| Show AT fAT BAY U i V X XA I A 4 Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers NOVELIZED BY A. A A. A Waterbury c fron From the play by Georgo Scarbor- Scarbor touch oJ h which was wae first presented at the Thirty ninth Street theatre New Tew York Serial rights heM held and copyrighted by I International Yews News Service fT f There's Theres no crime crimo bo about t i it dethe de- de ired t the e captain rashly TeU u us 5 to be done aone cap cap- e said d' d Father Shannon non The e iO dier spoke with th mU military s. s This case cae e demanded moro more ef r mind and less leis of heart bear if th they v who ored ved ed her would find finda nd a a. way Tray of escape sape or che the girl who was Wal struggling straggling in the tho morass r ss of danger I Did any anyone one eee see ee you leave your I lease neel ne fUTo No one answered Aline Go back and ana b be quiet et said th the thet t ain n. n tW 0 they'll arrest arres yon ou ou-ad and to ow they tf come for me too cried ried e girl the they wont won't o t said i the ps ps s cap cap- iiI ji ca casting hn about in h in hI his mind for a aY Y t tb make maka this po possibility i certain Yea There was Wa brooch brooch brooch-a h-a. h I i e 3 I- boo a clue clu for Eor or them I 1 tried to get l it but he M bad had hadit badi i it Your YOul mothers mother's tho brooCh the emer Sat lId Yes Yes moaned the gi girl I sinking g into to the te at the tho head bead of the massive walnut table camo came and nd stood near her her H He wanted t to touch her her to to reassure her not her not with a mans man's p passion son but with the tenderness a all the UW feels for a tired child who pain piD and stern stem reality too great its untried strength Jut But ut he only it his bis hand with th tho the pin in hI his lI thought you'd want it it he be said aid i-a i matter of or fact act tone Aline AJi e looked at this this' worker of mira mira- M. M i Ob Ob you wonderful friend 11 she ahe id I Then TheD he she in in b bewilderment to ither ther tl er Shannon with her ber mothers mother's jewel in her hand it very erv wicked to think of es eaI sap to to thinK of keeping silent is very et human my chi child d I can n scarcely advise e you to do les less H But despair overwhelmed the girl gir again ilin in in its nois noisome m black m mist No No it is all aU If KNo hopeless hopeless hopeless I Chats hopeless asked th the cap captain ain tain cheerily He Bossed tossed the word away away from rom her her and and himself himself himself-as as if it never nevo I Id ad d exist existed d. d name Tho The man has my name I r written in a red morocco book You Yea see ce I t am caught i in tho the toils tiis ils I ul have havo that alto also and a box of or blackmailing letter letton Hero they are arc Alms Aline Find V the no ne that belongs to t you The Tho girl looked up up a. a al at him as if he were wera a worker of beautiful magic t 7 Through th the tho Chill chUl of all her f fears ears she felt tho enveloping loping strength of a tenderness ten ten- greater grenter tha than she he had bad dreamed a man could offer even to a spotless woman and now it was waa bein being given freely to to o her hers J His Hi simple nobility nerved her to her a final revelation In rn n meeting such A man as an he he she must be fair fair fair-fair fair to him at any cost If hi he were to be her ber champion in in all her nightmare of hor hor- horror 11 no ho mutt know all aU S She Se e spoke very ery quietly no now Her transcendental moment had haa come Per feet love must bo ho met with perfect faith She took that little pink missive mis mill sive the shoe the story ry of those thole three days the one fe Bt story that a good ROod woman would rather die than have to o tell the man Inan she Ma loves loves from from it its ita hid hiding lg place in the bosom boom of ot her gown i Ie I I have the one that bel belongs to rae tte- Will yon read it jt And so so at last Aline uno Graham took up her cross croes I The length of the great table 8 sepa sepa- i n rated Aline from rom the I man Bh she sha loved But the real barrier between them was a wall o of her own raising She h had d built it sf six sir years before when hen a a. ro ro- ro- ro mantle mantic and foolish schoolgirl bad had trusted trust trust- ted t- t ed her hor too little and her lover too tOOl much and had fled to three days by a summer Bummer sea Sit And tonight Alino Aline h held Id cil out out- outto to the man she dared dared- not love a little pink letter Jetter that would tell him how Vast the distance gi between them She b e b bowed owe d Ja her head J vu v vu v She b e b bowed owe d Ja her head J and laid the paper of revelation on the symbolic lable table that h lay Jay between her ber and her forbidden forbid forbid- den lov love lovo Then she waited tho the ver ver- wet even even as she he felt she ehe must soon waita wait a 4 greater verdict 3 a verdict from twelve good men and true a true a verdict ver vor- dict for or against a a woman who had taken hum human n life Very low Jow and and quiet controlled had been her ber voice voices voice's as she held beld out bor her Own VU T Ietter the letter 6 letter lotter for which weh Flag Flagg it it ad died and said Will you TeA rel read w He Ho Knew And now in a deeper stranger more controlled