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; AR _moment her bathroom
wu Dr. Davis anc his wang open, letting in a yele
h 3 ~ ong of light? In the diriness
Cal. of Berar Te A ge iii, couid- see the silhouettes of
fume nanufac: a1 er, ani ds ab 111, seeming bent on ch sing
tioaious of Myra Pleffer, an ww =u: | cuchi other around her room. She
Zz ey have jus! mtade up screamed and ducked beneath the
avis recetves ¢ iupposedly - | covers, pulling them up over her
sional call and Is ivinvselj nk:ip-{ head. ,
Sine par _ Now she could hear the patter
2 > ing of feet, running along the Hall-
Ta ae way. She couldn’t get up to let
tay, anyone in——she couldn’t! Not with
eine, wo terrible cbjects racing
She waited, tense,
i ; r 7 moment tg hear a
cere on ; ins : J Rirtel shot—a groan—anything that
ar i oe San Jo Jose avouid anncunce the end of the con.
k My» nandivg Foe | flier. Ad 3 Is SSHAAT
Key. ay goes tr a Kotor for flict. A1) he past murders of which
rie » FH ever =>ad fled in panorama
Pl ; gy her mind, It was foo awful.
‘R XIV—Contin. 35%. ‘Then the scund of the key in the’
‘as undressins Lis ering | OC cther moment the house
the events of the day— detective, a pistol in his hand,
7 distorted by the %:otch | Fusked into the room. ‘The lights
oC he had been drinking, He flared wp. . Warily May drew her
as Te than sorry for himself. head frém beneath the quilt, and
hs EL into bed, lit a |then she sat up, shrieking. {
an so . . ¢ > t
) egun sipping his| “II-y, what's the matter here?”
highball when ther ; :
Rott OL Do aoe came another [the house detective boomed, look
3 He pulled aj :
dressing gown around him and Py . May to. Davisahd then a
called out. The chambermaid en- Davis turned towards the bed.
tered.
“I just stopped to see if you were Pres ah ye yes
comfortable,” she smiled.
oe quite comfortable, thank | “That man,” Davis pointed calm
oy comfortable—this— ly to Beranger, “was intruding on
avis | ed Is quite-comfortahle.”.| me and my wife.”
Sn Dat guits certain how to For a moment May felt slightly
Btteniion waaay figure this out. dazed by this swift turn of events.
tthe ae uty was one thing, | Then a little twinkle came into her’
0 too 1 carrying matters a lit- | eyes. E£he’'d pay Ed Davis back in
‘though fer. It (-rtainly looked as|his own cein, '
th him © _ was trying to flirt; “Wits!” she screamed. “Good
"Po you He led EP a (heavens! I'm not that man's wife |
nough for two?” she pil i saw him before this mo-|
party because she pu
On opening her aperime
thoughtlessly pockets t
‘for the love of—” Davis's
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“For two?”
pozped, “May! What's the,
Davis st
—why, yes, T. cnnn-~ <
ZeSteadr * he an-| ide” ?
ii © he i “I b:3 your pardon!” She turned
stony s on her husband. “Well,
n't you going to do anything
She looked at the de-
“wt's a pity a4 respectable
ke a room at a hotel
“ed by two mas
aving one call
, what's the big
3 ; tive frowned, puz=-
= h lin’ the truth? Is
ir wife?’ He turn-
“aly- is. We've just
three months, and—""-
> May's shriek rent
.y¥, don’t wake up every-
ne hotel,” the detective
. May. “Is this your hus-
isn’t 1570
rtainly is not.”
you two take this room to-
9%
+-h-h! How awful!”
:d shocked.
. Vho’s this man, anyhow?” The
Co ective looked at Beranger.
“Allow me, sir!” With his usual
astures Beranger presented his
card.
The detective studied the paste-
board. “Hum! perfume manuface
turer, he muttered. “What're you
- | doing here?” aL
“I asked for a room at the desk,”
2d. | Beranger informed the man frigide
an- ly, “He said there was nothing to |
ide |pe had, but he might be able to
“I. tarrangé for a room for me with |
another gentleman, I agreed, and ;
I was brought to Room 314, The
moment, I stepped in the door th7t
man,” hé pointed accusing’, to.
wayds Davis, “jumped o»’ of ped
and began to pursue »’, Why, he
might have killed »”, if you hadn't
arrived. x want 0 thank you—"
Av, shuy up,” the detective
growled. © 514 voy ever see this
” iis woman before?”
