San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14
Begin Here Today.

Loring Ranger offers a reward oil
100000 for the return of his miss
ing daughter, Hope. Acting upon in.
structions from Hopes abductors,
Ranger deposits 100000 worth Of
bonds at specified place.
DIR. Bristow has a private sanitar-
ium and in it Hope is held a prisoner
DR.. Kelsey is detained there because
he knows of criminal dealings oil
] Bristow.
Hope and Kelsey become friends
and together they manage an escape
in Bristow's car. They ride to an aban.
doned house owned by Hopes father
Kelsey falls asleep and Hope hears
the voice of Bristow in the yard
Juarez Charlie, adyenturer and close
friend of Ranger, IS trailing Hope to
the sanitarium. Now 80 on with the
story.
"Bristow knows there Is a hiding
place in the house. / am going to give
myself up. Reach my father. Love
forever. Hope"
Without giving her impulse time to
cool she hurried back to the cupboard
and crept into the passage, closing
the panel carefully behind her. Kelsey
still lay in deep, exhausted sleep. She
bent over him, her lips near to his
then drew back, fearing to waken him
Very gently she slipped the note be.
tween his relaxed fingers. and then
felt her way along the. wall until she
reached the other exit.
Outside at last, and no sign that
ehn hoA otfruatod a NJ afanf,nn ShialI.
ed ty two or three outbuildings, and
concealed by patches of shrubbery. she
reached the gap in the hedge. Passing
through it, she made quick detour to
the right to muddy her skirt and shoes
in the trickle of brook; and so at
last came to the open space where
the wrecked automobile lay.
She heard the men approaching who
had been whistled back from the
woods, and began lodging from tree to
tree as if attempting to hide.
They saw her as she had intended
| they should. Two of them caught her
She made show of struggle, but they
held her fast by the arms.
| In answer to their shouts, Bristow
and the others came running through
the hedge.
"Ah." he said with unctuous salts
| faction as if n weight had been sud
denly removed from his chest. "Now
to get the other one" His eyes were
like points of steel as he came close
to Hope.
where's Kelsey?' he demanded.
She looked at him vacantly.
| "Who?"
Kelsey" he repeated, "the man you
went away with. Where is he?"
THAT man? He was under the
automobile; there was blood on him.
Yes, yes. But what became o!
himY'
She leaned toward him with tbs
air of imparting a confidence.
THAT man is crazy. He said h,
wasn't, but / know better. l wanted
him to hide in the woods. l know
these woods" She passed her hanC
uncertainty over her forehead. 81
don't know how / know them, but
he wouldn't do it. He talked abou
getting a boat down on the beach, am
when / wouldn't go with him he raj
away" She waved her hand yaguel!
toward the shore.
| BrlStOWS eyes DOreu tnrOugn nef
but she looked beyond him listlessl.
indifferent.
Finally he gave curt order to hav
her taken back to the hospital.
Chapter XXI.
Kelsey woke up slowly, draggingl.
from his long, exhausted sleep an
blinked his heavy eyes.
Why, it was daylight!
His whole sleep-fogged brain wa
reused now. Why was the pane
open? All. There Hope stood in it
No! 1t was man.
Then he sprang.
The man in the opening ducket
and raised an arm to shield himself
Pm n friend!" he cried. THROWN
himself against the side of the cur
board. Honest; you can believe m,
4 friend of Rangers"
: Kelsey doomed above him, sti
threatening; but his lowering glanC
, had shifted. What was this he wa
holding in his cienched hand-ths
! bit of white paper sticking through b