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Show Thursday, November 3, 1927 THE LEIH SUN. LEIII, UTAn PAGE SEVEN gfeLh RECLUSE f FIFTH vSS IWYNDHAM COPYRIGHT WM.U. . .)V.m.itfii,iLiiM mrii.iirlINiIE STAT6S SEB,VIC CHAPTER VI Continued 11 Nlta was silent for a moment. It was not easy to readjust herself. "What sort of a come-back?" Her father hesitated a moment. "I don't think you'd understand." "Can I help you?" "No, Nlta ; It Isn't work for women." "You mean there's danger in It?" He was afraid to say too much. He dreaded to be entrapped by her seemingly seem-ingly Innocent questions. He knew she was mentally much quicker than he. The Fessendons again. "It's not my secret," he returned, "and I ought not to say any more. I can only assure you that Malet and Bradney are splendid fellows, both far iuperlor to me. Very high types. They believe that what we intend to do U the only right and logical thing. You must let It go at that" "And because there's danger in It you think I'd better keep out of it?" "Exactly," he exclaimed, gratified at this attitude of obedience. "Then It Is dangerous," she cried. Barnes saw he had made a damaging admission. She had trapped him. "Daddy, what makes you think I'm afraid of anything that's dangerous?" "Oh, Nlta," he said reproachfully, "that's scarcely playing the game to drag Information from me which is not mine to give. You are deliberately deliberate-ly trying to make me betray my friends." He had risen to his feet She could tee he was not pleased with her. "Indeed, I'm not," she said earnestly. earnest-ly. "Daddy, I came over here because something told me you needed looking after. It isn't that I'm trying to make you betray your friends. I want to be sure that they are being honest with you." "I have never met squarer men," he answered. "Then I'm on their side, too. My father and his friends, right or wrong." Barnes did not know what to say. But a daughter of his could not be associated as-sociated with anything Irregular. He shook his head. "I cannot accept your assistance," he told her. "Very well. I shall tell Mr. Milman I am leaving after luncheon tomorrow. I came over here equipped, specially equipped, for a certain sort of position, posi-tion, and I'm going to get it." "Skilled secretarial workers and stenographers are drugs in the market," mar-ket," he assured her. "I am not going to be a stenographer," stenogra-pher," she retorted. "I did that to earn money to come here, t shall take the other position, so you won't have to live on a stranger's charity." "That Is a hard thing to say," he answered, flushing; "and It's not altogether alto-gether true. Mr. Milman sought me out because he thought I was abie to help him. I am not living on charity." "What is it you are trying to do?" she asked. , "You must not expect me to tell you. My dear, don't be hasty and leave us yet Promise me that r She kissed htm good night. "I won't go yet," she said. "I can't lose you as quickly as that." When she was alone her face took on a worried aspect. She had suf fered many things in order to he with him, and she determined to find out what the mystery was that enveloped this strange household. Although she was not yet twenty-two, she had trav-. eled widely and met Innumerable people. peo-ple. In Milman and his associates she recognized men of charm and cul ture who had made her father their firm admirer. And they were all hold ing back from her any mention of their real venture. In order to de ceive her they had "clumsily Invented and acted a falsehood. It could onlv be because they were plotting some thing of an Illegal nature. I hey had played on her father's emotions and earned his gratitude and co-operation by a few hundred dol lars. For so small a thing it had been possible to enlist his sympathy and aid. :hey had been clever enough to create the illusion that she was welcome wel-come when in truth they might be embarrassed em-barrassed by her presence and already planning to get rid of her. She decid ed she would not be driven out Her father needed his daughter even if he did not yet know It The thought that three dangerous men might be plot ting some crime for which Neeland Barnes would ultimately bear the blame drove her to action. Her room was at tha rear of the house. Four Iron bar protected its windows. Almost five leet below she could mre the Iron grating which roofed ia the Japanese garden. When ne leaned down from her open win- oow ghe could hear, faintly, the sound of voices, U was about her they were speak-toe. speak-toe. Barnes had come from her room iui the disquieting Information that tfcelr talk on oil had amused her very men. The news had been a blow. "Miss Barnes gives me the impres-sion impres-sion of being a very shrewd young lady," Malet said, "and one not easily deceived. You all know that, when once we start, it will be almost impossible im-possible to keep one who is already little suspicious in ignorance." "Yes," said Bradney, "I am afral-1 she cannot stay here." 'Her godmother lives In Philadelphia," Philadel-phia," said Barnes. "She can't refuse to take her in for a month or two. She said something about earning her living, liv-ing, but I should prefer her to go to Philadelphia." "I am afraid she would be a source of danger If she remained," y Peter Milman agreed. ''Also, it would' never do to compromise her In an affair which might end disastrously." 'We've been too busy with theories," said Fleming Bradney when the problem prob-lem of Nlta had been settled. What we are after should be original dis-assoclatlons dis-assoclatlons of ideas." "I can't get that very clearly." said Neeland Barnes. "As I see it all we want from Raxon Is a cold million, Half of that goes to Milman and we split the rest." 