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Show The Girl Who Came Keck THE STORY InnuviU'i'd by liMii'lliifim, in diimiiii, Lull tu Kiirl', j'.uiiik ml pretty, ylclila I" II'" Inipur-lunllien Inipur-lunllien or llnrv.'y Toll . new, w It n whom etio fiincieii lvrrflf In love She diai-oveia lu line cliiirncler ml It-uvei him, InKInK r.-tnue with a iii'iliialiitaiice, i:-i trule W.Unon. LollUl l ui-1-oi.led bv tlio on of tlie wenlthy owner of Hie mmrtinrnls. Kred Wiitternon He Insists on diivlOB tier to Hi" lore. On t lie slleel Tori-.un-e la wiutlns, nd the two men en-Kim en-Kim In nHc I'litlle. In "hl.-h 1 Toiren.-e Is Killed LollUl ependa ; niKhl of inmery In police) cell. She mpenl to her fullier, but he nnseisi Hint he "never Willis to Hee her UH:ln.M Nrn mornlliR the Jildce. ut the Instl-Killlon Instl-Killlon of B lawyer, mraiiBer to Lolltll, lilsml.seS the c;iwe. 'the lawyer nly' u'r J-'i) I""1 ,n'- iKhed nole lnii'.nliiK her Hint colU'Ke tuUlon lots I'een p:ild fT year. He refusen to tlve Iho nsme ft tier henef.ii-liT She : tnkea up hort lory wrllliiK and meets Mr. Wiu-nll. l.olilu writes I ahort nor w hli h Mr Wnrrlll prales highly. Mia rrlile, ' lliemlier of the clu.s, hulhlv j crltli'lrea It. The. t"iy la hold for Jj-'D- Miss I'rlliKle dlselosea I l.ollta'a real Identity. Mseonr-I Mseonr-I Ked. l.ollta decides tn Klve up the j alruwle and aels out for a i-:ife. I She allow a herself to be "ptcUed I ut" by a youth in un iiulo. and taken to ro.idhou-e. There her escort Insults hrr. She Is rescue,! by her unknown friend lielurn-liiK lielurn-liiK to her ruuin she rlndi Warrill there. He tells her he level her and asks her to ninrry him. Shs notkes no promises ttut the avowal avow-al heartens I.olitn. and she onea more resolves to attempt to "come back." CHAPTER VII Continued 11 "You liked him?" "Positively, lie's so distinguished looking, and he's tot the nicest eics ; and be was so worried about you. Wouldn't leave the house until you had come back; paced around In the halls for hours. He said something iihoiil having seen your sister here I didu't know you Lad tiny sister." "1 haven't I'd decided that people had about forgotten that scrape 1 got into, and wouldn't remember what I looked like, so 1 stopped diing my hair and dolled myself up. It was the first time that he had seen me that way and In the half light on the landing I kidded him along a hit." "You shouldn't ought to of; he was worried to death." ' "Weil. 1 told hi:n what I'd done j when I gd back, lie was still here. 1 that Is. he asked me to marry Llm." I "Hot diggity-dog; that's slick. Gee. I'm glad to hear that, girlie. You're a darn good kid, and there's no reason why you should be hounded because of that one little scrape you got Into. I hope you'll be awfully happy." She sighed heavily. "I'll bet you'll Le pelting married yourself before long." I.olita said softly, soft-ly, her heart going out to this somewhat some-what peculiar woman. "Don't kid yourself " she sighed again, "1 wouldn't marry the best man alive they're all alike." i.olita laughed. "What about your gray-eyed friend?" asked Mrs. liardy, looking up as she remembered "the fellow "uat pays your rent here. Won't Le raise considerable con-siderable of a muss If be hears you're engaged to somebody ; so much, perhaps, per-haps, that the other fellow will hear about him?" Lolita's face darkened. "LIow long bas it been since he's been here?" "About a month ; he's due to show up and pav another month's rent in ad-j ad-j vance for you. "Do you know who he Is?" "No I haven't the slightest Idea, except ex-cept that when he came here for the tirst time he seemed to have known some one who had known me, because he was perfectly sure that he could tell me ail about you without my yetting yet-ting sore or anything. He seemed to think the world and all of yon and was awfully pleased when I was sympa-t sympa-t thetic over your story Instead of hard boiled as some women who haven't lived as much as I have would ol been." "Yes''m." Lollta looked oft through the window out Into the rain. "He certainly cer-tainly has done a lot for me; he got me out of the tightest place I was ever in In