PAGE SIX A NIGHT CALL W.KU.SWVKX the clatter of the I A ' I wind ’ night bell rang I /A I shrilly, and Its Jangling, a I I silence, and the Jangling again were graphic of a frightened finger throat anxiously upon that round ed button down beside the front door. Dr. Bertram Darand, as he aroused, pictured the finger slip ping off the button and fumbling for it again In the dark and now, finding it again, once more the linger rang the bell long and loudly. Dr. Bertram Darand did out of bed, wide awake and agreeably excited. The ringing of that bell at night was an event to him whose modest brass plate beside the door —B. Darand, If. D.—never before bad attracted any such attention as this. Someone was outside now, in the storm, calling for his services, and the character of this call suggested desperation. The time, as he saw by his cheap watch with' Illuminated dial, was half-past two, { and the thrilling thought came to young Dr. Bertram Darand, that if he' had had to wait a year for his first imperative call, now a chance had come to him which might give him a real start on his career. Groping in the darkness for the •witch, he pressed It, hut no light fol-i lowed. There Was no light in the street; all 1 the electric lamps were out, extinguished by some accident of the storm, probably. So Bertram —he, hated his Christian name, Bertram — crossed to the window and peered out,' and In spite of the absence of the near-by electricity, he saw In that vagfte illumination which always hov ers over a city, the shadowy figure of a girl standing on the steps below. “lon want a doctor 1” he called down. “Yesl" came a young voice, tinged with excitement “Oh, hurry, please.” “For yourself? You’re hurt?” “Mo; no—it’s for someone else. But I’ve come for you. Please hurry I" ‘TU be down at once.” ) “Surgical bag, doctor 1” she called. “All right” • . As he turned hastily from the win-; dow and reached for his clothes, B. Darand, M. D„ trembled slightly, 'The 1 call seemed to be quite as imperative! as he had hoped; and he felt the flat-: tery of It more positively because only] two doors away down the street was another surgeon, Doctor Durkee; much older and much better known from long residence in this locality. He never thought while he was fumbling in the dark that It was bare ly distinguishable aa a doctor’s sign, but that was all. B. Darand, M. D„ was Just twenty-geven years Old, Just a little better than two years out of medical school and a year beyond the finish of his lntarneshlp at Cook County hospital. The past twelve months naturally had been thin ones; and B. Darand, M. D., had felt Indeed, that he had been even QBtdolng nature a bit In the thinness of personal re sources. ...... , Tonight, at fjils moment, B. Darand. ! St D„ owed three weeks’ hoard bill to j the landlady upon whose house hl> | brass plate stood; his bank balance | Was at the brink of overdraft; ho owned that cheap watch, which told time In the dark, because ho had pawned his good gold ode, from the. proceeds of ' which transaction re mained precisely one dollar and forty-: •even cents in silver and coppers. Nothing- Is ’ more conclusive of a man's estate, than that he counts Ms copper pennies. Bertram had been brought up to be, served by a valet Habits from bis valeted Ays clung to Mm; he never went to bed without first laying out his dothes properly! for himself, a habit which made for haste for him now when ho had to dress In toe dato* When he was down stairs, and, surgical hag In hand, had opened the front door, the girl who had comm for him complimented him— “ You’re quick, doctor.” I } ••What’s the case?" he asked. ; Til teQ yon on the way ever.” \ j “Whore do ws go?” ho asked. ' [ TU drive you. ,My cart on* the eorner.” 