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The Evening World Daily Magating: NoVembee 19: 1914 The “Now Start Something” | | Paternoster Ruby The Romance of a Gem That Represented $500,000 Worth of Bad Luck. By Charlies Edmonds Walk Aext Week's Complete Novel m THE EVENING WORLD, The Smuggler ~ By Ella Middleton Tybout. Tele Book on the Stends Wit Cost You $1.28, You Get ft for 6 Conte, y ctl, epee, 1910, by A. 0, MeCturs & 0.) old mansion @ delicious flavor of and tm patience were eo intense that Tie little leather box in his left PROPSIO OF PRECEDING nee be es Beaty prey Py ay he had been unable to restrain him- ts more vivid in my memory thaa @Ay the old gentleman lapsed other detail of his appearance. ‘thously into a rie. remember how Maillot bad urred, 7 the girl. Then give Fluette aaa so? Zs = st CHAPTER Y. 55 wrrand | bitte! The Hidden Sate. CHAPTER VI. lear BRCTION of the coset foor _ An Extraordinary Errand. Rimoa wae up, and now stood on » in @ eober manner, ‘would lam 228° leaning against a wall; Dresented me. The band- | Reisbe s ‘Peneath it was a shallow, ome, brown-eyed girl was | orn @emented hollow, with four Miss Belle Fiustte; The between them like a Weeden stope leading down to the other was ber cousiff, Mise oi, reanaricae oe gene's bottom, where, obviously, one might Genevieve Cooper. She too was me with a microscope. Stand to get conveniently at the smail strikingly pretty, but tmetesd of CHAPTER VIII, Ho rose at once and thus disaigeed. brown, ber eyes were @ deep and ‘was aleo manifest that somebody Wonderful blue. ad been doing that very thing. For “Can we not go at once, Royal?” fhe safe door stood open, as well Queried Miss Fluette, doubtfully. “It as the inner door; anda flash of the 1# dreadfully warm and etuffy in @andle, a single brief glimpse, assured here. Jepson is waiting with the me that—whatever it might have held 4 i yi iis it was now as empty as on the “I'm afraid not, anewered day it ieft the wanes | aires Maillot. “not for some minutes. Mr, |There was a wan reflection of i But, atay—there was something, Swift and I have to—to discuss Mr. a - . Abele . flame from the polished table-top, but hough not in the safe. .1 took the Page's death.” . ) i y : [elsewhere all was darkness and the you have @andle from Burke and “went down “It i# true, then, ts it, that your if eT, shadows crowded in close, The most a jury fhe eteps. On the cement fioor, in the Uncle # dead?” she asked in a hushed WOMMiha onde Gower w pple Fo peo: sera ria cate Geet, yaa a itis uncle! For the eonead ttm j ; : lating Itke blood-red fire. cape Arabella yee at " ata “It waa considerably larger than the that» you ahould suff thought it blank at first; but on bagi bern fhe bir} poche ‘ end of my thumb—ae large as 0 big “est se “ats « Warning p jo took ft all as quant ioe dete bit tainie geertiego| daughter eweethearts! The two men , ‘ Kickory-nut and, my uncle averred, been penned by a feminine hand: themselves bitter enemies! One lying ’ e flawiess. Rubies of such size and a3" Maillot’s Experience. tain? *¥0¥# hia head “There!” 1 ejacutated “ | must have made a Rem- W brandt-like pleture”—to matter ana anne sctudig lige § quote the young man 4nd Miss Fluette as an recipients of again—"“the two of us logy. “If you’ only lose sight bending over this table ee by the light of « solitary candle. ce rf ‘ ‘With my concluding w . cold in death—murdered! Ie it any SAAT . $ without @ flaw are extremely rare, I PP sort ou be anoered ith Sanaa Sat wan scan wwe # eas ‘7h [fac wr ony nor 28 Sit in sings o} “Don't 80 aston! ; : a ! } two wn in tence. The squeese. love trom CLARA.” pace was saying. ee is only a : i! ‘ $ : old gentleman declared that one of Before the door closed Miss And in the lower left-hand corner a Dart of Whit T have to talk’ acle!” I ‘ ? Ave carats was worth five times as head bent and she sianced be Gate was written—an old, old date: marvelied, as soon as 1 recovered my : , o much as a diamond of equal weight, M0 _ecrose “Xmas, 1857.” breath. “Look here, Maillot, it’s not y . y ° jena that the value increased propor- < oF *Bo—we bave a thief to deal with, often that Im 00 tnudeperucks why ey mately with each additional al carat ,,well as an assassin,” observed “it's true,” he said slowly; “he was : 5 ; } won Mg Aad \ t, hie glance