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Stolen Adventure Bv VIVIENNE CHARLTON CHADWICK Iris Courtney, fed up with boredom boredom during a visit at the home of her fiance's strait-laced family, seeks relief one evening by stealing the car of the young man next door, Manning, and going for a drive. She is pursued by a gang of men who think that Manning is in the car. They seize her, and take her into a deserted house to question her. Manning shows up, grabs his car, and dashes away. The men lock Iris up in a closet and go after him in their own car. A few minutes later, Be sure of Appetizing Bread! BAIE WITH BOYAL --always fall strength phew/ rr SMELLS QUEER!. I WISH I'D USEP ROYAL Bach cake of Royal comes sealed in an v air-tight tvrapper it stays fresh! I N A GOOD loaf of bread you want no hint of sogginess, no unpleasant "off-taste" or grayish texture. It's important that you bake with a yeast that's always reliable... full strength and pure. 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The closet door as flung open, and Iris steps out into the glare of a little flash- light. CHAPTER III It was Ronald Manning. He grabbed grabbed her by the arm. "Come on!" he snapped. "They may find out any second that I've foiled 'em and come blistering back! I say hurry, can't you?" He was dragging her down the stairs, his small light wavering and shifting. "How can I hurry," she flared at him, "when I can't see where Pm going! Unless you want me to fall and break my neck!" "Serve you right if you did!" he remarked curtly. Outside the big yellow car waited. waited. Iris scrambled in. Ronald Manning Manning leaped in beside her and took the wheel. A moment later, they were whirling out through the gate and along the little side road. At the highway, to Iris' contern- ation, Ronald, instead of heading back home, turned in the other direction, direction, "Where are you going?" she demanded. demanded. "You'll have to take me home right away !" "Sorry," he told her flatly. "1 have things to do. If you come barging in where you have no business, business, I can't help it!" "If I'd known the beastly car belonged belonged to a member of a gang of thugs, I certainly would have kept out of it!" He threw her an exasperated glancfe. "Now look here, you little idiot! I'm not connected with that Crowd for reasons of my own. It happens to be my job to get evidence evidence against them. And now, if you've gone and ruined everything --" He broke oif angrily. Iris"fury oozed from her. She felt rather small. "How did you know I was there, and. how did you ever get there?" she asked mildly, "Motorcycle," he said crisply. "1 saw you take the car, So 1 got out the wheel and wag trailing you when those fellows fell in behind you. When you turned into that place back there and they followed you, I hid the wheel in the bushes inside the gate, and sneaked up while you were all arguing behind the house. Then when they took you into the house, < laid out that fellow .they called Slim. Luckily, I never met him face to facie before." "And then you gave them the slip and came back to get me?" Iris asked. He nodded. "They're probably in front of us now, thinkipg they're chasing me!" Iris said, "And now what do we do?" "We drive to the city to deliver a bag that's in the back." "What's in the bag " Iris asked curiously. Ronald grinned, a little ruefully. "I'm afraid," he said, "that it's nothing but a package of old newspapers. newspapers. I had hoped it would be about twenty thousand dollars in Counterfeit money. But now--" He broke off with a sudden, sharp exclamation. A pair of headlights had appeared over a rise ahead of them. He pushed Iris down to the floor of the car. * * * "There they are ! Get down quick ! Here---cover yourself up !" name stands higher amongst gardening experts To make certain of re- »ult$ buy seeds with a reputation --- Ryders* ! 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Manning! You got a job to do tonight--" "And somebody stole my oar!" inserted inserted Ronald. "I chased him on the highway, then finally found him behind behind the old Cutler place. I socked him, grabbed the car, and here I am !" The wiry man snorted. "You fool! That was Slim you hit--one of our own guys!" "What!" exclaimed Ronald. "Then what in thunder was he doing making making off with my car! You trying -to pull something on me, Cramer?" The burly man now cut in, impatiently. impatiently. "Slim didn't take you ear! It was this dame!" "You sure you don't know anything anything about that dame?" Cramer said suspiciously, "She said she was visiting next door to you," "All right, all right!" snapped Itonald impatiently. "There is a girl next door, I believe. I understand she's engaged to Barry Vernon-- Lord knows why!" he roared his engine. engine. "And now, are you going to let me get away from here? I'm half an hour late!" "Aw, shove off! Come on, Pete!" said Cramer. He and his burly henchman turned turned away, and the yellow car roared off down the road. * * * Iris sac up angrily. "Just what did you mean by that remark concerning concerning my engagement? Don't you approve of Mr Vernon " "I don't approve of your engagement engagement to him. Barry is a nicely brought up little boy with very good manners,!" "I'm surprised you recognize them," said Iris sweetly. "Oh, everybody knows how nicely brought up , I am." averred Ronald. "Id never think of stealing anybody's anybody's automobiie!" There was a long silence. Out of the corner of her eye, Iris surreptitiously surreptitiously studied this young man beside beside her, Good profile. Determined Determined and very competent. Suddenly, she was immensely glad to be where she was. Involuntarily, she moved closer to him. He looked at her swiftly. Something Something held Iris from moving away. And so, presently, he took one hand from the wheel and put an arm about ho. "You know," he said softly, "I've been watching you since you came next door. I was wishing I could barge in and steal you!" "I wish you had."'sighed-Iris. "When I'm through with this little job," he promised, "you and I--" Iris sat up with a quick exclamation. exclamation. On the tef {, a lighted roadhouse roadhouse had shot into view, and before before the entrance . stood a long, familiar shape. Gus ! "Ronnie! There's Barry's car! Oh stop, please! I'll have to go back with him! Heavens, they'll all think I'm dead!" Ronnie shrugged, swerved, and pulled over into the parking space beside the roadhouse. "Dangerous spot to stop," he said. "This is a hangout of Cramer's gang --and if--" Ms interrupted. "That's" all right ! I'll go in by myself." .. He climbed out. "Oh, no! I'll deliver deliver you in person." They started across the gravel driveway. Sudddenly, a half-strangled cry sounded startlingly from somewhere ahove them:. 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