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i-nX-CONVIOT. Ho was sentenced,
Hi at Market Mllcaster Quarter, Bcs-
r.nil servitude for embysillng the
C.Sk'i money to the tune of over 200,-
M5 " "j. ' or.H H term nt Hurt.
Tnr Went to Australia n won, Or
rB ."? he come out. Th. who
SUrbury Wai Mnumuu. uwu tcr-
tai?..i.v, .till stared at lil caller.
.'A'""u'l i, said. "Tell all about
'(Jo on l
rft'a tiit AVAfr flftlall
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nut wnat
. c...A I, PL PI
iV AiTou all I know after
f knew' nothing to that."
Sort6 told him the whole story ot
i,u adfWKS at Market Mllcaster. and
the detecllve listened with rapt alien-
t,0W he said at the end. "Yes-I
An't think there's much doubt about
that. Well, that clears up a lot, doesu't
it?"'
?C.TXf'iii Mil i wlni oft
there."' h nW- "! hncn,',t1 s0, ,mu'h
ietereit Irt Marbury. or Maltlaud now.
Mv interest In all In Aylmore."
VWadd!,5''ThCthlnKtonnd
ut ls-Lwho Is Aylmore, or who was
'ffi'Vopteh'n't found an, thin.
n,it then?" asked Snargo.
'Nothing beyond the irreproachablo
hlitorv of Mr. Aylmore. since ho re
wrAfd to this country a very rich man
some en cars since,1' acswered Ilnth
hnrr stn ling. "They've no previous
dates to t" on. What are you going to
d0Bwk out'tftMIn Baylls," replied
SpYmi think you could get something
m.ro'" asked ltathbury.
"r Vie!" sld Spargo. "I don't
Mfeve for n secona yimorc miku
Xlirburr. I believe I shall get at the
;;th b'v following up what t call thti
. Th U MIsi nnvli must
,V.ttl.nt trnll
fuw iomethlng-if she's alive. Well.
He went or. then to the Watchman
oflice, and as he got out of his taxkah
it Its door another cob came up and
iet down Mr. Aylmore's daughter.
CHAPTER XXII
The nianli Past
JESSIfi AYIiMOKH came foiward to
meet Spargo with ready confidence;
the elder girl hung back diffidently.
"May we speak to you?" said Jessie,
"tt'e have corns on purpose to speak to
jou. Islyn didn't want to come, but
I made her come."
Spargo shook hands silently with
Evelyn Aylmore and motioned tbem
both to follow him. He took them
straight upstairs to his loom and be
stowed them in his easiest chairs be
fore he addressed them.
"I've only Just got. back to town,' he
mid abruptly. "I was sorry to hear
the news about your father. That s
what's brought you here, of course. But
i .n nfi'ttitJ I r'au't do much."
"I told you that we had no right to
trouble Mr. Spargo, Jessie," said Eve
Ivn Aylmore. "What can he do to help
us?"
,Tessie shook her head impatiently.
"The Watchman's about the mot
powerful paper in London, isn't it?"
ihe said. "And isn't Mr. Spargo writ
ing all these articles about the Mar
bury case? Mr. Snargo, you must
help us!" , , ,
Spargo sat down at his dck and be
gan turning over the letters and papers
which had accumulated during his ab
ttsce. "To be absolutely frank with you."
h$ said, presently, "I don't see how
mbody's going to help, so long as your
father keeps up that mystery about the
past.1'
"That," said Evelyn, auietly. "Is ex
actly what Ronuld says, Jessie. But
we can't make our father speak, Mr.
Spargo. That he is as innocent as we
ate of this terrible crime we are cer
tain, and we don't know why he
wouldn't answer the questions put to
him at the" Inquest. And we know no
more than jou 'sov or any one knows,
and though I hiwe begged my father to
speak, he won't say 11 word. Wc suw
his danger: Ronald Mr. Breton told
u. and we implored him to tell every
thing he knew lbout Mr. Mnrbury. But
o fir ho has simply laughed at the idea
that he had anything to do with the
murder, or could be arrestd for It, and
new ' '
"AmiI now h ''s locked up," said
Spargo in his usuil matter-of-fact fash
ion. "Well, there are people who have
in be savd from themselves, you know.
Perhaps you'll have to save your fa
ther from the consequences of his own
-shall wo say obstinacy? Now, look
here, betnetn ourselves, how much do
yoti know about jouv father's past?"
The two slst"rs looked nt each other
and hen at Spuigo,
"Nothing." Slid the elder.
