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CHAPTER X-—Continueg.
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“Finally the old boy got up-'with the
case held tight under his arm and
went toward the door with the girl
and the foreigner following him, and
the foreigner talking fast and loud.
They got outside and all got into the
car, the girl beside the old boy, who
was driving, and the foreigner behind.
“As the old boy started the car, the
foreigner made a grab for the case,
but the old boy was too quick for him
and dropped it to the floor. The car
swerved toward the ditch.
“You can't drive a car that way,’ 1
aid. ‘You'd better tell that fellow to
ay off.’
“I've told him,’ said the
‘If he keeps on bothering me,
him with a gun, He'll kill all of us.’
“So they started, but they hadn't
gone a quarter of a mile when I heard
the girl scream. I got my motorcycle,
which was out in front, and went
down the road after them. There was
sure going to be an accident If the for-
eigner Kept grabbing at the man at
the wheel. They must have been go-
ing pretty fast.
old boy.
I'll tell
I chased them a mile
and a half, and several times I heard
the girl cry out ahead in the dark.
“I was within two hundred yards of
them when the girl screamed louder
than ever, and I heard a crash. I knew
they'd get it, and they had. The car
had gone into a tree at the side of the
road.
was unconscious—but the foreigner
was gone.”
“What about
asked a man in t
constable, It was
could have sl
“It
the
1
hie
leather case?”
group about the
the
wited out myself,
The old
not have a single paper in his pockets
Was gone, too.
but after 1 got help and we got atten
tion for the » found a
her purse
Mitchell, Hartley
only dentificati
to Har
over,
was the
telephoned over
iid
it. I've got to
ation It's
from Hartley was
said he wo
about
know
over to the s about
that man
me up.”
As he went out,
on the
I followed h
sidewalk I introduced mj)
CHAPTER XI.
The constable looked at me for an
fnstant
gard my manner of getting his
tive as :
“You were tel
know,” 1
Cihuse I
you there, 1
but it without inte:
information that I
otherwise.”
right,
see through
as if uncertain whether to re.
narra-
¢ pot
altogether fri
11
ling 1
ranted to
suggested. came In
was directed
did not
wns
did not expect to
gain
“It's
“You
Just
ought to have been with
and-1 pretty near getting
The first thing is the identif
the body. For the time
the station-house.”
There doubt,
before 1 looked at the face, from which
the the
covered the body as it lay on
The shabby
hie timid but
probably, in
fife
all " sald the constable
me, though, 1
uncomfortable 1
was
thinking how
was 8016
ation of
being,
was
no possible even
constable drew sheet which
a bench.
little rascally
' ’
IRnWwWYers
me villainous— neces.
NEary.
happy
his gnarled and un-
by death,
\ deputy of the coroner was present,
and he took a deposition by me which
gave merely the dead man's
stated that he had called
times at Hartley house on
and that I had no personal! knowledge
of manner in which
death,
were closed
name,
several
business
the he
came to
his
of me. A maid by the name of Agnes
Mitchell had been given temporary
employment at Hartley house, It was
undoubtedly she who cot
panion of the man
killed,
the
had
was
who been
see the maid and whether she was
too badly Injured to talk to any one,
He said that she had been taken to
the nearest hospital, which was ten
miles sway. He did not know how
serious her Injuries were. I had my
driver take me to the hospital and
found that as a representative of the
family for which she was employed
I might talk to her.
She was In pain and heavily ban.
daged, but was conscious and willing
to talk.
“Agnes,” I sald, when the nurse had
left us, “I am not here to make a great
deal of trouble for you, but If 1 show
leniency it will be in exchange for your
confidence, We have known that an
unconscionable gnung of rascals have
had designs on Hartley house, Evi
dently you have yielded to some temp.
tation they offered you. Deal with me
frankly, and I'll be more than lenient.”
She toldeme that the lawyer had
tried to corrupt the maid, Anna, who
had asked, later, for a month's leave,
She found that she did not have the
courage for the work. The lawyer
evolved the plan of introducing a reso
lute and reliable woman Into the house
by the expedient adopted. Her In-
structions were to find and take away
a manuscript she would find concealed
in Jed's room. The abduction of Jed
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had made it easy for the maid to search
through his belongings. Agnes did not
know what value was attached to the
manuscript, It was her obligation
merely to get it,
The lawyer was to have an automo-
bile waiting on the read beyond the
onk grove. He was to be by the small
door, through which the maid escaped.