1 : | He gased at bar whs no longer was S mars shadow In the n|ght hut a fair, eager, excited young girt who had come purpossiy for him. Why for Mm? He asked: -Do I know your “No. My name’s Hewitt Gram* •eat me. He tried to'phono you; but the atom must’ve knocked out the ’phones and the lights. So Grame told me to go for you.” “I see,” said B^rfram^ut^w^ro- t ° himself—Grame. Surely he IWW 110 OB# D y tuBX name wuv a ha ”Acddent o he a*ed (Us girl uf^e^ueettoa, “Why, surer she said. “Whard you suppose r And there was an odd, • ants la that pleasant voum (Coprrisktbr W.a C* «»■■■) Docking ahead Darand beheld the outlines of a roadster at the curb., j "Get Ini” said Hewitt; “we’ve got] to hurry.” She" seated herself behind the wheel ahd, as soon as he was be-) side her she started off to too south. Bertram knew the way at first; she) {was driving down. Wells street through, the section of small stores, fiat build ing*, garages, warehouses sad cheap hotels which lie Just westward, and therefore inland from the lake, of the 1 rich, luxurious district along the shore , which In Chicago is called the “Gold Coast.” With the streets and avenues and “places” to the east Bertram waa per- 1 fectly familiar —there ho had been I born and brought up; but ho knew almost nothing of the streets to the west of Wells, except In general that there were an .endless lot of them, confusedly alike and Indiscriminate, where unnumbered hundreds of thou sands of middle-class people lived, Grame ms,o( these, for .the car swung suddenly off WeUs street to tha west, upon an avenue the name of which Bertram did not know. He wanted to ask Hewitt, but he did. not for fear of betraying his Ignorance of Grame, whom ho ought to know. Bn| ho made talfref the storm. Hewitt said in reply, "He got home,! you see.” , “Yes,” said Bertram vaguely. T don’t know how over he did It,”! she continued, her voice trembling sUghtly. ' \ 1 She thrust forward with both legs| suddenly, throwing out the dutch,! clamping on the brake. Evidently l here, up this strange street. Was, “home.” Probably “he” was Grame;) but Bertram could only guess. “They near got him. Maybe they l did! You’ve some work In front of' ) you. Doctor. Baxter would Just yeU! for help, Grame said. That’s why) they sent after you,” The car slipped with aa easy skid to the curb before what appeared to ! be a three-story apartment building.) ! All lights In this quarter of the city,, ! too, were out; except for the wind, ! there was silence. Nobody was about, I As Dr. B. Darand, surgical bag In | hand, stepped down upon the wet side-, : walk, he felt his pulses leaping with unprofessional excitement j Hewitt said to him, as he hesitated: ! “You know tMS place, don’t you? * You’ve been here before. Well, don’t; > wait for me. They want you in there, ) Go on in!” | He passed through tho black vesti bule! and tried the inner door. It was locked. Then he heard Hewitt behind i him. “Did you push tho button?” ! “No,” he answered. Which button should he push? He heard toe click of a key and too turn of a bolt Hewitt opened an inner door and a faint odor of stale cigarettes came from the oppressive darkness within. Then a further door to the left opened and a flickering yellow light cast s pattern on tos op posite waU. Within It waa the shadow of a man. “That you, Kitty?” came the shad ow's voice. It was a low, harsh voice! land Bertram saw the shadow's jaw move. “I got him,” answered Kitty. "Hello, Docl” A short heavy-set man la a dark sack suit aimeared In the doorway, holding a candle. “Hello," said Bertram steadily. “In there! Take a'look at him.* 1 Doctor Darand watered quickly. It was a bedroom and he saw by toe flickering candle-light toe body of a young man lying beneath a sheet upon toe bed. Doctor Darand moved for ward. The young man lying there was appealingly handsome. His black hair curled against the white pillows, Ms face was pale as death and Ms eyes were closed. Doctor Darand*» first glance waa professional; it told him that this young man was not dead. Then, as he continued to |ua Bertram was Startled by the familiar ity of the features on too pillow. He had seat that face before name where. But even aa tip sought to re call toe drctuafttnficen,, and while be wen ♦Mnkieg that, after all, no sir take had been made add he rightly had bean summoned to tola case, a rough hand suddenly selxed Ms ahouldsr. >, “Say—who the b—l are yen?" Tm Doctor Darand,” Bertram an swered with a deal Irate attempt at •Doctor Darand?” ’ Grame’s heavy jaw thrust ‘fitoward threateningly. j*What was toe matter with Mm? geou eu my ow£ ' -I get hlm.” Mtty interfered. -If dtot the men!” Grame withdrew Ms muscular grip from Bertram’! Shoulder and faced hf. , “Wen,” she was saying to Grame, trying to be-sejto add fenfldent, ”1 IXTE vvOvJKU UAILI. IKIXSUINE - Jf. V - • V V ; reached forth and touched* the pale cheek careaatogly. . ■ «> ./ . The wounded gunman waa stUl un conscious. ; “Good G—d," she said, in a gasp of entreaty to Grame, T got t doctor and there’s no time to—” .. r.