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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1919
THE GUMPS Call a Thread Specialist, Quick!
A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
' A Bloru of New Tor IAI
Bu LEROY, SCOTT
Author of "No. It Washington Suor." "Marv Ittocn," tie. '
Copyrlilit. 1419, by tho Tribune Co.
By Sidney Smith
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ItoueMon Jf Vliii Co.
CopvrtoM, 1st. m htrov Reott.
SUB straightened up with a. Jerk and n
gasp. At 0 :15 1 Why, nt 0 :15 Harry
i..i hn nttti lirr on the root ot the
Grantham t , ...
Then Harry bad not upno in
t.t. !. " .11.1 I- nil m.fln, Whit
Wad behind !...... ,
I But oren during her first minutes ot
Isstounded relief, even while sho first be
J tan to try to peer behind the event tor
' its meaning, sho precelved a fresh aspect
10 wo auair, anu bum mu r" ","-?
cued and terrified anew. For what
ever It might mean, her lire, her
dreams, wcro enmeshed In it all. J.ne
woro sho examined the Implications of
tho situation, the mora sho looked lor
ward upon its possiblo developments,
tho moro sickened did she become.
At length sho could stand it no
i ... du. i.A.i tn lfTinTiri Hhn ftnrani!
Ptip, dominated by n desperato dctcnnl-
nation. ono ubcu wuui 5
methods she bad previously used, and
at twelve o'clock sho was waiting in a
sitting-room at tho Ploia when Undo
Gcorgo entered. There was a rapid
talk with the old man, and then sbo
declared: . . . , .
"You seo how it is. I simply must
seo llarry somehow ! I've- simply got
to Know at urst uuui wuu ... ..-
(Lion is and miner"'
ft "But don't you nee the danger of your
Igolng down to tlio Tombs?" demanded
Unclo ueorgo. it . . . .
Its no greater iuuu "" ."
now. not understanding what a going
to happen. . , , .
I "Can't vou mnnngo It, Uncle George,
?"?" .. .,- ... w
'It I cant, yuen iuku um "
bt uscd-to-bo friends down there who
iren't my friends any longer, iomo
'T.1J. Y. (n.l Tannin vnllpri bcrSClf 1
RL. ...tl .. tliA nnmA Hint. Mlft tllld
worn to her Aunt Mary's burial, and
I tho plain dark suit sho had changed
Uncle George discussed ways and means
wuh ner air tne nuo uowu m iu ""
L Sranlto building with its heavily grilled
windows wmen nas oecu iuu ows:
on net in so many o the city s dramas.
"Walt hero till I get everything fixed
up," Unclo George whispered as he got
out. '
(JL. .l.. V.00V ntn thn romPP Of
u ini mwi vn?ofl mif nt tho crimv
Smllding,' so familiar a sight of her car
l,p irlrlhnnil. Harry was in there
somewhere. And it camo to her that
I long, long ago her father had lain
' ,,m.tn iiinon nnmn trrnv. imnlacablc
walls for a year and more.
Presently Unclo Georgo opened the
Lfaoor. "It's all right como on." And
I ns they crossed the sldeuaiic: "iumuj
1'VC got It H3CCU SO Weil not mwi w"
any of tho newspaper boys, who dump
out ot tneir ekius 10 nui ui
tcrious pretty girl' in this business.
The outer door of the Tombs was
opened to them, and they were ud
jnltted into a big, dingy anteroom where
uniformed clerks scribbled at desks and
Iteepers kept in line the huddled, stram-d-faced
folk who had come to make
brief visits upon relatives or friends
confined within. All her senses quick
ened to abnormal perception, Jennie
took in everything those clerks for
ever scratching down details about
prisoners, these silent, huddling vis-
. !, Unenim TinrrilrifF IfPPTlPrR ! hilt
cTcn 80, she had no slightest prevision
ji, vl iaat nine, i-u uuuutt - ---?
.U,. ,Ua i as tn lrtnV nnnn thiM KIltYie
fecene with very different eyes and under
circumstances strangely uiuerenv.
Ti.ef aa nacaoD in thn 1nnpr llTISOn
iJ MQif, o jvj v m a-v A'-- ' ,
were nnnded tucm, Jennie oecumc cou
Bcious of a figure immediately behind
her that wore n derby hat, and had a
heavy, impassive face. Her brain
flashed back four years; a jet fmtber
fear clutched her.
"Hello, Unclo George," said the
man.
"Hello, Casey," replied Uncle George.
'That was somo little pinch you made
of Edwards last night."
"My side partner really picked Ed
wards off; just called me in to help
him," replied Casey.
