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Show THE IIELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH Mary was driving through the country with her daddy when, for the first time in her life, Five-year-o- iThe Sealed Trunk by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Coprriskt WHAT WENT 7 Tk C. Bobbe-Merr- BEFORE Martin Forbes, newspaper reporter, meets "Rhoda White." He overhears a conversation between Max Lewis and a woman which ha believes concerns Rhoda. He recalls a "blind ad" Inquiring for "Rhoda McFar-land- " and senses a newspaper story. He believes that Rhoda's real name Is McFarland. She refuses to admit or deny It, but Martin was right Her life In California had been happy after At dance her mother's death until misfortune overcame her father, Professor McFarland. They move to Chicago. The professor dies suddenly, vainly trying to tell Rhoda about "papers" In a trunk. Rhoda gets job as stenographer and takes rooms with "Babe" Jennings. Martin discovers that the "blind ad" advertiser Is C. J. Forster. Rhoda admits her Identity. A mysterious "Claire Cleveland" asks Rhoda for an Interview. Claire requests Rhoda to get certain papers of hers that were In McFarland's possession. She reveals knowledge of the trick 'hat wrecked McFarland's life. The trunk Is stolen and Rhoda suspects Claire and trails her to the hotel where Forster v lives. CHAPTER VI Continued "Pull up here and wait a minute," Martin told his chauffeur. It was not, he was aware, the heroic order to give, but being no hero, only a thoroughly pragmatic reporter, he required time to think If Max was already In the flat there was nothing to be gained by following hira. Even onarmed.Max could beat him to a pulp and would be able to Identify him, besides, as one of Rhoda's allies. Call a policeman? That was no good, either. Police Intervention meant a story In the papers. And this, for some reason he could only half guess, was a horror to Rhoda. But was that Max's taxi? There was no chauffeur In It, though the motor had been left running. The obvious Inference was that the chauffeur had been tipped to go In and carry out luggage, such as a trunk. Would Max have the nerve to ask a taxi driver to assist him In his burglary? Well, he might If he were smart enough. Martin had Just reached that point in his speculations when they were confirmed nby Max's emergence from the doorway, accompanied by the chauffeur lugging the trunk. Martin said to his chauffeur. "That's the man I want. And I think I know where he's going, but I can't be sure enough to risk It Follow him, will you?" him feel frightfully cheap to give an order Hike that But the heroic alternative offered no chance at ail of success. He could think of nothing better than to tag along, make sure where the trunk went, and try to invent some way of bluffing this pair of conspirators out of their booty np In Claire's flat after she'd joined Max It made there. Automatically, of course, he'd been watching the other taxi. Now as they approached the drive he was astonished to see It turn south instead of North ; down town Instead of up. That wasn't the way to Claire's flat Yet her instructions to Max had been explicit thnt he take it there. Was Max starting something on his own account! betraying his ally? Or had he observed that he was being followed and was he trying to throw off pursuit? "I'm a reporter for the News," iMartin told his driver, "and that chnp with the trunk Is a peach of fa story If I can get It. He Isn't going where I thouelit he would though." :: "Probably going to one of the VH.ts. Isn't he, with that trunk?" ' the chauffeur suggested. 1 5, "I believe you're right," Martin ; "If he Is, the story Is agreed. even better. But I've got to find ; I out where he's going." Their quarry showed no signs of consciousness that It was being ; followed. Its destination proved to be the Union station. "Where wUI he go with that trunk If he wants to check It?" Martin asked. A depends on whether he's got J his"Itticket," the chauffeur told him. "If he hasn't ne'll stop and got It half way down the ramp. If he I has he'll go all the way down to the lower level." 1 Evidently Max hadn't his ticket, 1 for his taxi stopped half way down, pulling up a little beyond the entrance to the concourse. 