Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 145, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 30, 1915 Page: 6 of 8
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from
Blye ap-
your bills
waiting their
finger tin
ine
DENT
ONL>
the
oth
and help Jerry and
A home of any sort was
It bnd been a long nnd
lette:
Lois
bear
kind
thin
time
a to Al
-if 11
MUL/
Fede;
perst
Bill,
and
here to see her now.
He’s in the parlor.’*
in nt the parlor door
shift of her position.
ers.
ily c
mile
hard
farm
liver
says
ted and approv
-■d in the art o>
id of displaying
icgant Insolence
orgai
priva
becai
a Na
yean
menl
the one baud and to beg
It was a striking Ulus
A little
the mid
And it
matter
Aerm
Ttecor
ment
(Text
cheerfully
next morn
little dark
but mon
I beg for
tile driver.
I ll tell
fairly shoved the grim joung
husband of June Warner Into the seat
by the aide of the determined wife of
the man with the black Vandyke. The
etoprric rolled away at Its utmost speed.
waa
and
nor
the
By special arranfement for this
paper a photo-drama correspondinj
to the installments of “Runaway
Jvse" may now be seen at the lead-
ing moving picture theaters. By
arrangement made with the Mutual
Film Corporation it is not only pos-
sible to read “Runaway June” each
week, but also afterward to see mov-
ing pictures illustrating our story
whnt
Yet
U.iu
tlHSl:
Marie, who
room, Miss June,” said
everything
woman '
’Why did you leave telna?" asked the
maid, y ■ . \.
"Money, Marie. Ned gave me some
money."
Bill Wolf, the flattest and
Honoria's detectives, later.
bouse. He Jotted the number
bouse In a memorandum book
June, busy with her own thoughts,
presently found the dark eyes of Marti
up to the manageress
salon: then Tommy
fi'j<-ently June, whose
c. -e and manner
was.
listening.
by a thick thumbed Walter, who car-
ried each course out Into the ball and
ate it himself, since Ned bad scarcely
touched IL June, her thoughts all on
Ned and her fatber and mother, had
her lonely meal in the little back bed-
room with Marie to serve and to griove
over each untested dish. John Moore
and his wife, their faces gray, sat on
opposite skies of the table, which had
so suddenly become big, and sent back
to round, blaek old Aunt Debby the
delicacies she had prepared with such
deep affection. June’s collie. Bouncer,
out in the shed nibbled perfunctorily
at a chicken bone and rose whining
at every sound. Bobbie and Iris Bleth-
ering. the latter June's besomest Ijesotn
friend, disgraced the hollow butler by
omitting their salad and dessert and
having their coffee right at the table,
tlonorla Biye «nt opposite the parrot
and every time It squeaked shrilled at
it to shut np. The abnormally ugly
maid nearly had her head bumped .for
offering to remove the bird, and when
during the offer she laid her hand on
the cage the demon bit her
til the blood came.
knock at the door
had come from a pri
Ned had given them a
Mrs Boales
calls her Moore
let our Mr.go There's room for all
Of us In the limousine ” - f
Up came Mra. Blye* auto
“Yotfiw to Jump In with Mrs. Blye.
Ned. and go straight on!” Iris shouted.
~Gft rigtH tn’- Don’t <a«e a minute!’
AND
JLLIAN
“1 don’t know. My partners are
watching the front and back doors.
Come!”
Honoria bundled the flat, wide de-
I “If It’s Miss Justin you're bunting,”
said May me, “I saw her and a black
whiskered gentleman go out of tbs
back duot- not more than three minutes
ago!” „
Ned Warner plunged down the stain*“
faster than be bad gone up and slain
this
any
Marie saw
She found
cold with
corner, selecting eseb hiding place be
The runaway bride!” laughed Cun- fore he left the Itrst And the figure
wham. Gilbert Blye, blaek Vandyked.
I'm In a burry,*’ Blye explained. “1 swaggering of gait and trailing.
and one wore a sparve.
beard trimmed to a
widest ot
rapg the
Blye bell and bulked back to the din
Ing room In excitement
“Got him!" announced Bill.
