Show Irra Trapped Cilen By n L Ly Love y 1 r rE BEGIN E IN HERE RERE TOn Y TOI Until the anniversary anniversary v of her b brothers brother's arrest for embd embezzlement t two wo years before Inspired inspire a. a a news new I s story tory recalling the fam ij case cue MArgo Haynes Hanu had had it a t sort sorti of peace peace The news story rei rel to all nU how Eric Haynes had beenu arrested tried and convicted of of- embezzlement emb and and had escaped from jail It does not of course course telI tell teIl th Margo knows Eric is innocent or that he heIs heis heis is now working in a steel mill In Gavin Pa Of all the persona affect U by the story only Bob Craddock wI wl 10 io loves lavel Margo feels relief It e explains to him the origin of the mysterious letter he had received with wilb the request request request re re- re- re quest that he ho give the thc d inner note to Margo It is sing to Lucy Prentice Phelps lit had had been engaged to Eric at tie Le time of his hIJ arrest but her love J yov or him had not been great enough bear the shame She had mar marred d and andIs andIs andIs Is now flow divorced Now Go On With the CHAPTER FIVE I Grayson Tucker cleared hJ throat S loudly a habit which his old er sr em em- kne knew presaged no This was followed by the removal of ot his glasses from his nose Id the polishing of them with his j pocket h handkerchief et j Margo stood quietly beford beford him hint him he had not asked her to sit sib down She dl didn't nt say anything because she didn't know what to say say It It was the first time she bad had bee been 1 summoned sum sum- into Tuckers Tucker's office You are ore Margo D' D h he asked after he had put the glasses J back on his nose and cur the white gold flexible stems o oW er his ears III II I I am am- am Didn't he knot knai V r who she was yas He spoke to he her hez every every time he saw JaW her or and there weren't so many In his office that he kno knoll their names Thirty in all an coun g the theoffice theoffice theoffice office boy and the mailing ks Margo Haynes the sister aister jf t Eric Haynes Then she Then hen she knew as as If It she had been reading his mil t J why he had sent for her and hat at he wanted i My Brother i Eric Haynes is my broth yes yes she said defiantly and hr hrin chin raised Morton of ot the Heral have hav recognized her i iwas it was the same she had mal uti alne all an during the trial Well VelI- VelI Tucker r d his 4 glasses weren't nt polished well enough 10 IO het ok them of off again and did a better Job Well he said laid with the t cles clel iti still 1 In his hand You You understand Miss Mils Hn Haynes You el-You you he cleared his throat t and looked down at his pol pot job Y u should hould have e told me Told you rou what what- Mr Tucker Margo asked deliberately Told me that you were Haynes Haynes' sister And why Well we Wen we wouldn't have hired you Yo You see aee the tho publicity of the case your connection with it no it-no no reflection on your work I want you to understand that No reflection lion tion at all au He paused as f if he expected her to uy say ay something but she let him struggle by himself Under the circumstances Miss I Haynes Im I'm going to have to let letl you go You'll understand If you want a reference Til rn be glad to tD I furnish it for you Say Soy you leave Immediately and go to o the cashier cashies I for two weeks weeks' advance pay Wit Wil I that be all an right Quite all aU right Mr Tucker Ill notify the cashier ashler FI Fired ed I Five minutes later Margo was walking out of the lii office her duk desk cleared out out- and a a- company check for 45 45 in her purse Besides the check there was a 50 W bill bIU which Eric had in his letter and which she hadn't broken Dear Eric worrying about hess her worrying for fear she needed money money anoney Often in the letters lettera pita Ut it used to deliver for h lieI er from him there were bills tuck tucked d Inside a doll dollar r at first then fi fives five e once nce a 20 20 It did nogo no go good d to send them back as she he had at first Eric rIc promptly returned them again and sc scolded her for lor being be be- ing a little fool explaining oa u he Continued on Pate Pan F T Trapped ed By Love rapp rapped i b Gd en i NU ContiC from Preceding Page Face had iad lined before that ho lc had plenty plenty-e d i cash at any rate so 10 that ij i an emergency he lie could get getaway jet away from Gavin The en hadn't arisen as asyet yet 5 was still safe safe safe-in in Gavin as safe w It is as fie lie ever would be any place lace he safety of the hunted resting r a moment for a clean clear breath reath df tf air Erics Eric's clear breath of ot air 1 ted two years Two y years ars today oday Sic Ie might be on his way now N Ar a week from tomorrow One nev it could telL One only had hado to o watch I land and be ready to run i IJ longed to See Sec him Him Margo longed to see him but that hat wa wi 3 s impossible The thought that shii shi might never see him again made lb Ji i dr r dizzy dizzy and and yet she had hado to o face that too Certainly they couldn couldn't meet w when en she was being Lall I all the time when by traveling traveling trav tray eling cling t ti tf i him she would bring the hunter on At f fu i st there had been ions t tI at they meet but when they began egan to plan difficulties arose Margo saw saw them thOrn first and wrote Eric a all aH out them his eagerness to see her was as great as