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bo res We a Wane cot GYNoPsis OF PRECEDING hag a} toh Bete: ee CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) ’ & chuckied again reminis- cently, and drew at his cigarette. “How dare you smoke? Throw away that cigarette!” cried Mr. Abney, roused afresh by the red glow. “Forget it!" advised the Little Nug- get tersely. “And then,” I sald, “somebody “whizsed out from nowhere and hit me. And after that I didn’t seem to care much about him or anything else.” I spoke in the direction of my ‘captor. Sho was still standing out- side tho circle of light. “I expect you can tell us what happened, Mrs. Sher- idan.” In the general movement White taust have raised the lamp or stepped forward, for the rays shifted. The figure beside me was no longer dim, but stood out sharp and cl in the yellow light. I was aware of two large eyes look- ing into mine as, on one gray London morning two weeks before, they had looked from a faded photograph. CHAPTER VII. F all the emotions which kept me awake that night, a vague discomfort and a feel- ing of resentment against ‘ fate, more than against any indl- vidual, were the two that remained with me next morning. Astpnishment does not last. The fact of Audrey and myself being 1 under the same roof after all these years had ceased to amaze me. It y, ‘was @ minor point, and my mind shelved it in order to deal with the one thing that really mattered—the fact-that she had come back into my thought, put her out of it. I chanced to meet her after break- fast. She was standing on the gravel in front of the house, almost, in fact, on the spot where we had met the night before. She looked up she heard my step, and I saw that her chin had that determined tilt which, in the days of our engagement, I had often noticed without attaching any particular significance to tt Heavens, | was what @ ghastly lump of complacency I must have been in those days! A ebil4, I thought, if he were not ‘wrapped up in the contemplation of bis own magnificence, could read its meaning. * It meant war, and I was giad of it. I wanted war! “Good morning,” I said “Good morning.” ‘There was @ pause. I took th. op- portunity to collect my thoughts. I looked at her curlously.. Five years had jeft treir mark on her, but entirely for the good, She had an air of quiet strength which I had never noticed In her before, It may have been there in the old days but I aid not think eo, It was, I felt certain, a later development. She gave the impression of having been through much and of being sure of herself. In appearance #he had changed amagingly little. She looked as small and alight and trim as ever ere had Gone, She was a little paler, I older gn@ a shade harder, but that was all. I awoke with « start to the fact that I was staring at rer. A slight ffush had crept into her pale cheeks. “Don't” she aaid suddenly, with a itttle gesture of irritation. ‘The word and the gesture killed, as if they bad been a blow, a kind of eentimental tenderness which had been stealing over me. “I guppose you looked on me as & kei. of ogre in the old days?” I sald. “You were very kind.” “Well,” I sald, "we needn't discuss what I was or did five yeara ago. ‘Whatever I was or did you escape Let's think of the present. What are we going to do about this ine of us ought to go, I euppose.” “Exactly.” “Well, I can't go.” “Nor can I." “I have business her: “Obviously, 60 have “It's absolutely nec should be here.” “and that I should.” Bhe considered me for a moment. “Mrs, Attwell told me that you were one of the assistant masters at the school.” “I am acting as assistant maater, The Evening World Daily to ad “I met a gentleman of the name of Buck MacGinnis—he was our visitor that night, by the way—and he was full of Sam. Do you know him?" I am supposed to be an we the Sho hesitated. “Why?! she sald. “But—but—you used to be very well “{'m better off now. Bhe was silent for a moment. “Of course it's Impossible for youto You couldn't, could you?” I'm working.” “Then L suppose we must face the to embarrassment.” “But why must it be embarrassing? had. over Pa smth dada ilies : hear you speak #0 ‘20 well of hi I am engaged to be She gave a little start pattern on the gravel with her foot before she apok “TL congratulate you," it. ‘How In the world did you come to he died three yenrs ago.” She spoke in a level voice, with ring of hardness in tt for which I wa to learn the true reason later. ooking after myself for a long time, “In England?” “In America. York directly we—directly I had writ- I have been in America I only returned to Eng- Jand a few weeks ago.” what brought you to San- you beat it? Bam Fisher id “Some years ago | got to know Mr. Ford, the father of the