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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-07-15, Page 6141 T62 - Economy .SIX its rich dr 'drag freshness., 177. THE STOLEN BABY place. Probably the taxi man would read in the papers an account of the stealing from Guelf Street. He would remember the girl, the baby ... and pie. And my hat, within the lining, bore my name and address. How was I going to explain that I was no acces- sory to the crime? I had visions of a prosecution; of myself, if not going to jail, at least socially compromised. There was no question of sleep now. I turned about and about upon my don and the girl disappears through a burning bed, at one moment a crisp- doorway and returns carrying a baby. inal, at another an outcast. I even Arriving ata point in Elgin Avenue, had a beautiful serene mood when I the girl leaves the cab and as she saw myself going to the police station alights her escort notices an elabor- theand offering myself up. And I loath - by worked coat -of -arms on I ed myself for having been such a baabby': coat. fool and left my hat behind. Several NOW GO ON �'ITII THE ;TORY. bates I resolved in future to go to BEGIN HERE TO -DAY. A novelist, seeking nocturnal ad- venture, waits for a taxi in the Pad- dington Recreation Ground, London. He notices a girl who seems to be waiting for the midnight omnibus and offers to give her a lift in his taxi and the girl accepts his offer. She informs him that her sister is sick in a hospi- tal and that she is on her way to fetch her sister's baby from her sister's home to hers. The cab stops in a poor part of Lon - lliurging home extended back to the youth of Queen Victoria; it inm}ntain- ed its traditions. "Can I -see Mrs, Goad?" I said. "Mrs. Gold?" said the parlormaid, in a tone of amazement. "Yes, It's very important," "You want to see Mrs. Gold, six?" ;repeated the parlormaid, this time conveying that I wished to see the Empress of China. "1'm afraid that's impossible, sirs' "But I tell you I must see "her, It's very urgent," "I'm sorry, sir, But the chairman, I mean Mrs, Gold, can be seen bnly every other Friday, between three and four. Perhaps you would like to see ,the matron, sir?" "Yes, yes. I'll see anybody . you like who's in charge." I was ushered into a small room, entirely filled with large tables, side- boards ' and armchairs, • 1840 style: papered in 1840, expensively, and never repapered since, There I waited for an awful quarter of an hour, at the end of which a page, ,covered with buttons, took me toanother rgom, where, behind a colossal desk, sat an equally colossal woman, upholstered in black silk, and hung with the kind of gold chain that provincial mayors affect. "What can I do for you?" said the lofty creature. - "Well, you see . " "One moment. May I ask your name?" I gave it, and began again, but was interrupted: "One moment. Your ad- dress, if you please. Thank you." She joined her finger tips. "Well, what can I do for you?" I was silent for a moment; the di snensions of the scenery daunted tale; besides, I don't know low it happened, but the room felt cold; I had not ex- perienced coolness anywhere for a week. How, in the midst of these stupendosities, in this temple of res- pectability, I was going to explain that the shrine had been violated in the night, I really did not know. At last, forcing my palsied tongue, I told my story 'hurriedly and with complete incoherence, while the matron kept upon me an observant, appraising eye. I had altogether lost ts•ack of her. bed every night at half -past ten. But After a moment, a policeman who all this did not give me back my fatal Her glance said: "Mental case. Not was standing by a gate, considered' hat. Thus, at half -past five, com_ dangerous." When I had finished she me with a suspicious air. I had ray- recited my story to me in an u- P -etc: exhausted,I got u dressed, I loos tone: 'So far as I understand, p, e.ed my hair, so that it stood on end. I out of habit shaved, thrusting away you tell me thatlast night you,' in The policeman was still watching me ` the idea of cutting my throat. I did with interest. It was obvious that I ; company with a young woman, ab - could not c tay in the middle of the' not i all know what 1 wanted to do. stracted an infant from this estab- road like this unless I wanted him to 1 I mainly wanted to get out and think. lishmeni." I went ottt into the cool morning "Yes." think nm drunk. For a moment I ;that was golden and radiant with "You tell me that the young woman thought I would tell. him about the . Guisuner. The streets were white and went upstairs after having exchanged coronet. But what could a policeman t , some remarks with a person.. , la�e,y, as they are at that hour. I say if a hatless man, in the middle of walked through the pretty desert of the road, "I didn't say she exchanged re- vl told him that a girl who y — asn't. therea had got hold of a baby i f Ri aw I f,.' 