Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-03
CHAPTER III
Lola was fast losing her nerve

CHAPTER III
Lola was fast losing her nerve.
"You mustn't write notes-no one
must ever know where I am, Lee!'
she cried.
"No one will ever know" he as.
sured her. Remember, you are 6
Forbes-keep your head and your
nerve"
"But Think have killed my sons
father!"
"He deserved killing. Don't talk
sit quietly. l will see you through.
must plan. I must make it appear
as though l had gone into Northern
Canada"
"But -think-I shot him-he
was going to kill me. 1t was self de.
Tense, but his cruel relatives will"
She broke down at last and Forbes
knew enough to let her have her agony
Of weeping over; she would be calm
and sane again.
He wasn't bitter. He loved his sis.
ter, his twin and the only other one
of his family left, but she wasn't
suffering all of the agony. What Of
his beloved jeanette?
And he felt that he couldn't tell hel
now-it was too dangerous. His un
fortunate sister must be saved, his
little nephew must never grow up tt
know that his mother was a murder.
ess.
Lola had her own Gethsemane right
then. He could never tell her nov
about jeanette and his marriage plans
all so swiftly sent into chaos.
He sat silently, trying to plan. He
must get her away before daylight
for it was known that he was hel
brother; they would come directly tt
his place to see if Lola had come to
him.
Lola was trying to overcome hel
hysteria of sobs. On his bed lay his
innocent little nephew, down in Con.
necticut in the Forbes homestead lay
Lola's husband-dead by her hand.
Only man of strong nerves like
Leland, could have thought coherently
through this to plan of safety.
He recalled all of the wanted" PEG.
pie caught because of some woman
No, he could never tell Jeanette the
truth for, all innocently, she might
say something to give him away anG
put the authorities on his trail.
He wrote a memo for tickets tc
Montreal and left it on his desk. He
also left Canadian Pacific time table
beside it. This would give an impress
ion that he had taken that route
Then he packed a suitcase, putting
into it the pitifully few things of hel
own and baby's that Lola had brought
He would not call taxi. Instead HI
took little Leland, his baby nephew
and the suitcase, ordered Lola t.
come with him and appear unconcern
ed, and they walked half a dozel
blocks away before taking a taxi.
He bought tickets for Richmond
knowing that he would get off a
Baltimore and go another route. For
tunately he got compartment. Ono
inside Lola whispered, fearing t
raise her voice, LELAND, it's danger
Gus to take me to your Wythevill
place, they know you have it, They'll
follow"
"I'm not going there-please trus
me. I am going into the Grayso
hjlls-I know them there and the
know and trust me. Most of ther
making moonshine for fifty year
are moonshiners. They have bee
there. In such a hidden locality tina
no revenue officer ever found then
we shall be entirely SAFE"
''No woman ever had so wonderfr
a BROTHER" she said, and, to his dc
light, she went to sleep.
The next morning they had change
trains and were going down throug
the Roanoke Valley.
When jeanette Morse received tn
note from Leland she natural
couldn't make thing out Of it.
But she had feeling, woman's in
tuition perhaps, that it was a yer
grave matter.
She went directly to the office @
Mr.. Maxim and asked him if he ha
received any message from Mr.. Fol-
bes. He looked at her queerly for
moment and parried with, did you !?