The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 11

{ 1 )— By Guy de rite A CRIT ON mee! we hae ~ iy 0 Preuon we ie to eel where toe ecole, The sine alttr bs Lowden Tore comme te in ih, the sale, snap. Wore. Tats Ye "Tami be tat mest ty eect CHAPTER XVI. (Continued ) Face to Face. Hit Hindu's ey eparkiet ital!” he — arted. “Now | recognize you. At that place the thick bushes \ allow one to hide very easily, At eleven o'clock the avenues of the Champs-Flysees are desert- ea”. The clock had just struck halft-past 10, when Comte 4’Abagoll-Viscosa @oino out of the restaurant on the boulevard, where be had magnifi- cently entertained his guest, the young duke of Montcert. “Well, 1 haven't wasted my @ ning,” murmured the Comte tn a low tone, “I know all I wanted to learn. The Chateau of Coerangeville, tive Kilometres from Caen—the gap in the wall of the park—the servants sleep- ing in the outside buildings—a watch dog easily poisoned with a ball of meat, the old woman handling her treasure every night. It seems to me an excellent chance,’ Passing under @ gaa Jet, he iooked @t his watah. “Twenty minutes yet,” he said to himself. “I have time to wal He soon reached the pointed spot. The Champs-Elysees was de- eerled, Lighting a cigarette, he turned into the little avenue named and paced [phaelh three times, up and down its jength. he should not come,” he mut- t ered. Ae he finished speaking an outline appeared in the darkness and a small man, slender and delicate, suddenly @ppeared near him, courteously ruis- ing his hat. omte d’Abazoli-Viscosa?” “Yes.’ It was useless to delay for the @lightest explanation, so the Comte instantly asked: “lt fs you who have @y ring, sir?" “As | had the pleasure of telephon- you this morning,” repliod Zizi. nd you have decided to return it to me?" “For the payment of a certain sum—ten thousand franc: ‘But that is preposterous! The ring fien't worth more than a hundred tone! Come, we'll even add fifty by of extra compensation, That wlll be more than fair payment “Listen an instant. A few years ago um wealthy old man, named Baron Plucke-Strohe, lived in the Avenue ad'Antin, One day be was murdered the sake of robbery . . .” “[ don't sce what connect! ion this “Wait a little, The murderer sold all his victim's jewels except a single gem—a diamond. Why? Because this was marked in @ peculiar way by ‘which it would have been tinmediate- ly_ recognized. M. lo Comte d’Abazoll-Viscosa, the murderer, is the man in whose hands it was found, That is why tt was impossible for him to part with It, that is the reason he values it 5 highly! Do you understand? Now he added cuimly, “call the police if you choose, I shall be glad to return the diamond before them!” You have mo by the throat,” re- plied the other, yielding. “J am com- pelled to submit to your demands, You shall have your five bundred joul : But ho suddenly remembered that Nam was waiting in the darkness — Nap, whom, under the stress of his en@ion, he had forgotten, Anatole answ: “Well, then, at your apartment, day after to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock. Does that suit you? You see, t confidence, ‘The comte was about to answer when, at that moment, the moon pierced the clouds, and @ silvery ray fell upon the two men, ‘Tho comte, Who had turned toward his companion, almost uttered a cry. He knew the faco—he remembered those features, ady Dutferton!” ho eried Now. he understood everything. Lady Dufferton was a man, Lady Durferton was the accomplice of the bold bandits of the Hue Jadin, Glid- ing into society under this disxuise of fA Woman, she pointed out the deeds to be performed and helped them to ac- complish them, It was she Who at Krakowska’s reception bud opened the windows, unnoticed, nt the right moment, after locking the doors, so that none of the guests could escape to give the alarn “You see, comrade,” said Zizi gayly, hat we wore made to understand each other! 