San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-15
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lars for the return OF his daughter
Hope is prisoner in the santa
rum of DR.. Bristow. DR.. Georg
Kelsey also is detained there be
cause he knows. of criminal trans
actions of Bristow.
Hope and Kelsey manage to es
cape in Bristow's car. They driv,
to an abandoned house. Kelsey fall,
asleep and Hope hears Bristow'.
voice In the yard and knows the,
have been followed.
Hope surrenders to Bristow and
tells him that Kelsey has abandoned
her: When Kelsey awahens he
finds Juarez Charlie, adyenturer
and close friend of Ranger, in the
room with him. Now 60 ON with the
story.
"Now this is where you sit up
and listen" Charlie tapped Kelsey
twice on the chest with hortatory
fore-finger. while l was eating
breakfast, an unexpected caller
dropped in to the Jail to see me, an
cAN pitu oiItu up
l win. He is one, named Creamer,
the original man who wandered ali
around Robin Hoods barn. But
what L made out of it was, that my
man-eating constable had got word
to him about. your accident, and
Creamer's doddered off to the scene
Of disaster about three hours late.
"There he finds Bristow, who has
recovered from desperate attack
made upon him by violent homi-
cidal maniac. That's your
well, of course. Creaher had to
get all the gruesome facts: and then
he remembered he's Main Streets
walking, historical society-that this
place, the old Rose house he called
it, had some nook built into it, where
in the CHEEKY, old times the family
used to hide when the Indians
wanted to put kick in their parties
by having a friendly little massacre
of the palefaces.
"That sets Bristow afire. He's all
for finding it, when just then the
girl turns up. No doubt but what
she's been trailing around through
the woods; her skirt and shoes were
wet and muddy.
"Creamer says, you stole boat
and got off. and must have capsized
in the storm. Several boats were
found adrift this morning, two of
them bottom up.
"The minute that Frank Bryan
came in l saw that he was in bad
shape. He's a cold fish. and /
couldn't flatter myself that he had
worried to skin and bones overnight
about my fix. I'd been nursing a
bunch about him for some time,
though, and this looked .likr mo-
ment to put the screws on him, 1t
worked.
"There he sat. shaking and crying.
calling himself bad names and NUT
tering about suicide.
81 told him that was all right; 20
to it. But. first, tell me what he
knew. Little by little. got it out of
him." Charles thin mouth clamped.
KELSEY, he was in on that damned
abduction" eslfas q
WHAT" Kelsey cried, "Mr. Ran
gers private secretary"
Eyes; just that. Yet FRANKS not
bad, nor is he particularly weak.
either. Frank was caught with all
four feet in a trap. He's the good
young man, with the bad younger
brother.
The Combine - that's the gang
that's got Hope - needed him: so
they framed the brother. which
wasn't hard to do as the goods on
him were there to get. Then they
that all they wanted was fifty thou
co.. Int1 xt.l,s al, Ill
never miss. and the girl would be
held in comfort until it was paid.
IL Frank didn't care to assist. brother
would 90 to Sing Sing for thirty or
forty years. Frank caved. Some
dope was slipped into Hopes ice
cream soda while she and every one
else in that fruit shop was watching
row in front of the cashiers desk.
And when she walked out, the drug
was beginning to work. She was
growing groggy, and naturally
when Bryan came forward she let
him help her into the limousine at
the curb?"
"But I still don't sec" Kelsey
had followed every, word. his brow
growing more furrowed as Charlie
went on. "How could they know that
she would go into that shop, and
order the soda?"
"They didn't. But thing like that
wasn't pulled off in hurry. They
had an inside man. Bryan says.
named Fitch. whose business il was
to find out about Hopes movements.
and tip them off when she was 10
be out alone. Then thew were ready
to spring any one of half dozen
schemes. which ever was the best
under the circumstances.
swell. to go back. / told Frank
about the escape. and them getting
her again: and he said it was funny.
If the girl really was Hone. that she
didn't make for the hiding-nlace in
the old house. instead of taking to
the woods. ] got keyed I'm then, and
he tells me all about it. Ranger had
showed it to him once. whom they
were down here together. Then he
falls to moaning and sobbing agnin.
and | tell him that ! am goinc to
get the girl. but l don't want Ran
ger in on it vet: and IL he'll keen
his mouth shut about what he
knows. I'll maddox mine about him.
Silence for silence.
"Just as we We're stepnins out into
the blessed sunlight of freedom
only it was raining-mv eye fell on
4 high board fence across the street
from the hoose-gow: and there. life
sized and prominent glad message
of Welcome to Our City, stares
hack Mt me: and let me tell you. that
he who read was verv apt to rnn
1t said Beat il for the Far West
pt once, or you'll have your throat
slit
There was nice little knot OF
bn-lookers there. waiting to see thu
prisoner shake off his chains; and
] knew the Combine would have