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SYNOPSIS.
Bet
Prd grTE ARE 3 Py
he asked at
e air. She was
iinted in the ball
minutes ago’
: 3 Nave been
Bre d within Mr. G
found no for
be spoke again his
cairn
Miss Thorne, perhaps?”
“Yeu, sir, that's the name-—Miass
Thorne. 1 was in the ladies’ dressing
reom when she was brought A
& 4 1 remember some one called her
Bsme
Mr. Grimm took the girl still a
er with excitement
the hall to where Gray stood
Take this girl in charge, Gray.”
directed. “Lock her up, If ne
permit her to say one word to
anybody, you understand
“i
ainly
express ee Wher
was quite
in, sir
n'y
CRBALrY
Don't
anybody
except the chief”
Mr. Grimm left them there He
passed along the hall, glancing in sach
room 28 he went, until he came
short flight of stairs leading
the kitchen. He went on down al'ent
ly. The lights were burning. but the
place was still, deserted. All the sory
ants who belonged there were
dently, for the moment, transferred to
other posts. He passed on through the
kitchen and out the back door into
the street
A little distance away, leaning
aguinet a lamp post, a man was stand.
ing. He might have been waiting for
a car. Mr. Grimm approached him
“Beg pardon,” he sald, “did you see
4 woman come eut of the back door,
there?”
“Yes, Just a moment or so ago.” re
plied the stranger. “She got into an
automobile at the corner. 1 imagine
owl
kerchief, a dainty, perfumed trifle of
lace. “1 picked it up Immediately
after ghe passed”
Mr. Grimm took the handkerchief
a time he was thoughtful, with low:
ered eyes, which, finally raized met
those of the stranger with a scruth
nizing stare.
“Why,” asked Mr. Grimm slowly
and distinctly, “why did you slam the
door in the girl's face?
“Why did I-—-what?'
swering question.
“Why d!d you slam the door in the
| girl's face?" Mr Grimm
| slowly.
| The stranger stared in utter amaze
| ment—an amazement so frank, so un
acted, so genuine, that Mr. Grimm was
| satisfied.
“Did you
came the an.
|
|
|
see a man come out of
j the door?” Mr. Grimm pursued
| “No. Bay, young fellow, 1 guess
{ you've had a little too much to drink,
| haven't you?
But by that time Mr
{ turning the corner
arimm was
CHAPTER V.
A Visit to the Count.
The bland serenity of Mr
bell’'s face was disturbed by
spidery lines of perplexity, and
gulleless blue eyes were vacant as he
stared the of his desk Mr
thin,
at
i WAS
top
trirmun talking
the moment
the
“From Miss
turned
he
ie
all trace
had
of
her." sald an au
a,
Miss
the reports on her are of
explained
hole
gEeon
Weg Rs
“What Sort of Paper Was It" In
quired Mr. Grimm.
now, as you know, is'a guest at the
Venezuelan legation Since her ar
rival Bere she has been prominently
pushed forward into soclety: she
| kone everwhers, and been received
! everywhere In the diplomatic set. We
of her beyond
hee
{ have no knowledge
| this.”
| Thers was a question In Mr. Gr mm's
| listless oyes as they met those of the
| chief. The same line of thought was
| running in both their minds, bors, per
| haps, of the association of {deas-—Italy
as one of the three great nations
| known to be In the Latin compact:
| Prince Benedetto d’Abrozse! Italy,
| the secret envoy of three countries:
| the sudden Al pearance of Miss
Thorne at the itallan embassy. And
in the mind of the younger man there
was more than this--a definite knowl
jedge of a message cunningly trans
mitted to Mr. Rankin of the German
| embassy, by Miss Thorne there in the
i ballroom,
I “Can you imagine—" he asked slow.
ly, “can you imagiue a person who
of
government In Washinglon right at
this stage of negotiations than a bril
lant woman agent?”
“1 most certainly cannot,” was the
chief's unhesitating response
“In that case I don't think it would
transfer the investigation
of the shooting affair to another man,”
sald Mr Grimm emphatically, revert
ing to kis chiefs question. “1 think
on the contrary, we should find out
more about Miss Thorne."
“Precisely,” Campbell agreed.
“Ask all the great capitals about her
Madrid, Paris and Rome, particular
ly, then, perhaps, London and Berlin
and St. Petersburg.”
Mr. Campbell thoughtfully scribbled
the names of the cities on a slip of
“Do you
Thorne for
fed.
“1 don't know,” replied Mr. Grimm,
frankly. “I don't know,” he repeated,
musingly. “If I do arrest her imme-
diately | may cut off a clue which
will lead to the other affair. I don't
know.” he concluded
“Use your own judgment, and bear
mind that a man—a man slammed
in the maid's face.”
not forget him.” Mr
“Now I'm going
to Count 4! Rosin! for
The young man went out,
UBRIng at his gloves
ambassador received him with
ipiift of his hrows
to make »
Mins
Mr
futend to arrest Miss
the shooting?’ he quer
11
“1 shall
answered
Grimm
to
"
Ovar
while
thought
The Ital
an
A
dark
ne
surprised
is face
t the
tand
Ang it,
Are SPONSOT
preposterons
sRador
charge
And
sfaction
: were drawn
straight line
: ay 1 ask”
we supposing
hs
gidly, th
orne ahot
are
me, particularly
Just
anybody-—-me
aesured him easily
that she had shot
Alvarea?”
can’t answer a question
so ridio-
ious ag that
And suppose we go
ther,” Mr. Grimm
and assume that you
shot some one, say Senor Alvarez,
could protect her from the
congaguences, would you?
iI decline to suppose anything so
itterly absurd,” was the rejoinder
Mr. Grimm sat with his elbows on
is knees, idly twisting a seal ring on
his ttle finger
of the ambassador found
slankly (nscrutible
“Diplomatic representatives in
have certain obligations
“
little fur
pleasantly,
knew she had
a
insisted,
his face
Washington
to this government,” the young man
reminded him, “We
rument of the United States-—under
take to guarantee the personal safety
of every accredited representative; in
return for that protection we must ia
Het ul
to any foreign Un
lerstand. please,
representative
I'm not
10% You are sponsor for her here.
protection?”
“Yen,” said the ambassador flatly.
“1 can take it, then, that the intro
person whose poition Is high enough
to insure Miss Thorne's position?”
“That is correct.”
‘“Wery well!”
And Mr. Grimm went away.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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in
death, wi
R97 North
“i out
Allentown, a fourtl ictim
en William Hartman. i
t, Reading, »
the employ of a
was electrocuted
urred near the Allen
In order repair
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Second stro
ground man in tele
phone company,
The fatality «
town
Hospital to
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large nu ¢ of its men from
cities.
Mrs. William
again that
Blo burg
nan proved
the »r ir of invention
found mether hen killing
first two peeps that she hatched out
Lie
about to be hatched, from the mother
hen, she placed them in the stove and
every one hatehed
Berwick It was a ticklish situa.
tion in which Fred Hagenbueh, a lo
local bee fancier, found himself when
a swarm of bees took it upon them:
selves to svarm upon the top of his
head, covering his pate to a depth of
eight Inches and with the entire tog
of ils head coverad. Afraid to moye
he remained quiet for more than
half hour before he succeeded in got
ting them to arise, but gently stirring
a stick In the swarm. For a second
time they swarmed, alighting on his
neck. It was several hours before he
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