The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1914, Page 15

The Evening World Daily Magazine. Monday, October 26 1914 THE SOURCE OF HARD TIMES | .:2%¥s2.} By Robert Minor The Cottage on the Fells One of the Strangest Detective Stories Ever Written By H. De Vere Stacpoole (Author of “The Ship of Coral,” 40.) Next Week's Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD. I Fasten a Bracelet . By David Potter This Book on the Stauds Wit! Coot YouSt.26, You Get It for 6 Cents. (Coppright. 1012. in America, by Moffat, Tard @ Os.) secretary, Mr. Folgam, not to allow low you to the ends of the sarth—and CHAPTER I. him to be awakened till ten. beyond, KLEIN.” Mile. Lefarge. How he, the butler, had searched for Laloir, without finding him, to CHAPTER V. tell him of thie order; how he had The Problem. one into the bedroom to find Leloir w lying dead on the floor, and sir an- & S ©." sald Freyberger, when . ELLIER, @ young lawyer with a passion for detective work, ran over from London to Boulogne for hort holiday, There, at & hotel, he met a girl whose presence made him prolong his vaca- tion, She was French—a Mile. Cecile Lefarge, and around her seemed to hang a mystery. Not until he and she were walking on ‘the reimparte one afternoon a4 Heilier glean @ hint as to the nature of this thony gone, this detailed description “Gone!” said Froyberger. Se ea by ta ae c ; ° ps “The bed had not been slept in,” re- Se Oe ae » hat di ‘before either realized what was about to happen—the man “TN” “It ts briefly this:' @yde waa telling the woman that he loved her, and the woman, was telling the maa that she cared for him. “Then she said, as if in answer to some question: ' “It cam never be. ” a dha ome mage ao cut off his head, put it in a bag, Her eyes filled with tears. ‘ 4 Froyberger followed him to the fatal °#™¢ to London with the bag and “It can never be.” \ Bedtoontr ding over the body was Slipped out of his London house, “Why?” he demanded. . : & tall, clean-ebaved man. carrying with bim his jewels, It @ + “Come,” sald abe, “and I will show years, He bad made himself a aame he dovtar tose’ ta Mie fal wots NUN Scene cease’ suena.” eae you.” in finance. R and exposed what he had been ‘It seems clear enough,” answered ‘Thoy left the ramparts and returned One afternoon toward the end of “4 Ing over, It was to the hotol. She left him In the hall March a man on a@ big black horse “ 4 even Froyberger a thrill. for a moment and then returned and came riding through the little village \ Pgh ert ager ead the Aid : leave those utterly damning letters axked him to follow her. of Blencarn near Sir Anthony's qurgeos, behind him on the mantelpiece? Why He followed her to a door on the ah “What do you think he died off” 4id he cut off his victim's head—what first floor landing. She opened It and middle-sized man, dark, 4 ‘’ | “Fright,” repiied Dr. Murrell. “Moat im the name of heaven did he want led him into a sitting room, where In With a Vandyke beard; posnibiy he had &@ weak heart, we will to burden himself with a human head lasees, and he rode ai J gee at the autopsy; but it was it an armchair beside a biasing wood © ‘ ' ‘ght tor? The man was known in the Gre sat ber aunt, of Mus do War Ghani ane 4 Naa eee eee and ‘Wr. Folgam seighborhood, his body was there te ens, muffled up in a light shawl, with PR od i oral or 80, ear for “e J . fame. Divinin Ves Lok getty | be identified; ing the heed away @ novel open upon her lap, asleep. jooting in the autumn, and again in g " ‘aw, he introdu Amaelf ani would seem to serve no known pure They passed into the adjoining room. SPring, as a rule. Sir Anthony Gyde e 4 the cry he had heerd ane rceeed ap. DOC unless he intended to keep it There, on a table in a corner, stood ing with him his French valet, hi ot? r | parently for going out. as @ curiosity or mement Ld something voiled with