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JACQUES FUTRELLE
3e
Hilastrations by M. KETTNER
Copasiuny, 1908, by The Amsociated Sunday Magaxines
prright 1, oy he Boble Merrill Company.
18
SYNOPSIS,
Count 4! Ros!
sador, is at
A messenger
bassy, where
Asks for a ti
The ticket is
Miss Isabel
the secret servi
head detective
brewing Ww
to the state ba r information
tention is ca 1 to Miss Isabel Thorne
who with her companion, disappears
shot is heard and Senor Alvarez of
legation, is found wound
is assu Miss Thorne did |
demanding knowledge
Ita
ambas
ats wi
the i
r with dipl
mmons him to the
a beautiful young wo
tet to the embassy
out the name
+ Chief Campbell
and Mr :
in
red
CHAPTER XXlll—{(Continued.
“Miss Thorne has
ter fairly, 1 believe,
and Mr. Grimm permitted his eyes
linger a the flushed
of this woman who, in 8 way, was de-
fending him. “But there is ly one
thing Miss Thorne.” He
talking to her now. “There is no mid
dle course. It is a problem that has
only one answer-—the de-
struction document, and the
High
sonal
stated
your High
tO
moment on face
on
to do, was
posaible
of that
departure of
Ness,
care all
matter
you,
my pe:
I Imagin:d this
that day on
end here, now,
vou, and your
for Italy
the
had
under
way
ended
steamer; it will
night.”
The prince
watch, then
percussion
which, with a curious
ed over to the squat
his
the
glanced ag
thoughtfully
ain at
weighed
hand, after
he walk
globe in an
He bent
sy 4
cap In
opposite corner of
it
ened up
“That cap,
advantage.”
y
“When it is
over half straight
Mr. Grimm, has
he remarked c¢
attached
one dis
asually
ine
f0O a m or
How Much?
torpedo it can not
without firing it. It is attached”
turned to the others. "It is needless
to discuss the matter further just
now If you will follow me?
will leave Mr. Grimm here.”
With a strange little ery, neither
anger nor anguish, yet oddly partak-
ing of the quality of each, Isabel went
quickly to the prince.
“How dare you do such a thing?”
she demanded florcely. “It Is mur
der.”
“This is not a time, Miss Thorne,
for your interference,” replied the
prince coldly. “It has all passed be
yond the point where the feelings of
any one person, even the feelings of
the woman who has engineered the
compact, can be considered. A single
life can not be permitted to stand in
the way of the consummation of this
world project. Mr. Grimm alive
means the compact would be useless,
if not impossible; Mr. Grimm dead
means the fruition of all our plans
and hopes. You have done your duty
and you have done it well; but now
your authority ends, and I, the spe
tial envoy of"
“Just a moment, pleass,” Mr. Grimm
fnterrupted courteously. "As 1 wun:
Aeratand it, your Highness, the mine
there In the corner is charged?”
for purposes of experiment.”
“The cap is attached?”
“Quite right.” The prince laughed
“And at three o'clock, by
watch, the mine will be fired
wireless operator fifteen miles
an
by a
“Something like that; yes
i
three.”
tered it. The car trembled and has
“Thank you. 1 merely wanted
Mr
up against the door
“Now, gentlemen,” and he
of three o'clock At
mine will explode. We will all
when it happens, un-
the compact.”
Eyes sought eyes, and the
His face was bloodless
Grimm gave
ture
“If any man,” and Mr
room | know he will die; and there's
a bare chance that the percussion cap
will fall work. 1 can
{f there is a rush”
“But, man {if that mine explodes we
shall ‘killed—blown to pleces!”
burst from one of the cowled figures
“If the percussion cap works,” sup
plemented Mr. Grimm
Mingled struggled
flushed face of Isabel as she
Mr. Grimm's impassive countenance
“1 have never disappointed you yet,
Thorne,” he remarked as if it
an explanation l not
to
all
all be
in the
studied
emotion
Miss
shall
She turned
r Highness, ink ft
irther,”
needless
“We have
there is onl)
she sald
fn the matter;
$ sesrinact ™
the compact
Grimm bet
s absurd to let one man sta
declared
3 ir
i Da an mg
the prince
ir Highness «
ask
man
“for
: me to
prevent
t one
a the way?’
