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AFTER THE PITTSBURG HOME FOR AGED FIRE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931

DISASTER.

The fire blackened ruine of the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Pittsburgh, where 28 Inmates lost their lives, and approximately 200 ware-injured,

Mute evidence of the panic that overtook aged inmates of the fire-wrecked hỏmà for the aged at Pittsburgh, this overturned wheel chair is shown resting amid the ruins where it had been thrown by terràrized victime crowding to the exits to escape the

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Heart of Liane

by

MABEL MCELLIOTT

Womun

Untouched by the flames that at

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their way through the ancient

Home for the Aged this cross is shown above the ruina.

fingers had felt the strong heart

"Thanks a lot," Liane whisper- of him beating under that roughed. "Tell you all about it tweed cout.

tomorrow. What shall I do? I waking "Don't be afraid!" he said hate going in now and softly. "You're such an infant," her up."

| She could not see his face now,: "Bunk on the couch in my only the Klimmer of those room." Elsie suggested hospitably. humorous deep-sut, eyes, "I knew Then you can give me the low your name frequuse I had asked down now before we go to sleep." Mrs. Cleespaugh, the day before

the

Van "And 10

mighty as we drove pasi you on the jstreet. You were coming out of brought you home, Sir Galahad the theatre with another girl himself." murmured Elsie when Liane had finished. "How touch. eavalierly. She found a strange. You stopped to pet 'n dog."

be, out chasing deop attraction in his looks, his "There's no mystery about it.ing for him to low-toned queries, the pressure of then," Lane drawled suddenly Mrs. Ladd's ifttle girl."

"Why do you say that?" Linne is brown hands When he had feeling rather foolish. asked her to go with him, to hunt

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for Muriel Ladd she had gone as į baugh's a sort of cousin of mine. "Why, he's that way about unresistingly as a child might She was telling me about this Adele Ladd. Everyone in have. Villain he might be but theatre venture and I was driving knows that," said Elsie scorn- he, showed no cloven hooves to her down to see Vernon. That's fully. That boy knows his way wwwwwwwd her. ·

all. I thought, I won't tell about. can tell you." However, now it was well past you what I thought when I saw

"I don't believe It." said Liane. CHAPTER VI.

"Oh, do something. Do some-midnight and her mother

pro- you." thing!" the

wailed, col-bably lay shivering with dread. Linge felt a little pulse throb- "I simply don't believe it." "There "Where's that girl. Where is lapsing suddenly.

must waiting for news of her.

bing and pounding in her throat. Elsie examined her face in tho she?" rnged Mrs. Ladki, storming he something.

"I was a wretch to drag you off Why can't I think

"Do tell me," she plended. "dim light cast by one small bulb. up and down the little Louis XVI what to do?"

that way." Robard said contrite- can't sleep tonight until I know." |

"Well, kid, you don't need to "But "The papers'll have it tomory. setting her in the ear.

She turned her face to him in sitting room. "Ingrate, wretch!")

You can read a flower all take it from me. muttered, irting her was sure Marlel had stopped the darkness, like The words tumbled from her row." she twisted scarlet mouth. Her long, head again. "Nice, slimy mess to see you, probably had confided fragrance and delight. The man the tabloids," she said, with jewelled fingers wove in and out of they will make of it. And what's her plans. I couldn't think what stared back at her a full moment

his "She's old enough to be what else to do."

before he replied. When he the chain of glittering stones she her father doing? That's

Oh yes, if he'd "It's all right." Liane said un-spoke his voice was roughed with mother, Liane pouted. wore, torturing it, threatening to'd like to know.

ha began "Not quite." returned Elale. tear it asunder. Liane stood in spend a bit of his time at home, comfortably. She knew it wasn't feeling. "I thought,'

were the "Matter of 10 years or

so ba- The doorway with Van Robard be instead of trailing chorus girls, it all right but it did no harm to haltingly. "that you hind her, watching Mira. Ladd with mightn't have happened. He was reassure him. The big car bowl-rarest thing I had seen in many tween them. That's nothing."

of fascination. Up supposed to be looking, after the fed smoothly along. Now they a moon. I thought you looked

"Don't go a dead Bort

falling for that were in the side road, new Mrs. like something infinitely desir baby," Elale advised, clamberleg and down she stormed, the petala child,"

Smithers little white house blur-able, infinitely to be loved. I into bed. "He's the lawyer's de- of her leaf-green frock billowing out before her, her auburn hair,! VETE looked uncomfortable, red in the dimness ahend.

thought all sort of strange, old-light Been co-respondent three

knightly "I wait till you're safely in," fashioned,

thoughts.times in five years.