crepe. The girl cook, and in the autumn half si “In what state was the front door o these two ve “ pusall : 7 the death of Laloir ti went to this object and removed the dozen friends. This time he had s this morning?" asked Freyborger of aS ‘Mave ri @overing. She disclosed a bust. The "Fousht no friends, Raymond. He may have opened the bag On Gambiesby Fell he drew rein, Fr ial “The chain was enaten BT ‘all th, come upon the head” cuggested Marble bust of a man. A marvellous Tt was a still gray da} i ‘A : ’ | bolts drawn and the door held only by chief. piece of work. scarcely a sound on t ft - Sete the latch.” ‘Thore was @ look of wild horror Aman of middle age with a pointed call of a shepherd, the “Had Sir Anthony any valuables in on hin face that was caused by what bark of his dog, and, far away, t! t | the house?” 1 know not, by what | even fail to beard. A jolly looking man, a force- drumming ound of driven sheep. Nacsa e'"Hie Jewels, sir, im the big morooco imugino, but by something, 1 am very ful face and a lovable face, roguish @ = Pic master of millions sat with the ‘ease he always carries about with hic) sure, much worse than the sight of @ bit, with that old Gallic spirit that reina beeing vines upon his horse's y . travelling he ood papers in it OS bu ps hoes T ean almost fancy”—— the things that neck, gazing at the scene before him. : there are some vory , makes fun in public of tne private, yet THe, touching his horse with the f Where is the case? Vreydermer gave a little laugh, as Englishmen laugh over spur, he resumed his way, making i pines i “In the bedreom, air.’ tf at the idea thet had struck him. benevolent. to! the plain and home, : se . * 7 ms “Go with the coastable and fetch it “1 can almost tancy @ man dying “He was my father,” said the girl, He had only come down from Lon- 4 lane ie for ine to see with an expression on hie face like don the day before, and he int . , ° Wp Raymond departed and returned that after he had seen the— as Hellier gazed upon the marble vy a ended q . _ ale ?j a he wae a returning on the morrow; he had s e aN ‘ y " v 6s with the case; It was unlocked, abl mission, I “Wie was my father .nd he spent the day In going over the e ; : “a ’ 5 as if ie | te but rs. Guiior could not opesk. evening in consultation with i d . ~ aR : 5 wet ‘no Jewels in It—-nothing but papers. Heilier could not «peak, Mile, Le- evening 15 opauliation with his land ef at ‘ j wie Fi) Wy : We soe vin tego but pe j agent, Gristlethwa e: Hi fs Tage’ resumed: ‘Two milea from home he took a | mate." Ps pod con- “Et was eight years ago. I have short cut and struck aci the hel "Sie ste Antbnn e = gvt changed my name—you must into a very strange and desolate at when on ae isa ae 4 2 ‘nave heard of the case. It was Place. = bedrooi ke through it, received an ona we gam. eo Here, Ie use a vulgar expression, fecis 8 F008 motor to take him to the train. Then “Ab, #0 I did,” sai: Sir Anthony, tunately, very few of us have ever — “Dressed for going out, even to Ble Ana gLoke in. Then “the ,Lefarge case—ah, nov’ she , Here, in @ large meadow, walking upon his grave. he started, 0 1 did." He chuckled as ff at some heard, hat” replied the secretary. “Fle had Stvl thrts si ee he listened @ faint spaused for a moment. “Eight year® daughters. taleerthe ol pad El He was lis own chauffeur. cua ars joke, known only to him But it was 9 the house, bh = overcoat eralle stole over his IL you the deta: They -are a weird gro! even b} e are we cnr eee neoopeeeraas jone. sure of that, and getting out been area ee \nvartist daylight, more so Just now, for the Mi out. CHAPTER III. It was dusk in the corridor and he came down the corridor toward th * ‘ 's room, he seem axcited?" father. dusk was beginning to fa The next morning’s post brou:sh Leloir could not sec his " ee Bunt Of may, Geer she nae protag 0 : 1 5 is i vont : “Well, I