Show 1 I t OUTSIDE THE LAW LAWt LAWI 1 I BY TOD BROWNING STARRING PRISCILLA DEAN I NOVELIZED BY MAUD ROBINSON TOOMBS I I I II ri tiff v I r k I s 's 3 iL I IF A i it F t r They OThey hid the necklace under the tern The first night Ballard ventured forth It was raining and between his umbrella and his soft hat his face could hardly be distinguished He bought a paper from a news stand and then th m saw by the headlines the size of the proposition they were up against After that they stayed In in- in doors The flat had been stocked with canned things enough to last the them at least east a fortnight and they tried to I possess their souls in patience al although although al- al though the confinement told on them severely severely At every noise Bill drew his revolver and Moll shook like a leaf leaf so so that lots of tim times s they heartily wished they t ey had lad never seen Morgan Spencer or anything belonging to them The question of concealing the necklace necklace neck- neck lace ace too bothered them quite a bit Moll VIoll had buried It in a ripped place in n her mattress But Bill objected to this his He argued it would be one of ot the he the first spots where any anyone one would look ook So they started to discover another another another an an- other hiding place Finally one was Sugg suggested sted to them by an accident In looking out of the window one day Moll leaned too close to a stand which held a fern in an ornamental jar ar and the whole thing tipped over fortunately the porcelain was not broken but the fern ball had sepa- sepa separated separated rated on account of dryness from the pot at the edges and now lay completely com com- outside its receptacle Moll Mon put back in I their places the stand tand and the jar and Bill with a clumsy masculine wish to help seized the he fern by its leaves and started to lower ower It back into its place Dont handle it that way way Moll cried ned sharply wither the leaves leaves' Then all of a sudden she clapped her hands What a wonderful wonder wonder- ful hiding place for the necklace she exclaimed So they wrapped It In tissue paper dropped it in the bottom of the pot and replaced the fern and its roots over over it Then Moll l sprinkled d the dry earth generously with water The deed was done and no one would ever have suspected the truth While matters of this sort had been een occupying ing the the- culprits the search for them had gone on fruitlessly for almost al almost almost al- al most a fortnight To be continued continued |