The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1915, Page 17

able “1 Rave not yet been to my apart ment,” interrupted the comte. “L pre ferred to come here first. fam just from Cabourg, ‘The Maharaja's unknown everything that they to the details, you yourself have been of. France! interest of all the facts, only requestin as the. public norance, not » to the requested me to ob’ upon his jewels! you thing was settled. liver the security and send the money to India. > appointment came to me and said that wished draw. J had fixed my departure fo shore for that very evening, glad to ,, have succeeded in obtaining the k vhoge close 1 so upset “forgetfulness, ate * the Viscosa, 5! the contrary, “air, other standing what individual was an accomplic burglars, tor him immediately, me his description?” he as! ..img toward the comte. style, hat nose" the Baron. of my secretaries, he's a young man whom chance threw in my way, and very special mission, which had not the slightest » Maharajah’s loan, | mgre about him, and I had given him on *yo"Delorme?" exclaimed he detective force, t have I heard it mentioned?" newspaper jying on his desk and, glancing has- « Oly _- -- 7 tole tae been fnew Tee Cuatro CHAPTER VIN. In the Office of the Chief. found Vere Mhey won't be able t have sought Iter, have wondered in vain and am _ well This is the first time What was that?” asked M. C matt. “| don’t think that it would greatly a you you, you, Yet 1 will infor must be kept in i to speak of the any one, For rsonal Maharajah of Pandukurrah in a larg was easy, « Baron Th imagine. may Certainly.” “Was to advance the sum. 1 had only to de But on the very day of one of his secretarie to consider the plan lon understood, He The business was at the sea had already te raphed to the Maharajah, 1 that, by an left my jewels in m The next night it was rob’ POESIIED A, ELE LAI EEL ETE LO GN The Nyslry of Lueien Deo Remerce of the “Man Whe Could See Through Wolk” By Guy de Teramond PELL RB RIAN ARERR RR BARD Bed bebe Bd OBS t BB) MITE DANAZOLLVIBCOmA had no card ty Mt rm latter ord , shown into Lis off “Hverything you have reat in the Newspapers is correct, vid the chief in reply to his first quest “your safe was robbed last nieht, and criminals have carried off As Jewels stolen!” he continued, in a tone of despair What am I to do it Was a sacred trust for which | was msi ble. We will do our | wrrest the authors of this audacious burglary Promptly. Have you a completes fist of the jewels?” “Here It Is.” “tt will be sent once to every jeweller and every pawns We have already telegrapled to all the frontiers dn exact description of the criminals. cross them 0 And ever since morning the nepectars have made investigu- tions in the quarters wh they may is there no one whom @uspect?” 8 we think But you yourself Oh, M. Clamart, I have committed a serious imprudence, ‘tor it! when I went awa punished that, y, I did not put the treasure in my charge into the Bank But my mind was dis- ae turbed by a great disappointment.” matter reasons had loan Plucke, whose name js doubtless known to - PON: 44 3 the Baron desired to wita- an end, v) inconceivable ae he Baron was summoned by tele- ‘+ phone and presently arrived. + The financier had already seen in natural aurprise, the account of the burglary. jamart's first words he morning papers, with But at M, started: “] sent no one to Comte d’Abazoll “Yet he came,” replied the other in "What!" exclaimed the Baron. “O: it was you, my who,*an hour before As the two men stared at in bewilderment, not had happened, ief sald: Well, here is one et gains We will have searcy stonishment, “some one from you old me that you would defer your Visit until next week.” in dear our ap- = pointment, telephoned to me that you were ill; and would write to me to ‘make another appointment.” “J did not telephone to you; on the <Bontrary, I had packed the jewels anu was waiting for you!” each under the that of the made Will you give » turn He had an overcoat, cut in surtout as well as I remember “Large glasses on his nose?" “I know htm—but he ian whom I had intrusted with connection with know no message for Comte d'Abax Viscosa. “What is his name’ asked Clamart. Lucien Delorme.”” Suddenly he seized a over it, said: Listen.” iP “Yeaterday evening the over- coat and hat of a man named lacien Delorme were found on the Qua! de Javel. A note was also discovered asking that ‘his gelatives should be = informed, The cause of the suicide is still 4 soft nd a pair of large glasses on his cried t a the nothing M the head of ing to collect his memories. “Why, I know {pat name, It had remained engraved on - my memory, Oh! in what connection ts: nue read aloud the following para- The Evening World Daily Magaz ne. Wednesday. April 14. 