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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1915. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER .THE- NEW LACE ft j Miles of the New Laces are here in all the New Styles A remarkable offering of fine, fashionable laces just at the momentright in the middle of April, with all the Spring avid Summer dresses being planned What could be" more attractive than these beautiful lace offerings. White Shirt Waists at money-saving prices in wash silk, voile and dainty lawns.' These waists are selling fast. There is every reason that they should as keen judges of values will see the necessity to make your selection' early. Priced $1,00 $1.25 $1.50 to $3.50 Just received another shipment of new Spring liats and ' ' flowers ' - - . RELIABLE MERCHANDISE G EI BEL' Department Store RELIABLE METHODS JUNE BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER AND LILLIAN sCHESTEG Copyright, 1915, by Serial Publication : Corporation AT SHERRY'S Runs Each Wed nesday and Thursday FOURTH EPISODE Poor Little Runaway Bride! 1' CHAPTER I. HANKS" M'GISE, carrying one soiled newspaper for a - bluff and collecting money for tbe newsboys' home as aaother bluff, suddenly paused in his absorbing attempt to whistle through broken tooth as ho saw coming up the dingy side street toward the Hotel Daniel a beautiful young cglrl. She was turning to look backward over her shoulder at every few steps. . Oh, gee! A man was following her! And be was dodging along from tree to tree and from doorway to doorway, and every time, he saw the girl look back he ducked! The man bad black whiskers, whittled down to a fine point Just under his chin, and he carried himself with the ease which only . a 'thorough scoundrel can acquire. Shanks McGee stood petrified, then took a long, deep breath and hurried V X Gilbert Blya and Tommy. up ti) the coiner. He (luttened bis al reiidy tliu iioso against the broad plate g.usn window of tbe modest Hotel I- nli'l. . . he beautiful young girl concealed nil I tin t kmc could of. her. timidity as she uullied through the dour. with what she thought to he n," strictly, business- like t ma utter. Seven ; men who had been morbidly eying their respective cuspidors immediately straightened np und looked their handsomest. One of them looked hold,. und another, a deco rative Frenchman, looked debonair. The beautiful girl strode straight up to tbe desk. . - "A. room with a bath, please," she requested. . The clerk, au Indifferently aged man, held the register a moment while he studied the new guest of the house. "Any luggage, miss?" ' - ; i The girl, disconcerted, had recourse to her only armor. Now she shyly cast up ut him hoi great, soft, expressive eyes, uud the clerk felt nshnmed of himself. He swung the register around to-.ber. : . -. "My maid will be liere preseutly with my clothes" The voice was soft and sweet. "Certainly, miss.'.' And the clerk wbunged a hell which sounded like a fire gong. "Front!" in response lo that stentorian call a shock beaded, loose limbed Irish boy jumped forward and took the key to 44. The clerk, without moving bis body or his ueck or ids head, craned for wurd his eyes to watch the signature, Mrs. J: Q. jiay,.; A moment Inter the black Vaudyked man strolled In, looked at the register and wulked into the bar. Then aloug came Mario with a bundlo of clothes. The young woman went straight to I be desk. "Mrs. Day's maid?" tbe clerk ob served, inspecting the clothing piece by piece from under his eyelids and ring ing for front and. looking nt the young woman and the register all at the same time. ' The young woman, quite evi dently a maid, glanced swiftly nt tbe register,' - i "Mrs. Day's?" she repeated, breath ing heavily. "Y-yes!" "She's expecting you." And tbe clerk's eyelids Bickered. "Room 44." "Marie, tell June I want her!" cried a voice. "Sir," she said, "I do not know you." "Why er" Ned stammered; then be grabbed the clothes from the maid's arms. "Now you lead me to June!" "Sir, how dare you?" Marie said and turned appeullngly to the clerk. "These are my wife's clothesl". de clared the young man. "She's here. I want her!" "What's ber name?" the clerk de manded. , . - : "Mrs. Ned Warner I" "Not here." ' "June Moore!" "Oh, come Off!" observed the clerk. "If I lot you go through tbe directory you may bit It. Give this girl back her clothes, and good night!" "This thing bns gone far enough. Marie!" hotly stated tbe young man. ' At that .moment bis voice stopped. Out of the bar had strolled elegantly the pride of Shanks McGee, the man with the black Vandyke, and he was neatly nibbling a piece of cheese. He was across tbe lobby and going out of tbe door, paying but a scant tribute of curiosity to the knot in front of tbe desk, before tbe young man with tbe clothes saw him. . Tbe young man nearly upset Marie on his way to the door. : A porter stopped him to get June's clothes. Ned was then delayed at the ticket . window and. glancing across the station, saw Blye going optowo on nn express. June Warner locked tbe door of 44 from the inside aud turned the bolt and dropped Into a chair to rest Suddenly a voice called, "It's Marie, Mis Junle!" and a knock was beard. June Warner opened