‘ • Grame agreed by a Jerk of Ma head 'and she moved hack fropa the bed. “Go ahead, doctor,” abb akld to Ber tram. _ . He drew the sheet from the body, disclosing clumsy bandages, crimson with blood, over the young man’s ab domen. Bertram removed the ban- Idages carefully. The trouble was 'a gunshot wound; no doubt of It, . “Well—iow about It?" G Fame's harsh voice inquired. Bertram asked, '"When did It happenr .1 “’Bout twenty minutes before she 'came for you." J “He ought," said Bertram, and had I 'to repeat, “Ha ought to be removed I jte a hospital at once." I > Grame’s pigllke eyes guttered un pleasantly. “Hospital 1 Any boob can ■say that" Grame took a Step for- I ward. “Look here, you—are you any (good? You wanted this case bad and ' you Just thought ylu'd come, eh? All i right—j Dow what can you do?" j “You mean, what can I do for him Ijherer j “You said it Right here 1” Grame 'snapped. “Nowl” “Who’ll help me?” he asked. I “I will,’’ said Kitty, and moved toward Mm. Grame was Silent lean ing against the door-jamb, his plgUke eyes watching Intently. - <•» I Bertram whipped off Ms coat rolled up his shirt sleeves, and cross ing to toe oak bureau which, held a -china washbowl, and pitcher, he washed his hands. Kitty Hewitt •brought him a clean towel, and he returned to the bedside and laid out -from his Nag, cotton, gauze;, a can of { -ether nmj a mask, and his Instruments j In sterile covers. ‘ The girl, Kitty Hewitt, remained { steady. In that grim, business of flnd lng/the bullet and sewing up the dam E® .y, ; 'JW f V -In Here" Cams ■ Whisper of Katie Hewitt’s Voice, "Gulak." age it had done, Bertram had to have help, and without flinching she placed cotton sponges, held Ms surgical damps, pasted knife and scissors to him. She never quivered, never failed him. Grame leaned against toe wall beside toe door, watching. He neither helped nor Interfered, except as toe threat of Mm acted to throw Bertram Into that rare state of daring and skill in which a surgeon Plana, devises and operates greatly. Yes, greatly, for there under toe light of those two pocket torches and with Grame sullenly watching and menac ing him, Bertram Darand felt toe thrill «f greatness for the first time. When he was sewing up, and almost had finished, he heard froth Grame. “You’re gettln’ away with it, ain't you, doc? I bat yea done better's Durkee would.” i Then Qramo know he had made a sUp; pud Bertram, knew It Durkee I It wis Durkee that they had meant to call; Durkee! in some way, was to with Grame. And now, as Bertram straightened and wiped Ms hands, Ms work almost over, he realised the in sufficiency of Ms theory that Grame had shot this young man. Bertram gased at toe white face of Ms patient and suddenly knew him. “Eddie Pellen!” he cried to himself. This man was Eddle T'eilfcn, known to the police aa “Eddie toe Immune,” Im plicated in a dosen “Jobs." Bertram, staring down at Eddie toe Immune, felt Grume’s strong, heav>y hand on his shoulder. "AB through?" demanded Grame. 1 am, now.” "Wall, what d’you think r Bertram looked from Grame’s heavy* jawed red face to Kitty Hewitt She was standing away from him a little she was pels from toe unnerving strain.’ Bertram said, as much to her las to Grame, "I think he has a I obento" roughly,-"how much do you know?” I “What t" said Bertram. His momen- 1 tery, warmth, following Kitty’s adml | ration pt him, waa gone; he was feel lag let down. “You heard me,” Grame threatened; "how much do you know?" "Why?" said Bert tom. “You think you recognize this fella?”, Bertram’s instinct warned him against lying. “Maybe," he said, i “I guess 80. ■ Well—ybu’re through now. Yob did a good Job. Whadda we owe yen? A hundred? How’s toatr | Grams had become too suddenly af fable. Bertram did not like it; and •he liked It leas when he glanced at Kitty Hewitt She was