The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1914, Page 15

— — ‘The Eventag World Daily Magazine: Wednesday. July 8. By P.G. Wodehouse Author of “The Prince and Betty.” 18 «a ete Manes oo) wall as he lowered himself for the had been my intention to go straight have astonished me. Hut [ was not. along and stecr me wp against some wish you well, but I hi no further drop. to my rooms, in the hope of finding | was ss much relieved to find that skin game, and back I'd have to go to use for you. Somewhere in this great SXNOLUIS OF WHECHDING CHAPTERS I disehgaged myself—Mr. Mac- him not yet departed; but how was he was not a Pinkerton man that I work. That happened a few times, city the Little Nugget is hiding, (rho tele the stom). g.ich Ginnis strangely quiescent during I to explain bis presence there tv did not greatly care what else he and when I did manaxe at last to get I mean to find bim—entirely on m pean, win, rejected by Audrey Wake, the progress—and was on my feet in White? might be. home with the dough I found she had OWN account, This is where o ‘he dosent ‘Conthie’s dearest frond the safety of the darkness just as “LE don't think it's necessary, Mr. “If you have no objection,” T said, married another guy. [t's hard on paths divide, Mr. Burns, Good night!” ry ef ord, divorced wife ot a Rew Yorr the reinforcement touched | earth, Abney," | protested. “J am suro I “no, t don't want to talk to you, Mr. women, you see," he explained, chival- | When Sam had left, which he did bon . i on fas custody of their osly ‘This time I did not walt. My hunger can manage this affair by myself. Visher. | don't like you, and I don't rously, “They get lonesome and Roy. rather in the manner of « heavy Cai nee oe OL for fight had been appeased to some "Two heads are better thad wud." like your way or earning your living. Ing Rupert don't show up, so they father in melodrama saaking the BABY, (0 Dt. Abnes'e, school, near London, extent by my brush with Buck, and said the invalid sententiously, bury- Buck MacGinnis was bad enough, but have to marry Stay-at-Home Henry dust of an erring son's threshold off Ping, bor. Many rook pave, trie fo 5 1 was satisfied to have achieved ing his features in the jug once more. ni least he was a straightforward just to keep from getting the horro hin feet, 1 mixed myself a highball 1, tom time to Ue cna te oad safety with honor, ‘Too many cooks tough. There's no exc for you.” “so she's Mra. Stay-at-Home Henry @nd sat down to consider the positior eons potencies ‘Making a wide detour, 1 crossed the T replied. If the co “Ig this. mere professional jeal- now?" I sald emphatically. of affairs. It did not take me 101 | ital Resecpers ie ber nagpi rive and worked my ‘way through consist of copy-book ni ousy?” he inquired. ‘She was till a year ago. She's a to see that the miserable boy WsSPaS soon titer Burne toe to the school, The the bushes to within a few yards of ch him as long aa he pleased, “Do you imagine for a moment widow now. Deceased had a misun- double-crossed me with a em Famed eran During his flient be knocks where the automobile stood, filling Ho did not keep up the intellectual that I'm dol in for money?" anding with a effectiveness which Mr, Fial ‘to the night with the soft purring of its level of the discugsion. “Lt did have that impression, Was skunk, so I'm informed, engine. I was interested to seo what self might have envied. Somew! “Dodseds," he snapped, with the T wrong? Do you kidnap t was a vood man. Outside of licking I" this great city, 8 Ham hed the excitement. has by ), help “ie uarding the Latte, Suwaett” Tia eae Tes, Bae Tan, AMG, would be the enemy's next move. It Irritation of 4 man whose proverb millionaires for your health?” Fim at school, I didn't know him very he was hiding, but wi ea was Improbable that they would ate has been capped by another. I had = “I promised that I wou well, [saw her just before I left to” "is a vague address, © '9 ~ fo the sie, ‘overpower ‘the ‘butler tempt to draw the grounds in search Througe the Bouse’ in sacred Pvt? “eS of me. I imagined that they would recognize failure and retire whence geldom heard him speak so aharply. boy back to his mother. That is why come here, Sho's as fond of me as | | wondered what steps Sam White's revelatton bad evidently im- I gave him the money to go to Lon- ever. It's all settled, if only | can taking. Was there sume wi pressed him, He had all the ordl- don, And that is why my valet Was connect with the maguma, And she Kround secret service bureau to CHAPTER XII. they had come. mary peaceful ma: reverence for to have taken him to—to where Mrs, don't want much, elther— just enough Which persons of his profeasion . 