fp5KVfirMmvr'-" ' ,.)., iS' ' '' wjujgn. "' pft$$ EVENING' HJECICL EEDGEE MHMlEIiPHIA, BATtTBDXY, FEBRTXABY 26, 1021 LADYFINGERS By JACKSON GREGORY Copyright, lDtl, by Charles Berliner1! Bons THIS STAUTS THE STOItV i iag Ao 6em craofced and the .11,4 ho) escaped. Ambrotc, a dctco T colls on Joe he llrun, gangster l.ttraok. and demands to know who .It. U run tells him that i&nY' "ank" know nothing Jnatit. and denounces Ashe, other- 11 with or without evidence, the iraaree to fasten the erlmo on him. ft thW point, I'olly, daughter of ft llrun, appears. Ambrose has a ftrm rtgari forrollv, but issusn l- eiout 01 nc iyi "" iy- ...",'.. fintert. A stranaer. dlsautsctl to is announced. "You are te ""ui r BrunT Ana you, utcuicnunt am .-.' nr. auuiii I""'" . ..- "iii .mi about a man named Ashe. '?.! ... .!... , nie is a criminal. Ho deserves no toleration. He is , menoo. to oocl civ. 'ine nour .. -"-,"-." .. mini VU "'". Dicicni eyiavnoo wlnst him and on a charge to send is? tn the penitentiary lor not less olih f tfflclcnt evidence ji. fin vtars Vou can m" to ma for $5000." Meanwhile Laiyfingcrs, amuses, himself reading Zini for it sprtngUme, and thus KfflMrun finds him. Bhe tells lmot the "frame-up" with Ambrose lTd Vr fader at the bottom o it, d they drift into personalities, Laiyfintcri is made aware of Polly's rtalreoard for him. Now ma general JaV Bobbie Ashe wished well to every itlloto voyager bound down the great ltr,am of life. He could rob an over IM safe or Pick a bulging pocket with Z merriest heart in the world; itis urymuch to be doubted if, though a colden reward wcro offered him. ho mid have borne to have wounded the letllngs of a lltlte child or of the old '"oman who sold papers at the corner of Kearney and llarkei. Ho was a criminal but no vandal; he was a thief but none the less a gentleman. AND IIEItE IT CONTINUES OF KEENLY sensitive naturo him self, be felt swiftly nnd sharply for Polly In tho'distrcss which at last was to obvious to him. With no knowledge of the subtleties of. a woman's soul, with no understand leg of tho meaning of love other than that drawn vaguely from tho songs of the amorous poets, ho sought nouo the Itss to deal with the solution of the Kirl's problem. So, qutto naturally, al though with the most kindly intentions In the world, ho did tho wrong thing. Ills mind raced. Polly thought that the was in lovo becauso it was her time d life to feel the first thrills of the ttndcr passion; she believed herself to le In lovo with him because he happened to be on hand nt the psychological time. Here was tho thought with which Ashe kjnn. From it, shaping other thoughts swiftly, lie went on beforo he spoke. Polly had been led to bestow this firsts romantic nffection upon him very largely for the reason that he stood nlonc, one sgalnst all; becauso she had been of help to him : because he had at all times shown to her n certain courtesy which lie and no other man had ever bestowed upon her. All that Ashe had to do now so he thought was to show her that be did not need her, that he had never appreciated her, that he was not the man the had believed him. He saw the tcmlr' of tho girl's passion which vere almo the surface ; it was not given liim to guess what roots pierced down ward, into what depth they reached. Whereas, Polly's first sniff had been an utter failure that young woman had not stopped there. There had been lovo la her heart, then shame, then anger. Sho sniffed again. Her eyes were dry now ; they met Ashe's steadily. Polly I.e Itruu was sprung from fighting (took. That second sniff was an un qualified, cio Tiling triumph. "Let's get back on the boat," said folly Khnrply. "Don't you go and get off on the wrong foot, Bobbie Ashe, just liocauso a girl slips you a tip now nnd then. Here I come to tell you " "Br Gollv. Pollv." cut In ARhn linlf deceived by the girl's quick clinngo of manner and tone, but still determined to go ahead with tho lino of action he had worked out, "I've got something to tell you! You won't tell nny one, will ou In a. wholo lot less than a week's work I've cleaned up pretty close to S10.000! No; I haven't got it In my pocket, but It's whero I nn grab it ou the run. And what do you think I'm going to do with it?" lie blew n kiss out Of the window frnm tlio dlpmlpr Hna of his lingers, lightly. "I'm going to jay goou-oy to littlo old Han Francisco town and go to bco what I can see. As you Mid, they nro going to try to mnko rrctty hot hero for me: well. 111 move. " 'Right away?" asked Polly quickly. IIo nodded : "night away." tflP PtnnA Trtllir " A twl lmn iiltino '"'I in tho game ho was playing ho touldn't bring himself to bo utterly licart iw lm .,,i,i.i . "Vi ...n n.. nought you such a present that you'll "member me always, Polly. Not until vo had such u dinner you never "earned of before." I'olly looked at him shrewdly. l: -"" i J"" uicuui uuuui pun lns nn th nrrV' " ''That's what I meant." iOllv H Inilf Imn.t.lH.. 1 J it,.