3 tticout ts equal to your coronet the Indian army officer Who serves as my absent hus= band ‘a the worthy fellow-citizen of the Maharajah who has placed you rye of hia interests," “Pardon me, te could not help 1 striving to recover his) fo the midst of all he { hear ‘ “On! no nonsense between us on thisg subject.” replied the young man autfkly; "no one knows how things Kot than f. But you had a au way of hiding in you safe tu frighten burglars! ver md! Only,” he added, lowering his volre to a penitent tone, “it L had wD, tang 1 was operating in & Gul- Te Wyse) Ot Foxanca othe “Man Who Codd Son Teemgh Wats” The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday. April 17, 1915 ice Dare ‘Men Who Fail— XXIII. . By Robert Minor omeereart ae St Little Comrade FO ee ee ed Teramond wot . eet We sue, 1 wouldn't have taken useless trowbe pours, one ome, my dear “ot behind @ tree be he Oichering light of @ ap te- and bow evening, at thy | longer expected a in, Be longer work @t eroes t purposes t Whie Zitt wae epeaking the Count | Was renecting } Henceforth " sacred to him, apd he must, wir © back of the autour bad er cost, prevent Nara from ence lmleas destons nag hue ‘ 4 ve hotel where be had rant of the # PS wt ot the other ead of : . bie giannon the Pa CHAPTER XVII. i, «had t e explosion will take place imo The Antagonist. \ way, the * few nutes tered the Hinde. 5 ur the eomt “1 ut minutes by saved theo hours IvTERN minutes = Later, . J into ie glans and, dessending a part of the pight-and the bomb hurriedly, overwhelmed by thia sid) had not yet buret ) Jon revelation, he had reoowniaed the What can be the trouble?” Nem Hindu under bh anked | ~ Comte d Abasoll. Viecoma t was pacing reetiessily upand down his office in the Rue Vegelay, Walting for Nam, ) when the latter appeared In a fow words the comte informed) disguise of an old 0 mold by the bullet 6 log which marked bim also ted has the baron an indelible sien ferret opening the precious casket te VAbasoll-Visoons,” he son- until another day? ‘and hie #& Nw All these conjectures were plausthte “if anxiously, far fram the truth “Has not we Spe foe him of his interview in the Champ: ‘ re holbing bul OWo Abominable ras and, the next day, in his employers Byacen, ' i YO, offer, the it ‘ to think, wee discussing ih "Yen," he concluded, “we are at the mercy of unscrupulous individuals, | whom nothing will prevent from evil. | ing the avecret chance has placed in their hands to the man who, intercat- e4 in knowing It, will buy it at what- cried the baron, him. Inetantly, JantiUk over” he repented obstinately, “It for breath, almost crushed by (ho iy impossible that the bomb should revelations, “you are « unique phe a ralture!—--tin—peaene 4 your fortu ve that, under some pre- elorme ehook b . you should Ko up to the barons to eo what is happening?” oie made head rnfully "he replied, “for | have not ever price they want! pS | “Bo that he may offer to open the “And now 4 the comie, “what J ‘ WAG You all. 1 NOse bo Yom cietgs bax te replied the do you expect to dot" ; Ty ae a | notence, but y >not know hia ver- Comte, Urhank you ey oa és “lt is Very simple,” replied Nam ofp’ ‘The veil of Isis cannot be PP Ms ah ‘ivi interrupt ° quietly. “In the first place, I shall with tinpunity, M. le Baron, “nocd morning, my dear comte,” he and Natur aiwayy takow her Fe gad Cordially, “you aoe 1 aan Prompt not excite mysclf uscleasly, Then 1 ' ven we upon the man who hase pen we shall carefully examine the situation, f trated hee mystery! ‘he radiuia tn Mi Soking aroud Let us reason an instant. From what! my brain ts slowly destroying the gaging: = quarter s the danger coming? Thea | ifferent | 8 in contact with It. persons of whom you are in euch fear? ¢ ‘ rh uM first convulsiona, then ough No, They will no more denounce the " ' the progressive disappearance of Fea {Pty een Ad ete a buttert murderers of the Avenue d'Antin than gon and, finally, death through of wetblb eri te Pages Be: =| wo shall the wall-cutters of the Ru y i pd ed gi eet