| Show OUTSIDE U 15 i D TH TI-IE TI L X LA By STUART RIVERS EWERS I For a lon long time after ater the Uc other cut aff ft r Trances Prances stood hold holding Ins Ins- tho the telephone In IU her hand There couldn could n be one ono possible explanation to that con en conversation rhe The house In Iii which ho dio now stood blood wan ao on tho verge oC of beIns beng be- be Ins ng raided by hi the tho police or police or moro likeLy like like- ly still lJ by Ju Judge ie Crano Grano and But on If Ir they lid did lt come up these an and carch search tho the place was thoro hero the tho slightest slight slight- est Rt chance that th y y would discover cr hie secret of or that sliding door Franzes Franes Fran Fran- zes es thought not nOl but close upon this speculation sho shio remembered th that l Susie had iad requested Mother Sarah to send fend tho new girl down Iown to hinr Tho The new Irl could bo lIo no other than Frances All U at once tho the door opened an and Mother Sarah's fat tat form Corm filled fillet the door door- wa way On her billowy billOw face a a. look of or strained suspicion mingled ltd In a n doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful rul frown and an sho she moved mo e Into Inlo the room meeting Frances Frances' eyes with a alook alook look of oC cold scorn hat you ou doing with that telephone telephone tele tele- phone sho ra rasped raising raisin ono one fat rat arm irm and pointing to lo the Instrument Who ho you ou calling up No one on Frances Fr answered charp- charp I ly Who ho do you think I was calling up I dont don't know anyone in Now York to calL caIL Tho The boll boU rand and I answered I It It You lie the tho fat woman sneered savagely You was WasI Was was j I tell you ou I wasn't calling anyone Frances flared d nn angrily I said bald tho the telephone rang ranS' and I 1 answered It Woul i nl I 1 intro VO heard It if IC it had runs rung Mother lother Sarah asked but a n. note of f doubt had bad crept Into Inlo her voice olce and oil tI h added with nothing of ot her former fonner 1 i Who ho was It Susie Frances returned briefly 1 Susi o. the thc other repeated her suspicIon sus- sus dissolving into a look of or vague Susie called up hero Frances nodded no and waited walte for tor her heri 1 i u What'd she want ant antho Sho ho said slid you OU hid hall better belter draw craw your overs 0 because she eho was expecting this to be raided And that sho she want want- rd d d you oU to send nid rn down to her Mother Iother Sarah sneered This place She's through her herl hat l at No Xo anything about this place She Sho ho mau mo mc Ure tired And what does O sho shu want you to go gu down there for Cor I T dont don't know I now Frances answered She Sho hun hung up P before I 1 could ask asJe her Hum Hum Mother Sarah reflected watching Frances with a n. return of ot her hor former suspicion fl fishy h You Vou can beLieve o what you ou Into liko Frances observed Only toll tull me roe the tue wa way down town town lon the thc Iou Xou ou aint going down woman Interrupted coldi coldly goIng guing go- go Ing Inc to tu slay stay right here with mo me As s she hie olo she sho walked to tho the walland walland wall walland and pressed her hand upon one pair pall pallo o or little brass knobs that protruded from tho iho pla plaster ler With Ith her action Prances Frances saw the Iho wall to her right rihl moved silently towar toward her running smoothly over o the stool steel grooves rOO In the floor Tho Tim way out was closed logain To lo gain the tho basement stairs and thus tho tim front Cronl door sho would have havo to Pa pass the fat woman who turned upon her with witha a look of or pm pensive o contempt going s to stay slay right here sho repeated scornfully You Vou think youre you're pretty slick dearie deane but listen when you get ahead of or Mother Sarah you want to got get up before booro tim Iho birdies In tho the morning You mean to say you ou dont don't believe that called mo mc a ago aJo on ott Iho tito telephone Frances excl exclaimed breathlessly Do i 1 look like Ulce I belle believed belled d it It Mother Iother Sarah rah scoffed Susie aint calling this house and giving s her name over o overa oera a telephone and you OU know that as well as L me mc If you ou dont don't know It ll then you YO need because theres there's something something some some- thing funny going on Frances considered and began hegan on a anew anew anew new line lino Th ts t's wh why I 1 was In such sucha a hurr hurry to jo go o sho ahu exclaimed I know It sounded ed funny funny funny- unnA A A. sudden look of oC fright In Mother Sarah's eyes ana ank she held up ono one fat tat h hand hushing the girls girl's words word Above o their heads tim tho they could hear the sound cound of oC trampling tOOlS footsteps footstep the bang of ot a door and someone called loudl loudly thou though h tho the words deadened b by bythe bythe the thick walls walli of tho the room were only I a confused noise I With a n tho the fat rat turned to the thc door and nd placed place her car ear to a n aspot aspot I spot on the wall a foot or so from thedoor tho the door Frances Frane 8 close behind her heard hc tho the sound of or running footsteps another shout and then as someone clattered down tho the stars sho she heard hear them slip and the thc next moment the wall vall at her herrl rl right hl moved mo slowly back upon the steel grooves groo To be bo continued tomorrow Copyright t 1910 Thompson Thompson Feature Service |