could Bot eee hig.tace He! write his manne?, no, well, and as to naster’s face Sir Anthony’ Pheartist's name was Muller; he had — Long Meg is just a huge stone, foie fifty or so letters to Throstic What Young Lewthwaite Saw. dintinctly. or the exp ion on it, The electric lamps were al i * wice, standing erect and lonely, the reli Hall, forwarded on from London. KIRLE 1 but he heard the chuckle. He the corridor, but the place wi aly the face of a deinoll, | mam i euins, of some forgotten Neiont “Hae | Letters trom Russia, letters from picmelgt fa AGE lea tuek@d bean in Gyde's service for two years, illuminated by the Good of Mgnt ot think it betrayed a is face wlore we as 1 talk to daughters, sixty or more, lie before Japan, letters from Paris, Conatanti- jay in @ hollow of Blen- and he thought that he knew every atroaming through the secretary's t.” 2d Ne eas a paie face, a weary her in a circle, They are boulders, nople and Madrid; bills, circulars, carn Fell. phase of m&ster’s temperament bedroom door, Joos, the face of a wan who has seen by daylight; but in the dusk, aaa d announcements, touting let- reached the door of Sir An- — ‘Tho fella are one great #8d character, but this chuckle known all evil. they are anything your fancy wills. begging letters, letters from lu- sweep of low hills facing alarmed him more than the wildest room, when It was opened, Y Hooded women, f noice, hatics, financiers, friends, politicians outbreak of have done. himeelf, full He. was u great artiat, hia name Hooded women, for) hol in All and enemies. the west. Blencarn Fell is as wild ‘There was something inhuman In ving @ black bag In dostor «gas ee pees bene. an Mauer, 8 Germnds ee aaa ie gome recumbent, some erect. tes a beat the souls of which and perhaps in summer as lovely It, Cesap dee hemlet ane did not his hand, appeared. 5 paner CaeN Felative te 116B Piosaéilty. Qui atin. as ia woul ave driven an ordinary man y e ff the Pennine sound produced by « man's ing Fol; he started, like 2. has wi madman. My dear father al- Sir Anthony was passing these ‘nas any other part of On seeing Folgam he star a ray 4 th er, hating @ membered buman head ioveed: im. to make. that, bust, fhings, which he had known froin i eee agden, ie Nt SMEHCE Range, Skirle Cottage, lying ‘28 de jor a devil, IBIERS RAYS SSSAFOd 9 perneny rete Tae oneived 6 Seeeis (ny nanon a“ rise ain sittings, twice invited him to our house. Ls ” passing hansom. Bis, childhood. when, amid them Sieg ireviowed them sitting up in pression of it, was es far removed ‘Leioir was turning to go, in fact polkamo sT ghought some on6 might it ,wonder what be saw before be perceived a form sexted on a camp- bed propped up with pillows, a cup of from human eye as it is possible for he had mad half d * ? steps, be ill, sir’—— died,” went on Dr, Murrell. When I stool. tea by his side and bis correspond- when Gyde' estes “ “Lt we knew that,” replied the ée- Freyberger reached went on the girl, are It was the form of a man wearing @Nce spread upon the coveriet @ house to be. ners “Btop.” ‘Ah! ry the other, “I Bye tective, “the case might met coam eo thony faye lower, “I felt as hohe I father to ® broad-brimmed hat. He gorted them by the simple proc- It was a fairly large cottage; @ barn gine pepiied the valet. nothing. to Led room an opened evil itself. 