Ae Ce Veaelay. To inform against us, a : : Mut.” exclaimed the financter, “ta “hiV00 tne ene?” mala the comte. you have said, they would need to be ) there no remedy? Cannot you Bae ewinout appearing to have beard Bie pressed by an irresistible necessity for } ; this dangerous substance removed aS OR ad money, The ten thousand francs | ’ by an operat “Yeu. . which we are going to mve them in b> eh * . q a -s erat 4 cause instan- lips for some time, and, meanwhile, ar rg ‘tise . ‘ee ° * : gradually, for the surgeon's acalpel — «My fingers are amaller than youre!” I hope to have found a way to ex- © 4 + would have to remove, slice bY SUC% he explained. tricate oursclves from the affair. a the portions of cerebral matter CoB- ~The comte opened a drawer in Bin ‘There is only one man from whoin wo ‘ ; ‘i taining the particle of radium. desk, took from it a roll of bills, have everything to fear, That man “However that may be, my friend, pinned together, counted them rapidly is Baron Plucke, He alone ts inter- you have dow me a great service and putting them on the tal ‘paid wise Kipeetsiee d ea rioatio: Salata 1 will keep the promise I Cyn Fr ‘Here are the ten thousand ded, em ally, “Baron . ‘0-1 w the check for two hun : Fe eee cae aL eee “No, | don't study. | know all | meed to know in my business Teoria trance which wore to be Paid he'a@aed, “ne gist’ was oiresay’ mae Taste Delis, bed henekd 4 ee for the clues that would have per- vancing to take them, ‘We have one ; e 0 my uncle's ag- was misfortune to all who possess tt. And any biackmall from that quarter I wish to wara you that it is useless changed into a akeloton . . . and animated, ‘we may suppose. that an Lat ile EG eating Moh ee danse dicey, Lares Ce ae ‘But how can you?"—— t to try to dupe me or to believe mo my aunt . . . and the little dog infinitesimal atom waa detached, “1 will accept It," replied Lucien patd it without discussion. “Don't queation me any further," “Let us act then,” replied the ignorant of your identity, and your ,. | the little dog also . . . Be- penetrated under your akin, lod, aim) “not for myself, but for my Then, aa Zigi with a li knowing replied the Hindu. “You shall know i eed Raehoa ays purpose in coming bere. A single re- phantoms—you spectres that @ corner of your nose’ i el Hoibee, ‘This sum will bring # Httle air nodded assent, be weak car everything to-morrow. Meanwhile n minutes later the two wo- mark will destroy au your falsehoods 9 mo everywhere!’ ‘But, Doctor, that ian't the way cheer into her life, crushed by my dis- ‘Let mo tell you, sir, that I bave sicep peacefully, You are one of the COmplices found themselves face to in advance; these jewels, which you “Night had come when, a few hours Wo seo @ppearance from the world.” other reasona for that than those you people who require sleep to regain *&Ce. use to make @ false accusation jater, [ recovered my senses. “‘Walt. ‘This atom of radium w ‘But why should you not go to her?" pu ‘Onl: here their composure and coolnes: moans Ging la done, ’ bald Nam, re- against an honest man, actually exist, “1 way lying with my head covered drawn In, carried along by the clrou, asked the *yaron. id Tie pecpie who hase, eee of It was afternoon on the following P 6 baron, I and the proot"-— with thick bandages. I felt gore all latory stream. The violent shock of “Because my duty forbids tt. IT am words, and it is thoroughly under- day when Nam returned. The comte Wis told, would return at 6 o'clock. He rapped on the box under his My had Just risen, after a sleepless night, The man promised to give him the arm and added: My ideas “Well,” he asked, as he saw him, letter and the box at once, “what have you done? The other's answer was to place on orehead achod confusediy, Your fall localised it in your brain, going to become a public peril. Grad- stood tsn't It, that we are dealing aa r ere muddled, and I vainly &t the end of some vessel without an ually I shall become, in my turn, honestly? With this diamond I am ‘is that they are here! sought to regain @ Uttle clearness of Outlet. Your skull has become a ra- radioactt nd all who approach me buying your absolute silence?” aes heart Delorme, who Are mind. diogr phic apparatus. You see with will undergo tho effects of this formi- “Sir,” replied Zizi quickly, as if such CHAPTER XVIII. 