XXXIII. AND ALL ON ACCOUNT OF SUSAN




ILLUSTRATIONS

"I must go, now. I--must--go!"

Susan Betts talking with Mrs. McGuire over the back-yard fence

"Want you? I always want you!"

"You've helped more--than you'll ever know"

He gave her almost no chance to say anything herself

Keith's arm shot out and his hand fell, covering hers

It was well that the Japanese screen on the front piazza was down




CHAPTER I

THE GREAT TERROR


It was on his fourteenth birthday that Keith Burton discovered the