The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 9

— we * ~ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday. August 27, 1915 at One g By Mavrice Ketten WERT WELA'S COMPLETE MOUEL WH THK EACAINS . The Romance ot « Mystery Trali iwany 4 HAT Yes, NAs| Have THAT WON'T Do! AS Nou UKs Asn, A Soldier of the Legion That Begins at Madison Squere At 5 COWAR JUST Twe HAT FoR | | WANT oun oF Tek Bur Your Face aup senate amen hid ‘Your Type of BeAuTy)| ) HATS With AvtiC Thar / SS aeny By C. N. and A. M, WILLIAMSON - > | ( RS ag PACE Ane See eee dade tl ; A HIGH COUAR THaT | -——— _ HIDES THE NECk ) 2 | te Peed + Mane Gey Ant bow could 1 den: whee to mE ie "*e* a Tees | ac ae Sensd bo te Grime 80 pay ee ed the & wehee of ber owe dresetul oust ‘The dvterd stirred and muttered, | ord he © ompered to hime ane cst wed | him as though be were » child Pres | S entiy he began to breathe heavily, a* 016 wee breathe in sleep But Jacque line crowe@hed there ip the seme mo- tonlese silence, ond | knew that ebe wes pweke ond suffering ‘ Caf watch vegan pone, tend ae the alarm Clock Semaered 8 thas awful wight In my Cr whee 1 crowshed cumide| dvor, not daring to go im. My mind eens a will | Nitiee a doing? Me would 1 DON'T CARE RY WELL . Tits | WANT A HAT , hammer force. Ai HY N@Cie AND ere « © TD HIDE SUCH aun A pu, Suet ween. ALL WANT (5, A BEAUTIFUL NECK AND COUAR Por your IN STYLE. THIS ~~ Face TV Pe oF BeAury ¢ eat you, Oharins, om Lerout se tebe nur Fant wo det with thes gentionen Gurhee on 4 Hut | oaale over the vend. There wae a bullet hote bee ered ore wteined wih dark bleed Iran you back in that ( down to the rivulet, rishiag a8 it Was @ pitiful sohome, and yet for buscate, brought back cole the jife of me 1 could ot ao end washed it. and wtanched the per wey to win bin ae i ae best | could, making bapyened, the wurd and placing \t above the w 0 the eteners mine it wae « poor sort af Get Git be (ne epeaker 46 ©Ih (he man spoken one » had of, for L saw Duchaine Wound before, jeutly end cling to the ey wail with misery and grief; ami gett re- “Ne, Bo,” be ered; "I 1 go member how steady my hends were with either of you. | am @ poor oid #04 with what precision and case I mae. I wae my brother wbo shot performed any task. the eoldier, and be ie dead. (io _ | have & Atm remembrance of Tinkiot oe Netian, othe to ‘ernan lay there, dreaming of the old _ jaye of youth, ewe!” my self-control when thie wae 7 dour tried ° | e 0 claeyi CHAPTER XY. x, wee sie, HEME the candle te is LoveLy! 5 eet DUret into senile teare and gow: on8 noes ee ee ae (Comune ) iy Aying, scroee the cave, and | rary Mat Sine tnould not ate The Hidden Chamber. fopnd that the bs my i 1 raised her in my arme and wae HW interior of the cave wae ft seemed eternity # ne acroas the cave toward the Huddenly I saw him (urn hie head twenel which led to the rocking atone, ly warm, though pleasantly war wah f hin even upon Laroun, molet aon oe - will nev ok forward; and the “M. Duchuine, he make — It must be day. And ati Pierre aia , he began to walk toward CHAPTER XVII. thin not come. And ae I lay there listen-| his perseculor, 1 oraned my neck, Surrender. oome take bi (aa for ie eiarning footaepe I heard ua—— er BAW the tight, the sun's he placed the rugs on the fluor, “No the was asi from weariness “Come along, Chartea, my friené,” rays bright on the elif can Ane, no can break down stone after ber, long in ant wateh, ome. | bees lot us try our for. tops, Once in the tunnel” door, Other way Simon not know 1) at whe had passed | Don't you want to stake some beyond [ could keep my tdi , into the world of dr upon your system against met" y' only m'siour and me, Old Caribou he me. Fors beer lime the arecatal | or hears pes ard over my pursvers at bay with come that way; he eee you ted and aeeusation of murder had been lif.ed In & moment LAroux my revolver, even if I had to Aght know it to come here, Boon from my head, and my numbed mind Wim and pulled him isto freedom. time to kill Simon come a» well, ey to ey ay wilt and leave | i be: 1 4 