4 8 gingses Up on his fore- «at my firat movement a little soft *{FAy* dable body, To live with me would a question had been an insult, “I am a night table a little wooden box he head and looked keenly at the box @ }, ‘ . . and was laid on my burning fingers, But the akoletona!’ I cried, as- be to move to a slow death: not one af those people who betray a in his ee tay ” he mds“ The Phenomenon. Bos t, answered quietly while my cousin's voice murmured tounded by what I beard . . : ‘the Then, with an energetic gesture, secret that does not Salona to them.” he ng," ; ‘Put it on the table, sir, and do not « Lucien. Don't speak, @keletons?” stopping the exclamation on the He was drawing the ring from Bis IVE o'clock had just struck 1 ; touch It again, It does ‘not contala that ia forbidden, Weare taking care" ‘Are you 4 baron’ lips, he added finger to deliver tt to the comte wi Tio you, know how to make bombs, when Baron Plucke, who bad precious stones; but watchsprings, of you In our house. Your mother ments of radisecopy? woker tha'pre, "Now, timo pressen: lot us hasten to the bell rang: base Nam?" eried the comte, an appointment with bie cylinders and explosives. In sort, arrived just now. We telegraphed to siclan. ‘As they are capable of pene the police office; let ua rid society of | “Nam,” exclaimed the latter, “get ; hen one i“ ve coe : RS, of os architect, returned home. it ts a bomb which will burst at the her, Oh, my poor cousin, what & trating stones, wood, paper, walis, these two scoundrels! rid of this intruder’ re if. . ! , astounded picked up in reas's room, with bel , reappeared, eatr And, with this, you will doubtless lo Baron,” sald bis valet, who bad by what he heard, “what do you know your face covered with blood, Dr. friend’ he adden’ covmesloseai, CHAPTER XIX, Bis face expressing intense amaner blow up the house in which the baron nastened to open the door for bim, about it? Tremeaux, who came at once, feared ‘you are a unique phenomenon, the Justice. mont. is living?’ “ ” sussion of the brain.” Y ‘w Why ° . “a messenger brought this package I seo it. . . as I see,” be con- snip rain first man to whom so marvellous a we ‘she. he stammered . . . Why the house? Isn't he himself and letter, which he urged me to de- tinued, “that the left pocket of your Hery he comes now,’ interrupted faculty has been give: HEN, accompanied by the fin- the man with the glasses, still al enough for us? vost contains a large Watch, tho MY aunt, ‘Am I then condemned to Ive in annieg to the hued Of The | “laanieo Daloraet” Cried ihe Gham arenes but how will you manage liver to you at once,” a ane nue epposite a Uitte” metal” porting “Phe door was elusing upon tha eh omnes (9 )its th Gotective. service, Lucien dazed in his turn, a the simplest way in the worla _T Snancler carelessly opened the nale for gold; in your side pocket is physician who, approaching my be, hy Of Gavin ae Dom thle Delorme had finished, for y But | am, whe had gone te ¢he Jotter, at which he cast a rapid glance, 4 folded eyeglass, under your glove, tual spectacle of horror? —by making the baron open the box the second time, his long = “And the police behind him!” on your ring tnger, a ring in tho Lat us see how we are this eve- t will suffice to place before your RM i calk caattar antes iy, ae Hadi presioied ia shape of a serpent, and even in your ning, Noawitation! Good » . . give eyes a body refractory to the X-rays, Story, M. Clamart was compelled to | "The police!” repeated Zisi, who \ difficult matters” up the #00 expressed the greatest Surprise, jaw two incisors ‘and three canines mo your wrist, Excellent,’ he added, such as sliver, mercury, oF giaas’ . .. yleld to the evidence, admit the real- did not underati bat was hap- baron’s 8 fd after having ascer- and he reread, line by line, for the filled with gold—is this correct?’ at the end of an instant; ‘there ts ni “The last word made me start. Now ity of the criminal m vrea of Dening. eae pouitively that the latter, is second time, the singular missive. ‘So you see everything?” exclaimed fever. 1 will remove the ban of sile everything was explained, and I un- 'tY Of the criminal manoeuvre “I'm not mistaken . . . look at eet ckeee thin Dox AGaC@ [STC 1N HOE possible!" he murmured. the bewildered Baron. Now, let us talk a little, for these derstood all, which the young man had been the those men slouching along the street, Reena aauRrERCy amen vase DY Quer citioal uakine me t6. gival t Ay bt i Baron, I see through ladies have told mo such tragical “it was my evegiassos, it was the Victim at the hands of Comte d'Aba- casting furtive glances toward our the master’s absence, will tell the ser- " odes anc rough things... I things. . . . window of the cub, [tt was the panea zoll-Viscosa and his servant, and house, 1 know them well, they are I er! Sa eee e ane the doorto be sure the servant his overcoat and hat, he see through walls!” MA boron 40 place both in the right hands hurried to his office with the precious “But how?" told only the tu , ‘they hav» of the Janitress’s door which had r@- recognize them as two miserable mur “electives, they are waiting for a ht? stored their human form to the signal to enter ‘Woll,” interrupted the comte, pox, asking: “Several months ago, one morning, “While [was relating all that had bedestria to the inhabitants of ‘erers. ery man for himself!” erted the “pu “Is my secretary here?” I started for Dieppe. By my moth- happened nce my fall t 1 iTremeaux the houses, to Marise, to the janitress; One point, however, atill remained corte, ‘Wait o little while. When the (°° fr's advice, I was going to consult Dr. shook his head, looking at Marise and Ut 48 soon as T no longer looked at obscure to him. “No, replied Nam vehemently—“to baron returns he will of course re- ‘es, M, le Baron, Tremeaux. A little red spot, caused my aunt; It was evident that he was them through this simple, fragile pro- «Now, then, sir,” he asked, “how fly is to confess gullt—Comte d'Aba- sull-Viscosa must brave the storm. I don't Know how, disfigured my right wondcring whether tho delirium was tector, they again became to me hor- ontinuing, and if it was not my Tible skeletons, And tf, on my awak- did you come into connection with the Lost or not, we must fight to the end. celve the two articles at once, with “Ask him to come to me at on: nostril, My aunt, who lives in Dieppe the message. Puzzled, he will unseal aut the valet said: the letter and what will he see?” be r with my cousin Marise, had spokea M condition that most required @ning, I had not seen my cousin, my comte’s maid?” Can one ever know the result The bindu drew from his pocket an “There is also a young man who has of a surgeon who worked wonders 2 aunt, and the doctor under this form, «what maid?” battle? Hut the tmportant things . envelope and, taking from it a sheet been waiting an hour. As he insisted with radio-electric machines of his he answered in a fatherly trough the bands of linen which en- concluded, turning to Zia, “is that veloped my head, It was because the Mf. Clamart showed him the brooch you should vanish with the engraved water wetting the compresses on my containing Jullette’s photograph, diamond--we will moet again later.” face contained salts of lead, which the which had been found in searching | “Willingly,” replied the other, who aying OWN invention to cure this kind of lit- tong n BRINE to aeamuine’ the ttle tle physical ailment. cuts on you pur skull, W ond te “L left his office delighted with the this sheiston story later. : of paper, handed it to the comte, who upon seeing you without dela ad