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Heart of Liane

by mabel MCELLIOTT

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CHAPTER XII

it's bad for the morale. Gets the girls whispering and I don't know what. Sorry, but we'll have to let you go."

There was no use to say anything. Liane departai, light headed with hunger and terror, with an envelope containing two days' pay. It was all the money she had in the work.

Lane's days rosolved themselves into a pattern, Shr rose before seven, atul dressed hurriedly. She stopped at a tiled Junchroom for breakfast. An orange, a piece of toast, a cup of coffee. That was 25 centa. She rushed to the store, She had to be there at a quarter She thought, trembling, that the past right. There she arranged her unkind fate which had dugged her stock, flipped open her salebook, and before her marriage to Clive must when the doors were opened stood be at her heels. Her unknown waiting and

of worker. one of an army enemies must have found her out.

expected to be courte

ous and eflcient,

again. As she went to the rooming house she called home her steps Ingt- For the first time in her life get and her heart seemed to skip Linne began to realize what sort Dents.

of hf the workers of the world She managed to drag herself up- lead. She discovered that lits could stairs without letting the sharp betono a treadmill in which the oyed landlady see her. She lighted only really important things were the little spirit kettle she used to hot cup of tea and a good night's lil water for tea, Before she had rest. On Sundays she darned her had time to blow out the flame

lher pair of sinckings and washed knock sounded and the knob turned her glover. She had no tooney to softly. pay to the hairdresser so she sham- goed her hair on the Sabbathy too:

She

Only

Line put her hand to her throat. A dark mist danced before her eyes Her feet, nebedd absays, She knew and the room began to recede. now why salgirls often seemed had no conuation of falling. surly, why they had difficulty it as in a dream, she heard a man's managing a smile when "noddon", voire sayine peremptorily, "Cutch was difficult. Where Länne worked her! She's going, sure? the pat rape were stubbier than the

Liane had heard that voice be- ! blind the enter. They for. She was too tired just then Itagoled ever purchase pinched the to remember whom it belonged to. stockings auspiciously. Lian did

not blame them. A dollar was i Alter a long, long while she great lot of money and buying was awoke. She was in a white room serious matter. Sometimes at and there was a spot of sun on the night she too tired to eat. She veiling.

it

paper.

The fantastic garage near Clarksburgh, W. Va., where Harry Powers, operator of a mailorder matrimonial bureau, strangled to death two women and three children, according to his confession to police. He is enged to have lured Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher, widow, her three children, and an- other woman to the basement of the garage, locked them in dungeon chambers, kept them caveral

days without food, and then taken their lives.

Custing over £1,000,000 to build, our phola thows the new Masonic Temple at the corner of Great Queen Street and Wild Street. It offers another im poring landmark, ita lower bo- ing higher than the Nelson Column.

In-

This time when the hand took the tubo nway Liane managed to say three words. She wanted most aw-

the moment frightfully important. She said, "Cod is good.

rolled from under her lids and bo-

In this jumbled heap are clothes, jewellery and other posuna- sions identified me those of Mrs. Eicher, and her three children. whose murder was confened by Powers. In the pile are two photos of the late husband of the dead woman, children's berats, and a school bag containing some home work papers of the Elcher boy and girl.

ing questions young man. She's so very frail there doesn't seem to be much fight there. D'you what I mean?"

Cass told him not to reproach himself but he scarcely heard her, so absorbed was he in his own bits Ler reflections.

"The doctor says it's a case of real starvation." he went on prol-

you ever hear anything so horri ble?"

Cass shivered. "Don't think of it. It does no good."

A dizzy spot of sun. orange juice slipping down the did not mind this so much. It was) wavered buck and forth. Liane glass tube. Heavenly, It tastell. one way of saying! awoney.

fell the coverlet tentatively with She'd heard of nectar and She learned to keep a box of fingers.

It did not feel in the brosin. It could be no more de- renckers in her room and a bit of least like the thin, grey, antiseptic lightful than the cool orange juice cheese carefully rolled in browndsnelling blanket at Mrs. Kerschidd's trickling down her throat,

Apples could be had for boarding house. If she weren't so litika or nothing. Sometimes she jawinlly tired she would open her Thanght of the state dinners at the joyes again and sse what it was like, Wow Stream lause, of her own Later, perhaps she would do that. fully to say them. They seemed at plate being carried away weareoly There was something else the Touched. She thought of ten par-giri wanted to clear up in her mind, ties where the table overflowed with something she that foggy fecting

would put all her at. To her surprise two great tears cakes and tiny, delicious sandtention on wiches. She tortured herself with left her. She had heard a man gan softly to run down her chocks. memories of the dishes she had say. "Catch her. She's going." The hand wiped them away. The rased.