my life and I'll he grateful to him for It until the day I die; hut I can't let him go on paying my bills any longer; there's really nothing between be-tween us." "On the level?" exploded Mrs. Hardy "Yes. on the level!" Lolita's voice was a little impatient; she could not understand why anyone should thiol; that there was anything between herself her-self and Gray Lyes." I "Pardon. gii'Iie; 1 didn't mean nothing, noth-ing, only men. the devils, they always j want value received for everything they do for anybody 1 believe you nil soluteiy," she added, and accompanied the words wilh a look which was so sincere that Lolita smiled at tier and Impulsively reached out and grasped her hand. "1 want you to take this ninety-dollar check. If you will, cet li ashed for me at your bunk, and kt-ep ext week's room rent out of It, unu t the Man With the Gray Kyes shows ;p. tell him that my rent Is "ill paid I'm not going back to scool anj more, so he won't have to pay any more tuition there, and. gradually I hope to pay him back for very cent he's spent on me." That's the spirit," enerwiraged Mrs Hardy, rising, "don't owe 'em nothing -that's the best way; bo matter how y Jack Wco Jford W. N. U. Gorvlc Copyright nice they look." Willi which sophistry Mho went out tit iho room. I.olita was a little phpicd that Mr Wan-Ill had not yet called; but It came to Iter that doubllcs.1 the reason for lids was that ho would not waul to wake her and was walling until be was Ktire she would be up. He wouid ho dow n at the newspaper olliee tit this time of the inorulng, she knew; she decided to cull him there. Going dow nslalrs she dropped u slug In tbt phone box and gave the number of the paper. Presently sbe heard Vn it 1 1 1 a pleasant voice: "Warrill speaking." "Good morning," she breathed Into the phone, her heart hammering. "Good morning," came back In n tone so slitT and cold that she nearly dropped the receiver. I'nable to think of a single thing to say In view of this unexpected tone from bltn she murmured mur-mured Inanely: "How are you?" "l'lne, thanks, but I came very near liolnss 'bumped olT' when I left your place last night. I bad no sooner got down the stairs than n rough character char-acter walked up to me and hit me as j?;V? li It)) m 0 He Flung the One Word "Wait" Over Hie Shoulder and Closed the Ooor. hard as he could In the face before I had lime to ward o:T lite blow. When I was dun'u be bent ocr uie and In formed mi! that If 1 ever went near you a'-ain he'd 'bump me olT.' I'i"b ably an etnisary of your friend who comes up here to see r"i once lu a while. I had supposed, before, from what he had said, that I here was nothing noth-ing between you and him. but I've noticed no-ticed that, of late, he hadn't been coming up anymore. I never occurred to me, ass Unit I am. thai he was Jealous of me." "Mr. Warrill I You can't really be-lieic be-lieic " "I'm afraid 1 can. Miss I'orbes. and 1 must say I was never so disappointed disappoint-ed in my life. 1 cared Gh. lots and I could forgive you your oilier, or contretemps ; but, this is a lillle too much." With trembling lingers Lolita put the receiver back upon its hook. Lvi dently ori of the men who had brou'lit her back In the car the night before had remained downstairs and had seen her meet Warrill through the window on the scc-nd landing in the ball. Her heart numb Willi the thought that no sane man could be blamed under the circumstances, for jumping to the conclusion that both Mrs. Hardy and Warrill bad Jumped to. she went back to her room to dress hurriedly, one thought in mind she must see the Man With the Gray Kyes at once and get tin thing straightened out. She would go out to the Goose and Gander madhouse; he evidently had something to do wilh that, for he had walked around as though he owned the place. In a very short time she was In a taxicab. Surely tilings could be straightened out somehow; Mr. Warrill War-rill could he made tn understand, and how could anyone blame him for not understanding? After all. II did look bad. Almost before she knew It. so intense were her thoughts. Lolita again found herself before the old. rauiKhael.to house wilh thn deceiving