That's curlod and crinking like Bacchus Liane, ventured to say timidly in locks, topping her tall figure ab-the phuge. "Would you mind tak he Huld helping her out. "Have Like wanting to own a glove you Handsome for you."

Jund worn or A Pose you htt .surdly.

fing me home now? My mother you a key?"

Llane glanced apprehensively thrown

Liane foigned sicep. A Bick- nway. I thought-but! "When I'd warned her she will be terribly worried. I didn't]

The night wanes Hess and misery tugged screamed, her breath coming now have time to leave her a message. toward the darkened windows, why go on?

then theworld_was. bad. She in gaspa. When I'd expressly We-rushed off-so quickly."Odil that mother's light was not and an anxious parent waits you heart. If Van Rohard were bad

The whole house was above.→→→ "Yes, yes, go, all of you. Of burning. forbidden-"

couldn't endure the thought. "Those are the loveliest words She sat down abruptly in a pale course. The sinking ship" cried apparently asleep, blankoted

No one could look as Vun did anyone has ever said to me," said gold chair. Then, to come homes the woman in the gold chair, wild the huah of country stillness.

"Tell me," she whispered soft-Liane. Forgotten how was

her and be really bad. The nuns had that character in unexpectedly to-night," she cried, "You, Van, run along and for-

There

strange taught her PA fixing both people in the doorway Het me and my troubles." She lift-y, impelled by who knows what promise.

ed streaming eyes to his concerned inner urgency. "How did

You sweet magle in this man's voice, mirrored in the face. Van didn't with that baffled, pallid glare, "to

know my name that night at the in his touch, is the way he look looked wicked or depraved. How And Grimes all dithering and mut-face.

"I had no business. Adele, in the theatre in town-the first time Ied at her. Some alchemy she did could what Elsie sald be true? toring about her having gone off

not understand worked in her in the roadster with that fellow.first place, to drag this poor child saw you?"

had to know. brain. No word to anyone, if you please! into it." he began uncomfortably.

might never Rec "Go now," the man said, almost Supposed to be at her grand-Only, I thought she might be able After 'all slie

to help it, give us some clue." him again. mother's, and no one there know-j

"Sweet child!" His voice "I'll come back," he said, in a

ruughly. "And bless you.”

them!"

the timbre of it. "Sweet curious

She felt whe

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Liane tossed and turned. moonlight was a torture.

She reviewed every word which had passed between Adole Ladd and the man who searched whole- hearted for Muriel. Her fever He ran down the stops. Linne ed fancy admitted that Adole Van Robard advanced. "We've He took Liano's hand. She was ono," went on that deep, strango;{heard the sound of his motor acoured the abore rond," he told trembling now, with anxiety and ly persuasive voice. "I wondered car purring outside the gate bo-seemed to have the right to order

Van around. Why?'. « her. "We've been everywhere. excitement. Whom she had rush-how long it would be before you fore she could bring herself to

Liano Imagined No trace of the car."

Anguished. ed off into the starry night at Van would ask that."

creep upstairs, A white figure Mrs. Ladd drummed on a mar-Robard's side she had completely "Now you're laughing at me1" stood at the door of Elsie's room. Adole Ladd laughing at her. ble topped table with vermillion- forgotton the promise given her pouted Liane.

"Sahl murmured Elale, "You're What was it she would say to next she saw him? tippad fingers. The emeralds on mother not 24 hours ago. What

In luck because I did a Iltile Van when her bosom flashed balefully na her was it she had said? Oh you the around her suddenly. Liane put Sald Muriel had a headache and shabby littla, friend? Sho's not strougarm BO plain and fancy lying for you. Oh, something like "Who's your and want. "And cut him dead if I pass him 011 It's what? Half-past one?" road." Well, thosa had been up her two slim brown young you'd had to take her home and much help in a crisis."

"Nearly that," Van corroborated light, wild words, lightly spoken. hands to ward him off. He let would stay the night with her. Olenching her hands, tears on solemnly, consulting his wrist Because, of course she could not her go as suddenly as he had Cass went to bed and to sleep hor choseks, at last Liane slept.

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