it
years voirs"
Her mmia were
•motbered In M* kbsea.
“ T h e r e Is no end t o t h e hnppIneM
you liriiis'.' niun ur«l Valentine at
the first moment he thought he could
spare his lips for conversational pur
poses.
“Oh." exclaimed Kooc. drawing away
at arm's length temporarily. “I want
to tell you something. I.oe. something
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From the Great
Play by
PAUL ARMSTRONG
C o p y rig h t I9IO. by American P ré « . .
A uocU tion
CHAPTER XIII.
•* 1 TOOK—some of—that money.” Av-
1 ery finally managed to say ns he
I saw his two friends before him.
A
“And yon put It back/' smiled
Valentine. “The minute yen touched
It yon found you couldn’t”—
"That’s It." put In Avery ttigerly
as he arose and proceeded to altf Ited
In restoring the scattered money* to
Its place. “I couldn't take It then.
Now I can go out of here and know
that I’ll never steal again ”
“You mustn’t go until Doyle comes
In. for be might see you on the street."
HG XISAFH H x n AGAIN AND AGAIN.
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ooor opened to adm it'M r. Lane, fol
lowed by Detective Doyle.
\ iiientlne looked up.
“Mr. Randall." began Rose’s father,
"this I* Mr. Doyle, a detective, who
lias been asking me some questions
about you that I feel you can better
answer.”
“Indeed?" looking at Doyle. "What
Is the nam e?’ Valentine asked Inno
cently.
Ills attitude made Doyle snort with
anger.
“Doyle." the detective gruuted Im
patiently. stnring at the man ho had
known ns No. 1280.
Valentine rose and shook hands with
Do\le "Glad to know you. % Mr.
Doyle.”
He Rented himself before the tray.
“Well, what can I do for you?” he
, asked.
The detective's mouth gaped open.
He glared at the smoothly speaking.
Indifferently acting ex-convlct before
him. then at the tray containing thou
sands of dollars In bills and coin.
Valentine went on counting ihe money
ns mi concernedly as though playing
a game of jackstraws with Bobby or
l Kitty.
"What can you do?" exploded Doyle.
I “You can do nine years for"—
"You will excuse me." Interrupted
Mr. Lane, stepping toward the door.
“I have no Interest In the converse
tlon. I am sure And. Mr. Doyle," be
said jmlntedly to the bewildered de
tective. “I want you to thoroughly un
derstand thn^ 1 have every confldenct
In Mr. Randall, as also have all thi
other directors.” The door closed be
hind him and Valentine was alone
with George Doyle.
"Well, I’ll be blowed!" ejaculated
Doyle, turning again to the assistant
cashier. “You're In pretty swfet here,
aren't you?’ pointing to the tray. “I
really didn't expect to find you here In
the daytime.”
“W hy?’ perplexedly.
“Oh, I thought you'd duck when you
got my wire."
“Wire? Oh, did you send that tele
gram?”
“Yes. Jimmy.”
“Jimmy? What’s the Idea? I don’t
follow you”—
“Oh, you don't know, eh ?’ angrily
"Got the old boy—Lane—stalling for
you. and you're going pretty strong,
I’ve known for years and years—we
warned Valentine. "When he com?* are going to marry.”
you can go out through the vault
He caught her Into his arms once
room and make your getaway while more.
I stall him here.”
"I love you. It will never end.” he
In talking with Avery. Jimmy Val whispered fondly.
entine unconsciously fell Into the use
The telephone bell rang at his desk.
of the vernacular of his early voca As he released her nud placed the
tion.
receiver at his ear she encircled his
With a parting handshake Avery neck in her arms and kissed him.
went out Into the vault room, where “Hello!” he called As the response
Red was to exhibit to him the big came she felt a tremor run through
new safe. The assistant cashier, now him. Ilaggardness came into his eyes.
that the tray of money had been re He seemed almost to forget her pres
placed on the table, picked up the ence.
photograph, hung it in the place of
“Yes. yes," he answered: 'T il see the
another affixed to the wall at the gentleman in a few minutes.”
right of his desk and inspected It
He Intug up the receiver. "God.”
with pronounced satisfaction.
he groaned. “Doyle!”
The hall door opened, and Rose Lane
Valentine turned toward the girl, e h r
came into the office. The girl was In who surveyed him anxiously.
