The Bozeman courier., June 28, 1922, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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By VARÏCK VANARDY Author ol
u The Two-Faced Man.
Night Wind,
The Lady of the Night Wind
Alias the
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THIS STARTS THE STORY.
A week-end house party is be
ing held at the home of Kather
Bingham Harvard.
Among the guests are Clancy,
Archer, Demming, Sears, and one
Conrad Belknap. Katherine dis
eovers Belknap cheating at a
game of cards. She demands
that h e leave her house immed
ately. He scornfully refuses to
do so. Katherine is about to tell
her husband of the occurrence,
but hesitates owing to a peculiar
influence which Belknap seems to
exert over her. Convinced of his
deception, however, and suspi
coius of his actions, she is all the
more determined to ferret out
his real identity. Katherine has
formerly had an experience as
a police headquarters detective
under the name of Lady Kate of
the Police. She intercepts a tel
ephone call of Belknap's and dis
covers the name and address of a
woman confederate whom he
calls Berta. She learns that
Belknap has set afoot some
scheme. Realizing that he is sus
pected by Katherine, Belknap
threatens to expose the fact that
Katherine's brother, Roderick
Maxwilton, who is believed by
and
me
his parents to be dead, faces a
term in prison. Bingham Har
vard, who once bore the alias
"The Night Wind," becomes
suspicious of Belknap and Kath
erine's attitude toward him..
Katherine's parents arrive at her
home. Senorita Cervantez, a
pianist, also arrives. She appar
ently is unable to speak, and
writes her words on a pad of
paper. It is revealed that she is
B'-rta, or Roberta, the confeder
ate of Belknap- Belknap is mys
tified at her pretense of being
du iib. Haivard attacks Belknap
one night after he has received
notes from both Katherine and
Roberta from a balcony of the
house. Belknap does not recog
nize his assailant.
AND HERE IT CONTINUES.
Her lips parted as if to speak, but
she remembered in time and closed
them. She was groping for her tab
lets with wandering, uncertain fin
gers when Katherine put her arms
around her and drew her into a close
and fond embrace.
'It doesn't matter wbo you are,
dear," she said. "Whether you are a
Maxwilton or a Keese or if the won
derful resemblance to the old portrait
is only an accident ,the fact remains
that you are here and that we are
both fond of you; that I am certainly.
ASid," she added ,with another
thought, "I am not going to let you
go away Monday ; as planned- I will
see to that.
Roberta let go of the tablets which
she had found and grasped. She whis
pered into Katherine's ear:
"I—I don't know anything about it,
Mrs. Harvard; nothing at ail- It is
all a mystery to me. I am dazed ex
cited, speechless, thoughtless. It is
all so wonderful—so overwhelming.
May I—May I go to my room now?
And may I take the likeness with me,
please? I want to study it; I want
to think about it. Please let me take
Katherine repeated the substance of
what she said bo Betty.
"Of course you can take the pic
ture," Betty announced; and then they
both kissed her good night, and she
left the room.
What does it mean?" Betty de
manded of Katherine after she had
gone.
Katherine shook her head.
"I don't know," she replied. "I
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will ask my father about it. He has
got the entire Maxwiltoon genealogy
tucked away in his head .ever ready
for instant reference- He will be
likely to know; or, of not that, he'll
be more likely to know how to make
guesses about it than we are."
Betty kissed Katherine good night,
She started for the door and stepped
half way to it.
"Katherine?" she began.
"Yes? What now Betty?"
"Do you think that Mr. Belknap
could have known the senorita some
where, sometime, before we met her
her here 7 "
What a question! Why?"
I have heard that when people
Ideas 'ÄMnÄ^
they went to sleep. And-and, hon
estly, Kitten, I don't believe he was
asleep any more than I am now."
"Why Betty!"
You'just wait a minute. I saw
himi befoie I came into this room. I
waa on my way to find if you were
still up up and to show you that pict
ure. I saw him m the hall and
dodged into the room that Bing al
ways reserves for Mr. Chester.
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body was wide awake in this world he
he was. He was scowling and show
ing his teeth .and as mad as a bear
with a sore paw. Asleep? I reckon'
not! And he went straight to the
senoriita's door as a shot out of a
gun. He lapped on it, too; and kept
on rapping just as if he had a right
to do it; or if not that, as if he knew
that he could make her answer him,
whether she wanted to Or not. And 1
was scared out of my wits when I
sneaked along the hall to this door,
afraid that he would see me; but he
didn't; and you could have knocked
me down with a cobweb when I found
the senoritia here. And, Kitten—"
"Well, dear?
While Î am on the subject, there is
something else that I want to say:
Tom 'doesn't like the man. and I
don't, either- Tom has put Rodney
Rushton onto his track, and—"
"What?" Katherine cried out,
"Well, what of it? He has, any
how whether you like it or not. Tom
thinks that—
A wild cry hike the screams of a
banshee, instantly followed by three
pistol shots in succession, interrupted
her ,and both young women stood
spellbound and friightened.
"They came from ooutside—from
the gardsn—didn't they?" Katherine
asked breathlessly.