1 was right. I had not been watch- the professional detective. “White Ford Is. to keep the home together.’ access? f doubted it, FF imagi (Continued) ing long before a little group ad- will accompany you, Bister Burds, “You @ay ‘was to have taken! “I wish you happiness,” | said, that he, as | proposed to do, wages - HE top floor was even more vanced into the light of the automo- he sald doggedly. Have you changed your plans?” “You can do better than that. You drawing the city at a venture in th deserted than the first, Dile’s lamps. There were four of “Very well,” 1 anid “Yes, I'm going to take the boy can take me with you to that ad+ hope of flushing the quarry by ed] th * them. ‘Three were walking; the After all, it might be that I should back to the school.” dress.” cident, ere was no one in the fourth, cursing with the vigor and get an opportunity’ of giving my un- He laughed—a rich, rolling laugh, — | avoided the subject Yet auch was the impression hee “If you want to give me the slip.” the other thing, not for a minute. up from my chair, resolved to gel he chuckle that wet “Get nothing!" replied one of the oop like 2 hunting dog. three moodily. “De Nugget ain't ‘Open dat door, you!" he cried. dere, an’ we was chasin’ Sam to fix No one who is digging a Browning him, an’ ho laid for us, an’ what he dormitories. The only other breadth that marks the expert, was welcome companion the slip. Lon- His double chin shook comfortably, “What does she say to your way of had made upon me as @ man of room was Mr. Abney’s; and, lying on their arma, with which they don Is @ large city. “It won't do, young man,” sald Sam, Ked Ag we came opposite it, a sneeze from bad made something resembling @ ‘A tew minutes later the cab ar- shaking his head with humorous re- "She don’t know, and sho ain't going relish the within told of the suff ra stretcher. rived, and White and I set forth on proach, “It won't do.” to know, I don't see why a man has on me even in w venture su uncer- of the sufferings of its oc- he driver of the car, who had been our mission. “You don't believe mo?" got to tell his wifo every little thing tain as this. My imagination began cupant. sitting woodenly in his seat, turned We did not talk much tn the cab. “rankly, 1 do not.” In his past. She thinks l’m a drum- to picture him miraculously inspl The sound stirred Buck MacGinnis at the sound. 1 re ae Biby with my thoughts to “Very well” 1 sald, and begun to mer, travelling in England for a dry tn the search, and such was to his depths, He “pointed” at the ‘““D'yer get him?" he inquired. volunteer remarks, and White, ap- read my book. goods firm, She wouldn't stand for vividness of the vision that T ju id parently, had meditations of his own to occupy him, It was when we had settled ourselves in an empty com- partment and the train had started ‘you must do better than She's very particular. Always was. on the trail at once, It was Lean see you bringing the Nug- ‘That's why I'm going to quit after leasly late, however, and I didn ack to the school!” I've won out over this thing of the anticipate that I should meet ‘| ay ” 0 hope- pistol into the Nl of back will did to Buck was plenty A You will see me do just that, if you Tittle Nugget He looked at me = TY Byer Gud tee dbobliniees ie 4. They placed thelr valuable burden that he found spescrad tapped me on Walt.” I anid, fully, “So you will take me along For two hours and a halé ging. I opened i, the body of the car, where he lay hak “You will not be so fresh, sonny, 1 shook my head. ped the streets, my spirits sink- the door—knocking first, as a mild repeating himself, and two of them the Knee ome to atick to you like a i @ few hours, You will be biting “You won't?” ing more and more under the infl | Concession to the conventions — and climbed in after him. ‘The third rate eOPowe Tttles