tbe door of 44 In a hurry, and her eyes sparkled and she clapped ber hands us sho saw Ma Ho with clothes sticking from her it) nil directions. , '. "We're caught!" pautcd Marie. ,"Mr. Ned grabbed me downstairs! lie made n scene!" "Where is he now?" June sat down limply. "I don't know! All at once bo threw down the clothes and ran out on tho street! I don't know why!" ' Ned Warner, attended closely by the ecstatic Shanks McGee, stood nt the subway exit in a state of seethe beyond computation. Again Gilbert Blye! llonoria Blye, exchanging spite with a green parrot, was Suddenly interrupt ed by a caller. . "Got him!" announced the cnllcr, who was none other than Bill Wolf. Honorla Blye sprung up lustnutly. "Get my wraps!" she yelled to the abnormally ugly maid who bad let Bill Wolf in. "Mr. Wolf, you fooled me once. Are you sure you have found Gilbert Blye?" "If we ain't, so help me!" solemnly swore Wolf. Honorla Blye, with Bill Wolf by her side, was soon speeding downtown in her little electric coupe. In front of Luchow's restaurant they found a fat, wide man with a cigar in tbe corner of his mouth and his narrow rimmed slouch bat shoved on tbo back of his round head aud bis eyes turned con templatively toward the stars. "Certain party In, Blinky?" busked Wolf. Blinky Peters followed them' Inside the busy cafe, uud as tbey wulked back toward the Thirteenth street entrance a fat, wide man with his bands in his pockets came in ut tbe rear door- Sneaky Tavis. -. ' ' "There's your party!" suddenly hiss ed Bill Wolf und pointed to a table where a dark Vnndyked German with . spectacles was entertaining a healthy, red cheeked young woman with a green feather in her hat "You scum!" shrilled Honorla Blye to her three expert detectives and went home to ber parrot Ned Warner stepped into the cigar store next door to the Hotel Daniel and telephoned June's home In Bryn port Mr. and Mrs. Moore were In the city at Bobbie Bletbering's, tbe smooth, soft voice of fat, black old -Aunt Deb by told him. Bletbering's and tbe cheery voice of Bobbie. Yes, tbe Moores were there. And June was located? Great! Stanch Bobble was all eagerness when Ned said be wanted tbe Moores and Bobble and Iris to- come down to the Hotel Daniel. V He also telephoned Honorla Blye. Her shrill voico crackled over tbe tele phone. She bad Just thin minute got In from a wild goose chase after a bogus Gilbert Blye, but if be hud been seen at the Hotel Daniel with Ned's run away bride she'd be right down. Ho norla called up her detectives and or dered them to report at the Hotel Daniel. Meanwhile Gilbert Blye sat in con versation with Jovial looking Orin Cun ningham and u usually vivacious bru nette whom both men called Tommy. Triumphantly Blye held before Tommy the address in bis little memorandum book "Mrs. J. G. Day, Hotel Daniel." He motioned the girl to follow him. She sat glumly. Orin Cunningham spoke to her sharply. With a flounce she rose and followed Gilbert Blye. CHAPTER II. ED WAHNEU. standing diago nally across from the Hotel Daniel, where he could watch both tbe front and the side en- trflfirea. R w thrpA abort thick tiiim i coma single file up the side street and stop In front of the main eutrance. Shanks McGee had felt strangely list less aud forlorn these past few mlu ntM, for there was nothing Insula or out Suddenly tbe three short, thick detectives rounded tbe corner, and, gee, they were sliuklugl The world was, once more a .bright and ' happy place for Shanks. "Say, kid." husked the shortest and the thickest It was none other than BUI Wolf "have you lamped a lengthy gink around here with whittled black chinchillas?" - That observant young person of the world began ut tho beginning, but be was so mluute of detail tbat he had not yet reached the uilddlo wheu BUI Wolf, looking through the plate glass windows or tbe Hotel Daniel, said "Sh!" and drew his two assistant de tectives out of tuo range of poor Shanks McGee a quivering , ears, and the three astute bounds of the law put tbolr beads together In excited confer ence. Then Bill Wolf, In his best pose of a man who was waiting for some body and didn't expect him to come, weut Into tho hotel. , - Tho Moore liinousluu . drew up, aud Ned went over to Join the quartet He led tho way to tho desk und confronted the unemotional eye of the clerk. "This is the father and mother of the young womnn whose maid called here with her clothing. We do not kuow what name she used in registering, but I know that my wlfo Is in this house, and if we don't get her I'll raise trou ble!" ."' : " . ' produce the woman nt once." the clerk agreed. "But if tbert'n going to be a rumpus It'll have to be on the sfdowalk and on the other side of tbe street." . He called for U. lie culled again. Thero was.no answer. Tbo room was learched. ' : it was empty! : Sammy, tho boy witb tbe angello smilo and the blue eyes and tbe white teeth, was tho finest liar in the hotel. Ho had had a quarter and one of ber compelling smiles from June and a gluuco from her lovely eyes, and he hud run them down through the base ment and out Hie renr servants' en-: trauc-o aud had told them a place to go where no one would ever find them. Gone! The six shocked searchers for tho runaway bride hurried downstairs Just as Ilonorlu Blye stepped in, fol-. lowed by I'.lluky Peters und Sneaky Tavis. "Where is he?" screeched Mrs. Blye, Bill Wolf advanced lo do his happy duty. Tbero he is, lady!" bo shouted tri umphantly,- while Blinky Peters and Sneaky Tavis slunk up, one on each side of the culprit. "Nub him, boys!" , "Mon Uieu!" cried tho culprit as the four fat paws of Itllnky Peters and Sneaky Tavis clapped down on bis arms. The rest of tbe objection was an incomprehensible polyglot jumble as, shrieking his Indignation, tbe black bearded Frenchman strove to wrench himself free. "Is that the man you mean?" hissed Honorla. "That ain't tho guy!" yelled Shanks McGee, who was willing to be kicked out now.