th C) 1 bi bit A. the conte that you knew him, 1 showed bim into “The signers of this letter are ‘he drawing-room.” success of the operation, and was re- Petpet X-rays cannot pasat" : » fad no inclination to meet police the men who broke open Comte ‘Tho fluancier way about to give him turning to my aunt's wire 1 was to tng Tie ae eit nfasten” " Tharon Muck gazed at the mpeakar tho Hotel des Nouvelles Hobrides.” — giticers, “Hut bow? Your house is @'Abazoll-Viscosa’s safe and took an order to dismiss the intruder, when lunch, not without drawing from my ' with an amazement which he no _ “Why, that is Georgette!” exclaimed undoubtedly surrounded! ‘To jump of gult perc an ne very « scagion of the Jewela it con= \y‘eye fell on the name engraved on DOCKS every now and then a little went that he removed. ths bana. sine, bps mirror and looking at myself a mo- “Hs Think how startled he'll be!” put the card bis servant was oMering OD A Mont with satisfaction With cold wate i he very ui longer attempted to conceal, Lucien Delorme, glancing at tt, Ut of the window would mean surely the clecuitity. , Extraordinary as tho whole atory “What! She was in the comte's ser- falling {nto their hands, Hiding me and the room was plunged t© Which he had just Hstened might "hen that explains everything! jomne closet would be equally use-+ vic in Nam, allver waiter. jn . “This thought was doubtless occu- be, yet he could not do otherwise than jess, for you know that they will “To-day (the comte went on), "Lucien Delorme!’’ he exclaimeds pying my mind more than [ admitted, “fuses have burat again!’ believe It. And ho told the police officer all the search everywhere,” less through remorse than from. s for suddenly In crossing a street L did exclaimed my aunt Once more truth was not probable, particulars of his love affair with the Wait!" cried Nam, Taking a bunch of keys on the the dif ty whi t e is Carrying ynder his arm the precious 5, 4 at Be pare tho difficulty whieh they expert’ nox, he wert toward the room into jue seo the sidewalk, missed my foot Gut risk to themselves, as you wilt Which his visitor hed been shown. hen, as he entreated him to do so, young girl whom be had met tn the jon Dolorme told him the whole “But while she rushed out to get a Comte's ip my cousin and the ctor stood Geen te conned Si train from Bu “Go in there—the back has ner MM full length, while my eye- 4 h , ns glasses slid from my nose and my of all h od ite, trom fie (udcratand, they have determined Luclen Delormo had rushed Uke & Cone and nat rolled an the Keown lo howilderment, apking Story Of all his agitated life from te“ wiverything ta explained,” replisd fepluced~ from the other side you wit 8 you, not being ignorant madman from the Hotel des Nouvely “ar uckily, the fall did me no injury, vea if they, tov, were not the h ne in Eerie to consult find yourself In the next hi a address you, no: Deine Wwnorans fes-Hobrides, after plucing In his bod Jiuckiy the fay Oe ne a ial m8, In thelr turn, of a halluctna. & prince of sele ncerning hia M. Clamart, shaking hi head §ncred- wil) not be looked for there, and it UAvaroll-Viscosa to” buy them the body of poor M. Hvlatet, and at tho necident hed the mout unexpected phisphoreneent te vty Beat? Madame Artelit'e family, boarding Wcusly, “except why, on the very day will be easy to go, out auletiy when from him. le ranging a scene ini nd to BcelVe Consequences: phowphorescent sputa pierced the dark Mitlame Armelin'® family boarding 1 went to the Rus Vezelay, that wor- all danger Is ov mogghey know ,that you are too inined not to lose an instant {n rid. | "Skeletons! . . . ekeletons every: "The physician, recovering his cool cxpiained how, lying awake aji SP Was murdered in ber employer's 71,| Kile those placoal” exclatmed Ant that all trouble must be paid nx themselves of him at any cost, Wiel + + + | walking jon the side- ness, was trying to discover with hin thinking sadly of the singular- Kiteh ‘he added, “you may be