Show cj W 1 A MARY 7 AUTHOR of CW K M IM III TW r TC 0 ta rt AT THE YOUNG CLERGYMAN SURPRISES ELINOR WHILE SHE IS DOING HER SHARE IN A DARING COUNTRY CLUB ROBBERY For year years old hilary kingston lived with hi his daugh ter elinor in n a beau taut home on it hill 11 la in the suburban tillage village of 0 the neighbors knew nothing about the establish establishment meaL ex capt that the father aas a quite wealthy and the daughter very good looking and gentle la in reality kingston ans head of an anarchist band composed of iluff boroday talbot and lethbridge that robbed the rich end and gave a to the poor and oppress oppressed etL one day old hilary was shot dead and the course of life changed abruptly for his daughter the re iles sir ward a young yount bachelor began to take an uncommon interest in elinor young walter hun of the gang confessed his lore love for her and she he accepted 1 it CHAPTER IV continued 4 the police pollee were still active so insistent was boroday on caution that all of september wot ent by without so much as a plan of campaign talbot played coif golf and anti friendly relations that might be x invaluable later huff under protest retained the taxicab work it a a dog doses life he mid said not after me now give me something elee else to 10 lo do or else let me take 4 tion lint but they kept him at work iluff fell into the way of teeing seeing elinor once or twice a weel week talbot took him out picking him up on the edge of town after dusk on bis his way IQ to his car to a dance or dincer at the country club and taking lurn back the same way and the boys infatuation for ninor grew and thrived on those late summer meetings her tier sweetness and elusive FIMI a maddened him 1 sometimes he thought her never so for or from him as when v hen ehe she was in its arms do you love me mel he be would demand hoarsely 1 I think so I 1 know I 1 want you to love me 0 and he bad had to be content with this on the evenings when she waa was atone alone elinor mat at in her arbor and watched the road up the hill ward hud called twice and each time she he had bad been out on tho the long one rambles roblee rn she ho took almost daily after his second visit she stayed la in the house for days expecting him but he be did not come again she wax cot not la in love with ward just as eho she was not in love with walter vetter huff but the clergyman represented la in her strange and lonely life something new and different dl if erent ile typified all that she he bad had never known ile was the priest rather than the man to her at first the time was coming when be he would be man only and after that late tate la in september boroday was arrested the arrest come as a shock to the band As a matter of fact the police could prove nothing but the chief bad had a long talk with the russian it was the agrarian affair t nu the chief had recognized him at so firmly bad had old hilary 1111 arys respectability been rooted in the public mind that the chief boroday only casually nily with him tou you know that I 1 cannot prove this thine thing on you he said but you know alto perfectly well that I 1 can fix you to the tune of amut ten years yeam perfectly correct in both instances boroday no Bo you cannot prove any thine thing and you can end send me up p what bat Is it you earitt 1 I want the members bera of that band of youra yours enid said the chief and I 1 want your headquartered you people have been paying vying hell in this county long enough the newspapers newit papera are laughing at lit us sooner or later litter well ret yon you and get you all alaan it sooner and tn well we 11 let you off easy how nuch rauch timo time will you rave give roel the chief offered twenty four hours and boroday took it at the end of that time he reported 1 I guess ill III take coming to me he lie ald said you can fir fix it any way you like it was a bitter disappointment to the police CHAPTER V llo roday bad had used ads hi days day freedom to warn the band and to ronke make plans for recal recalling ning his freedom of money lie had none abhat hat he lie had made under old lillar hilary yx leadership had eone gone back to nuva dollar for dollar lie had financed part ot at the kler kiev defense of the jew jews had hall pared prince from siberia there were ether other thing honey bloney would fate groday and thre tin re was practically no money by unanimous consent con nt they kept the he new news of his ll 11 arrest froni from minor it waa was talbot who planel the country club coop coati ye vie russian 1 wa was la in jail then on a i trumped up charge old lid hilary dead and anti boroday la in jail Jull there was DO no one tu to advise cu caution Ino boroday no roday 1111 minor exclaimed they w were 1 accounting for his nee from h her 1 saturday night dinner 11 hy by then he should be here where he can be ba cared for 1 U I e told him that lethbridge was always read readiest lest with bla big tongue gue nut but he hes not ick sick enough to need much itna nd he q deucedly deuced Jy dasa when he int a up F linor was a little hurt hum in the arbor after dinner they planned the robbery where old hilary would have taken a month to think and plan they tool took minute minutes there irr i a ball at the club that night the last 0 of the waning country club season the entrance to the grounds was a mile from the clubhouse two iron roll I 1 gates st nadin open between pillars and dense shrubbery all about talbot would wreck his car there driving into gnp ap of the rates gates that would require ach departing tir cur ta alot down lown probably to stop the arrangement was that talbot walk op up to the club and establish an alibi and his innocence by telephoning to a city garage for help the rest was left to huff iluff and lethbridge A quarter of a mile away across the golf links they would have a car in which wh ich to sobe their getaway get avay lethbridge was only lukewarm we well it get a lot of jewelry he objected U 1 hat we need Is money but talbot was sure the loot would include money it was rather cleverly planned from the vault huff iluff brought up a fine chain studded nith stretched across the road outside the entrance it meant that every car passing over it would limp niong along on flat tires it meant time to the bandits and lethbridge who had left their