The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-18
Chapter 14 A NEW MENACE


 A luxuriously furnished TO o m with it's private bath-in a house of crooks!
 Enid smiled wanly to herself as she rose from the bed and, in the darkness, hastily began to don her clothes.
 The room seemed somehow curi- cusly to epitomize the long after noon hours of mental turmoil and torment through which she had just passed: it seemed to stand for so much, to point so far, to typify the times--in these modern days outlawry and banditry were well and comfortable, even impreg- nably, perhaps, entrenched in New York
 But in an intimate, personal way this room went far beyond all that it frightened her
 It was the material evidence or Roy's illicit prosperity, because 1t was something of which he was proud-something in her heart and soul she knew he would not readily forego.
 She tried to face the problems suuarely to view it from all angles; but she had not been able to see the end. Roy was as certain and assured that he was not Roy as she was certain that he was. A strange and bitter inpassel This cowardly thing that they had done to him, this cruel, irreparaDle vronpl She did not know whether hy medical aid there would be any way of restoring his memory 10 him-and even if there were, would he submit?
 She could not see into the fu- ture but there was the immediate present, and her decision in regard to that stood forth clearly defined Whatever the ultimate outcome might be she would strive to wean him from his life of crime, ana meanwhile to the best of her ability prevent and stand between hlm ana the commission of any projected felonious act. Her face was very grave ana troubled now as she hurried on Witn her dressing. Yes, she knew well enough what she was attempting perhaps it was the impossible.
 The only way she could prevent A crime was to have preknowledse of the fact that it was to be com nitted; and the only way she couio obtain the pre-knowledge was py keeping in contact with and Win ming the confidence of Roy and those around him-yes, even to that pseudo MT. and Mrs. Kane, for in- stance! Duplicity! She must become a past mistress in the art of du- plicity if she were to have any hope of success whatever.
 Well, she had made beginning! They thought that, early as it was not much after o'clock-she had settled down for the night, Tor when when Roy had put his head inside the door a little while ago to ask how she was and to say that he was going out, she haa told him she was feeling comfort able and believed she could sleep through the night if she were left undisturbedl
 But she, too, was going out! That warning which she had told herself must reach Phil Martin had scarcely been out of her mind. That was where she was going now to warn Phil
 At the time she had not known how, or see any way by whlcn this could be done--she had known oply that somehow and at all costs she must get word to him. But she believed now that it was no' to prove so difficult after all, an1 that it could even be accomplished with almost perfect safety
 She had realized that she couiS neither trust nor bribe anyone Il the house to help her, that shl must depend wholly upon herself and that to lie there in bed wa to accept defeat from the outset And so. when Roy had left tn room that afternoon, she had go out of bed.
 She had been little dizzy bu she had been relieved to find tha she was not nearly so weak as sn had expected. She had walked : the window-and found her prob lem solved for her. Her room va on the ground floor and only a fe' fset from the ground itself. It wa the way out, she had told nersel when it got dark. :.
 The rest of the afternoon sn had divided between intervals bed and intervals of walking, bare footed, silently up and down an