roving casually my mothers brother. Neither of us if 2 t a ans der, and now and then Lend Tracks in the Snow. Myself to see whether | was in reai. ever the secretary. was particularly proud of the con- ity awake and not the victim of a fan- URING the time I was with We re-entered the bedroom. I ob- Pugh oot enough 10 brae ot at ; tastio Arablan Nights nort of dream.” Maillot in the Ubrary, ® iffy @erved a door in the wall Searest the swift; it is an essential part of m; 4 4 ant After a while the conference be- front of the house and seiZed with a story.” ~ tween uncle and nephew ended. Mr. would not allow ti @udden fancy to ascertain upon what He Wheeled a chair up to one side i opened “vent and laid ay hand of the table for Miss Fluette, and I 2 ‘gas tewie tex that we Upon the handie. Burke's steady prog- made haste to perform Sut ireadenkte ence nth Myrcins Cony ry Weas toward the hall door seemed to be for Miss Genevieve Cooper an act bat & ecwenld ee a ae @imed at diverting my purpose; real- recognized with @ slight crisis, Last Wednesday evening I ‘It !s,’ sald he. ‘And I goo't uve tshment. ‘Good Lord, what I've compact a package, I daresay, as h Ulysses White—of White, Stonebreak- hamatonies ae Prerert ah eae nd one of Mer “Genevieve, hed called, as I bad been jn the habit of ,@ rap how yeu got it, either. Wish mleoed by Bot knowing zou alt these can jorowals a ee oe sd ll get ne er & White—Mr. Page's attorney.) 4 pe you 4 loing whenever I found an opportu- "you stiece re! chip off o: old block!’ th a UsG ve junction to This tleman informed that White it waa in the very aot of turn- “hotter got out of your nity; and just as I was departing Mr. “Well the results in favor of ao- Hie aburotly aquared round on me, nephew to remain where he was, he fag’ ai “oeonunty te hoses vate eartaiie thos milionare a " ing the knob. rs young map suggested to Miss ius Fluette sent word to me to come to Complishing an undertaking #0 ook an a paid me @ compliment very sl: took the candle and disappeared be- ing Maller might have retorted that That's only @ conservatory,” bi® otte, “necause I want you to hear his study before I left. Fora bit we hardy were, even when ocontem- far fo one I had heard a few nights hind the curtains of the aleove, which, ‘ rr 1. yr made any erty in whieh even Yoloe rang out; “it's Ce. peared for all I have to say to Mr. Swift; it will thoug it he had ted, but on re- Plated in the most favorable light, before. as the reader will remember, con- “Thi ea emg his perty, in ih a Sort 4nd cobwebs, there's nothing 1D take some time.” flection I couldn't entertain the idea; exactly mil. And then there flashed — “' ‘See here, my boy,’ sald ho, admir- cealed the passageway ext pete uateined a8 Ghactes Anaad’t lot would inherit the She was now genuinely alarmed, go, much dispirited, I went at once ito my mind a aumber of questions ingly, ‘for pure and unlimited cheek, thence, through the conservatory, an: ft ding “inproatane 4 | Noverthelom I haves fancy toe: gq the handsome bagel eyes to’ gee him, J which—and I trust you'll belleve me you're in a class by yourself. Why, into the bedroom. have kept this stone,” Mr. Page had time with the assembled gentlemen, 5 | Be Soe. i," returned and I opened sonrehod a face oie Sn sence es: “Why do you continue coming pede I oe Ser atlogy ty be gd fsa aA ae NTN peared Malllot could not say how long bis Sand ed, sare by fortes 4 inven n omens Cady ey vane wre ree Barrow passage was disclosed, 9/00 Fae ana parout, Most here?’ said he. To whom, when he died, would the you come to my house and ask mo Uncl® was gone; he was still too full up yet.” ‘Then, with grim significance ing him engas gaeos which Was another door. Both for him only too appa t Well, I laid my claims before him, ruby go? ‘Who, or what, was to bene. to atend and deliver a fortune, wit, of awe and wonder to note the pas- in view of the tragedy which 80 the corobers molsclossly, a circum, young fellows, I hase’, Vrom a gi pomeing out that I was noither & PAU- Be yea that vast wealth he was so all the light and airy assurence of pheo of timo; but by and by Mr. switiy” followed—i'd have. been ambi Oe whveh struck iG, in view of any peril for such a look from a gitl Der nor a criminal; f told him that e ani ¥, nce of page returned, bearing the lighted a i if it would hi M le Fluette. laboriously piling up? @ bill collector. And the best of it murdered long ago would ha’ Pact mmmarsahe conservatory. wae ue Rae mn i anineiee thst Fehu'ana’s sincerely tov od each other, “The end of Nii Has of thought, is thal sonress Gead.intearneate tap Sate ee ee, “All helped ‘em to finding where I keep the , eves eieet * the young man at Memes bes he utterly disregarded his daughter's W288 ® resolution to call upon my —oh, Lord!’ And he went off into ¥ ‘ stone hid ing to itapest the body, f ja swe t i lowe Gouna ay ito gin {was only, known t myself and preferences in her choice of friends. uncle, bare my heart to him, and another gale of laughter. The first he placed upon the table "The leather jewel box—shabby, ac- one o five matters 9 ng wade, r. aperns . rt ediately, 5 reeum- 4 gure the latch had caught. Fluette, although I told Miss Puetpuncos to Ber coceplied. “But t then appeal to bim, on the strength here timidly mentioned the fact /mmediately, and then, after cording to Maillot's description, and 1 wae we oranda aa! ris aa 4 6 cnuir, laid the Uttle leath y ka of He je hinges had been freshly oiled. uette the bare circumstance of MY certainly interfere when I think sh of our relationship’ and. bis. lonell that I had never in my life beon more |! bis cain, I plainly showing the mar! as0— , glass, secnlcopaue ‘with Intention. My mission would seem #0 tC ey Liebe leeict gla i ness, to ald me. Without Dreauming dead in earnest. box ie Mees 4 4 bane, He sat abd- was at last closed, and shortly the lently and methodically, og egies ee Fe ae etitae ahenre 10 BFF a ie ty cholce.’ from. hit 1 see : tlt be barked at me. ‘Dive fora’ time to ine rearing’ ‘tie aie, Pare Whe SHOWS 0 Fis TOR Oe eee maith a and the glare from the dazzling hopeless—it would be impossible to from him, atill, if he meant to re- suppose I can’t tell when « man from time to time y Mi refined as oman’ fook at the mat- “All at once he leaned forward and member me at all, I intended to means t he says? Humph! nephew with the same secret, inde ‘aaitiot ay that, ascribing the word ¢ aa hee utter until Chto e Bort cetneutal vive ag i Sey one Sins ot vie —that my Tapped sharply with his knuckles my present necessities as out ‘But see here, my lad, it's @ pity ‘lpherable smile which the young man to reaction from the he scowling look umber of water-stained fear of ridicule. stayed me from tak- table-desk, before’ which I ing every desire and hope of the we weren't draws t gather yearsago,' "td already observed and wondered evening's e al- few shallow boxes disinte: into my confidence. It future. he broke off to a at me. ‘sit at most immediately sank into a deep The saly, 6 ante Raa] oF contuaie® ing and distributing their contents was this. “You are Felix Page's nephew. I ‘Hopeless? Crasy? Of course it down! I'm not going to bite~if I And now we approach the most sleep. a was on th oa earth over the floor; one or two jis voice dropped, and he had Catt would rather see my daughter in her was! But I never would have been oma “bound, starting, the most mystifying, stage was an exhausted, ne (oc lided, ‘Who aia this, t awei 7” be hee brown, desiccated plant-stalks: appearance of one who speaks with coffin—yes, thousand times rather satisfied until I made the effort. an I! I dropped back into my of this amazing conference. if I had been al \ewin “That's the Ee roblem, Doctor,” was the interior of this apart: utmost reluctance. —than allied with a man who hi “Go on with your story,” I com- chair, where I sat blinking, a good “Before giving you this reply,” said or shoveling salt I could my reply. “There are two set aside and dedicated to fow- came to ask my uncle for the drop of that hound’s bleed in manded. deal bewildered, realizing only dimly Mr. Page after a while, “I'm gving sc: realize that my mission had though. ho are in a devil and bright growing things. Paternoster ruby,” he announced. veins. That, Mr. Marmot, ts my final that I had not been thrown bodily to bind you to a few conditione—fot porcine I feared the entire pro- ticklish position. Since you're po eseatewey; tase in teat oy «han n'y to erin how: "2S CHAPTER Vil. Sap ab'vat act ci catty" Lada nage eee Gana ne “aaa Nels nha aaa Ze way, » In the dust on ot so the two 5 pa " ve 10 added, wi a 4 young 5 4 oe when meni, ge ot Seg, whe ade fo preaain Of OS: you MG ae smetnaC arty at a How the Brrand Ended. 