ponnys he eald, Pinces out of yourself, I fear. And — “I'm sorry to spoil a romance, but of failure and of a disagteeabl the procession passed in. seated himself beside the driver. ‘what I propose to dg.” later on, when my automobile splashes T can't. You must look around for of snow and sleet which had begun “—_ you will some other home into which to bring fall. Then, tired ont, T went back “Buck's legs broke,” he announced. , you with mud in Piccadilly ome into | r ‘The head master sat up like a Jack- «Geqi"" said the chauffeur. Phat do you mea et address you taste the full bitterness of remorse happiness. ‘The Fords’ s barred.” = my rooms ai\t climbed sorrowfullys In-the-box. One might almost say “Let her go!” said the man in the “I want to find out that address you Wein youth ‘must buy Is experience, are very obstinate, young into bed that he shot up. And then he saw front seat. Ore stable yards? I suppose!” man,” he said sadly but without any It was odd to wake up and reall The purring immediately rose to & Bara ital FaWERACGODIA” “Savien & Wondall™ LiRAt, Apparent ill-feeling. “I can't per- that I was in London. Years Buk, Not for a subs Ww on ald di to take the only sensible to have passed since I left it. TH L, meanwhile, had remained where T08F. The car turned and began to Thave uttered a word at that moment. He beamed at what he took to be Suade you to is & thtcn oF emotions, net of Man , meanwhile, maine move with Increasing speed down {have uttered reeathe, ‘The ROPribls evidence that was coming round to COMM, ; Is a thing of emotions, not of ho I stood, close to the door, Am [ wait- the drive. Its drote grew fainter and unexpectedness of the blow had com- tho friendly and sensible view of the 4. i ® to be rivate, at cninutes, ; ed for Mr. Abney to finish sneezing, finally coased. I brushed the snow Hal agehen eed tie ‘Ah, well! So we are to be rivals, packed a considerable number of¢ iz the first ame since Hatin’ col- from my coat and walked to the Pp Whee however, ‘was apparently “Then you think, on consideration” not all val soy Sy Pid teoaey Bee eoneoal jeans ae pe eS league, Lefty, had entered the class- front door. : 2 , . hink, “4 aa! - “ad House. . re- Ss room, tho idea of action occurred “My first act on entering the house Eder auntie the ChE WrALBORE dae caine Gan aN ORE Gales, "When you see me in my viewing the past, while Smith, with — cheerful clatter of crockery, pre mentioned your automobile my breakfast in the next room, A curlous lethargy had succeeded to me. was to release White. He was still The next moment my fingers were lying where I had seen him last. He on the switch of the electric light, appeared to have made no headway “2 guess you didn't know I was you will take me with you to that around or you wouldn't have talked address, will you not? You observe t way. Well, I was, and I beard that I do not ask you to give it to fo I did.” ihe tev {the proviows and the room was in darkness. with the cords on his wrists and hd stip 4 « lo © feverish energy 0! ; K OF m ‘word you sald, Here was the me, Let there be not so much fa . ? = ‘There was a chair by the door. I ankles. I came to his help with a “Bec GED ME ON WITH THe vary Word YoU Sale. Tere MT Otake. the falnvest odor of Che GgubIS-Croes train had stopped, as trains night, More than ever the imposeibil: x al money, you do on English railways, be- ity of finding the needle in this hu- _ OF HS PIs TOL. 6 Treand break for London, and go to about this business, All 1 ask is that tering a terminus. Presently man bundle of hay oppressed ma. No the eaarene on vid SAedi nna ype ee you penta te Led eek ie hh rye it began to move forward hesitating- one is optimiatic before breakfast, Smith would look after him. you to where a If saying to itself: i ture with dull I eaddot go bysclf, that he should slip away to London there had been some talk before that, and should then rely on my wider ee en ee wanted here? ReGen sasting eek thauente COT orn ig Uitibs che aftexncon: go to my Koome but 1 didn't Arrive 16 vese to Bese I. saperienge of thie fort of game tO gna T be welcome after a while'to the past. But the sald. “I'll go and where he would find Smith; and with pint 1 heard all I wanted, except that get him eafely away and to open