voice Ho rook replied Why Wh I read it in It vi will tell you why I was there therein there there-j Flaggs house honse said laId the girl in in deepening shame Doo Doe fh Father t Sh Shannon know asked B the toe man YC Yes I I I r torture Then you need eed sPeak no word ra to tod d dex l I yourself my lad lady y for this index in in- tol told me me-a me a secret marriage mar The Tho I ho girl rl lifted her ber sad eyes to the mystery of of a 3 great love loye Even in n her herr greatest hour of sorrow there thoro was to toB he a man Jovo love 10 she could trust truet B But Bat f w Holbrook ro ok had S not yet vet me measured A i the r I depths depths' e of i her ber shame She gasped I for for air in which breath and from a throat the sobs wore ware choking theira their I she he way gasped YeS g 8 secret II BUT BUT age not a a girl vi true i 2 one just a a. Pretence to pretense to fool a I that that-that believed him brook PRETENSE i And AJ now there said Captain n Hobrook Hoi Hoi- came a change in his hilS smooth voice voice-a bitter toneA tone A I A mockery drel JI arranged by a said Father Shannon This priest knew man D nature ture Perhaps he wondered il oven a man as great scaled as La Lari Holbrook co could Jd ever a again in look at this girl with the same ki kindly gentleness in eyes that had bad scan the scarlet arl t letters Jetters on the book Jt f her life ife DONT DON'T HATE ME METhe The words spent heart tore themselves from the tho girls girl's and forced their way aV past put sob racked throat and fine trembling Ups Capt Lawrence Holbrook defender of rier lier ner lost table causes that divided leaned them acro and the spoke poke bar a to the e woman he had chosen for a 8 en- en I promo preme love ova I Hato you would ou I 1 hate bate a bird with a broken wing Though J Ive I've Vs n no right to say eay it now now now-I I tell fell perhaps you before Father Cr Sh Shannon Shannon Shannon-i m- m 1 love ou dear ea you isle i And had fever ne never er a P poet peat of his h own Irish spoken words with a a. sweeter Weeter T Il of sort Bott truo music Ill I'll find this thia 8 ao man whoever whoever ho lie is iso and brin him bring to your jour fe feet fc went nt the on o soldier nover I na III want 11 to see lee him again sobbed the tho gIrl And it was primitive man man roan man tho the her defender of his mate mite who inhered answered I want ONE look at him But are lO losing ing tuno tinie Father Shannon Shannon-if we c comIng ming for tor m take Miss Granam home peas please Its BO so cowardly cowardly o weak EO weak weak-so so de tot tol to hide while wails youre you're in da han Clan sef ger J I 1 hat my myself sol f. f cried the girl What v wha danger Vu hod the man who had learned well Sis isis lessons of laughing In the face taco of danger I 1 was a n. mile milo away at tko the time and hour they waste over over me an nn bour hours hour's s dust mercifully and justly settles over your dear footprints rh Then Than n he ho turned to Father Shannon his his aide Now go whiTe go while we have havo the chance Youre the bravest and most won won- donut man I ever eor knew said faid Mine Aline in in an nn awestruck tone lone Larrr Larry laughed hed off oil his compliment i with the same easy grace he held in foci fee c i for r Madam Danger t b what t I 1 told her father this afternoon Now go o dear lady while th there hero re is time But tho the time for going in peace had bad passed A knock thudded on t the b e h heavy eavy w wal walnut walnut aI nut door Like a a. bird ird that lIu flutters to tots its ts nest in the tho hour of storm Aline Ahne fled fiad fledo to o tho shelter she had thought never neve to o I know to enow to the refuge of her r c captains captain's s arms arm His arms fast about L b her Of r a at t J last last tn as t- t tHis In Inbe n the be li light ht of the perfect knowledge that even if it they wore worlds apart his hb little ittle lady Indy loved loved- him Holbrook stood ready to challenge the world orld itself for I love o e Oh God bless bIen thom thorn them ho he cried Let uI them knock again gafni Holding him close In her arms arms arms- clinging iD to him while there was indeed vet time time before th the tho machinery of im- im imire H ire tite e tore him from her ber Alino Alma raised Thor ner great starry eves to th tho bo man she had bad co her neT love 10 Tb Yve come come to o arrest yon she eFe e whispered But th their ir hearts sang sane in in unison unison and and quIckening blood took up the melody Come what may may we we love each other Dan Danger er disgrace thus these cannot separ separate to us W We c love WE LOVE The poUce Police Again For Fat the supreme mp moment of of a It 1 life life- fe time imo Holbrook hold hola his love lovo ID in arms that throbbed to enfold her bor to hold J her fast to to draw her har close and aad closer cloer and and so defy the tho world And then he be knew that he must protect what ho loved from front the world world and and from his own wild blood too He raised his head h high th in the triumph trio tri of sane ane clean le n strength Well WeB what is is' it itt IU ho he called In the e seconds between the knock and the an answer wor a a. world had bad swung in it its orbit I I want to t tsee Dempster see you Lar Larry All Allright ri right ht sir In Iu a moment