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CHAPTER IX—-Continued.
—12—
As I pondered over It I decided that
nay chance meeting with Barbara Brad
ford In the park had upset the plans
of a blackmailing band, and that they
were avenging themselves on me for
ray unwitting part. I was certain that
Wick and Lefty Moore’s wife were in
connivance with them, and that the
gang possibly Included Claire Brad
ford’s ex-husband. Wick had a pass
key that enabled him to enter the Lu-
tan apartment. Undoubtedly he could
also enter mine as well. But Wick
could have nothing to do with the
planting of the revolver In my rooms.
I was positive about that.-' He had
not been out of my sight for a single
moment from the time that we had dis-
oovered the body. The only way that
It seemed possible to Involve him in
that was on the theory of a prear
ranged plot to make me appear the
murderer. Waa It possible that Claire
Bradford had participated la this? I
knew she had been In my rooms after
the murder It mast fcave bare abe
who pat tbs revolver there
Oae of the detectives oho bad er-
rsaSad am appeared at my cell daar.
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They’ve got the goods on you. and It’ll I stood there astounded. It was
be the chair for yours tf you’re not not Barbara. It was her sister Claire,
careful. Tou’ve got no chance proving
on alibi.”
“Why not? I never saw Miss Lutan
until I saw her body In her rooms. I
never was In her rooms until I went
In there with Mr. Wick after we had
heard the shot. What’s more, I never
owned a revolver lij, my life and never
saw the one the detectives found until
they pulled it out of my dresser
drawer.”
Incredulously he listened. I could
see that he did not believe a word I
was saying.
“You don’t look like a dope .lend,
either.” he observed scathingly.
“Look here.” I retorted, “it Is bad
enough to have the police take It for
granted that I am a criminal and a
murderer, but when the coi^sel the
court assigns me starts out on the
same course, we quit right now. I’ll
get s lawyer of my own when I Peed
one."
-HI come around this gTferpoon and
aee you scald." be as Id coolly. "A few
hours to tbe T pm to will moke you ape
lb tops differently "
A fau mtoutap later I fouod myself
suoroPred to a csil agsto stfB cooff
towl of my speedy rstooeu, but aease
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AMERICA AND' GREAT BRITAIN,
NOWEVER, ALONE HAVE DE.
VELOPED IT PROPERLY. *
BIG CONVENTION IN ATLANTA
CHAPTER X. ^
For a full minute Claire Bradford
and I stood, there observing each oth
er. Even ’before a word was spoken
I think we both sensed our mutual
distrust As I studied her, I was try
ing to conjecture what could have
been the motive so impelling that &he
had dared to come even within prison
walls to see me. Had Barbara sent
her? 1 doubted it. I was sure that
more than likely her visit was to
plead with me to keep silent about
her part in the tragedy. I was cer
tain she was going to ask roe to pledge
my word to tell no one of her second
visit to the Gaston apartment.
Yet as 1 studied her weak, beautiful
face, so like Barbara's and yet so dif
ferent. with Its sensuous mouth and
roving, brilliant eyea. I still was won
daring bow It was possible for a girl
of her re flu* ms at and social position
to have become enmeshed with aprA
common criminals as tbe two em-
ptoyeeu uf the MrwpdderA Whrh and
tbe IstopAooe girl
"TP o het nm I todetosp Par the
of ibis tt«H.
naked at leapt A
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mo tof to my fra
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sfemaop f
the
% e hro*d Aren Mm.** I persisted
s • nse heard t»vm hliu.** alia heal
tpted ’^mih'Spe**'*
*| otom ohn f T* I Insist til. as she
e9««iqod abruptly.
"I rant tell you.” site said firmly.
"I don’t know. They must Itsve come
from him. from someone that knew—
the letter*.*' •
“What letters? TeH me about
them.”
”1 can’t tell what 1 don’t know. I
haven’t the least Iden where Gaston
Maurice la. 1 had hoped he was dead
In the war. Yet he can’t be. I'have
had anonymous Letters threatening
me. They must have come from him
or from someone whom he told of our
marriage? How else could they know?”
Her distress was so real and her
manner so convincing that I decided
that she must be telling the truth.
“Well,” said l, “If you cannot tell
me where to find Gaston ' Mauris
there is one thing that you can tell
me.”
“What is thut?”
“Why did you visit my apartment
late last night? Why did you put that
revolver in my dresser?”
“Revolver.” she queried In a puzxled
tone, “what revolver?"
“The revolver with which Miss Lu
tan was killed.”
She eyed me In shocked surprise.
"Why do you my this to me? I
paver saw the revolver.” I wounded and dying American soldiers
"You pdonot deny that you were to on tbe kpttleAolds of Prance; nurses
1 my apartment last night."" 1 who rendered valiant service to tbe
"But tbe revolver.” she prrieoted recent Influents epidemics; nureea
* "Whet do you neon by that? I know who served In the campa—all were
i nothing of any revolver.” present Canada. Belgium Hal land.
"iaec night, a tow minutes after Denmark, and even far-off Ptotond
Mies La tan was murdered." I mid aad China ooce f presented to thin
sternly "seme man er woman entered great gathering, up* sf the largest ever
held by these wwpmp pAsos Beep
devoted to tbe cwuee sf hwmePHy
”| bare reape ta this cepve
mid the Baamom ManaeeAetpg
Beat uf tbe ppeutog upwciaOap ut Mel
SUagtoew nptoPd. aad meter af Uh
t uf Mks peo*i*d
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Nurses Whs Have Randarud Valiant
Service All Over the World Wert in
Attendance—Miaa Noyes Talks of
the Future.
