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Show - " Y Y V Y BANNIifiER MERMN RAY WALTERJ1 OoriPAWsr COVYftrOHT 1909 ,vy DODP.MBAO At thf expense of a soiled hat Herbert Orme saves from arrest a pirl in a black car who has caused a traffic jam touring on State street. He buys a new hat and is given a five dollar hill with: Remember the person you pay this to, written on It. A second time he helps the girl in the black car and learns that in Tom and Bessie Walhngham they have mutual friends, but gets no further hint of her Identity. He discovers another Inscrip- lon on the marked bill, which in a futile attempt to decipher It. he copies and places the copy in a drawer in his apartment. Senor Poritol, South American, calls and laims the marked bill. Orme ensues in which Porirefuses, and a tol is overcome.ligntHe ealls in Senor minister from his country, to vouch for him. Orme still refuses to give lias up the bill. He learns that a called for him. Orme goes for Jap a walk And sees two Japs attack Aleatrante. He rescues him. The minister tries diplomacy, but fails to get the marked bill. Returning to his rooms Orme is attacked by two Japs who effect a forcible exchange of the marked bill for another. Orme finds the girl of the black car waiting for him. She also wants the bill. Orme tells his story. She recognizes one of the as her fathers butler, Maku. The Japs second inscription on the bill is the key to the hiding place of important papers stolen from her father. Both Japs and South Americans want the papers. Orme and the Girl" start out in the black car In quest of the papers. In the university grounds in Evanston the hiding place is located. Maku and another Jap are there. Orme fells Maku and the other Jap escapes. CHAPTER V. Continued. A Chance Lead. To follow the girls suggestion and return at once to Chicago was Ormes intention when he said good night to her. The hour was close to midnight, and the evening had been crowded so full with bewildering adventure that he was tired. Moreover, he looked forward to a morning that might well test his endurance even more strenuously. He had now committed himself definitely to continue in the field against the Japanese. Except for his desire to serve this wonderful girl who had come so suddenly into his life, he doubtless would have permitted the mystery of the marked bill to remain unsolved. But since the recovery of the stolen papers was so important to her, he was prepared to run any risk in the struggle. Who was she? But no, that was a question she did not wish him to ask. She was simply Girl" beautiful, tender, comprehending his ideal incarnate. As he stood there, hesitant, before the house into which she had disappeared, he pictured her again even to the strand of rebellious hair which had blown across her cheek. So he jumped to tils feet and ran He could discover no fault in her northward, then turned to the west. perfection. A man came into view on the drive Circling about, he made for the gate at which he had entered. His pur- at the side of the house; a servant suer either took the wrong lead in the to care for the car, of course; and darkness or stopped to examine Maku, Orme, with the uneasy feeling of one for when Orme went through the who has been trespassing, moved gate and doubled back, outside the away toward the corner of the block. fence, to the car, there was no sound He looked back, however, and saw the of steps behind him. He jumped to newcomer clamber into the car and send it slowly up the drive. the chauffeurs scat. At the same time a light illumined Well? inquired the girl, eagerly. Too late said Orme. Im sorry. one of the upper windows of the I caught Maku, but the man with the house. A shadow was thrown on the curtain. Perhaps it was the girl herenvelope got away. Are self. What explanation had she given She laid a hand on his arm. There was unconcealed her friends for appearing so late at you hurt? their door? Probably she had told anxiety in her voice. To say the things he yearned to them no more than that she was tired say! To be tender to her! But he and belated. She was not the kind controlled his feelings and explained of girl from whom an elaborate exbriefly what had happened, at the planation would be asked or exsame time throwing on the power and pected. Then a thought startled him.) Was driving the car slowly northward. I only know that the fellow ran this, perhaps, her home? No, she He may have had spoken of the people who lived northward, he said. worked hack or he may have gone here as her friends, and she would on. He may have climbed another not have tried to keep the truth from him by subterfuge. If this were her tree end waited. By thl time