little boy who He recommended me to Mr. Abney, who wanted somebody to help with the school.” “And you ar is at the school. England just now? dependent on your forgive me if T am pernonal—Mr. Sheridan did not” — “H ft no money at all,’ “Who was he?” I bu “He was an artist— friend of my “your work here ts all you "I said, And, if it's the same with you, well, here we “Woe must try and make it as easy for each other as we can,’ got thinner, Peter,’ “Suffering, I tively on the road before raising it in readiness for any sudden development. It was as well that hi was there. The hint seemed to wound rather than frighten bim, “Aw, cut out the rough stuff, bo,” he reproachfully, e. dora big enough for de whole bunch “You've been hating me ‘Well, I don't wonder.” “you're wrong. ybody I hate, it's myself, T just want to tell you that I under- Her Nps parted, but she did not life just when I had definitely, as I speak. ould know it As I said nothing, he proceed “It ain't squar Vetens of your juare fight, lovey us bote wit 1 That gives him and can use them.” “I ain't goin’ @ dude p right into de plac Say, don't be « hawg, Sam. Don't Aria it all. “I don't know,” I said. a better ask the real Sam. Good night!" I walked past him and made for t my best pace. He “What are you following me for?” “Who are you?” it @ talk wit youse, I nt at youse under de lamp- ’ I eon it wan you, Say, I'm wise to 6p I had identified him by this time. Unless there were two men in the neighborhood of Sanstead who hailed from the Bowery, this must be the man I had seen at the Feathers, who had incurred the disapproval of Miss nd just what made you “I can see now the erst do it," I went on. you find him carrying on porch-climber. It's his only notion of how to behave when he wants to do @ job, And that's why there's only one man to keep your eye on in this thing of the Little Nugget, and that's Sam. I wish you could get to know Sam, You'd like him.” a so I tagged Loren IT have ¢elt like that “about it the achool gat trotted after me, p “Sam! Give us @ quarter, then.” ‘1 treated you ehamefully.” “Nothing of the kind. certain sort of man who badly needs a—Jfolt, and he hi “Sam, don't be a hawg!”" He broke into a run, Hig voice lost its plead- tone and rasped melancholy. I had me canister, wouldn't be ao filp! Listen here, you You t'lnk youse ip de only ting in sight, huh? Well, we You'll see yet. We'll Youse had best watch out.” I stopped and turned on him. “Look here, you fool,” I ¢ tell you I am not Sem Fishe! tand that you have hold of the wrong man? My name is Burns—Burn: to get it sooner It happened that you gave me mine, but that was: to get it somehow.” ‘ate Was waiting for me Fate wanted some- sonal friend. I certainly don't lik Buck.” “I haven't the faintest idea what biped meen,” I sald. “What is my wie voice became An, gee!" he protested. What was youse rubberin’ around de house for la: you wasn't trailin’ de kid?” “Was it you who ran into me last aight?" I asked, “Gee! I tought it was a tree, I came near takin’ de count.’ “I did take it. round the corner. to hit me with. ain't done yet. You knocked some sense into me. That's all you did. Every man needs education. men get theirs In small doses, so that they hardly know they are get- My money kept mo ting it at all. from getting mine that way. time I met you there was a great heap of back education due to and I got itinalump, Thi “You're generous.” “Nothing of the kind. that I see things clearer than I did. 1 was a pig in those days.” “You weren't!” ‘TI was, Well, that way, But I do wish I kn eeney!" was the form in which he crystalized his clam. “Maybe you'll trailin’ de Nugget, huh a@ home thrust. If truth- telling has become a habit, one gets slowly off the mark when the mi ment arrives for the prudent Quite against my will, I hesitated. MacGinnis perceived my nant and expectorated tri- remarked. And then, with, @ sudden return to fero- “All right, you Sam, you wait! ‘We'll fix you, and fix you good! See? You t'ink youse kin put it across us, huh? All right, you'll get 2. ° need for swift action had be- come {mperati CHAPTER IX. HITE, the butle: gingularly unlike a detec- tive—which, I suppose, is how @ detecti' look—was taking the alr on the football field when J left the house next morning for @ before breakfast You seemed in a his mind to ated the man simply, “dat's a great kid, dat Nugget! Vought it was a Black Hand ex sion when he cut ee But, ante get somernas Ohi about dat kid." do you happen ie mean “You can't strin| Sam Fisher ts ‘was too surprised to speak. Verily, eome have greatness thrust we won't quarrel Observant Mr, Inside the house the bell rene for back to let her go in she stopped. _ eald. speak quickly. be sensible. Why should we