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CD Y t TAKO's RU OM it 1 r Hope R Hanger Banger J HERE litRE daughter Ft TODAY D of l- l wealthy aUh parents Parent disappears after acter having bavins lunch lunch- on en at the Plaza with her best friend Luola Theme Thome Hope promises promise her mother moth- moth er that that she sho will wilt phone to her from her tailor tailors at Z a Evening cornea comes with no word from Hope 1 SIrs Ranger Hanger feels alarmed and call calls Hopes Hope's father from a. a dinner en- en gag At first Mr Ranger Range has hae no misgiving misgivings but after It seems Impo impossible to find trace of IiI his hI daughter through her many friends friend ho he too feels feel alarmed Ranger calls call Eutice his attorney aLter altor- ney who is s a Q warm friend of the family and asks hi hit hi assistance o e In locating Hope Higby 1 goes to 10 the Thorns Thome residence to question quetie Lucia NOW lOW GO o ON ox WITH TilE THE STOUT It seemed for a time though that his promised interrogation of Lucia Lucia Lucia Lu Lu- cia would have to be deferred for foron foron foron I on reaching the house he rang re repeatedly repeatedly ye- ye without arousing any re response response response re- re and when a sleepy servant finally appeared to answer the bell bell bellr it required all his powers of persuasion per per- I suasion to gain admittance But Dut when Mrs Thorne Thome came down and he had explained the nature nature nature na na- na- na ture of his errand she readily grasped the situation and as soon as Lucia could make a hasty toll toll- let sent seat her Into the room alone Hope had been in fine spirits at luncheon she said and they had talked of a dozen things things things-Lucia's Lucia's Lucias recent trip abroad clothes m mutual acquaintances both men and girls their plans for the summer She had teased Hope about two or three men but Hope and merely shrugged her shoulders and laughed Id be lonesome Lucia she had said If some one wasn't anxious to pet me but marriage I haven't seen the man Id I'd marry yet not for fora a farm When they parted it was with an arrangement to see each other the next afternoon and Hope had given not the slightest suggestion of anything unusual on hand She had said sald something I about going to the tailors tailor's and possibly doing a bit of shopping before she went home that was all This left Higby no ho recourse to appeal to the police and here he proved himself on one score at least a true prophet t. t The five thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars reward he offered furnishEd furnished fur fur- all the incentive required to set the department going at full steam Within twelve hours the movements movements move move- ments meats of Hope Ranger were Known to a certainty from the time she left her fathers father's door at 25 minutes after 12 until a quarter past last 3 that afternoon Le Leaving ving home she had walked down the east side of the avenue At 15 minutes to 1 o'clock she had stopped at a florists florist's and bought a gardenia Then she had crossed ninth Fifty street and met her friends at th the Plaza had gone with Lucia Thorne Thome into the dining room remained there an hour and left the at 10 minutes past 2 2 At half after 8 8 she had bought a veil in a and dressmaking es establishment establishment us- us on seventh Fifty-seventh I street and had been recognized ant and called by name by the saleswoman From there she had bad gone to a book ook- bookstore bookstore store and asked for tor a book which she had previously ordered She was next seen at the soda- soda water counter of a fruit and sweets shop where she ordered a a- maple sundae It was then exactly 10 minutes after 3 the clerk cleric being able to fix the time so definitely from the fact that just after he had set Miss Rangers Ranger's order before her a disturbance had been created by a customer at the cashiers cashier's desk over a question of correct change The altercation had become so heated that the manager manager of the place had been summoned Miss Ranger like every everyone one else in the shop had turned to watch the Incident and then when it ha had been settled she finished her sundae sun sundae sundae sun sun- dae and went out And from that point the investigators investigators investigators gators ran into a blank wall After four days of assiduous ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort on the part of the police de department department de- de e- e aided now nov b by an alm aimy of private detectives no clue had been unearthed to Indicate what had become of her or whither she had gone Mrs Ranger was by this time time under the care of physicians ill from grief and worry and her hus- hus I hus-I r I I I rHe ite RIDGWAY Y band his face lined and haggard his straight ht shoulders bowed looked twenty years older Even Eustache I Higby showed the effects of the I strain In desperation they decided to tomake tomake tomake make the facts public and every newspaper In inthe the country was filled with descriptions of the missing missing missing miss miss- ing girl CHAPTER IV Rangers pipes are known all aU over the world Buy Duy a pipe pipe clay clay calabash calabash calabash cala cala- bash meerschaum brier root or what-not what and In whatever part of the globe globe arid the chances are ten to