Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-05
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question gave Kelsey the feeling that
Charlie was really heading some
where, and aroused him from his
melancholy abstraction.
"Bristow's?" He looked up. "One
of the best in the country. Only for
the very rich of course; thoroughly
modern, ~splendidly managed. Bris-
tow is an ~alienist of the first rank,
with a criminal twist and a craze for
money"
What were you doing there?"
Kelsey told him briefly of his posi-
ton as assistant-surgeon, and the
circumstances of his detention; of
his first experience with Hope and
of the role she was playing: of their
subsequent meetings and the escape.
Charles cigaret burned to ashes
in his fingers as he listened, his face
sharpened down until it was wolfish;
but he did not nee interrupt the
story, or ask a question.
"Bristow!' He held up one of his
lightning-rolled cigarets. naming it.
But" squirting thoughtfully, as he
laid it on the table, he couldn't
swing it alone. Too big. Who else
is in it?"
He shot the question at Kelsey
like a bullet from a rapid-fire re-
! volver.
Miss Copley, She's a nurse
Looks strikingly like Hope. Passes
as an older sister in charge of the
insane younger one"
Charlie pursed his mouth in a
| whistle.
Amy one else?"
"Higgins. An ex-Alderman. An
| old millionaire. Made a fortune in
Wall Street. they say"
Charlie bounded up with a stifled
exclamation, his tongue clicking his
teeth.
"Hobo Bill! That does settle it.
Hobo Bill! 1 might have known 1t.
Hobo The joker in the deck!"
He bobbed about the room like
cork, swapping his fingers, mutter-
ing broken phrases under his
breath.
1.-THE hobo messagesi- This
booby-hatch for a headquarters!
The nurse, a ringer!- I've got the
whole thingi"
CHAPTER XXI
I'm the first place." said Charlie,
1--WE known Ranger ever since ]
| was ii DOy, anu WITCH a 49,
his little girl, / started out on my
own to find hen. L know crook
psychology better than old Byrnes
ever did; but this gang that are
holding her fooled me forty ways
from the ace. But last night l got
a tip that led straight to Bristow's
Sanitarium.
IT rode as fast as my motorcycle
could race from Westminster to Bar
celona, taking all the short cuts. 1t
was on one of them hat l came on
you two. And so 1 rushed for d
doctor, thinking you were ready to
kick in; and as soon as l reached
the village,'I go pinched. So l just
turned in and went to sleep; that is,
as much as that fierce storm would
let me.
but in the meantime, my mascot
had the lead to Bristow. I'd had
dinner with her, and put her back
in a bus with her party. They all
went on to spend the evening with
some friends, and as they came back
about midnight, they stopped at the
Lone Hill garage for some gas. Up
steps the garage mans assistant, a
shock-headed Junk, that had driven
me ana my queen W tuS I'LL AiS
was all twittering with excitement,
and tells her that I've been arrested
over here at Barcelona.
what a headpiece that girls got
Here's her friends kind of giggline
at her for being took in. She dom
believe that; for she saw me will
Ranger. And Barcelona is the til
she gave me. But she wants to make
sure. So what does she do but cal
up the man whose names been in al
the papers as Rangers attorney, Eu'
STAGE Highly.
HE tells her that I'm all right
and then he routs out Frank Bryan
Rangers private secretary, ant
shoots him down here on the morn
ing train to get me out.
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