1 implore: iy itm. He , He must have heard the horse's es of casting them upon the floor, was attached to it in the Cumberland You have all my jewels?" them in the morning not to awaken auve nothing to dow! i, He hoofs approaching, but he did not 1 » me till ten, I shall be at work tii laughed. He had no fear of evil. gome on the left. fashion, eo that the whole building ne , they are in this bag: Tate." i ones on the right went to the ‘Order the « se was all good. sUraiuais O66 ou are sketching the stones?” waste paper basket, the ones on the WS of one piece. ‘Ten minutes ele ¥ ee eer Folgam apologised for his mistake “He valled at gee te fn ror this Said Sir Anthony, drawing rein a few left to his secretary. He had neary The motor car, with its sin dug they arrived at Carlisle atatio: air is whi my p 0 n . ver etrick- ve a Me et “gtudio one day and MUT- goa" tocKed trom under the briin of oh, stamped in the Tete hand corner (eve! with, the cottage, Bir Anthony te eee se rar cin base eaeacet they would have per- dered him. ae his hat at the man on the horse. as if in deflance of convention, Gyde descended, and leaving the car want to be disturbed." colved Gyde, bag in hand, passing “Lasten to me, he murdered him, "There was just enough light to addressed in a handwriting unique in to take care of itself, opened the 8t®, ie gat reading over some papers 2°¥" the corridor. disappeared, and was never S#8eD gee his faci that it managed to be both prim and uy nbarred and unohained fguin. He decapitated Muller, and ""}t was a face that no man oF fantaatic, Be Anthony opared it nn Dusted through, and struck Up the he had taken from his pocket, while io the tu and withdrew, and \thony, re- uring into his room, shut the doi ising ground, Leloir busied. bimasif, seeing that {font door, and If the bare ; the headless body was found in the woman would ever forgot, once : Lit cat q had been’ covered with velvet he ut he did not do it, I know.’ It was not ugly, but it was thin, “I will be at home this afternoon , rr ‘a : Mitts terrible,” murmured Heller. cadaverous, and under the shadow at 3 o'clock. I must seo you, wine mevinwitite, aon of a shoemaker Mf | When it arrived Sir Anthony, loav- 1m te Gita At ibis: Whacome wee sa ettibie—oh; you cannot think!— of the hat brim, in some mysterious out fail, at that hour. KILI Bioncarn, attracted by the hum of ing the motor, walked hurriedly down pausing in wadress srw you know why It can never way dreadful. Now Sir Anthony © Leloir, the valet, was in tho bath- {2@ Mbprouching car on the bighFoad the platform to the special saloon to the cabm Blectric ° Gyde was « man who feared neither room stropping @ razor, when he bg aii a watching. 4 carriage that hed been attached for “ny” Colook, 8 and 4 o'clock favorable even than sunlight for re- It his innocence were proved? ghost nor dévil, but when his eyes heard a stifled cry from the bedrooin , pf Tom that elevation be could see him, took his seat and ordered bis wn peowed into the bed: Wal pictures; he died inetantaneous- prey | a i ie i he ¥ met the eyen of this man his face adjoining; runnin: ; the car approaching; he eaw it stop man to let nobody disturb him, and tl a was Ree ieee she repliod. fell away, and he sat in his saddio aap Wanding 4 ba me peng he and tho occupant get out. He recog tt wag dusk when the great two- fiom of Bir Anthony Gyde, where, on Wy; the conditions could not well be Co ened. lier took her tiand and hetd it like man who has suddenly been tho pedp it ¥ nised him at once as Sir Anthony fa nis Dac DOR oi 4 But Sir Anthony Gyde jellier tool post with one hand, while qv a engined ress drew out of Carlisle Leloir, dead, withou ‘You are a photographer?” his bankers th " had HNP ON stricken by age. with the other he held the letter wo G¥d*. He maw him crows the field 484 gation and took its way to London. wound, his arme outa) ened e receipt for his witt's jewels will, do 1 that lies In me to bave ju " Geet RU cand Ne around q TMiCe OUrine the journey to Lon his face an expression Of horror, h assumption of ony obtained them At," . ia of t! ion Leloir entered the compartment ) ds mad I “Thave the dossier of the case,’ we associate with da him, awoeping the fell tace as though where Gir Anthony was, once brinKing death. a epee ey ita bighwaye and byways, 2s being eo, be must Rave bees replied Mademoiselic rge, “1 will dew, ruin, He was shaking In every [0 Bee If he wore obsvived | Abe nim tea, and again, Just after leaving _ hobby of his life. tt ere veloc. We pee it in your hands: I have beltcf A frost had set in member, and the bed shook, aa if the parently satisfied, he knocked at the Normanton, bringing lim the evening “You will let me know if you are “ eoeed a ‘you, When I first saw you some- ing, the mr ad wi terror of the man, or his rage, aad © ge door; the door was opened for panerg, CHAPTER IV. Ghewstul,” oni the other, getting most, if this was indeed Ma head, thing drow me toward you, perhaps it the wound of the horee ran diffused itaelf even into the inant. Dim, he entered, and the door Wa® " One of the dining-cur attendants, Into the end, 5 here, been mardered ond Giemeae was the spit of my father—for T Upon tho alr like the sound of a trip- mate, clos who was & friend of Lelotr 4 Mr. Freyberger. dered tn the course of three hours, the feel that he is he more verneys fe Naminer on an Avil. fllng. broug’st uagiotr withdrew; he had too in- pe ‘ale. Eettly interested fe oer ward deposed that there was o 'T was after ten the next 108 Pleeadilly end it ng out to me his be s erman art * Was his spirit povntne ghe paused, im to the main avenue gate of the intrude “upon Mee when he wae in cxerised the local mind, A maa Ste Sere SMRRES ALOUL the "MAR? morning that Raymond, the sh} abeurd. Of one Yes," said Hellier, Hal com was waiting at the steps One of bis takings, whose face and peraonality would "ns. looked startied and white," ran butler, made the discovery. ntef, by “Perhapes” she said, “it was an in- A groom was watting at the steps “"T’ have ald that when Gydo lost Mave drawn attention in a city, @X- nig depomition, “ivoked like a 1nan who ‘nocking @t the door of Sir ind the Chief of the Criminal gmony, then the thing pile ptipet that told me that some day"—— OF [he Bouse ered with foam, and Rimeelt in one of his attacks of anger cee te aaa t Intereut among these hag goon a ghost. I've known DIM 4 Anthony's room and receiving no an: fereinaten Denese (hire ated 10 tion to the death of the Laletr “Yes,” w qa ntep ‘orth a een. 3 0 un to Ca mt ‘ ” . 2 -mintat bw Ry veers day 1 gould love you." {he horseman, without a word, WOU Gyseuing lean Hyperbolica ty, ihe we PTThe boy walted @ long time, nearly feet {net him frat on the re w Ciy. ewer, he opened it and found the which is the Central bursa’ ce an 4, Wien Zreyberrer returned lo Geshe The ner asternoos Halller ree Fie entered a large galleried hall, Beoame & ravening beast, and he (brce-auartara Of Be dour, thon, tie ointment and we went toamusic hall body of the valet. Grmy forever ‘at war with crime. Wand, Yard he found @ new det ake turned to London. hung with armor and trophies of the 4), eeouadt oy Gave Seuck Lalole to eee pte Comeihens 10 wes elrays & nook fom Had Raymond, tnatead of calling In ‘arrest had just been nbd, Gives Str Anthoay Gyde on the CHAPTER II Chaps, paving paced the room for Well in one of these attacks am not, , H#'was carrying @ biack bag in his Panton, and spent bis money freely tho policeman on point duty at the jequed, Choten arith mom, TERY Before, | . cent yiMuten tangs a bell by, NOW, left to himecif, with nothing BAD. L looned bee kitchen for hin manter’s tea he had comer, telephoned instead to New @ of Klein, the artist. ta "Pie Bio eat cantante +0 Sir Anthony Gyde. the mantel and. ordered the servant {© Vent hie anger upon, the attack left , 119 tloed the door ent loukel Oe no nense in him: I asked him how Scotiand Yard, he would have found child who had driven him to Howland street. He waa HEN Sir Anthony Gyde came Who answered it to summon Gristle- m without an explosion, the shak- nd hiro, a ry Taster wan; he took me by ¢ ed, apparently, that be d Bir Ant , Tiwalte the landsagent, ing of the bed ceased, he called his *ptering. Sati OR, coming, ae @ reply, neither