1 rks... said that 1 thought I that wasn't there either? He'd he msa��� certain to think sue drunk. So, at- II! -a. "Pardon me. You saw, or you did tempting all the dignity a man can not see. Which was it?" when he has lost his hat. I "I think I saw. achieve walked away to Elgin Avenue, pre- tending to be busy. I got home somehow, a little later, unfortunate.:y in another taxi, so that I did not recover my hat. I had a cold bath, as a result of which I felt much Hotter, and more confused when I got into bed. I found myself unable to sleep. All the little incidents of *11, that night crowded upon tae: the girl's confused references to her father and her stepmother, the fact that she was livin> alone and yet took her sister's baby to live with her when she could leave it where she had fount} it, the obvious commonness of her voice, and' its contrast with the baby's beautiful clothing, her nervous excitement, her I state a:moss of palsy, as if she had been frightened, or *as hunted, when she came back with the child, her rapid flight, the blackness into which Mayfair into the park, where for a she had taken me, the blackness into while I sat on a bench. But I was too which she had vanished.... all this restless and after a while went on, combined. By degrees it piled up into still through the parks. It was nearly a certainty that my wanderer of the a quarter to seven now; I realized night had stolen a child, and that I with a shock that I was instinctively had assisted her. Then my confused moving toward Guelf Street, .Iike a state of mind became complicated by murderer drawn to the scene of his the realization that babies with cor- crime. onets on their clothes are not gener-1 When I reached the fatal corner, ally found in houses on Guelf Street. I instinct seemed to guide sae; though. I saw myself in the middle of a bur-, the light should have deceived my lesque rather than a melodrama. But] eyes, I knew exactly where Rhoda had the baby did have a coronet on its I gone. It was just there, thirty yards clothes. Perhaps it had been stolen I along, on the right, to a very tall that day, and Rhoda was the person black house faced with stone. There "What can I do for you?" said the lofty creature. IDSL X ,r124LA7,0rr%i "x�, NAVY BLUE IS SMARTEST. If you are partial to the straight silhouette, you will find much to ad- mire in this distinctive frock of navy crepella. 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We will omit that•fact :y, giving number and size of 'sued atterns as you cant. Encase 20c in for the moment- You then say that; stamps or coin (cqin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each, number and address your order to Pattern Dept, Wilson Publishing Co., '73 West Ade. hide St., Toronto. Patterns sent .,y return mail. the young person came out, carrying an infant which she had not brought into this establishment. Do I . under- stand you rightly?" "Quite." "And what, may I ask, were your motives in assisting in this apparent- ly disgraceful proceeding?" "Well;you see, I was standing out- side the Chippenham..." "What is the Chippenham?" "A public house." "I understand. Yes. Please pro- ceed. You say, that as you were com- ing out of a public house . . " "I was not coating out of a public house. Besides, it was after closing time." "I am not aware of closing time. Please proceed." "The girl was in a great state of excitement, and told me she had to fetch a baby for her sister and that..." "You have told me all this before, but your motives are stili obscure, Mr...." "Oh,..never mind my motives. I ex- pect I was a fool. But what I want you to understand is that a baby has been kidnapped from this place and I want to make sure that it's all right." (To be continued.) to afford it deeper concealment. Then were a good many people about, and I remembered my hat, and horror fell i already children were playing in the over pie .like a muffling sheet. What gutters. Thus, without drawing atten- was going to happen? If that baby tion, I went up to the house. It seem - was important, a hunt would take ed ordinary enough; the;curtains sug- gested a certain tidiness. Then I per- ceived a pelf -effaced brass plate upon the door where I read the words "Mrs. Gold's Nursing Home." I was stupefied, for Mrs. Gold's Nursing Honie is one of the most famous in all London, one of. the niost opulent.' The idea that a little shop girl from Elgin Avenue could receive a baby g from such portals was absurd, unless , she received it illegitimately. The conviction fastened upon me that my nightmares were.eor,rect, that kidnap - 1 ping was the adventure in which I had had a' hand. I felt puzzled. How was it that Mrs. Gold's Nursing Home lay in Gue:f Street? Then I remem- bered that the next turning on the left was Royal Place, which is the ad- dress of the home. I was standing 1 before the back door. Well, I had come so far; I had better feee the trouble. Perhaps' it was too late to repair what I had done. So I mount- ed the steps, and with a trembling handrang the bell, Carly it always with Put. 1 Yi':IGLUS /r Keeps teeth Clean; lareath. sweet, appetite keen and digestion good. great after smoking r ae1 peoteet ease .3.1" 10); sWawsscs+lil tt'I" Eve,Mead' to lUE 28—'26. 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