Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-05
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Loring Ranger offers a reward of
one hundred thousand dollars for
the return of his missing daughter,
Hope. Acting upon instructions
from Hopes %abductors, Ranger de-
posts a hundred thousand dollars
worth of bonds at a specified place.
DIR. Bristow has a private sani-
torium an d in it Hope is held a
prisoner. DR.. Kelsey is detained
there because he knows of criminal
dealings of Bristow.
Hope and Kelsey become friends
and together they manage an es-
cape in Bristow's car. They ride to
an abandoned house owned by
Hopes father. Kelsey falls asleep
and Hope hears the voice of Bristow
in the yard. Juarez Charlie, adven-
turer and close friend of Ranger, is
trailing Hope to the sanitarium.
Now Go 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 cup
board and crept into the passage,
closing the panel carefully behind
her. Kelsey still ray in deep, ex-
hausted sleep. She bent over him,
her lips near to his: then drew back,
fearing to waken him. Very gently
she slipped the note between his re-
Taxed fingers, and then felt her way
along the wall until she reached the
other exit.
Outside at last; and nc sign that
she had attracted any attention.
Shielded by two or three out-build-
ings, and concealed by patches of
shrubbery, she reached the gap in
the hedge. Passing through it, she
made a quick detour to the right to
muddy her skirt and shoes in the
trickle of a brook; and so at last
came to the open space where the
wrecked automobile lay.
She heard the men approaching
who had been whistling 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 a 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 sat
isfaction as If a weight had been
suddenly removed from his chest,
Nov to get the otherAone." 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 mar
you ven away with. Where is he?'
THAT man? He was under the
automobiles; there IA blood or
him."
Yes, yes. But what become OF
him 2"
She leaned toward him with the
air of imparting a confidence.
THAT man is crazy. He said he
wasn't but 1 know better. 1 wanted
him to hide in the woods. l know
these woods" She passed her hand
uncertainty over her forehead. 81
don't know how 1 know them but ]
do. l wanted him to hide there, bul
he wouldn't do it. He talked about
getting a boat down on the beach
and when l wouldn't go with him he
"a away" She waved her hand
vaguely toward the shore.
Bristow's eyes bored through her
but she looked beyond him listlessly
Indifferent.
Finally he gave a curt order t
have her taken back to the hos
pital.
CHAPTER XXI
Kelsey woke up slowly, dragging
ly from his long, exhausted sleep ant
blinked his heavy eyes.
Why, it vas daylight!
His whole sleep-fogged brain wa
reused now. Why was the pane
open? All! There Hope stood in it
No! 1t was a man.
Then he sprang.
The mar in the opening ducked
and raised an arm to shield himself
I'm a friend!" he cried, throwing
himself against the side of the cup
board. Honest; you can believ
me A friend of Rangers"
Kelsey doomed above him, still
threatening; but his lowering glanc
had shifted. What was this he wa
holding In his clenched hand-tha
bit of white paper sticking through
his fingers, between the %spreadin.
knuckles?
Juarez Charlie had lodged; an
quick as a cat on his feet. steppei
from the cupboard into the room.
Kelsey had Enclosed his hand
and was Strengthening out the paper
He could see that there was some
thing written on it, but the ligh
was too dim and gray for him I
decipher it. He was in the room an
at the window in two strides.
Here he read Hopes message. TIL
rain was dashing against the win
dow-panes, the wind wailing abou
the house.
The uprushing blood darkened hi
face. He whirled savagely, an
caught Charlie by the shoulder
shaking him hard.
"Who are your" One of their men
Did you help take her?"
"I did not" Charlie wriggled Xix
an eel from that biting grasp an
stood rubbing his shoulder. "II
one of Rangers men. Juarez Charlie
Do you get that?"
He staggered, his hands in hi
trousers pockets, his head at II
most impudent angle.
"I've been wandering about wit
one-third of a pitcure-puzzle, tryin
to piece the rest out of the air. An
you've got the other two-thirdi