Gilbert Blye’s wife was already on
her feet.
“My hat and coat!” she shrieked to
the abnormally ugly maid.
’Is she with him?” demanded Hono
»be announced, "a gentleman with a
black beat)! and a diamond ring and
a gold filling tn one tooth, fie says it’s
Mr Blye 1 lit ths parlor lump fit
nliu.”
„June wondered what she should do.
Ned Warner, riding aimlessly and
disconsolately on a street ear and laak
Ing out earnestly at every passerby,
suddenly caught eight of one pedes-
trian who made bls heart Jump. Ma-
rie: She was Jogging Industriously
atong with a bundle under bet arm and
a very clear Idea of direction apparent
in ber very speed. Ned ran after her.
At the Boales door Marte beard IBS
sound of running footsteps, turned
with normal curiosity, saw Ned,' tot
herself tn at the door and closed It
with a slam, snapped on the night lock
rtjni Hew upMatis. ...__.' /
"He’s coming. Miss June!" she cried.
“Mr Ned!’
Ned*. Juue’b heart leaped within ber,
and for a moment she was flooded with
a road impulse to run down and be
folded In tils arms and forgiven. No!
She must be strong for her own sake
and for his. for the sake of their ulti-
mate mutual self respect and tbe full-
ness of tbe love which can be founded
on that alone.
"Meet me at that little hotel to whleb
“Your name here "W t>e Therese.”
added the manageress. “You haven’t
done this before, have yonr
cove.
dispute
dollars
bad to
ber.
A lady from a group where a gray
mustacbed man with a pink face ano
Jovial eyes was standing camo ovei
and spoke to the woman. The woman
listened, her eyes following June as
she walked lu a beautiful black velvet
dinner gown The woman spoke to a
saleslady.
'■‘1 want that gown!” she snapped.
“Certainly, madam.” said tho sales
lady.
“Tell her to take it off now,” ordered
the customer. “It’s a charge account"
bo June was unceremoniously rushed
into her alcove and divested of the
black velvet gown, while the charge
account went up Tbe gown was tak
en away T he wbtnan had a girl carry
It to the credit department said she
had bought the gown, didn’t care for
it and wanted the money, $135
The manager of the credit depart
ment expostulated with tbe woman as
far as diplomacy would permit It
was not unusual to have credit cus
turners bring back goods and demand
cash, bnt it was unusual to have it
done so quickly. However, she was s
good customer, and her bills were al
ways paid
The woman rejoined her friend In
front of June’s dressing alcove and tri
umpbantiy displayed tbe money. The
busband of tbo customer came up. fu-
rious. He had been to tho credit desk
and discovered the deception,
group quickly formed around
die nged husband and wife.
It was at this moment that
peered by the side of the gray mus
tached man, and with him was Tom
my Thomas! Blye nodded bls bend to
Cunningham and said something to
Tommy. She strolled with quito cvi
dent reluctance across the floor.
"Your turn, dear,” said tbe manager
ess to June and frowned In the direc-
tion of the group.
“I give yon everything you want.”
charged the man “No woman in
town has more. You can go into
shop in New York and order
like, and I pay
graft ou me!”
"You give
ey!" shrilled
every cent 1
To give on
ou the other
tratlon of tbe principle which bad led
June away from Ned. That the wo
man is nnd must remain an object ot
charity, depend upon the bounty of tbe
man whom she married! No matter
how generous the man might be
bow penurious. tlie principle was
same.
Tbe gray mustacbed man called
manageress.
“1 would like to see that little white
dress." he said, indicating June, who
had ou another frock.
wonk. She bnd h flmef feeling In her
stomach «nrt tier <a?« begnti to widen
again ns she studied an appalling array
of coMjetica. .7
"Never mind. I’ll bo In and make
yon np "
Af iRM JhDe W«» to know haw it felt
l;--—— — ----- . '
he Is. mn’am!" shouted
into the next room,
m«it I*
green ■!<
and rest,
daughtei
trial, an
accept n
At Blyt’a club tba Umoiwtoa »topp*d.
while the black Vandyked man alight-
ed. June •rolled aa aba bad* him good
night, but aba was very thoughtful
nevertheless and troubled. Blya stood
ojllRPw steps of the club and gated
t/HWtb# receding cur with a smile ot
satisfaction.