“Exactly what do you m ean?’ asked
a peculiar mood that day—there was
“What is It? ’ she asked. She saw Valentine Indignantly, rising as be
no denying it. Valentine had always
spoke.
found his benefactor, young though that he was deeply worried.
“I don’t know." he stammered, “but
"Come on. Jimmy, not with mo.
she was. particularly difficult to fath
om, and today she was more baffling It Is most Important—most Important." Sorry to tear you away from so soft a
“Well. I’ll run downtown: the ear is place, but the state of Massachusetts
than ever. She talked at length re
garding her plans for the children's waiting.” she said happily. “Then I’ll wants you.”
"From Ihe occasional words of lntol-
Christmas celebration, and, standing come back .and get you and dad and
| llgible English you speak from time
before his desk, while he stood behind take you home.”
His face had taken on the pallor to time," retorted Valentine easily, "I
I t she said. “And I want to know
that
marked the visages of men who gather that you Imagine I am a per
what you want for Christmas."
“Is there anything I could w ant?’ came from Warden Handler's game of son named Jimmy.” Ills words were
accompanied by the most aggravating
he answered in low tones. “Think of solitaire.
"Yes, but should this man have busi of smiles.
what you and two short years have
ness which would take me out of
The now thoroughly Irate detective
done for me.”
bent toward the assistant cashier and
“And there’s never anything more town”—
“But you mustn’t go out of to w n - peered inttntly at him.
yon want? Don’t yon ever dream—
“Imagln»*—Imagine! WcH, isn’t it
dreams of, say, two years more?” She now hear mo." S’.ie. or rotirsfr.‘ had
not tile slightest suspi< ion of the true funny that I should Imagine your
turned her eyes to the floor.
name to be Jim m y?’
“Oh. yes, to go on as I’ve been going impiortance of that telephone call.
“I won't If there’s n way out.”
"It Is. Indeed,”,suavely. "As a mat
these last two, since your father gave
“Well, just don’t—just don't." plead ter of curiosity, might I ask Jimmy’s
me a position of trust, and make ev
erything good and pile up the money ed Rose. "1 am going to leave the chil other name?”
dren here to take care of you.”
“I'll give you .Just one guess,*' point
for yon.”
“Rose,” he cried, going to her. “Rose. edly.
She drew away from him.
. “That’s exceedingly kind of you, but
“Haven’t yon ever thought there It was change that brought us togeth
might be something I want more than er: It was chan'-e that brought you to this same experience having happened*
a prison one day. Chance Is uncer before I will likely gttess It.” He set
money?”
Valentine hesitated. His voice be tain. capricious, and that same chance tled back comfortably In his cbnlr.
may separate us suddenly.”
“Well, whnt do you think of th a t? ’
came intensely serious.
"Nothing can separate us,” confi Doyle found U difficult to control hla
“I don’t let myself think of you only
temper.
as your employee.” he finally answer dently.
"Let that be our prayer to all the
"Well, what Is the other nam e?’
ed.
Valentine responded with the utmost
Rose turned sideways to him. so gods. But this 1 want you to remem
that he could not see her face as she ber—from my soul 1 love you. Now eoolness': .
"You mistake me for a Mr. Valen
delivered her next question, although go.”
•She kissed her hand and waved It tine.”
she would have given much to have
“Jimmy Valentine, the very name,
been able to watch the expression of toward him as she went out of the
nud you are Jimmy Valentine, and I
the assistant cashier—her assistant door.
"Goodby, Rose."
want you,” snarlefl the detective.
cashier—as she asked i t
He stood a moment; then, taking “Now, Is It come along or requisition?'
“But.” she ventured, “you must have
“Oh, I’m to be arrested for this Jim
thought that I would marry some down the telephone receiver, be said
into the mouthpiece:
my Valentine, am I? The last time I
day.”
"Hello. .All right. Rend the gentle was mistaken for him I was only em
Silence, with Valentine fumbling in
embarrassment a pencil which lay man in.” After a pause: “What? barrassed by. having a tough on the
lie ’s gone Into Mr. Lane’s office?’ The street In Chicago claim iny acquaint
upon Ills desk.
•Tes—I”— he began, but Rose con telephone receiver fell to the desk ance. You are really amusing, Mr.
with a crash. Doyle gone Into the of Doyle.” The assistant cashier chuc
tinued Ids sentence for him.