gazing not at'him, but at Grame, with wide eyes. ( “Look here!” she Mid to Grame! That was alt Took here!" But the sucked in her breath quickly and her big eyes made a plea. TU get you toe cash,” said Grame * and he turned heavily and walked from toe room. Bertram faced Kitty, who stared ats him with eyes haggard from what toe had been through and from dread.) Her eyes said that toe wanted no, more tola night and they told tost she) knew there must be more. “What does it mean r Bertram asked her. She raised a finger warnlngly. “Walt here," she begged. “Don’t try to pull anything. Don’t make a move.” She crossed the room, closing the door. Hie fingers, pitting away Me instru ments, 'lingered on the longest of hit sharp surgical knives, then he shook his head and returned It to tile Case. He went to a chair against • wall on which Eddie Pellen the Bhmune’s; clothing lay ;“but as he bent, oyer and was feeling through the' pockets, the; door suddenly opened and closed again, . Kitty Hewitt had returned. “Listen/* she said. ••wear “Drop It, doctor,” toe ordered curtly, as he clung to Eddie’s clothes. "Hop ing for a gun? Well, those htve been - frisked. Besides—” tos took a step toward him—“do you think you’d have a chance in toe gun fight here? You’re In a Jam, but Tvs got a chance for you.* • Bertram dropped the clothes. “Chance? What de yon mean?” -Listen,” toe said again. -You’re a surgeon—and a d—n good one. Well, these people need a d—n good sur geon. It wasn't your fault you got to here tonight I brought you. But that does not help yon—” her voice dropped to a whisper—“with these people. But I got your chance, doc tor. I told to Grape! Doctor Derand’s young and you cast count on him, If ha comes with us.' Jfe com*—rm teUlng you." - "With your ir -Hobody will ever know," toe said, again pleading q|th Mm rather than ?hr— »«l!ng. Dr. Bertram Baron d. had no* long time to deliberate, over It Grame en tered. •> ; 3 f .} -h ' • i “Here I" be o4*iMt'ttoUnotaa. "I got your money. Two hundred for too Job. That’s how we pay. Seer HE plgUke eyes searched Bertram sus piciousiy. “There, rare." There was no hint of bargain or compact in Grama’s cold offer. What ever Kitty Hewitt bed made Mm agree to e few minutes before waa now de nied. Grame was paying for a com pleted performance, asking nothing eC the future. Greme*and'at T the money lint not of It His mind wee ou the window behind hiss- He "woe so toe first floor, hi recoUeeted, end maney/ftwe blind. They're going to - • n „ eofild. -Your man's doing well. Any ■ , _ . * . * way. I cant do any more here. * pw I’ll be going." “I’ll drive yOn.” said Kitty Hewitt ' quickly., r : {■ t Grame turned to her with a scowl!, “You’re mi In, Kit. SopeTl take him* home.” if*,, ; 1 "No one will have to taka toe," said ! Bertram. TU ’phone for a taxi." " ’Phone’s out tonight" mapped j Grame. "Sope’U be glad to do It" “I’ll walk ” Bertram offered, aa steadily as he could. “Suit "t ourself,” said Grama and turned and left the room, but waited outside the door. Either he bad given some signal to Kitty or else of her own accord she followed him, and, just outside the door, Grame spoke to her In whispers. Bertram did not try to listen; he backed to the window and then, rad*’ denly swinging about, he seised the lifts under' the window blinds. By the grace of God, the window waa not locked nor did it stick. Be had it up before Grame could jump Into the room. Bertram leaped through the window upon a cement paving In a tiny court between two bulldlnt*. He. sprawled on the cement, and ns he picked himself np a circle of light followed him, his shadow sprawled below him. Grume had come to the window and waa holding him covered by the light of an electric torch. Probably Grame had him covered by a pistol, too, Bertram thought, and he cringed In expectation of a shot. But no bullet came and Bertram shrank; to the wall and crept along It toward •the end of the area where it narrowed into a bottle neck, to the alley. * Still Grame did not shoot; he made no sound; he l only kept-his light dose to Darand. But at the end of the area two dark figures loomed up. Ber tram baited and pressed against the Iwril. ' Beside him, very close, n bolt