Tbe Itmoustno s|»ed on to tbe addrww
which Biye bad given the driver. June
studied tbe bouse earnestly, it wus a
smurt looking building The windows
were brilliantly lighted. ahd In die par
lor were three young ladles In rather
striking evening drees. June gave the
driver the address of a modest hotel
Halfway to their dwUtiutiou June
cbuugi-d ber tnlnd The modest hotel
she remembered, bad a biasing lobby,
and there was no way to pass In or out
without being stared aL She guve the
driver another address.
June’s panic In her face,
the little hands of June
nervous collapse.
"East!” she snapped to
”1 duu t know the number,
you when we get there."
A few minutes later they stopped iu
front of a dingy looking building with
no light in the vestibule. Mario jump
ed out and rang tbo doorbefl. A wom-
en came to the door. They exchanged
a few brief words, and Marie rundown
to the limousine.
••It's all right, Junie. Mra. Boales
teas n nice back room for you and n
cot for me."
June stepped from the car with a
sigh of relief.
welcome now
exciting day.
"I know tbe
Marie, sweeping past with her arms
full of flufflea.
Just come tn!
they ?"
"That's ber!'
pleased. “Some
some Warner and some Justin, but her
name’s always June. There’s a black
whiskered man
Name’s Blye.
And she craned
with scarcely a
ed. but she said ’June' every
and she brought this slipper,
yours?"
“Who
J one.
“Miss Thomas, Miss—ma’nm
Boales’ constantly roving eye <a
rest ou the solitaire and the plai
(•and on June’s linger She sa
came to see you about a position.
dune cast down tier eyes in troubled
thought. Blye—he bad said be would
send some one for ber In the morning
Was there no evading (he man’s kind
nes*t? How mu I be— Absurd’. th
.course tie had got her address from
the driver of the ear. <8he went down
tbe stairs in worried concern, but in
the doorway of the parlor she stopped
in astonishment Us she BSW tier caller
For a moment tbe two beautiful young
women stood studying each othei in
admiration; then the brunette swept
forward with a gracious smile.
Later June called up the stairs, “I’ll
be back some time this afternoon. Ma
rle.*' Then June went out witb’T’dm
my Thomas!
we were first going," she directed Ma-
rte hastily, and. snatching ber nat and
eoaL she hurried down tbe stain* and
out of the back door.
June bad forgotten Gilbert Blye ab-
solutely, but be bad not forgotten ber.
He had been requested to wait, and
Mrs Boales, having correctly guessed
that June wanted tbe Invaluable Ma-
rte present at the Interview, bad been
kind enough to inform Blye to that ef-
fect Blye saw June tn flight and fol
lowed ber.
Mrs. Boales answered a violent
knocktrig at tbe door to find herself
confronted by tbe wild eyed Ned War-
ner. -i
"Where is my wife?” be demanded.
"What’s ber name?"
“Warner, Mrs. Ned Warner!"
"No. There’s a Mra Wompel here,
but she says ber busband's dead, and
a Mrs. Smith. Her husband gets home
every Saturday night. And—«ay,
what’s her first name?”
"June. She’s here! 1 saw her maid
Marie! Where
liberate and purposefuI.
June's father strode slowly np and
'down, bls lips compressed and bis
brows black He passed Ned half »I
doxen times, but they did not exchange I
a Word. ;*7*—•-
Bobble Blethering nnd the driver ot
tl»e Moore limousine bad sprung out to
repair their respective tires, but iris
Bicttiering, who had indulged in h few
vioh-nt soils us • preliminary to fur
tlier action, suddenly discovered the
ecoriomk! waste! "Here, Bobble. ' she
"I beg of you not to meuUoii IL Tbe i
favor Is to me,” Blye gallantly return I
ed. while tbe maid began to transfer j
from the tax! to the other car arm load
after arm loud of unpacked clothing
' Around the curve behind them there
dashed another limousine and a runa
bout in time for the occupants to see!
