Evening star., 1927-10-15
Continued from Yesterdays starr

Janet started and dropped the pail
The eight OF diamonds-and FIVE SAID
that there were friends as we'll as
enemies around them! She raised her
eyes to the face of the other woman
and smiled tremulously.
"If | had lost a bracelet with seven
| should be heartbroken"'
Thank heavenr The lady flunG
wide the door and seizing the girls
hands drew up into the tonneau
Turn, Charlie: then the first cross
road, He is with us. he has three
spades"'
AS she added the explanation she
pushed the speechless Janet down tC
the floor of the car and tore or the
Sunbcnnet.
Get off that dress quick! There's
another plane going up and heading
this wav, Here, put on this coat
and hat and then sit down beside me
we've fair start"
Janet slipped out of the cotton
gown, lurching as they turned Sharply
and thrust her arms into the sleeves
OF the pongee duster which the lady
held for her. The hat was tiny
helmet-shaped affair of straw with a
long. brown veil floating from it, and
she adjusted it in silence, then. pulled
herself up into the seat.
Her new friend cIasped her hand in
both her own.
"My dear, are you really Janet
Dane?" she asked. We've been SC
afraid for you, and we have watched
those planes for hours! When we
saw then all fly lower and lower. and
then suddenly swoQp down!
She stopped with a shudder and
Janet found her voice again.
"Mr. Durant-the Five of Diamonds,
7 meant! she gasped. He's back
there alone! Oh, can't we do any
thing?"
I'VE can only obey instructions, all
Of u.s." the lady responded, but her
pretty, sensitive face quivered. I'm
Mrs. Kerr, and you'd better call me
angie for I'm to take care of you
from now on until you can join your
father. Poor Frank-Well, it's over
now. anyway, whatever has hap
pened, for all the planes have taken
to the air again except one. Don I
look back! You can see in the mirror
there"
She nodded TO the small looking
glass fastened in the center of the
rug rack and Janet saw the five
planes whirling as they took their
flight and the sixth mere speck IN
the distance.
zone was wrecked against stone
WALL" she murmured, scarcely con
scious of what she was saying.
Durant had been so wonderfully brave
SO thoughtful and protective! What
had they done with him?
The reflection in the mirror OF
three Of the planes soaring toward
them brought her thoughts back to
the danger confronting not only her.
self but these new companions and
she asked:
DO you think they know you-you
stopped to take me in? Mr.. Durant
said they were securing the roads as
we'll as watching from the air.
shouldn't like to bring danger to you
from
She hesitated and Mrs. Kerr smiled.
From Norman's crew? I admit
that their brutility is frightening, but
we sometimes find it necessary to
resort to forceful measures ourselves,
and they are crude compared to the
other faction we have to guard
against"
"You mean Philip Mariott?" Janet
forgot the numerous warnings as to
reticence which she had received, for
her compan MON was the first member
of her own sex and near her age
whom she felt to be emphatically of
her world to be encountered in this
strange adventure, and her heart
opened to her. "He was terribly
injured four days ago out West, didn't
you hear?"
after flying away with your" Mrs
laI in
represents is far more subtle, more
powerful than the Norman crew--a
mere handful of criminals against
She paused in her turn, and after
waiting for moment Janet ventured
do you know my father, Mrs.
KERR"
''Know him! the other woman
echoed. How else would I be here?
But see. That plane flew straight
over us and unless it wheels and
turns we are safe from them for a
time at least, for the other two who
were coming this way have branched
far out to the east and west"
Together they watched the plane in
silence until it had become a far
speck in the distance and then van.
ished. The others had disappeared
and Janet was breathing freely once
more when her eyes fell up an timer.
ant peddler's wagon they were ap'
preaching. The driver pulled sud.
denly out of their way, glowering at
hem as they passed and grasped Mrs.
Kerr's arm convulsively.
THAT was one of them, I'm sure of
it! Norman's people, 1 mean. 1t was
one of the men who came after me
with Bill the first time escaped from
that house by the willows-but per.
haps you don't know?"
"I've heard something about it,
Mrs. Kerr's lips tightened and, lean.
ing forward, she said something to the
chauffeur in a tone so low that Janet
did not catch the words, but their
meaning was plain, for at the next
crossroads they turned and there be-