Hero in this great jail and that Casey
beside her! With her every sharp
breath Jennie expected the detective's
hand to fall heavily upon her shoulder.
But Casey allowed them to pass on;
apparently he had not even seen her.
Sho was searched by two matrons,
was admitted through a little wicket,
was guided through a corridor that
smellcd of damp' darkness nnd 10,000
prisoners, and was uohercd into the
bare counsel's room and the grilled door
was locked behind her. And there was
Harry, still in tho evening clothes, now
grimy and disarrajed, in which she
had seen him hardly more than a dozen
hours before.
"Youl" he eiclnimed, startled. And
wen, straightening up stiffily, ho de
manded : "Well, what do you want?"
Nqw that she was here, Jennie hardly
knew 'why; sho was such a chaos of
reasons and emotions.
"Well, what do sou want?" ho re-
prated brusquely.
Sho glanced behind her at tho grilled
door. But a bill slipped to tho keeper
by Undo Gcorgo had induced tint offi
cial to stroll down tho corridor and
glvo tho pair a brief privacy. Bho
drow nearer Harry and said in a whis
per that could not carry beyond tho
door of steel: "Harry you never
did It!"
His expression was blank. "Oh, I
didn't?"
"No. When It was dono you were
with mo!"
His face was still blank. "Oh,
was I?"
llcr words, tho thought sho bad been
brooding over since sho had read the
butler's paper down on the littlo beach,
now camo out with a rush. "Don't
jou seo tho wholo situation, Horry?"
sho cried. "I believed jou were guilty
when I first lead tho newspaper. It's
so complete and convincing! And
everybody clso will believe it and the
judge will bcllevo it and tho jury w 111
bclleva It. And, Harry, you were with
me I can alibi jou and I'm the only
person who can nllbl you!"
He seemed to her strangely grim and
inflexible for Harry. "Go on," he
said. "That's not all that's In your
mind."
"No." Her voice wni now not
merely low, it was weak. "There's my
sido of it ull. If I go into court and
alibi jou, they'll cross-question mo
and It'll all como out who I really am
about my being arrested for that old
forgery about my running away with
Casey. Don't you see what a. story
tho papers would make of It I And I'll
loso everything dad's worked for nnd
wanted mo to be ever thing I've
everything Don't you see it all,
Harry?" .
Ho regarded her keenly for a long
space. Then he spoko calmly in au
even voice.
"Yes, I think I seo it all as you
seo it in your mind. It's a big pre
dicament for Jennie Malonc; it's one
of two things. Either you don't come
forward and alibi me, and you keep
your place up in the big world. Or
clso you do alibi me, and all you and
Black Jerry have done, and all you've
won, goes to smash for you. There
are tho two sides to your situation
yes?"
"Yes. Only if I don't alibi you.
tho jury will find you guilty nnd the
judge will oh, Harry I . . . I
lon't understand it at all! I don't
Unow whnt to do I" '
A swift hopo leaped into tho face he
had kept so composed, and he seized
her hand. "Perhaps we can simplify
your situation, Jennie" his volco was
eager, ibrant with suspense "If jou
were to alibi mo, and you 'were to loso
everything, would you marry me?"
"Harry!" she said faintly; "I
thought we'd talked that all out."
The eagerness died out of his face.
He loosed her hand nnd drew himself
up squarely.
"I kncY you wouldn't. Then"
very deliberately "the thing for you to
do is to go back to the Harrisons and
live jour life exactly as you had
planned."
"But you, Horry?"
He glanced at the barred door to be
sure that the keeper was not listening.
"I'm In no danger," he whispered;
"real danger, I mean."
"I knew there wns something strange
about all this!" she whispered back.
"What docs it all mean?"
He considered for a moment. "I'll
tell you a little. It's- like this: an
other man's in danger and I'm, going
to stand trial in his place. They can't
I prove anything against me when the
eabc comes to trial you sec, tue wit
nesses will have disappeared and I'll
go free, having helped the other man.
See?"
"I see!" Sho had comprehended it
In n flash. Such arransements,
"frame-uns" nirainst the nollco and
courts, hnd been common In tho life
which had been hers until four years
before. "Harry you are doing it to
savo Sam Conway!"
"We'll not mention any names,
Jennie. All jou need to know is that
I'm not in any danger. And I wouldn't
have told you this much, only well,
it I'm, not to have you, I don't want
von to havo any worries on my account.
I wnnt you to be just as happy as you
cau be. And as for znc, this is tho best
job I could do and I'm not going to
mind it so much, nnd it's going to come
out all right for mc."
The keeper appeared without nnd an
nounced that tho allotted time was
ended. Harry took her band.