1915 =e st Will soon be found im the Be knows ¢ ni » live much police oMeer nk you. We siall t delay, and | have and speedy suc you to devote all jied the Comte 1 ne painful situa tion and I have n n telegraphed the bud news lo the Maharajah! Hut you any further need of m inn to the seashore while 1 Can I re am watung ‘Why, certainly, sir, If! have any- thing ew you may be supe that 1 will «¢ unite with you at once Besides,” he added pleasantly, “with Your auto it is no distance between Cabours s! In the the Comte and the, Baron » is cordially | “Leondole with you most @incerely,” aid the latter, “and 1 beg you to t lieve that you have my t wishes your burglars. tons are found, at your servies for tor the speedy arre As for me, when the 1 shall be again the loan. You my promise.” Three hours after, Having made a hasty visit to the Rue Vezelauy whe | they examined, with curiosity, the | exploit of the wall-cutters, the trav- ellers returned to the Villa Atlantis, Night had closed in. Juliette turned on the electricity and, at the dining-room table, after comte had given a detailed ac- ant nterview with M. Clhaum- art, the two men consulted concern- ing what it would be best to do in future They decid a first step to motor to Eu, learn what they could of Lucien Delorme Arrived at Eu, Nam disguised him- self and set forth to make inquiries, He was resolved that Delorme must be nm out of the way at all ha and he fell to speculating as to how he had escaped from the safe. The truth was much more simple than Nam imagined When the door of the steel prison, into which he had been thrown, closed upon him and he heard the steel hinges turn into their bolts, Lucien Delorme believed himself Jost. ‘Oh, the scoundrels!" he exclaimed ‘they are carrying out their threats. Hindoo is closing the iron shut- ters of the windowa—the comte is taking my overcoat—and they will go away, turning the key in the door of the ap ment behind them, They have gone perhaps forever! What use would it be for me to call? My cries would not be heard—I cannot pe the horrible death that awaits Th me.’ Suddenly he uttered @ loud ery, and fell on his knees to thank God. He could doubt no longer—some- one was coming to his assistance he was saved. Men were working for his liberation there were three of them—very tail —the third much smaller than his com- panions—-they seemed to be in feverish haste-—they Were making the stones fairly fly from the walls—they were at- tacking the sides of the safe, What tools were they using?—no sound reached his ears—~but he saw them, he distingushed their move- ments—they were advancing rapidly in their work of rescue. Suddenly the steel plate yielded, falling backward—the safe appeared to open blinding light streamed from outside, Lucien Delorme sprang to his full height, faltering bewildered thanks. An exclamation of terror instantly answered: “We're infor it! oe ¢ for himself!” And, dropping their tools, the three men rushed toward the door as if the devil had just risen before them. Lucien Delorme looked around him; he found himself alone in an un familiar, unfurnished room; a power- full electric light, suspended by a wire from the ceiling, was burning bril- hiantly. Where was he, and what did all this mean? But this was not the time to seek an answer, The ‘The the firat train, he Every one principle thing was to be free, next morning, by rned to Eu I've had enough of my amateur detective,” he trembling at the recol- what had happened the re. “It's a far more dan gerous trade than I supposed, and I won't be drawn into it again. ‘To make investigations in the houses of character said to of himself, still lection of evening t people who shut you up in their safes! Let Baron Plucke henceforth unravel mysteries alone.” It was by reading the story of the ll-cutters, a few hours later, that nderstood to What miraculous in ention he owed his safety And, on the street at itu, Nam ght sight of him, Lucien did not see the Hindoo. He was on his way from an interview with the local Chief of Police, to whom he