"I wonder," Betty said, "if Belknap
went back to the senorita's room to
wait for her?" •
The wild scream and the pistol
shots that follow*ed it momentariily
paralyzed every energy that Kather
ine and Betty possessed, coming upon
them as they did at the moment
when they were about to part for the
night.
But the effect on them lasted only
for a moment. Both of the young
women recovered their self-posses
sion instantly, and each of them was
courageous, resourceful and quick to
act.
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Betty Clancy seized upon the door,
opened it. and apran* into the hall
for she was equally convinced that
the sounds came from within the
house: that is to say, both acted upon
the impulse of the moment without
thought.
Each of them was in part, right.
Katherine, as cool as over she had
been in the old days of her police
experiences ,was quickly outside on
the balcony, and bending over the rail
of it, peering'eagerly this way and
that; and she saw—or thought she
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i saw, not being entirely certain—the
j outlines of a human figure as it
darted into entire obscurity beneath
the shadows of the trees at the edge
of the lawn- And that was all.
Betty, as she literally jumped into
the hall from Katherine's room, saw
nothing at first. But doors were
pulled open, timid and shrinking
guests appeaared as if by magic,
frightened figures of women and the
startled and questioning visages of
men, materialized from every direc
tion, for the alarm had been one that
was not to be ignored. It was not the
sot»t of thing that one hears vaguely
in sleep when «me wonders even more
vaguely about the cause and rolls
gÄÖ Ä
slt up take notice,
. Bing Harvard came into Kather
ine's room from his own just as she
reappeared from the balcony. He
a ^ pe d d f ° 0 " „ uf e «riÄ Jward him!
^ sbe no ticied instanly without be
t q her surprise beC ause of it,
th / t ^ ve for the fact that h e was
w j tbou t a C oat, he was dressed pre
dsel as he ^ been at dinner that
even i n g
Hia quick questions aiso surprised
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Betty was here. We were s e
began. Hfe interrupted her.
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"No, not just now, when we heard
the shots. The senofütaj hjud been
here earlier, but she had gone. Why
—there is Betty now!" For Betty
had reappeared at the door
Come!" Betty called to them from
the doorway. "Oh, Bing! I'm so
glad that you're here. They say—out
there—that it came from Mme Sav
age's room.
Bingham and Katherine followed
Betty into the hall.
They found that a group had al
ready collected in the corridor near
the entrance to the suite occupied by
Mme. Savage and her maid, and that
hush had fallen upon those who
were gathered there.
The cause of it was at once appar
tient ,for the unmistakable sounds of a
woman sobbing could be heard from
beyond the door, and mingled with it
were the sharp tones of Madame's
deep voice, almost masculine in tim
bre.
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Harvard tapped upon the panel, and
madame's voice bade him enter.
They were close to the door into the
hall when the cry and the shots
startled them. Katherine
out and punched the black button
of the electric switch, extinguishing
the lights in the room; then she stall
ed across it to the window and out
upon the balcony—for she was con
vinced that the sounds proceeded from
without the house, and believed that
they were not far from her windoow.
The old lady was sitting up in
bed, and she held in her right hand
a small automatic pistol with which
she had been gesticulating whiile she
talked to her sobbiing and frightened
maid, who stoood facing her across
the footboard, graspiing it with both
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.. Mme Savage was a very old lady,
1be remembered; a very young
0 " 'f**- " ath eighty years or there
- abouts to *«"?**• bu ' as ? 0 " thfH
as ever sbe been ,n splrlt and
reached
thought, and her outlook upon life.
Nor was she one who had resorted
to artificial devices to keep herself
young; her natural buoyancy, and her
ardent love of being in the middle
"something doing" had done that.
Come in! Gome in!" she called
out when she discovered the group
at her door, headed by Harvard.
"I'm not a bit afraid to be seen
bed all of I don't
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"Where did I get it?" she retorted,
"I've always had it. Not this one,
of course, but a pistol of sime kind.
I'm not used to this new-fangled con
traption yet, and I shot three times
when I only meant to shoot once
"But, my dear lady, what did you
shoot at?"
"A man. There were two of them,
or a man and a women. I think that
I must have winged one of them at
that. You see—
Betty interrupted impulsively.
'But the scream!" she exclaimed.
"That came before the pistol shots.
"Oh! That Nistiine is a ninny; she
is always scared at her own shadow.
It was she who did the screaming.
That is what I was scolding her
about, and why she is sobbing now,
just like tv scared child."
But, madame, how did it happen?
What did happen?" Bing asked.
"I was reading myself to sleep—I
always do that, you know; it's a hab
it I've had for sixty years; and Nis
tdne was sound asleep in that chair
by the window. I heafrd a noise and
looked around and saw N is tine jump
to her feet; and there was a man—I
could just se« hie head and shoulders
—dipping in at the window. He had
a handkerchief or something tied
across the lower part of his face.
You see, only this reading light was
turned onSHRDL ooacoetaoin shrd
that I was asleep # with a nigiht light
burning, or he wouldn't have tried
climb in.
