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Once or twice she had taken up the instru- ment, hesitated with the receiver in her hand, and put it down again. On one matter she had reached a de- cislon. Her second interview with Mr. M:Xu was due that night, and she would make an end of their assocla- tion. Morning after morning his budget had arrived, had been copied and returned to him—she had even carried the letter back to Portman square in the hope of seeing him before the hour of the interview, but though she had knocked no reply had come, and she had, perforce, pushed the let- !ter through the narrow slit and heard it thud into the steel letter box. On the afternoon that Tonger made his reluctant journey to Paris she went for her favorite walk. Green Park on a cold January afternoon was some- thing of a desert. The ponds were frozen, save near the edges, where the _g:rkkcepem had broken the ice for the mefit of the winged creatures that live in the little islands and in the shelter of the bush-grown banks. The branches of the trees were bare, and only the dull green of laurels and holly altllshel remained to justify the park's e. She walked briskly past the kiosk, following the path that skirts the lake, and came eventually to the footbridge which spans the water. A chill north wind was blowing; the blue sky was flecked by hurrying clouds; snow was coming—she detected the indescribable smell of it. She was half way across the bridge when a heavy gust of wind half turned | her, and she decided that this was no day for pedestrian exerc'se. Pushing down the skirts that th: wind had raised and with one hand gripping her hat she turned and walked back the way she come. Ahead of her she saw a man strolling, a thickset saun- terer who twirled a walking stick and the scent of whose cigar reached her long before she came up with and passed him. A wider sweep of the twirling stick almost struck her, and, EGIN NOW to Oun the HomeYouWant glancing round in alarm, the cigar| contrition. “I'm sorry, madam.” he said. She smiled and. uttering some brief commonplace, hurried on. And then, | on one of the garden seats that are set at intervals facing the lake, she saw a woman sitting, and her atfitude, even at that distance, was remarkable. Shr\‘ lay back in the scat, her face upturned | ping the seat. Something like fear, stirred the girl’s heart. The pose was s0 unnatural, so queerly disturbing, | that she checked her pace, fearful of | a her. He also had seen. “That is queer,” he said, and she was | glad of his company. “What is the matter with that woman?” | “I was wondering,” she said. He quickened his step, and she fol- lowed at his heels, for some reason fearful of being alone. I a There’s no five so good, it eannot be made better with asprinkting of Fyrewell Fa- mous Reading Anthracite. Order a few tons Copyright, passing the figure, .and, so Slowing, the | cioar” and was stick-swinging _saunterer came up to | 1 B (R HE THE RAGGED PRINCESS By Eclgar Wallace. 1925, by Chicago Dafly News The woman on the seat was between — | almost dropped from his teeth in his|30 and 40; her eyes were half closed, her face and hands were blue with cold. By hef side was a little silver flask, from which the stopper had been re- moved, so that over the bars of the| bench was trickling a tiny pool of liquid | that had flowed from the bottle, drey looked and shivered. Au- There was something strangely fa- miliar in that dreadful face, and she , yielding, as they did, a starvation|to the sky, her hands outspread, grip-|racked her brains to identify her. She| AT N LU L& “‘Can You Smell Anything?’ Smith Asked, ‘Like Almonds?” had seen her somewhere—a glimpse in crowded street, perhaps? No, it was | something more intimate than' that. The stout man had thrown away his iding his hand tender- ad. “I think you had better go and find policeman,” he said gently, and at| that moment a patrolling officer came into view and saved her the search. “Is she {l1?” asked the policeman, bending down. “Veryoiil, I guess,” said the man THE IN THESE DAYS quietly. “Miss Bedford, I think you had better go.” She started to hear her name pro- nounced by the stranger, and looked more closely at him. She had never seen him before within her recollection, but his eyes, as he glanced meaningly along the path, were eloquent; he wanted her to go. “You'll see another constable on point dauty opposite the horse guards parade, miss,” said the policeman. “Do you mind sending him along to me and asking him to bring the ambulance?” Glad to escape, she hurried off and was