She ransacked Jed's room in the fash-
fon of which 1 saw the result, and
found (he box cunningly hidden io his
bedsprings In a manner so contrived
that exeept to careful investigation It
seemed to be a part of the structure of
the bed.
Agnes sald that she had planned to
make her after my round of
escape Oi
lug the thing 80 earnestly sought be-
trayed her into Incautiousness.
The lawyer's plan was to take the
road we would think them Hkely
tnke in there were pursuit,
and for that reason had gone toward
Horwich.
to meet them, but he
they intended to go through Horwich,
les
to case
pected
they would get there if they were suc-
cessful. The train which stopped at
Horwich to let off passengers allowed
him to act upon a plan which his sus-
picions of his lawyer's good faith sug-
gested,
a drink,
He was In Horwich unexpectediy
The
in the Half Day barroom
The Spaniard was determined
the manuscript.
The Inwyer was determined he should
ot have it. They the
rer tried to drive
narrow
scene
lowed.
PEO 1
Siruggieq
the car,
as
having
escapes from the
the Spaniard, rage, aban
caution and himself
the lawver, lost con
who
i f hit
n
the ear and
vy nll irl Erne
wis all the girl knew,
1 thought a while, make
up my mind what
the girl.
trying to
further to do
Finally I sald:
with
inclined to
ith law, I will
you now, and ithout
mise w prefer no
“Because | Am a Thief and Know the
Business and Have a Record.”
that no charges ever will be preferred
against you if I may have you removed
to Hartley house, where vou will have
every care, but where you must re
under ‘a sure but unobtrusive
surveillance until we give you per
mission to go.”
In spite of her pain the girl smiled.
“You would amuse the police,” she
sald.
“Why? 1 asked.
“Why do you suppose the lawyer
hired nie for this job?”
‘Becatise you weve available, sult.
able and easily tempted.”
‘Because | am a thief and know the
business and have a record.”
That was a facer, but it
change the present need,
“You have less reason, then, for
wanting to come to the attention of
the police again.” »
“I have no reason at all.”
“Then you will com& to Hartley
house as I suggested?”
“Sure, if you can get me there with-
out killing me.”
I made the necessary arrangements,
and Agnes set out on her return, Io
an ambulance,
The servant who opened the door as
we drove uprwas Jed,
1 could not help showing by a start
and by the expression on my face that
I was astonished by his reappearance.
This pleased him. When he acted he
lked to produce effects. He looked In-
quiringly at the ambulance and then
inquiringly af me. By that time I was
able to accept him as a usual part of
the household.
“Get someone to help you with a
stgetcher, Jed,” 1 sald, “Agnes, a mald,
has been hurt. Then tell Mrs, Aldrich
I should like to see her In the office as
soon as It Is egnvenient.”
“Yes, sir,” sald Jed
did not
ee i
Mrs. Aldrich came Immediately, and
I told her the girl Agnes was to be
treated with every consideration and
that If It were possible to have the
other malds regard her kindly so as
not to make her feel obloquy, it would
be only Christian.
Mrs, Aldrich was a very
churchwoman and I could in the
tightening of her lips that such soft
treatment of na woman caught in crime
did not satisfy her ideas of morality.
She went out dissatisfied, but I knew
she would do her best, Jed came in,
stil In his superserviceable mood.
“Would you like
he asked, I was tired
a stimnlant.
“Yes, Jed 1 would—thapk you,” 1
| snld as heartily as I could, determined
to break down his triumph of lmper-
turbability by a commonplace handling
{of him. He brought the tray.
“Sit down,” 1 “Your schemes
staunch
see
some
and
Coiiee,
did want
sald.
It will do you no good, and it may de-
stroy the family. Things are beyond
| your control or my control. The Span
fard has the manuscript he was after
Your power is gone. It transferred
{ to him.”
“So you
fair!”
“1 am not, I o know
happened since I came here,
want to know any more.”