they had come to the home and she had not wished him to northern limits of the grounds, but he know it, she would have requested him to leave her before they had had seen no one. the Suddenly girl exclaimed: come so far. It dawned upon him that it would Listen! Orme stopped the car. Somewhere not be hard for him to learn who from the distance came a faint hum. lived In this house, and possibly Another car! he muttered. through that knowledge to get a clue Oh, but I can do to her identity. His heart warmed "Yes," she said. no more. 1 am tired, Mr. Orme. We as he realized how completely she cannot catch that car, even if it does had trusted him. His assurance that hold the man we want and there is he would not try to find out who she was had satisfied her. And Orme no way of being sure that It does. If there Is any place to leave you, knew that, if she had been so readily He had assured, it was because she had recI will go after him alone. turned the car as he spoke and was ognized the truth and devotion in him. sending It slowly southward. We you With a happy sigh, he turned his No. she said wearily. must do no more tonight. You have back once and for all and walked been so good, Mr. Orme to help me rapidly away. But he did not go In a matter of which I could tell you toward the electric-ca- r line, which almost nothing. I won't even try to he knew must lie a few blocks to the Instead, he retraced the thank yon except by saying that you west. course they had come, for he had der have understood. He knew what she meant. He had cided to visit the university campus met her need, because he had shown once more and try to discover what greatness without her telling him. had become of Maku, and more espeHis recognition of her plight had been cially of the other Japanese, who had unaccompanied by any suggestion of secured the papers. That he would No gushing be recognized aqd connected with the Ignored conventions. thanks would have pleased him half attack on Maku, was unlikely. When he came to the corner of so much. Does Sheridan road and Chicago avenue, he He smiled at her wistfully. hesitated for a moment. Should he it all end here?" "No, she said, "I will not let it go north through the campus and end here. We are friends already: in seek a trace of the Japanese who had fact. Mr. Orme, as soon as I can do escaped? Nearly half an hour had so. I will see that we are friends in gone since the adventure among the name. Can you accept as little a trees, and the man must have got completely away by this time. Havfromise as that?" 1 can accept any promise from ing the papers, he surely would not And now linger to learn the fate of Maku. you," he said gravely. Orme found himself wondering how shall 1 take you home? Not home. It is too far. But 1 the Japanese had got to Evanston. have some friends a few blocks away Granting that it had not taken them who will take me In. Turn here, long to solve the abbreviated direcr tions on the bill, they could please. " for Under her guidance he took the car hardly have come by motor-car- , r start, drawing tip they had had a good through several streets, comfortable-lookinand yet Orme had discovered them t last before a large, completed. place, set back from the before their work was lawn Only on the assumption that their car street, with a wide, shrub-dottebefore it. Several windows were still had broken dow n on the way could admit that they had used a lighted. He descended to help her Orme motor-car- . Moreover, how were two out. 1 hate to ask it, Japanese, whose appearance did not She hesitated. IMr. Orme," she finally said, but you indicate the possesion of much ready can catch the trolley back to Chi- money how were they likely to have cago. They will take care of the car a car, or even to rent one? And had they believed that they might be here.' But one thing. Girl, pursued? Would they not have come He nodded. I am going to find that to Evanston by an obvious route of he said. other Japanese tomorrow. 1 shall get train or trolley? These considerations led Orme to the envelope. Will you call me up t the apartment tomorrow noon? if think that the car which he and the leave word where 1 girl had heard in the distance could 1 am not there, not have been occupied by the escan find you." But don't get caping Japanese. "1 will do that. The fellow, then, had probably made yourself hurt." She let him Help her line, and in that for the electric-ca- r to the ground. well on his way to he be would event said. he "At noon," Chicago by this time. The car he had At noon. Goodnight, my friend caught must have gone southward She offered her hand. he said. and from Evanston about 10:45. The conood-night, Girl, then he