Show I I I I r a rh luna h I Ir r t r r rrY rY f I rare rare-o BO 12 SYNOPSIS Lawrence Blakeley lawyer goes t te t 0 Pittsburg with the forged notes In th e Bronson case to get the deposition o ol 01 Kohn John Gilmore Glimore millionaire In the latter s I home he Is attracted by a picture of ot a ayoung a young girl whom he millionaire explains explain s Is his granddaughter A lady requests request is isar Blakeley to buy her a a Pullman ticket Ii H He gives her lower lowerr eleven and retains lowe lowel r ten n. n He finds a drunken man In lowe lowel r ten and retires In lower nine He aw awakens awa awa- ar kens in lower seven and finds his clothes clothe ars s and bag missing The man In lower to ten tell n Is found murdered Circumstantial evidence evi evi- dence deuce points to both Blakeley and th the e unknown man who had exchanged clothes clothe s with him Blakeley becomes Interested d Ina Blake In a girl rl In blue The train Is wrecked Blakeley ey is Is rescued from the burning ca car r by the girl In blue His arm Is broken They pro go o to the Carter place for break break- fast The girl proves to be Alison AUson West Nest his partners partner's sweetheart Her peculiar actions mystify the lawyer She drops her gold bag and Blakeley puts It In his pocket Blakeley returns home He finds that he ho Is under surveillance Moving pictures of the train taken just before the wreck reveal to Blakeley a man leaping from Crom the train with fth his stolen grip CHAPTER XVI The Shadow of a a. Girl Certain things about the dinner at the Dallas house wi will l always be obscure obscure obscure ob ob- to me Dallas was something In IIi the fish commission and I l' l remember remember ber his reeling off oft fi fish h eggs in billions while we ate our caviar caviar He had some particular stunt he had been urging the th government to for years years some some something thing about forbidding the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of mills and factories on riper riper- banks It banks It seems they kill the fish wither the smoke or the noise or something they pour Into the water Mrs Dallas was there I think Of course ourse I suppose she must have been ind md there was a woman In yellow I ook her in to dinner and I remember the she loosened my clams for me so I I get them But the only real person per per- ion son at the table was a girl a across across ross In white a sublimated ted young woman woma vho was as brilliant as I was stupid vho never by any chance looked di- di at me and who appeared and across the candles and in a sort of halo of ol radiance When the dinner had progressed rom salmon to roast and the conver- conver had done the same thing thing from J conver-J from Ish to scandal the scandal the yellow gown to me rn 1 i t t Ming Minga t a f f t i 1 hands bands hostess hostess' the hung heavY on for bridge bridgen bridgeIt people COPIe get p It It is 50 hard to wailed There is slid she in n r in town Six is a nobody umber number re number her husban husband husband hus hus- Ite l a good poker loker SUggested L ban band settled Itself However 1 The matter as' as a dummy I was hopeless save was j too hot fortha for lor t it diss West said tha thad that that- balcony na a ou out on and d went cards corks Wi With obvious overlooked overlook 1 ed the tho thoMal Malt DIali the card table had relief Mrs Dallas face to face with b brought rought and I I was dreaded and hoped I had them the saute IT for a we wee ek for tor difficult difficult dif dif- more Now it had I had bad come anticipated it t was I do not than moon but there a was mow knOW If It there substitute for the it-the W was the urban It threw the the- shadow of the then arc light in long black bars bake n Y railing and as it itin white gown against her In the the face was I sometimes swung chair close so that I light I drew a watch her could sheo she I said when you knoW r Do D o that you no effort at speech made much wore snore formidable pers person on ona are a than you were that gown sow tonight night in iA time I saW you the last swung on her ber face she The light faintly was smiling with the green ribbons ribbons hat bat he T e must take it back I had she said I forgotten u. Iorgu almost forgotten forgotten anything n g I I I have not This was myself u up p short 1 pulled to Richey His voice has dl Y loyalty then through the window just cue and perhaps I was wrong but I I was standing on the tracing tracts tracK f Uh Ing down for I couldn't leave the office office office of of- fice when a young fallow with light hair hall limped up to ne Be and asked me what that smoke was over there U hats hat's what's left of the Washington Washing Washing- ton Flier Filer I 1 said and I 1 guess theres there's souls going up in that smoke Do you mean the first section l' l lI I he said getting kind lof yel greenish low what I mean I said split to kindling wood because Rafferty on the second section didn't want to be belate late He put his hand out in front of him and the satchel fell with a bang My My Godf he said and dropped right on the track in a heap I got him into the station and he came around but he kept on groaning something awful Hed He'd sprained his ankle and when he he got a little better I 1 drove him over in Carters Carter's milk wagon wagon wag wag- on to the Carter place and I 1 reckon he stayed there a spell all all Is It I asked all all or or no theres there's something something something some some- thing else About noon that day one of the Carter twins came down with witha a note from him asking me to send senda a distance message to some one In Washington To whom 1 I asked eagerly I 1 reckon Ive I've forgot the name but the message was that this fellow fellow- Sullivan was his name was name was at M MI Ml M- M l I- I r A 11 Y J 1 i Y I 1 t Do You Recall Seeing a Man Hanging Hang Hang- Ing to the Platform of the Last Car jand and If tr the man had escaped from the wreck wieck would he come to see him He wouldn't have sent that mes- mes sago to me I said to McKnight rather rath rath- er crestfallen Hed have every object object ob ob- ob In keeping out of my way There might be re reasons sons McKnight Mc Knight observed d judicially He might not have found the papers then TO BE CONTINUED I |