The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1919 Page: 3 of 4
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I this maelstrom” continued Mrs Ken- I
It mid pushed Murk through followlnj
Immediately He shut the dour softly
behind him They were in the Imse
nient f the adjoining house
"We’re safe now" Mild Hartley in r
win-per "You'd better rest ('uptnln
Wallace"
‘You're Hartley" muttered Mark
sitting down and trying In ain to dis-
cern something of the other's fact
through the gloom "What happened
and how did you come on the scene?"
“Hood Hod forgive me!” moaned
Hartley suddenly breaking into hys-
terical sehblriir as n the former niL'ht
“I've railed you I'eptaiu Wallace
Wind el--- could I d-i?"
" S' 1 1 you w-re in that plot i h?" a-lel
Mark w - :- thm !- f- !
:!'ir "W- d it w a - - I-a r I -u -li l"i
! 1 1 - w f
“Why Captain Mark! Why — why
did you do this?" asked Eleanor
"Hey Westell ealleil Ills fellow or
derly from the door of the sterilising
"So you were pnrklnp?" nsked Hart-
ley lookinir about him "What were
you going to do?"
"I don't know” answered Mark "It's
queer being broken like tin I've
imitiing to prospects i-nli a little j
money I have to earn a living" I
"It II he t he army" said Hartley
"You'd he a sergeant in no time
you'd run through the ranks in
about a couple of years And then
you've won You'w- conquered fortune
And you're in a position 1-- do a I : t T
quiet working' to straighten out y 1 1 c
taiude nn-1 run down the Kn-on gat---
And t In a I'll 1 1 - It - i f ''lieu tin1
son ' 1 ( Captain Wallace were mi-
lortunate enough to be working mi the
other sine And — I’m sorry but a little
j trap was labl fur you and K Herman
: Vou walked ri jiiii irto it Major Kel-
leriiian win is a very good friend of
mine acted in complete good faith
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“I Represent the International Peace
Committee”
Don’t blame him Don't blame your-
self Don't blame that wretched fel-
low who came boro the other night
to blackmail me It was inevitable
You see when you adopted Hampton's
daughter you tmcn-eiou-ly put a sort
of noo-e about your neck There was
the possibility of your coming into con-
tact with Hampton's friend- The sys-
tem Is widespread you know and quite
twenty years old So — you had to go
west
“Now Captain Wallace I'm a frank
! woman and I'll put my proposition to
: you You don't wont to see Major
' Kellerman walk off with thut pretty
I ward of yours do you? And you can't
marry her without a little money
Well you could be very useful to us
in many ways Would you without
sacrificing your patriotism or revealing
any secrets become a salaried worker
of our organization?”
Mark stood up trembling “I — don’t
quite understand" lie said huskily
and tlie picture of Eleanor in Kellerman’-
arms at the dunce swam tfore
his eyes “Wliat is it you want me to
do?”
“TJ-e your influence and art iv knowl-
edge in our 1-i’nilf That little affair
of today will i be frgott-n And
we'H help you to put Kellerman out
of !-’:-it — "
"Y-il ask me to 1 ceo-ie a G rman
spy?"
“Don't be absurd toy dear captain
Who ever suggested such a thin?'
"That's whal it an --tin's to"
“A little in!ueme -a behalf of hu-
manity'’ “No!” shouted Mark quite beside
himself “You’re ii-XiniMis You ought
to lie put out of the country!”
lie strode indignantly toward thu
door
The electric light in the passage had
gone out Tlu’ room grew dark behind
him lie groped his way toward thu
1 door
Suddenly u vivid light flashed before
his eyes lie heard though lie felt no
pain the imp: it of a hard weapon
upon the he': of his hen-h II tin:
out his hands and gripe h-1 with a
til: - Tl In the uplifted hand he felt II
lu ivy stick w ith a hno'nhed handle
lie I (di'-ved his a--aii-’ at to ho Kel-
ler:::! a:-l hail' iinc-i-e'-m as ho
was he fi ught madly I'ut the man
Kidlerman or not was more than u
match for him For n few moments
they wre-’!ed furiously then the other
got his arm free and brought down the
stick upon Murk's head again And
this time the light faded into blackness
I
CHAPTER IX
! “Captain Wallace! Get up I
you stand? Come with me!”
Marl: opened his eyes and groaned
It was pitch dark and he could sen
nothing hut he knew the voice for
Hartley’s
! “Where am I?” he muttered trying
to rise nnd sinking hack again
“In the Kenson house Be quick!
j There ! Listen !”
Outside thre was the confused mur-
1 imir of voices above which came the
sound of a crisp command Then
some Implement fell heavily against
the door of the bouse splintering It
Again the cries broke out
I “Try again!” muttered Hartley In
desperation “There's a door Into thu
e:ity house next door through the
cellar The police don't know of It
You must get away You must get
away !”
I Mark tried again and this time man-
! aged to rise
I Hartley caught Mark by the arm and
I guided lit unsteady footsteps to the
I door They gained the passage
and Hartley guided Mnrk toward the
head of the basement steps which they
reached Just as the front door fell in
turder the hatchets of the raiders
’ They scuttled down tne stairs ns the
hall becunie filled with tim sLcutig po-
liceman Before the first of the raiders set his
f upon the stone stairs 1 erjlev hi: '
u- i dour tad thu durk m v
their dii"y work one way or in-’tle-r
They in-: oi to buy you after ruining
qm and fashion you to their dirty
work If they couldn't do that they
w ore g- : - — ”
“Mur r ?"
