Show W o Arb I Discover that I Want to Live Live and and Try the Mystery Key A turmoil of or fire firo engine bell bells bella loud vIces Ices and honking autos mingled with the nol noise e of at many feet and assured fissured in time doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- we rue that help hell had come less lest to keep kep the house from burning d down n I was perfectly calm so 50 quiet in fact tact that I 1 astonished myself Queer that Im I'm not the least bit I And nervous ous or excited thought then in a n. flash I grasped what had come conw ov over OVAr r me 1 I was alive and alive and very glad to be alive and alive and unafraid to go 10 on lI in living For months I had been hunting for tor some s chemo scheme of ot life some philosophy to cling to In time of ot discouragement an Idea like Ilk Ilka a religion on to help me I carr carry on through the disappointments disappointments disappoint disappoint- disapPoint I ments I 1 as was forever stumbling into I T had gone through many man a n hard ad- ad and and learned nothing I had meditated hour after atter hour in nice quiet places like the insane asylum asylum as- as lum and Mary Mar Thomas Thomas' guest room and anti had found nothing to help meAt me me- At last lost I had walked d deliberately toward a 0 death of or my own choosing I I and then then then-I I had hart tied led involuntarily from tram death when It was about to overtake over over- I tako take me I had mistaken my bravado bra for tor courage courage cour cour- age I had thought It ver very brave bravo to get bet rid of ot m my troubles by dying and dying and andIn In that moment of ot tho the explosion I had gone sone over o tho the top and 1 had discos discos' I ered that even at its worst life lite was was was' worth while Never Nc a again aln would I II find It too hard to bear Under pressure one can cnn do a large amount mount of thinking in a n. ver very short time It seemed seconds rather than minutes between tho the explosion and the I arrival of ot the firemen Although a thick smoke filtered through h the house I and made me cough my nerves warn wern quiet my voice low as ai I answered the j i fire chiefs chief's questions question i No o Dr was not at home j I jho ho he was out of or town The servants ant were i off oft dut duty for tor tho the evening The fire j I started with an explosion in the of- of f fice Probably Probably an nn incendiary bomb bald said the tile chief t. t That accounts for tor the wa way jit j it J-a J iu Jk A dozen dOT little tires fires fires fires' I I I have started Dont Don't be alarmed but f Just as a 3 precaution miss get your OUlI valuables together he added as he I hurried awa away Of Ot courso course he thought that a n. girl relative of ot Dr must possess loads londs of ot gems It amused me because diamonds I II the tho only private ate hoard of at could pretend to hi have hie e a claim to was I hidden In a a. U-boat U at the tile bottom of or orthe the tho SelI sea Sel I Tho The smoke grew thicker and I 1 was wasi I of firemen firemen fire fire- j greatly brently relieved to see groups men patrolling the rooms I slipped I my old cloak over m my white silk attire I and collected a 0 few toilet articles and ond some practical clothing But Dut I had no d desire to bo be conspicuous ous In the crowd if it the tho fire tire should drive c me out of or doors Several hundred hundred hun hun- I dred red persons ha had gathered in the tho street and rear alley alley- and among them there who would wan wa sure to be someone recognize lane Jane Ix Lorimer Tho rho smoke kept drifting Into the tho bedrooms and made mado me foci feel ns fiS If It tho the building were doomed I picked up th the tho house I keys cys which had hadI given me There must bo be a u bag bab In the closet of ot hi his room And of or cour course e the tho lon longest key the key the theono ono one which Mrs Bluebeard must never never use was use was tho first to claim my attention To 12 |