Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-06
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Hope Ranger is missing after
eating luncheon with friends at the
Plaza. Loring Ranger offers a re-
ward of n hundred thousand dol
lars for the return of his daughter.
Hope is a prisoner in the santa
rum of DIR. Bristow. DIR. George
Kelsey, also detained there be-
cause he knows of criminal tran
sactions of Bristow.
Hope and Kelsey manage to es-
cape in Bristow's car. They drive
to an abandoned house. Kelsey falls
asleep and Hope hears Bristow's
voice il the yard and knows they
have been followed.
Hope s~urrenders to Bristow and
tells him that Kelsey has abandoned
her. When Kelsey awakens he
finds JuaI ez Charlie, adventurer
room with him.
Now Go on With the Story
Nov this is where you sit up
~ listen" Charlie tapped Kelsey
lyy&te on the chest with a ~hortatory
gfore-fnger. While I was eating
breakfast, an unexpected caller
dropped in to the jail to see me, an
old bird that I seized III for a doctor.
I win. He is one, named Creamer,
the original man who wandered all
round 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'd doddered off to the scene
of disaster about three hours late.
TFl.~. H. G,I- DDfzfnuy ruh@ Il a q
recovered from a desperate attack
made upon him by a violent homi-
cidal maniac. That's you.
.Well, of course Dreamer had to
get all the gruesome facts; n 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 a kick in their parties
by having a friendly little massacre
of the p%alefaces.
"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.
Il says, SOd pCoS
and got off, and must have capsized
in the storm. Several boats were
found adrift this morning, two of
them bottom up.
1.-The minute that Frank Bryan
came in / saw that he was in bad
shape. He's a cold fish, n /
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 like a 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; go
to it. But first, tell me what he
LAaew. Little by little, I got it out OF
&AA." Charles thin mouth clamped.
Nxelsey. he was in on that damned
abduction"
"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 goou
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
closed down on Frank. He was told
that all they wanted was fifty thou-
sand dollars, which Ranger would
never miss, and the girl would De
held in comfort until 1t was paid
ra ~. - l;l,,if oaVa m 1SSiSt hT0theI
would go to Sing Sing for thirty or
forty years. Frank caved. Some
done was slipped into Hopes Ice
cream soda while she and every one
else in thai fruit shop was watching
a row in front of the cashiers desk.
And when she walked out, the drug
was beginning to work. She was
growing groggy, AID naturally
when Bryan came forward she let
him help her into the al
the curb"
but 1 still don't see" Kelsey
had followed every word, his brow
growing more furrowed as Charll
went on. "How could they know that
she would go into that shop, and
order the soda?"
..Thev didn't. But a thing like that
wasn't pulled off in a hurry. They
had an inside man, Bryan says,
named Fitch, whose business it was
to find out about Hopes movements,
and tip them off when she was to
be out alone. Then they were ready
to spring any one of half a dozen
schemes, whichever was the best
under the circumstances.
'rWell, to go back, I told Frank
&Aut the escape, and then getting
3again and he said 1t was funny
~ the girl really was Hope, that she
7 didn't make for the hiding-place in
the old house, instead of taking TO
the woods. 1 got keyed up then and