p.4 fit ‘gat hay leave to your gene The next morning the story of bis Sa a triyinw the earrlagos fngors the exact placn from. which his fate, he n. behind the — Lucien Delorme rose, deadly pale, happen what may, I will not for. Bo they leave fo ,Zour Ken” qesagmination in tho newspapers had 5 +. On all the tories Of the thes twin lights could proceed, whon as if on a plc screen, “Georgette murdered!” he faltered, ¥ you! 2 Sa oe a tee he eg git shown him that his precautions had hot tee ho suddenly uttered @ stifled exclama- kvletons enter the Toom next ® © * “and by when “Hang muttered the Hindoo, AmCURE OF SHA SM PHAR FOU ML “Rot been Cutile “Phen I 'fell on the odgo of the tons to hin own, t rhaving ® bullet ‘Phat ts what we are vainly trying shutting tha steel door” upon. Whee transaction, to reward their act For a week he had re mained hidden sidewalk, dazed, nting. covering Why, tt Is hiv eyes that are lumi. i! his skul er man One 1M to discover, air! There 1s an impens- “what a pity that the safe wasn't frunsaction, to reward thelr act. dl tho other eh of Paris, not daring my eyes with my trembling hands, as Nous! Oho would say that they pro- Ms Jee and wtrangic the oid Amel trabie myatery hoverlug over thi repaired: we should be rid forevor of Fa eed i ihe to go out, and wondering what ho was If to shut out @ horrible vision POF Xerays! An laity with @ cord whieh must strange afair which wo shall end by thia disturbert Now Til bring. tf check you send to XY: 2. 3M. todo henceforth to escape the purauit | "Yet thls moment's prostration had repeated Marine bewtl- certainly be of atecl, ince the X- i itut, however that maybe? Lucien Delorme, ond ae. rai oon Bureau No. 6, and the promise of thy criminals. To-day, for the calmed me, With the mechanical dere rays had not sa through it, Bo, 4, turning to the Daron, “the what he wante from usr on honor that you will not inform first me, he had ventured forth, gesture of a near-nightod person, 1 It ts not possible,’ continued the in spite of M. Clamart’a tneredulity, bf these two knaves' have — The young man entered with a calm publish, under the same Initials, in 24 had come at gnce to see the had put on my glasses again and, practician, under his breath, a4 if he he had witnessed all the details of the 1 long enough! To-morrow morn- resolute atr, carrying under his arm the Press of next Friday. baron, raising my head, I looked with aur- were talking to himse ‘One would Tmurder with such precision that he tng we will arrest them, and we shall the casket which he placed on a chal Meanwhile the baron had entered prise at the crowd surrounding me, have to suppose t provable Ay. fad beljeved hinaelt to be having @ take every precaution that they do near the door. alr hanking you In advance, Mole the drawing-room and, curios to ‘Oh!’ T muttered under my breath, pothesia that he bas swallowed a tube hishtina and it was only the fol- rt es ve Baron, for your kindness to them. now tho reason for such a visit, after ‘what caused this?—-what Ie the of radium a ait ‘Then, advane! wine morning, on hearing of th Seer tates towers Luclen Delorme was overwhelmed the comte, ho folded his arms, and ery eae pe OUP on. all that M. Clamart had told him, he meaning of the hallucination T had, **Doctor,’ I interrupted, laughing, ¢rinis whi h had been committed, that by the news of Georgette’s death, In 1 slowly PARNO. ¥ : asked: ¥ fo suddenly? ‘at the price per gramme, my means he had understood he had not been thie depths of his soul did he still love Now I will settle with you” t “Well?” asked Nam. “You wish to apeak to mo, sir? “Take a oarriage, and return Would not allow me to indulae in dreaining, his fiances? Did he stil hope, Hut he did not finish * “Upon my word, tt {8 cleverly “M. le Ba replied the young home,’ one of the spectators advised auch banquets He also told him how, after having in spite of everything, for one of th Nam had glided behind him to the epee ot eo pee mate uu later