“Yes/*
“I'll get her.”
Snatching h he darted from
the house but^“ was ciosely follow
ed by Mar - -*
would hav
“Let hi
to a crisisf
Fibsey
house, b,
door to
E
/rice Trask. Lockwood
stopped Trask, but Stone
go. This thing Is coming
Trask will hel pit along.''
rent toward the Adams
stopped at the house next
This was the home of
ioor 10*7 rj
3mily ijAie.-.
Hinff^,. that lady’s doorbell, Fibsy
isked tjj see her.
iy( Bates.” lie said, politely
a Trask listened, “we want t«
as
“Mr
|, >,s Austin, please.”
Anltw OQjri 'Vfrci RntPI
"why—
“Oh
said Mrs. Bates hurriedly;
she—she isn’t
patient,
fcs, she is here,” said the boy.
have t<*
l,.iy. rather than rudely. "We
.... ,S see her, you see.”
'} u> l am." said Miss Mystery,
conung jn from the next room. “I
mt i ,me said turning to Mrs. Bates,
all ” * as you advised me, 111 tel*
“Don’t
“Please,
yarn her
divulge
The
| tell it here!” cried Fisby.
Miss Austin—don’t spill your
e—oh, I mean, don’t—don’t
i n l<fvpliVf^sual word nearly choked
U’lits ofc‘l boy, who always In mo
careless
[strong emotion lapsed into
fcnglfsh, but who tried
lot to.
AMtXSMV’ ?-pok here.” Maurice Trask
Miss Austi5Ieres where I take hold,
o Mrs Ba^* you have told y°ur story
“Y«u •• -.TTtes?”
jut deternf11 A,nlta’ loolcln* very ead,
"Tl.Pn voVned>
tl ‘ warb tell it to me. I’m heir
• rht ,lng estate, and so I have
—Hie famil»n°w a11 you know about
■hVt’hc'assu*** look Proved to Anita
,ass. '1 “*>•!*, als° h*v r.‘Bh‘ to J?*
looked at hi lthe fam! y and she
-You know*!*, in. astonishment.
"Yes—I kn? she crhe.d.