02, c%u;"ai7,0* wored,t0 be ture fore ausaenly lengiened at ind, wt to what andor who ane Gung tv how the evidence old, where later dust had set- elr amazement. “ * wently he js unexy . “You'l ny victim, without quite obliterating them; CY" area nim to give it to yout TAN of wenn intellleanoe Sud sents EFORD 3 come here toot begam 10 DUC ine tnrough @ croal-one, Serte Thay ease tae peive Renee fener anceiee He nodded, and after Getuy reegy ye fresh, as if made but an hour gasped Miss Fluette. I choose to thin pore, Gat you night,” Maillot took up amination, which I can recommend mo. If you don’t, you don’t get the “And then came a crash that made er! ed tl Maillot laughed bitterly, looking ‘don't sincerely entertain ag @ model for any one to follow Paternoster ruby"—and with a pe- me think the house had collasped, They yielded Up nothing of the are gr I came up to the next door I m Meerved that its hinges had also been *T2!EDE At Tt as one convinced sly unjast to Belle and mo the narrative once more, who wants to elicit the minutiae of cullar little hugh—‘most io and I knew I had been asleep. I was est consequence ee But he wouldn't let me go on. a) “I thought I had imagined detail of another folio, — would agree to anything for ender (4 ay dimly sensible that the noise, in a moment Dr. Geatily labtioated and wae not sur- that he would not be believed in any "Young man. said tigen d every possible combina- | “Before he finished he had draggod weptarer sty “out otf tad been oud aud, frowned "over" when open without a t only asked him to give wra' hich uncle OUt everything that had eve: - wa ttl ’ found. When I stepped through it T {i'tDine after having stated my fea- mire your cheek—advising me—in my Hen af emeition ie wi flor; but curred Ma me with whieh Snybody were nha Wee oe sig et ae Bousehold at such an Was in the curtained alcove off the sons—but he promised to do a0—this own house, too—as to my treatment ve my brasen offer; beseiae tee name of Fluette was even uncle charged me; ‘show him the Mbrary. Truly, there had been aome Morning.” of my own family! his amazement when he heard me was Asuociated—a complete his- contents, but on mo account allow erro tions Mittings in this . “For @ second or two I returned hi of Bell It bled upon one of the very points:i Baawicn “Th ou know of the contest sev. , ## nothing to mine at the way in tory e's and my acquaintan: the ruby to go out of your possession. ~ ‘Mr. aaid 1, quietly, “wit eral yeara ago in London for the his infuriated look; And, then, fag Which he took tt, everything I knew or had ever heard —not even for the briefest. instant, nearly noo ae AL ag ES fon. “Betis ens read Rs ome ee vai with ‘ar Biodgar Fuby’s possession,” Maillot went on, solved not to stand there bandy about Mrs. Fluette, all about Gene- Whatever clse he may be, Alfred Fiu- ey, sore e mbers were led into a quarrel “First of all, in a gruff, gium eort ‘gets noise, and after es while for and discolored in bore few words with baw Mr. Bluse coves i fat Be Sith him Bue of way, the old gentleman seemed remember (eat Nad sven taamed tat fagere on thts ruby there Me tally matches present Sue and Sumber of abrasion” “"* wi 1, eallatian, and how ay 2 Fluetto ‘I'm sorry, Mr, Fluette—more than really glad to see me; but he was in tween Mr. Fluette and myself. ing what he'll try to put over on you. Tighted tne’ candle. aah 1 alee tae ie, Me ieee is very determined, and when his 1 can express—that you feel poward @ hurry to warn me ."at I had better Mr feos me through my talk with OF course be bee Bo liam tat Zoe my eye.” ‘arry! purpose is once set, it is not an easy me as you do. Nobody coul get my errand over quickly, as he was }%, Wiuette last Wednesday night oP bedeny hat followed was something more Clsely. “They couldn't break hi sway it. He was t than I am concerning the I don’t know how many times—any- he'll have to believe the evidence of . a matter to change 2 ough he never encres your feud with Felix Page contemplating catching @ nine-thirty how, until he must peony it Rie his own senses. than corroborative of Burke's state- —rapped him over the head. day he unless it le that, You ere, Vigting truim for Duluth—for