The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-14
SYNOPSIS

Lovely Fanchon Meredith is
wanted by the San Francisco police
in connection with a murder COM
mitted by her sweetheart, "Tony."
Fanchon did not know he was a
gunman. She escapes by airplane
under the name of Smith" Aboard
is Evelyn Howard, whom Fanchon
had met on a voyage from Hawaii.
Evelyn is going to New York to
live with her aunt, the wealthy Mrs.
Carstairs. whom she never saw. The
plane crashes and Fanchon is the
only survivor. To get away from
Tony and the past, she goes to the
Carstairs home as Evelyn" A
strong bond of affection grows be-
tween Mrs. Carstairs and her
niece" Collin Carstairs is at first
antagonistic because of his "cou-
sins" Hawaiian escapades and her
self-righteous attitude when his
mother offered aid, but Fanchon's
sincerity overcomes his objections.
They fall in love. After a happy
summer at Southampton, Fanchon
makes her debut in New York. Col
lin, though realizing their relation
ship is barrier. cannot resist pro-
Tossing his love. Fanchon cannot
acknowledge hers without revealing
her identity. A few days later,
threatening note comes from Tony.
She visits him and repulses his ad-
vances. Tony informs Fanchon that
Evelyn is alive but has lost her
memory. He threatens to expose
Fanchon unless she introduces him
to Mrs. Carstairs as "Cesare Gill;"
CHAPTER XXI
Jennie Carstairs and Collin
watched her that night with some
anxiety. She looked tired. She had
used rouge, an unusual camouhage
for her. Her gaiety was forced, over
a bridge table later. and her laugh
ter. What, they wondered, had hap
pened to herr Jennie. however, had
her own heartsick solution, for it
would not be long now before Collin
would be sailing, for England; on
the first stage of his journey to the
Far East. Jennie thought. unhap-
PLY, she does care for him; I was,
after all, misled.
Two days later, when Jennie Car.
stairs came home from an afternoon
spent in arguing with the other
members of certain charity COM
mittec and came home tired, think
ing of a quiet talk with her son and
her niece, thinking of tea and relaxa-
ton, she was met at the door by
Jameson with the information that
Miss Evelyn had a caller and that
Mr.. Collin had not yet returned to
the apartment.
On her way to her bedroom, Jcn-
ME glanced into the drawing room,
fancying that perhaps Evelyn was
entertaining one of the girls she
knew or one of the ubiquitous young
men. TO her establishment, she saw
her deep in a low voiced CONVERSE
ton with man who was perfectly
strange to Jennie. A dark. young
man. very Latin in appearance, very
graceful. very we'll dressed, who
stood over by the window and held
a cigarette loosely in his fingers.
Jennie moved away, but Fanchon
looked up and saw her.
Aunt Jennie" she said, and Mrs.
Carstairs noticed her painful flush.
The stranger moved away from
the window.
Jennie Carstairs came into the
room. She had a magnificent silver
fox fur over one arm. She had pearls
At her throat and in her ears. All
this the young man noticed. The
Carstairs jewels were rather famous.
Some of them Jennie rarely wore
as they adorned safe deposit vault
instead.
Fanchon rose.
Aunt Jennie, may ! present my
old friend, Mr.. Cesare Gilli?" she
said, quietly. but her heart was lead
en- within her.
! Collin Carstairs postponed his sail
ing. 1t was perfectly evident to
him that quietly. almost uhobtrusive-
ly and. as it were, naturally. Cesare
Gill had become an intimate of the
Carstairs household. H0was rather
silent young man. who spoke Of his
past Flerentine existence rarely, and