ne- “ventually, after a second halt, tt past meant Audrey, and to think of seized it and swung it into the space rather dull pocket knife. He rose between us. Then, springing back, I stiffly and began to chafe the Injured + banged the door and Abn ih allene I did not run without a goal in view. "rhey've gon My objective was the study. This, a9 He nodded. L have explained, was on the first floor, “Did they hit you with a sand oh T sald. Ite window looked out onto @ strip of bag? Smith travel to his mother at Mon- ‘And that's what I'm going gotiations with the dad.” Hongside the platform. } lawn at the side of the house, ending He nodded again. op, you will be {4 aco, T had written Smith, bidding fra out when we Ket to London. “L suppose your experlence has wi rarane out ‘and. ran to the cab: ““"ty"zenren’ at random for an indie, in @ shrubbery, The drop would not = “y broke Buck's leg,” I said, with Charge of the school. Perhaps you him to be in readiness tor the ex- “[ must say it jarred me when I been wide?” I sald. rank. I was aboard a tax, bowling vidual unit among London's be pleasant, but I seemed to remember modest pride. had better go back to the boys dow.” pedition. There was no flaw in the heard you pulling thet stuff,” con- “Quity tolerably out of the station, before the train jends an undeniable attraction to @ waterspout thal up the wall That'll hold Buck for a while!’ White was standing in the hall scheme, as I had mapped it out; and tinued White. “I haven't what you Doosn't it ever worry you, the hud stopped. ; flose to the window: and, in any case, was his comment. ‘I gui | when I got there. though’ Ogden. hud complicated {t-& yright calla childitke faith In my fel- anxiety and misery you cause?™ “Peeping out of the window at the Guy,ing'onn 1eemibttione tameaele T was not in a position to be deterred hear from him for a week or two. “White,” I said, “do you know any- little by gratuitously luring away jow man aa a rule, but it hed never urely temporary, both. And then pack, I was unable to o yi Y the morning and afternoon, but. 4 by the prospect of a bruise or two. That's the best cure for the head- thing about the trains to London?’ Augustus Beckford to bear him com @ moment that occurred to me fi look at it in another way. Think of adroit m 4 batted (he. t his It was an affair which must be ache I've ever struck!” “Are you going to London?” he pany, he had not endangered its suc- you could be playing tbat game. It the joy and relief of the bereaved him. 1 had left him standing. of Ogden nor o See ON ee ae re Err cat eeee Hee Sotate Soy Omm, crzeeL UN) tie rmove, Suny aEERULONe! O6es. only “shows,” hi te. the Jy Shen eunny comes toadling ~ = Lik pollts phgypetaaer 2g eneeehatt seconds; an cale classroom when I saw Audrey on the manner. thought he lool at me t tterly ro . ally, “that you'v ome int 8 y it is worth some p would take Buck just those - stairs, and went to meet her. curlously ae he spoke. piesrionehnd utterly unforeseen come Sverybody when it on ee ea ae CHAPTER XVI. tion was that Smooth Sam was preD-, you 1 was auarter of an hours “MY bolas eaually uneucoeeetaly Af drive to my rooms, but to question of return to Banstead. I baa. not gathered whether Mr. Abney had see to a gilt onds to win his way past the chalr “t's all right,” I said. ‘They've “Yes. 0; x tion like the Little N’ t-$ od a 5 eden Ford and Augustus now was to undo everything for edged proposition like the je Nug- a td eet dust ae T reached the STA Beckford cannot be found. Mr. Ab- which T had been plotting. Ket. Tight call me a buman be MHay thc dase Ce tan Dearsom BOW wetter Wen, ee nek ala) they hey thinks they must have run away J stood there, looking at her dumbly, You had mo, foeeeingse Be eee hee Laas a legen 4 me, in my anxiety, it seemed i (0 London.” i of mitted. “I couldn’ ure you out. ¢ en. 0" . ¥ el ipl eA bat ey ee Fer ee Bila ttle ey Mh peda shouldn't, woader,"* said Weite~ Higa dpi thoa Rad Dhaba aa My rte Gning, of course, T thought you are, Father gets caught short In cot. more. This was going to be Wamaeringa, oe wheter ‘wee Bae ted landing. From the Fall below Crer Ogden Ford, but they diane Uvl¥. it seemed to me, There was struck her I could not have felt more must be working in with Buck Mac- tone, Mae