what purpose well photographed ‘upon hia ‘mind, | Then you can make him come to Fed sitet ea athe ee scratchee ter ae, epee should acquire the jewel; but. know- upon me the consequences of hi# 2D- ho didn't say. For some mysterious reason, Ww the latter was considerably surprised ™ to be convinced, ‘ svontiy reuarding Rim bis lng Mr Pane aa be Cid. t relieve Be position to you in the Hommaition with “He put it to me bluntly: pia x Set! Fiusite tad rererted ts vem y, At Burke's very patent fright. tb & measure famation moasurably Increased. At wawiction that he would have to wait a acornful gesture. So I continued: want money? If ao, how much and bet 1 repeated that part of our con- Won't let OAS mal the fata ee Oe ne mation 18 wan oblong, “lL am glad to know It ts not that; wnat gor? Now wasn't that an en. Versation a score of times; and evory that has a drop of this ound's’ inches by th ' 4 Y cowering terror,” was Malllot’s lan- ‘eo or three ai by "came in a sudden outburst “And now, Swift, knowing all this I couldn't conceive of you Sone ony: couraging beginning in view of what yee 1 wicered the word ‘hound’ Mr. Le epee gp lg As fase, “and when I learned that he ..“Humph!"—as he Biles 9 nee a8 a Me ly unjust, hin tightened lips. “I know— as I did—the stronx aversion which thing so outrageous! ang rome a Beja] ’ T can es—dow that I'vo had tine to each felt for the other—it 1 should be more unfair,’ I seked i yas oftery Hon ons, a) fe “But by and by I came to observe actly as 1am telling oe on peti ee Sia tee tt pore lowens much to kill’ me ms. permit—“*not 1; think it over—that the facts are come to you and tell you that I in- the end, or else kick ie peared 50 that each mention of either Belle or him you have performed your part of ance, why T simply pushed him to o: “Ever heard ‘of the Paternoster damning...1f 1 clone my lips and re- tended aaking my uncle to give me animosities thet Delis Pigs house forthwith. ‘That last is what T Mra, Fluotte was recelved with a the bareain; tell him that the second gide and ie” PEP” fuse to ma! any statement at a’ t Precious ru’ ‘01 ° * courtesy and respect fur which I a Belle yours, @ ruby ehi 5 ‘rom whi Wil be eauivalent toa confession. passing it on to Mr. Fluctte, wouldn't than a stranger to me; my profound had coming to me, all right—it's what COUrtesy and resp 1 was at last his; tell him he shell never get his ,.A°4 now. too, I ire heard of it, mt mbes fi % the best I was looking f ook naoeating tt the other hand"—— you think I had become @ fit subject ignorance of his affairs 1s ee moved to ask him whether he was hands on it one tick of the ch be- re 01 ready drawn his own |: Bee EME” cactioniess, withe tore lematie eavic? testimony that I can offer in my I began vy acquainted with thom; but he testily fore. cealod pate-the ony ime Thad de. "Me contents of the ee “ wift, don't look at mo in that until the owner died. ‘ing that I eimply from his face. “Yet,” 1, calmly, “you say halt.’ wanted him to listen to me for a fow we q : to ottawit ie at last: ontinued, more th tse aia nis, and that your uncle “If you so bent upon having a eee bear me bt +d Shronah poate asperity not to ale questions Fluette “tt ‘ou foltew, ay Prrdies 4 alrea DP eeceicgial thats {Bw a ‘he 'informed "mo tt pat > a am ie,’ |, ‘there's just one way —-ani en he woul now well e ial: q = : well aware what your ‘ tured you be woule siya bal ne oe neces fe ey, enough what I was after. 1 could see H¢ dropped into a brown study pretty tone, Saplicitiy, {he young lady will dicament Maillot would be in after re- bs if direct and tints r he had heard your reasoi onsidering what he had already that my manner, if not my words, 90%, 80 I shut up rs. Royal Maillot by this time jating his story of what had brought Manner: “but if the cane t uras “Ww to-morrow night. If I'm not very ey, romisirg features I'm i een. between that secretary fel- growing impatient to hear said, it Is no wonder I didn’t know had aroused bis curiosity; thus em- ‘When he spoke again his words him to th! avs ind the occurrences 'm in; on! Mead shy font san son thet you to ‘come here last nig! ." |, What to aay to this, 1 waited: and hls boldened, I plunged right in, I told efigetively banished all apeculation aoe ded anes net be the most of last night. How could he have had ‘8 ig earn | It's downright devilish to be one of ‘ou already know what my most next words betrayed the real cavve— him of my love for Bello. fy mind; in fact, they left me Sou'Goen the box, You want te do *S, sine of all this? . 