car in a thiet over the hill went first talbot followed soon in hia his gray cray car good luck boys eald said elinor in echo of her father from her garden and went back into toe the house to t watch the clock at one or a little sooner the summer dances were early one he she waa to be in ber her parden garden again the loot would be thrown over the wall she was there much earlier hands cold lips abating shaking alth ath nervousness always old hilary had done these things she was profoundly frightened ard walking rapidly home from the club saw her there a little after midnight there was a young moon and at first he thought he be mat must be mistaken then when he was sure of her ho raa up the shallow steps the glad clad ness that was over bim him rang ra dg out in a his deep dp voice I 1 so now I 1 have your secret he said gaily like all the other fairies you are only to bo be seen in the moonlight I 1 P in the daylight said elinor trying to smile 1 I frequent the woodlands and miss my moat most agreeable visitor MY only visitor she corr corrected ted her ber self iler band hand waa was ice fee la in bla you arc are cold I 1 really n ap there was a minu tos pan pau le they bad had no DO common ground between them ward who dreamed of ivr eyes and took lone long walks up the in the mere hope ot of beeding ler ter a ai her garden faund und himself duah clum row that he stood before her lie ile had to be most impersonal Impe nonal to run in eny buy a cheery good night to hir and be on off but nut face faco to anc fam with the dark house looming over them he jungel pu ngel into the thing nearest his heart are you tin still eo go alone there are the 11 t II ti I think of you often one of my ray windows faces this WR way and I 1 can see a tight burning very late I 1 rend at night I 1 do not sleep well dut couyou you are late also ahl he ile beet bent a little toward her in bis his eagerness you know that you know roy my window r Us ies I 1 watch it very often it was well for walter iluff brou crouched ched in the shrubbery rubbery eh it the country club eydi y glittering an automatic in hand that he lid did not hear bent the thrill in wards ward a 1 that night in garden or her soft reply things cried for utterance in ward his pitiful cense sense of the girls loneliness lonell ness a R yearning dire 1 to corn coin tort fort her to bo near her even more that matte night a mad longing to duj h id nut out bis his arras arms and coax her into them ns As one might coax some ehy creature of the tho woods but ellnor was suddenly aloof afoot and distant nyalo at jit any alny time now a car would come wildly down the tho hill and toes toss a at her feet its defiance de flance of lav ami and ownership NN hat had she he and this man before her in common the thrill was in his now but how quickly it would turn to loathing when he lie knew knewt t she pat put oat out her ber cold hand and be he took it 11 11 am going in now good night and thank you for stopping ard found himself demix d and rather dazed went down the step steps to the road cut but one thine he carried with him down the hill bill that night 1 I 1 watch your u window very often the reverend ur IN ard left his hi light oa on all of that eight might so fearful was vas he that she might look for it and not find it and while it burned under the very terl shadow of saint jude a 9 once e the vault tn in the basement room at the ball hall swung open to filnor practiced fingen the village rans rang with the news of 0 the outrage the next day NO 0 o one had been hurt but jewels of law large value had bad been taken to iluff and the others the raid mid had been practically a failure there had been IMS less than a thousand dollars la in money not enough to begin neg negolia otia alons for boroday a e freedom it began to look as though the dangerous business I 1 nes of selling some of elinore jewels would have to be resorted to lett leth bridge was willing to undertake it trying london first and then paris parts alinor offered all the diamonds if phe must keep a part she vo wo id lit keep kop the pearl pearls talbot sorted out the stones tone to be sold but left them with her for safety bhe had neier neer cared for her jewels they were viere not halt calf so lovely as her and she parted from them without a pane pang but there was uns one ink 1 far nr shaped pearl that had come in the night before that she would have rather liked to m wear ear on monday afternoon ward called on ellna the memory of that short i meeting in the rarden garden had been with him ever since there was a new light in his eyes but she greeted him do demurely although ehe she flashed with pleasure not in a woodland for once she said and nil nay my fairylike attribute attributes faded la in the daylight I 1 jsn t it rather rash rasha he asked granta uil risking he I 1 1 I am here because I 1 hoped you would come to see roe me it was ard s turn to flush tou you eald sald you w wf s lonely I 1 thought 1 1 I I am alone but not as lonely aa as you think there ie Is plenty to do I 1 have my garden and anti I 1 make up little bouquets for tho the school children you and this country club affair asked elinor should see how they lore love them some dare days I 1 have a dozen clamoring la in tha road under the arbor arbors ward was charmed ile had a quick eyes dancing and soft hair blowing bending out of her ft arbor window and dropping her quaint a scat beet williams and marguerites margue rites mIgno netto and garden rows roses down to the children jhb lel led the way to th terrace where II Il enriette earlette nas 89 setting the tea ea table nevertheless ward eald said suddenly sudden Y 1 I am not at all enre sure I 1 like your living here atone it seem safe safer Ier halls I 1 arn am unwise to a yon you but this outrage at the coun country try club ah I 1 eald said elinor and bint toward him there ts Is no longer any question that a band of desp joo 13 1 3 Is terrorizing the county an organized band of considerable sid erable intelligence they set get their information from the inside this 3 last lost outrage shows it no one I 1 Is safe ate and this country club affair asked 1 elinor watching ward intently thing things become pretty hot for the gang and nd it begins to look as though elinor would face public disgrace discrete TO DB DF |