oe maralbg eons a clono thing and auccess oF supposed to come back except. with: sty H crowd, Then all that 1 had came answering shouts, but with an get him.” something distinctly odd in his man- despicable, In my misery L cursed Ginnis and his crow Mie wind by snapping at Little failure a matter of minut tho deserters, 1 dectded that them, ‘The a Wher »» Ber, “And you're going after the c . ~ happened to-night, and I saw that, cases hie mind by am 4 c . better remain in London for another interrogatory note in the: Where ts he? Where is Ogden? "Yeu } fy Slee citndpaeed init Cynt for leading me into this tan whoever you might be working in Willie, Mrs. Van First-Family for- he followed my inetruction: fight, at any rate, and went to @ sistants were willing but puzzied. They did not like to leave their posts Terres COuIA/ SeDIy: -Wemer Reoke yaThere Is a fast train tn an’ hour. without. specific instructions, and : . . You will have plenty of time.” Fe shouting as he clattered over , Glossop was at my side, semaphor- —wvwiny you toll Mr. ; might de working, in Mute to invite mother to her freak would be etarting for the Continen- Theard my name spoken, and turned, ES chat dos not In Sih any. dinner. What happens? Mothor takes fat mout-train to-night with his com- that, Puce Pee oon, Seer, one, You're just playing {t by your. It out of William. panion; and, working out the Nearest post-office to send Mr. Al a telegram to that effect. , he problem 6 ing violently ‘ Ps ‘Mr. Abney would like to see you, ‘ ony i ybe, but the; As I was writing it t the bare boards, was uniatolilsibie, | '"fW,’mugt telephone,” he, bellowed [lle T go and pack my bas? And gi," y anit, aie ee bi Boatins seh Free argh hey love, Me whey do not tances, I saw that, by the time I wich tad’ batted mo, for twenty. pent ate," Nefore they could arrive !1 my ear, “for the police!” Sure,” said White, noddini T went upstairs, glad to escape. Tho yaw your chaice of making @ pile realize all he is to them, And then could arrive, he might already have Min jours #0 se at an understanding. 1 sprang to t) Somebody tugged at my arm. It y" yer, aps ta amy ROCA a bl b tension of the situation had begun to py holding up old man Ford. You one afternoon he disappear®, The jeft my rooms. : “ ey was Audrey. She was saying some- oo it's tour thin y 4 " pita tear at my nerves. thought it was better than school- agony! The remorse! ‘How could lg. ivy supervision at the Sanstead 1. roo andie rattled. Voices shouted. thing which was drowned in the up. aon a te eee emaveral reas a1 CUD Id, Bister Burds,” said my em~ mastering and grabbed it.’ eer have told our lost angel to stop P CHAPTER XVII. Ar hanel splintered beneath a kick, Tar. I drew her toward the stairs, Sone. 7 felt h Per aes yee rea- ployer, swallowing a lozenge. His as- “See here, his darned noise” moans father, ‘I station had made it impossible for HETHER my powers of: tne ind the door shook on its hinges. and we found comparative quiet on Brat cus weeks at Manateads was iy pect was more dazed than ever. together over this bu struck him once!’ sobs mother. ‘With me to send a telegram. I had had to ductive reasoning had bees ern’ ‘snapped the catch back and flung the first landing, a tha nature or So Dene Leeee Ae in “White has just bade an—ah—ex- [ guppose it was the recollection of this jewelled hand | spanked our van- trige to chance. Fortunately my ie Y up the sash. An icy wind swept into “What were you saying?” T asked. Ris tanies are sre uni iihas dd treat. traordinary cobbudicatold to be. It the same words in the mouth of Buck ished darling!’ ‘We were not worthy Sati is rable: Naas haan’ Ow 1S under a cloud since I left tee room, bearing particles of snow. |,He isn’t there. Viti ot ke Wee ee eines the seebs he is id reality a detective, ad MacGinnis that made me alt up with to have him,’ they wail together, ‘But, train, by & miracle, ha jen up Banstead, or whether they ‘ J scrambled onto the window-sill and = ;Whot” Tmnouid be too late for the theatres. cmplovee of Pidkertoi’s Agedcy, of a Jerk and stare at him. Oh, 1¢ we could but get him back! Wms, and Ot my present raielct Bros were normally beneath mfrom behind me told of the “Orden Ford. Where ts he? He ts Jini, ve for the theatres which