7 eerfully, “Very well, two auch alternatives; but if J tell cherished hope and ambition ia,” he at lest, T took it to be the real cause “When I firet mentioned her name— speechless. Of @ sudden he lovked at foo sen it under bie hoses damsie Have, You any idea what your Do 4 i you what brought me here last nlght gaid, with a glance at Miss Fluette, —of his bitterness and iN will, There for as I had to do #o, I did it boldiy— Mme with a sly smile. his eyer-hypnotize him with ite Uncle did with the ruby after having 1) ‘White, val permit to Mr. ? —Swift, T just simply can’t contem- fairly well of by reason of a was @ sneer in every word. hia interest quickened, and I was post- _ "My boy,’ ho sald, almost tn & bidgarred flame. He had been work, shown it to you pins J te 4 mane ass thee plate doing it!” small inheritance from my father, and ‘Bring me thé Paternoster ruby,’ tive that bis attention became more Whisper, ‘the ruby's yours.’ ” ing himaclf slowly into @ “Well.” he returned, with thought. ton oe the tra erOush examen Again he paused. I'm just beginning to make certain he sald, ‘and If, in the meantime, she respectful. ile seemed to think quite Thereupon, Maillot declared, Mr, ful eration, ‘a the sate, 1 OOO ret of all, t w: y carcoupainany SFako tine, Maliot" T admonished, my foothold in my profession; proa~ hasn't acquired sume of tho intelll- suddenly that what I had to say Fase inquired whetnor he had ever peared through way 'hedroom and the Cy) joore wire pects‘as good as most young men can gence with which I have always cred- might be of some importance, after #en the ruby, to which the young the curtained alcove last night conceaied sate.” above H fitte nis ad with a little Jerk. boast of, I don't hesitate to eay. ited her, why, you may take Belle.’ all. man replied in the negative. The fire went at once to his bedroom, got t! used foi mea moment to think, Tmust “Our engagement, though, has nev- “After I got over being stupefied ‘When T concluded by bluntly ask- 09 the hearth had by that time sunk ‘A box from the safe, and when we sep. out Rloned” alert, Mecide : Ie, and cooldto irre bly, whether er met the approval of Bello's father. at the amazing effrontery of the thing ing him for the ruby, his face was a [© 4 glowing bed of coals, and, save grated for the night—woll, I don't loned | walnut | table e 4 j me as dumb as a graven im- But that falls to express he has --if accepted seriously—I began to do study.” Mailiot drew a long breath for the dim ruddy glow, tho illumina- know! I can't guess, When he left #00 close by the bed’s head. Hr » or else take you into my con- been actively opposed to me from the pat preity weal thinkloge and I and Taook his head over the ries ation was afforded by means of a me in ny room he was atill carrying Ne ad Dae covered at some er very start. We the support of thought rapidly, too. tion. single candle—just sufficient to make manner, the box in his hand.” period ith artificial At this unfortunate instant there Mrs. Fluette, however, and so re- that a bargain?’ I said at “He suddenly tossed his head back, °f the commodious library a place of i'l give you a line over ay signe- itive of that?” was held around the edges came a loud rap on the door, which hopeful—until one week ago th. and burst out with a great guffaw shostly shadows, and falling to re- ture—he has might; Teasons for tive; all that or braid of immediately 0 ‘opened to disclose the ro- ight.” “I spoke quite calmly and serious- of laughter. I jumped clear out of my lieve its further reaches from utter pecognizing it on rd he can't had whole made 3 hija sve Soodrens.on8 behind bie wie foied up in a moment and peo- ty, and ane ba, Favored me with osu. chi ; M ais (7am One: Saeae, we te a Sn your right to bargain with wo alight fure an‘ stare, snapped Set 8 campers cried, “It’'e @ bonny bit of glass," ‘Then’ "-——— 2 thla Senolate desolate ond gloomy “on tage time matters reached « bart, en owen Patood staring a6 Bin in dumb aston gentiomes had sext said. “ite ‘a8 Mallles told wa bie own eagernens sar A . eer einmans "