"Absolutely nothing!" said the
younger.
"Answer a few plain questions,"
aid Spargo. ' I'm not going to print
your replies, nor make use of them In
any way: I'm only asking the questions
uith a desire to help you. Have you
any relations in England?"
"None that we know of," replied
KTelyn.
.1 J'NoLbo(,y J0" cm,ld F lo for informa
tion about the past?,r asked Spnrgo.
"No nnhmltrt" '
. Spiirgo drummed his flngern on bh
" '"'nK'Pau. ho was thinking haul.
"How old 1b your father?" lo asked
BUUUCUIJ-,
-no was fifty-nine a few week
ago, answered Kvciyn.
And how old arc you, and how old
is your sister?"
"I am twonty, and Jessie is nearly
"Where wern tum tiftrn?"
"Both of us at San Oregorio, which
is iu me nan .ioo province ot Argen
tina, north of Montevideo."
"Your father vcn In himtneaa thwn?"
"He was In limine in the export
trade, Mr. Spargo. There's no secret
nbout that. He exported all sorlw of
mmgs io j'.ngianri nnu to rrance
skins, hides, wools, dried salts, fruit
Thnt's how he made hl mnnev."
"You don't know how long he'd been
mp"" wnen you were born?"
"Xo."
m "Wni he married when he went o.it
tnere?"
"No. he wasn't. We do know that.
Ho s told us the circumstances of hli
marriage, becotiNe thev were romantic.
When he sailed from England to Bueuo
Aires he met on the steamer n young
lady who. he sold, was like himself. ie-
latlonless and nearly friendless. She
was going out to Argentina as a gov
erness. She and my father fell in love
with each other, and thev were mar
ried In Buenos Aires soon after the
steamer arrived."
"And yfiut mother l dead?"
"My mother died beforo wfl camo
to England. J was eight years old,
anti Jessie six, then."
"And jou came to England how
long alter that?"
"Two ycais."
"So that you've been In England ten
years. And tou know nothing what
ever of your father's past beyond what
you've toiti mcc
"Nothing absolutely nothing."
"Never heard hfm tall: of vou see.
according to your aicount, your father
was n man oi getting on to rorty when
he went out to Argentina. He must
havo had a career of some sort Iu this
country. Have you never heard him
(peak of his boyhood? Did he never
talk of old times, or that sort of
thlnu?"
"I never remember hearlns mv father
speak of any period antecedent to his
maniagc, replied Itiveiyn.
"I once asked him a question about
his childhood." said Jessie. "He an
swered that his early dayx had not
been very happy ones, and that he had
done nis best to forget them. Ho J
never asked him nnything again."
"So that It really comes to this." re
marked Spargo. "You know nothing
whatever about your father, his fam
ily, his fortunes, his life, beyond what
ou yourselves have observed since you
were able to observe? That's about it,
isn't t?"
"I should sav that that is exactly
it," answered Evelyn.
"Just xo." said Snargo. "And there
fore, as I told your sister the other day,
the public will say that your father has
some, dark secret behind him, and that
Marbury had possession of it, and tna
your father killed him in order to
silence him. That isn't my view.
not only believe jour father to be ab
solutely Innocent, but I believe that he
knows no more than a child unborn of
Marbury's murder, and I'm doing my
best to find out who that murderer was.
By the by, since you'll see all about It
in tomorrow morning's Watchman, I
may as well tell you that I've found out
who Marbury really was. He "
At this moment Spargo's door was
oncned and In walked Ronald Breton.
He shook his head at sight of the two
sisters.
"I thouiht I should find you hero."
he said. ".Tesslo said she was coming
to see you, Spargo, I don t know what
jrood you can do I don't fee what good
the most powerful newspaper in the
world can do. My God ! everything's
nbout as black as ever It can be. Mr.
Aylmore I've just come away from
him; his solicitor. Mttauon, anu i
have been with him for an hour is
obstinate as ever he will not tell moic
than he has told. Vhntever good can
you do. Spargo. when he won't speak
about that knowledge ot .Maroury wnicn
he must hate?"
"Oh, well!" said Spargo. "Perhaps
we can give him some information about
Marbury. Mr. Aylmore hart forgotten
that It's not such a difficult thing to
inkc up the pant ai. he seems to think
it is. For example, as I was just tell
ing these young ladies, I nnsclr nAw
discovered who Marbury really was."
Breton started.