Gilbert Blye assisting June Into the j
luxurious limousine. They also saw the |
eight cylinder machine leap forward |
„^ Blyv, _un£ouscl<?ua thal tbey were be 1
ing pursued, as was tbe girl, thought!
•that he heard n shout as they gathered |
»pevd. and lie looked back In time lu.
see first the runabout and then the |
niubu^iue swerve and slow down and i
j.;. to hear two loud bangs. He grinned I
driver grinned The taxi drivel !
grinned. 'Then they wlrixxed away.
V "Why, you are the little runaway!
bride, the girl in the watch!" said j
Blye. leaning forward.
"Yes." And June blustied.
She felt the black eyes of Gilbert ■
' Blye flxe<! upon her. Could It be pos
Bible that he had followed tier? Oh. ♦
I bo! Still, he had her address in ber
„ watch and her portrait.
“Yoti were kind enough on the train,
Mr. Blye, to offer to let roe buy my !
wateb. and I’ll take it now. if you I
please."
“I’m very sorry 1 haven’t It with me. ;
But 1 shall see you another time. I am
sure " He came back from the for 4
ward seat and sat with ber.
Back near'the abandoned taxi there
..... ■. ,WM ft frantic group Ned Warner, his
face as set aa Jt It bad been chiseled
from marble, stood In the center of tlte
road with his Osts clinched until hisj
imps dug IntoTils palms. There could
be bo doubt now that Gilbert Blye’s
inu-snlf rtf Xed w wife, June, was de 1
to earn om'i owb 11
mingled exhllaratJou
the > outemplatlon ot that remsrkabi.
rX|wrienc«.
As June peered out of ber dressing
alcove a middle aged man and woman
paused in a vigorous argument Tbe
woman wanted money, and tbe man
would not give H. Then June wa>>
called and came out and paraded slow
ly down between tbe two long rows ut
chairs There were a hundred or more
women nud some men. Occasionally
one ot tbe women beckoned to ber and
made her turn and walk away and
come beck. •
-• Bha bad displayed perhaps half a
dozen gowns when the middle aged
man and woman obstructed her pas
sage way as she came out of the al
They were still in an energetic
about tbe money. A hundred
the womkn wanted, and she
have itl The mau finally left
Honoria Blye, sitting at her parlor
j window and exchanging the thought*
ot tbe morning with ber green feath
; efed familiar spirit, saw loafing across
f from her bouse a long, han, lanky
j num with a sparse Mark beard t*res
I ently tbe doorbell rang, and one of the
| wide, low detectives came In with an
I air of great exhaustion
"Nothing doing, ma’am,” be reported
! "Blinky Peters and I watched youi
I husband's club all tbe time. Sneaky
I Tavts has shadowed Warner's apart
I merits, nnd I’m to go lot him got some
j sleep.”
"Are you sure my hbsband nnd Unit
girl haven't left the city?” she asked.
“They didn’t go from any regular
railroad station," stat<*d Rill Wolf, with
conviction.
Ned Warner at about the same time
i received a report of similar discotir
| agenient from tbe long, lean, lanky de
I tectlve. There had been found no
■ trace of June Warner nor of Blye
I Without thought of detectives, but
i keeping a watchful eye lest she should
i see Ned or her parents, June went
| boldly forth. She was thoughtful ns
’I Tommy Thomas ushered her into a
waiting hansom, for this friend ot Gil
| oert Blye’s was expensively gowned
j h»hI seemed to live In unusual freedom.
In one of tbe big department stores
June was taken
of the French
went away, au<i
I face nud tlgjute.
1 find !><•<• n Jt'HIHiy In
! ed, was lieing lusn
parading in a gowo
tbe proper degree <-t
to Impress eitstome -
A sleepy looking it cored maid came
in. nnd some girls b ought tn gowns
shrouded |n white txieje
"Tbe canary, M.t*id.' ordered the
menngeiess, poking tier head between
' the- curia ins. end the sleepy cbiored
, maid slowly took flown tbe bng con
talniug the canary evening frock.
‘Whnt Is your first name, ch lid F' -—
June Hurried Down the Stairs.
