Show r n t I 1 SYNOPSIS at the lie expense of a soled d lint herbert 0 orme ame saves eaves from arrest it 11 girl in fit a blick ack aurl ng car who 0 has as cause it t traffic JIL ij jinn on hatate t at tree t I 1 he it buys bus it 11 new hat lint and la is given alven it live five dollar bill with alt it mem ber per tile pet son you pm tills this to write tell 1 on I atia it A second time lie lie helps help the girl lit tile murk ak cur car an and lern s that in toni tom arid pearlo they hav leaie 0 mutual friends but gets no n 0 further lilet it int of identity Milt d ity ile he another lion on on the marked bill which in it futile it tempt 0 lo 10 o deil ded pher it lie und and places tile the ropy copy in ili it drawer lit in his apartment in ent sinoi lol itol south american Amer loin calls calk and 1111 balms nis tile marked bi 1111 11 orme orm refuses and it a twit ensues in which poll tol lol Is overcome lie ili valls nils lit in senor al carrante cat rante minister front ilia lil country to ouch louch for him ovie orine still refuses to give UP ui I 1 lie it mil he e I 1 flimns limns arns that ft a jar jap has called ailed for lafin ornic orme gaws KO for a walk and ali sees two to laps itt bittak tai Alea lh he r rescued e him film rii minister tries 1100 maly but falls to ret get the die marked bill ite turn ing to tits lils rooms onne Is 14 d by two japs who vm effect a for forill elble le c change of tile the mirced bill for another orme finds ali tho girl li I 1 of the bank pur ear waiting for him she aaltio wants the bill ornie tells ills hla story SN she recognizes one 0 of r alj alip japs as her fathers s betit r makii tl aln second on tho the bill la Is tile h to the Iii ling of important lapira stolen bioni her fitler holli japs und so houtla 1 ith americans want tile the papers orme orm and a n I 1 I 1 the ie girl start out papers in 11 tile the hilvi aliu I 1 k car in of ahe he papers in th the university rounds grounds in I finston Iva naton tit the hiding place Is located maim and another jap ire there ornia fells fella maldi and lit hie other oilier jap s CHAPTER V continued so lie he jumped to tits his feet and ran inn northward then turned to the west circling about lie made for the gate at which ho he had entered ills pursuer either took the wrong lead in ili the dankness dai kness or stopped to examine malin toi for when orine orina went through the gate and doubled back outside the fence to the car there was no sound of steps behind him ile he jumped to the chauffeurs seat scat well inquired the girl eagerly too late said orine onno 1 im I in sorry bony I 1 caught but the man with the envelope eliv elope got away site she laid a hand on its his arm are you hurt hurta there was unconcealed anxiety in tier her voice to say the things he yearned to say to be tender to tier her dut but he controlled ilia his feelings and explained briefly what hail had happened at the tame time tim I 1 e throwing on the power and driving the car slowly northward 1 I only know that the fellow ran northward he be said lie ile may have haie worked back or lie he may have gone on ile he may have climbed another tree and waited by time they had come to the northern lif limits litts of the grounds but lie he had seen no opie one suddenly Sudden lj the girl exclaimed listen orme stopped the car somewhere train from the distance came a faint hum another car he muttered yes yea she said oh but I 1 can do no more I 1 am tired mr orme we cannot catch that car even it if it does hold the man wes we want and there is no way of being sure bure that it does if there Is any aa place to leave you ou I 1 will go after him alone ile he had turned the car as he spoke and was seneI sending Tg it slowly southward no she said wearily we you must 10 to lo no mor morl L i tonight you have been so good mr orme to help me in a matter of which I 1 could tell you almost nothing I 1 wont won t even try to thank you except by saying that you have understood ile he knew what she meant ile he had bad met her need because he had shown its greatness without tier her telling him ills his recognition of her plight had been unaccompanied by any suggestion of ignored conventions no gushing thanks would have haie pleased him half so much ile he smiled at her wistfully does it t all end here no 0 o she said s ild 1 I will not let it end hero here we are friends already ali eady in ili fact mr orme as aa soon as I 1 can to do to io I 1 will pee see that we are friends in name can you ou accept its as little a aromise ne as that 1 I can accept any promise from he said gravely and now I 1 take yon yell home not home it Is too far hut but I 1 have half some friends a few blocks away who will take me in turn here please under tier her guidance lie he took the car through several streets drawing up lip st at last before a large comfortable looking place set BPI back from tile the street with it a wide shrub dotted lawn before it several windows were still lighted ile he descended to help liei fier out she hesitated 1 I hate to ask it mr orme she finally said but you aan an catch the trolley back to clil ngo igo they clr will take care of the car here ili he nodded lilt but one ona thing girl he said 11 1 I am going to find that other japanese tomorrow I 1 shall get the