aap we a Pris | PrAeserer the a career , to pred olver nent wee In heaven's name will tt ce imparts te ri shot after ht morons the’ chan ‘The barricade of tarth Sieg bass, terens : how a low where 4 QO ° ot laoharges eo! and aoul emer, “Come soon, » Prrre lea? 44 ~ “rom wiv Var pt od biol ured him within ys an seemed | THAT WON'T DO ~ nt athe CG Ae HIS 1S LOVELY setae prentone Wiesel cank oh south ont ran geo ten J only too 4 : It tad - ‘The chamber was as silent ae the and we should walt in vain: And wis | | PEMWANT A LITTLE HAT Fh 8B ‘ JUST WHAT | WANT. Z, welt for im my taoston, { bad fiend ['vallove 1 eaulé have eparied except for the ECONING To YouR i fing of & ting our chanoes to AND A Low COLLAR | DON'T LIKE To HIDE ng ot, Water somewhere and the egeape are Ie a TYPE oF BEAUTY NY FACE AND NECie, of. And truly tittle distance to eee whith STYLE oR NOT 4 wsdoumediy’ have, AoE MALE qcrows the open and won free, Hut “ine father, with Jacqueline in my arms it wae queline’ The mocking iaughter of Leroux moisture from the It led, ble, Unis might prove our grave, } though’ imcover the kud'noke wena Gnd Get tenon (nthe dar | wee Mant of Se faraway | stopped behind the barricade. heart of the cilff through all the ages ‘Bo T took my sword and sallied out ‘ Even so 1 wae fortunate, fer hed that would come, thro. paaeow he flight seemed to have wry oon ata he re ed the last Micker of vitality CHAPTER XVI. man, for he sank down upon the t they gained the cave before f Gid they would have had mo at thelr mercy like @ rat trapped in a hole. L saw the explanation of the ma: presence now, wast he Duchaine that morning as 4 along the tunnel, They had Paaaily. understand bow bie perpevea At Swords’ Points. od lo Vill Ange together, and | They tam apttone age pont. Baie fear of discovery, intensified through ENTERED the tunnet mword Loreus bad pronesty bad Uetle i8- tly withie the boys Reta many years of sulitu had qrown to ta-band, becping beth arms culty in inducing the witless old man panting with the weight of my un- be an obsession, and how Leroux’s . to take him into the secret BIdINg~ conscious burden, and I did not know tdi ulated his weak- stretched out to feel my place. what to do, My mind was filled ’ efort to escal way, I resolved that I would Ce ey nat Mmovecon i We TAK® againat my fate, and f Ceasers ation te°mmerencert that wiwaye keep the left band in con- mast have crossed the ledge only _ Guree® At thom and strode wp Once she asked for water, Pierre tact with the wall upon that side, so brought her some from the spring in that, in case the tunnel should divide, ~ @ tin ow nd when she raised her o « Sead could woe that her lip was Jaa ergeer! Pea peneeer > or ore, se t iow 0! TOUR'S wate , Maa from the t bee only preceded ' ew ates rence sass hands meeeeues hen the oi row eld ood aves pa pe Pele prey ade) And before I had traversed two hun-| Ly ed, and he otirred and 4” Gried “out petulantly. “Whe missed his dred yards I saw @ dim light in tho Foulette Wheel, his constant compan- @istance, This was no candle light, py’ h steel, and the rust from the tn remaining ha moment or two before th I hastened m. Presen' back te Jaoquelin 4 flotiering from "the Lr ese white handkerchief upon a stick ot wood, slowly and gingerly tanding with Reninst the wall to stoady herself; el into | and tn her eyes was that look Which At that instant | fired, The bullet sure’ . Whip hie face, and with jtella aman more Hy than aay. Whiphed past vo at heed 1 think, ean, that @ woman Hopped ine and 4: ~ kerehiet ane Shelter, ny longer. If Pierre me? Because it has occurred to mo,” “M, Duchaine,” 1 biades Alied my nostrils with ius sting. y bac! “ , Then Leroux’s voles hailed me from t rs, hie coins and v a. were on his way back, we ought to I went on, “that if he had come you aome back with me 4 me pw LRTOE INORG ee aioe ins and put that of day. So Thad endured all isut, though Bie atiack was will, moot him in tho tunnel; and if he had way his footprints would be in the it over? Jacqueline Is tlahtly to support