Alma Aline had bad been escorted d with all the fine tine chivalry Holbrook knew to his own room room and and the man had brought Drought himself from heaven n back to earth and a a. possible purgatory Ho walked over and lifted the spring latch The door o opened ned and andl Chief Dempster ter of the tho United States secret service came in But he was not alone With him bim was wU Gordon Graham district attorney attar no ney and and ad father of the girl irl who wa was as hi hidden den in Lawrence Holbrooks Holbrook's rooms I Good evening e R obert Mr Graham Gra Gin ham ham said wd Father Shannon with the kindly case the situation needed What I are aro you doing hero demanded do do- the tho chief The question n. n Or come ye in peace or or- como come ye yein in war wart wt was answered b by hi his hiI militant tone tono U Dont Don't answer him bim father said saie fl B Holbrook with quick decision II But But wont won't yon you gentlemen sit down down Dempster wasted no timo time in in jog ing himself You Hyou took that plate late holder bolder from the camera in Fag Flagg's Flaggs s 's room tonight he declared belligerently but belligerently but pleasantly pleas plea antly witha withaL He was waa so sot sure of his ground ground so Bo so certain whore where his t trail led led led- that he could afford to smile milo on his quarry There was a a- moments moment's mom nt's pause Than Then the quarry decided where he must leathis lead leat his his' pursuers II I I did he ho said aid with cheerful im ira- You admit that t tYes Ye Yes sir Playing Play a a. Part Where is jell HJ Larry nodded indifferently toward the very door loor beyond which whid he oe had hat just led Aline Alino The plate holder is in my room Father Shannon started a bit bit what what ailed the lad he thou thought was thought was ht-was was the strain proving proviD a a. bit too much f Else why the madness of attracting attention attention attention atten atten- tion toward the very vory door behind whose portals Alino was wu safe Bato so O Jongas long Jong longas as as her presence remained un 1 Go lo get it it commanded the chief angrily Holbrook leaned against his bis high hish m mantel with supreme indifference and andave gave ave avo his most careful attention to so- so la cigarette from his case and to l lighting it straight and even at the end Cigarettes gentlemen he ho quer quer- Not No f in rind ried pleasantly surprise as ashe the he attorney and the chief refused d im im- patiently Takina one one epicurean whiff Larry answered the irate chief I Oct Get et it yourself The chief took one quick stride that broucht him a 9 foot from the door The liTho plate is here however howver remarked remarked re re- re marked Holbrook ok wI with h no Sl sign n of undue un un un- dun due haste In a little flash flun of understanding Father Shannon was aware that this world traveler had sure surely witnessed bull bun bullfights bullfights f fights in far away any SD Spain in When the bl bull I is ie sufficiently blinded bv by rage rage rae when ho o was baited past makins full uso use of his own dangerous strength tb the puny toreador d dates dares res match atch his wiles against cai st the mas massive thin thing thine of powerful I and sinews and danger dealing str strength Fath Father r Shannon smiled at athis hl his bis own fancy Th There ro was something slim and picturesque about this Irish lad lad and and Dempster had ent entered red with w a bulls bull's very rush Now the chief paused shook his head and end fairly seemed to naw aw tho the ground wouna in baffled rape rage at the futility of his first onslaught ht Tho The father smiled smiled hut but tears tear wore toro very vr near near his eyes He lIe taw saw a again ain in meni mom mem orv v the bur burning building out in Manila Ie be felt folt dimly through h the tho haze hall strength of the arms ni-ms that had carried him from the strangling of or ck smoke moko A friend ind indeed od was Larry and Holbrook Holbrook and a thick black pall hun hung over the girl cirl bey beyond nd tho the door Twice BaIDed The plate is here here where demanded de do- I Dempster Larry picked up the iron iron poker from hi his hearth and tanned on the tho brick floor of the grate These are the tho pieces Destroyed fit bellowed Dempster Yes sir said the captain contern- contern plating a n neat nt rin ring of smoke h ho had just man managed ed to to to-hlo blow You YoU f feared farod to o have e it de developed l Captain tf asked the inter interrogator interrogator ro ator sternly Oh Ob no 1 I sir I developed it all allright allright ri right h remarked tho the interrogated with cD engaging a n candor it And then destroyed it it Holbrook s 's pleasantness was imper imper- imper B But t it enraged ed the tho bull That was the order of the two events events- He flicked the ash from his his' cigarette took a final puff and then throw threw it into the embers of his fire Good tobacco Sure you ou dont don't want to experience a chan change c of heart ho remarked drawing his case out with a hospitable flourish as if il this early morning call can portended only disinterested sociability Nol No thundered Dempster Where is tho the cash box containing letters Jetters On liOn tho the mantel piece Behind me hero here If you weren't a professional |
