Gunnison news-champion., 1923-03-02

She Struggled to Free HerseR From
Him.
toward the picture on the table: the
manner made her furious.
! "Let me go. pon!"
I'm sorry. dear- He drew her to
him. held her only closer.
Don Father wants to see you He
wanted to know when he came In: he
will let you know when you can go
| 10 him"
when did he tell you thati When
he gave you the pictureT'
yes"
Avery had almost let her go; now
he held her hard again Then he
wanted me to tell you nbou, this
Eaton
"why should b0 have you tell me
shou'-Mr. Eaton:'
You knowl' he said to he,.
What have you to say about him
DonaldT'
you must never think of him again
i dear. you must forget him forever 7"
Donald. ! am not 4 child. II you
have something to say which you con-
slider hard for me to hear. tell It to
/ me at once
Very well. Perhaps that 10 best,
/ Dear. either this man whom you have
known as Eaton will never be found
/ or. II he Is found. he cannot be let to
live. Harry. have you never seen .
| nfcftfra u-if bA ,.l t,,
below like that7 Can't you guess yet
where your father must have sent for
that picture? Don't you know what
those numbers meanT'
What do they meanT'
| They are the figures of his num-
/ Der In what Is called The Rogues'
Gallery. And they mean he has com
mitted crime and been tried and
convicted Of 1t; they mean in this case
that he has committed 4 murderw
"A murtlerw
For which he was convicted and
sentenced"
"Sentencedw
Yes; and is alive now only because
before the sentence could be carried
out, he escaped. That man, Philip
Eaton. Is Hugh"
"Hugh."
Hugh Overton. Harry"
Hugh Overton!"
Yes; found II out today. The
police have just learned II. too. was
coming to tell your father. He's
Hugh oyerton. the murderer Of Mat
thew Lasronw
"No: mol"
"Yes, Harry: for this man Is GER
| tainly Hugh Overton."
1T isn't SO! know II isn't sol"
you mean he told you he wase
some one else. Harryr
mo: ] mean" She faced him de-
hantly. "Father let me keep the pho
tograph. asked him. and hs said,
DO whatever you wish with IT, He
knew I meant to keep II! He knows
who Hugh Is. so he would not have
said that, if-if-''
She heard a sound behind her ana
turned. Her father had come into
the room. And as she saw his man.
ner and his face she knew that what
Avery had just told her was the truth,
She shrank away from them. Her
hands went to her face and hid II.
She knew now why 1t was that her
father, on bearing Hugh's voice, had be.
come curious about him. had tried to
place the voice in his recollection
the voice OF prisoner on trial for his
life. heard only for an instant but
fixed upon his mind by the circum-
stances attending Il. though those cir.
cumstances afterward had been for.
gotten. She knew rhy she. when she
had gaeed at the picture few minutes
before. had been disturbed and fright.
ened at feeling II to be a kind of pic.
ture unfamiliar TO her and threatening
her with something unknown and ter.
ribie. She knew the reason now for q
score Of things Hugh had said to her
for the way he had looked many times
when she had spoken to him. II ex
planned all that. II seemed to her in
, ne moment to explain everything
rpt one thing. II did NOT explain
,eh himself: the kind Of man be
:. the kind of man she knew him
he-fhe msn she lovsd-hs could
he murderer!
Her hands dropred from her face
she fhre- he t.ad hack proe0y hnd
triump'ar''' Sc faced how botii