let this embarrass us, this being together here? pretend that wo're two old friends through a misunder- lave come together again with all the misunderstanding thous? ‘and the Irish eyes were cleared away—friends again? Shall She held out her hand. emiling, but her eyes were grave, “Old friends, Peter?” "Old friends,” I gaid. And then we went in to breakfast. je my plate was me, sport, Smooth She began to Can't we just ~") t hain't never seen youse, Sam," he continued, “but 1 know it's you. And ie tell youse how I doped it egin with, there ain't but four bunch and me and my unch dat knows de Little Nugget’s Dey sneaked him who parted on dis side at all. out of New York mighty slick. heard that you had come here after him. So when I runs into a guy dat's trailin’ de kid down here, well, who's {t going to be if it ain't youse? And when dat guy talks like a dude, like they all say you do, well, who's it going to be if it ain't youse? So quit yer kiddin’, Sam, and let's get down On the table bi lying a letter from Cynthia, anions CHAPTER VIII. GIVE the letter tn full. was written from th yacht Mermaid, lying in Monaco Harbor, “do you know anything of Smooth Sam Fisher?’ Ho stared at me. question, led up to by no previo: marks, was unusual, “Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Buck MacGinnis?” I said. convinced that this could be no otber than that celebrity. “Dat'a right. keep up anyt'ing wit me, Sam. bote on de same trail, so let's get Dere's no need Where is Ogden? We have been ex- pecting him every day. worrying herself to death. “One moment,” I sald. asking me if I hav Surprise you to hear that my name is Burns, and that 1 am a master at the Are You Going Away for the Summer? any news, and it le very tiresome to have to keep telling her that I have not heard from you. Surely, with the opportunities you must got every day, you can manage to kid- nap him, Do be quick! He exper torated Qinicing you go out of town for the summer you may find It Is stly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store? You can supply yourself with the best, most defightful summer reading for six cents a week. subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months you wn secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction by the foremost living authors, Bear this in mit buld be, Sam. 1 always heard one of dese rah y, it's mighty sma of youre to be w perfossor 1 read this brief and businesslike communication several times during the day; and after dinner that night in order to meditate upon it in sol- itude I left the house and wandered off in the direction of the vill I was midway between house an village when I became aware that 1 wus being followed, 1 had not been mistaken, ment later a dark figure loomed up out voice became appealing don't be a hawg! Let's go fifty-ffty buneh and me has come a number of miles ain't no need for us to p enough for every n't be any fuss on dis Nugget ting like as if it was an ornery not only for yourself but for any of your friends who expect to spend the summer in the country. “stick to rasp sugi “Buck? ther of them.” ‘Well, I've never seen Buck, but I've heard a good deal about him. ‘There's pepper to Buck.” “So [ should Imagine, And Sam?" ou may take it from me that there's more pepper to Sam's little finger than there is to Buck's whole body. Sam could make Buck look like the last run of shad, if it came to @ show-down. Buck's just @ com- mon rough-neck, Sam’ man. H an educated got brains. "So 1 gathered. Well, Tp. gee Md that’s who I'm Tuppoted | to be.” How's that?” ck MacGinnis insists that Tam Smooth Sam Fisher, Nothing I can say will shift him.” White stared. He had very bright, humorous brown eyes. Then he be- gan to laugh. ,» what do you know about exclaimed, “Wouldn't that your’ : “It would. I may say it did. He called me a hog for wanting to keep the Little threatening to fix me. What would hig ‘ugget to myeelf, and left the verb ‘to fix’ signified in oGinnis'’s vocabulary?" Mite was still engaged in cbhuck- ing quietly to himeelf. “He's a wonder!” he observed. “Can Taking you for Smooth Bee, never aeen Smooth a “Lord, ye “Does he look Uke me?” “Not a bit.” “Do you think he's over here to “Sam? _ I know he “Then Buck MacGinnis was right?” “Dead right, as bind Sam being on goes. Sam’ t him this, time. ough before, but we've been for him. This time he allows be's going to bring it off.” “Then why haven't we seen any- thing of bim? Buck MacGinnis seeme to be monopolizing the kidnapping industry in these parte.” “Oh, Sam’ll show up when he feels good and ready. You can take It from me that Sam knows what he is Sam's a special pet of mine. give a Mip for Buck MacGin- 8. “I wish I had your cheery dispost- tion! To