'Exactly," Bradney returned. "That's the very point How are we to make him give up a million? I don't know "What Sort of a Comeback?" You don't, either. None of us knows. Obviously the thing is to get close to him, into the house for choice." "He doesn't know me," Milman declared. de-clared. "But I cannot be seen, because be-cause Loddon, who has told me so much under the influence of my port and the belief that I never stir abroad and know nothing of outside affairs. Is a frequent guest The question ques-tion Is. would he recognize Barnes?" "Ceitaln to," Barnes said gloomily. "I haven't altered much since that day I threw him from the pier. What about Malet?" "Probably not," said the sculptor. "In those days I was twenty pounds heavier, wore a mustache, and had a general air of blen-etre." , "I am the man," Bradney declared. "I doubt If he has ever seen me. We know he talked to Malet for some time. It Is I who must contrive to get into his house". "In what capacity?" Milman asked. "There you have me," the scientist admitted. "We are sate to start by assuming," Milman cut in. "that Paul Raxon is always cautious. From the outside his house is impregnable." "You mean," Bradney remarked, "that to get In one would have te be vouched for?" "Undoubtedly," said Peter Milman. "If someone socially prominent Uk you there, It might be all right. There was oae curiously disquieting thing Loddon told me about Raxon. One Chance All That How often you hear dad. or some other grownup speak, with a sort of half-sigh in his voice, of what he would do If he were young again. Time goes quickly when you are young, and you are only too likely to put off things you really should do. Grownups look back to the golden days of their youth as the happiest time of their lives, but there Is also something of regret In their backward glance. There are so many things tbey would like to have done, but didn't ' Unfortunately, time gives us Just one chance. Let's plan things now, then, so as to have as few regrets as possible when we look back from a grownup. I Wit When tie baa Injured a roan he expect! ex-pect! some retaliation, and take the precaution of having the Injured one watched. We know he dogged Barnes for yeare. Even now there may be those who know for what purpose we four are gathered here. I am not certain cer-tain but that Achilla speaks English as well as he doea French." The listeners were startled at the sudden change they saw on their host's face. Where he had been merely mere-ly thoughtful and slightly worried he was now actively alarmed. . He was leaning forward examining omeiblug on the table before him. They remembered re-membered it was the electric dial, that ingenious device for the protection protec-tion of his home against invaders. The face of the dial was divided Into six parts. These numbered sefr tlons would tell Milman on what part of the roof the Intruder was. The three, pressing about him. saw that a red light suddenly Illuminated the square marked 1. A hand moved very slowly to the square numbered 6. "That" Milmau whispered, looking relieved, "represents the weight Six pounds means a large and prowling cat" They heard a sudden exclamation. The weight went up a hundred and twenty pounds. The square numbered 1 was now in darkness und another was Illuminated. They could trace the path of the trespasser. He was creeping near them. "Achlllo," Milman whispered. "That would be his weight. The six pounds was when he rested a foot on It before be-fore putting his whole weight on the grating." Peter Milman betrayed no nervous-less nervous-less now. Noiselessly he drev the saweU of shotgun from Its place. Then with a touch of a button all lights In the garden were extinguished. In the darkness the shades rolled back. Against the sky, bright with stars, the watchers could see a figure lying above their heads. Another light was switched on which left 'the group below still in darkness, but showed pitilessly on the trespasser. The gun was already at Milman's shoulder when Neeland Barnes made a Jump fbr it and pulled the barrel down. "My God, Milman I" he cried, white-faced. white-faced. "It's my girl Ifa Nlta." "Ah," said Milman with a curious smile, "so I perceive. A strange position posi-tion In which to find a guest, is It not?" "Inexplicable," , said Bradney. He cast a suspicious look at Barnes. "I think," Peter Milman went on. "we should like a talk with Miss Barnes." "I'll fetch her," Barnes said eagerly. He was confused, ashamed, humiliated. humili-ated. "You will be kind enough to remain here," said Milman. Barnes saw that he was menaced by that most dreadful dread-ful of weapons at short range, the sawed-off hotgun. He remembered its load of buckshot "I fear I must remind you that we must Insist on an explanation from you, too. To allow you the opportunity of escape would be most unwise." He raised his voice a little, but he did not take his steady gaze from Barnes' face. "Miss Barnes," he said, "will you be so kind as to come here at once?" The girl's voice trembled as she answered. an-swered. It seemed to them all there was a trace of defiance in her tone. "I won't be a minute. It's not very comfortable up here." The shades were drawn again and the lights switched on more fully. Neeland Barnes looked from one to the other of the men whose faces had been In . the shadow. It seemed in credible that they could suspect him of complicity In this eavesdropping. It was plain enough what her errand was. "Let me explain," he began. Peter Milman stopped him with a gesture. "Wait," he commanded. "We shall hear you when your daughter comes." Barnes sank heavily into a seat He felt that Bradney and Malet looked upon hlra as a traitor. Nlta was wearing a blue silk dressing dress-ing wrap when she came Into the Japanese garden. Her bearing was conlident and unafraid. She came quickly to her father's side and put an arm about bis bowed shoulders. "Oh, Nlta, Nlta," he groaned. "How cnuld you do such a dreadful thing as this?" Malet, watching her closej (w that she bent upon the sitting man look which had something of maternal tenderness In It. It seemed strange to the observers that she stood there as though to defend her father from enemies. Of shame or embarrassinfnl there was no sign. "So you caught me," she said. "Well, perhaps It Is best you did." "Why?" Peter Milman demanded. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Time Accords to Man viewpoint Let's get lots of exercise, so that the grownup person we're going go-ing to be not so many years from now may be fit and strong. 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