1 But the person who left the cab to buy the ticket was the chauffeur. Max apparently didn't want to leave his precious trunk until It was safely checked. Martin slipped out of his cnb and followed the chauffeur boldly tip to the ticket window and stood at his elbow while the mnn bought a ticket and a lower berth, the number of which Martin noted, to ft New York on the Pennsylvania that afternoon. He 'urned as Inconspicuously as he to bis own taxi. The other f cab had already started down the ' ;: ' ! ; ' Jy-ram- p. I ..v i fcm i At a safe distance Mnrtin fol-towed and saw Uhoda's little hat trunk checked, saw Max drive d n him! unchecked, away with, no doubt, what was left of er three hundred dollars In his Those Identical twenty-pocket. dollar bills that Martin had seen paid for the ticket had been very 5 WWU Service likely a part of the hoard In "her bureau drawer. And he had stood looking on and not done a mortal thing! Well, what could be have done? What could he do now? One thing be d better do, without loss of time, was to pay off his taxi while he could. He'd left the paper. In his haste this noon, without stopping to get some money that be needed. After he'd paid the sum the meter had been adding op so Industriously, and tipped the driver be had just sixty cents left and you could have bought him, as he stood at the curb watching the cab drive away, for Just about that The obvious duty before him was to telephone Rhoda at the studio and tell her what be had seen happen. The only plan in his without however, letting go of It aeai like a dinner. They bad a "Let's see yours," she said excit- telephone Instrument brought to the edly. table so that they could call op He got a similar envelope out and tell Rhoda the good news, but his of breast pocket but it bad no It seemed she wasn't there to hear car and berth numbers written on it It and he had to get out-- his "It's funny," Martin commented tickets for a look. She saw uneasily. "Isn't she usually home that he had a trunk check In the by this time? It s after six. Yon envelope. don't suppose anything's happened "Why, .Max, she cried, with a to her, do you?" squeal of excitement, "we're in the "Oh, don't be an old hen !" Babe same car! Look 408! Can you admonished him. "What would beat It?" have happened to her?" All the "I'll tell the world you can't." same he could see she was as un he proclaimed enthusiastically. easy as 'le was. They wasted no "Ixwk here, Babe, what do you time about paying their bill and say? Can I swap my lower for getting a taxi. the upper In your section?" The studio was dark when Babe "Weil," she told him judicially, nnlocked the door, and their calls can never tell till "you you try." evoked no response. Out of a corner of her eye Babe "Something has happened to her,' saw a woman she where mind was that he and Rhoda go thought Martin said, with sober conviction. around together to the city hall But the telephone rang Just then and swear out a warrant for Lew-Iand enabled Babe to say as she arrest, along with a writ of redarted across the room to answer plevin for the trunk, and then be "Silly, there she Is now. Turn It s on hand with a man on the light will you? It's right by when Lewis came to the .station to the door. take the train. There was time "Hello I" he heard Babe saying one fact enough except for the as he fumbled with the switch. "Is that Rhoda herself would veto the that you. Red? Well, what's the matter with your voice? I can't plan. ne hadn't the faintest doubt of hear you. Yes, Martin's right Do yon want to talk to here. that He remembered bow she'd looked last night when he had him?" been Before she could take the reher about the telling ceiver from Babe'j3 hand he heard "morgue"; they dug into that only, he had said, when something In the her say, "Red, what Is It? What's current news called for a referthe matter? Where are you, anyence to It He didn't know he'd And by the time he had how?" crowded Into her place, the thread deliberately avoided trying to find out what file It was she was of communication had been broken. afraid might be looked Into nor, "Number, please?" the operator said when he rattled the honk. exactly, what sort of secret It conShe couldn't tell where the call they tained, but he remembered the bad lost had come from. deep earnestness In her voice when she'd begged him not to try to find out any more than she had told' CHAPTER VIII him and not to do anything that The Spider. might change the life she'd been so happy in during the past two HAD been the mere momenITtum of pursuit rather than any years. He had been drifting aimlessly consciously adopted plan that had caused Rhoda to dismiss her taxi along the street In the general direction of his newspaper office, and follow Claire Cleveland Into She wasn't though he had no conscious reason the Worcester hotel. for going back there, and presentmore than a minute or two behind outhe found himself ly standing The Man Bought a Ticket and a ber and what she expected, as far side a little movie theater, staring as she'd clearly expected anything, Lower Berth. In a sort of trance at the lurid had been to see Claire at the desk on Its billboard. It repre- stood watching them. "Max," she Inquiring for Mr. Forster. poster sented