Inspector it Anthony Gyde salering sure it was Gir Anthony? Certain. W to Bis inheritance, he found ite was a short, thick-set man. Bim, ordered his bath to be Be was unobserved. he came dows in the supernata Alanson nor Fairchild, both being disposition. He came He had drives him before. Ni T don't, What makes away on duty, He would have found down the feil side toward the cottage, Wea ee Gomesnoned Ld himself the possessor of Cumbrian by birth, but with little id while this wus being {he Valley toward the road. got into ‘amined the onvelope in ‘he motor car and drove o half a million of money—a trace of the accent. I essnaee ve after seeing Bir Anthony depart, and ; which the lette: sir Anthony Gyde w: ® much younger man acting as thelr His cab had been coming ‘xeye daye—Throstle Hall in Cumber- Qhunged into ‘business ys and in the corner was written the ™vturist, as moto He drove stopped, for the head attendant W&% boyish parson, nugeestive of @ cafe on tiptoe and peeped. Anthony come out of No. 1108. The ie a voune in Piccadilly, and the "Ay the way," said Sir Anthony, Word “Local. carefully, | rarely eding fifteen calling to me os conch waiter In his Sunday clothes, In What saw he did not quite baronet walked a few paces steppe: eee ne acca have you seen an artist fellow about | It had evidentiy been ported at Sine $e nals Rectgs Bon ANSEL ke Pace e nce ses, Comeluded Mr ener words, he would have found SNeerstand at Great. Than it became joes APCHME, Cow Nhe com ARS Hut when plain Anthony Gyde be- Rerg-man in a broad inset ie if eR Tt wan ten tufuies t) four when he and I'd bet a dollar ft was something Gustave Freyberger, then unknown, Seriy Caen gray bundle on , He ordered himselt to be ériven to wie flr Anthony, and mucceeded to "Tr hos the man you mean,” replied stamp was half obliterated and quite yeucbed ‘Throstie Hall, Nhe Sik. QUMMe pancran two broughams 8°W ® Muropean celebrity. the ‘white cottage foor: then the gave no number, | ve banking business, founded by hie the agent, “I believe {t's man with useless uw an indication of the date burgh express tor Loudon #10p8 Ot were waiting; Gye gor into the firet, Fteyberger, @ naturalised English thing. on closer inspection, became & seo i te =e . @ German name, Klein, an artist. Having examined thi ot vob ee tan Gatat ig ¥ 2 % n body, ere was no head, fare ig Fs ho Lath bie Een aan Jet him have Bkirle Cottage @ month carefully, ne replaced the letter in ie oue,an pec to catchy Me Aitieely of the secretary and, "She ‘deapatcn Se tae cian cee toll aee There wae & pool of something dark Sve-shilling pisos, saking Gor Be ; i as: = and laid it on the mantelpiece, bathed, manner, with the black bag in bis boxes followed in the second pear where head ought to have ange. wat to } Klein," sald the other, In a medi- dressed, put the letter in his pocket, hand, and entered the house. He brougham, hin hands like @ gift from heaven, been. He then ined Gown the street, : was as surprising as the tative tone. nd then sent for his secretary to oroased the halt and entered the It waa half past eleven when they 4nd it fell into his bands at half past It wes Kieln’a body; he recognised and, opening a house door with vdvuing of» dragon-fy from .ita “He took it for three months,” went the brary, where he began dictating jibrary, remained there for a minute arrived at 1108 Plocadilly. ten in the morning, heralded by the ft» because of the cloth gray Wetchney. entered ond oleae (88 Seay ne on Gristiathwaite, ‘Paid In advance, letters. In answer to the important of «., ‘and then ‘caine out and went | Sir Anthony went to his own room, ringing of the boll of the telephone homespun suit, that all the netghbor. ® As Bal toa mreyberger how e brought some sticks of furniture ones he had received that morning. into the dininy room, One could tell followed by ula valet; the secretary