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L n U r rA A n CHAPTER fOUR FOUR Two copies of at the Herald cameto came cameto to the Fenwick household Kano took both of them in from the hall haJJ carried them into the kitchen hitchen hitch kitch en put one beside the place which was already set at the table and the other o on the sink tray The place was for Harry Nolan Nolan Nolan No No- lan his masters master's chauffeur who came yawning every every morning into the kitchen from rom his hIs' bedroom which was next to Kanos Kano's in the room eight apartment The tray was for Gordon Fenwick who breakfasted at in bed Kano didn't open either cither of oL the papers papers papers-he he never read American papers but often oCten he be saw the same news in the paper which he got from Japan 27 days after it was published and read it eagerly as asIf asIf asIt If It it were now new and and- fresh He couldn't understand the avidness avid avid- ness with which h Mr Nolan turned the pages of the Herald to the sports section every morning disregarding disregard disregard- ing entirely the first sheet with its startling black l letters any more than he could understand his master masters master's masters master's mas- mas mas mas- ter ter's s preference for the financial news Yet that was what they did morning after and morning that was what Mr Nolan would do when he came in Mr Nolan did just that before ho he quaffed the full pint of orange juice Kano had prepared for lor him For half an hour he read without a n word to Kano eating his plate of at bacon and eggs and hot cakes without glancing at them Kano knew better than to disturb rb him so soho soho soho ho padded around the white tiled Wed kitchen noiselessly Mr Nolan when he was disturbed in the morning was apt to be cross cross all day and arid Kano didn't relish Mr N Nolan lan He liked him much better when he w was s In a good humor humor humor hu hu- hu- hu mor mor and inclined f to o joke Mr Nolan Nolan No No- lan Ian however never joked in the mornings mornings-it it was noon sometimes before he smiled even Kano watched him as he be went about hi his other tasks Occasionally Occasionally Occasion Occasion- ally Mr Nolan read something Inthe in inthe inthe the therace race returns that made him very angry and arid Kano Kana had to o watch out then He preferred to tobe tobe tobe be but out of the kitchen when Mr Nolan No No- Ian lan was angry Once not long agoa ago agoa a a cup of coffee had come flying at t his head when he wasn't pre wasn't prepared pre pared A scowl usually presaged th the s storm orm This was Mis no scowl only a frown which lingered d don o on on rl Mr Nolans Nolan's forehead d until h t turned from front the sports section tc other pages Kano saw his eyes eres stop suddenly tho the paper paper tighten fn In his hands his head bend over In the way It did when he was Interested Interested in interested In- In In what ho was reading For some some time Mr Nolan sat that way then he looked up suddenly More coffee Kano good coffee this morning Kano was pleased Mr Nolan never praised his coffee coee When he came back with another cup Mr Nolan was reading again the same story illustrated with the picture of a man behind prison bars And miracle of ot miracles when Mr Nolan No No- Ian lan threw down the paper he was smiling Good breakfast Kano Best you ever mad madi K Kano Kh 1 was wa was still puzzled wh when n he took hi his masters master's tray into his bedroom and left after atter he had poured the coffee from the silver pot and taken the sliver silver cover o off the three thin crisp pieces of toast He would have been een more puzzled puzzled pm- pm probably if he had seen Mr Fenwick's attitude when he found the st story ry illustrated by the picture of the man behind strong steel bars For Mr r. Fenwick read the story twice too and looked at the picture of the young man for lor a along along along long time When Kano returned his master was was' dressing and the three pieces of toast were still on tho the plate Only half halt the pot of coffee coffee cottee cof cot fee tee was gone Mr Fenwick no hungry Not hungry this morning Kano Mr Fenwick he sick 1 A headache the vice president of ot DavIes Jerome company re re- re turned Kano Kane sighed His masters master's appetite appetite appe appe- I appe-I tite Ute for tor breakfast worried him The I servant much preferred Mr Nolans Nolan's healthy gusto for the first meal meat of oC the day to Mr Fenwick's small to tomato tomato tomato to- to mato juice cocktail his three pieces of melba toast and his great pot of oC coffee Mr Fenwick was having headaches more often latel lately Lucy Lu Prentice Phelps opened her Herald neither to the sports spots section section sec see tion nor the financial page She opened it to the society department department depart depart- ment and When she finished that tha turned casually to the other news The Haynes story caught her eyes almost Immediately and she read it once hastily and the thi second second sec sec- ond time more carefully to be absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab sure her name w was s not mentioned It wasn't and she breathed a a sigh of cir relief Awful If It after he she had be been n away two years and the second morning she was vas in ln town that wretched old ld scandal should be revived T Thank ii h a n k goodness though the the H e r raId had sense enough to keep her name nume out of it The first sigh was followed by a second and succeeded by y a definite puckering of her brows All AU her life lite she supposed the Haynes story would toll follow ow her haunt her How Ho many times had she wished she had never met Eric Haynes Millions she said to herself herself her her- self as