May
70 men
-echless
one leap
ud across
person re-
vorry—this
d been try-
m—this was
wuged all this
of mind Davis | a0 OL
% , 7a¥
oniy one thing| . . or course 1 have. They're
}
frie” .. of mine—" .
no friend of mine,” Davis
.& jumped aside
“He may be my wife’s
making for Lim
the bed and »
doctor reaches
Jver wenf tb”
‘ash, beary”
serine
JM LaeY
“ile’s
| interrupted.
. Pad 2
| friend—
AR} Cer pever saw. the man before,”
Sv May broke in. : i
in Bi odiio “Say, what the devil do you think
; ne ad | youre tryin’ to do?” the detective
oun ame frowned, “put somethin’ over on
TO I'm gonna fina out who's
at
Sn thipy ds OS Tie?
Ane w gpI ay oz ae aby who.” He stepped to the telephone
NE fig usr oPluntions TofS ng calied the desk, Ho waited,
: aim and just miseing| gino pelligerently at the three
him.
: pw i guests. .
Ll again would he try to play «Hello—hello! That you, Jack?
Ane © lero, Beranger swore as This's Cassidy Yeh
Say, how did 316
4? yed tag around a chair with his
. . Oh, they did
"angry room-mate. He’d been a fool
%o follow May Davis to The Ritze.
room 316
and 314 register? .
. name of Davis .
‘He jumped over the upturned rable Davis and Bdward Davis
and sped across the bed again. TIy-| my yg” He hung the receiver on
{ng to protect her from that brute | 5 5 5
husband. Well, he was a brute,
He narrowly escaped the
|grasping fingers of Davis, but his
coat remained in the doctors
hands. Hed trail no more married
women around he vowed, scuttling
beneath the bed and appearing on
3 ther side.
5 Bt Murder! Fire!” Beran-
er shrieked. : .
{i The noise brought May to a lis-
#enine attitude. Frightened, she
fredfned the telephone and called
ho desk.
“Send someone — quick — 316 —
omeone’s being murdered,” - she
‘shouted into the mouthpiece. 5
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f a
all right.
his head thoughtfully. “1 dunno.
Both Davises.
nothin’. It’s a usual name. f
your story holds water, lady.”
turned to May.
disturbed this way.
gentlemen along with me.
in’
pair, causin’ all this trouble for a
lady. Well, you can both spend
the rest of the night in the hoose:
gow. Come on.” ‘
“Say, look here,” Davis began.
«But I had nothing to do with
it,” Beranger spoke up.
Guess
He
I'll take these
Disturb-
. « Mrs. May, |
“well,” the detective scratched
But that don’t prove
“Sorry you were
the peace—ain’t you _ a fine
| Dr. Davis and his young wife,
begin to quarrel.
of EBcranger-de. Brie,
| MERE pa and May is jealc anger to be so thoughtful. You
Sy ay : jeffer. Not Dbelicving | sce, he doesn't know you, darling,
7 Lusband’s innocence, Mey de-|:nd lots of men might have made
cides on a divorce and goes io «
h
my husband to jail, so there!”
sighed and shook his head.
{1wo minutes ago you're tellin’ me it
ain't your husband, and now you're
tellin" me ’tis.
in
reached for her negiigee and threw
it around her and then went over i
tren. “Darling, d it?” -
to the detective. “I didn’t mean to | vig took 2G Sor egg pi a
de anmything—really I didn’t. But | kissed her
You see it was this way.
ba-d and I had a little quarrel”’—
*Tisught you'd ccme around, lad
oy ss L005 “Than} q
Win I began talkin’ about jail.” | gui» LR is
well, itireally is my husband,” | “ayy — ol Thanh oat Hors
av protested.
“But you never can tell, nowadays.”
May explained.
quarreled—you know how if is.
And 1 was terribly angry, and I
came here to spend the night.”
{
ing,” Davis interrupted. “And I
Just couldn't stand that empty
apartment, so I came here myself.
I thought I'd try to patch things
up the first thing in the morning.”
i &Well, I guess it’s all right.”