you have of course—ah— — "We'll make a great team,” he sald, “Well, they do. ‘They get him back reas I ought to catch Smith a few i? hing of the door. not in his room. Those men must [71 Bt pee ao a) low in some res- heard." still in that same cozy voice. “If aver as soon as ever they care to com® minutes before he left the building tempt, I do not pretend to know. The packed snow on the alll was have taken bim away. I telephoned tr, appealed to aese wae SE urehees Bo White had reveaied himssit! On there was a cage of Afty-Afty. this Ie across in unmarked hundred dollar "Tne cap pulled up. 1 ran UD rg the fact remains that hitherto or the ice. I i the whole, I was not surprised, Cer- {t! You'v ay 7 \ wice J chilling my, knees as 1 worked My SWvhite opened the door. I caught a | When I returned to the hall, carry- tainly his mot It! You've, gat the kid and Ive got bills. And after that they think ¢ completely overlooked the obviows for concealment— you, I can't get away with him with- before working off their grouches on stats and opened the door of my way out and pre ft f bi if id ing my bag, I found Audrey ther _ 4 ‘ solution of my diMouity. ‘fhe milmpse of blue uniforms, and came !Ng | e, nd Audrey there. the fear of mi Mr. Abney ner- out’ your help, and you can't get id. So T bring universal tment: Fee seni canecusly, intething forward to do the honor Frm being sent to London" Tsaid, vous—was removed, An Inrdsh Of Guay eth hie uniee son euucre Gee Kortecse into the home, tdent sey mnithi® I called, I must have been thinking eo room, and simultaneo iy aaa rom, — pill know. White told me, Peter, Commanche Indians with tomahawk It's a stand-off, ‘The only thing 18 to father doesn't Kot a twinge every now A chair scraped along the floor and clusively of the Little Nugget that sill. « 5 Mr, pney's nervousness - ow joes it go?” th ole in is ban! balance, bu age. Smith it. lone, my, balnace, f0! 1 on instants BRR were two of them, ae {it moans sverything to me.” ent juncture. |, He beamed kindly on my bewiider- the note in, whata money for if It's “Thank poodnoss: you have not Of Augustus Heckford. It oc shj Ken and scratched and, incident- more, In response to our |’ fe SpA understand,” I said. “What _ ‘Sent here by Mr. Ford, T suppose?” ment during the space of time it not to spend?” started! I thought I should mias you. to me now that, by making inquirteay emper than ever in urgent apes! for assiet. OO) vou, Mr, Ford sent me “Haactisn Ano: precirelyi® Fre sixes, #0 aclect, a clgarette and ent He snorted with altruistic fervor. , boy? at the latter's house, I should w that there was always dan- sulting be—I do dot cobhedt on the ‘and } A back. . : ‘ ” of the Augustus type does not f all other mun- and leaned back. ow h valuable, but you must Ho has not arrived, sir. dane affairs, cluvivanished absolutely, materialized iteelf in the ehape of a LPR ait stea nin Mpuees Puna stl) 2 Kood taste or wiadod of his aetiog — “When I told you T was a Pinker. Know ped your pile'by this time, I “Not arrived?” away from school without a reageny, 1 was full of fight—I might say over- @tout inspector and a long, lean con- over to Bagiand very quietly. “fhet. Gort of Lutler at thie-abe- noun, his oe TAs, ROnDY, Me sald, 1 misses gather that you have been pra tising BDH os Bln binky Probably some party was taking with At. stable. Briefly, White and I told is now I come to be here ; 4 : : i old truth by about a mile; but your particular brand of philanthro sta , Babe tealEne cece Mowing Mmber standing there, with th® them our story. Then I showed them Wherever Ogden goes. I ar respon, Meee teed Woae aor atronely suse You caught me shooting off guns in phy for a good many years, Why (How long have you been here?” 1), any ate Snsees ; snows trickling in chilly rivuiets down vem tur Rite: ee oe all we came file for him. And have failed. If pect, by Rister Ford himerif, I bay yny rounds and it was up to me to don't you retire? Sou age nat 7" Nugget, be had decided that his pret d neck, and shaking my Ogden is not b: ht back, M A * say somethin He aighed. You have not been out . Dp my face anindow, Two of my pur- to Mr. Abhey’s study. will Have nothee ant back, Mr. Ford ba wroxgis Bister Ford, but Ido not ‘io blew @ amoke-ring and