“You are wise, There is nothing but
and danger in
{| It Is not news to me that Dravada has
| Mr. Sidney's diary. They released
learned that the manus
and that the lawyer
had it."
is
are familiar with this af
what
I do not
ly
iy
unhappiness knowing
ie
after they ript
had been
and Dravada
Jed and
{ had him. 1
| angry, remembering Isobel as she cams
that nig
her walst
found
then told what
was
sat down
happened to Vers
ht with
I wondered
hunning In her sleeve
torn from
'
i 1 eould hen he man calmly,
iy
| had extraordinary power, being
Hae
| by extraordinary emotions,
“In the first place.” he sald, “may
ve been preposterous?
| say I ha
You think I am a lunatic,
i Tam, it. It 1s ensy
ane It
times hard to seem one If you are not
Sometimes
enough to be
alma
a cabbage if you are is some
I've been a fool
for
for ing that 1 have not been
I want happiness and {im
| portance, bat
mon rense 5 going to have its
SOM
able to fine
My egotism asks for it
i my Oi
That's preliminary.”
Then he told his
violent
way.
experiences He
Isobel H«
it understood that he had been
He had
her or of tear
become with
wanted
but respectful
desperate ‘
of tak hold of
fcdon king h
She had been magnifl
given him a
like a worm.
b y
mora
He had
the
who had overpowered him. They had
him brush He
had recognized Dravada at once. He
She had
He felt
attacked
| shodk.
suddenly met
come upon from the
in a frenzy
bold and
the desperate little lawyer
activity, had been just
Another man
help Jad
He
been hustied into the screen of woods
them to a walting auto
had come breathlessly to
mobile, Z
His captors, in the automobile, had
midnight. They had taken their pris
oner to a fenement on the East side
! For several days the lawyer and Dra
vada had tried extort the secret
from Jed by threats. They had tried
to
division of profits,
been quite frantic part of the time
Jed said, bounding about in an ecstasy
of rage. At other times he had been
friendly and persuasive.
Dravada had been savage and want
od to try torture, but the attorney, en-
failure and disappointment, would not
permit this and had got a trustworthy
rascal of his nequaintance, named Sim
with two other men, to Keep a con:
stant guard over Jed with a view not
only to prevent his ascape but to keep
Dravada from doing him harm or tak
ing him away.
The lawyer, both dismayed and en
raged by Jed's obstinacy, had finally
house to find and steal the manuscript
to persuade an mald to prove false
enough to Introduce the real thief,
“Dravada and the lawyer never had
any hesitancy at Raving their quarrels
in the room where they held me” Jed
anid. “Brown was afraid Dravada
would corrupt the fellow Sim, torture
bme and get the story. Dravada was
afraid Brown would corrupt someone
in’ Hartley house and get the manu
script. Each one feared that the
other would succeed Independently
and get away without making a divi
sion.
“Dravada pretended to be satisfied
whenn Brown told him that he must
not appear near Hartley. When they
thought they were going to succeed in
stealing the manuscript out of my
room Brown proved to Dravada tha!
the only one of them that could go to
meet the mald was Brown. Dravads
appeared to accept that ns reasonable.
and he must have put Brown off his
guard, because Brown told him all the
plans,
“Dravada used to be very stupid,
of Intelligence.” He allowed Brown to
think he was perfectly satisfied, but
he wnsn't at all. By seeming to be
satisfied he lenrbed all about the de
tells of the plan, and he knew that
Brown, to avold pursuit, intended to
take the way to Horwich,
“He knew that if Brown went
through Horwich he would stop for
several drinks. . He would need them
if he was disappointed. He would have
to have them If he had the manuseript
and was excited by it. So Dravada
went to Horwich. Itgall worked out,
and when Brown got to the village, he
found Dravada,
to the fellow Sim to let me go.
perfectly harmless, It was an
esting situation”.
“I could wish Dravada had tortured
you," I sald to Jed. “He has
means now, through youn, to
this family.”
“I said I knew
manuscript.” sald Jed,
effect,
that I knew
manuscript,
I was
inter.