{
riage license around all the time,
da
sured her. “But where does this
bird come in?” He pointed to Ber-
anger.
insulted,” Beranger began.
tective snapped.
lady.”
this
with
to take me out, just'to make ‘Ed
jealous. But how he got here, I
don’t know.” °
Beranger stated.
was going to leave her
and said that if I
T
|
SYNOPSIS |
Through. a series of complice i
Davis is jeaio
0
Davis follows her. De Brie, | H
g that the doctor - intends
g
7
: arm, follows, too, end is put | ty
in. the same room with Davis ightl
3 ] vis. | up brightly. :
Die ane de Brie quarrel and “You'll do nothing of the sort—T
7 ee pursues de, Brie inte. Mays mean, raaliy “Jou wouldn't 3s 54 h
Tey 3 She calls the house detec-i.n unkind . thine Offi. Sy ey
ered ind, to punish Davis, denies sloaded Br ary ay
i a ho is her. husband. The de-| cy. nama Eda : :
LAE : 5 ADT orl Yeu can’ do anything with him:
DR for disturbing thc a Daviy turred io he O05
ce, LSCLIVE,
15 “Oh, Ed, please—ijust for my
lL. CHAPTER XV—Continued | “3c?” May begged.
Jz “Oh-h-h!”- May shrielred a=: 1. en right,” Davis agreed ungra-
Hat , Ha = ciously.
his ous Bot going: to take oll, I take it that the lady
m to jaill™ She jumped cut of| won’t press no charges.” Cassidy
bed and flung her arms about Da-|.aracd {o May..-
vis’ neck. “I wont let you take| ©0:¢ urucious, mo! I dont
“Your husband!” The detective
“Just
pu
Say, if you're try-
’ to make a monkey outta me—"
“Oh, I'm so sorry, officer.” May
all
My hus- ‘
“he detective began to grin.
“Aren’t you, Ed?”
“. thought I was,” Davis>grinned. od
“Oh, it was all my fault, officer,”
“You see, wed t
¥ sti
ba
bu
qu
ed
sh
yo
yo
qu
da
: sil
“We'll never quarrel again.”
yo
“She told me where she was g0-| oy
«We don’t have to carry a mar-
o we?” May exclaimed, ;
“I believe you, lady,” Cassidy as-
“Officer, I think I've been grossly | w
“Pm not talkin’ to you,” the de-
“I'm askin’ the
“Well, you see, Officer, it was
way,” May started again. |I
“When I was having that quarrel
“I rode uptown with Mrs. Davis,”
“She told he shes
husband,
wanted to wait |j
ne | blank——" Davis began.
ua -Jay caught her husband's arm.
@ perfume | think it was very sweet of Mr. Be-
trouble under the circu
want tc hcar anything more about
it,” May answered.
“Suits me,
beamed.
“Oh, everything will be all right,
I assure you, Officer,” May smiled
and
them in here and let Mr. de Brie
have your room for the night.”
The detective backed through the
door, grinning from ear to ear.
anger kissed her hand and retreat-
door softly behind him.
“Well,
and
“Look what you did to me—I was
a bachelor once.
May laughed delightedly.
me that way.
down and buy another bottle of
perfume.”
“Naughty—naughty!
“All right, go down and buy the
whole shop if you want to,” Da-
vis agreed.
you tell me you tove me.”
“Of course I do, you old darling
—and nobody else.”
“Can I depend on that?”
laughed.
a while.
thing about that man in there, did
room where
“Oh, darling, how can you he so
Davis’s hand.
care anything about him. Couldn't
things I did so that'd you'd be jeal-
love—jealousy.
cross when you found that I was in
The Dead Rat with Mr. de Brie I'd
have thought you didn’t care very
much about me.”
«Well, that sounds like a woman's
logic,” Davis laughed.
countered.
seen you with that girl I had simrly
naid mo attention to the mai.er.
Suppose I had felt that it dian’t
matter where you went or with
true,” 1
you're kind of right.
husband I got Mr. de Brie | ous!
got into,
“Of all the interfering, blanketys
}
“Qh, now, Ed, don’t be nasty.”
a
ces,
e was trying to be kind to 2
“Well, I can arrest hin: for dis-
rbin’ the peace,” Cassidy spoke
NN
lady,” the detective
“The hotel don’t like no
blicity of this sort anyhow.”
uringly. “Ed, you can just go
get your things and bring
‘Well, I guess that lets me out.”
into the bathroom, closing the
I hope you're going to
ck to your husband after this
stop breaking poor lonely
chelor hearts,” Davis laughed.
It’s dangerous!”
“Oh,
t he was so sweet to think of
T’ll have to go right
“You will not!” Davis retorted
ickly. :
Who pour-
all my perfume down the sink?”
e teased.
