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Show J A Telegram Serial . I SOLD FOR A SONG M ' (ConUmiee Fleet rreceAhis Pese) bim again. Ths danger of the trip became terrifying to her. On her fourth visit to ths cabin with Jeff, such short visits that she only seemed to have arrived when Billy came to take her away, Joyce drew her into the kitchen. "I suppose you realize that Jeff is in love with you. A woman usually knows it long before a man does." She looked at Andrea sharply, but she saw that she was wrong. Andrea hadn't known what she had known for several daya really from the first time Jeff brought ber to the cabin. "I didn't know" Andrea murmured. mur-mured. "Well, he is. I know the symptoms, symp-toms, because I know Jeff so well. He's never been like thie with a girl before, and he's always brought his girls home for Sam and me to meet. T don't know whether he knowe it himself yet, but he'll find out soon. It's going to be bard for both of you. I thought I'd teH you." They stood in ths kitchen a little while in silence, and finally Joyce put her arms around the younger girl. "You do care for him a little, don't you?" She didn't need an answer from Andrea. - She knew from her fece. and the quiver that paseed through ber body as she held her in her arm a They didn't have time to say any more. Billy rushed through the back door. - "Andrea! They've found the j tunnel! Gorman found it On the park side. They're starting to fill R!" . ' but she was going to stick to it, and Billy would stick to it, too. They started out together hand in hand, she and Billy. They didnt say anything until they came to the edge of the wall that Inclosed Emery park. Then Billy's grip on her hand tightened. Voice Breaks . "I shouldn't have dug that tunnel, Sis. I'vs only gotten you into lots more trouble with It." "I told you not to worry about it We'll get out of this ell right" 1 should havs taken better care of you. I will from now on." They were nearing the gates when he spoke again. "I wish ws could get away from all this. Sis. Go away together. Some place like Jeff is going. I was talking to him yesterday about going with him. "I was trying -to tell him how useful I would be to him. I could be, you know, I'm strong, as strong as bs is, and I'd do anything he said, you know I would. "I wouldn't be a kid Just on a lark. I'd work as hard as Sam and Jeff, and the others." Hie voice brake ss it did occasionally theee days, for it was changing. . Simmons, ths day gatemsn, wee surprised when he saw Andrea. "I didn't see you go out Miss Mar-quand. Mar-quand. That's strange." Andrea smiled as she passed through the small gate he opened for her and Billy, but the smile was a forced one. t She knew what he would do as soon ss he bed a chance, telephone Crandall, the steward at the big house, and report that Miss Mar-quand Mar-quand had just returned through the gates, but that he had no record of ber leaving. Simmons couldn't have heard about the tunnel yet (To be continued Saturday.) Copyright, 1930, Register and Tribune Syndicate. Couldn't Last The boy's voios was tragic. ' If be had been younger there would heve been tears in his eye, but he felt himself a man now. The tunnel tun-nel was his work, his refuge. It meant he didn't have to present himeelf at the gates every time be wonted to get out of the perk. He 1 I wae as proud of it as if it had been a tunnel under a great river. There was another factor, toe, which he end Andrea understood so well, and which made them stand numb facing each other when Billy had finished telling the fiasco about the tunnel. There wee the question ques-tion of how Andrea was to get into , the park. "I'll have te go around by the . gates, go in the fates. That's the ' only way," shs said hoarsely. "I'm so sorry," ths boy muttered. "I was there on the ether side, this side, when I heard Gorman shout . and the others coming up. I came as soon as I could." ' "Never mind, Billy. I knew K . couldn't hut It's a wonder that It's lasted so long. You can build j another." Andrea comforted him. i He shook his head. "They'll be watching now. I won't have a chance." Jeff and Sara came in from the other room and Billy repeated his troubiee, which were Andreas troubles, trou-bles, too. "We'll all walk to ths gates, and ' you and Andrea can go in," Sam 1 suggested. Andrea vetoed this Immediately. I She and BiUy would go alone, and if there were any questions asked. ! she would tell the truth, sums of i the truth anyway. She would say that she hed ueed Billy's tunnel to get out of the park, and that once out of the park, she and BiHy had taken a walk. Her starr might not be believed. |