envelope will you call me up it the apartment Wro tomorrow orrow noon noona if I 1 am not there leive leave word where I 1 can an find you 1 I will do that but dont get yourself hurt she let him help tier her to the ground at noon he said at t noon goodnight good night riny nil friend she offered her hand night girl he aalde and then h he bent over and kissed her lingers fingers gently gentl tie he stood by the car until she had ers crossed sed the lawn and ascended the heps jintil the he door opened and ad viett i her CHAPTER VI A chance lead to follow the girls suggestion and return at once to chicago was ornies intention when he said goodnight good night to tier her the hour was close to midnight and the evening had been crowded so full with bewildering adventure that he ie was tired moreover he looked forward to a morning that might well test his endurance even more strenuously lie he had now committed himself definitely to continue in the held field against the japanese exeunt except for his desire to serve tills this wonderful girl who had come so suddenly into ilia his life lie doubtless would have permitted the mystery of the marked bill to remain unsolved hut but since the recovery of the stolen papers was so import important ant to tier her lie he was prepared to run any risk in ili the struggle who was site she hut but no that was a question she did not wish him to ask sit she was ns simply girl beautiful tender comprehending compre hinding lils ideal incarnate As lie he stood there best hesitant t ant before the house into which sho had disappeared lie he pictured tier her again even to the strand of rebellious hair which had blown across tier her cheek lie he could discover no ito fault in ili tier her perfection A man dian came into view on the drive at the side of the house a servant to care for the car of course and orme with the uneasy feeling of one who lias has been trespassing tres passing moved away toward the corner of the block lie he looked bade backs however and saw the newcomer clamber into the car and send it slowly up the drive at the same time a light illumined one or of the upper windows or of the house A shadow was thrown on oil the curtain perhaps it was the gill herself what explanation had she given her friends for appearing so late nt at their door probably she had told them no more than that she was tired and belated she was not tile the kind of girl from whom an elaborate explanation would be asked or expected then a thought startled him was this perhaps her home no she had bad spoken of the people who lived here as her friends and she would not have tried to keep the truth from him film by subterfuge if this were her home and she had not wished him to know it she would have requested him to leave her before they had come so far it dawned upon him that it would not be hard for him to learn who lived in this house and possibly through that knowledge to get a clue to her identity ilia his heart warmed as he realized how completely she had trusted him ills his assurance that he be would not try to find out who she was had satis satisfied fled tier her and orme knew that if she had been eo readily assured it was because she had recognized the truth and devotion in him with a happy sigh he turned his back once and for all and walked rapidly away but he lid did not go toward the electric car line which lie he knew must lie ile a few blocks to tile the west instead he retraced t lie he course they had come for lie he had de aided to visit the university campus campus once more and try to als discover over what had become of makii and more especially of the other japanese who had secured the papers that lie he would be recognized arld and connected with the attack on was unlikely when he came to the corner of sheridan road and chicago avenue he hesitated for a moment should he go north through the campus and seek it a trace of the japanese who had escaped nearly half an hour had bad gone since the adventure among the trees and the man must have got completely away by tills this time having the papers lie he surely would not linger to learn the fate of orme found himself wondering hov bov the japanese had got to evanston granting that it hail had not taken them long to solve the abbreviated directions on oil the five dollar bill they could hardly have bay come by motorcar motor car ear for they had had a good half hour start and yet orme had discovered them before their work was completed only on the assumption that their car had broken down on oil the way could orini onna admit that they had bad used a motorcar motor car moreover how were two japanese whose appearance did not indicate the possession pose pos eslon of much ready money how were they likely to have a car or even to rent one and had they believed that they might be pursued would they not have come to evanston by an obvious route of ti train nin or trolley these considerations led orme to think that the car which lie he and the girl had heard in the distance could not have been occupied by the escaping japanese i the fellow then had probably made for the electric car line and in that event he would be well on his way to chicago by tills this time the car he had caught must have gone southward from evanston about 1045 the conductor would be likely