The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-19

and the old lady what git excited and her son" His eyes narrowed Shall I keel Adrian Fouche?"
 NO, Gabreau. The men don't worry me"
 "Eef dey do" Gabreau's eyes aid the rest. "Umberto git up to- night. Umberto will not worry you, lo."
 Juanita watched Gabreau go | town the stair. It was true. Um- ,erto would not worry her, for Jm5erto feared Divitt as well as Iabreau. Even Gabreau need not | ear Umberto's stab in the back; because of that Umberto would never have come into her room, rad she not opened her door to i'm. Molly had called next eve ling, bringing some clothes for liner.
 "It's no use, honey" Molly had old her while she lay recovering rom the hardest IA hours sleep he had ever known. "Divitt and know. You thought Umberto was Iabreau and let him in. Course \ Jmberto didn't know you thought ! hat. Does it surprise you l know t? Why, Umberto saw you trying he gate. Then that night in the oarlors when you saw Ga5reau you vent to him like shot. And what ne was saying wasn't about the cigarettes.
 "Gabreau would set fire to the French quarter if you told him to- But what would happen to him ii le let you loose. to get us in trou-
 ,le?"
 The day before Juanita would
 nave interrupted to swear she
 would tell nothing if they woulc
 ct her go. Now she lay looking al
 Molly, caring not at all.
 What would happen to Gabreau
 would be pretty bad, for Divitt vii 1 stand mighty near anything bui
 sreachery. That gate to get ou Iby opens on the patio of the TiJor 1 hotel Divitt was in the lobby then
 T never tried to get away, bu l when I first come was lots goin
 on I didn't like. I figured-lf wasn't doin the things how di' | they concern me? You're doir
 nothin' wrong here, and no harm goin to come to you. You've go
 your reasons to hide, and your
 hid, long as you play square Juanita had played square a ', week. Her meals were served l her room on little marble-toppef rosewood table Molly had picked u
 at Pierre's. Conchita seemed
 find joy in concocting new disht for Juanita.
 If she was a prisoner, no or Fl could have been kinder than ht ! keepers. Molly brought her boof and stamped linen with brlgf thread. But the books had rS \ mained unread, and the embroidel ) had lain in her lap, while she lool
 ed into the patio, seeing nothlf f unless in memory or. dreams.
 Once she had begun letter, u Ling the fly-leaf of a book, b ihad halted. How would she ms
 a letter? Not through Gabreau. Sl lit to some one as she moved amor
 the tables? Divitt would see. The was no move she might make tn v some one would not see. is Dear Pedro" she had write :" Don't worry about me in And then she had torn the le lg ter into bits burning them in t as great pewter wash basin, and n J. sat staring into the patio, o Yes she was hidden--safe a sd sound. as Molly had said. N
 that she had stopped shaking ss her bars, she relaxed in the us curity they gave. Kind keepers, he pleasant prison. Her open wind ee let in an oleander- resented co 
 ' ness. There was languor in TO air, balm that she seemed nd lie upon like quiet breast. " All day in her room, and then d. night among the players. At Il as it had seemed incredible that t scarf beneath her eyes could bt Li III disguise. Surely any one who ;s ever known her would know ms. again, meeting her eyes. Yet ms faces were unfamiliar. ills Often the glances and the wo by they gave were insults, yet ne- should care? These men could
 reach her. Divitt stood in the W aa. Gabreau. And now-now they 9 dom spoke to her at all, belieV ~s she was Turkish. Molly had
 (tonly one person that the mysl
 ious lady had escaped from |
 em in Istambul-yet how it had
 about lThe canard was shut
 her in as securely as the walls
 Music was coming from the 1T { dining room as Juanita crossed
 patio. She took the tray and
 gan her pacing among the tai
 IT Some one was beckoning from