the eternal tri- said, sharp and low, "is that your Claire was nowhere to be seen. angle, a guilty pair surprised by wife looking at us?" Very likely she hadn't had to ask the man's virtuous wife. She was "Wife!" he echoed. "Say, Babe, at the desk but had ridden straight Havdefending the sanctity of the where do you get that stuff?" up In one of the elevators. hearth with a small revolver and But he looked, and she, looking ing lost contact with her quarry. you could see from the way they up at him, saw his face drain to Rhoda sat down In one of the cowed before her that they recogthe color of an unbaked pie. The massive armchairs In the lobby to nized the cogency of her argument. woman swept down upon them and think things out a little. She had the same colored hair as stood glaring from one to the other. What ground had she for assumClaire Cleveland and a little of "'Babe,' eh?" she said with a ing that Claire had come here to ferocious grin. "I thought so." her looks, too. see Forster? Well, It was quite She didn't say It very loud, reasonable when you considered It Martin's abstraction grew deeper ' The care she didn't In though. Evidently and deeper. the cage Out of the whole tissue of lies girl cast sharp little glances his way about attracting a crowd, herself. Claire had told at lunch the one on "Yon she went wondered yellow dog!" whether she hadn't and emergent truth had been the genbetter have his move on. But be- to address Max. "Trying to double uineness of her hatred of Forster were cross me, and came to this decision he get away and her belief that he hated her. fore she you, came to one of his own. He looked with a skirt? Well, you aren't He might be, Rhoda perceived, smart Give me the just as see? enough, at his watch and went off to the unpleasant a person as check of that trunk." nearest drug store to telephone to Claire had painted hira, or he ' "I tell you there wasn't any might be perfectly benevolent, a Claire. trunk," he asserted frantically. "I potential friend. The advertiseto went find It and I couldn't It ment In the CHAPTER VII paper, that Rhoda wasn't there." would learn something to her ad "Look here," Bab struck in, How the Plot Worked Out. by applying to him, might had enough of this. Sorry vantage be true. He couldn't be dangerreally rather "I've THE simple,one-ac- but t play which to get you In dutch, Max. Good-ry.- " ous not physically dangerous If had Its only performance at a few he couldn't even walk without the She made as If to move off to- aid of two canes. minutes past five that afternoon In the concourse of the Union station, ward the gate, then darted back And if he was the man who had paid no royalties to the stark to him, crowding in front of the brought ber and Babe downtown screen drama which was being ex- wenan as she did so. this morning, as she didn't doubt "nosh," she panted, "I almost for- he was, posed six times daily in the little he now knew where she got I Give me my ticket." movie theater. worked If not where she lived ; and He swallowed hard and said, was The theft of that plot the this meant she couldn't avoid him only crime that Martin had to com- "your tl.;ket?" unless she moved out of thestu1io She wink a at flickered him. mit that day. Strictly speaking and got a new job. If she was 1 It "Don't remember? you gave there was no audience, for Martin going to see him, what better to when checked trunk. you my you did not dure come close enough to strategic opportunity could she hear the lines, and Babe Jennings, Why, you've got It right in your have for the visit than while Claire hand." who heard everything, was herself was there quarreling with him? his He dull eyes wide, opened one of the Important actors. She started across the lobby toBabe had undertaken the part, and If she hadn't been too excited ward the desk to ask If Mr. C. 3. though at short notice, with en- she'd have laughed outrightIn at the Forster lived there. She needn't them thusiasm, once she'd convinced her mixture with the despair actually go up to Mr. Forster's self that Martin had not gone sud- of a sudden unbelievable hope. apartment unless she wanted to. He withher the and had gave she mad envelope after got denly An Inquiry at the desk wouldn't the main lines of the scenario out a word, and she, without an- commit her to anything. other either of the at had her head. glance dashed She pair, through But, In the strangest way. It did. out to the studio In a taxi all ex- scurried like a rabbit Into the The clerk didn't directly answer crowd around the were Martin gate. guaranteed by penses her question, whether Mr. O. 3. Just before she got to the gate-ma- Forster and, thanking goodness that He there or not. she slipped aside, and In an- asked forlived Rhoda wasn't there to have