"I guess this is where we part com
pany forever," he said quietly. "You'll
be going your way, nnd I'll be going
mine. I guess it's up to all of us to live
our lives in our own way. Well, here's
wishing you the best of luck. Good-by."
"Good-by," she said.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
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PETEYHe Cleaned All the Way Round the Block
By C. A. Voight
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
BY DADDY
THE PADRE'S PIGEON
1 (PeOUV and Billy are turned into
-tiny, tclipy persons and carried atcay
io the huntKU Southland in-a snow
sleigh that flies through 7io air. The
sleigh melts and they drop toxoard the
ground out are saved by jailing on
top of Gen. Swallow and King Bird.)
Two Astonished Birds
'GENERAL Swallow, not knowing
JT that it was Peggy who had, dropped
upon his back from out the sky, did all
fcorts of queer airplane tricks trying to
shako her off. Ho dived, he looped tho
loop, bo stood on his tail. But Peggy,
clinging to'him for dear life, didn't let
go her hold.
It was the same way with King Bird
nnd Billy. King Bird tumbled nnd
twisted and turned and dodged while
Jlill.v rodo him like a cowboy on a buck-
Iv ?ng Ppr . .. ....
At last uenerai nwauow ana iving
Bird saw tlmt they couldn't get rid of
their unknown riders by air circus
(titunts, to they soared down toward the
ttrees.
"Help! IIelp;"'they screeched. "Tho
padre's pigeons have caught us."
The birds below heard' their shrieks,
"but instead of coming to the rescue, fled
awav as fast as they could.
1 "ilelp! Savo us from the padre's
pigeons," screamed General Swallow.
Peggy, now that she found that sho
could ride General Swallow safely,
thrilled with the fun sho was having.
She even giggled a bit at his. frightened
diving and bis frantic calls' for help.
But she was puzzled by one thing his
tihrieks about the padre's pigeons. Sbp
couldn't understand at all why either
General Swallow or King Bird, both of
them strong, fearless fighters, should
Se afraid of pigeons, the most gentle ot
11 birds she knew.
"Ha.! Ha! General Swallow is
(scared!" she laughed in his car.
General Swallow, much astonished,
promptly turned a startled somersault,
whirled into the top of a treo and sent
Teggy flying over his head. Only by
a nulck snatch at a branch on which
I ; aha landed did she savo herself from u
tan.
"Ho ! no ! Kiug Bird must bo sick
Vvheu he is afraid of a pigeon," laughed
Billy lu King BIrd'a mr, and King Bird
was so surprised that he. too. dived Wn
a treo, stopping so suddenly on a perch
mm uiiiy uiso went uymg on upon a
limb.
But now Peggy and Billy found the
tables turned upon them very swiftly.
For while General Snallow and King
Bird had been scored nt having sup
posed foes jump upon their backs, they
were full of fight when they threw the
supposed foes off. They camo at Peggy
and Billy ns if to peck them to bits.
"Hey! Hey! Wait! It's Princess
Peggy!" cried Peggy to General Swal
low. ,;,'St.opJ- It,M, on,y Bil'J''" touted
Billy to King Bird.
More nstonlshed than ever, King Bird
and General Swallow stopped their
angry rushes and perched wbcro they
could get a good look at their old
friends.
"Goodness, gracious me! If it was
any one clso played a Joko liko that on
me, I'd bite 'em full of holes,", shrilled
General Swallow, his face lighting up
with pleasure as be gazed at Peggy.
"Billy Belgium, I've a good mind to
snap off your nose," shrieked King Bird,
darting from his perch and fluttering in
front of Billy.
"My, but we're glad to see you,"
shrilled General Swallow, ''You've
come just in time to help us solve the
mystery of tho padre's nleeons."
"What is tho mystery of the psdre's
pigeons?" asked Peggy. "And why are
sucn uravo ngntcre as you two buds
afraid of them?" -Peggy laughed at the
very idea.
"It's no lauebinc matter." rhlrned
King Bird very tartly, for he didn't flko
uuy BiigmjuK riMiiurna inane aoout 018
courage. "Tho padre's pigeons are no
longer like other pigeons. Something
has happened to them, nnd from being
the mildest and sweetest of friends and
neighbors, they hate become fiercer than
eagles una cruel as hmyks,"
"Hero they coluo now," shrilled Gen
eral, Swallow us a loud clamor arose
among the trees. "Hide! Hide!"
The two birds crept beneath a clump
of leaves and Tcggy and Billy crept iu
after them.
(In tomorrow' chapter J'eggy atid
Billy hear inoro about the mystery ot
tho padre's pigeons.)
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By FONTAINE FOX
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