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Show Tfie Girl Who Came Beck BY JACK YVOODFOEsD Corryrtrjht W. N. U. ServIcB I I ! THE STORY Influenced hy lonellnt-'nH, In CMcuho, Loll tn Foi 1m-h, you hk find pretty, yields to t li Impcr-tunltli'H Impcr-tunltli'H of Hnrvey Tnrrenoe, with whom mIio rum-leu luTMelf In love, She dim-overs his truw rliarnrtei fiml leaves him, takltiK rt-f ue I ; with mi net) tint n (ii nee, ( lei t nidi-; nidi-; Wuttfon. l.olltu Is acconted ly the '; eon of the wealthy owner of Hi-, Hi-, ft part men ts, Kred Wa 1 1 " "Hon Ho I n i st s on drlvliiK her to the ! mo re. On the Ht red Torre nee I i waltlnK He puts the wort run. ' Ntruetion on l.ollta'B Ik-Ink with W.'ittrrson, niul the two men e:i-, e:i-, n a k o In a llstU buttle In uhkh TuireNce la killed. Lolilu Hpendu I a ntuht of misery In a polite ! cell, fcdie in for in a her father, hy w Ire, of her hi tun t Ion, but he nnsweiB that he "never want to eee her faeo nK"ln." Next morning morn-ing the Judt;e, nt the Inclination i of a lawyer, a stranger to l-ollta, d If m IsHia the case. The lawyer Ktvea iu-r $-00 and an unsigned not InfurmliiK her that college tuition hna been paid fur a year. He refuses to give the name of I tier benefactor. She tnki-a up Bhort Btory writing and meets I Mr. Wnrrlll. Lollta writes a I ' ahort story whleh Mr. Wnrrlll praises hlKhly. Miss 1'rliiKle, a member of the class, harshly crlliclsca It. The story la sold for J 00. Miss fringe discloses Lolltu's real Identity. Discouraged, Discour-aged, Lolita decides to pive up the otruKKle and sets out fr a cafe. j CHAPTER VI Continued 9 "I.Ike nil good medicine," he fiild. -it's a little hard to take, but. oh boy, It will tlx you up tine. Me! I'm yoina !o pet liquored up a little, If you don't Hind." He tossed off IiIb kIii "'Itli-Jut "'Itli-Jut so much as a wry face and or-lered or-lered more. "Now," he announced, "we re golnc 'o jet acquainted. Me my name's Lawrence Stulllnys. I live at home, " ith my fairly well-off but not particularly par-ticularly honest parents; you've heard 3f my dad, he runs Stalling restaurant restau-rant bluest and bummest restaurant in the loop, the only restaurant In town w here I can't get liquor. I was ; lust driving around looking for a play-mate play-mate when I spotted you tonight; I'm ileared to meetcha don't mention It." : Lolita milled In spite of herself. He as gay and Jolly, though she, deep Jown, didn't quite .approve of him. it any rate, he looked wholly harui-: harui-: less. "Me," she began, Imitating his d!c Son, "my name's Margaret Farrar; I'm a writer; I live nil by my lone-lome. lone-lome. I wa3 out for a walk when 1 aeard your extremely nervy hull and :ame along with you, and 'm a little lorry I did already, because If -you Jrlnk very much more of the gin you'll probably overturn the car In a ditcb Eolng home." "Thank's for the buggy ride," commented com-mented the youth, tossing off another jlass of gin, and nodding for her to finish her?, which she promptly did. 'There's only one thing that I like better bet-ter than gin, and If you don't want to jet dumped Into a ditch on the way home, you better lure me away from the gin with a little loving." "Loving?" laughed Lolita, "don't be silly; why, I don't know you at all." However, she was not particularly offended of-fended at what he had said. What Jifference did it make, after all? And. besides, the gin was beginning to make tier feel peculiarly happy and carefree. She rose at his nod to dance; nnd It seemed to her that In all of her life she had never enjoyed a dance so much before. lie held her so tightly that the breath was almost squeezed Dut of her, but she rather liked It; that Is, until suddenly she saw a familiar fa-miliar figure emerge from a door on the other side of the room, look about carelessly, and then suddenly spot her As the calm gray eyes of the man who bad been mysteriously caring for her met hers she felt suddenly sobered. There was something positively fright-exung fright-exung In tiiein. He swung ubout on his beel, made one or two swift motions with his hands and turned back through the door out of which he bad emerged a moment before, - Almost Immediately three or four rough-looking characters followed him throngh the door. Lolita decided to say nothing about the Incident to Lawrence. lie led her back to their table. "You're a dancing