quick change came
face The eyes
and lines
geen appeared
in a flash, t
Was
od forth
na's
a8 ware get
had
mo
never
Here
aside,
this
dis ulation cast
Hiant,
things
The compact will
she said
NO
“ys
declared the
prince
must be destroyed
Must?
J
Mus
pacing back
with thao
in his hand
Isabel stood
room
tehing
minutes!” Mr
And now broke out an «
babel of French
those
0 had held
all began talking at or
*
far 1 :
ef, a
Spanish;
wh
ian,
cowled ones
y long
of them hed at
Bla
COM pad the sana
arguing
with ¢
atill
ed face
“Do know
you if 1 do as you
savagely
ed as traitor,
you
wii! be brand
that your your
‘It means you
name,
“If you
ness."
that [I have
will pardon
interrupted,
me, your High-
power
to me to
ig a matter
and my
as it affects
she ‘the
used was gi
it It
between me
and as far
ven
used
§ .
Have
to be settled
You will destroy the compact.”
“Nine minutes!” sald Mr
monotonously
Again the babe! broke out
"Do we understand that you
the compact?’ one of
cowled men asked suddenly of Mr.
Grimm as he turned
“No, 1 don't want to see it
fer vot to see It."
With hatred blazing in his eyes the
prince made his way toward the lamp,
holding a parchment toward the blaze
“There's nothing else to be done,”
he exclaimed savagely
“Just a moment, please,” Mr. Grimum
interposed quickly. “Miss Thorne, is
that the compact?”
She glanced at it, nodded her head,
and then the flame caught the fringed
edge of paper. It crackled, flashed,
flamed, and at last, a thing of ashes,
was scattered on the floor, Mr. Grimm
rose.
“That is all, gentlemen,” he an
nounced courteously. “You are free to
go. You, your Highness, and Miss
Thorne, will accompany me”
He held open the door and there
was almost a scramble to get out,
The prince and Miss Thorne waited
until the last,
“And, Migs Thorne, if you will give
us a Ht in your car?!” Mr. Grimm
Grimm
I'd pre
membered something, and leaped out.
“Walt for me!” he called.
a man locked in the coal-bin!”
He disappeared into the house, and
Miss Thorne, with a gasp of horror
sank back in her seat with
chalk The prince glanced
at his watch, then spoke curtly to the
chauffeur
“Run the
there'll be
moment.”
They had gone perhaps a hundred
feet when the building they had just
left seemed to be lifted bodily from
the ground by a great spurt of flame
which tore through its center, then
collapsed like a thing of cards. The
prince, unmoved, glanced around at
of danger;
there in a
car
an
up out
explosion
him
ahead,”
timore.”
beside
he commanded. “Bal
“Go
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Personal Equation,
Mr. Campbell talking and
the deep earnestness that had settled
on his passed, leaving instead
ti blank. inscrutable mask be-
ceased
face
of
“You,
Thorne,
Your Highness, and
Will Accompany Me"
belitnd which his clock like
| The
resident
inquir.
untenance
right,
wd which
it
cabinet
f Chief
an
-
There
nis
gathered
the
bs ey 13
aour
had
d, at last
» not made
explain it
WHERE IS CIRCUIT RIDER:
Old-Fashioned Preacher
Seems to Mave Vanished From
Present-Day Warld.