had told his strange story, The chief had re- pli “Your decease will probably be in- seribed on the records of the munici- pality—then a decree will be neces- sary to obtain a rectification—all this is Very annoying for you! Listen,” he added, “I'll give you a piece of ad- vice: go to Paris, see the chief of the detective bureau and explain what has oceurred; perhaps there may atili be time to attend to the matter!" “Well, I'l do it," replied young Delorms, emphatically, “I'll go to- morrow and T'll take advantage of the opportunity to tell him something that will interest him. Ob, the wretches, they imagine they have done with meso easily. You have just of my duty! fl unm is and deliver them to justice 1 allowed myself to be prostrated for an instant, but I have recovered all my courage. 1 shall know how to avenge myself!” And leaving his companion, who did not understand the meaning of these words, he went home at ones to pack his valise, to the At astonishment of his mother, who, after having heard him say the very evening be- fore that he would not leave Bu again, was troubled by hasty a departure, fearing he was suddenly worse. CHAPTER IX. Love, When Thou Dost Cap- ture Us. IT the whistle of the station master of Eu, the tr } which was to take Lue fH Delorme to Paris began move, wh compartment in which he sat sudden- ly opened, and a woman hastily en- tered, She wore a large dust cloak of gray cloth, lined with plaid; a long beige veil, falling from her hat in full folds, cov- ered her face, and she carried ‘in ber hand @ small light bag After taking out a book, she put the satchel in the net, removed her cloak and placed it by her side, f the morning was warm, and threw back her veil behind her shoulders, reveal Ing her face to » the door of the ““Can” It, Governor! must be the desired result at the frat opportunity, Chance oceasioned it. Suddenly the car, in passing over @ switch, Was violently shaken, and the Blass window of the door on the young girl's side fell, letting the wind, which fluttered. her vel, Before she could make a movement to close it Lucien Delorma had al- yeady sprung forward. Mademoiselle, will you permit me And, after patting the window back in plac je continued, nhoanoem barra f “Or Madame pray excuse me if t Mm omistak : “Mademoiselle,” she © answered, at th to his corner posite to his ¢ ‘How can you r young man did not und, return taking a seat op 1. exclaimed with this co Woe are going at le the letters mus: tinual jarring. es un hour ity om sighed —“'b no must be oecupled in some way, or the Journey would seem too long She half closed her book, and began to look absently at the landscape fleeting along the hor bur the conversation had prog 1 too fat for Lucien Delorme to drop it) so quickly 1 been in’ Bu, Mademot p said after a moment's si- I have come from Onival, where [ spent a fortnight with an aunt who invited me to make her a visit! But oh, dear, days pass so much more quickly than otit- ors. host before one has had time a little ple one must think ing back to Paris.” sure, While pretending to ba absorbed yut on the yoke of poverty in his ne yer, Lucien Delurme gain’ was looking closely at his companion Ol, poverty!” she protested and could not help thinking her snot exactly my 1 hot so charming. hard!” Her movements were lithe and wwhat do you do, then” graceful; her bearings was reserved —uNothiie NeRenO hay. Gochinint and aristocrati nd her waist looked syne instantly corrected herself, ‘it's small and trim in her light, tailor- 2° foe, of speech, for I have the re- made sult, which was stylish’in spite {ft Pit Tae athe he lnecaaD of its simplicity ing—a household, for we two As she seemed buried In roading her [Meo nt eoinere-but’ thee does not novel, he could notice at his leisure \ 7 the harmonious regularity "of. hee prevent having my time much occu- features, the luminous beauty of he : ‘Alera large blue eyes, the golden hair that \ (ANd am 1. Indiscroot in asking seemed Iike a tangle of sunveums over YOu" father's Duginesa?” her forohead, the delicacy of her Hi i#cashier in a large bank.” hand, whose glove she had removed ang NGA he BB YecAn cna Taae be to be able to turn the pages of her S¢nds you to take yours alone with book more easily, and the smallness 4! aunt of her feet in their high laced fawn int had tossed the book upon boots, which her short skirt displayed, the seat by her side. “Who i she?" he wondered. “Not “Yes, she answered, laughing an actress, certainly—a young society “But my father is an old lunatic. He girl would not be travelling alone in refuses to leay Parts, and declares this way—a young married women? that as soon us ho hus passed the for- no, L see no wedding ring on her tiflcations he is bored to death, So finger--A —typewriter?