Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 76: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

~4 Li ~~ ! < y an . ~J ot ' a J bre ‘ f J 4 ( Pip? ; ~ Wy i, , f 4 é f ‘ f ; "ls By HULBERT FOOTNER Author of ‘A New Girl in Town,’’ ‘‘A Self-Made Thief,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS i and I1. ELESTA MANION, beautiful, high-principled and courageous, flees from the convent and journeys to the distant prison where, she has just learned accidentally, her father, Roger Manion, is incarcerated “under a trumped-up charge.” Arriving unannounced she finds him in the visitors’ room with good-looking Cora Divert masquerading as his daughter. Gentleman Roger instantly pretends that the girls are sisters and they play-act the part to deceive the prison guards. Later he explains to confiding Celesta that Cora is his secretary. Celesta had met on the train Hal Bainton, newly appointed medical assistant at the prison, and he now has Manion trans- ferred to the infirmary where the privileges are greater. Here Gentleman Roger pursues his scheme for counterfeiting millions in Liberty Bonds. Unknown to him, Campas, a doctor convict whose time is nearly expired, plans to bring about Manion’s escape with the hope of gaining favor with Celesta. Celesta and young Dr. Bainton leave the prison yard in his runabout and then she reveals that her “ martyr” father, drugged by Campas, is in the back space of the car. Primarily to keep her out of Campas’s clutches in the future, Hal decides to become a fugitive with father and daughter. CHAPTER IX, IN THE HILLS. T the next cross. street they turned to the right, that is to say, away from the river. ** Why do we go this way?” Celesta asked. “Tt leads into an avenue that runs behind the prison,” Hal replied. ‘‘ We'll circle around the prison, and cross the Tap- paghany river a mile above. [From the other side we can reach the Corbyhanna across country.” ‘“‘ Then where?” ‘Montebello. I have friends there who will help us.” ‘““Won’t they guess we have gone back there?” This story began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for March 31. 702 CORMICLOO© (C@