Going where? That was what voice said, “Don't worry about any- One day Liane realised with she wanted to know.

thing. You're coming along aplen- ounces of nourishment this morn- fright that a man was showing Somewhere far off a clock struck didly." Then Liune drifted offing 32 during the night. Miss her. He was a well-dressed man seven. Linne tried to struggle up, again. She was go very tired. Bunce has her orders. Pulae is with tell-tale blunt toed shoes and Be late for work. That would!

stronger, P'm glad to tell you. I am derby hat. Since he did nut never do.

In the corridor of St. Elizabeth's very hopeful." molest her she deeides! not to lo A cool hind explored her wrist | hospital a haggard young man pac- Clive apoke with difficulty, anything about it. If she com- until she could feel the beating ofed up and down. When the doctor "You're sure she's out of dangerding the wound. "Starvation! Die plained to the store manager he her own pulse. This was an odd appeared, a brisk, plump doctor in now? would think she had something to dream. Curious she couldn't fight his early forties, and smiling with "Well, you mustn't ask such lead. hide. She did not want to lose her her way out of it. She relaxed and spurious brightness, the young man job. She had no idea where she lay still

approached him and spoke in a low, might find another.

A voice was murmuring very low, anxious tone. The man disappeared and the "case of malnutrition." She heard The doctor waved him uside with girl's heart lightencil, One night another voice answer. Ah! That cool, imperious manner which comes the followers of Aescu- ferry to the city where she malled | ber. Whose who it. She could allapius, a letter to her mother. The bur most see the face of the man to I'll talk to you later," he said. He on the shoulder. "Mustn't give up den of this message was the same whom the volco belonged. Almost, vanished. The door of the scere like that. I said she was getting

the first. She closed her mind but not quite. Queer, how memory tive-looking room closed after him. along and I mean It Only to the anxiety which must be felt falled when you needed most! The young man continued to pace mustn't he too cocksure. Wait and by those who loved her. She had

The low voice came very close to up and down. He had the air of | xcc.". to in order to save her very soul. her car now, and said, "Open your one distraught. Occasionally he On this cold comfort he bustled

That Clive had not announced her mouth now, Obediently Liane did times he argued softly to himself;

like a

a god girl, and struck his palms together. Ataway. Clive hated him. disappearance to the newspapers drink this."

At noon they let him come in she felt sure.

She had been watch na she was told. She felt something when he reached the descried turn for five minutes, Llane Iny as one ing for this day by day.

that must be a small glass tube of the corridor..

...quietly asleep, her lashes rosting The liquid trickling into her parch- "How was I do know she was lightly on cheeks which seemed to When she had been working for ed throat tasted like warm milk, starving to death?" he demanded of him terifyingly wan. She did not Steinway and Lipschutz for nearly She gipped it gantly. After no one at all.. And "why didn't know he was there or, if she did, six weeks she was summoned to the minute she choked and gasped, "Tir como Hooner? The detectives had she gave no sign. Cass came after manager's office one morning. The ed."

known where she was for almost a His telephone message and talked in thin, harassed looking man glanced Then the clear voice said, sym- week. I was afraid of frightening loved strained when she emerged low tones to the nurse. Har eyes at her and glanced away, as she pathetically: "I know. I'll take it her away again." enme in. "Miss Crane," he began away for a bit. Then you'll try He pated up and down, up and from her conference, but she patted atigly,

"We have been getting some again like a good girl won't you?"

down, a a cared, tormented man.. Clive on the arm and tried to cheer Inquiries about you from a private ¦ She tried to nod, but you couldn't After acone the lock clicked and him. detectives agency. We don't like nod when you were lying down. the physician emerged. His air He kept saying over and over The owner of the clear voice was still brisk, his smile more pleas again," nover should have lot this seemed to know what she moant. ed. He deigned now to speak to go on for so long I was afraid to' That's right," the voice sald, the young man at length. "Well, break in on her too soon. I thought "That'a splendid.”

well, air, she's getting along splen- she was all right. How was I to When next she woke there was didly. I'm happy to say. Sixteen know 7′′.

she took the train and then the was the one she'd wanted to remem-naturaw, now, Mr. Cleespaugh,

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At her white-faced protest the manager put up a deprecatory hand. "Now, now! I don't know what you've done or why," he said. "But.

Clive saw. Instantly he was in the depths again.

The doctor thumped him benignly

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lip.

Clive paced the floor. Be tor- turned himself. Cass whirled to see the nurse at the door, Onger on

"She's conscious. Sho's making for her mother."

Quick as ghtning Cass was In

the room, at the bedside. The girl

on the pillow stirred as one waking from a long sleep. She spoko. "How did you get here, mother?" she asked in a faint, perfectly no- tural voice. "Aren't you playing today?"

Chas strove for control.' She was not an actress for nothing."

"Silly child, it's Monday! Who ever heard of n matince on Mon- day?" the and shifting ever ao alightly un- ""forgot" The giri sighed a lit-

der the, tautened bed clothes, cas hioned her cheek in her palm.

Cass managed to smile at her. "Don't talk now. Just rest. Th

sit hers and hold your hand.""

"So tired," the girl in the white bed murmured, faintly. She slapt

again.

(To Be Continued)

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