itinerant
s
has become of the ol
He
te
ighed entirely
4 cireul
gone, to
from the pres
older
"er
What
rider? seems to have
world, although to the
figured in the lives of
» people to whom he ministered
ions he
n thelr day the circuit riders knew
or rest, for each
from seven to fifteen parishes, miles
apart from each other. When night
overtook the cireuit rider and his
horse-—this was the minister's usual
mode of travel-~he stopped with some
member of one of his parishes. And
be it sald it was great honor, indeed
¥ n
some
the minister at a meal or over night
Probably the much overworked
derstanding
bered and are gone, probably never to
ful in the performance of it
They Are Tinkering With Pisa,
the present condition of the Leaning
Tower of Plsa, it appears that, instead
of being supported on a massive found
ation, the tower rests on a. ring
shaped masonry base, with an in
ner diameter of 24 feet 3% Inches
exactly the same as the Inner diame
eter of the tower, The tower is abomn
177 feet high, and in 1829 is sald tc
have been 14 feet § Inches out of
plumb; since that time its inclination
has been increased by an additional
0.0066 foot per foot of its height. In
1834 an earthquake caused a deflection
of about five inches,
On Bargain Day.
Gentlemen-—Er—where can 1 find
the silk counter? Floorwalker--Third
battle to the right.~-Judge.
THE NEWS OF
PENNSYLVANIA
e— a
Freeland —8teve Harlack was kill
by a fall of coal and Michael
his laborer, was fatally in.
in the Jeddo mines of G B.
Norristown. Elva Tarbutton, of
Penn street, Camden, died at the home
of her grandmother, Mrs. A. R. Tar-
button, from tetanus, caused by dirt
getting into a vaccination wound
Reading. —The torch was applied to
the stack of the Empire Iron & Steel
Company, at Topton, Thursday. There
are now three furnaces in blast in
that vicinity, with the prospects of
another going in some time this fall,
Easton. The jury
Coroner Fetherolf to
death of Miss Catherine
this city, who was killed last
an auto accident, found a verdict that
it was due to excessive and
reckless driving. Parents of the dead
girl have entered Diehl
for $5,000 damages, At
torney McKeen is the
case with a view of proceeding against
Diehl
Reading
who
impanelled by
inquire into the
Warner, of
week in
speed
suit against
and District
ooking into
for reckless running
Vanaman,
the murder
Matthew E
found
Mary
was sent
was guilty of
E. Vanaman,
enced to hang
Endlich When
to sav, Van
of his wife, last
February,
ed by
he had
be
#
fudge asked if
anvthing aman ad
wick,
Peace
State Legislature
attack
th
an
self wi
revolver
ward ¢
South
cials of
Coopersburg fused to listen 1
petition of iis lovees that they be
! for
100 girls
na Huns
strikers,
hroke
bottom
huge rock
giruck
mpleted
1 work is being
as specifica
Opiaga
of $800 for the
a ’
» contract
a saving
!
York.— While his
tending
Ing
and
5
sae
ome
wt
Mahanoy
ton I Ridge
bed
colliery {
Adam Anth
were rescusd nd
Melusky,
Dennis
+ for their
short
experience Ihe ree men were
last i a rush in the
RAangway Their absence was
and a force organ
ized, which never faltered in the face
of grave perils, until the three men
were reached and released
Potteville
nor, George Haines,
a long in the
county prison for horse stealing, walk.
caught
dis
covered rescuing
Pardoned by the Gover
sentence
a free man
he Invented
to
Since his imprisonment
a lifesaver, which is
be used as one
while he was
States
upon it
prison the United
Office
by
He has also
and there will be no more deaths of
aviators. Though penniless, he has
refused $50,000 for his lifesaving in-
ventions, and will hold out for double
that sum.
Pittsburgh. — Vaccinated twenty-one
days ago upon entering school, Albert
(i. Glass, aged six, died at his home in
New Brighton, from lockjaw. The
vacoination, it is said, became infect.
od a few days ago and tetanus de
veloped.
Bothlehom «Five robbers waylaid
James Beller, of East Macungle, while
on his way home from Emaus and, be
coming onraged at not finding any
money on his person, beat him ter
ribly and threw him down an embank.
ment, where he was later found in an
sneonscious condition, :
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