hers herd to see him They mustn't be impatient they impatient they must 11 h e C careful careful it it would be dangerous dan- dan to take the great risk of being being beng be- be ing ng to together r ether en even for a few minutes min mm- utes utes J JL For t Jwo wo years it had been like that hat and she knew he must have changed She had changed too I Now and then in her l letters she tried to tell teU him how she sho was dif- dif but she shed she d didn't succeed An he tried to tell her her but but there was vas no clear picture in her mind when she finished his descriptions of himself She could not visualize Eric in overalls stained with oil oU I and grease as they must be first trucking In the big steel mill then ladling Pouring the white hot molten metal into m molds Im getting ahead dear he had said in that last letter that had come through Rita Ten T n d dollars more a week which isn't to be scorned in these days Reads like a Horatio Alger doesn't it this it-this this career of mine in a steel mill From Froma a 15 a week to what to-what what 1 Proud of Eric Erie Eric was earning 55 a week now as a a. foreman working worling eight hours a a. d day y with his brawn and his mus mus- cle dc Margo was proud of his rise at the mill as she was proud of everything that he did But her prIde pride iride didn't balance her a anxiety A slip an accident accident and and they happened happened hap- hap every day day and Eric and Eric But she mustn't think about acci acci- dents Eric had begged her not to Better wasn't it that he was wa hi in the mill than In prison Better that ho he ic was free I Yes better the girl whispered to herself over and over again infinitely infinitely better Margo had understood understood understood under under- stood perfectly pe when the day before before be- be fore ore the trial ended in the last interview they had had together with the screen of the prisoners' prisoners room separating them Eric E ic had told her that he would n never ver go to prison couldn't stand to go to prison I r cant can't stay in prison I cant can't Margo You know I cant can't He hadn't said any more He didn't need to It was as enough for her to know that he couldn't stay Love for Freedom Eric Erie with his love for freedom In n a steel cage Eric living in a cell ell He who liked to tramp miles on Saturday afternoons ons and Sundays and holidays to get the smell of or the theoffice theoffice theoffice office walls out of his lungs He with his talk of the ranch they would have some day Acres and acres of land riding the range range on their horses watching things grow and harvesting the crops Luc Lucy Jucy and he and Margo How many times had he talked of or orthe the ranch this ranch this mythical ranch he dreamed about and hoped for Margo couldn't remember but all her life she had heard of it All her life she had bad planned with him because that was the way they did things even before they were left alone At first it had been Eric and Margo Then Eric Eric Lucy and Margo after he had met Lucy and lad had fallen in l love ve with her Til The e pitiful tragedy of it was that he still loved Luc Lucy that she meant as much to him now as she had before before before be be- fore his arrest That nothing she had done could erase the memory of her from his nis mind not mind not even her frantic denial of her engagement to Eric to the newspapers two days after his arrest arlest not even her hasty marriage to to Byron Phelps during the thc trial Loves Lucy That was the way with Eric Margo had realized with a shock when she read the letter which had come through ugh Bob this w week ek Although Although Although Al Al- though she had skimmed through Its four pages quickly she could re remember remember re- re member every word that he lie had written The last paragraph hadn't fooled tooled her at nt allI all I ft I 1 r read react a in the paper that Lucy has divorced Phelps Is she sho back in town 1 Do you see her Only a few words but it told the girl a good deal It told her Eric still loved Lucy still thought of her still longed for her MarKo MargO purposely hadn't written him about L Lucys Lucy's divorce alth although she had heard of t it She hoped he wouldn't find ou out because she felt Lucy had scarred him en enough ugh Indeed Indeed Indeed In In- deed she never mentioned Lucy in her letters to him although h she knew he wanted her to For al although although although al- al though Eric had forgiven Lucy Prentice she hadn t. t One thing she could ne never er forget vas was Erics Eric's face when she had broken the news of Lucys Lucy's marriage to him To Margo disloyalty was vas a sin Still Hoping And here was Eric hoping again for for surel surely that what it was was was was- hope in that final paragraph She wished she didn't know him him so sowell and she wouldn't t worry But she shedid shedid shedid did know him and she knew that Eric in his steel mill was vas dreaming of Lucy and that he would keep on dreaming of ot herAs her As Margo hurried along the avenue ave aye avenue nue oi on her way yay to the bus she hugged the thought to her that only three persons in the world knew knOw where Eric was Rita because she read the postmark of ot the letters Bob because he must have done the same thing and herself herselt But of the three only she knew the name nam under which her brother lived Jived anc and worked Copyright 1935 1935 forThe Salt Lake Telegram To Bo Continued TO Tomorrow V |