bent over and kissed her ductor would be likely onto remember board: perhaving had a Japanese fingers gently. He stood by the car until she had haps he would even remember where crossed the lawn and ascended the the Oriental had got off. The natural was to teps lintil the door opened and ad course for Orme, therefore, take a car himself and, If he did not d her. is five-dolla- half-hou- g d It's possible that he thought he had killed his assailant, and had an unpleasant vision of being detained in the local jail until the affair could be cleared up. The looked at Orme Chicago, probably. She came up an hour or so ago at least, 1 suppose sheB the same oue. The explosions were now so rapid as to make almost one continuous roar. Shes a fast one, all right, commented the Hear her go!" Are there many fast boats on the lake? "Quite a number. They run out from Chicago harbor now and then. Orme was meditating. "Exactly how long ago did this boat pass?" "Oh, an hour or more. Why?" She seems to have been beached up north here a little way." "She may have been. Or theyve been lying to out there." In Orines mind arose a surmise that in this motor boat Maku and his companion had come from Chicago. The surmise was so strong as to develop quickly into a certainty. And if the Japanese had coma by this boat, it stood to reason thai .he one who had the papers was escaping in it. lie must have waited some time for Maku and. at last, had pushed off SYNOPSIS. life-save- to return alone. Were these Japanese acting themselves? That did not seem sible. Then was who their ployer? Orme did not puzzle long these questions, for he had life-save- r searchingly. "That sounds pretty straight, he I guess you know what said at last. you are talking about. Perhaps 1 do, said Orme quietly. "In any event I'd like to see who's in that boat out there." There isnt a boat nearer than Chicago that could catch her. They have run her several miles out Into the lake before turning south, or she would have been pretty close to Chicago already. She's going fast. The roar of the motor was indeed sound. becoming a far-of"Wliy not telephone the Chicago police to intercept her? Theres no evidence against her, replied Orme; only surmises." "I know, but And, as 1 suggested, whoever was attacked by that Jap in there may not w ant notoriety." Suddenly the distant explosion stopped began again stopped. Sevfor eral times they were renewed at short f intervals posem- car-barn- s life-save- r car-lin- pointed in that direction, he was irresistibly influenced by a desire to walk eastward along the drive where it skirted the southern end of the campus. A half-hou- r might go by, and still he would not be too late to meet, on its return, the car which the He would have taken. Japanese started, therefore, eastward, toward the lake, throwing frequent glances through the iron fence at his,left pn into the dark shadows of the oaks. He came to the lake without en: The road here countering anyone. swept to the southward, and on the beach near the turn squatted the low brick building which the girl had told A station. him was the man was standing on the little veranda. His suit of duck was dimly white street-lampin the light from the near-b- over life-save- life-savin- g y One of the crew, Orme surmised, and he sauntered slowly down the little path. The beach sloped grayly to the edge of the lake, where a breakwater thrust its blunt nose out like a stranded hulk. The water was calm, lapping the sand so gently that it was hard to believe that so gentle a murmur could ever swell Into the roar of a A launch that was northeaster. moored at the outer end of the breakwater lay quiet on the tideless surface. said Orme, as the " man turned his bead. Are you on watch? r The slowly stretched. Till 12," he answered. Not then?" No. thank heaven!" 1 Orme laughed. suppose you do get more than you want of it," he But on a fine night like this 1 said. should think it would be mighty pleasant." "Not if you have to put in several hours of stuuy after you get through." "Study? "Yes. You see, 1 have a special examination tomorrow. A service examination? Oh, no college." "Are you a student?" All the crew are students. It helps a good deal. If you are working your way through college. Oh, I see. But surely the university hasn't opened for the fall?" "No, but there are preliminary exams, for those who have conditions to work off." It's a fine campus Orme nodded. you have w Ith the groves of oaks." "Good-evening,- life-save- much-longer- , Yes. "Just the place for a quiet evening stroll. thought I'd walk up the 1 shore." There's a rule against going there after dark." Is there? That's too bad." "Something just a funny happened