Dravada had the
he thought he had the
If I had no more than the
have conducted this affair
What Dravada has is not the
i could
80 long,
not
did not fully
what despondency our
up that time ha“
If Mr. Sidney's diary wice
read bw we
might expect anything
The lawyer
on'y a
into
decoy, |
realize
to
unscrupulous men,
shrewdness and
made him formidable
The Spaniard would soon
whose
of morals
dead
thought the
WHE greater
pleasure
physica!
than
in telling
furious. I
Jed
some
evel
found
him so,
He was convinced of that himself
“Why dou't you end your rascality 7"
“Why don’t you give the
Mrs. and
whatever disposition
manuscript to Sidney allow
her to make she
wants of it? Then your conscience
will be easy-—your
he
position in
house will for t be tolera-
f tine
rst time
! and your physi
fo 8 decent
security #
would not
will
cal
He
+ promote dl.
He to hes!
purpose
seemed
his
too much »
y hav
We parted
there
peace
@
would be nc
possible truce hetween us
or
unless he respected the women of the
He
| ne
} bowed
sir?
the servant.
he asked: and
ns
Mrs. Sidney's relief t
robbers was such as would come
horrors
of
protect
from het
keep the
fy o1¥:1
fro tangible
een
CERRY
nd and daughter
escape from
ad been |) control
Was Dex 10
rif oo |
isnificance 11
he
of robbery.
phissedd over as a triv
that
she relaxed
feared that
learned
ty ack to command «
Ther
peed |
eX1
Foss
bedroom-—for prayer,
Mr. Sidney's at the
Jedd
botties of wine
I found him in the hall
of the house,
return
went
Joy
fo bx
, and
very tipsy with two
ns
He
went my rounds
was singing.
I knew and soon
what man
apprehensive
al
oon
we'd hear again
not in
Naturally [I was
no doubt Jed was more so
he tried
The Spaniard could not be expecte
fo accept failure final Hs
try again.
in
to conceal his fears
his ns
a disconcerting fash
Thus far we had been dealing with
We now came to deal §ith inevitabil
ity. Our experiences had been disa
We had
entered s
WHS no
Now
there
we
way from which
He was a detective.
was Morgan: he was the hea
me
agency.
while yet wondering what his busi
this newcomer
more than a suggestion
malevolence in his face,
Before he was through his inter
view with me, or rather his inquiries
of me, I knew that inevitability hag
entered our case, We were no longe
progressing at the mercy of opportuni
ty or chance. Morgan was fate, The
whole aspect had been altered. Mor
gan, a muscular, black-haired, sordid
unscrupulous man of action and ob
viously of queer action, was pur
Greek tragedy to ns,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Eggstracrdinary Coincidence,
The custom has prevailed with a cep
tain Episcopal church in California of
presenting each scholar of the Sunday
school with an egg at the celebration
of Easter, On one occasion, when
that point In the service was reached
which had been set apart for this in.
teresting cerbmony, the clergyman rose
and made the announcement: “Hymn
No. 410, "Begin, My Soul, the Exalted
Lay,’ after which the eggs will be dis
tributed."—Boston Transcript,
¥
In Paris there i8 a marked prefer.
ence for extremely simple tollettes, In
fact, writes a prominent fashion corre-
spondent, the tallored costume of al-
most classic style is now tremendously
| fashionable with its long, haif-fitted
| Jacket and slender skirt, the
| either plain or plaited,
i
| ave, African, Czecho-Slovak or Egyp-
| tian, The Parisienne, therefore, may
{| rightly claim that not all women in
France are extravagant nor are all of
the Paris dressmakers producing ex-
treme effects
and
one
through this
might gather that
the present«lay woman
that are showy and
rather than that
and simple,
| Ing the new
talk of the
treme and
that are
intter the
The women
the
for clothes
extrava
beautiful
taste
is
those
nre
inclined to
ex.
fashions, are
things
unusual, rather than
simple refined, w
best-dressed women
which are
and
buy.
of Parls, even more
at Win
braid or with a slip or underdress of
satin anf a long redingote of cloth,
| Maoy such frocks have high collars
| which button tightly about the throat
tand dre faced with a contrasting
cloth,
Autumn skirts are somewhat longer
than those worn during the spring and
summer. A skirt with its hem ten
inches from the ground is smart,
not extreme,
A redingote suit developed In green
| velveteen has a plaited skirt and the
yet
would
in
that
his way, so that it
the Parisienne
delirious
couturiere
appear
slave to
very that the
French out. A
mannequin at the races wearing
i blzarre will
proclaimed the world
the latest Paris
haps this dress is
in
kind
is a
creation
may
put
costume be mm
to fas
fashion, wl
the
01 ly
seen during the whole seaso
Paris,
Simplicity Sought After.