fool," he told her. with evident Intent to flatter; "tell me, can you love like you can dance; or would you rather take a turn at the roulette wheels downstairs first?" "t think that what we had better do Is leave at once," she told him anxiously. anx-iously. "There you go, worrying again. Holy smokes, what's the matter with you? I tell you, you positively don't drink enough, and that's all there Is to It." He called over the waiter to remedy this defect In her character. At the same time he tugged at the waiter's coat and pulled him over to whisper into his ear. The waiter nodded. Lawrence Law-rence rose. "'t'onie on," lie said crisply, "1 guess we better get out of all this noise; maybe that's what upsets you. Lie's going to get us a quiet table upstairs" up-stairs" With misgivings thai she swept aside with the thought that nothing mattered anyway, l.ollla followed fol-lowed li I in upstairs. The waller led the way out upon what appeared nt Hrst glance to luf a largo neeond Btory porch, but l.oliia saw at once that II was partitioned off Into Utile Kccllons which opened out Into large trees that grew all about the house, but was shut oft from the rest ot the house hy a door which the waller closed ufier hi' had brought two mole little opaque glasses of liquid lire anil withdrawn. l.ollla walked to the window and stood looking out Into the calm t.ees uilh the moon nhovo them. She thought of her father, of Mr. W'arrlll, of the girl friends she had had down in lilgln. Suddenly she felt tears starling. She w riled so much some one who would care for her, man or woman; some one i whom she inatlered In sonic way. (dinpe, manner oi form, nnd there was no one I Suddenly, however, she found herself held tightly In Lawrence's Law-rence's arms. Tor a moment she lay against In shoulder, grateful for even II. Is spech us solicitude; and thou he made n daring move which sent anger Into her veins like molten fire. She struck out at htm with all hei might, but he was surprisingly strong. Completely Com-pletely sobered by the knowledge of his Intentions, so pointedly demonstrated, demon-strated, she fought like a yrung tigress, every nlom ot her being Instinctively In-stinctively loathing i.nd fearing the youth now. It seemed too lale for the reallzatloi. to do any good, but she did very definitely have the consciousness conscious-ness that however much she might believe that she did not care what happened to her, nun how far she went along the wrong path, she did. n a matter of fact, care a whole lot. She would have given anything In the world to be back safely In her room nlone. She could feci her strtngth falling and knew that In a moment the battle would b' over, and that she would have lost Lawrence, feel lug her weaken, clasped both arms about her. outside of her owi arms, holding her completely helpless, and pressing hl.s lips down upon her own In n net kiss that sent a perfec. nausea of revulsion throngh her. She struggled again to free herself, but he picked her up bodily and was car-rylng car-rylng her across 'Jic room when out of the dark a gruff voice sounded: "Put her down," was all that the voice said, but Its timbre was such that even the half-intoxicated youth obeyed Instantly. Again, almost Immediately, Lolita heard that horrible sound, so like an apple being thrown up ugainst a brick wall, which had presaged Harvey's Har-vey's death. She slumped to the floor and would have fainted If a strong arm had not suddenly grasped her. She saw now, by the dim light of the moon, that there were three or four men In the porch alcove. The? stood stolidly purposeful, like black wraiths. "Don't kill him; oh, please don't kill him I" Lolita begged, mindful of what had followed a former occurrence occur-rence of this kind. "lie's Just out," said a gruft voice II a kindly manner that heartened hei. "Come around In a minute or two." "Can you walk now?" asked the man who was holding her. Lolita stood up and took a step for ward. Almost immediately the door opened and the light from the hall shone out. For just a (le.)ti g mo ment she caught a glimpse of the fa miliar form of the mac wi I ihe gray eyes In the hall and then lie vanished down a stairway Without a word she walked along between two of the men, each of whom held one of her arms, while another walked before them and another behind. Down through the house and out a hack