Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-14

horse over mountain trails, and not
see another human being but your
guide all day long?"
Sounds pretty good.' Gage
Igrunted. Got a cook who can give
a man plain ham and eggs without
drowning 'em in a gummy sauce?'
Barry leaned back with a grin of
pure relief.
"Ill guarantee both the cook and
the appetite.'
"What kind of accommodations
have you? I'd want to bring Mrs,
Gage. She hasn't been we'll lately
Barry politely swallowed his dis
may. His one meeting with Mrs
John Gage had left him with the
recollection of a dazzling LONELINESS
and probably not much else.
"There's a big log ranch house
with all the Improvements, and
electric current. Of course it ism
town."
"That's all right. The change
do her good"
They went down together in a
private elevator Barry had won a
victory, but he wondered grimly
what Nancy was going to do to
keep the lovely Paula from being
bored to Mysteries.
Barry turned briskly back from
the curb intending to find the near
est telephone and break the glad
to Nancy. He took two steps
and slowed down.
A few yards ahead of him a man
was signaling a taxi. Barry had
vaguely noticed the same man
lettering in the corridor when they
had come out. Instead Of a trim
he wore a well-htting blue
but Barry knew him. As Ken
needy stepped into a taxi Barry
his finger at another.
"Follow that black and white"
he said, and slammed the door.
Once they lost sight of it, but
driver expertly picked up
the trail. Barry was beginning to
feel slightly ashamed of the unrea-
impulse which had sent him
careening across town.
They were in a shabbier, buster
district now. The black and white
taxi had gained on them again. 1t
swung in to the curb in front of a
dingy-looking entrance, and Ken
nedy got out.
''Tll stop here"
Barry tossed a bill to the driver.
Having made a complete idiot of
himself, he would walk back for a
few blocks and put in a call to
For his self-respect he stepped
into a doorway, inclined to grin at
himself. 1t gave him a good view
Of the hotel. Another taxi had just
up. A small, slim figure
stepped out, and looked around
quickly. Girl and man vanished into
the dingy portals of the hotel.
Anne looked hastily around the
uninviting lobby.
Don't like it?' Kennedy sent an
amused CLINT at her.
"Of course not. And what did
you mean by saying that I was
being watched in Granleigh?"
'Just a bright little deduction of
mine. Somebody saw us the other
l heard it from the little
boss before I'd been back
half an hour"
$50 it was Cleo!' Anne said it
under her breath, as though she had
forgotten Kennedy's existence.
"That was just a little tip-off,"
Kennedy informed her. "The rest
you won't like. I think you'd better
go away, Nancy!'
"That's preposterous!" An angry
color famed, but fright was crowd
ing anger aside. "What possible ex-
could I give to Barry?"
I'm afraid that's up to you. I
say it will be easy" He low
cred his voice, significantly eau
tious. II saw Gage the other day.
He may have recognized me-"
HE doesn't even know that I
am in Granleigh.'
"But he's likely to find it out
any day, and when he does, things
are going to happen. If he lets
one of us hang around in
the same county, after what hap
pened last May, it will Just be a
present from Santa Claus. You and
I are out of the picture, Nancy,
and we may have to take a sudden
journey any day. I mean to do it
Pm ready, and you'd better