oUcilor. Knloriiig Hot front door of tin) old bouse she Mood and walled for something to b;ippen. Almost I 1 1 - mediately soinei hlng did. A u HI nek bis bead through n panel In the Inner door and looked out at her. "What do you wanlV' lie asked suspiciously. sus-piciously. "W'anl to see the ho::s," she returned re-turned llrmly. "The boss?" "Yes." lie seemed lulenscly hinpih.cjl mid disappeared from the panel. Presently nnoihei head appeared. "What do you menu -boss?' Iho newcoijior asked and then paused to look at her closely. Lollia saw that It was one of the four men who had taken her home the night helote. "till," hit hiiI tl. "you don't want to sen 'Iho boss,' y oti want to see "I he Hlg Guy.' He nln'l here; hut well.' wait a second." He vanished from the panel. Soon, however, be returned and opened tin) door and made a motion for her to follow. Down u rear lllght ol stairs tier guide led her. ami through a long dark passaei-u ay tnlo a still darker one that saielb-d damp and foul. Sail-denly Sail-denly It became pilch black and Lollia ran Into her guide lu the black ness. "Keep a band on me." he Instru. ted lo r, "and walk right ulong 'Lbeie's nothing you could I rip on and no more stalls." Lolita compiled. Gradually she became aware dial they were In nu underground passage, for they tiad walked twice the length of Hie old bouse and In one direction only. She began to grow a Utile fearful and would have stopped to rpieailon her guide If tie bad not suddenly liltnseit stopped and switched on a light, looking look-ing past him she saw a flight of stone stairs leading up. He started to mount ami niulioucd to her to follow. To Lolita's amazement Ihey presently emerged Into what was evidently the kitchen of a well furnished Inure. Immediately Im-mediately they passed through swinging swing-ing doors, along a hallway, up a (light of thickly carpeted stairs und finally wound up In a room on the second lloor. "Sit down," said her guide gruflly. She sal down In a chair and he turned toward f Tie door; ns he opened the door and was about to pass through he flung the one word "waif over his shoulder und closed the door. Al-mo Al-mo -I Immedlalely Lolita heard the lock turn. Walking to the windows to see where she was she discovered that each window was beaiily barred. There was, howeier. another door In the room. She walked swiftly over und opened It. It lead Into a sumptuously sumptu-ously furnished bedroom. Passing In she examined the window in the bedroom; bed-room; this, too, was heavily barred. I'or the llr.'-l time she felt fear quite definitely. Suppose this grayeyed person were in love with her. us everyone every-one seemed to Ihink I She returned to the other room und sat down to waiL Soon she beard stops ascending the stairs and suddenly felt herself In the grip of terror. Suppose it should not he Gray Kyes nt all. suppose that if It were Gray Kyes he should prove not to be the kindly, decent type of man thai he had so far appeared to be. suppose almost anything In this locked and barred room, far from another an-other dwelling. The key turned lu the lock. The door swung open. Lolita stood up. and presently found herself face to face with Gray Kyes. Her Hist thought upon facing the man was the same one that she had had when site first saw him. He looked somehow familiar. Yet she could not convince herself that she had ever known him. He crossed the room with short, quick, firm steps and held out bis hand to her. Lolita put forth her own hand and felt It grasped firmly in a manly handshake. Presently he sat down. Lolita sat down, and turned toward him resolutely. For some moments there was silence. I.olita I.o-lita was a little disconcerted; she had thought to handle the Interview very easily, but this quiet man seemed so forceful, so purposeful; ii was somehow some-how like talking to a school teacher. He finally prompted her: "You wanted to see me?" "Yes Kirst of all 1 want to thank you for having gotten me out of the most terrible situation that I was ever placed In in my entire lifetime; I shall never forget that as long ns I live." He unclasped his hands nnd waved one of them carelessly (TO DB CONTINUED.) |