“No, be ain’t! Has be dared to go up
to ber room in my bouse?"
Ned burst past her and sprang up
Blye saw in June Warner's tbe stairs.
room the tall, lean, lanky de- *"T‘First door to the right!" yelled Mrs.
Beales.
Nothing happened. Ned buret to at
tbe first door to tba HgbL Tbe room
,Den
bank
twenl
withe
_ Tht
ing J
teres!
Biye was in front of bls Club with u
gray mustacbed, jovial looking, pink
faced man when the car returned.
"Where did you take her. Bcatti?"
Biye asked.
“She wouldn’t stop at Mother Kus
Mi’s," begun Scattl confidentially
She’’ —
"We know that,” interrupted tbe
gray mustacbed man. Orin Cunning
team.
•There was no number on tbo bouse,
boss, but I can find It"
“Drive us there,” directed Blye.
Down on the dingy cast side street he
tried earnestly to pin down Scotti's
dizzied memory. Up and down Blye
moved, seeking in every window for
some sign of the runaway bride. Bud
denly his eye caught the glint of some-
thing in a vestibule. Ho ran up the
steps. The glittering object was a
buckle on a dainty little slbitier. one
which June’s collie ,had earned, down
to the taxi for ber when she had stolen
her clothes and Marie from her fa
ther’s
of tile
was going to b«M> S9<)4 to you,” M»ri»
pstbetloally oboerved. "and you ran
away from him because be waa. Tun
should go back. My atoter’a'huxtmu <
beats ber." i
June shook ber bead "Gel me a
newspaper. Marie,’* sfas requested
June bad a new problem to i-uufrout
now. She must earn a Hvtug sod It
waa a subject which she bad never
considered except iu tbe vagtn haze tri
romance. When Marie returned with
tbe paper,abe etudled the wanTads
with curioua interest.
Meanwhile Blye and Orin Cunning
bam drove to tbe bouse where Blye
had first directed June.
“Send Tommy down." directed Blye
pacing tbe floor thoughtfully.
Scattl. storing many things lu his
mind, turned bls swarthy face toward
the window and presently saw Tommy
come Into the room, the vivacious bru
nette girl whom June bad seen. Scattl
saw Cunningham rise and the three
conversing earnestly. Blye showed
Tommy the picture in the lid of the
little gold watch Tommy was not
highly pleased from the very begin
nlng The men grew stern, and then
Scattl saw them reduce tier to subtntet
stveness. She walked away and pres
enrty rnrne back wearing an evening
wrap of creamy colors. The three hill
rled out and got into the car They
drove down into tiie dingy east side
street where June lay in the sleep oi
blessed rest Blye had Tommy take
careful note of the house.
Boales
lady to see
*ft* *#• toe you when wu camb bore tbal I hoi
?e la full Ot bard- to >env* at v—r-
Of coarse w« know where you are
going.’’ Tommy cbaliengud him.
,1 June was sitting lu ber lonely HttlO
ships and that bounty might have its
advanugew
Gilbert Blye wee waiting for her at __-___ _
tbe corner, mmvo, pleasant, smiling, bedroom waiting for MaMe. Whom ebo '
She bed nevef mpt a man wbo raised bB(1 M.llt ont to a drog gtore" tor toU«t j
bls bat with more courtly grace than urttetes Mr*. Bogle*suddenly knocked,
tee. He asked. If be might watt with ■ gentlemen tu are Mia* Juetin."
ber a little way, and abe aaw no ree-1
souable excuse to refuse Mm after his
consideration of the morning. He aym 1
patbtzed with her, and be extended bis
walk to tbe door of ber lodging*. He
held ber band a moment overlong tn
parting, and tbe wheezing Mrs. Boales.
ber cold eye looking from the area win
dow. saw him bending over her tn
smiling persuasion.