me Buck MacGinnis seems a pretty Sexportant citizen. { wonder what he meant by ‘fix White, however, declined to leave the subject of Buck’s more gifted rival. “Sam's a coll: je man, you know. pull. He bas brains “That was one of the points on which Buck reproached me. He sald it was not fair to use my superior education.” White laughed. “Buck’a got no sense. That's why oa “You seem to look on him ag a per- “Oh, Buck!” sald White ecornfully. ‘We turned toward the house as the sound of the bell came to us across the field. “Then you think we may count on Sam's arrival, sooner or later, as a certainty?” I aaid. e@uppose re ought to look ly what Buck meant by ‘fix, ite at last condescended to give 6 trivial point, “I guess he'll try to put one over on you with the sand-bag,” he sald carelessly, He seemed to face the bal gg with calm. gand-bag, eh? I said. “It aor ea exciting.” nd feels it, I know. I've bad som: I parted from bim at the door. As & comforter he had falled to qualify. He had not eased my mind to the slightest extent. CHAPTER X. lowed Audrey's arrival at Banstead marked the true beginning of our acquaint- DOKING at it now, I can see | that the period which fol- anceship. Before, during our em- wagement, we had been strangers, artificially ted together, and she had struggied egainat the chain. But now, for the frat time, we were be- ;, ginning to know each other and were discovering that, after all, we bad much in common. The day was Wednesdey, and my afternoon off, but the rain was driv- ing against the windows, and the at- tractions of billiards with the marker Tuesday. eSEe. TY at the Feathers had not proved sum- otent to make me face the two-mile myself in the y noble fire burning in the grate. darkness Jit by the glow of the coal the dripping of the rain, behavior of my pipe and the reflec tion that, as I sat there, Glossop wa engaged downstalrs in wrestling with iny class, combined ty steep me in & meditative peace. was playing the piano In ‘The sound came 1 recognized what 1 wondered if the melody the same associations for ber that {t had for me. ‘The music stopped. drawing-room door open. Into the atudy. “I didn’t know there was any one “Lam frozen. drawing-room fire's out.” “Come and sit down. don't mind the smok She sat for some minutes gazing Little spurts of flame whistled comfortably in the heart of I heard the storm ehrieked faintly and flurries of rain dashed themselves against wn very nice in here,” she said at E I filled my pipe and reilt it. ayes, seen for an instant in the light of the match, looked dreamy. ‘I've been sitting here “I liked that last thing “So you still like my playing, Pe- “o like it better than ever. There's something In it now that I don't be- ve there used to be, ascribe it—something’ a think it's knowledge, Peter,” fa bad time, Audrey, 1 said, for some tne at N w Ye “That's hard wo “Horribly hard. rk T had to give it up after a while, broke plates. Finally I was rude toa T had to try something eli what came next. stage. I travelled for a yer touring company. work, too, but I liked It. came dressmaking, which was I think it var, the That was hard met “How did that happen?” “You wouldn't remember a Mise an American girl, was over in London five or eix years ago? My fatber taught her painting. She was very rich, but # that time to be Bol that’s why she cho ‘Well, abe was alw atudio, and we became x1 and one day, after all these things U have been telling you of, I thought [ would write to her, and could find me someth! till Fer whole face wanted me to come to thelr hom and live on her forever, but I couldn't T told her I must work. to Mr. Ford, whom new very well, and happened to take a mild iking to and he was as good as gold—for him; that's to aay, If I didn't interfere with him too much, and I didn't. and he let me alone. It was. the happlest time I had had “And " en he came here, you came too, as a sort of ex-governess, to con erting your moral influence i” Bhe laughed. “More of lean that.” I sat there, tense, aripping the arms . I was tingling. thing was happenin~ to me. I had a curlous sensation of being on the threshold of something wonderful and From downstairs there came the voices, Work was over, and with it this talk by the fire- In a few minutes so Glomsop or Mr. breaking in on our retreat. and then—it ha} sound of boy i of an instant. She moved toward the door, and was gone. But T stood where I was, motionless, aghast at the revelation which had come to me in that brief moment. was the physical contact. the feal of her, warm and alive, that had shat- tered forever that flimsy structure of friendship which I had fancied so T had sald to love, “Thus far, and love had awapt over me, the more powerful for being and