much as possible and watch him for suspicious actions. This was not especially like Dorothy. She was pret Ly enough, and she knew it in vague
 way, but she had never been a "boy
 girl" and she was ignorant of the
 first principles of coquetry. Still she
 would play the role.
 How proud Alicia and her parents
 would be of her when she caught the villain in the act and thus saved hel
 sister from being another of his vic
 tims and revenged the others whom The had wronged. No wonder Dorothy lay awake that night hours after the
 rest of the True family were lost ir AIumber.
 | Mir. Brown called the next evening | It appeared that Alicia or Mrs. True had asked him to dinner. Unfortunate l ly for her plans, thought Dorothy, sht ! had not been told of MT. Browns ex pected presence or she would have ! changed into her most becoming home evening frock. AS 1t was,~ she came il from the country club after he hat arrived and had to appear at dinne
 still in her boyish sport clothes. Sh'
 determined, however, to let her charm
 and sprightliness of manner make III for the lack of winsOme clothes. Dorothy realized that she was in i measure succeeding even before din | ger was over. She realized that MT ] Brown was watching her. that Oftel ] he laughed with mingling of amuSe 1 ment and admiration when she talked Once he noticed that Alicia's eye and hts met and there seemed to b. an exchange of message between them. For a moment after this Dorothy felt a suspicion of what one more schooled in the game of love would have recognized as jealousy. Of course Dorothy felt fascinated by the stranger, but this would not deter her from playing her heroic role like a 1 true heroine.
 When the evening in the True draw ing room was half spent Dorothy was a little surprised when the fascinating Mir. Brown made his way to her side and said, sottO voce, Suppose you come out for d little run in the country. l brought my car tOnight-there's fine moon. Do you think your mother Would let us.?"