There were unhappy dinners in New
York that nlghL Ned Warner, afraid
to leave tbe headquarters he had es
tabilshed. find his dinner brought In
CHAPTER tit.
y.n UNE bustled quite
I about her toilet tbe
I Ing and chose a I
isLJ gray suit ns, txflug the least
conspicuous, for now she was to be a
working girl. 4
Suddenly there was a wheezing amt
n rustling at tbe door and a seraplnu
as if some one were bending to Halen
at tbe keyhole, a silence and then a
knock. It was Mrs.
’There's n young
Miss—Miss" -
“Justin," snapped
given that name by a brilliant
of IntellecL
"Yes, Mary,” wheezed Mrs Bottles.
“That wasn’t the name the youttp
lady gave. First she said Mootv. uiul
then she said Warner, and then sin
saidjhnt Justin was right, she guess
time
- TeWtmy"'Wiw Not Highly Plaased.
• ■ - -A .
fixed steadily-on her In the glass She
missed Mnrie’s red gums, which were
always showing, trot tbert was no
for fo
time I
Lik<
hu.ky
against
“Certainly,” replied tbe manageress!
She hurried over to June and said.
"Come, Therese!”
A warm hand caught June’s wrisL
and a voice said:
“You're stunning!
about'?"
Tommy Thomas It
The two girls stood
The gray musLaehed man rose.
“If this is the sort of attention I
receive in this shop I will give It no
more of patronage." he declared an
grily to tbe manageress.
Blye. smiling, saw tbe superintend
ent enter and called Ills attention to
tbe grayf mustacbed man, and the su
perintendent hurried over and met Orin
Cunningham, whose cheeks puffed
with anger.
“What Is the matter?" nsked the sii
perintendent
"Matter!" blazed Cunningham. "I’ve
been asking this saleswoman for half
an hour to let tne see that little white
dress," lie pointed to June, “find I am
ignored, sir!”v
Tho superintendent turned to t tee-
manageress. "Madam Ktflng, what I*
ttso trouble?"
It’s a new model,” explained the
manageress. "1 can’t get her to pay
ai*i utteailMamjHftto’’—.--------
‘Then discharge her at once!" order
ed the superintendent nnd turned on
his 11661. ........
Madam Efiing stalked straight ovet
to June.
“You are discharged!" she snapped.
••Ohl” June was stunned. '•
"No excuses, plenfei" grated tbe man
ageress. > v
“Madam!” called tba vivacious Tom-
my Thomas, but madam only glared at
her and stalked away, while June
walked Into her dressing alcove to
know, with bym^athy for all’the other
glria la ber position. Juat how 11 feel*
to be discharged.
Meantime Tommy Thomas, tbe look
of concern fading from her liandaome
June** vofev was faint nnfl countenance, hurried over and joined
Orin Cunningham and Gilbert Blye.
The three left the department ~~
When June emerged from ber dress
Ing sicov* Madam Effing wns there nnd
without n word gave her a tittle yeliow
envelojiO. With thia In hei hand June
tective~lnto her electric and’ staff(HI+'
the machine
• "Where?’’ she majestically demanded
“Riverside drive! I'll show you the*
place! |
"is be still in, Blinky?" demanded’
Bill Wolt, tumbling out of the ran |
chine and landing right end up.
Blinky Peters was too good a de 4
tectlve to answer in words He gave
an upward toss of his round head and
a wink of his flsblike eye nnd walked
into the building with an atr of not!,
having seen Bill Wolf at all.
“Fifth!” ordered Blinky, leaning over
to whisper that magic word mysteri
ously into the ear of the curly haired
elevator boy. The boy did not mind.:
He was used to all sorts. He sent up
the elevator with a jerk. Out at tbe
fifth floor. First door to tbe right.
Now! A ring at the doorbell. Husbt
The door swung open, and immedl
ateiy Blit Wolf pushed tn Tbe
ers crowded after him.
"There
plunging
Honoria
drawing
tectlve with the sparse black beard,
wbo was the caricature of her band-
some husband! Ned Warner followed
iu ffinw» ttee reception room. ......—wns empty! “* J.1'—-4- ' ■ - -r-
"Whnt am 1 to understand by this. Then iip climbed MayntoWtMli'the,
Mrs. Blye?” he inquired .maid.