—there — are you can under 1 that, when he as charming ones—the profession is #0 at liberty, | don't want to leave him accessible now! ‘The most prob We walk together all day jong abou thing is that she has been spendin, the there ate many pretty few days with re ves or friends nooks and corners wh. are un and is going back to work, If I dared Known to people! We have @ great I would begin to talk with her—it deal of pleisure in that way, | assure would pasa away the three hours of yuu. Hut are not youa Parisians too, the Journey very pleasantly, but how fir she questianed would she tak¢ it? She doesn't look No. I ail the year round in easy to approach!" Juliette, on her part, inissed none of his thoughts, divined his intentions and had no doubt concering the at- tra ion sh was exerting on the young man. Having rea Eu the evening fore, and, according to the ( instructions, seeking at once to thro herself in his way, she had seen him the very next morning go to the sta tion and have his trunk registered for Paris, She had no hesitation. She must take advantage of the opportunity to strike up an acquaintance with him. And she had arranged her plan por fectly since, at th® moment the train was starting, she had suceseded in springing into his compartment ar was taking the journey alone wita him, And, if he was wondering how he could enter into conversat with her, she was trying to find some way of bringing it about Under these circumstances thore the city of Eu with my mother,” “And of course you are going to Paris now on a pleasure trip? He hesitated an instant, then said Not entirely. | have an important errand to accomp! But it is prob thle that TL shall return (o Eu imme atter-iinless do we ay h w what the future has in store” If f should tell you wh hap pened to me recently What ia it? she of curiosity No," he replied, shaking his head sorrowfully, “it would not greatly in- terest you she wa young asked in a tone yout to urge him, but irl leaned f naine Of the stati rapid om ed the the two words pencilled GEORGETE MBEUNIER, “LT know her name,” he murmured Joyously Julptte, during ths time, was thinking: “It oniy no one gets into our compartmen Hut no ong did come in and, two minutes Later, (he train moved on. Lucien Delorme had grademy al wed himself to yield entirely to the ohar his pretty companion, Never had he felt so deeply impressed, and his heart was beating #0. violently that he thought he should fain ‘She is exquisite,” he murmured, “and L should be the happiest of men ft could make her share the intens emotion L feel for her, Deuce take th doctors, the police, Mrs, Tankery's murder and Comte d'Abazoli- Vis vosu's safe! bwant to think of noth ing but h L love... L wor- ship her!” The conversation was resum nd it must be supposed that it seemed very interesting to both, for neith noticed how rapidly time was flitting, Suddenly, glancing through the window, the young man was aston ished to find that they were passing the fortifications, Already © exclaimed Then he added “In a few seconds we shall leave the train " separate--and yet 1 ke up my mind to lo: Witt you permit me to ask question? Could [not have the Ire of seeing you again?” “Oh, sir” she answered, blushing, “that is rather a serious matter!” “Loam asking the question mont pectfully, beleve me. LT dare no request you to present me to your cannot you thus Perhaps he might think this Intanee med in a railway ear mewhat singular, but, meanwhile, you will be Kind enough to help me obtain this pleasure She reflected a moment: “it ty not n easy thin My time not my own, If LE should be awa ne the neighbors would notice it, and my futher would soon be informed. What should [tell him if) he questioned me?" "Just a few seconds,” Lucien en trea “Just time to ask how you are.” “Very well, 1 will consent!" she said at last. “I'll arrange to t “ roundabout way vetween two & ands, We shall have time for a minute's talk, Only a minute, no longer! You Will promise not to keep me?" pr anticipation of minute w a week of hip: ess for ie In @ Week then, that ix, next But urday, be in the Garden of the Tui er on thy race In front of the range house, at & o'clock, [lL be Will Temand k you with rt--L whall not live until then train, slackening ita speed entering the vec) Lucien Deb hel you girl from the edt and wh wit ms pret she extended to him Iby, Mademe salle ‘T hope to see you again avon, Mon Georg sieur Lucien And they found it so natura ad dress each other in this way that they did not wonder an instant abou to knowing the names without having asked On reaching the street Jullette sprang into an auto, and, sure that her compauion would not presame to fol Y fered the chauffeur We rh station Waving a friendly farewe with the tips of fingers, she wid to he self in a tone of satisfaction 1 have done well He is firmly caught Now I'll return to Ca are and enjoy in peace a week's well- earned rest The young man watched 1 ve hicle m ay nd when 't disap peared at the street corner he mur- mured nance is certainly a mighty mas ter! Yesterday, | was only a sick Man, sorrowful and discouraged ay I fect as if vad grown and ‘ 6 of love! T feel eapabir now of battling against the evil fate Orfevres of By Robert Mino: ; ple en Me ly ' jou seemed to. pursue mo spite of the doctors, 1 am confident th shall recov nets is the beat r ly And in aw 1 shall A week soon paswes ; 1 shalt have plenty to do. nor to hesitate Merely because TF atumble at the firat atep. tow follow those criminals amd deliver them up to justice if necessary, it shall 4 pitiless strug Kile, TH go this very afternoon to the chief of the Detective Bureau.” Ile took a few steps and, emphasta- ing hin thought with a resolute ges- ture, ert “I'l have those two hundred thou ee 4, you Pome net A police “Driver, ExT WHEN'S COMPLETE NOVEL Bi THE EVENING WORLD Little Comrade By eof Ye ' t ne ty door how th * visitor ei Well me rh After all Ua the way poasible ‘Then he recollected thi fallow citine! in Paris, had told him of a quiet little hotel at the end of the Batignolles He would go there he said, Burton © Stevenson officer And, addrawsing | whe naelf int He muttered, “1 n, aliruKectng vied ph no MUCH the Work J me without that And, with bis heart f wh + eeame Po , dt 4 ‘ ebeurd teation "1 told mutbing But the truth, M | Clemart, and it ue ' i ih wane 9 conse y with inew ae snkmen! of the ree be in ¢ tee . eppeared at the "with dey ftw open hie Npe i dont let me | oe my young frie oily ries, or TN we in good earneet! Lucten Delorme, utterly astounded 6 treet ate pretyy hin show yaoph y het of di tukes it, | have nothing ao | lat he unravel the mystery y dont w to be te DP AbaeOL Vine swindier and oa murderer? Jwoll, that's their affair. ve eh of it, for my 1 Once sent up in a mate, from whieh ped Jonly. throuwh a miracle © © © the third time Pmt 1 With arremt if tell the tr me, on let hon nomthok » lin trade and the il fly away with the two hundred thousa fr «' Money doesn't make appl Georgette will lowe memory of bis faired velling nion, le resolve return to but to wait, with a lover's impationce, for we she had appointed on th i Saturda Hut, until then, where should he liv He mild net ave think fo the palatial hotel on the Champs. lysees on the other hand, to go back to Mine, Armelin’s | boarding house, after What had happened, seemed tin 0 Wi studying law Halling « oab ‘go to the Rue des Apenning and stop at the Hotel dew Nouvelles. Uebrides.” CHAPTER X. The Evening at Krakowska’s. J} MPP rOoMBER had returned Th the sand francs—-they shail be Georgette’s bank. dowry, if ahe consents’ to become my (88 back: to par & nome going to After lunching in a little restaurant bunting son, in the suburbs, Lucien Delorme went, he hb suid, to the Quat dew M. Clamart could not repress a start surprise when the doorkeoper ight the visitor's name Strange coincidence!’ — he remembering — perfectly drowned man of the Quai de Javel, cone whom, 4 few days before, het Mt instructions, 1 his offies, ata him, at bis invite mut- the down ny, and ly he summer by id and ming, so, ke the awallows, the ojourners at seanhore their winter qu their estates for the othera merely turning to Paris, where life was grad- reviving with the opening of the theatres and the reator tion of the boul deserted for tw Comte d’'Abagolt-Viscosa one of the firat to had settled again in his apartment oa the Rue Vegelay, refusing all the in- Vitations wlueh receive every year were hurry- re- anima rd, which had been months. bad been and ve Cabour to au er failed the where ne © spend fi come from the Chiet of t#mn in a corner of France, Polles of the city ef Ku. You have same was plentiful, in some pleasant requested him to motify my family chateau. t ' had thrown myself into the Besides, for him also, the season Seine.” had not been very profitable; he had “We followed the cotrse customary barely paid his expenses, in such affairs, Here is the report,” ‘The steady rain had disheartened he added, rummaging, while speak. the moat sincere good will, Enthus: ing, through a file of papers lying by his side: “soft mray felt hat, bearing the name of 4 hatter in Ku--chestnut able m Was wholly lacking. F themselves up wh without even finding courage to ple shut eit was comfort colored overcoat surtout style-- ko to the next villa to spend the eve metal buttons, covered with cloth, 810g In playing cards. one niasing on the right side—in a Nam vainly reminded the Comt» of the buck pockets a pair of dogakin that it was absolutely necessary to gloves, vellow ones, on which the alge, Provide for the winter and have ind the price, 2 franca 96 een. 8OmNe money in advance; he seemed still vinible, All these articles really are mine," cried tha young man, “and 4 " Koing t nome very serious dia. stantly beset him, He could not « lamart.” console himself. To be #o near su cess, and suddenly see his drone ab- oo? ptly crumble! This overcoat and hat were lett "UP ‘ his torpe a'Anaso yinea A Srey soley: liette, who at each vinit ria found oe ee log Lucien Delorine more captivated and put them on the Qual de jn than ever vant for my dis: “Ont he muttered between his people from s teeth, “how joyfully 1 will make that ing for ine anywhere except man pay for my disappointment! et wn Mn Mee He waited for the coming of that should not t und! FF hour with feverish impatience mart,” he went on vehemently, Unfortunately, the young girl had scoundrel, aided by hin Hindoo ser~ pot vw oeded jn obtaining any in- shut mein his safe tO formation from her lover, Except for starve me to ender wore he shed, his lips Pa ei BES tender words he lavished, bis Us "To rid himaelf in this way of a vainly tried to draw from him mun who was too sharp witted and gome detail of hin life the time he { diacoy 1 all his crimes!" wet her; he quickly turned the con Hut, pardon me," said the of ersation, as if the subject she de “tL know Comte d’Aba Viscoma, to approuch was especially nd up to the present time, allow me to tell you, nothing would war by making me be rank © 9 © vat you hi been mixed up in "M. Clamart, that person ix sunply some erime, Lucien,” she exclaimed @ murderer and a awindier=-the Ma- one day arajan's Jowels have never existed ‘hat is possible, my dear Georg except in his smagination! And lil "he answered, shaking his head ell you sem more, the tar thoughtfully; but not in the sense Jerer of Mrs ¥ and of Baron you mean Placke-Strohe is same man” Then, as had sa 4 But, ate,” cried the chief of the he instantly atopped, and tha , reoand more amazed, (itr had by npossible to learn do you offer in support: anything aw of such an isation?’ ve munt spea exclaimed “Proof? en just an instar furious! The pro: crimes is carr in murmured Nain sareast this om of) doin. th shap of a ally you had ned to me we bullet left there. With his aceom- stould 1 of this fallow phic sof algo exists in the form of long would be reflecting inother bullet in the leg which ther t underground upon the incon first tim @ © ¢@ ences of meddling w ther peo Hut art did not let him finish. & business! Aha e add exclaimed. Take things easy,” vd Jule king intently at you are the “if we gain nothing by fair words, wa man whom | examine can use force.” uy Mozart. 1) remem 4 we ought to have le perfectly now Lucien an r Hindoo He That's w ' med £ now Ae” led in »me Leven arrested you?’ Paris again, Uo can see yur lover n frequently, and hasten the “And you were obilged to admit to course of events!" utterly uninterested in all these mat- ters ‘he thought of the lost million con- Kinee ed with the ne of his i been rters, ‘ s n ' A ' A ‘ . ' few ft Dunng one \ope to Viewna, eye wed Abaaalt ad presented to her . n ° nillionsire h snot easily forgotten, She hag t wre to send bun on invitation, The aor had wished to tm 4) heavy household expensee for & { Whose duration ahe was Um. ta ~~ ohe had contented herself with boring t tbe month « furnished « apartment in the Rue Jad “reel in the Monesau quarter fow yours before, consisted wholly of houses and occupied ty Tumerous ert. “ ike all the rest. of this progressive section, was) het! netanty invaded by five-story dwellings, though hese did not mue- coed removing the quiet, th nena quen K very ' ry rhe venience use house admirably valuable The guests were not numeroug this Kownka's large, drawin) * had owing masked furniture Ww wolit district apartment but the ft om and the din on the street and comfort and wom lly the hed. ae nowhe had In the drawi painted of her © where the the a rm of orna nents, pistrens Oo} replaced curios and ‘unthe: of an wi was not ' windows ef had reauirp only con. ov the artiet, vlegunee which the Ng-room Had bung some of the magnifeent riraite which the most famous art« flowers, verywhere as if in @ hot- poverty of the the evening She had expected almost fifty persons Hut the life of Pa haw thousand various demands ne to fd halt the number bad ar rived Quality, according to a common.ex- presalo: Besides th musteal eritic of the hour; Baroness de Vallegre, «& personal f - of Krakowska; Rose Planchet, the tif artist Of the opera; t ma * Up for the q te d'Abaxoll-V! ‘@ were Foggarol, the influential military attache of Hungary, Capt. Zchkjaeht; the Marquis ¢ the F ultra-fashionable people, life; la Torre, President of rrrot Club, arbiter of Parisian. twenty more including» well-known clwb- men and charming sopiety wo! and. at To to resist that her and finally, orthy of general “4 reception Krakowska sing ; she must sho’ voice was astili Lady Dufferton, a ctive member of the highest: Rag- lish society who, profiting by a brief Irip to Parts, had not wished™ te mise the great singe hear alwayn a treat: it was uaele . fer her er guests marvellous admiration. Song succeeded song amid unasl- mous et tigued, she fi “My plaudits t please te ithusiasin until, fr nds she sald, me take a visibly fa- ly asked mercy. ich me deeply * * ©” but little breath! ane waiting for supper, tables will bridwe the My the ar ard t Kame?" The 1 began th was still suffices have sev ought in. ‘Those’ who n take their places at ra will chat in the Comte, he Maharaja utter bowed, © work, and tn eral table Bridge, at the ntly fashionable, te filled at once, Uke them, or she added, turing 's representa- “will you help me arrang He himself refused to att deqwa, pleading absolute igorance of the aif- Nam's ‘se cards hands,” he muttered, ut art of doubling and redoubling. hich do not come from too fond of having luck.sure to faver me! Besides, | play too often from necessity to do it for my own pleaae ure.” So he went to join the little greup kathered in @ corner, of the drawing-room around the gaje- whieh treas of the “Dear ha hous madame, sald the latter to Lady Dufferton, who had taken @ seat by “her side, “you certainly know Comte d'Abagol-Viscoaa, who rep- r “We have already dukurrah?" met times," replied the other, @: her bowed by hand for efore her, nt# in France the wealthy Ma- barajah of F Comte to kies as he And in @ gracious tone, to whieh her hte oh Comte English accent lent @ piquant 1, she added hi | heard with deep regret, M. @ of the extraordinary rol of which you were the victim some time age that my » and tb sincere you to believe mpathy hae beea with you under these trying ¢lreume stances, But, tell me, were all the jewels atolen?* \ll madame; the burglars made a clean sweep, And they represented @ fortume, didn’t. they 1 Rose Planchet, Phifty millions,” Such @ si always produced ts effect. ‘The attention of the entire company Was concentrated with ew. riosity upon the Comte, whil bdivatual seeretly admired the cad ess and the philosophy with whigh he endur ed this cruel trial, Well” ered the Marquis de fe Tor those miscreants did net w ther ume! But, str, have you i pe that they willbe arrested?" } am absolutely certain of at!” ge. pied the Comte, firmly. “I can even you th the chief of the de fective to ® Clamar would be els without an immediate arrest,’ ervics, with lion t he a of oO by wdc ung « servant, criminale sked Lady Dufferton, eade from the whom I had @ this morning, probably din- be madame, for being un- ve you any information; ML urged upon me the most abe ence you mpossible for the ite a single one of the All 1 can state, (To Be Continued.) 4 ‘ s that after to-day a — =