little while ago." in there mined on a course of who appeared spoke to the to be listening to the droning conversation which continued within the station. The hold-umen may be in that remarked Orme. Hardly." A laugh accompanied the boat, s answer. ter vainly. "Whose boat is that moored to the "Well, why not? She came north an hour or so ago and either was breakwater? asked Orme, lowering beached or lay to until just now. the glass. Belongs to a man here In town. Would he rent it? "No. But he lets us run it once in life-sav- A Jap student who lives in the dormitory." puh-pu- they ceased altogether. r Hello! exclaimed the They've broken down. He picked up a pair of binoculars which had been lying on the veranda near him, and scanned the surface of the lake. Make her out? queried Orme. No, she's too small, and too far off. He handed the night-glasto Orme, sho in turn searched the wa- had he any desire to come face to You may he right. Then, before face with Maku. But if he betrayed the was knew Orme what happening, his surprise, the did not door and man opened the young notice it. "The cop is taking another look through the campus, he continued. "What does the Jap say about it? asked Orme. "He doesnt say anything. It looks as though he couldnt speak English. Tje ,cop la going to get Asuki." Asuki? puli puh puh then deterHe action. There's a Rule Against Going in There After Dark." "Didnt the cop chase him?" meet the other car- returning, to get off at the and make in"No, the fellow had a good start, quiries. The possibility that the Jap- so the cop stayed by the Jap." And what became of the Jap?" anese had changed to the elevated The road on the North side was great, but jerked his head the conductor might remember if the toward the door beside him. "He's in there, getting over his headache. change had been made. "Is he? Rut Orme did not turn at once This was a contingency toward the Though his logic which Orme had not foreseen. Nor Of called into the station: Iley, there! awhile. Your robber is escaping on that him. motor-boa- t Orme took out his watch. Its almost 12, he said. "Youll be relieved in a few moments. Do you suppose I could persuade you to take me out to the other boat?" The hesitated. Td like to, he said. "But my study "Therell be some sport, if we get within reach of the man out there, Orme put in. "Well Ill do It though the chances are that they will make their repairs and be off again before we come within a mile." said "I'm much obliged to you, Orme. "If you would let me make it out there. What's that? strode to the door. The We keep an eye on it for policeman "Dont you hear that boat out there?" asked the "Sure, I hear It. Well, she came up from the south an hour or more ago and stopped a little north of here. Now shes golife-save- r. live-saf- "Oh, said Orme. Mr. Holmes, here" he The fact that Maku would not talk ing back. Mr. Holmes was in a measure reassuring. His ap- grinned as he said it hold-uman Is parent inability to understand Eng- suggests that the lish was, of course, assumed, unless, aboard. The reference to the famous detectindeed, he was still too completely dazed by the blow which Orme had ive of fiction was lost upon the poI guess thats about it, Mr. given him, to use a tongue which was liceman. more or less strange to him. But Holmes, he said excitedly; and Orme what would he say if he saw Orme? was much relieved to note that the humorous reference had Would he not accuse his assailant, hoping thus to delay the pursuit of passed for an Introduction. The policeman would have no suspicion of his companion? The danger was by no means slight. him now unless Maku Orme decided quickly to get away There was an exclamation from from this neighborhood. But Just as within the room. "Whats the matr a ter?" asked the policeman, turning in he was about to bid the two casual good-nighmen came the doorway. around the corner of the building. The voice of Asuki replied: "He One was a policeman, the other a say the robber came in a bicycle young Japanese. Orme unobtrusive- not In a boat. Hut I thought he didn't see the ly seated himself on the edge of the little veranda. fellow coming. How is he?" asked the policeman. lie remember now." How did All right, 1 guess," replied the The policeman started. 