Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-12-28

Ter WHICH, every
thing else, he wanted to
know. This supremeIy Inn
portant question was:
What had happened to Kitty HEWITT
1t had been amazing to him how
fear for her safety had, during the
past week. dominated his thoughts.
the more amazing whenever he reck-
oned the hours-not four. altogether
through which she had been an actual
factor In his life Were he merely to
obliterafe the memory Of half OF n
night. drop out one short flight of
time between two In the morning and
dawn, Kitty Hewitt-and whatever
might have happened to her-would
become nothing to him Yet Bertram
Darand, NJ D., could not have obliter-
ated that memory had he wanted to:
and decidedly. he did not want to.
That night, at the beginning Of those
marvellous hours. he had been In bed
Mt his somewhat shabby lodgings-an
ordinary, Insignificant. unsuccessful
young doctor.
Outside In the storm, at the door be-
low his window, had stood hat girl
that strange girl who had breathlessly
summoned him. .Oh. hurry. pleased
Surgical bag. doctorI" She proved to
be young and fair and 1.-THE and most
extraordinarily alive. Her name. she
safd. was Hewitt
One Of the gang had been shot; a
young man he was, scarcely more than
boy-and rnther handsome. Ber-
tram recognized the pale face: Eddie
PeIlen--EddIe the Immune. newspa-
pers called him-notorious gangster.
and 70 serious was his wound that he
WIS likely to die. that was why the
sinister. pig-eyed man called Crane.
who watched over him. had sent
Hewitt-Kitty. Crane called her-in
such haste for q surgeon. II was too
late now to correct her mistake In the
man she had brought. so Crane had
set Bertram Darand. N. d.. to work ;
and there. In the bedroom OF the fiat,
with the lovely Kitty Hewitt helping
him. he had executed the most skill
full operation of his life to save tha
wounded gunman. Eddie the I'm
mune-- And when the job was done,
Bertran knew that Crane meant to
take no chances with him Crane
meant to make him perfectly .safe-'
He had paid him a generous fee, but
In the same moment posted men to
follow him from the fiat and get" him.
Beyond a bit OF a doubt they would
have finished him but for what Kitty
Hewitt did For she. who had by mis-
take brought him into that place. also
got him out and away. scot free Then
she had disappeared-to return Il
them But what was the price she
had to pay7 How had the gang fin.
ished her for embarrassing them7
III tormenfed Bertram Darand when
ever he had thought about her: and
this torment formed a habit OF sur
prising him at sudden intervals
when he WIS consciously occupying his
mind with other matters. After all. whs
was Kitty Hewitt-and what was he,
relation TO those men7 There was
nothing he could do In her behalf foi
her punishment-death or whatever
else the evilIooking Crane had de
creed-must. several days ago. hav,
been wrought.
Oddly enough. Kitty Hewitt's pun
isfment visuaIized itself In startling
images at the hour of half-past -four or
this cool November afternoon as Ber
tram having concluded a period o.
formal Idleness af his downtown OF
lice (where patients. ~ he insisted
were rs rare AZ January strawber
ries), was s~aunterinx northward aloni
Lake Shore Drive Approaching ths
turreted gray ton residence OF Hugl
CosweII. he recalled that Mrs Cos
well was entertaining.
Bertrxm lOathed afternoon tea Ell
ri moi thu sort OF chap o cncount
err ut Stuffy functions Of the sort. sur
rounded by p~latoons Of chattering
f~nshionably gowned women (; there wa
none Of that about young DoctoI
Darand Yet ne turned and went In
An obsequious footman I'm mulberr,
livery tool his things and anothe
ushered him toward Mrs. Coswelli
enormous drawing room. done In ivor.
and gold and hung with tapestries
and nj once Bertram became the cen
ter Of IN accusing circle
'Bertram. where have you bee1
keeping ~yourseIfT'
You can't tell me you're 10 fright
fully busy yetT-
MY dear. one must resort to ton
sfIitis ut least TO have any hope o
seeing Doctor Darand these daysf"
Arista Cosweil was known ~
smarthostess today the yeilow-paneie'
music room and the spacious Ioung
beyond were cluttered with tables o
the Chinese gambling game mah-Jonl
and for the instruction Of novitI
ates af the g1me and N \ n o
umpire to smooth over p~erplexifies o
the scoring. I Chinese girl In colorfu
costume moved gracefully from tabl
to table
Olancfng mp fron = table where Nh
- tua settled = dispute over tn