tee, “a twanel. suffering the most of all. those angonies of mind with the open the vigor of bie blows almost beat been captured, delay spelled ruin, mud ido the stream, It would “No, no,” he cried, jaughing. and L led k tot lett!” he oalled, and there waa “I go now,” Pierre snnounced, iT atr but @ short distance away! Bi fd 5 ae jo, § Jed ber back Into the tunnel on tako for you, eo al what was to be, | hoped, our final Up 5 sBtclich. tanmelc Yeuseeny jars Gilt cee, tL esraneee A fences eee Bie feeble old hand and gent it whitl- journey, We reached “ihe iedye, ‘The come thin but is hiding in some to make our fortunes at M. “Nowe Jnequeline, you must let me Merozen meet me in the opes, if you , come; all sleep till morning.” beard the soft pattering | Ing down the oaturact into the 1ak® star had faded now, und the whole wky Cave in the tunnel through which we gaming 8 1 be fe your tT eaid, "Don't you pee Pre ar, “I will go with you, Pierre,” I said, bind me. erow, was bright with the red clouds of came, Will you wait for mo here back soon, louded dawn with wold.” there ts no chance for us unless 4, Fei Nera} phot in futile rage. wull under my obsession, But he laid] halted and listened intently, I Then be was at my throat, and It dawn, while I go back and leaw opening hes t struck the cliff and sent @ stone “ we leave your father for the present his heavy hand upon my arm and crouched against the wall and wait- Was fortunate (ual there Qrm Very cautionsly we picked our way Hhe nodded, and 1 ol I aneweret. Whore ho is and make our own @a- Fiyjan take ° ¥ b gold cave. hour or two for thom to fill can’t catch me with such @ trick as t fe {race of meekery 16 his now, ain. Bo, perhaps, ho did not that. My litle duushter has Kone to In a tow words I explained what bad “wii you come out and talk with met @ stream. followed. And I took rock Instead of slppury ioe beneath t 4 that interminable tunn “Bhe is not fifty yards away.” K . awa 0 patti ° Y Puryou ‘ne kil Simon,” he answered ed, But I heard nothing now except SOCGIG Qa i Was & Kiasoun tanetay Over ae “With gold?” ‘he inquired, looking apnt .\ve can Fant ere we oan yacquel ind carried her into 4 ewhy you no kill him again when you the distant roaring of the cataracts, the slippery ice, beneath the thunder CHAPTER XVII at me doubttully cabin goon after midday, and we on? the litte hollow places. 1, put my hand avo sword? Only diable can kill him, How sweet they sounded now! rms around me and of the cateract; and wher Saath ° “With gold,” | anawered, trying 19 oe. orth not come With Os, Coan her breast, Whee tine come diable tell old Cart I Metened intently, leaning against ud bis welght we reached the tunnel! on the other The Bait That Lured. allure bis Imagination as Leroux had Jacqueline, even if he were here. ree stirred. She breathed faintly, bou. You sleep now. J not work for the wall and facing backward, hold- urpansed my OWN that pide, | was shaking like @ man with a = done, “She hus rich gold, red gold, “", 4 if he did, he might enc: we rey she showed no sign of con- you now. 1 xo for take my woman anf ing my aword ready to meet any In- compensated for bia weaknoss. palsy, WENT along the tunnel th euch a@ you will love, You can take “And t Re Prony ray er ol bey te wal safe through tunnel to place I truder, But there was no sound from wayed buckward aod forward, put thank God that nightmare was the direction of le Vietl Up the coins in your fingers and let ni a dell pty By #4 od then [ acted as trapped now. When my woman and Kal safe within, except the soughing which star dipped and swung over past, And with renewed confidence Ange, It was broad day {28 gold stream slip through them, tah } Boros Se a uid act raged up and ‘come back to m'sieur and ma’am'- one hears in a tunnel and satisfied us, as though we stood upon the deck Meant On theaueh the 4 mn ith aa AY be Come with me, monaleur.” to harm al ue PR A P ha he tunnel from cataract to wollé,.” ry that I had been the victim of rolling ship. Jaec Meine my ait fecling cf) pst . now, and the distance be- “Hf henitated and looked back tnte dear? Ho n 8 ae eons We dat each end [ fired 4 It was a brave and simple 4 an overwrought imagination, f pur- m yourself, for heaven's sake, jy Wha’ heacae: deneaesinn fas 4 tween the cataract and the the darkness. Se at te Bee a was no any tion of first principles, and o sued my course. monsiwur!” 