The Indianapolis times., 1930-01-31
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE (Con-
tinued)
OUT OUR WAY


tinued)
JUDITH knew that she had failed.
j But won't you listen to me?"
she begged. Don't you see 1 just
want to help you?"
"Oh. you do?" sneered the girl
OH the bed. Want to help your
self, you mean. Get me out of the
way so you can dig deeper into my
fathers dough!
'I've understood that all along
from the beginning. Makes you sore
because II see through your graft,
doesn't it?"
Judith moved her lips to speak
but Tony went ahead:
Listen, my blonde friend" she
said. Ever since you've been in
this house there's been trouble.
You've turned my father against
me You've got him so he suspects
everything I say or do.
"You make him think what you
do is perfect and everything I do
is a sin. And now if you'll take
my advice you'll clear outl Be-
cause let me tell you, Miss Snoopy,
that things will happen you're not
looking for. And what's more, you'll
go! Now get out of here and let
me sleep"
It was no use!
Without a word Judith arose, left
the tray where it stood and went out
of the room. Then she Shut the
door behind her, leaning against it
weakly for a moment and Clench-
ing her hands SO tightly they colored
first red and then white.
"Oh, God" she prayed, don't let
me hate her sol"
Crossing the hall into her own
room, Judith paced back and forth,
back and forth for several minutes.
She was tired, nervous and over
wrought. At last, thoroughly eX-
hausted, she crept to the bed and
fell asleep.
TINE situation in the Knight
Il household became unbearable.
For two miserable days the atmoS-
phere was alternately tense with
impending drama or nerve-wracking
in its silent gloom.
Arthur stormed at Tony. At times
the girl stormed back and at other
times she wept. She had been for
hidden to take out the car In re-
taIiation Tony refused to leave her
bedroom.
Judith felt like a lost soul. wan
dering between the two. She was
aware that the younger girls an
tagonism toward her had crystal
lized.
Vaguely she understood the dan
ger and yet she did not think of the
one likely spot where Tony Knight
could strickland strike sure! This
was unfortunate.
She could not tell if Tony COM
municated with Mickey Mortimer
or not, but believed she did. There
was a telephone extension in the
girls room. Moreover. Tony was
reSourceful and she was rebelliouS.
Judith. foreseeing no end to the
wretched state of affairs. began to
face new terrorS. Things could not
90 on much longer. She was afraid
Tony would commit some horrible
act of revenge-perhapS go away
with Mortimerl
1t was these thoughts which
drove Judith Knight finally to her
lamentable course of action. She
telephoned to Andy Craig.
It was the morning of the third
day Tony had kept to her room.
The idea came as a sudden inspira-
ton while Judith was checking
over household accounts for the
week. She sat at her writing desk.
neat pad of paper before her and
pencil in hand; but instead OF copy
ing figures and adding them in tidy
columns, Judith was making odd
little squares and circles and then
blackening them
Andy CRAIG
AS though a sudden ray of light
had come pouring through the win
dow, writing Andy'S name in let
ters of gold and scattering the
desolation. Judith sat up very
straight in her chair. OF course
Andy was the one person to whom
10 appeal.
She hurried downstairs. passed
through the living room into Ar
thurs study and shut the door
carefully behind her. Then she
took down the telephone receiver
and called the number OF Hunter
Brothers.
Quite reckleSSly she asked to
speak to Andrew Craig and then,
when she heard his voice, an
nounced, This is Judith"