gone before the policeman remem- bered certain stringent police instruc- tions. “I forgot to ask her name, her, don't you? Miss—" “Yes, she's Miss Bradfield. her by sight; we used to work in the same office,” said Slick Smith glibly. He picked up the little silver flask, closed the stopper carefully and handed it to the policeman. “You may want what's in this” he sald; and then, warningly: “I shouldn't let anybody take a sip unless you've got a grudge against him.” “Why?" asked the policeman, aghast. “Do you think it's poison?” Smith did ot reply. “Can you smell anything?” He sniffed at the woman's lips. “Like al- monds?"” The policeman frowned, and then: "Y‘?u don't think she is dead, do You know | I know As dead as anybody will ever be,” sald Smith quietly. “Suicide?" asked the constable. “I don't know. You'd better take my name—Richard James Smith, known to the police as Slick Smith. They know me at the yard. I'm on the register.” The man in uniform regarded him with suspicion. “What are you doing round here?” he asked. He was a dull man and his questions were mechanical. “Helping you,” saild Smith laconi- cally. The second policeman arrived, and soon after the wild clang of the am- bulance bell brought a curious crowd. The doctor who came made a brief ex- amination. “‘Oh, yes, she's dead. Polson—hydro- cyanic or cyanide.” He was a young man, just through the schools, and consequently dogmatic, Famous Cough | . Prescription but here his first diagnosis was to be borne out by subsequent’ inquiry. ‘The news came to Dick Shannon by He was with her in a few minutes | the house until you have scen me?” he and she told him what she had seen. “Yes, I knew Slick Smith was there accident, and beyoud the interest which | There was a report that a lady, a Mis: the name of Slick §mith aroused. he | Bradfield, was present: that was yoi saw nothing in the mxtter which called | of course? 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This is the second we've had in Green | Park since Christmas.” | That night at dinner, Audrey, glanc- ing through the evening paper, saw a three-line paragraph i “The body of an unknown woman | was found in Green Park this efter-| noon, It is believed that she committed | suicide by poisoning.” She was dead! Audrey went cold at | this confirmation of her private fears. | How dreadful! It must have been very quick, for the woman had not been there when she had passed along_the footpath a minute or two before. Who was she? Audrey was certain she had seen her somewhere, And then with a gasp she remem- bered. It was the woman that she had seen a week before, the drunken virago who was hammering at Lacy Marshalt’s door! Audrey left her dinner unfinished and went to the telephone. Here, at_any rate, was an_excuse for talking to Dick Shannon. The pleasure in his voice when he answered her gave her, for some reason, a warm little feeling of happiness. “Where have you been? pecting you to call me up. Is anything ‘wrong?"” The last words were in a more &nx- fous tone. “Nothing. I saw in the paper to- night that a woman had been found | dead in the park. I saw her. Capt. Shannon—I mean I was_there when she was found, and think I know her.” I was ex-| There was a pause. “I'll come along now," sald Dick. for She nodded. “You remember my telling you of the woman who knocked at Mr. Marshalt’s door? “The annoyer!" He whistled. agent of Malpas.” “But why—-" “He has been employing people to worry Marshalt, for some mysterious | reason which I cannot fathom; I rather think that this unfortunate creature was one of -them. I made inquiries about her when I was at Portman Square the other day. Apparently Ton- ger threw her out and that was the last that was seen of her.” He looked at the girl thoughtfully. “I don’t want you in this case” he sald, “either as witness or in any other capacity. You better remain the un- known witness until the inquest is over. | Smith will supply all the evidence we require. Il see Tonger tonight. By the way.” he sald suddenly. “when do you visit your anclent boss?” It was on the tip of her tongue to say that she wes going upstairs to dress for the interview at that moment. “Tomorrow,” she said instead. He looked at her keenly. “You're not telling the truth, young lady,” he sald. “You are going tonight.” | She laughed. “I am, really,” she confessed. “Only I thought you would make a fuss.” “Indeed 1 shall make a fuss. What time is your interview?” | “Elght o'clock.” 1 He looked at his watch. “I will two birds with one stone,” he said. 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