- "Gilbert Blye sllnked lu here ufter tho beautiful goll and ducked Into the subway when dls sport gives him the run! Gee!" "This Is the limit!" declared the clerk to oue and all us strong porters and agile bell hops headed bis way. "Get 'em out, Mike!" Quite a little crowd bad collected when suddenly a policeman appeared from around a corner and dispersed tho mob, Including Honorla. That vigorous lady, bad barely turned the corner, bending for the avenue, when a brilliantly lighted, luxurious limousine stopped In front of the Ho tel Daniel. Shanks McGee's eyes be gan to stretch as he saw the occupants, and he whirled in a complete circle in his efforts to locate without the loss of a second Bill Wolf and Blinky Peters and Sneaky Tavis. They were trudg lug up tbe street in single file, heads down, hands in pockets. Even Blinky Peters bad lost interest In the stars. The Bmacklng footsteps of Shanks Mc Gee aroused them. "Gee!" exploded Shanks. "Crlpes! Gilbert Blye has doubled back wit an other swell Jane! Beat it to tbe Dan iel! And one of youse hotfoot It after the electric showcase and get the old woman! Gee!" , Wolf turned a commanding eye on Tavis. "Hit 'er up!" be ordered. Sneaky drew a long, jerking breath and pulled his belt around htm, cast a dospalrlng look up the side street to where the little electric was twinkling, took the center -of the car track and began laboriously to "hit 'er up." in the meantime Gilbert Blye and Tommy Thomas had walked confident ly up to the desk. Tbe clerk without tho flicker of an eyelid bent forward politely. " ' "Is Mrs. J. G. Day stopping here?" inquired Blye with great suavity. "No; the lady is gone." "Gone?" protested Blye and leaned forward to look over tho register. "Why, she cume In only about an hour or so ago. She is" . "Now, don't tell me who she Is. I don't know whose wife tbe lady may be, and I don't want to know. She's gone!" "Mon Dleil!" shrilled nn excited voico, aud Gilbert Blye found himself confronted by the decorative French- tnnn. That excited Individual sur veyed Gilbert Blye's sleek black Van dyke and tweaked at his own and sud denly threw up both hands and began to laugh; In that same moment Sneaky Tavis caught up witb the electric conpe. and scrambled on the step and hung his thick arms in at the door. "rtun-hun-ltuh-hoh!" Sneaky in-fc BICYCLISTS PLEASE NOTE! To eliminate forever all dancer of rot. due to the action of oiled road equip your wheel with- PENNSYLVANIA VACUUM1 CUPTI RES ThM tires aro mad of oUoroof rubber thaw never soften or crack after standing in oil or pum. And their vacuum cups are effectively anti-skid on slippery pavements; ISH os. fabric stoutest, strongest made, practically puncture proof. : Guaranteed for one Ml eeaton al replaced or repaired without charge. F. D. HAISTEN, Agent formed her, strangling for breath aud pulling his arms out of tbe car. "I say,: what do you want?" insisted Honorla. ,. Sneuky pointed backward with his thumb. "Your . huh-buu-hub-husbandl" he husked, sucking In all tbe air In the car. "Daniel!" And again be point ed backward with bis thumb. Honorla Blye without a word grab bed her : cut glass flower vase and cracked ber otnart detective on the knuckles. With a parting gasp no dropped off . backward. Where was Juno while so many peo ple were so busy about her? . In a horso cab, with Mario mid the clothes, far down near the East river, where, iu full sight of nil tbe barges and all the grimy shipping, they found a slice of a bouso, so narrow that it should have had a wonthervnuo to keep it bended into tho wind. It was three stories high uud blackened witb ago, but there wore geraniums and a cheer ful light iu tbo downstairs front win dows. This was whore the elevator boy's mother lived, aud it was ns clean Inside as it was grimy out She bad a floor to let, furnished, two rooms and a real bath, tin and considerably flentr ed, but kept fresh painted in spotless white. . . - . . "You sny you want it quiet," said sho, "aud my son Sammy sent you here? Well, my husband, before he died, was the most popular policeman on the force, and the whole depart ment darlin", is your friends." ; (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) High Grade Job Printing costs do more than the other kind, Observer. FARM LOANS Reasonable Rates SECURITY LUND & SAVINGS COMPANY 2 La Grande, Oregon U ......... JP 4? if 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 'if f? 'Ip fj? fj? 4? f? ? 'if ff f? 4? fj? 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