she put down the paper Millions and millions in 11 the tho two years that tha had passed She must have been made to have thought she loved him Insane to have told him she would marry him Her engagement to Eric was stilla still a mystery to Lucy in the face ace of what had happened She never could forget torget what a fool tool she had been what been what an an utter Innocent Inno cent fool To be sure she had go got gol gothold hold of herself herselt quickly afterward afterward- rd- rd her sanity had come back with flashlight speed The life that might have been wrecked was riding sm smoothly again even if It she had divorced Byron Phelps Phelp at Re Reno Reio o only two months ago She never never- should hould have married mar mar- mar mar- vied ried Byron anyway She never would have married him If It she had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been frantic with worry about herself after Eric was arrested Byrn Byron Byron By By- ron rn ron at the time was was wasa a a. port in a ri abad abad bad storm a s safe f harbor but how sh she had stood 22 months month with him she didn't know Her mother came into her bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room and sat down The Herald ha has raked up that old story bout about Eric Eric Eric- Lucy beganI began I know it I s saw w it I wondered what you would say Mrs Prentice Prentice Pren Pren- tice Uce replied Terrible when I only got ot home day before betor yesterday We wont won't ver ans answer the phone to to- to day If you had only listened to tome tome tome me then Lucy we wouldn't have all this this this- I know mother I know Ve Weve We've ve been all aU over over that before Lucy wished now sho she had taken her mothers mother's advice ab about ut Eric for Mrs Prentice from tram the beginning had been against him Not be be- cuse she didn't like him but because because because be be- cause she wanted her only only- child tomake to tomake tomake make a more snore satisfactory mar mar mar- She didn't want her to marry Byron Phelps Phelp either for that matter matter matter mat mat- ter but she had consented because it seemed the only thing to do doat at atthe atthe atthe the time and aid Lucy had to do something some thing She couldn't sit lt home and there was no mon money y to send her away and Byron was going to Call Call- fornia Mrs P Prentice r n tic e looked at her daughter who was as lis lovely lovely lovely-as as she had been two years ago when she was wearing wearIng- Eric Haynes' Haynes ring Lucy back home again with a few m meager ager pennies of alimony Lovely Lucy who might have bave done so well veIl if she had not let her emotions run away with her good judgment and nd if it Eric had not been so attractive attractive at at- Four miles mUes from the small flat where Mrs Prentice Prentice- lived in his apartment at in the Seward Joe Elliott wis was reading tho the same story for the tho second time and frowning over it On the tho mail man box downstairs downstaIrs' his name was J. J Smith and the manager thought J. J Smith was a salesman when he thought about him at at atall all which wasn't often because J. J Smith was an excellent excellent excellent ex ex- ex- ex tenant one one of the best the Seward had ever had Jameson the chief of detectives Mor Morton on of the Herald and the bondIng bondIng bonding bond- bond Ing company company who hired him all knew however that Joe Elliott was wasa a detective and that his his' business was as to learn where Eric Haynes was so so h he could be bo rearrested and sent sent to I pris prison n where he belonged For two wo years Elliott had bec been on the case and no matter how howlong howlong long it took he was to find out where H Haynes ynes was How h he found out his employers didn't ca care e He had other cases too which he I was working on but the Haynes 1 case caso was his first consideration i Eric Haynes had been bonded by Elliotts Elliott's firm fp for and when I he was convicted of theft that amount was forfeited to the Davies I Jerome company Aside from the bills found in Erics Eric's car no trace had been found of ot the missing missing miss miss- ing a. a a circumstance which Irked Joes Joe's employers exceedingly If It the money could be recovered their would bo bG be returned So it was up to Joe oe to to get a lead through to Eric And the only lead he had was through Erics Eric's sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter so for two years vc rs Elliott had watched her read read her mail mall and searched her rooms Nothing had come of it it yet yit but he was patient That was the reason he ho had been assigned to the case He was frowning because he was afraid the resume of at the Haynes case in the Herald would make Margo more wary more careful Heaven knew she was wary enough without this He clipped the story from the paper before he went out and put the clipping carefully away in his file tile book which had hadan an entire section devoted to young Haynes Bob Craddock cut out the story too after atter reading It it and slipped the clipping in ina a a. book He cut himself himself him him- self badly when he shaved on account account ac ae ac- ac count of of his nervousness the nervousness the nervousness nero ncr v of ot relief for he knew now the letter he had received for Marge must have come from her brother She should have told me he said over and over again on his hij way to work But he was WM beaming beaming beaming beam beam- ing when he strode into the office and his old healthy exuberance had come back Jean Lewis Lewis' looked at lat lathim him as he passed her her desk k and envied Margo more than she ever had before Copyright 1935 for The Salt LI Lake e Telegram gram N NTo To be Continued Tomorrow |