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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915,
PAGE TWO. ,
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THE
JunE
BY GEORGE
RANDOLPH
CHESTER
AND
LILLIAN
vCHESTEfi
Catht. 1915. by Serial PubBcatfoa
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SEVENTH EPISODE.
The Tormentors.
1
.... . . CHAPTER I.
mBB Widow OlCccfe stooped
quickly : and snatched some
thing from the. poor while five
strungers peered Into every ab-i-
urd" nook aud corner of the two rooms
"and bath which comprised the Widow
O'Keefe's top door suit. The object
was a sinulj snapshot of June. -
1 The deserted husband of pretty June
"Warner was at the ball door with his
. hand reached out for the knob, and In
another Instant Ned Warner and June
' would have beeu face to face! In that
luBtant the Widow O'Kcefe whipped
the snapsliot under her apron, and the
very swiftness of the motion struck
- Into the corner of Ned Warner's rest
less eyes. tie turned, and be and the
father of June glanced ut each other.
There was something suspicious In the
bent and warped and withered Widow
O'Keefe and her tull slip of a son. Ned
' came abruptly from the door and re
newed his search. At that very mo
ment June, Just outside, had paused
on the third step from the bottom to
retlo the bow upon her saucy little slip-
- per and to glvo it a vigorous pat to
make It behave und Btny In place.'
Slim young Bum my O'Kcefe walked
to the window, whistling, aud glanced
, out with au air- of great Indifference.
On the other side of the street stood
Officer Toole, and bis eyes roved anx
iously from window to window of the
narrow, dingy slice of a house which
-was tbe Widow O'Kecfe's. At sight of
Bammy Officer Toole pointed energet
ically toward the door, lie waved both
arma and pointod toward tbe doorway.
Sammy then slipped quietly out of
tbe room.
June! The listless Sammy used the
next quickest method - to wireless.
With one noiseless spring he straddled
the banister rail, whlssed around tbe
curve and down to June, wbo was
halfway up the stairs, Jumped oft with
footstep as light as a feather, grab-
-,- bed the astounded girl by the wrist
nd dragged ber down the steps at the
; risk of both their necks. Sammy shov
ed Jane into the second floor hall
closet Sammy locked tlio door and
-. atuck tbe key in bis pocket and set
the springs in his thin legs to work
and was sitting lastly on the top step,
bored and whistling softly, when Ned
. Warner and Mr. and Mrs. John Moore
; and Bobby and Iris Blethering came
' out; Bobby extremely dejected and Iris
explaining . volubly that It was all
. mistake. . June couldn't possibly have
been her. But she most have been,
after all, because Still, bow could
It be? i .-: ;-.vv.)
: June In the dark closet, abut off from
all light and sound, stood bewildered,
tier eyes distended in tbe darkness,
Twhile Ned atood not two feet away
from her. '. Be had paused before that
arenr door, as If some delicate mag-
SAILORS
TOGQ
netlsui had cuuglu ami n.-ni mm mure.
No trace of ber anywhere; no truce of
Marie, the French-Canadian maid with
the high cheek bones;' no trace of the
mvsterlous black Vandyked man. whom
j none of them bad cared to mention to
1 the Widow O'Kcefe, Gilbert Blyc! Ned
clinched his flsts, und his brow grew
black n bis mind filled with the Image
of that dark, handsome face with its
glowing eyes aud sunve smile. That
imago had never . been absent .from
Ned's wind since the disappearance of
bis beautiful bride. A thousand times
that succession of Incidents bad flash
ed upon his memory with vivid clear
nessJune asleep in the Pullman draw
ing room on their honeymoon trip,
while he, up forward, happily smpked;
the finding her gone after the train
had left Tnrnvllle; the discovery that
she hud been helped by the black
Vandyked man to' board a local head
ed to New York; Ned's chase after
them in an express truin, and his train
pulling nlongsldc tbem in the approach
to the Grand Central station; the sight,
through the windows of tbe parallel
cars, of that suave strauser bending
I over. June with his infernal smile, and
ber smiling up at him; Blye following
June's taxi in another from the station,-and
Ned's fruitless pursuit in a
third taxi; the chase out to Brynport
that same night, when June had stolen
hef clothes and Marie; the return
chase, where' Ned had scon Juno and
Marie step Into Blye's luxurious Union
sine and whirl nwny with him! Ev
erywhere that Ned had found a trace
of June he had found a (race of Gil
bert Blje, and he wished to ilve tor
one thing to meet Blye face to face
and with bis bnre bands strangle that
scoundrel to death! , . A.