no farther,” ‘The ima of self-deception was over. T knew myself, CHAPTER ‘Xt not the man to let the grass grow under hin feet in a sit- uation like the present one I should have gathered from White's remarks if | had not already dono so from personal observation, It had been one of those intermina- ble days which oceur only at schools , more than any other instl- is dependent on the weather. C y rises from his bed of @ morning charged with a definite ROMANCE OF A NEW YORK GIRL'S STRANGE BATTLE AGAINST “MAN-MADE LAWS,” geecoosooooososoooosos | eiaiacoter re Complete Novel in. ase mins World AND OF Two MEN ‘WHO HAD BUT A SINGLE IDENTITY: THE WOMAN'S LAW y MARAVENE THOMPSON 1914 quantity of deviltry; and this, if he is to sleep the sound sleep of health, he has to work off somehow before bedtime, That le why the summer term is the one a master longs for, when the intervals between cinases can be spent in the open, There js no pleasanter sight for an assistant master at a private school than that of a number of boys expending their inborn venom harmlessly in tk> @un- shine, On this particular day snow bad begun to fall early in the morning, and while his puptis would bi been only too delighted to go out and roll in it by the hour, they were prevented from doing #o by Mr. Abney's strict orders. No achoolmaster enjoys seeing his pupils running risks of catching cold, and just then Mr. Abney was especially definite on the subject. ‘The saturnalia which had followed Mr. MacGinnia’s nocturnal visit to the school had bad the effect of giving violent colds to three lords, a baronet and the younger son of an honorable, In addition to that, Mr. Abney bim- self, his penetrating tenor changed to @ guttural croak, was in his bed look- ing on the world with watering eyes. Hin views, therefore, on playing in the snow as an occupation for boys wore naturally prejudiced. The result was that Glossop and T had to try and keep order among a mob of small boys, none of whom had had any chance of working off hin au- perfluous energy. How Glossop fared I can only tmagine. Judging by the fact that I, who usually kept fair order without excessive effort, was almost overwhelmed, I should fancy he fared badly. His classroom was ‘on the opposite aide of the hall from mine, and at frequent intervals his voice would penetrate my door, rateed to a frensied fortisstmo. Little by little, however, we had won through the day, and the boys bad subsided into comparative quiet over their evening preparation, when from outside the front door there sounded the purring of the engine of a large automobile. Presently the doorbell rang. An odd sound fol- lowed. It resembled the thud of a falling body, but I knew tt could not be that, for in peaceful England but- lera, opening front doors, did not fall with thuds. There was a quick footstep outside; the door flew open; and on the thres! i hold atood @ short, sturdy mas in a be: motoring coat and cap. The upper part of hie face was covered by « atrip of white linen, with holes for the eyes and there was @ Browning * pistol in his hand. corner of my ey: co our visitor, I could dreams induced by juvenile adven. ture fiction. Fortun ly for schoolmasters, it ta seldom ¢ such visitors call upon them. Indeed, I imagine Mr. Mac- Ginnis's effort to bave been the fret of its kind, 1 do not, as I Buck, whose forte than brain work, ha sing of the country cane. On the contrary, I could see Mr. Abney becoming one of the bual- to hush the thing up and prevent it getting into the new: ADEE. istol spoke. He sighted me—I was standing with my back he parallel with the door—made a sharp turn, It wai not, the voice of ane Mac- Ginnis, I put my hand “Say, which of dese ts ‘40 Nugwetr* the Intruder inquired. He half turned his head to the class. yon of youse kids is Ogden ori ‘The class was beyond speech. The silence continued, “Ogden Ford in not here,” I sald. Our visitor had not that simple faith which is so much better than Norman blood. He did not believe me, Without moving his head, he gave a long whistle. Steps sounded outalde. Another sbort, sturdy form ed the room, le ain't in de odder room,” ob- perved the newcomer, “I been rub- erin!" This was friend Buck beyond qQueation. I could readily have recog- nized his Br fgtad anywhere. “Well, dis guy,” said the man with the pistol, Ser me, a he ain’ here. What's de answer?” “Why, it's Sam!" said Buck. “How- dy, Sam? Pleased to see us, huh? We're in on de ground floor, too, dis time, all right, all right!” His words had a marked effect on his colleague, “Is dat Sam? Gee, let me blow de aid with simp! head off'n him!” fervor; and advancing a step nearer, bs raved his disengaged fist trucu- ently. In my role of Sam I had plainly made myse]f