- " . ."uv. """""SB uivrcu '"tn. nnd in spito of her priilo her pink eks paled, What would Han Frnn eiico bo without llohbio Ashe? Wliat Julil life, her dull little life, bo with- out Mm? . "An'i l won't ever see you Hgaln, mho for j cars and years?" nrnrn " i, i",ot un.tU yo" ore bapnlly mn led i ol .. n?d tbcro,8 nuothcr n,l.J' Juat "e '"-'r mamma, only not quite so pretty " ii. ''i ,wlnce,l t that nnd flushed. But ..i"l""ipicu '"in, saying: n... i01.' be Ule e that' married. " the one that's getting As if laughed lightly. 'dven u : , u? """, V oal men." Then he added, to say lav in 'aat, desperato thing: "Some SI o'l'i i olly' . ""idrously beautiful. th I i 0,,e of .my own people; one of lni..iiid my mothnr wn." ,Yo,'?,,.IJu,V '""Hfced 1'ol'y artificially. ttini,r J.,,st. the kind to fall for somo d X. if " .(nllghfc,r chewing a straw ' feeding tho chickens!" wlilei. a i ..v waa n ""' iicrceness CtaftV 'l1 no,t M,ev WhBt Blie " another ml''1'? S 10 let un?M- In Ma iimorai'.n$ B,,e was perched upon $oi& ,e Bnd llQd lacked up his tele' LiSnn.,Vlc!tleL" 8,,B giggling to mvE nt Ambrose. "I've got the dream. JPI'ite today you ever "u T i,about- "w about taking me Ulckji nner at rnlt s? You're on, MuiHi from tlle doorway whero she la n i?n-",oment hrr cl,c,k,J roses red' temn.,.Ta d"nc'llB. her mouth "Vo, -ii Io"' eho MM brightly, Wehe.rnhWtf hla, nwer. He to In h,?.r ter. " "wnch heels click- w to tea thouaand dollars this haul," ho mused, his eyes bright with his inspiration. "And plenty more when that's gone. And there's a big trench car at Lomont's which will go P'Bhty, well with sour little French heels, Miss Polly I" So he called up Lnmont's. CHAPTER VI The Stethcrll Diamond Itobcrt Ashe was young. Youth ex plains much. It is tho time of boiling blood and bubbling spirits. Ho was, after nil, a boy and something of n poet. Such a one in another time and In his own fashion may havo been Fran cols Villon. As ho was driven back to the Bella Frtjnclsca In tho big French car which had cost him nil that ho had extorted from Hamilton Hamilton nnd which was to bo his littlo gift to Polly I a pun, his heart was standing high in his breast. Tonight he would go se cretly to tho hiding placo whero tho contents of tho looted safe nwaltcd his coming that small hollow at tho end of n Mission street wharf shel tered by a weathered pile, covered by ?. Wt of two-Inch plank, into which in the olden days he had hidden his pet tier pllferlngs later ho would sco Polly nnd leave her gasping over his present to her. Then, not because he reared tho law or tho man who twisted it to Ms own purposes, but becauso tho sprlngtimo lured to her woodsy haunts and becauso he felt deeply for Polly 0 Brun, ho would take tho ferry for a.lxteenth street and n train on tho other side. His chauffeur, paid to do nothing else, waited for him. IIo ran up to his room, ns gay as ho knew how to be, which Is saying n good deal. The c amor of his telephone, which had been ringing almost incessantly for upward of nn hour, put him in touch with Polly. u a'. Bobble," her voice clearly cx a i" ""hough with n note in it which Aslie had never heard nnd which now ho could not explain, "I want to see you the worst way. Supposo wo go out to lunch together?" "What is it this time, Polly?" lolly hesitated briefly, seeming ac tually nt a loss for words, n thing new in Polly. But iu a moment sho had explained just enough to moke clear that she was very anxious to talk over with Ashe some matter of tremendous Importance to her. With a sweeping, farewell look at his K?P . le I,lcke'l "I' a couple of worn little volumes, thrust one into each coat pocket and went out, tho remainder or his belongings upon the instnnt con signed to the next lodger or to the lnnd ord. Dismissing his chauffeur with Instructions for the afternoon nnd mor row ho boarded a street car and hurried tho half dozen blocks to a meeting with Polly. Never In all of hti merry life had Itobcrt Ashe been gayer than today. He was going upon his vacation ; ho was traveling light; ho was building kaleido scopic pictures of the things tho country would offer to a spirit hurfeltcd with tho city. Just where in tho country ho