watohed “It is the dream of my life to retire, “Not since the hour of two, sir.” eine. was necessary, ee st f Ow cue of it, WROD Et dook come time to explain mats He never forgives tallure, "te ai in {t dreamily till {t melted in the draft young man. You may not belleveme, “I can't understand it," I said. I knew the house well, There bad third doiged bein’ them, Ike asmall tory to Mr. Abney and more to con- mean telng Gack Ge the old ware ie aE ne reeeonim teamed Mr, from the ventilator. Par my instincts nro thoroughly, do- “Perhaps the young gentleman beon a time, when Lord Mountry $n the outskirts of a crowd. Again, the drenemaking, or the waits Abney, removing his face from n jug “f™ Smooth Bam Fisher,” he aald. mestic, When T have the lelaure to changed bis mind and never started, /, ime WAOsford, when I had toward travel- vince the two local policemen that, frequent week-ends there. Since thea ing, or whatever I+ean manage to of menthol at which he had been = Maney made no move weave day dreams, they cent ling xk but risky route which go far from wanting @ hue and cry find. She gave a littl hiver, | cones around a cosy little home with a nice “If know he started owing to being abroad, I had ling the auicded itself to me. ‘ThEY raised over the countryside and col- “Peter, I can't! All the Ping bas he ok Ata eantinaten Tie bealte CHAPTER XV. porch and stationary wash tubs. [Braith bad no Airther suggestion to little of the family. Now was neemed to ething . ons about the affair in the papers, jes aE ime. iim afrald. 1 the point. 1 berely bedtold tt to ex- HEN two emotions clash, the “Have you ever experienced che Oe ine tke youre gen tiaee moment to reintroduce myself, 10 DOPED. tong before T was made Dubliclty was the thing we were @2Z- him back.” You Tue ou was Setanta ee we eesempady: 764 wenker goes to the wall. von si thing.” ite brooded sen- Tival, sir, 1 remain in London?" joning hed sot pinged aware of what this something was. lous to avoid. Say you will!” “Why Any surprise IT might have timentally for a moment, then con. _ Before I could reply, a fruity votce me false, There was @ red From the direction of the front acer ‘They had hardly gone when Glossop I did not answer. I could find ‘The exclamation was forced from felt was swallowed up in tinued, and—to my mind-—somewhat ooree st, ioe door Denia mie: oul ae the house, and from came the sound of one running, whirled into the room in @ atate of Nothing to say. For it was IT who me by my dismay. This was ap- my relief, If I had been ®polled the {mpressivencas of his | bat nant he arrive ate ee sounds of music. sudden diminution of the nolse 0 Re etteerescing auitation was responsible for all her trouble, palling. If this infernal detective to be astond words, ‘The love of a good turned. ere, beaming an meth Wroxham, the mother feet told me that he had left the ited) tu T had planned everything. I had was to accompany me, my chance of &t lberty to be astonished, my com- he said about the most Aevolent, stood Mr. Fisher, Mountry and the vanishing Augue- ‘avel and was on the turf. I drew “Mr, Abney, Ogden Ford ts nowhere flven Ogden Ford the money that had pringing Ogden back was gone, It panion’s information would no doubt blamed wonderful lay-out that ev It occurred to me to look your tus, was one of those women rei a pace or two and walted. 46 ba founal? taken him to London, And aoon, un- pane down the pike. I know! I've me up in the telephone directory,” take things as they come. She itch dark and IT had no fear leas I could reach London before it ; 4 ” he explained, “I might have thought not seem surprised at seein, \ AS TRENG se seen twas standing Mr. Abney greeted the information happened and prevent him, he, with had some of it myself. he explained. ‘How nico of you to come and eee ‘A spark from his claarette fell on his Of th A N 4 S t from the win- with a prodigious sneeze. my valet Smith, I thi > ec ‘Come tn here,” | said, opening the us!” she said. "'s es cae What'do you" bead ne demand. Hover" hoat-train on nis way t© |Are You Going Away for the Summer? | We cene'ton the sano! town.” ayn cF me ann room vou were abroad, Ted Ie i the goueh “The man stopped just in front of ed when the paroxysm was over. He Monaco. ig he peaumed. having