"You have? Without doubt?" he ex
claimed. "Without icasonable doubt. Mar
bury was an ex-convict."
Spargo watched the effed of this sud
den announcement. The two gills
showed no sign of astonishment or of
unusual curiosity; the received tne
news with as much unconcern as if
, l.&.l AaI.1 1Am flint fnhi,,.p
was a famous muMcIan. But Ronald
Breton started, and It seemed to Spargo!
that he saw a nensc or suspicion uawn
In his eyes.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
THE FLYING FROGS
My DADDY
(In (Am jiory Pcgyu and Billy vv
tprinlime visit to Riidland.)
CHAPTER I
Balky Sam Goes Prancing
SPRING had come. Kor days the
tun had been growing wanner and
warmer, the snow had turned Into
Tater and run away to river and lake,
una now a soft wind was blowing from
the south.
Peggy turned her face to the wind
sad let It play with her hair
'Blow. South Wind, blow." she
Mug. "Blow the birds back to their
""sts; blow the flowers out of their
rioter sleep; blow the leaves upon the
'rets; blow the joy of nwnkonlng time
Dto our hearts. Blow, South Wiud,
blow!"
. ''Blow, South Wind, blow!" joined
w the voico of Billy Belgium. "Blow
ne wetness out of tho ground so we
i? plav baseball; blow hunger Into
'I'O mouths of the fishes so they will
nt when we go tlxhlng; blow the chill
n cl l?.c '('r 8t) e can go swim
ming ninWt aouth Wlndi b?ow!
.J'" haw. blow South Wind, blow!"
brayed Bulky Hum. "Blow sweetness
no the tender new grass ; blow strength
Inn.T Clotting things; Wow frollck
Sn T,u i?.,ln,t0 man n,lll bcuMt ! Blow,
1,0 th Wind, blow I"
If ho V Han! MfVe( "P l hecla as
"onw i Uin y lillctl wUh froli(!K-
hra'v,1!,ic'llV', l Jiko the spring." he
inaLes ,n8rlDnl1s from "' l ""
7Lfc nt to j.rance. and If there
,. ' an'l girl around who'd like
on m h,?,w th "!'' they'd better climb
"ll ln iln " lmn-v' for ' cllQ't to
i, Wowing!" ' mt j0lli' Sou,h M'1'"1
who' wrniW'?H. " bnj' Qml " Blr1' too
an,? ffn?'eS t0 Trance. ith Ilalky Sum.
IW ra'V n mv for Hilly and
uck. Then,
uecr, Balky
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' "Wiling nud can ni llLn n ,i.
!''" Pruned aw, j UCKii; Vi. iVi.u , 'i
anil ponds made big with suow watei
On, on. until he (aine to the woods
of Blrdland.
"Hurrah! wp will Usit t ho bird"."
(.rielPecB. "Perhaps thej hnvetidden
the South Wind home from their winter
sleep In Dixieland."
"Not jet. It takes n long time to
come from tho South, and tills Is onb
the flrNt breeze of spilng," answered
Blllv. "But we will go through Bird
land nnd ec If their nests arc ready
for them."
Birdland's tiees Weic just beginning
to stretch themselves ufter their winter
snooze The leaves had not eomo forth,
but the buds weic showing, and the
hark, which had been a frozen grayj
miring mo emu wriimrr. in ncuini,
back its Hummer color us the sap flowed
upward. Here and there among the
bushes were pussy-willows, their fluff
tails swelling under the toudi of tliu
warm South Wind. '
With the trees hare of leacs, it was
easy to see the last j car's nests that
hail not been hidden nwn In holes or
hollows. Some of the ueats had been
all torn to pieces by the winter tempers
and some had been limllj damaged.
"But the birdH .will not mind that."
said Billy lo Peggy. "They like to build
L'ozr. new nestH encn ear.
Peggy's ejes were eagerly lovlngl
about the woods, for alio was hoping
that Borne of tho birds might havo rorao
back from the South n bit early
Suddenly she caught Billy by tho arm
and pointed ahead.
"Sec! Somo of tho birds have come
home." Billy looked, then ho uuiekb
pulled Balky Ham to a hull.
"Sh-h-h-h-h!" ho warned. "Those
are not our birds. They are some
strange kind of creatuies in the old
nests of the birds."
Peggy now saw that this was true
At tho same timo u lmndi noise came
from the htolen nesits a nolso utterl)
unlike the bwect oIcch of the birds.
(7'omorioie mom will be told about
the alratiuc matures.)
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