was going he did not know. But ho was going tramping down through the green fields; ho was going to know the smell of his own campfiro in his nos trils; perchance ho would fry his own fish ; certainly bo would know tho tang of pine forests. He was in California ; he need not be nt n loss for whatever ho sought; he need not worry his brain with the mys teries of time tables, either. Any trnln, going in any direction, would carry him out of cobbled streets and into fra grant lanes. Yes, Polly was excited and, he thought at first, vaguely troubled. But, with a quick laugh, she assured him that that was "all iu his eye," and leading the way to a secluded table in a secluded littlo cafe, sho told hinr what klie wanted. "You're doing n hot-foot out of Frisco; so'm I," said Polly. "Maybo 1 look like a door mat ; but when n man goes to wine his number tens on me he finds I nin't." "Ambrose?" demanded Ashe shnrply. "Pnpa," returned Polly, emphasizing iivi- uuuuuu uy u iwucii oi ncr nose, "Do you know, I believe I'm the first one that ever slapped .Too ho Brim's face good and hard! He didn't like it. This morning, after I went home from your place, he was wuitlng for me. He started in by telling mo what he thought about you. When ho got through I Bald, 'But he's got pretty eyes, ain't he. dad?' Polly laughed. "When the bntloon nwension was over he looked like it had made him sen- sick." "Polly," said Ashe gravely, his gray cyos suddenly troubled, "I'm sorry." "Scat I" said Polly, "Can't I fight with papa without tlio Examiner get ting out an extra? But It's this way. Bobbie : We did fight and fight hard. 1 saw what was coming, and before pnpa got tho chance to tell me to beat it and toko my baggage I told him good night. I'm not going back, cither." Now Polly Lo Brun, as will become evident Inter on, wns lying. But her eyes, level upon Ashe's, studying his chnngiiig expressions, told nothing which Polly would not corroborate with her lips. Ashe was frankly distressed. Polly, enva for tlio little Mgn of tho twisting of her slim fingers nbout her wine glnwi, was never more at case In her whole life. For I'olly, playing now for big stakes, wan iu nil essentials the daugh ter of Joo Lo Brun. "Tho wholo thing wns becauso of mo?" asked Ashe. "Just because you " "You haven't chnngod your mind about the punklns?" "No, Polly. I wns going to tnko n trnln tonight." "Well, whllo It's going to be tough on Frisco town I gueBS wo both drift about the same day. I got n swell girl friend down in Los Angeles. That's whero my ticket's going to read." "Hadn't you better seo your father again?" "Feeling like you was to blame?" snld Polly, "And wanting to see me hquarcd? Well, I guess I have took jour part onco or twice; but I never forget, Bobbie Ashe, that when my time enmo to get in wrong somewhere I could count on you. Am I right?" "Of courno you're right, Polly. If theru's anything I enn do " "Thcro sure Is. I'm off for tho south, but when I go traveling I don't want to go liko n washerwoman." Sho opened her purso with a sudden jerk, spilling upon the stained cloth u half dozen binnll silver pieces. "Tlint'M niv linnk! lfpr. wnlter. Help yourself! And now, ns the1 wuiter withdrew, taking with him the InBt of Polly's two-bit nnd ten-cent pieces, "you understand?" "I understand," smiled Ashe. "It will tnke me about nn hour." Polly Inid a detaining linnd upon bis arm ns ho wns pushing hack his chair. Ashe meant to tell u car he linil so recently purchased, to linnd over to Polly whatever Mini might bo realized upon a hurried, sacrifice siile. But I'olly meant otherwise. "No, you don't, Hobble!" tdie told him, n little ciUrh for tho Instnnt limit ing her voice uncertain. "You'd hpllt oven with mo If I'd let you; you'd slip mo tho whole tiling if 1 asked you to; but I won't. I ain't taking nny tiling off you but u few hours of jour time, if you won't do tho thing my wny " She lifted her shoulders. (CONTINUED MONDAY) VHE GUMPS Listen, My 0 U?K HCTCR SHOT STOA16KTCR THAN WHEH HE tREvM HIS BOVJ AMt Aimpo AV UHCLE BIM- ME (SoT THE OU BlRDKT TME FST SH5T ANT TME OLDER. -WEV ARE THE 81 G6ER. THE TARGET FOUCS VJANT TO StAO Vool A LiratOTTOF StNTIMEHt- J -. SOMEBODY'S STENOGAn Alibi T HQ AlO. I VfcW'T BUV lng CZZZTL-. Y -You're ft pOAlT ALL-v r1 oh -excuse mel- : AMV STOCK IAJ YOUR 6-OATS -H .ISffrPlun H A CLEVER. f iit n in azr ) T MLV MEAAIT r1 CREArACOMPAW-SETOOTrBl WATTO SHOW ou BGG J l QU EGG , J 9 THAT ThEY AAl' DOM'T HORAi IA1 HE.RE. ph - 'EM THE EXIT. LZL' -rtm 2& CAAfT BEAT YOU . 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