By JAMES P. HORNADAY.
Washington.—According to the
American Bed Cross, many countries
throughout the world have established
• system of modem nursing, but in no
counvrtos except the United States
and Great Britain and its provinces,
has the development been marked.
The extent to which the "gospel of
•ervlce.” the underlying principle of
the nursing profession. Is carried, waa
shown at the recent convention of
nurees which was held at Atlanta.
Nurses, leaders In their profession—
nureea who went oversea! to serve tbe
"HELP,’’ IS Cl
(DEPLETED BLOOD
AT THE FIRST SIGN OF
THAT TIRED, DROWSY, NO
ACCOUNT FEEUNO BEWARE
NATURE IS WARNING
YOU THAT IT NEEDS AS
SISTANCE—YOUR BLOOD IS
STARVING FOR IRON—YOU
.LACK NERVE FORCE-YOU
NEED—
In Canton#, 1 * Dr. John Mc
Donald, the well.known Southern
physician, scientifically oomblnod
strength-making iron, norvo-bwlld-
tng phosphorous and stomech-
roguladng Nux Vomica wKh other
upbuilding, health-corn pulling oto-
menta. “Mantone” la ondorusd by
loading physicians as a highly uffL
ciont blood-maker, strangth-pro-
duoer. Mailed upon receipt uf $1 jflU
The Mentone Cm, 402 Park Aua,
VICTIMS
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tbe police «-nprt and without further
drlav bnaptbi before a magletrate.
“John H. Neleon. arrested for the I
tBurder of Iplsy Lutan." mid the de
tective.
"Have you counsel?" asked the mag
istrate.
"No," I replied.
“I will assign Mr. Myers as.the pris
oner's counsel.” he announced.
A young chap, evidently just out of
law* school, stepped forward, and drew
me u little to one side.
“Plead ‘Not guilty,’ ” he directed,
“and be careful to say nothing more.”
“Of course,” I replied. “I’m not
.guilty. I had nothing to do with it.”
I could see by his face, that he did
not believe me and as I turned again
to the court I made up my mind that
even if the court had assigned him
as my counsel I would tell him noth
ing.
“How do you {Aid2“ asked the
court. *
"Not guilty,” I replied. *-
"Remanded without ball for further
egaminatlon until Thursday morning,”
ana./ped the court, and I was led back
Into an am. room, Mr. Myers and the
detective accimipaoylng me. The lat
ter there rerrewdered me to aome ofl
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|y, repreaslng my drotre to leap pt i
once to Barbara’s d.*fcn*c and explain '
how pure and h«>norahle her «*on<luct [
had been pnd how lofty the motive
that bad governed her actions
Tempted though I wav to defend her.
I realized that this might he an op
portunity to learn something of Claire
Bradford's associates, and I deter
mined to majee the most of it. How
else could she know of all my meet
ings with Barbara unless she was In
league with the persons who had been
having me shadowed? How the
knowledge that Barbara had been In
my apartment could have come to her
was a mystery beyond me. I would
have sworn that that was a secret sa
cred to our two selves.
"Listen to me.” she commanded.
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speaking In low tones. “Barbara Is
my baby sister, innocent of the ways
of die world. I must save her from
herself,' and her heedlessness. Never,
never, If I can help It, shall she suffer
the agony and shame and disgrace
that I have known. Years ago I, Just'
as she is now, became Infatuated with
a man far below roe In the social
scale. He. too. was a criming!."
I sniffed Indignantly at the "be
too." but abe paid do attention
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Maffllcate pm |p your crlum." abe ejae» Many Leaving the ffraf*
ulated It’s alwurd for yop to try "What ba* tier ocim of them? Krato
to question me this way." bu« li Information a* can be secured.
"Lntly.** Interrupted the keeper, many seem to be leaving the profew-
"you’U have to l>e going now. Time’s sb*a entirely. Many enter the bust-
up.”. netis held, which at preneut Is offer-
“Cromisc me." she begged hastily Ing lucrative positions and alluring
/in an undertone, as she departed, possibilities. Many are eMtabllohing
“whatever you think about me, you’ll homes for themaelvea In the country
keep my sister out of It.” or taking land granta. Other positions
“I’ll promise nothing, unless you con- beguile many from the ranks of active
fess everything," I repeated, derefi workers. This exodus Is a genuine
mined, if I could, to drag her seerrt cause for alanp; how to meet It is
from her, even though I, as well ns our problem.
she, was eager to shield Barbara’s “The nursing profession has become
name. an Important factor in the world’s
Claire Bradford’s lattltude. I must health, and It is inevitable that, for
confess, puzzled me greatly. Her do- sometime to come, the demand will ex-
nlal tliat she had seen the revolver, ***** *** supply. The world looks to
or that she had been working In con- America for help in forming Ideals and
junction with Wick seemed to ring aetting standards jp this fundamental
true, and I was also Inclined to bo- activity; and the people of the United
lieve her statement that she knew States can do much to aid Id keeping
nothing of her former husband’s preo- the Priceless position gained by the
ent whereabouts. While I was pon- j nurses In the world’s work. Thus,
derlng over her statements, ray coll i nurses from other countries who come
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