1 gasped us 1 gulned a ground along the centre of tho tubular PEM Kround where the gold had been “IT am afraid,” he exclaimed. ¥ should their ox. less affecting because It cai . the Ups of a faithful, ign * man. ft was just such sim) ‘The light grow brighter, bel very momentary advantage over him, mined was nufiiciently short for the \tAsten, monsiour! ‘There ia @ man i And “ shall never pave the i) me at their slowly, until all at once T at Don't you know me? I am your PMA “{e a, hiding ‘thero—a man with a eword, 4 to be the gleam of an electric griend, 1 to save you. pe Yenein T oww dayhens ahead of whole length of the passage to be He tried to capture me to-d Sut } een, enh pea nur ou he would get you tn t! that natures like Leroux's nev , arc light jmmediately ahead, It dag- Bur he wae at me again, trying to f Plainly visible, too clever for him.” He laughed ih.d thought frustrating the most cunning plans gied and halt blinded | is le bande about my throat; und, “pentane had ied us where f It was a roach of deep twilight, with senile glee and rubbed his hands Uplone Ao le nee frick to maintain the Muston of Raw hesed on self intorost, I started backward; and then the I had controlled him and wanted her to lead—into. the open brightening ito sunlight at either toxether. “1 was too clever for him, th ughe, what was In But end. he Caekind, “No, no, melee t Ls not know who you are, but T am no 1 picked my way carefully, peering oink into that Tonnet alone with you, wildly, “That ts tho best way out, firing at tne. iat rocky ‘and now I ir dincloned hi sky like @ bl I realized the strength of Pi ‘argument, His duty lay first toward swinging in ' dis kin; then he would place hie life jewel in a translucent sea. it apace where the gold was, From th |, and never ceased to yall. | knew that 1 could strike th hand the rocks and tunnel which lea into the alelKh ro: mi he answered stood beneath that awful cataract nioas I kill myself, o un tht was back . But he would Ry waa & projecting piece of ve back his howls with hideous F a t M Perhaps you have a gallows there. Paul! T am fated to bring nothin, earth bags must mons "eo of » 5 . Ns pi : bed all not ake me! have ur daughter Jacqueline har bro » press! im, SE eee ae cares Renust pres to aha ald. wall eco, the atte 30 not fry. ft had Temithe’ By fat p bed Lory Byers 19 Back from New York for you?” ‘Again I pleaded, and she dia not hers, tmptoring ‘her to’ live. &F° ne and | knew what the pares meant ing to the cliff wall upon the other done noth! ei It wal Jas ond. Tt was the safety of us two, ake, or if she could not Nive, to k : ity of (he ttorm, where Thad me go! Lot me go 1 had emerged before, " 1 ' t grasped hitn by the arm and trlet pnd be 4 aaatnat keto me Bayete by An ideale ade tee Mioetae ted the Old Angel 1 released him for @ moment, hop- od had emerged before. This it wae Duchains. ‘here cduld be eo 'tend him with me. My argument And her fathers life assured, ageinet her #ye— once more and speak to T Hung inyscif down on my blanket. thundered over me. ing that his disordered brain ‘would Leroux and Lacroix bad plied the NO MIALAKIng (hat call, KAUNL AgUFe, had moved him oupidity had har. o Mlncrabie tale lor OE MHS cent wun had mink Denind the clits,’ I hed <1 was utterly exbausted, and with And inatead of noon, as I had ¢élm enough for him to re sacks of earth, 4 uiuat the disant day, — ished for the moment the dreadful ind the cliffs, 1 Ww my motlves — | wan looking out beyond them to- pleture of th iowa that he had Leroux would give m little ehrift fired way all but six of my cart- id grow quiet, = ward the rivulet, and on my right AR BB aaeteed up dy vonent Thad won him, once