1 looked in a few minutes he know what we were talking about ago, and he was sitting up. Hello, out here? he demanded. Asuki. lie understand English, but not "Hello, there, responded the little speak it, replied Asuki readily. Japanese. To the policeman thiB explanation "Come," said the policeman, after was satisfactory. Orme, of course, an unsuspicious glance Orme, and, found in it a corroboration of his mounting the steps, he led his inte- guess. Maku evidently did not wish rpreter into the station. suspicion directed against the motor-boaNow, indeed, it was time for Orme to slip away. Maku might be brought The policeman reentered the staout at any moment. Hut Orme tion, eager to avail himself of the inlingered. He was nearer to the solu- formation which Maku was now distion of the secret if he kept close to posed to give him. Maku, and he realized, for that matThe Orme turned to the ter, that by watching Maku closely Jap is lying, he said. and, perhaps, following him home, he "Think so? might be led straight to the other Of course. If he understands Engman. If Maku accused him, it should lish so well, he certainly knows how not, after all, be hard to laugh the to make himself understood in it. charge away. His story of the bicycle is preposterA murmur of voices came from ous. within the station, the policeman's But what then? words alone being distinguishable. Doesnt it occur to you that perAsk him, the policeman said, "if the Jap himself is the robber? haps he knows who hit him." His intended victim may have got the The undertones of a foreign jargon better of him. followed. Yes, said the young man doubtWell, then, continued the police- fully, but the fellow ran. man, "find out where he came from DoubThat would be natural. on the and what he was doing tless he didn't want any notoriety. campus. Again the undertones, and afterThin ward an interval of silence. the policeman spoke in an undecided p right For taking you out In another man's boat? No, sir. "1 know. Well my name is Orme, not Holmes." And mine," grinned the "Is Porter." A man turned in from the drive, and sauntered toward them. There's my relief. said Porter. Hello, Keimsley. "Hello, replied the newcomer. "Just wait till 1 punch the clock, said Porter to Orme. "Punch the clock? Oh, 1 see; the government times you. life-save- life-save- life-save- t, "Yes. Porter went into the station for a he exmoment; then, returning, changed a few words with the relief and led Orme down to the breakwater. The launch which was moored there proved to be a sturdy boat, built for strength rather than for speed Orme cast off while Porter removed the tarpaulin from the motor and made ready to turn the wheel over. "Is the policeman still busy with Orme questioned sudthe Jap? denly. t. "Yes." life-save- out "He wont get anything said Orme "except him, of fairy-storie- Porter started the motor and . stepped forward to the steering-wheelout launch the pushed Slowly into the open lake, and the lights of the shore receded. No sound had come from the disabled boat 6ince its motor stopped. Doubtless it was too far off for the noise of repairs to b? heard on the shore. Orme peered over the dark surface of the water, hut he could see nothing except the lights of s dis taut steamer. (TO BE CONTINUED.) voice. If he dont know anything, I cant "So? What was it? Orme was getting close to the subject he most do anything. But e might as well desired to hear explained. get a few more facts. Something Why, one of the cops was walking might turn up. Ask him whether he along the shore and he found a Jap- saw anybody following him when he went into the campus. anese, stunned. "A Japanese! Orme had been straining his ears in in a vain endeavor to catch the words He evidently had wandered there and somebody had hit him over of Asulti. But suddenly his attention was diverted by a sound from the the head with a club. lake. It was the After money? Thereve been a good of a motor-boat- , "Probably. apparently a little The exlately. But the slug- distance to the northward. many hold-up- s ger didnt have a chance to get any- plosions followed one another in rapid succession. thing this time. He turned to the "How so?" "He was bending over the Jap when What boat is that? he asked. 1 the cop came up. He got away. dont know. Some party from life-save- r. I Getting Away. "Haven't you forgotten something, sir? asked the anxious valter, as the thrifty guest prepared to depart without bestowing a tip. No, I think not. Heres my hat and here's my cane I dont think I have forgotten anything. "But youve forgotten me, said the waiter In exasperation. Not at all, answered the other "I saw you standing ther all the time. Bon solr, garcon; bon solr." t As It Impressed Him. Penuchle EDtor Whats the general effect of the new hobble skirt?" Bridge Editor Well, if it is the one I saw on one f the elevated loop plat forms the othee afternoon is a correct sample, the general effect is bard to describe, but the particular effect is to lower the waist line to a point Just uelow the knees. A good thing needs no puffing, tear this truth does not sppiy to tobacco. |