to remember having had a japanese on board perhaps he would even remember where the oriental had got oft off the natural course for orme therefore was waa to take a car himself and if he be did not M 15 1 theres a rule against going in there after dark meta inett the other car returning to get oft off at the carbarns car barns and make inquiries tho the possibility that tho the japanese had changed to the elevated road load on the north side was ft as great hilt but the conductor might remember if the change ila biad been made hut but orme did not turn at once toward the carline car line though his logic pointed in that direction he was ft as irresistibly influenced by a desire to walk eastward along the drive where it skirted tho the southern end of the campus A halt half hour might go by and still lie he would not be too late to meet on its return the car which the japanese would have taken lie he started therefore eastward toward the lake throwing frequent glances through the iron fence at his lits left ft an into the lark dark shadows of the oaks ile ho came to the tha lake without en countering anyone the road here swept to the southward and on the beach near the turn squatted the low brick building which the girl had told him was the lifesaving life saving station A man was standing on the little veran da ills ilia suit of duck was dimly white in the light from the nearby near by street lamps one of the crew orme surmised end and he sauntered slowly down the lit tie path the beach sloped to the edge of the lake where a breakwater thrust its blunt nose out like a stranded hulk the abe water was calm lapping the sand so gently that it was hard to believe that so gentle a murmur could ever eer swell into the roar of a northeaster A launch that was moored at the outer end of the break water lay quiet on the tlde leaa sur face good evening sald said orme as the man turned his head are you on watch the lifesaver life saver slowly stretched till 12 2 lie he answered not much longer then no thank heaven orme laughed 1 I suppose you ou do get more than you QU want of it he said hut but on oil a fine night like tills this I 1 should think it would be mighty pleasant not if you have hae to put in several hours of stroy ty after you get through study yes you see I 1 have a special examination tomorrow A service examination oh no college are you a student students 7 all AH the crew are students it helps a good deal it if you are working your way through college oil oh I 1 see but surely the baity opened for tho the fall no but there are preliminary exams for those who have conditions condl tlona to work off orme nodded its a fine campus yo 0 o i I 1 have with the groves of oaks I 1 I 1 yes just the place for a quiet evening stroll I 1 thought id walk up the shore theres a rule against going in there after dark if Is there too bad something funny happened there just a little while ago so what was it orme was getting close to the subject lie he most desired to hear bear explained why one of the cops was walking along the shore and he found a japanese stunned A japanese lie ile evidently vi dently had bad wandered in there and somebody hadrit him over the head with a club after money probably The therece reve been i L good many holdups lately but the slug ger have a chance to get at anything this time how flow so ile he was bending over the jap then when the cop came up ile ho got away the cop chase him hima no the fellow had a good start so the cop call stayed by the jap and what became of tile the jai japa the lifesaver life saver jerked ills his head toward tho the door beside him fles he a in there getting over his beada headache c i e Is lie hea this was a contingency which orme orinc had not foreseen fo resten nor had lie any an desire to como come faco face to face with hut but if lie ho betrayed ills surprise the life lifesaver saver did not notice it the cop op Is taking another look tl rough the lie ho continued what does tho jap say about it asked orme ile ho t say anything it looks as though lie he t speak english tt V trop la I kalug to piet get asual A jap student who mes hies in tile the dormitory oh said orme the fact that would not talk was in a measure reassuring ills up ap parent inability to understand ung eng fish was of course assumed unless indeed ho he was still too completely dazed by the blow which orme orine had given MITI him to use a tongue which was more or less strange to him hut but what would lie he say any if lie ho saw ormo orme would he not accuse lila ills assailant hoping thus to delay the pursuit of its ills companion the danger was by no means slight orme decided quickly to get away from this neighborhood hut but just as he was about to bid the lifesaver life saver a casual goodnight two men came around the corner of the building one was a policeman the other it a young japanese orme unobtrusive ly seated himself on the edge of the little veranda ilow how is he asked the policeman all right I 1 guess replied the life saver 1 looked in a few minutes ago a and n d he e was a sitting up hello asuka ll hello ello there responded the little ja japanese anese come said the pollee ninn after an unsuspicious glance tj orme and mounting the steps lie ted led tits his interpreter into the station now indeed it was |