Argosy, Vol. 147, No. 1 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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— tl al Evans was to be seen appt i with a quick embrace, and > : street. Then, “ . “ Keep up your those two guardians of a ee “ For the last time, That's righ a little wife!” and was bound to go through act “he together for good—my é a ee very well pleased with him- schedule. No, that was d enraptured with the thought of him. oe picid costlier. Then his face set in As he stood there in the colc . grint lines as he realized the serious job yet begun to fall besides—changing - e he won her for good occasionally, and once more Pept 1im befor age soon as he heard her and Evans think of trips after hot chocolate, ale clatter off he set ahout arranging affairs for bothered him was his duty to his | ue the night. father-in-law. a But all day he was haunted by one un- After all it was a serious matter to st utc easy thought. Was it, after all, fair to her away an only child from a father w ho lovi father; this high-handed abduction of his her. While Randy was young and daughter? Pierre Marshall had only done perienced enough to think nothing of th what he had done to protect Corinne; and, fortune he was thereby throwing away, he from all that she admitted, Randy was not possessed sufficient decent sentiment to reat sure she had not needed that protection. ize it was rather awful, this estrang g He burned with indignation at the thought. father and a daughter forever. of his little girl a prey for idle, languid Moreover, he knew, although oh ee aed. i No fear of accident or at ae ” she said. He looked upon. E: almost as a play that had been fortune hunters, who wanted none of her was infuriated with old Pierre now sweetness nor charm, but only the money getful of the old affection in the nev that would come from her father. the love that had come into her life wit Little by little, ever since she had told. him, Randy; she was bound, down deer i him why she was kept under surveillance, her heart, to care @ great deal f ~ he had found himself blaming old Pierre less father. ee and less. And on that particular day the And, once she took the irretrievable disagreeable thought that he would be do- she would soon discover how muck ing him an injustice persisted. Though he father had meant to her. The hear went about his work of preparing for the . that would ensue would do much to m elopement, buying the properties necessary against their marital happiness. for staging his little melodrama and obtain- Randy loved Corinne enough to- r ing the leave from his office requisite for a all this. The more he thought of i honeymoon, that uneasy feeling would not more his indecision increased. He m down. something to obviate this thing. F It came toa climax just before the great mot start his married life with a ha elopement’s machinery was put into action. What to do? Mae He glanced at his wrist watch’s radiolit dial. Lord! Only ten after ten. It seem CHAPTER VI. to him he had been there hours, He wi sled in supreme discomfort, not on of th i< in F's the third and last time Randy eee od, ae ia Beatty had, so to speak, taken up an He looked across at the 100: me Bn ian post opposite the enemy’s light in Pierre Marshall’s dressing r es. At nine thirty, from various an- not yet lit. No doubt the old gles, he had begun a third evening of es- was downstairs, dozing over i pionage. No doubt beset him as to the ulti- per; quite unaware of ) the THE GREATER PLAN. 4 Af omicbooks.com ~< i hal ¢? i rae seo “