hood know. It was Klein, 4t was in November that the univer- from Penrith; he's an il] looking chap But he dictated no reply to toe by the tian'x foutsteps that he was went to hin own ruom and to bed, aw Connecting: Marlborough street polloe mo head. te find the house, and in another tem «-y lost’ @n undergraduate, noted but his monéy is good; half cracked: humbie-looking episue postmarked full of unrest. !e went upstairs and did Raymond, the butier, who was @ station and New Scotland Yard. He | The ohild told bis story at home, minute ee Gateative wer ustefly for @ handsome face, effem- 1 shoul ink, coming here this time #kirwith entered the rooma on the iirst floor, man who kept early hours Grove at once to Sir Anthony's house, S24 that night the local constable abby door. inacy, and a taste for collecting first “4; Naldn't give you any caters At half-past one he had luncheon, Hére he met his secretary, Mr. Fol- At inidnight the house was ae os went out to the cottage and verified The door, the knocker, the bell. Shortly after luncheon he ordered gam, but ha did net speak » word, silent aa tie tomb, You have touched nothing, altered it, The constable searched the cot- lle, all were in the last stage ef editions. Aces. his motor-car to be got ready tu . In one of the corridors he mot Now, Mr. Folgam's apartments aothing, meddied with nothing, I tage carefully, there were no marks loot, % In the following January, Lombard _ "No, he paid in advance; I was in take him to the railway station at Lelolr were Ga the same Moor aa ir AR- Rope,” sald Freyberger, aa he of foctateps. but ins, corner lay Are rou Se Watindry | ect became aware of @ new hand f° Minds about letting him ha Carlisle, in tine to catch the express The luggage hos all been des- thony's bedroom, and he was | ailnbad ‘Gat ot bln overcast something white; be ploked I upi tt Poerhennee the unwashed apes nye place, but since old Lewthw to London at five; also a aecond car patched, sir," sald Leloir, "and the in bed reading “The Count of Canea a le was o ellk handkorehief, mari tited looking woman whe : in She-game of finance death it has been lying idle and going to take hie secretary, despatch boxes, car is waiting, When would you like Cristo,” when, very shortly after Nothing,” replied & policeman. with the initials “A, Q” 1 cammons, As a matter of fact, Oxford had let pee Sa hava! aay, SOR VAAAIIGN Ang Of6e and ends. a to start?” midnight he heard @ oy, “Who sent for you?’ ae mania, beaide o tin candle FY om. loose, without know! it she -past two a singll motor “start,” said Bir Anthony, speaking t was exactly the how! of “ tler.”” s jay @ letter, an en’ pe Con- ; ne 38. (ae with bim?” se gare used for short ‘distances, was ikea person awakened from adream, dog. It waa not like the sound = may ee taining the envelope and letter whien ¥ “Yes, sir,” sald Gristiethwaite, “and brought to the door. lor where?" human being would emit, hi er m UP: Sir Anthony had received that wore: > his tolk struck as @ bit dat. } Bir Anthony got into it, having ‘You ordered the car to take you ward deposed; and in this Mr. - In a few words the butler told how ing, and @ sheet of paper on : oannot remember all he said, but 5 ap joir strict injunctions as to te Cariis! * paid the astonished gem, who was not a student of inar- gir Antheny, his valet, and secretary, Was written: ber he told me he bad lived in 1 ete, He told the man Leloir, “to catch the London express savas gounds, was wholly Wrong: nod arrived the night before; hew the 4 ‘Paris, Fob, bad there.’ Was about to visit am out- at five. I telegraphed this rit exactly like the ory of @ “You will not movement setnie. ond that for a special saloon carriage to be man ia nity z lorzer of poceonold bad resired fo revs bow be reek « U) whe, to J x for the atte | 4 aound whieh, Gop Rad received instructions Gem We fo aie i “