"Weil anyhow, Niatine let out that
scream you heard and jumped,
when she jumped she caught her
in something and Mio But in
meantime I was -reaching • under
pkofj* for this. When. Histiae
m d was out of th« w m. I let drive
wig nor do up my face and neck in
an enameling mask when I l'étiré.
My goodness, Bing, did 1 wake up the
whole household?
"Naturally. Have you been prac
ticing at a target, madame, or were
you shooting at your maid? And, if
I may inquire, where did you get the
pistol?" Harvard was smiling as he
put the question, for he was reas
sured. It had only been a scare,*
after all, he was thinking
Madame replied to the last question
first.
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him, and the thing went off three
times instead of once. I guess may
be that night prowler didn't know
that my father and my husband were
both cattle kings in the southwest,
and that I learned how to use a gun
at the same time that I learned to
read a primer- I always sleep with
one of them under my pillow, and
always carry one in my hand-bag
with my book and lace needles when
I travel.
"It's the habit of a life-time; and,
besides, it isn't the first effort that
burglars and
made to get my diamonds away from
me.
porch-climbers have
"That's the whole story, so--no,
isn't, either. I jumped out of bed and
went to the window? and I saw two
figures disappear among the trees,
and one of them either wore a long
raincoat—which isn"t likely, for it's
not raining—or was a woman and
wore a dress. That is all. I didn"t
shoot again because they got out
my sight too soon. But I'll tell you
thiis much; one of them, the one that
I am sure was not a woman, acted
if I had winged him, and I"ve seen too
many men shot not to know pretty
well when they're hit. Now, will you
do me the favor to send all of these
people out of my room? Those bur
glars had probably heard that I was
down here at your place and figured I
it out that it would be a swell chance
for them to get my jewels. They've
been hot-foot after my diamond rope
ever since that foolish Sunday news
paper printed a piicture of it and
told how much it is worth. But they
won't get it, Bing Harvard! Not
while I'm alive, and I expect to be
on earth a good many years yet.
And, Bingham, come nearer, I want
to whisper to you- Now listen; I
think—I don't know but I think—
that I could make a good guess about j
that chap that I did not hit. He
moved just like— er —somebody I
know. But I'll tell you about that in
the morning.
(Continued Next Week. )
WASTE SENATE TIME
If, as asserted by Senator Kellogg,
the United States Senate finds itself
in disfavor before the country as a
result of long delay in enactment of
some of the most imjxirtant legisla
tion before it, the reason may be
found in its failure to place reason
able restraint upon those of its mem
ber's who waste time discussing friv
olous matters not germane to the
measures pending. While, on the
other hand, the country would nevhr
approve anything in the nature of a
gag rule,"—a denial of adequate de
bate—neither, on the other hand, does
it approve a practically unlimited
privilege under which a small minor
ity blocks action b ythe majority.
The Senate is the greatest delib
erative body in the world, and yet.
in recent weeks, much of its time has
been taken up with anything but de
liberation. The Senate membership
today is made up of men as able, as
honest and as patriotic as ever sat
in that body at any time in our his
tory. We have had recent proof that
it also has in its membership men
as narrow, as petty, and as frivolous
as veer sat in any legislative body
in any country. If the Senate has
failed to function as a deliberative
body .the reason is that the majority
of
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in
has necrlected to adjust the
tile Senate to meet pi'esent day con
ditions.
In the days of Webster and Clay
and Calhoun, there were only 26
states in the Union, with 52 members
of the Senate. There were only six
administrative departments as com
pared with ten at present. The pop
ulation of the country then was only
one-fourth of the population today,
and the subjects to which national
legislation was directed was not one
tenth of the number over which Con
to
and
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gross takes jurisdiction now. There
was an abundance of time for every
member to express his views at the
greatest length on every subject that
arose. The situation today is vastly
different and every hour of wasted
time means an hour absolutely lost to
the serious consideration of problems
vitall yaffecting the prosperity of the
nation and the happiness of its peo
ple.
!
The founders of the government
wisely made each House the sole
judge of the qualifications of its
members, the sole authority in the
framing of its rules of procedure, and
the sole censor of the conduct of its
members. With that unlimited pow
er over its own action goes a corre
sponding responsibility—a responsi
bility which neither House can evade.
The country expects the Senate to
function as a deliberative body, but
in recent weeks the Senate has failed.
• Areading of the Congressional
Record will show that the time of
the greatest legislative body in the
world has been taken up by minority
members with discussion of subjects
utter! yforeign to measures pending;
that the language of the irresponsi
ble or unthinking has been freely
used by Democratic members on the
Senate floor, and that Democratic
Senators have made ths-esa^s of per
sonal violence which, if made in the
court of an yjue&ce of the peace in
the most remote rural district, would
justify a tim for contempt ol
Th« Republican minority hm bets
patient until patience has ceased to
be a virtue.
. The wonder is that the Senate hesi
tates to take measures tcf protect it
self from a few unheeding 1 ones who
disgust the public with the trend of
Senate proceedings.
There were 359,859 fewer meat
animals slaughtered in the United
States under federal inspection dur
ing April this year than last, accord
ing to the United States Department
of Agriculture. To this shortage,
sheep and lambs contributed 301,
511, hogs 67,533, cattle 577, and
calves 218.
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