door they took her, tinr.Ily leading her to a large, black touriug car ami as sisting her Into It Without a word twi of the men elicited Into the front seat, and two more Inr i the 'lack seat, one on each side of her. The car started with a jer and soon was f ing back toward town at a frighten lng rate of speed. Not a word was spoken by any of the men, all of whom wore caps pulled down low over their eyes. At last she turned to the one upon hei right: ' "Are you sure that you didn't kill that young man?" Ilolli of the men laughed throat lly "KIM lil in I II 1 1 '''iikes more than .i poke In the Jaw to kill a guy. He's probably behind us In the road by this time." "Who Is that gray-eyed man who sent you to take me homo?" There was no reply to this. "I'lease," she Insisted, turning to the mall on her left "1 want very irueli to kno.." Silll no reply. For several inlnmes she piled tnein Willi questions bear ng upon this sub Jeet, but not a word would either one of the them say they sat like In dlans, starlii'' out at the side of the road us though they were totally i.r.aware tiiat she vvs In the car. I'-osoiilly the sound of racing en glues behind them uitracled the men's utu-nthm. The uian at her right called out an order to the drl-er urn! the car slowed down froia Its tor rillc pace of slxly miles an hour oi more. Almost Immediately two mo tor cycles, each with a uniformed police man upon It, came up on bolb sides of the car. The car stopped and one of j the officers approached It, while the other remained behind with, as Lolita could see when t-he looked through the rear glass, a drawn revolver In his hand. She was frightened to death; but no sooner had the ollicer who had dismounted walked over to the driver than he turned, called out to the ollicer olli-cer behind the car, "They're Charlie's men," and promptly drove off. The car started again, gradually working up a speed even more breathtaking breath-taking than before. In an Incredibly short space of time, Lolita found the car stopping before the building In which she roomed. Without saying a word to her, one of the men took her arm, led her to the door, waited while she opened It with her key, tipped his hat and was gone. From the one glance she got at tils face with the light from the hall upon It the knew that he was the kind of man whom she would Instinctively have walked around several blocks to avoid. His face was the sort which can only be properly described by the adjective hard and his eyes were almost murderously mur-derously cold and unsympathetic and yet 6Uch men had rescued her. The wonder of It so occupied her mind as she walked up the stairs to the second tloor that she almost stumbled over Warrill's feet, where be was sitting asleep In a hall chair. Warrill rose unsteadily to bis feet. Prvbablj Lolita bad never presented such a perfect picture of youtli and beauty In her life. She had taken off her hat nnd was carrying It in her hand. Her bobbed hair caught the light burnished gold recesses. Her cheeks were lluybed from the effects of the gin and the evening's excitement. excite-ment. She looked a little frightened, softly feminine and tremendously ap pealing, but Warrill frowned at her. "I'm sorry. Miss Farrar. if I'm In truding. but I'm worried about your sister. A quite terrible thing hap pened In class today and I'm afraid she's done something desperate. I decided de-cided to stay here until she came back or until you came back; I guess the lady of Ihe houfe I bought that 1 had gone out. There doesn t seem to be anybody around. I sat down here d wait and weni to sleep." He spoke in a very low tone. Thoughtfully Lolita motioned for him to follow her. Fn tering her room she was careful to turn on nothing but a lit lie reading lamp that just barely lighted the room Closing the door softly she turned to him: "My name." she said steadily, watching watch-ing him and wondering, what had be come of the glow of admiration for tier beauty that she had seen in his eyes earlier in the evening, "is not Farrar; It is Forbes. My sister's name is Forbes, too." "So I was told this afternoon She had been attending a class of mine but that doesn't make any diiTereneo-one diiTereneo-one way or another. The 'mportant thing Is: What has become of her? Where can she be at this hour of the night?" Mischievously Loliia carried on bet deception. (TO BE CONTINUED.) |