"No -i- to-'-r- dit you so that noth
ing you - ield -ay would he listined to !
"That - what They meant T do It!
was I v!-- v a- 'old to gi'e tin- tip to'
tile k -i i - - - that tin re wa- gambling!
la-re '! I -- thought tie- p ! : i was
io-ed- Mel i: wa- I'-ut tin y wanted
the pole e hod volt lion and arrest
you so 'lint the story might get inn
the new -paper- and tini-li you— finish
you with lie- war departno nt and with I
Miss Howard" i
“And what did you expect to get out
of it Hartley?" asked Mark
He beard the man catch at his
breath
“She wasn't your wife Hartley?”
“No Captain Wallace no!"
“But she has u hold on you strong
which he bad
At tile sight o
who had hailed him lie tiling down tin
groove 1 strip of iii-':- kniv n
“soldier's friend" with tie-
which in- iiau been j -tons
a nd iurri ed ! --!
"The r rain'- in t r--iu tie I
the sister- ard do "M's I"
convoy tluit we're ex
front Every man'- mi
Job's ii:u-!iei lb-port t
with lliirli y”
Mi: rk -dded and bit ft '
toward Hie door of it- la-
at which tie- ma I n il fidget
tietitly wa- awaiting the a-
of Hie orderlies
It was war and the niiH
far distant guns were nil about them
daily though war had never passed
that way
Crider the name of Weston Murk
had enlisted In the medlnil branch of
the service It was a lowly branch
The Surgeon Searched His Face
mg ban with tlio
?" n-ked Mark
Murk Won't
ie v hat it till
repeated
nd rng at the ( oneem on
enough to compel you to do such work
: despised by those who knew nothin
us she requires And yet you have
tried to sae me dishonor — If any more
could come to me" 1
"You -avod me Captain Wallace!” 1
Mart made a sound of incredulity
“And I have been a gentleman You
don't kte-w 1 v a man falls Captain
Wallnre"
- you haven't answered my
X y In re'- another Why
'-tilling '! itu-l Howard's
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her face
"Why you di-app ared as you did
from Wa-l-agP'ii I kin w that you
had applied f r i- me of absence be-
cause you hud overworked in the lint
wen t her ltut you — never calm
hark” Her voice broke into a sob
“The Colom-1 didn't think it strange
He wouldn't admit that there was any
reason except that you must have
gone back to your regiment Did you
! and be quarrel Captain Mark? It’s
of its activities But the choice lmd j unthinkable I could learn nothing
been between that end nothing for the ! you but Major Kellernmi had
first fighting r-mii gents to be sent 1 “‘W -vf1u ir"'1 f w"rk un'
overseas embraced only the regulars "tight have got some appointment out
not those of the draft Mar' bad ell- ! " service lliei: tub-- vveie (on-
listed rather than wait -pm ii!v sin - ! Hi’ding- And jmi v-r-n't on the army
he knew that C-'-ml 1 1 - vv i -1 w it h ‘‘--t any t-mre V -n l y - m t - dl me just
K ( 1 1 -r t a : 1 1 1 and bis sp-ff v - n- already beaus — you k n v — 1 - alls "
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pn-ie d -1 - : - - far door ami
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Led Mark Along the Basement Pas-
sage until a gleam of mounllght appeared lu
front of them They emerged into a
little gardun a replica of the one next
door There was mi policeomu on
guard In a moment tUey v-ere lu the
street and In safety
Mark who hai ulrcrtdy recurcroo
from tlio effect U of Win Now save for
a splitting heudi chc toon a c-ar wir
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tnswered quietly
The surgeon searched his face and
Ike a decent man admitted tils error
“Another poor devil gone down" ho
thought as lie turned to his work
There were three more operations
following am’ "lari: -iglied with relief
is the Last man wan l airh-l away lb:
ml a sarubhin' I'nr-tr ami bar Of
t ap and kii i- l f k-v:i to elettn tin
I iiar while hi- feliw attenunlt
tenured the sphwtroii table trid carried
(way the low eis
Marl was ec usJofis that the nurse
(till lingered and lie went on with
Ms scrubbing Somehow he did m t
want to meet her eyes
She came toward hlitrand stood in -n g
lni by the table Something splash 1
iown to the ttmr— Then something 1 1 e
Mark raised tils li 'ad liny w--tears
and others fdhivv ! them d-j' i
iho tinriiug sister's fn-:e The a ! v
Eleanor
l-'ie ni' out it id i' '
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a i i'e' :
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I -a 'apialn Wul-
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a n't so idealistic atul
I l::re ia igined them
t forward --"I dfii'l he-
a traitor Captain Mkirk 1"
And over le-r head Mark saw the tall
figure of Kellerman in the doorvVay
“So I see you ot liere Sjistyt How
ard"-tahl KeLlonuau will ’ll forced
laugh" -vv'
"Just In time" answered tni-glrt
“lluve you come to order us all up to
the trenches?”
"Some of- you huts not the ladies
No I'm attending the General on his
tour of -I nspeet i a of the lines"'
'Ike tab : --v indistinct us they
drilled ir'-ii- "ark staring uftor
h- ’- - i a s i : v Kellerman nod
t - - vM : La tried that t lie gtri
t lit ' -: lead ng
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Lawton, Jesse Wilber. The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1919, newspaper, January 24, 1919; Arapaho, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2308144/m1/3/: accessed June 14, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.