“And It hurts you to think of It, fice of Mr. Lane. Rose’s father! Here kled softly.
was a new complication, a new dan
“So that’s your game, eh?”
doesn’t It? Say i t ’’
ger, one which Jimmy Valentine had
“No game that I can see.”
“Y-e-s."
not Includtd in his calculations. Well,
“I suppose you are going to deny
"Co on.”
coine
what may, he must fa<-e the situ that Rill Avery called on you today?”
He could endure the situation no
Doyle watched the other Intently to
longer. The girl had penetrated his ation.
“Ml
s
Taylor—
Miss
Mabel.”
he
called,
note
the effect of this shot. But Val
very soul with her questions, had un
covered In Jimmy Valentine the se taking up the receiver and asking for entine was entirely equal to the occa
crets of his new life—the secrets the “central” of the bank’s private sion.
exchange, “give me Mr. Lane’s office.
“I do not know your friend Bill, Mr.
which he bad resolved to keep buried Hello, Mr. Lane. Oh. now regarding
forever. Rut now he must speak. He that Gcrniond note, he says that he— Doyle,” positively.
“No,” exasperatcdly. “Then a man
must tell her the truth about his sit- Oh. you arc coming Into my office now
with Iron gray hair, wearing a top hat
nation as regarded her—part of the witli a Mr. Doyle? All right. I’ll be and carrying a cane, did not get off a
truth, at least.
here. Very well. Goodby.”
train here today and come straight
“And the thought of you brings
The receiver clattf red Into Its wont here?”
darkness, desolation.” he said, keep ed p c lti'ci on the hook, and Jimmy
(To be continued.)
ing n firm grip on the emotions that Valentine stood at his desk awaltlhg
threatened to unnerve him. “What Is the arrival of l’o Lane’s father and
• . f t x —icorics Grows.
the use? You're all there Is to live for Detective George Doyle.
On the banks of the Tigris and the
—to just see you now and then. You’re
Euphrntej the licorice pjant 1« chiefly
all there Is to life. Men have loved
CHARTER XIV.
grown. These great rivers flow through
and slaves have loved and animals
H KTFR a fi w moments Vnlen ;!at, treeless prairies of uncultivated
that have been saved have loved. Jiut
/ \
Hue
„in glanced at the nud nearly uninhabited land. For
never were the three loves fused in / l
photograph »if the dinner three months of the year hot winds
one. And you’re good, and your life is A
A group. Next he op»n<.*d n
clean, while mine—but you know all drawer at his left and took out a blow, nud the temperature reaches 104
that.” He Inclined his face from her. square green book with the legend degrees. For six months of the year
“I have forgotten.” she said simply. “Scrap Book” in fancy green letters the climate Is mo»lerate and salubrious,
and for three mouths bleak and wln-
“You cannot. And any day the shad on Its cover.
trv. the thermometer going down to 30
ow of other days may fall. Bnt I want
He placed the volume In a drawer at
you to know this and believe It as the right of bis desk and on top of It (egrees at night.
your God—my love for you Is a holy
laid several other books taken from
Something In tha Filling.
thing, sacred and deathless.” Valen
another drawer. He slammed the “ Do you. know you can fell a man’s
tine was looking earnestly into her drawer sbnt, straightened-himself and
eyes now. His hand was resting on walked acrosv the office to the table dlsir sltlon by his teeth?’ asked’ the
the desk. She seized It In hers and on whlcli was laid the tray of gold, girl who believes in signs, bumps and
palm reading.
drew him toward her.
silver and greenbacks.
“Ilow interesting!” said her compan
‘T ake me In your arms, Lee,” she
“I’m going to beat you, Mr. Doyle!” ion. who did n»>t believe in anything.
cried fervently. “I love you. I'll love be said fiercely, half aloud. "I’m go
you till”— Her face was upraised to ing to beat you, and I’m going to "Then Jack must have a golden dispo
sition.”
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bis ns she dung to him. He held her make yon like R.”
He
seated
himself
before
the
tray
in his arms and kissed her again and
A lie Is n poor substitute for Grt
gjgaiu. jjjo w l iwye ipuged (or Ton— and began counting the monev as the ( truth, but what other I* there?
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