his her name Instead. But other second Martin was a on made to her, hugging the moment she gave It messages passed (as Rhoda toilet as much like a million dol- her. his manner became alert White) I" a "Gosh, Babe, you're peach lars as her street things ran to. and deferential. Her major resplendencies were be said. "Oh. yes. Miss White," he said, were But to if they keep Rhocalculated for the evening, of . nodded to a course, but even In her lesser glory da's trunk from taking an unneces- and His manner so strangely sng she looked good to Max Lewis sary and perhaps embarrassing when he caught sight of her In trip to New York there wasn't any gested that he knew all about her the station good enough to be go- time to waste on compliments. and had been eagerly awaiting her He told her "Walt right here," he told her, arrival, both manifest Impossibll ing to Hollywood. that while he sentimentally pro- when she had given him Max's Itles, that she felt like backing ticket and the precious trunk away and saying It was all a mis longed their handshake. Her answer to this remark about check, and darted off to find the take. She was fairly amused and baggage master. faintly frightened, but more than Hollywood was that she was head"I want to get a trunk off the either she was curious to follow ed for a better place than that. She was starting off on the limited limited," he panted out to that off- the adventure through and see She burst Into icial at the end of the sprint "The what happened. The clerk had to the big town. raptures about her trip. "What young lady's changed her mind and probably mixed her up with some one else. are you looking so funny about?" Isn't going." Anyhow, Mr. Forster In less than ten minutes the hat must be a pretty Important person she concluded, closing in on her "Are yon going to hate trunk with its gummed down lid In this hotel to evoke a zeal like victim. hove In sight, having a ride all by that, even though it was mistaken. to lose me as much as that?" , . "I'm not going to lose yon at Itself on a little electric platform on getllng InstrucThe nil," Max told her. "That's the truck. They wouldn't surrender It tions, conducted her over to the el would have evators. "Right up," he said to the Joke. I'm going to New York on to Martin, though. the limited, myself. What car are to be unlocked first and the con elevntor boy, "all the way." The tents Identified. He was glad he bell boy followed her In and the you In? Let's see your ticket." Babe cheerfully gave credit to hadn't told them It was his trunk. car ran all the way to the twenty-fourtMartin thnt this property was In The young lady who bad changed floor, regardless of signals. In the mixture of Rhoda's emoplace. She'd never have thought of her mind had been a useful Inventhe detail herself. She opened her tion. He'd bring Ithoda round to tions the element of fear gained a little at the expense of amusement. handbag and got out one of those get It In the morning. He found Babe getting annoyed She began to feel thnt she'd Startrailway envelopes that they enclose tickets In. It had some Muff nnd under the Impression that she'd ed something she might not be uble lug In it too. But It didn't re- been unwarrantably abandoned, so to stop. (TO BR CONTIWED.) quire to be opened, for on the to pacify her he borrowed five dolface of It was written in Indelible lars of her and took her Into the Life Not Happy station restaurant for food. Ills "Pennsylvania Limited pencil, Idea of the meal had been afterIt Is misery to be born, pnln to 5!0 Car 408, Lower 10." to see noon tea, but It turned out a good live, grief to dlo. St. Bernard. She held It out for hira n pull-ma- s' plain-clothe- New York "Actors' Chapel" Malachy's church on Forty-nint- h street. Just west of Broadway, Is known as the Actors' chapel. The church is largely attended by theatrical people, member of the sporting world and St other residents of the surrounding district Mutkrst's Winter Abode The muskrat's winter hut Is a dome of vegetation mixed In with mud walls and frozen stiff, which enables the muskrat to eat the roots In the walls, and to keep comfortably warm from the heat generated by the decaying vegetation. National Capitol Dome The Capitol dome In Washington was never covered with gold leaf. It was formerly a wooden dome with copper sheathing, but this was taken down in 1856, and the present structure of cast iron was completed in 18G5. Uncle Eben "De sun shines In January," said Uncle Eben, "but not enough to give real encouragement to us folks dat goes right on year after year dat de weather has done reformed." Washington Star. The Limit I believe thnt when a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. Charles M. 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