“Anything so long as
Davis
“You've got to remember
w've had me pretty worried for
You didn’t really eare any-
He nodded towards the
Beranger now lay
ietly sleeping after his strenuous
y.:
uw?”
ly,” May reproved, squeezing
“Of eourse, I didn’t
u see I was just doing all the
After all, it’s one test of
If you hadn't been
S.
week-end with
AAyers. i
Cease and Robert Laux took advan-
tage of the excursion to New York
last week-end. :
| from General Hospital after an opera~
tion for appendicitis. Your hens will give you more £0
The Search Light Foreign Mission- | eggs, better eggs, and produce i
ary Society held a corn and wiener| them: at a profit if you feed
‘I roast back of the home of A. W. Jack-
son on Monday evening.
Woolbert and Fred Malkemes of this
place and Mrs. John Isdacs of Kunkle :
are motoring" through parts of Canada
and the Thousand Fslands.
return the latter part of this week.
spent a few days this week with Miss}
Alice Hill.
II, came Thursday night to spend a}
week with his parests; Rev. and Mrs.
C. B. Henry. |
hold its next meeting on Monday eve-
ning, September 9, in the school house.
Members are expecting another fine
meeting, with speakers: ami music as
special entertainment.
invited to be present as a’ guest or a
new member.
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end in New York City as guests of
Halsey Thofas, formerly of this place.
of a new Ford roadster.
Sipple ‘spent Thursday
the golf course at Stroudsburg.
with
Stroudsburg Thursday morning to at-
tend the Rotary meeting there.
a two weeks’ visit with friends in Ber-
wick,
ton were dinner guests
Mrs. Herman VanCampen on
day.
Collector of Kingston Township.
—~Shavertown—
A number of boys spent the week-
George Shaver is the proud possessor
Herman = VanCampen and Henry
afternoon on
They,
Elsto motored to
Dev. Ruff,
e Rev.
uc was the speaker of the day.
Miss Jane Courtright is home after
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Geyer of Hazle-
of Mr.. and
Tues-
Vote for Frank Mathers for Tax
Miss ‘Marion Schlacher spent the
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
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Jones, Lloyd
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Every one is
”
“Woman's logic, nothing!” May
“Suppose, when I had
hom. Wouldn't you have heen
just a little upset? You know you,
would.”
«well, in a way I suppose that’s
Davis admitted, “I guess
But, anyhow,
didn’t go out with her just be-
-
cause I wanted te make you jeal=
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“Yes, but I've heard of lots of
men who had sense enough to do
that sort of thing,” May returned.
“1 don’t think it’s so sensible, my-
olf. Look at all the trouble we've
trying to make each other
salous—at least, you've admitted
until she packed she’d drop me.atiyou were trying to make me jeal-
The Ritze. So 1 waited. She told
me she was going to leave her hus-
band, and I said I thought she was
doing the right thing, because he’s
arbhig brute, and——"
“.%Qh; I'am, am 17” Davis started
towards the perfume manufacturer,
his fists clenched. !
“Just a minute, now,” Cassidy in-
tervened. “Go ahead with your
story, Mr. de Brie.”
«Well, anyhow, I felt sorry for
Mrs. Davis, and [ was afraid her
hushand might get nasty, and. so 1
waited around out in front of the
hotel, and then I saw him drive up
in a taxi and come in here, I fol-
lowed him, and saw that He got a
room and then I decided to stay
here, too, just in case Mrs, Davis
might need me for protection. I
was going to telephone her as soon
‘as I got to my room to see that she
was all right, and inform her that
1 would be on hand in ease of
trouble.”
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ous.
What a day this’s been.”
«Hasn't it, though,” May agreed.
‘And to think I started out on a
shopping expedition this morning
and ended in this hotel—™no, it’s this
morning, now. Goodness, U
thirty. What a lot can happen in,
some sixteen hours or 50.”
it’s four
And the little god of Tate that
had been sticking ten agile fingers
in the pie all day long suddenly
began to yawn drowsily.
“Pm sleepy,” Davis yawned. “T've
got to get up tomorrow morning.
‘And let's not make tomorrow ans
other day like today.”
«p11 promise that, darling,” May.
smiled. ;
«And if you're a good girl I'll
take you up to Lake Placid over the
week end.”
“you darling!”
«And we're never going to quare
rel zny more, are we?”
“Never—never—never!™
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