The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04
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life and was instrumental in our meeting here this morning. As matter of fact, was a prisoner in the den cf the Crimson Circle at the same time you were"
 He outlined as much of his thrilling ex- perience as he deemed it wise to disclose
 It is immaterial who the girl or the man is" Nerissa continued. Suffice it that through them l arranged to make my escape. My asserted cousin was easily won over by the man in gray, who assured her he could arrange raid by the police. Under cover of this he said, we could get well away from the danger that seemed to menace me.
 After laying plans for the escape, my cousin, as I shall now call her, departed, leaving me locked in the room. The man in gray accompanied her.
 Possibly an hour later I heard great uproar and all the lights in the place were extinguished. Scarcely had this happened when 1 heard the bolts my door with drawn and the voice of my cousin calling to me.
 'The girl grasped my hand and hurried me through a long, damp passageway to door which she found some difficulty in unlocking. While we were standing there, the sound of footballs came to our ears and we saw several men rushing down the pas sageway toward us.
 "Gripped by fear of capture and worse, l thrust my cousin aside, grasped the key and succeeded in turning it. Then l threw open the door and dashed up fight of steps to the street.
 "As l reached the immediate safety above l heard muffled scream and sounds of a struggle, the door to the passageway was slammed, and then all was silent. I fear the poor girl suffered dearly for her loyalty to me-
 q found myself in narrow, ill-odored thoroughfare. It was deserted and no one seemed to be moving on the better-ighted street beyond.
 For some minutes I covered there in the semi-gloom before summoning courage my way to the end of the narrow street, which seemed to begin and end between the sides of single square, I saw that my way was clear and hurried onward.
 "The neighborhood in which I now found myself was not so progressively silent, but it held enough fearsome things to make me scurry along until l reached more re- rpectable-looking quarter of the city.
 "Then, impelled by hunger and thirst cast about for an eating place. To my horror I discovered that I was penniless, and eYY article of iewelry, even brooch fatherD6ad given me for Christmas, had been taken from me. was alone in strange city, friendless and dependent upon my own efforts to make good my escape.
 "It was a desperate plight, but I did not lose courage. Knowing well that could sit unchallnged in the ladies' wait ing room of the Grand Central railway sta ton, where I would have unlimited protec- ton from the public and where undoubtedly would find someone from Laurens who would aid me to return home, 1 went to the depot Then you came. You know. the rest'
 This seeking of so public a place in the hope of meeting someone from her home town did not indicate guilt on the part of the girl, Bristow thought. Fortunately for her it was he who had found her.
 "Now, I must return to Laurens," Ne rissa concluded, land quiet poor fathers fears as well as have steps taken to protect him against the men who undoubtedly seek his life.''
 Bristow was overwhelmed yet immeas- urably relieved by the revelations of the last hour. The girl had, as he supposed, been abducted, but not altogether for ran- som. The story she told however, was wildly improbable. Any one less partisan