New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-04-11


The Thing IN which Ma.lre Awok,
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Played
Out of the mists which had CLOSED
In on me when the shot that rams
close to my car had crumpled tho
yashmak. yelled woman who had held
me. and other hands had drawn me
backward-my head striking metal sc
hard | was rendered uncopscious-l
came TO with my first thought
strangely enough, a distinct sense OF
relief. II was As If all trouble had
been brushed away, though I could
not In that instant conceive OF the
reason for this wave of ineypressible
relief and rest. And then--I knew.
Weakly struggled to sit upright,
but even as I raised myself upon one
hand there came from back of me
the hand of a man, and | was gently.
but nevertheless foreefully pulled back
upon what | now realized was chaise
Tongue. Startled, I turned my head
and gazed into the eyes Of Harry In
derwood.
Still in his bizarre costume, look
ing every inch the Spanish grandee,
with his curious but immaculate
clothes and his exquisitely-car for
beard. Harry Underwood stared at me
with inscrutable eyes. Had i not
known that he was indeed renegade
to his country even to his race, itself
as we'll as recreant to his wife, Lillian,
I should have understood his crptic
silence.
For there were still sounds in the
hall beyond the closed door of this
silken and perfumed boudoir which
plainly told me that the fight which
had ragged in the big music room
when the lights had been switched
off as my father stood in jeopardy of
his life, had been carried up the broad
stairs and was even now dying out
down the upper hall. A succession
Of rand knocks-obviously code
sounded on the door.
Harry Underwood leaped to his feet,
slid back the heavy bolts which Sc
cured this sinister door. opened it wide
enough to permit one person 10 slip
in--who 1t was l could not see pc
cause of my position on the chalse
longue-and then, AFTER Whispered
colloquy admitted one other man
my father,
He strobe across the room and
swept me into his arms, which trem-
bled in a convulsive clasp.
Praise be that you are safe, my
dear" he crooned. Il feared that al
our care had failed and you mad peen
wounded or worse. II 1t hadn't been
for
He turned to clasp the hand OF
Harry Underwood, who was taking
with the other person he had so care
fully admitted, short man OF pow
erful strength and keen rowing eyes,
which proclaimed the fact that he was
one of the service men who had
rushed the great house at the psyche
logical instant. 1t was becoming
clearer each moment that the service
men had waited until the last posslpie
second to make sure OF catching every
person involved in the conspiracy.
"I-pdcrwood, We'll Done"
And with this realization came the
aasbine nrehension-patent the
instant nv father had entered the
room--that not only had / misjudged
Harry J-nderwood's loyalty to his
country and its cause, but I had
there was now no time for thought,
boweyer. no second even to put my
hond into Harry JTnderwoods hand in
thanks for what he had done for me
and mine. For the service man had
again opened the door, and in walked
Allen Drake. Dicky and Lillian I'm
derwood
Hello. Harry" Lillian spoke with
the nonchalance that had been hers
in the wears before he had fed with
Grace Draper. before he had done the
things against Dicky and to : save
Dickv which made even seeing him
again SO perplexing problem to
every one Of us. Congratulations.
yo,, turned that nicely"
"ITnderwood. we'll done" Allen
nral,a was eveinc him with the i'm
perturbable twinkle which even the
terrifying events of the last half hour
could not chasten. LAS you, yourself,
would say-,you done noble. But"
his womanish lashes for an instant
yeiied his ewes and then disclosed
tban, l.een and cold. that was too
close a margin. II YOU continue in
This game for the government, old
man"
Tbe rest of Allen brakes words
wera lost 70 me in the embrace with
which lillian was assuring herself |
Ind not been seriously injured.
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