one that Ranger r f-r t Ca Co Makers will be bo found stamped on ft n. The factory and salesrooms salesroom OCCUpy occupy py a block on Seventh avenue near Fourteenth street ana anc there as a matter of habit Ranger continued to go dally daily in t. t the e attempt to wInsome win winsome winsome some surcease from anxiety by ab absorbing absorbing absorbing ab- ab himself in the accustomed routine So ready was was was' he to listen to every wild story or suggestion offered him that it had been found necessary to post guards before his office door to protect him from the invasion of cranks and Impostors Thus one morning No 1 of the cordon peremptorily halted a caller who had attempted to stroll stroH by him and who now with too much as asSurance asSurance assurance as- as to be he pleasing said that he wished to see ste Ranger Banger The off hand manner as w well as the lack of the of Mr an annoyed annoyed annoyed an- an noyed the guard Neither did he find the strangers stranger's appearance prepossessing pre pro possessing Dark lean his clothes his hat tilted the man swaggered before hUh hm Ranger eh eh with with heavy sarcasm sar sar- Well I 1 got to tell you that the boss is is- busy this morning and cant can't see see anybody even anybody e even ren you The visitor shifted his hat to another another another an an- other and more disreputable angle took an old pipe from his pocket and began tt fill Youre new new here my lad that's plain But Dut if it youre you're in doubt take my name either to Frank Bryan or Loring hims himself lf The guard scowled but wavered in his decision to throw the man put out lIe He trusted his own ImpresSiOns impressIons more than he did this airy certainty of welcome Yet the fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low seemed so confoundedly sure He lie covered his hesitation with truculent t repartee Well I I- I do dol Who shall shallI I r say it Is t that lt wants the tIle boss boss boss- Lloyd George or Herbert Hoover Neither The man flicked a raveling from his sleeve Hell probably see me quicker if you OU give it to him straight Just say my good man that Juarez Charlie is here Juarez Charlie In the face of such sucha a designation No 1 felt Celt his original estimate of the tho man fully Justified And yet there was wa something some some- thing thin In that dark darle obscure glance in the Jeering smile on the glib gUb mouth that overrode his settled sc Judgment Uncertainty Uncertainly he scratched his Jaw I dont don't know but what Ill I'll take I a chanco chance on you he finally decided You aint so o much worse than a alot alot lot Ive I've had hart to let get by But Dut listen i here here here- herewith with a return of authority authority- if if I get in wrong you'd joud better not wait walt Im I'm coming back and If they dont don't want event you Ill I'll Just naturally wipe up the street with you As he ho c came me into tho the presence of Rangers Ranger's private secretary Frank Bryan Dryan the tho impulse that had led him himI I to take tako in the name of ot the rakish I visitor weakened and he stood shuffling his Ills feet uncertain what to say II Mr 11 Bryan Dryan sir theres there's a a-a a a party party party par par- ty out there that wants to see Mr Ranger He lie said to tell you or Mr Ranger that Juarez Juarez Charlie Charlie the tho secretary snapped Why didn't you sa say so show him Into the tho private office at once The Tho bewildered guard returned to his post This way mister he ho beckoned with disgruntled civility Never mind He lie waved No 1 aside I know the way way He lie passed on a privileged character character character char char- acter exchanging a awo wOrd d or two with different In the outer office omco and anti nodding familiarly to others for rolling stone stono adventurer though he was grafter and swindler as he was suspected of being Juarez Juarez- Charlie was welcome here her here to come como I and go as he ho pleased He and Loring Ranger Hanger had been bo boys s 's together I More than titan once the tho successful I manufacturer had urged his old associate as as- to take a position with him I I offering Charlie his choice either J inside e. e the factory oTY or on the road load for it if was Rangers Ranger's firm belief th 4 hc he vagabond if ho he would only d dI R vote himself to it would mako Incomparable salesman JI 3 But Dut Charlie always evaded the thea Ct efforts at rehabilitation A HIs Ills special gifts were various perhaps the the less said about the ther the better He lie employed th the when opportunity offered loat loafer loaf when he felt like it traveled co coiL about the country countrY som country some V times first class sometimes In t company of and hoboes J 1 boasted that he had a more C con knowledge of the Unite j. j States than any other man j its borders and regarded life o oi the whole with a cynical good ht hir morod mored philosophy which no t f gency could daunt or overwhelm r. r There unwonted was an tug tug- j l i sympathy at Charlies Charlie's wrinkle s' s heart and on a a. sudden impulse ui Hit over and laid his ha hando Rangers Ranger's shoulder Mr p rv Tough luck Lorry ho he sal sad huskily But Dut dont don't give way like nr i this old boy Brace Braco up It Isn't isn't-i isn't Il f isn't as if your jour little girl were g son n A for good 11 Continued tomorrow |