f was tn his power again. on the memory of my eim- that dead weariness which preclude® thought it to be, It was only dawn, 44 that when he fred O10 tiene, CORNED MTs eieiad hack into the . She was so ailont that I thought I Har act of folly before came home to slop. The candio was burning 1oW gnd the distant sky was banded with in comp! : inal howl, ; . ‘and was guttering down upon one faint bars of yellow and gold, and the af hand and on my left the tunnel sd across the rocky floor Y ie Mia hadconvinced her. J urged her to her me, I became more calm, side, and a pool of hardening grease 1 t ° sprang past mo, sweeping me aEAinaL gireiched away, loading respectively re tunnel, holding the arm of th t heard @ stealt ” fas spreading over the table to er chad ai way back: inch by inch, te wall, and leaped out on the leds. toward tho chateau aid to the rock tithe tune: atier him, man, who lingered reluctantly and feet, Hut suddent A steaiby. | | understood Leroux’s Intentionses t beman to vield, a pebble leaped footfall close at hand, between the he meant to surprise me in the from the rocky platform and ro- eave and the cataract, wh trom the cliff. Toast a back- . I thought It was Charles Duochaine. Seated ovo the table and blew he in I held my breath, I expected to see a an We aust Nuaband 46), he ase tca te fam teacd earien geartuey im atugier to ii death Yalow. But ata: dont with the Garkness in the cave would become net until T stood in safety again. ood motionless in the middie of into hounde 1 hoped it. was Leroux, | placed my tunnel, dle to light. ‘J ttle platform and stretched out had ward glance, and there upon the op. 3 . Ms are Lt mapas, “the, ifetee' sae Fay ag sf Foe figsovary his arine toward the raging torrent, an te rryd posite alde Toaaw Leroux atanding. Goaw fe eaieennes Ce ree te wk tale my way around the cave with foneliness itself, and not rendered AG 2t Filed me With h in invocation, n he leaped d binoult, There waa aomething appalling in Seateuy , Py lonely by the occasional cries of A ainh ani ee we with the agility of a wild stuffed the pockets of vo leap, 1 the man’s presence there, T think tt vr ein the gloom, I aw the vil- There Py be ot old man and the drip, drip of wat the cataract, it w, Ld avid . thee sheep and rushed on into the tunnel appier still, ® email Duchaine! wan his unchanging and tmplacabta ue’ face of Jean Petitiean look- receas which hi re made out a T could not see anything, and Jacquo. ron e the’ ned, Ay mat oe beyond. r woe cartridges, to Btopi” I implored him. “Doa't you pursuit that for the moment daunted ine into mine, twelve paces AWAY, about one-half ap lores ne monies line might have been @ woman of Omang tte hele 7 wut drow my breath thickly and leaned 4 myself liberally, know that lua your friend and only me. And thia waa avmbollzad in hi® ang in his hand wae @ revolver too," itself, and opening inte lp the cave stone, for she made not the least Dol bresarious feat, should enter the agai the wall, overcome with you weil? 1 am your friend— ft which he wore onan in the “TAs HO DMEE ther, BUt the @ur> passage Just lata euccel Cr tyemall mravemaot, ae yaa! aeqin Ane Come Ot evOn~ nausea, The physical #hock of the Gaughter Jucquuline’s friead. L fr wnctly as he had worn it thet prise ppolled his aim, for hin bul Salttanee te 6 ah geruan OS ve ad- Hut 1 felt her presence; T seemed pop y Oeminar. ihe. ind allowing struggle was, however, less appalling should seo us outside the tunnel be to wave youl’ day when wa mot in the New York whistled past me, f think my should have enly one tron! eg to feel her thoughts, to live In ber, fr, 8. Brats y blunder into the than the thought of Jacqueline, yond the mountains. And this was He did not attempt violence, but store, and as T had always seen DIM gtruck him somewhere, for he utter- fend, v mat to de- T had no hope that the old man the day test danger lay in the poss wy ¥ 3 rentent Canuer, Pos would ever return, or that his crazed be xy hb Vere Antoine Would waxed at ino with hesllation and par weer