recovered fran) 2.010 hot want to Giscuan the thing of France, in the yacht. Augustus "A short parley followed. turned to me, “Bister Burds, I un- & an thie interlud Ato be kide atthe With him before Smit 1e looked is here, Mr. Abney, his schoolmaster, me an't yer see him?” derstood you to—ah—say that the CHAPTER XIV. game school—me carrying her lunceon Sout the room admiringly . Jet him come up for the night” ‘The voice was not Bucks, It wae scoudrels took their departure with- ’ When you go out of town for the summer you may find H IS] faaket and helping her over the fences, .,82 {hese are your quartors,” Ne erceived that Augustus had ered. oul 6 boy Ford,” 7 y 7 i ee 3 eo _ i 4 eo ¥e ‘panty playing a bold gam Bust fer fot es far, fe his reniy, as They certainly did. I watched Pees pay scien many Bouts calhieg and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading 4h! ene ee wnen. ae ee young man, HoT understand that Boeching ne Gnten “Naw, I can't”—when I sprang. lem go. > r a X , ago, The arrangement was that > Sitanaa hi ing fulsehood. “You will hardly re» ‘have ‘read vot the spring of Soe AUEn Etna taht tan nino upon me that the simplest Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy | should go out and make the money {0 BIDE (Foe nk BiCATeA AIR: DIBBA) OB: SNe member Sybil, She was qu 4 ave d : c 5 oI f of remov! Je c muy the 1 then com: c tf cant ae a ite en you were here last. segiable fying tackles made on the no aigns of him. And not only tha O50 ecient wad sf Fone he them at a fancy price in some country store? Puy, Sa home, (and then come wt can't Understand {tt mi her birthday: party ¢h sree) field. {claim that my leap the boy Beckford cannot be found aie AUER You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer} hen why haven't you done tt Raunt emotes ° “May I go in and help? combined the outs Peet siualaes nore Abney clasped his head in his aise Ales i ramays Dimesits , reading for six cents a week said severely. Tee a Ree ah hit tomerhere ; of wish You would, ‘They woulg I connect w! ie 5 Perhaps he ha een expecting get er} ‘ He shook his head. ; . love It, T kno of both the region of the walst, and | “Augustus | Beckford caddot b® gomething of the sort. At any rate By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months | "if sou know anvihing about crooks, Leaving the boy, T should , Edoubted it, but went In, A dan the how! agave ae We Orne tothe foe! pe ecnoed tAeb away to- he grasped the essential points of the | You 11 secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a young man.” he said vyou'll Know that say thai he hay found other uses for had just, fintened. _Stroliing towai 2 . 4 o of their ow e the ‘5 whoop! > me, nites! fy 5 ground wit reached for hia throat I gether,"" sald Glossop. scheme with amazing promptitude | Country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction | Casiest ‘marks. that ever happened. nd Hroim Sen eepI |e MR in| Dende ee alining with nenbee teyn eae be perceived that the light ot ine Wine ar euben ie use be dade at sense.” His little hand was extended to re- | by the foremost living authors, ‘They fall for anything, At least, it's of his yi ie got up. "This, errant Augustus, Close behind hime undergoing an bney excl “It ta ibper ceive ef i fy Iways been that way with me. No of course,” he said, “radically alters wearing the blase a f “to” Gow mst form had wriggled out tive that we take {bbediate steps. eae the ‘cash almost: before I had Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends J ee ieee et any ieee eee Mormtanding. we imay ‘have whom custom had. stated the. please ‘eo will, as I bad done, and I ‘They buat have gode to Loddod. Bi nished speaking. who expect to spend the summer in the country. nd start out for the old town, when come to, sonny. All idea of 4 part- ures of life, was the Little at upon th a 4 r , tle Nugget. } / heard the grating of his shoes on she ter Burds, you best go to Loddod by The main outline of my plan was some smooth stranger would come nership is out of the question, 1 (To Be Continued) 9 ROMANCE OF A NEW YORK GIRL’S STRANGE BATTLE AGAINST ‘‘MAN-MADE LAWS,” AND OF TWO MEN WHO HAD BUT A SINGLE IDENTITY: queccos coonnos ceseose coeseees mica § THE WOMAN’S LAW {cs125 n= 6 cents