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Heart of Liane AN ADVANCE

CHAPTER XXVIII

MABEL MCELLIOTT.

know not. Anything was bolter than that terrible house and the people in it.

The fat woman seated herself in the other collapsing chair.

Liane suspected_ some trick, Linne watched her fearfully. Sho

It seemed in- could hear the steps of the two me barricade. men moving down the hall. There conceivable that those men had left the place with only Molly to guard was a rumble as of voices arguingt. They had reckoned, perhaps, and A door closed. She put her without her determination and hand up to her throat. Her they courage.

Odd

were still there.

They Wean taken when she faint-

Her thin stockings were torn

Her

ed. What, then did these men by brambles and barberry. want of her? The fact that they hair was disarranged, ber fece

There was hadn't taken the pearls seemed scratched. ominoua. They were not, then, and for this Liano was ordinary thieves.

The dark shawl of tho

no moon,

grateful.

woman

The string of precious beads called Molly, covered the girl's

gave her an idea.

+

moon-pale frock.

She heard steps running toward The house was very quiet now. her.' A man's steps. Determined The room was quiet except for the unpleasant breathing of the wo-ones. A voice said, "Whoa, there!" man called Molly. Llane stared Llane stumbled in her terror and

merelfully fainted again. nt her, noting the glitter of her porcine eyes. The girl touched

Meantime the little group back the pearls again. Faintly she whispered, "These kre worth the clearing pressed on. Me- thousands of dollars. I'll give Hugh, burly in his uniform, Clive. them to you if you'll let me go."

The woman sai quite still as if she had not heard. Only her eyes glimmered with a faint, greedy light. Then she spoke again. "Pooh," she said. "Thousands of anxiety by this time.

that they were following the dollars, my eye!"

wrong trail. It seemed lunacy to

"Yes,

Yes,"

Llane

elegant though disheveled in his Bond Street evening clothes, and the girl who had been driving the cheap sedan.

Clive WOR half frantic with He felt

answered waste precious moments in ques engerly. They can be all yours,tioning this dowdy young woman, to sell, to do what you want with. They would, Clive felt suro, find Here" She unclasped the fnatent traditionni surly father wait- ing set with a sapphire. She held

doubtless ing behind the door. "Here," with out the milky strand.

a shotgun. If he

If he had not she said, fixing her eyes on the been so grimly anxious, he might woman who ant immovable as an have smiled at the fantastic (thought. But he had put himself For But the other only shook her in the policeman's hands. head. "I dnssen't." she said the moment there

nothing honraely. She looked furtively at else to do but pursue this faintest the door. Llane sank back weak-jof clues.

ugly Chinese idol.

the woman).

Whe

ly. It was no use trying to tempt They stumbled on, the girl But there must be ahead. Clive and McHugh bring- other ways. She looked about ing up a close rear The officer. desperately. Two windows there held his gun cocked and ready. were, both closed and locked. The

the doorway with

fut woman guarding it. There must be way!

The path wound through scrub oak and underbrush, benenth scarred and leafless trees. It was 21 mad night. This final madness Wak only part of the pattern.

The girl Teigned drowsiness. Slumped in her uncomfortable Clive's mind revolved frantically, chair she pretended to nod. The like an animal stalking about in room was warm, the alr stole and

And u cage. Where was Liane? heavy. The fat woman, after one how could this girl with the red- or two intent glances at the re-rimmed eyes possibly have any- laxed form, also closed her eyes, Still and alert as any wild animal. thing to do with his fiancee's dis-

Appearance? Liane crouched in her chair. Presently the regular hum of the woman's breathing resolved itself as they rounded u jog in the path. into snores. She was asleep!

"Softly, now." McHugh warned,

A big, bare house loomed into view. Behind drawn shades, here and there, a few lights gleamed.

"You hold her here."

the po He began to

Liine waited a minute, two, five. Then with Infinite enution, her head still throbbing, her pulse sounding noisy as an alarm clock, ceman directed. she began softly to creep. Four and Clive his gun. Quicker than steps to the door. She had a flash the girl flung herself at passed her captor! Her heart them both. The gun barked once, stood still. The woman stirred a curious muffled aound. McHugh ugly onth at the girl, ever ro faintly. Liane remained ang an Tuiet as -a-statue. She-waited whose arms, he now had pinioned.

Then

me. She moaned, "It got another endless 60 seconds. she began again softly to crawl -" into the hall. A board creaked | ground. ominourly under her weight. The two men bent low.. "AW, Tears of frustration rose to her it's only her arm," burning eyes. But the fates were policeman.

with her, and the fat woman anored on.

to and slumped

you the

grunted the

Mc-

The girl lay whimpering. Hugh said, "It barely grazed you. The house seemed utterly silent- Shut up" To Clive he remarked, Terror, Icy and incscapable,You won't need that now, and gripped the girl's heart. She was began with an astonishing steal- still giddy from her fall. Fearthiness to move toward the house. fully she fixed her eyes on the dull live, still guarding the prone face of the slumbering woman woman, saw the officer's shadow dia- Somewhem in the house a mous appear in a blur of shadows. The

The began to gnaw at a partition. sound struck through the quiet girl began the first note of a clear

whistle. like thunder on a summer night, Clive put his hand over her Liane shivered. But her intent vaze on the countenance of her mouth. guard could discover no change His voice there. The woman slipped deeper Hugh's.

Jay stili. down in her uncomfortable chair.

Clive Baw McHugh's big bulk Inch by inch the girl, began to

again. A board creaked for an instant in the oblong of light And her cold hand flew to her formed by the opening of a door. was within for one throat. Nothing now should keep McHugh

Then he reapp- Anything, minute, for two.

move

her from that door!

"Stop that!" he ordered.

was as harsh na, Mc- The girl muttered and

Liane thought hysterically, was cared, swinging an arm in algual to better than this grim and horrible draw nearer.

room.

"Come on," Clive ordered the She thought of her two cap-prostrate girl. She obeyed, nurs tors. Where were they? Lurking the injured hand with limp ing just outside, no doubt, wait-fingers. Ho felt an instant's com ing to snare her as she ran from punction. Well, after they had the trap they had laid. She m-found Liane they would take this fused to bellove this. The errand creature to a doctor.

they had dispatched themselves McHugh motioned them within. upen must have been an important The girl moved with lagging stops.

one. Tho had thought hor il as The fetid air of the room struck

well as frightened, and counted on Clive like a blow. the old woman to guard her easily. With Infinite caution Llane took an other step. Never, never had aho! known what anguish there might be in simple motion.

The big man nodded solemnly. think we've picked the spot,' ho sald with satisfaction." #UN pected it the minute I saw that giri. She's one of the mob. Must At last, she reached the front invo-teen-out passing the high- door. There was an old-fashioned sign to some of them,”. chain lock. With painstaking care 'But what makes you think Miss she unlatched it and the door swung Barrett is here ?" Clivé de quietly on its hinges.

manded Impatiently. Ho WILS She felt her heart pounding in glancing around the shabby wall. hor throat. Softly she awung the "There's no one around.” door to, felt her way in or McHugh nodded.

hor

"But there stockinged feet, her one silver slipper

the has been," he insisted. "Look!" In her hand, across splintered porch.

Salt nir rose Ho lifted a hand in which a milky. gratefully to her nostrils: The string of pearls glowed softly, unmistakable breath of the southGood God!" Clive cried. and there'x shore marshos was in the wind "They're Liane's Blindly in the dark she began to bloot on them 1′′ th

Where she was going ahe

(To be Continued.)

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