It th yell and began running back 3 doubt stood bareheaded, and hie mas So tae ti “ir "| Bo I carried Jacqueline inside and ‘At last [ spoke to her. nt ed t along the tunnel ag hard as he could. began laboriously to drag the bage of um, Jacqueline!" pi gine incredible that ao much 1 heard her start, and knew that ~ ids lying in prain remembered the way home to It we They waut to catch me," he mut- Hned, hard, we r-heaten fae@ 1 followed bim, firing as fast as T retu a ahe had rained her bead and was als per ine fopewhere within the the cave would) wand could have hapened in four-and- tered, “Thoy want to hung mo, He © anid fakends tet there was & eight fax evcue anit ane fore r looking after me. T crawled towar that for I dla not ‘bellave hie gh through the tunnels, either to twenty hours. 7 has got a gallows ready for a bend in the passage here, and my her, dragging my blanket after ine ona iat our cave pea bet in them miserably, or to emerge But there was no sign of Charles swing on, because I killed @ sold eothedral bullets only struck the walls, Ho T felt in the darkness for the place Prot wnat one cave conneoted with last into the snows beyond and die Duchains, And J did wot intend to the Fenian raids. ut It He atood hal ‘od by the pro. fortune helped the ruffian, for when I upon three aldes with rock. where I knew her hand muat be and 4), they would wait Mrohaine'e there. Joopardize » for the sake of he added with sudden cunning fecting lean napect ao f*h- reached the hight he seramblin, And there I waited for the end. took It In m pe know 1 Foom tll hunger drove us out Uniess Leroux found him 4 Me was my brother, for he looks ike me. einated ma that T forgot my resolu- across the ledge, and before | coul ‘What an eternity that was! “Jacquelin 1 satd, “you kno tt | Bo T wtarted back to 2 I started baek, keeping jald, “let Us £0 On. He died jong ago. Lot me go, mo cover him he had succeeded tn dis- I strained my ears to hear \e Aid not steal your mone n't mn 1 had not gone six py the right side of the tunn or ison his way out> #eur, Lam a poor, bharmioas vid man, he calle’ appearing behind the projecting rock proaching steps I heard the wares “vormive wie, monsieur” T Beard 1 .ihs a eoraam that ati ring in my Heard the urging of the brook, Then 1 pall poe burt anybody fneroan the chaam. “Don't he afratd of on the othor aide. of the stream and the slow drip of her whisper. for Th are to-day, and a shadow sprang out 2 heard Jacqueline's footstep shook “We must 1 took his hand in mine me any more than Tam afraid of you Leroux had already sealed one water from the rocks, but no’ “Porgive mo J equaling, ar Toate of the darkness and rushed at mo, [t 1, Who Ja it?” ane onlied wildly, “M, find him tira, ered, “M, Duchaine,” 1 answered, “E & moment, I want to talk that py tie Cid Angel, where more, fhe starignt was Just Dright \ brought heavy trouble pen you, 4 wan old Charles Duchaine, His white Hewlett! My father!" “But that le" J pro» wish you everything that in best in road led into the main passage. enough to prevent an absolute sur- with God's aid 1 am going to #AVe ate “streamed behind. him: his tuo f Causit hor aa rhe swayed toward tested, How wandering the world, Lam your friend; 1 want 1 beve no huetnens to talle with t that he had not Ume to prise, you both=your father and you~ and bo0g an expression of indelibia horror (Be. "He has Kono, Jacqueline,” I said, among those dark passa when W® to save you, not to capture you. Come you" Lanewered xit by the minel’ 1 waited for the end. I sat beside take you away somewherg where and rage, and in his hand he held the ‘! went into the tunnel to try do ft know where he has gone? You back with me, monseur, aod I will © “nue T aid not aay it was with you, haste! If 1 made hastet queline, holding her hand with one the past can be forgotten. other sword, the way, He had been felgning know he is invaluable to Leroux, and take you away’ monseur, he answered In. aneering But I would not argue the matter ‘and my revolver in the other. Bho aighed