San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12

| wen, part VI II uDOuI fDlOck-
away in an empty office. Your FRIEND
Shell"
"Oh, you met Shelf
| Judge for yourself" and Paul de-
scribed the meeting with the gray
clothed young man. As lie told of
knocking out Mr.. Selkirk, motor ex-
plosions sounded from the direction
of the field. y
Somebody starting your engine:'
She exclaimed.
"It's motorcycles" He moved off.
"Wait!" she called to him. Leave
me those packages!"
He tossed them to her. He had.
said nothing. but left the clipping
from the Chicago paper enclosed in
the envelope with the stolen bonds.
As he went through the trees, he
thought of her finding that clipping
and realizing that he knew; then be
got sight of the field and saw that
two men in uniform had arrived on
motorcycles and were questioning
the local people. One of the uniform
cd men. with one if the farmers, APP
preached the wood, and Paul crepr
back. The officer saw him and called
him to halt: and when Paul kept On in
the other direction, the man fired.
| Paul ran: the officer cautiously
waited at the edge of the wood and
shouted for reinforcement. Paul
reached Priscilla who had got 10 her
feet. -l
"Who was firing!' she challenged
him.
come from Ann Arbor, L suppose"
after us?"
"Come on" said Paul. "I'll carry
you. l can: have"
waltz she stopped him. "What
do you think I've done?"
"Come!" cried Paul. "We've got to
get out"
We've nothing Of the sort" she
denied firmly but also gently. "Oh. /
see It all now! At the hotel you got
q package addressed to Shell which
was full Of stolen bonds: you figured
i sent them you thought that's why [
had to hop the lake to get baes
those bonds, for some reason. Y51
thought / was a thief :" 7s 80
"What?" Facing her, at this mo-
ment, nothing else occurred to him 10
say. .s
"Y0u never even opened the other
package. Here it is: father wrapped
il and had it sent from his office: it's
Shels letters and gifts to me. Here
they are: do you want to see thcm:'
She held the contents of that brown
package in heap before him.
Father got suspicious of Shell last
week: he said Shell was shady and
| must break with him. I'd lost most
Of my feeling for Shell, but when
father got together his letters and
gifts and shipped them back, special
delivery, l said that was no way 10
treat Shell: SO / came to you to hop
the lake to get them back before
Shell got them. But I guess, from
this other envelope that | knew
nothing about and from what happen
ed, TO you. that father was right.
Anyway, now L don't care" Paul
stared at her and stared at the heap
of letters in her hands; and back
to her again. at last he asked.
"Why?"
"Why should anybody care about
losing the imitation" Priscilla return
ed steadily, looking squarely at. him,
"when she's found the real thing? You
and /. Mr.. PaulCranston, aren't run
ming away any more today; We're
giving ourselves up. There's nothing
we've done. or meant to do anyway,
which papa's lawyer can't square be-
fore breakfast - or maybe before
supper tonight, if we wire him."
"All right" said Paul. "1'm agree
able, I never felt such an impulse TO
stay safe in all M life. Since we're
giving ourselves up, what do you
suppose is the safest way to do it?"
"Sit here with me-" suggested
Priscilla. "and do nothing except tanEs
to me, if you've anything left to say
now
"Left?, said Paul. "I haven't begun.
For starter. what's your. name.
please?"
"Orsola Paramount"
"Orsola! / never heard that name
before; but it's a favorite with me.
Now then. Orsola. il you flew to De-
troit, nonstop over the lake, for the
sake of n man you'd lost most of
your feeling for. what would you do
for a fellow you cared about?'
aft you." she countered. "did yonr
recent act for girl you thought vas
thief. what would you do for one
you Just possibly might get little
confidence in?"
"Orsola." continued Paul little
later several people, some Of them
girls. have talked to me about being
nothing more than a jitney pilot of
an airplane: but I never cared till
this noon, when you came along and
seemed so disappointed in me-"
II wasn't"
"You were. You ought TO have
been. because up TO this noon. didn't
care about being anything much.
You've read something about my
family. what we've had and where
we've been. When it all went, it didn't
seem worth while to work up the ef-
fort to put my end Of the family on
top again. I'd never. till this noon.
seen girl that affected me with
feeling that it would be worth willie.
. But now I'd start as proprietor of
! corner fruit-store with pep and pleas
, ure."
a worse idea could occur to yon.
Paul" Orsola encouraged. "If you do
that. papa'll be crazy about you and
! he'll be Just the one TO help vou.
[ That's where papa himself started 4
Then the officers and farmers cloAf5
, in on them. and. quite sstcly, they
surrendered together.