''Ned' became awaro of the Widow
O'Keefe eying him from midway of
the stairs. She was n frail looking
old ' woman, with, ber gnarled hands
clasped before her, but her bendy little
eyes were as sharp as the unexpected
fires from dull Jewels, and there was
not one move of Ned's party which es
caped her. Sammy, still whistling wltb
overnonchalance, wob bo persistently
not gazing at the closet door that it
wus a wonder no ono asked for the
koy. '.-, .
"We're wasting our time," finally
said Iris Blethering. "We're ' prob
ably letting them get away." .-. And
June's friend took her husband wltb
her. The rest of the iwirty followed.
Meanwhile Marie, disguised In tbe
suffocatingly tlnht black mourning out
fit of the Widow O'Kcefe, was many
blocks out of the danger tsone, smoth
ering In a telephone booth and calling
up tbe place where June had gone to
work. Mrs.- Vlllard was not In her
beautiful home up the Hudson,' nor
was Miss June there. They had gone
Into the city, but the maid gave Marie
a telephone number. Mrs. Vlllard an
swered that call from a gorgeously fur
nished room where half n dozen stun
ningly gowned young women sat smok
ing, and ber kindly face showed im
mediate concern when she learned that
June must not come home to the Wid
ow O'Kecfe's.
"Why?" she naturally wanted', to
know.
"Well, you're n friend of hers, aren't
you?-' hesitated Marie.- ' ' .. .
"Of course," smiled Mrs. Villnrd, and
before her rose the fresh young face
of pretty June.
"Well, then 1 11 tell you." Marie
lhrew her thick black veil over ber
shoulder for the twentieth time, and
a drop of perspiration trickled down
her nose. "I'm her maid Marie,, and
he tnustu't come home."
"But she's already started,' worried
Mrs. Vlllard. "She'a probably there
by this time. Why mustn't she come
homo?" : .
"Has she?' And the voice of Marie
cracked. ' "Oh! Goodbyi ' How am I
to get ber away from there?"
"Walt a mlnutel" This seemed to be
no : time for asking questions. "I'll
come down In my car!"- v . -
"Oh, yes, do!" gasped Marie, nearly
palling the transmitter off the wall
"Goodbyt I have to hurry P
"Walt a minute! Walt Marie! Where
am I to come?"
"Oh, yes!" And Marie gulped. "Ifa
the Widow O Keefe'a, at the corner of
Deshley street and Duck alley, right
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across from Tim Courky'a saloon. Any
policeman can tell you tbe place.' Hur
ry!" ' And Marie, starting . another
seam In the Widow O'Keefe's mourn
log dress, plunged out of tbe telephone
booth, battling for air,
Mrs. Vlllard stood at the-phone a
moment, with a musing smile growing
upon her lips; then she gave the num
ber of a magnificent club. The man
whom a brass buttoned page brought
through the marble corridors from the
leather bung library to answer tbe call
wore a suave smile and a black Van
dyke. .v -:,'--':, .- .
"This Is Mrs. Vlllard, Gilbert," came
the low, sweet voice. "I have some
thing very Important ' to tell "you.
June." .-'" ,
"Ob!" Gilbert Blye stroked his black
Vandyke with his . long, lean, white
fingers. "I'll Join you immediately
wherever yon say."
"Shall I Btop at your club?"
Vricase." Gilbert Blye walked out
of the telephone booth, sent for his hat
and sat In the reception room near the
door.:' .-
The family limousine of the Moorcs
had no sooner rolled away from the
widow's house than- Sammy O'Keefe
unlocked tbe closet door in proud self
approbation. -
"What was it?" June asked.
"Your husband, miss." And the Wld-
dow O'Kcefe laughed her cackling tri
umph ana rubbed her gnarled bands
over, each other. "It's smRll satisfac
tion be cot out of me and &amniy with
his pryni' and Inquisitive" k
Ned! cried June, snrt ntm Mnlvhw1
at tlie banister rali. "He was heref"
'Bight where you're standln', miss.
And your father and mother and"
"Paddy! Mummy!" The tears gath
ered. ; :v':Mi-wr.--r ..;-;;.
"Don't you mind, darllu',''- encour
aged the -widow heartily. "They got
nothtn' out of either Sammy or me.'
Sammy, I'm proud of yon, boy. I
didn't know you could lie so good, and
I'll never believe anything you tell me
again. ' ' And there was a couple of
your friends, miss hearty soul of a
yonng woman thnt never left off talk
In' or laughln' or cryln' or somethln'
one minute after the other and her
husband, a henpecked little fellow
that II be no trouble uutll he gets
waked up some day; then watch out
for bis kind. My Dan was that way.