heavily, and I felt a toar Wi aaman's proverbial oun. @f4 he crept after me. I tried to stop o no harm with him. ‘The wild look came into his eyes tires ‘Tt te with our friend Duchatne, any further, I ran back at full speed. There was a faint flutter at her wriat, p on my nand ning he had pretended to be asleep; Bim. He was so frightened that we can return With goin, Hola, Duchaine!” T reached the cave. I fancied that it had grown stronger “Jacqueline!” T cried, then he must have followed me thought it best to let him go. He rao him, “No, nol” he screamed, trying to At the aonnd of Teronets votes the “Jacqueline Come, comel” I during the past half hour, “ah, M. Hewlett . Gtealthily as I made my Journey of OM Into the tunnel “We cannot go without my father,” wrest himself from my grasp and olf man atratehtened himeelf and be. called, But I was unprepared to hear her i] her voice went to my extloration; and now, doubtless, he “We must find him,” #he naid, she answered, shaking ber head inde- measuring the distanco across the gan muttering and looking from the Bhe did not answer, whisper to me, and when she spoke I i nalgnt have been so different—tf"=—~ agoribed all hin wrongs and sufferings “He will come back, Jacqueline,” términation, ledye with his eye, “L will not go one to the other of us undecitel I ran forward, peering round me in Was alert tn a mo % ve Tt what, Jacqueline tome and meant to kill me. “He wili naver cone back!" she an- - away. This is my home. I want to tn vain T teed ta draw him within the obscurity, [ eaw her near the “Paul” she sald faintly, “Tf there had not b tha blood of “Hin fears had snapped the Inst fra! awered, “He must have been plan« “Oh, don't you see that we muat jive here in peace, 1 want my wheel! the tunnel He ahook Mmuclf free from earth sacks, lying upon her aide, ‘Jacquelt in doad man between us," she moaned. jin that bound him to the world of ning this and waiting for me to alcep, find him?" whe eried wildly, © Monsieur, give me my wheel, T have me and enrang ont on the tev te eyes were closed, her face as ul! Bend down, I want to if youhad not—killed him! genne, For years he brooded over his danger, you must mo. You cannot be perfected a syatem, Listen!” He and hep olf there, tenine hi te as a dead woman’ to you. Do you know I have for words weve a revelation to me, — He atruck at me, @ reat sweeping suspecting everybody, and the shock dened with ime, Give up your hopes took me by the arm and apoke in that head from ride to vite as elthe: White—but her dress was blood- conscious for a long time, my dear? for 1 learned that ahe had mercifully plow which would almont have cut mo of last nimht unhinged his mind, He lees miasion to ve us, monger, cunning madman's way! "Il will make gnoke And he effectively pr eoaked, 4 there was blood on the I have been thinkin, Are you di» © een spared the full remembrance of in two, I had just time to parry it, may be hiding somewhere, We must and save yourself your fortune if you will let me #o me from shooting Leroux. @acks and on the tressod because of me?” whet had happened in the Tenth and then he was upon me, raining search for him. At that my hopes, which had been free You shall \ave millions, We “Don't vou know vour beat friends, oozed from her sid “My dear!” I aaid; 4 that Btroet apartment, She thought that blows upon my outstretched sword, “Let us go, then, Jacqueline,” Lan- » wh, went crashing down, will go to Quehee together and play a Duchaine® tnauired Leroux: and t was oold as the rocks and there was al! that I could oni Petenpea er ft was | who had killed Louls He was no swordsman, but slashed swered, “Jacqueline.” [ said, “if we ean the tables, as 1 did when | waa & white heard wan tipped toward the Go Mutter at her wrist, cold little hand tightly in mine. @’Bpernay, and hewed in frensy, and the steel In fact, there seemed to be no uss find your father you will come with yeung man. My system cannot fall!” other side of the ledge The bullet from Jean Potitican's (te Rp Continued.) hla “ti nr = Fe een ©