the causes me in a fatherly way, as he helped ‘Who is talking of them? retorted tried, at bia request, to find the mur- imiracies usual in love? © * ® fath- box and introducing with a swift, to have the barom open the box of a disappoarance which must haye mo to rise, "These attacks of vertigo tha physician, ‘Has the human body dorers of the Avenue d’Antin, he had omless mystery of the human heart! steady movement, the blade of a knife Ah ere surprised you, Now, T am simply aro frequent after overwork; you the capacity to absorb only trough mot, by accident, om the day that he @ @ ¢ and now that all was over, Under the lid. bo preswed upon tt with Mellow orn onihatieanre (Gurl bringing you tho result of the In- need rest, deglutition? But, he added instants came to his house to Inform him that that he was mover to see the young all his strength. cally will ecnvuer ‘pradens ey vestigation which you desired 116 to ‘Just then a cab came up; I jumped ly. ‘often a pleasant philosophy ts he would give up the commission, girl more, it se ned aa if everything Instantly there was a terrible explo- Onity. wily Sunruer Prunence. | and wndertak ' in, calling my aunt's address to the right in affirming that truth always Comte d'Abazoll-Viscosa, and per- was crumbling around him, and the Slo which shook the whole street, stint athe unten the G ‘1am listening, sin" he sald, | driver. progresses throuh error, here Ix an ceived with amazement that thelattor last bond that attached him to Ife and shattered all the panes of glass he lid open | c ) the baron =“The murderer of your uncle," “When T reached her house T was ehiection that perhaps will put us on earried In the same part of the skull as Was breaking in the neighboring houses, will be, nevertheless, at his side, lean- Lucien Delorme continued, “is no most cordially recetved ay usual, M right track! Wasn't it this morn- Mr inkery's murderer the indelible M. Clamart,’ he sald, "f have a . When, a few seconds later, the ing intently over the box, When the other than the individual who offered cousin offered me cheeks to kiss as that yon came to my office forma mark which would have led to hin favor to ask will you allaw mo to go Hee, following M. Clamart entered the point in question is the Maharajah's to sell you jewels which exist solely fresh as two ripe peaches remove a tl] Kanguino-vaseular pe tion among a hundred thou- to the comte's house before your men Office, they found only ‘a shapeless jew orth fifty millions” 66. in bis, imagination” va pet, dust as Twas Kolng to em wih from sour noted? wand: how before allowing hia em- and speak to him a moment along, Mass of bones and flesh a fo." wi Sir," repli ne other in a cold brace her the cord of my eyeslas: his very mornin yoctor? joyer to enter a business transaction face to face? T have ven ra to It Was all that remained of C Now," a id Nam, tus act with- tone, tinged with a shade of sar- caught in my cuff button and drage “T applied a dressing?" . Pith a xcoundrel of thia Kindshe had take on thia miscreant for Maathing @Abazoll-Viscosa, Nam roy Lucien out delay. ‘To-morrow, when our fine casm, “it would be an unworthy act them from my nose, At the same “"Yos,' "P= determined to find out whether the and if you w mo L will take him Delorme, the first man to whom had fellow comes with tho ring, we must if I were to ring for my servants and tiine I uttered a ery of terror, atam- *Which, nding my treat. Maharajah's Jewels really existed, de- back hia bor been given the superhuman faculty ef be able to inform him that we have turn yap over to the police, whe are mering and bewildered, pent, Was an application of radium, jaying the appointment. betwee ery Ww replied the other, to seeing through walls. . , nothing more to fear from the baron, eeeking ‘for you. Yet, nevertheless, “‘Ob, Good Lord, Martse too ‘Hell; then,” be continued. growing two men by @ simple telephone mes- whom the pluck of thia action ‘ap. he End) —_— ee —-@ ne mR f f