What
ths
(ress,
have
in Paris fashions?
than the
dressmakers create for
more simple
tallored sult
both of
been for
the
whicl
some
models whi
vite customers?
admired
the
lelty is
greatly
«11
€
regardi of
RE
tach
by
Paris
trade are
by pure
¥
i
One |
ed to the bizarre styles
fact t
who
the hat certain
.
cater entirely
sought in a re
meers of mode
ouse in
a great Paris fi
cnuse of this ro
facturers o
keep
8
2 (0%)
Hr simple silk dresses 1
thout one stitch of dery, lace
trimming of any ¢ ter. Even
aire
dresses,
only
which
with
handkerchief px
hout lining, guimpe or und
hems
slips
nels or
releeve,
ne of these models have not
hooky, They slip
even
One of the new fall suits developed in
plain and plaid woolen, a combina.
tion that is being emphasized in au-
tumn colisctions,
and a sash ties around the waist. Yet
for this simplicity and grace the dis
crimigating Parisienne will pay 50 per
cent more than for a dress with trim-
ming, which lacks the cachet of sim-
plicity, individuality and perfect cut,
Tailored Suits With Fur.
For the autumn there are charm
Ing taflored suits in redingote style
trimmed with fur bands, Sometimes
these redingotes have plaited full.
ness let Into the skirts. Simple fall
dresses also are being shown in both
redingote and apron styles and new
wraps are in perfectly simple outline,
In dresses many variations of the
redingote appear. They may be made
sotiraly of cloth and trimmed with
Dress of gray satin and dark blue vel.
vet. The long mitten siceves are of
the satin embroidered in blue to
match the velvet.
In
sauty and
very long
men have de
suit,
make
with a
SPARONS W
the |} g-conted
This. however, is not
the really long cont Nothing
than 8 suit such
it does. the
+ girlish
as this one
pearance of
nndoral
UNDGETEE
ADO .
redingote
*d broad-
trimming is
DNEKY r
ideal! Dress for Street Wear,
One of the newest and most popular
dresses is very much like
in outline. It
{ gives the effect of a skirt and a very
long coat, although it is really a one
piece dress. The trimming consists of
tailor's braid the same
the frock, It is an
or street wear in the au-
biue
{ the
Berge
redingote suits
of of
bands
dark hue as
ideal dress f
tumn.
Braid as a trimming has found con-
siderable favor in this autumn’s fash-
fons. Dressmakers are showing great
originality In their methods of using
this trimming. Not content with braid
alone, they have stitched It in silks of
contrasting colors and applied it in
ways that give the effect of new and
elaborate embroideries. Often the
raid is embroidered by hand,
The new square-hanging satin man-
tle is of the very heavy quality which
is being used for street wear this fall.
The trimming is moleskin, a fur which
will vie with squirrel in popularity
this winter,
Great stress is laid on satin for
“wraps of all sorts. The satin of 1020
is a striking example of the wonder.
ful progress that has been made In
the silk industry. One never would
suspect It of being even a distant rela
tive of the stiff snd lustrous satins
of bygone days. In past years satin
conts were considered suitable for el
derly. Indies only, while a wrap eof
today's satin is youthful,
| Lining silky are quite as handsome
[as those from which the garments
themselves are made. These are bean
tifal Chippendale prints and mikado
Jacquards, both of which have radium
backgrounds. The Chippendale is
printed In multicolors in Japanese,
butterfly, leaf and flower motifs, while
the mikado jacquard is brocaded In
conventional and floral designs in self-
colors,
A strong fancy Is manifested at the
present time for plaits arranged In
groups of ten to twelve, with plain
spaces of equal size Intervening.
There are dresses on which the trim
ming consists of Inserted plaited
hands surrounding the skirt in rows,
Many of the new printed silks are
worked up in this way.
blue
For Eton Suits.
The twicearound Egyptian girdle
should be worn with Eton sults