very unpopular, [ have never heard go much emotion packed into a few words. Buck, to my relief, opposed the mo- tion. I thought this decent of Buck, “Can it!" he sald curtly. other canned ft. Tha opera- T tion took the form of lowering the bi: fist. The pistol he kept in ponition, Mr. MacGinnis resumed the conduct of affairs, “Now den, Sam." he aald, “come de Nugget?" in not Bam." T ead. “May T put my hands down?" “Yop, if you want the top of your blamed head blown off. uch was not my desire,» I there- fore kept them up. Yow den, you Sam," id Mr. Mac- Ginnia again, “we ain't got time to burn. Out wit tt, Where's dat Nug- get?" Some reply was obviously required, Tt was useless to keep protesting that T was not Sam “At this time In the evening he ts generally working with Mr. Glossop.* ®@ Seands Wil Cone ‘$1.25. IT FOR 6 Cents By P.G. hi Author of ‘The Prince and Leal “Who's Glossop? Dat dot ugh-tacege dub in de room over dere?” at the present momen’ cisely, “Ab, gee! Let me swat him onel* begged the man with the pistol. He was a most unlovable person: could never have made a friend of hi “Can it, you,” said Mr. Ma The other canned it once more, eretfully at him hidden away sodedo wheres, Sam," sald Mr. MacGinnis, “You me. I'm ae toa troo dis joint wit @ fine-toot coun:| til T find him,” “By all means,” I sald. “Don't toe # me stop you." a “You! You're comin’ wit me.* ¢ “tt you wish it. I shall be de. lighted.” “An’ cut out dat biamed sissy of talking, you rummy!” bel Buck, with a sudden lapse inte ferocity. “‘Splel like . eoiuee guy! Standin’ dere, pull it dude stuf on me! Cut it out Why mayn't I hand him one?* demanded the pistol-bearer pathett- cally, “What's your kick against Pushin’ his face in, Buck?” T thought the question {n poor taste, Buck Ignored it. seh “Gimme dat canister,” he sald, tabag ing the Browning pistol from him? “Now den, Sam, are youse goin’ to, good and come across, or ain't which?" “T'd be delighted to do ems hdverina Mr, MacGinnis,"* “Aw, hire a hall!” said Buck gustedly. P lively, den, an’ go t’roo de foint. youse Sune 4 Play dis fool game when you “Ser Towne bent. Your-— jooting pains in my abouldgem® caused me to interrupt him. “ r “One moment," T said. to put my hands down. & cramp.” “T'll blow @ hole in you If you dot? a # you please; but I'm set he eaid to the und to eee if he’ “yatty advanced and began to me acientifically in the red westeual of my pockets. He grunted the while. I suppose at thle, olen close range the temptation to “hand me one” was almost more than he could “He ain't got no gun,” he ame inced Tipit . s n @ can ‘em down, at Mr. ataeainnte, “Thanks,” I said. ‘Letty, ‘youss atay here and = jae kids. Get a move We left the room, a little of two, myself leading, spoetes Immediate rear admin! occa- sional cautionary prods with the faithful “canister.” - CHAPTER 13. ay, HE firet thing that mat anh, | eyes as we entered the hall wes the bedy 4 @ man lying by the door. The light of the fell on his face, and I saw thet it was) White. Hie hands and feet were 4s I looked at him be moved, as straining against his bonds, end, | was conactous of a feeling of relieg, That sound which had reached me tS) the class room, that thud of a body, had become, in the ght what had happened later, very ter, It was good to know that ‘was still alive, I gat ia wae aa I discovered subenaventn—inan tp coat bis case the sandbag had utilized. He had been struck and stunned the instant be coma the door, out Externally they might ail twins. This man, to give bare blance of eareuaiy. & hada red mustache, He smoke ot | Sen writ with A the air of the" warrior tal« “Hello! he sald, as He jerked a thumb tower room. "I've tecked Gems doin’, Buck?” he ead, indicatinn We Bes. - plained Mr. Sela: treo, de in dere. Hump yourself, Bem! is colleagu: His with magic «: “Sam! In dat Sam’ Deat de block ofa hh nat Few points in this splsode me as more fenareane ae similarity of taste =e as concerned myself, among bers of Mr. Miucoinnire gang. doubtless, of vary! other saben om fn eae unanimous, 10) ORE Grew, ma ne aa juc! iowever, had other me, For the present, I was as gulde, and my value as would probably be impaired wete whatever that wae—to ' beaten off me. Though more friendly toward me than assistants, he declined to allow ment to interfere with business, concentrated his attention on the ward journey with all the ness of the young geatieman ip poem who carried the banner the strange device. Briefly requesting his ally to ean which he did—Buck w ma? with the mussle of his red-mustached man sank against the wall again with aa of dejection, sucking hi one who has had disappointments life; while we passed on up and began to draw the rooms om first floor, (To Be Continued.)