scraped and a door opened—a door which freed no light. ' "In here," came a whisper of a voice—of Kitty Hewitt’s voice. “Quick!” ' He stumbled forward and In. The door slammed 1 behind him and the bolt scraped again. An electric torch lit a circle of cellar, showing a laundry tub and a gas stove. “There I" said Kitty Hewitt and her circle of light lifted to another door , ahead. Together they flung open the door and went Into the brick-wafted pas sage, where her light disclosed an other door, directly ahead. He opened this, but more cautiously, and he found himsrif ut the foot of n short flight of-cement steps leading to the street Behind hlnl Kitty Hewitt had extinguished her light "Into my car!” she whispered to him, and together they ran up the steps and across the sidewalk to hg# roadster. Another car, a bigger one, stood bo hlnd It but no one urns in the car. Then someone came oht of the front of the flat building; somebody, not Grame. called “Kit! Kit I you d-n fooll" Yet no shot was fired. . That street In front of that flat was no place for shooting, Kitty Swung thn car about a corner and looked back. "They're after as, doctor,” she sgld, bar voles thrilling. Os course “they" wars after “us”— us being Kitty’Hewih and Bertram Darand, M. D. "They" wets in that big ear. which had been at (ha curb behind Kitty's, but Bat was giving them a rids. > . Her foot On the accelerator strained forward constantly. "Thu d—n thing's down to the floor board." she grid to Bertram, complalnlngly. "IPs wide OP lhe meant tbs foot-throttle, of course; she was giving It all the l gas she could. "Where arS they!" she asked him,. He gazed back and estimated. "They—” no doubt about It, "they” were about u block behind. Kitty Hewitt naked: “They’re go tag to get usT* y. "They're gaining some,” Bertram Mid, and after a few mors seconds a roar reached Kitty and him above their own engine noise. "How closer asked Kitty, never taking her own ayes from toe pave ment rushing under her wheels, “fifty yards." “Look under the saatr *whut r "Look under year sestr The cushion on the front asst was divided and he lifted the half tapoa which he had sat and uncovered n contrivance of steel braces, wound with n heavy chain. Kitty Hewitt’ culled: "That's It Take It cud* > He took it sit; thrust hud: the cushion and plumped down upon ft, too contrivance hi his Id* ‘ ’Spread It I* cried Kitty. | He unwound the chain and found folded arms of steel at each end. Ho spread them and they formed six armed stars of steal. “Get ltr Kitty Hewitt cried to him. "Throw it la front of; their wheel. Throw It oat when they corns op," Kitty Hewitt Skewed her car over. It veered so suddenly that Bertram thought she was hit "Now give It to ’ami” toe yelled, sad Bertram understood. She had swung to the left, to bring them up, when they overtook, an' toe right When he could throw Ms store and chain; and, coldly as he could, Ber tram arranged hts hobble of «tesl and save It to them "What’d it dor Bitty Hewitt d* 1 *n’t Know." "It smashed town. 1 * Bertram said. “TOty-re against the curb. Bat I don’t ‘i W- .. ■■■ ' ■ . t you do it—for m*r ' f , “Oh I" she exclaimed, end hesitated to Instant eg though startled by him out of her okra thought Td have done it fpr apybody,” she. answered lightly. Should you—fqr •, er wide eyes turned to him frank ly. ' “No," toe told Kim: “Os toufag 1 wouldn’t” And she seised the driv ing-wheel again and pressed the starter. “Wbere’re you going?" he askM her.’ “Oh, just going,” she said, and they, moved slowly through suburban streets where milk-wagons were de livering to little cottages and where theyfohnd no one hut milkmen astir until a newspaper truck lumbered by them and cams to a hilt before a little shop. "Would’you mind stopping?” Ber tram asked fUtty Hewitt r She drew up-hear the shop. "Go ahead,” she said; and he stepped out and took onn of the papers from the? bundle. - ' ■} ' “Policeman Shot by Gunman!’’ said the black-face type at the; top of toe front-page column Inserted as lest “extra” news. I ’Eddie Pellen, who has come to be known as Eddie toe Immune, shot and probably mortally wounded Patrol man John Monaghan In a revolver battle when Monaghan cams upon Ed die Pellen in—* B. Darand, M. D, did not read tbs rest of (he report He looked up at Kitty Hewitt "The papers got it, did they?" she asked. * He handed the paper to, her, and as her eyes went to the blackface' type. “That it?" he asked her. ’’ “That’s It doctor." "Well," he said to her slowly, "what are you going to do now?” ■.*' • “Whet are your she demanded of Ihlm. “That’s what I need to know, Iflrst" "Whyr "Why!* she repeated, with a toads of her cdntiinpt with which she had ejaculated “you" when they were rac ing. “I suppose Tve just made my self awful popular with Grame and eepecliUy with Sope, fast now." » "Are you," said Bertraln, "are you figuring on going back to themr “Going?" she exclaimed and smiled ruefully. "Doctor, those boys ire go getters.” "You mean they’ll get yonr j "Get me? If ' you peep, doctor, 1 don’t know about you, but I do knew about me. I haven’t a chance. 'But if you’ll play with us. if you’ll Just be sensible now and be good—” f; “Be good!* exclaimed Bertram. "Yes! Liston nowl'Toa a jam. f got you out Into ft; but you got yourself la, too. Isn’t that the truth? You knew I didn’t come for you. You walked right In. Anyway, there you were in a Jam, and I got you out didn’t ir "You certainly did." “It wouldn’t be so had, doctor, if I hadn’t had to spring toe dhrin. But that—welt we don’t know what we did, do wer. , “No!” Bertram admitted. “Maybe nothing can equars It* said Kitty thoughtfully. "Hut maybe if I go at them this way, maybe If they’re jnst Jarred a little and I say as soon a# I set ’em, 'You’re a fins bunch of boobs. . Here Tvs got you a good surgeon, who’ll work with us, and sH yon can think of U to croak him. He won’t breaths a word, * He’s with ns.’ Then if yoh don’t squeal, maybe HI get away with It Do yon ess, doctor?" *T ass,” said Bertram, "I see of course—they’ll punish ..you. If I tell anything. That is. If you can’t es cape them." “Me, escaper arid Kitty. "Me?” Bertram demanded: "What are you to them? To Grame?” be particular ised. "To Eddie Pellen r “Why do you went to know?" “I want to know,” said Bertram, «4 Ist more about you.” "You dor T want to know that more than anything rise.* "Then keep to yourself what you know and maybe you’ll know mors about me. If you talk, all you’ll know Is that soeasbsdyll find me with s bullet or a knife In me—or maybe choked." She moved her car slowly. "Writ I" begged Bertram, but toe toot her car swiftly from him. "Good-by 1" she celled, and, without again looking baric, she left him there. Bertram Darand, M. D„ took a street car Into the city. He corid bava hired a motor, since he had two hun dred dollars In cash In his pocket, hut just now he had a longing for the com pany of ordinary people. Every newspaper In that car, like •vary paper to toe city, was display ing tbs black -type, declaring last night’s crime of Eddie Pellen, Eddie the Immune, and demanding the im mediate finding of Eddie During that day there was mors than the usual outcry for toe punish ment of s gunmen. But before he could be punished hs meat be found, and no one who knew told where he might be found. B, Darand. M. D, did net tell. He could uot know that his silence mate safe Kitty Hewitt and Sops and toe rest, mlghrgunlah her anyway, and the idea of It ex cited Bertram every time he thought of It sad thought how she, so slight and fair and quick, raced for his life without regard to her own risk. But at least he could refrain from rarely Tuesday, July 21, 1925 JULY .•>! PI PAD AMPF GAVE* Saturday and Every Day This Week at FISHER’S Shop Every Aide of every Department This Is Full of Money Savers For You Here Is a New One And at Sale Prices A Real Summer Corselette Its Cool It Supports Its Comfortable Sale $3.95 and $5.95 .hist the Garment «« IYou Hive Been:, : ,■ , Looking For Voile and Tub Dress es in This Sale 95c $3.45 to $3.84 — : T Fisher Hosiery Give More Miles of Wear Saturday Specials: SOS Value Pure Silk Hose, Sale 79c Kayser Pointed Slip per Heel Stockings, $1.39 Solid Color, Light Shades Special Kiddies’ Fancy Sox 17c No Left Overs in Millinery Hare < All Millinery Classi fied for This Sale . 25c 50c 95c and on Visit— FISHER^

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