I could bullyrag that poor devil night
and day till I -see the glint begin to
come In his eye Why, darllu', what's
tbe matter? ,' Sammy, you big simple
ton, why don't you get Miss Junto a
glass of water! And be quick, will
you?"--.-. ...-...-. . - ,-.-..,
Jabbering out nil her pentup excite-'
ment not a word of which Juno had
beard, she helped the colorless, half
fainting girl up to her own rooms and J
mothered around her with a solicitude
which was fully as lively as her tongue
and far more sincere.
. June might as well have been alone
for all that she was conscious of the
O'Keefe ministrations. They had been
here, here in these ,very rooms, Ned,
her father and mother I How she long
ed for theml How she wished they
bad found her! And a great flood of
love surged up In ber. She must see
theml She must go to them at once!
Shn must give np this foolish flight for
a romautic ideal and be Just a girl, and
return to "her own people, and" be pet--ted
aud forgiven, and be clasped In
Ned's strong arms, never to leave them
agalnl . She rose with a wild impulse
to hurry straight after them, but her
knees bent under her. . She bad. not
known how much thla sudden emotion
had taken away her strength. The
Widow O'Keefe pressed her tenderly
back in her chair, and Sammy held a
glass to her lips and spilled a trickle
of water on her chin. She smiled at
them both, for she was very fond of
them; then the widow drove Sammy
from the room and put June on the bed,
and took off ber little shoes, and drew
the blinds, and left ber alone to cry it
out And the Widow O'Keefe rasped
her own eyes with lumpy knuckles as
she closed the door.
June sat suddenly bolt upright and
dried her eyes and bunted for her
shoes. How bare everything looked in
the room! Why, everything was gone I
Ana wnere was Marie?
Marie J)ad J oat turned the corner of
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A Severe Looking Man Came Out to
, ' -" Meet Them.
Officer Dowd's pout when there came
swiftly toward ner a. family limousine
which she remembered with a Jump in
her breast . ' '. , ."
Suddenly there was a loud yelp of
Joy from n handsome collie sitting be
side the driver, aud Bouncer, who nev
er left bis seat when In the city, was
halfway to the curb in one spring.
With a shriek Marie headed for the
nearest alley, Bouncer barking happily
at ber heels. .- -
Five voices yelled for Jerry to stop.
but It was unnecessary. That good
chauffeur had used both brakes, and
the MoStes, the Bletberlngs and Ned
Warner all tried to crowd out of the
door. While the agitated Bobby block,
ed the doorway Ned rushed after Ma
rie, but he suddenly found himself
breastbone to breastbone with Officer
Dowd. .V.v: -. '
"Excuse me," said Officer Dowd, still
breasting him. "Was It. you or me
that's In the road?" '-.; r.- - .
"I want to speak to that young wo
man!" And Ned tried to pass around
Officer Dowd as "that young woman,"
accompanied by the leaping Bouncer,
turned swiftly into a narrow alley.
The last flash of her was a red and
white striped stocking. "; ;'";-.''
Officer Dowd was at this' moment one
of . the most awkward . men on the
force. He had tried to shove around
Ned, and now they met again, breast
bone to breastbone. -
"Get out of my way!" yelled Ned. "
''Who you orderln'!" retorted Officer
Dowd. . .'..'.,.-:.'
"She was a servant of mine," said
Moore.
- "Did she steal anything?" demanded
Dowd. ;
"No." . - . ; ,;-;.''; "
- "Then " It's none of . my business."
And Officer Dowd looked toward the
alley with a twinkle dawning In his
eye. Marie knew every turn and twist
within teu blocks of the Corners. "Go
on and speak to the lady."
, They went down to tbe alley mouth
and looked In. There was a wilder
ness of crooked byways and no Marie
visible.
"Where to, sir?" asked Jerry.
"The Widow O'Keefe's!" declared
Ned. - ' --. ..
(Continued Tomorrow)
Notice of Referee's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of a decree issued out of
the Circuit Court of the State of Ore
gon for the County of Union on the
22nd day of March, 1916, in that cer
tain eult therein pending wherein
Elizabeth H. Sanford is plaintiff and
Leah Sanford is defendant appointing
the undersigned referee to make sale
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PANAMAS
Prices Good Only Saturday;
of the hereinafter- described lands
I mentioned in said decree for the pur
ipose of apportioning the same between
the plaintiff and defendant and which
said decree authorized and directed
the undersigned, as such referee, to
sell the said lands as by law pro
I vided, the undersigned will on the
29th day of April, 1915, at 2 o'clock,
p m. at the front door of the. County
Court house in La Grande,-" Union
County Oregon, sell at public sale to
the highest bidder therefor for cash
the following described lands men
tioned in said decree, to wit r Tho
East half of East hair of Northeast
quarter and East half of East half of
Southeast quarter of section twenty
seven, township three. South, of range
forty, East of Willamette Meridian
in Union County, Oregon.
AUGUST HUG,
1 . ; - :. Referee. .
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