Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-28
(Continued from our last issue)

! tAAt ipIlifSs q q ~ 49,
check and they rose.
1t was almost dinner time whe'
he reached Brooklea but instead o
returning at once to the brakes h
} paid a call at a neat, old-fashione'
| cottage nearer the village.
Carter and Pierre were hurryinl
1 about the kitchen busted with tn,
serving of dinner and as he passet
! the servants dining room Scottil
beckoned imperiously. but Mile
waved an emphatic dissent and hur
! ried up the back stairs.
At the first landing he came upor
Kitty.
MIR. Rogers condition hasn'
changed since last night?"
mo, an | don't knows it'll be any
harm If / do leave him" She shiv'
cred. I'll be right back before the
family leave the table"
She scuttled off downstairs and
Miles softly entered the sickroor
and took the chair beside the bed
lie leaned over and spoke gently:
"Mr. Drake! You can heal me 2
The eye which had turned eagerly
toward him at his first word closed
swiftly, gratefully and then opened
wide.
Il meant what I said yesterday.
The past is buried and must not be
resurrected, but there is who
must be silenced, the one whose
name you tried to tell your brother
yesterday. 1 knew guessed-but
| must have your assurance that |
am right. The man you fear. the
mar who can bring ruin and worse
p o you all-is this he?"
Bending more closely owe the
PROSTATE form he breathed a name.
There was a pregnant pause while
Roger brakes eye seemed to dilate.
Then, unwaveringly, ineXorably, the
lids closed.
CHAPTER XVII
"Man, but I've news for you!"
Scottie exclaimed when Miles came
down stairs. "Dick Kemp has found
what's been under u very noses.
Do you mind when Rip told us of
meeting two men in the garden?
Last night they came again and
Dick frightened them away but not
he'd discovered the spot they
were after. Well beat them to it to-
night but how we're to get rid of the
lad-!'
sponded briefly. cts only the last
HIN III lllt CIldii, any Wdyy puI II ~
be best for him and his little bride
when young Dick meets you tell
him to pack his grip and wait with
runabout in the back road till
Patricia joins him"
Miles was passing through the hall
v hen Andrew Drake emerged from
the library Tuning with exaspera-
ton.
"Confound that pe~ttyfogging
Wells!" he explained to Miss Drake.
Hes coming down on the ten
o'clock train tonight and insists that
l meet him at the station.-Wants a
private talk"
shit" Miss Drake warned and
vanished up the stairs, Andrew
grumblingly following.
AS Miles turned Patricia appeared
in the door of the music room.
81 heard!" she whispered. "Oh,
Sergeant, why is Mr.. Wells coming
and where have you been all day?
When is all this dreadful suspense
going to end?"
Tonight, for you, my lear young
lady," the detective replied. 81 want
y Ou " 81 away dSoii toii6ic Ahls
Kemp will be waiting for you on
the back road in his car in an hour
and you must take your travelling
case and slip out and join him. He
will keep in touch with me and
when you come back in a few days
it will be to find that all the trouble
has passed"
She held both her hands out to
him impulSiVely.
ooh, 1 have always had faith in
you even when l was living a night
mare. You have found the terrible
old woman who tried to have me alb
Quoted and the man with the tat
tooed arm?"
HE will never cross your path
again." Miles replied evasively. "One
thing more; not only was your own
sanity never in question, but that OF
your people also"
1t a midnight when Miles and
Scottie, equipped with shovels. set to
work with a will and soon had a
hole waist deep where the floor of
the summer house had been.
1--WE struck something. lad" Scot
tie announced in an unconsciously
lowered voice.
Miles leaped down into the exca-
vation beside him and felt about
with his hands.
Machinery" Scottie exclaimed
"Rusted and broken as though il
had been crushed with a sledge-
hammer"
"Our friends hoped it would be ir
better condition, l think" Miles re
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'"Tis not a wee printing press
since you took the counterfeit bill
from me-" Scottie shook his heat
slowly. IF I had a chance to try tc
assemble it. now"
You're close enough to the truth
old man. Miles wedged down the
lid once more and began heapins
the loose dirt back upon it. Put the
boards back over the hole as well a.
you can and follow me-"
Scottie obeyed and the two walked
to the road where a machine hae
halted. With its three grimly bust
ness-like occupants the briefest o.
greetings were exchanged.
"You understand, boys. that you're
on a confidential case. and Scottit
is here just by accident?" Miles
spoke with authority but there wa:
a note of uncomfortable elation II
his tones.
Sure, we understand all right
Sergeant" the burlier of the trio
replied with immense respect
Were all set and waiting for or
ders."
"All right. Farrell; you and Marks
come with me. I'm going to pos
you indoors and then get one of the
neighbors to join us whom l shat
want as a witness. Scottie, jump ir
and let Barker drive you down tC
the Mansion House where l want
you to send word up to a Mrs. Hig'
gins that you've come to bring hel