Show OU OUTSIDE THE TH LAW Ballin Blared after the for tor a with moment a Jau laugh ii In h blank II he turned cd kee tur to tb girl and exclaimed That Thal chap chan Isn't lb vh n l an y Is ho words Word Hes lies like all aU tho the rest Frances Francu d d. d gazing curiously about d- d tf Interior of the store He Wont Won't at at ft t tb you OU a thing unless you ou force orce tell teIl Just th the saino with that hm sat woman Moth Well Vel the tho man man answered anS s om p ruefully I 1 SUPPose we will have j find out for ourselves that wf Is h to someone shows up to explain thin unit T Lets Let's Lt's have a look around Id I'd t like to know ir It there Is another Id out o of this value place Being WI wa Being coop t up In here or In that room of well and n ho n g gAgain wa way o escape 1 Again he hf laughed auChe and shook hook hh head heal A slight frown appeared be be hl I tween the tho girls girl's brows a as she tho went over or o r the events that had landed Baum and herself as shopkeepers 4 cl of or o a I little candy store on Hester street treet 3 1 1 I 6 Many t things about ut t those 80 circum I I I trances bance n tO e girl gir did IU not wee like Back n oC I Ithe the e ease case e Yih with which which Baum had hac tooted fooled Susie thero there Jl lay a sinister quality a e 1 al unknown something something that worried th the girl keeping her nerves on edge She R was wa waiting to find U tho the catch la in 11 th the I business U Si n ess A moment later led the wa through h the door that gave e ca into a box of a room lined with shelves lne wih es ot on oe which was arranged the extra stock for foi the store Nothing suspicious pr presented present ed e Itself although their covered every ever square Inch ot of the tour four walls wals ceiling and floor foor Well Yel Baum repeated d at last This looks quite ship shape Confound Thi It Im I'm Im worried about this thing thin Thi Therel Thia I. I 1 a catch somewhere I c can feel teel it afar far and anI Id I'd Id like Iko to lo kno know what It Is 19 Do you ou feel that wa way France murmured more to herself hersel than to thi th the theman man I I t thought lu ht It was only my Imag- Imag Imag Imag- Ho laughed patting her hand teas reas tea b as aa It rested on tho counter Dont think about It nn any more In l II cautioned It I won wont won't t do lO any good goo am and andwil wil will only make you OI nervous Every Even Everything er E thing thinS Is IK going to como come out all al right right This ThIS fellow Red Hed Lakin cant can't bo be II s I I a awfully ul clever and If I there l Is a masUi maste mind mind mind-as as the Judge thinks o wo art at ar certainly in a fine position to run him lith I to lo earth Frances was as on the point of ot replyIng replying reply reply- Ing to this statement Indeed It I was o 0 othe or orthe the tip tp of ot her tongue to blurt out tin the whole sordid business but but she checked checke herself hersel in time and with her lip lp taught I i between her teeth she fhe turned fri 0 o th tb the wall wal In back of the candy Cunter counter au aM I hung her hat and coat coal on a nai nail hung She could not bring herself to to th the point of or wounding Hen Henry Ballin Tc To conic como out out with wih a bald statement statement thai I the ma master manter ter mind of Larkin's Larkins gan gang gana wa a Jane this mans man's own sister sister sister-no no it Il was wai U 1 a a. little too much she just couldn't bring herself to lo the th task tk True h b lit would l learn arn in time unless France I had guessed wrong but when that that time I came it would be a matter mater of ot fate fate and nd she at le lea t would lOt have ha e herself herselt to to I blame After a time time- timE followed Frances Frances' Fances I r nn and hun hung his hat and coat up lip beside her herf then turned to an In Inspection c- c tion of ot tho the store where If It all aU allent went ent well the they were destined to spend the ensuing wel days as a's until until well that ho he did not attempt to answer He lie had made eJ up h his Is mind to sU stay t In the shop until something happened One war way or another ho lie would know mow If I anyone anyon was wa really after his life or If It tho events ral remarkable adventures so o far Car In their ad had lied been nothing more than a 3 chain of unusual coincidence There was ono one point that neither theman tho the thoman thoman man nor the girl Irl had taken Into considering consid ering it was probably the most vital I point In the iv whole hole ole business but as a 5 J Is Isso affaIrs affaire It n i so o often tho the case in such had oCen been completely overlooked Susie I had told toM BalUn the tho candy store was wa a Innocent Innocent Inno behind Its It's s 's apparently blind that cent trade a fence was conducted where wb rt stolen goods were received cd and paid for or If this piece of information turned I bo to then Ballin Bahlin would out to be b correct to pass Judgment on those called upon same iame goods He lie had been hired to do M liC MIta thir thi hired upon his assertion that pawnbrokers pawnbroker's as u a served as Ita had once ser cd fact he did of ot matter h As a something mater about Jewels but on onlY y know low he could what almost everyone knows know crone e real rul article ar u from the thc of or glass toll tell a piece have to toa t ta M Ma would tIde but th the glass Ila o ha cr rank Imitation indeed a very afternoon During Durin- tho the course of oC the in and o out 01 of t. t various a rious customers passed I Children mostly for lor a any's anys pen the thedoor door r old men candy or some worth of ot ny's nys 5 printed In a. a a queer for tor their papers papers could not Ballin that language e foreign baP biP understand Nothing IIII until they ld not pene an and It wag isas that the the had lit the gas lS jet told lt cause CUSO to believe o that Susie Susic had them tho truth In Inthe inthe the eliol claret entered A roan man pulled mouth cap led of his fU o the corner ht a hou well el over rather his eyes curiouslY and at the Ballin counter lie f fI I Hee h himself composIng hin opening the and self set to read Into minuteS minute Js A pause ticked away the tho other with Ith while n Balli-n raising then quite as much Frances n nodding his eyes he hc caught Ils back or of the store stort the to him from To be continUed Thompson f Copyright ht 1920 ServIce 1 I |