Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-08
SERIAL FICTION
She Painted Her Face
4 stony Of eaue and intrigue BY DoRNF0RD YATES

knowing that you were involved /. /.
And yet"
my darling, what are you say
ing?"
I turned to meet Elizabeth's star
tied eyes.
Then she laid down her brush and
came and put her hands on my
shoulders.
"Can you get what I'm saying,
Richard? Or are you all in?"
"I'm all right, my beauty, but I'm
too tired to make plans"
'I'll make them for you," she
said; land now listen to me. When
you leave this room, you must go
by the way that you came. That is,
by the picture-gallery. There you
must pick up Winter and enter the
tower. And so to bed At seven
Winter cancels the horses - you
gave him that order last night, by
my request. He calls you again at
nine: but, because there is no one
to call me, I sleep till ten. Then l
find that Elsa has gone: and after a
little find that she's taken some
of my things. But you don't even
know that-because neither you nor
your servant were out of the tower
all night. -
eyes, I've got that" l said.
cts vital. Richard-vital. If we
say anything, we've got to say ev-
erything And, except for Old Har-
ry and Herrick, no one must ever
know what happened tonight" She
raised her eyebrows there and gave
a little shake of her head. 81 don't
know what stuff I'm made of, but
it hasn't upset me at all. Neither
was fit to live-quite apart from the
fact that you did it in self-defense
But the fact remains that you've
been the death of two men
and one of those men was the cousin
with whom I have been brought up
My darling, listen to me. 1t
simply must not be known that the
man whom I am to marry put Per-
cy Virgil to DEATH"
eyes, 1 see that" l said some
how. "All right. I'll keep my coun-
sci, and Winter will hold his
tongue" I put my arms about her
and held her close. kiss me good
night, my lady. The dawn will be
coming up, and want you to get
to bed"
AS I kissed her mouth, she took
my head in her hands
Good night" whispered.
Goodnight, my beautiful girl -'
l let her go, slipped into my sod
den coat and laid my shirt over my
arm. Two minutes later we stood
in the picture-gallery.
BY the light of the staircase-tur-
ret, set up the eloquent harp. Then
I turned to her standing beside me,
picked up her little hand and put it's
palm to my lips.
"Sleep we'll, sweetheart, whis-
pered
"And you, my dear. Look. I'll
keep my door open until you get to
the hall"
So she lighted me on my way .
When came to the head of the
staircase, | purposely bore to the
left, and an instant later a torch
was flashed into my eyes.
"Well done, Winter said l. "And
now we'll 60 back to the tower.
That's enough for tonight
In my room gave him his or
ders One of these concerned the
suit which | was so glad to take off
"Let no one see you do it, but
when you can tomorrow, conceal
this suit in the Rolls. And the next
time l send you for petrol, stop in
some lonely place, cut my name
out of the jacket and burn the lot. ;"
Every good, SIR" said Winter,
blinking "And-and what about
this?"
"My shirt? oh, that doesn't mat
ter. Hang it out on"
And there I stopped dead.
He was not holding my shirt.
What he was holding was one of
Elizabeth's dainty chemises with
which had rubbed myself down.
ITO BE CONTINUED)