“Yon ought to know, 'you!" gruffly
charged "Sneaky’ Tavts, who had fol-
lowed the others, and. whirling, he
pointed nt the caricature. “That’* ber
husband!”
“Shut upr squawked Mra. Biye and
went borne.
Gilbert Blye «t that time was quite med out of tbe back door, to find him
far from the scene of Honoria’* cap* self confronted by the endless uni
tttre or even of Ned’* wandering*. He verse! To the right or to the left?
wns dining with Tommy Thoma*, and And when be reached tbe alley mouth
a rather elderly woman, and a doll- which way then? Right or left?
Hke girt with swiftly advancing erow** th the toeantittHff ttre fTrivto * June.
feet at tbe corner* of her eye*, and hurrying aimlessly, looked back at ev-.
Orin Cunningham, nnd a heavy lidded, ery turning to see If the man she loved
short haired, Mg man named Edwards, were following her. t _____
whom they called T. J. With tbe at- At each turning a dnrk figure, nttfirtt*
riifai of the coffee Blye told tbe time er then «tee. sprang Into hiding behind
from a tiny gold watch, the only one tree trunk or gatepost ot doorway or
J- THIRD EPISODE
CHARIER I.
EOWN the dark boulevard
Bryuport weaved and bumped
and rattled u lone taxlCab.
with a high i>v«ered limousine
steadily gaining on It ' A black Yau
dyked man In the limousine begun to
tees something out of tbe window as
ip passed tbo taxi ut breakneck speed
Ho emlled as be beard a loud report
Hke tbe explosion of n revolver, then
another. He knocked on tbe driver’s
Window, and aa the car ruine to a
•top he looked behind The tun nad
drawn up. He hastily replaced under
toe seat the hamper to which be bad
broken to bits *U It* porcelain and
^BUmware. A tall, gaunt girl, distinct
jy a maid, was out. Impatiently survey
Ing the flat tires of the taxi, when tbe
toneualne, lu bright dome light sinl
denty flashing np, backed alongside.
The black Vandyked man stepped
down
"Perhaps I can offer your passengers
the use of my machine,” be suggested.
That relieved young woman ojatied
the door of tho taxi and pr»ked her
bead Ibside.
"There ain’t anything else we can do
Miss Junie, ’ she whispered
“1 suppose not," came a sweet voice
from tbe taxi, and the fade of a beau-
tiful young girt appeared in the win
dow. She started as she saw tbe black
Vandyked man, Gilbert Blye! Ho stood
bat doffed, politely
ceptance. •
"You’d better go,
taxi driver. "This
miss, busked the
old tub’ll be here
tomoFrow morning."
June Warner slowly stepped down
•Tbank you," she managed to mur
mur.
CHAPTER II.
J' ~' UST where one turns from tbe
Concourse into tbe narrow lane
of the interminable Mott street
construction work the Moore
limousine overtook Honoria Blye’s elec-
tric. Mrs. BJye let Ned nllglit She
drove home. Her husband bad long
since t>reeeded her From n “secret
drawer of ids desk ho took some pa
pen* and stuffed them in Ids pocket;
then lie called tho abnormally ugly
Blye maid to help him with n trunk
They were in tbe ball with the lug
gago when Honoria let herself in She
seized the situation nt a glauce and
without a word laid hold of tbe trunk
But R!y«, aided by Scattl, dashed
away.
Ned Warner meantime bad driven
straight to tbo apartments which he
and June find fitted up He leafied
mptrfty Thrnngh the triepfin-nc (fircc
tory, called a number and delivered hi-*
message At tbo other end of the wire
n rod faced man listened and nodded
then called tn from rta adjoining room
three men. who by some strange coin
cidence were lean and long and lanky
One was smooth faced and cadaver
ona of cheek
haphazard black
point
There was a
Three detectives
vale agency
mlulaturo of June.
Meanwhile Mrs Blye tu the presem e
of the parrot wns also giving instrne
Hons to detectives. She gave them a
photograph of Gilbert Blye and warn
ed them Unit there was to be no pub
lleity
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Edwards, W. C. Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 145, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 30, 1915, newspaper, January 30, 1915; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1213901/m1/6/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.