The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1915, Page 9

—— — —- —— es ~- The Evening World Daily Magazine. x! —_ The Avengers “The Adventures of « Man Who Fought Peril in the Dark By Headon Hill Pedi ebb hd ome ee 8 ee 8 fe) ‘i CHAPTER 1. | The “ Doubles.” ' ERLE ARMY TAGE Bngishmen of fasntly and education, wae a Bhancial @reck Otherwise, he Would wet have underta Creange Ghasion even for ihe deening eer reward thet ewalted bie Nor, poor ap he aps, would he have consented to the task, but for the pinading jook in Marion Fermors Marion Fermor was of Kngiands Oho War young and bedutiful, Aim. Wigei Lanyon Bigel, after o series of experionces in ¢ Dever cared to speek, bad come back Hel ion Londen house And, mecting Marion soon af ship bad bees followed by an enge et all mert the apyrova, of Nigel's mother In fact, Lady Lukyn had proceeded Vi wive wm at © place ber oun in Gray Gabies, a dressing-down, though | expect he'll private ius sylum, on the ground UP all Fieht in a day of two, Hoome thas ho Wen tomporesily deranged. er ehough, the imperent young Marion ratber turough joyalty than jove--bad vowed to free him, even though she was not, at Uimes, certain she loved him. Bie hit on an ine senlous plan for his release Firat of ail she en the w Jone Quayue, the great det + by wight.” whe added, “wut this one a Bis who at nes Age? mrve she belong tu the Mansions, waa a st self to bis un ‘ e. 17 canally. clever oltlue boy, Hadger, ouiy aw her buck ee te two t Then she set oul ty find Kome man ‘be resembied Nigel Lukyn in jovks. | pawe thelr chance te hill me te-migut.” Me ef the bot Tee mae fol lowed bee Cee lonely otrest Arawy- |*age * vost and teoed the men | | ep ive mee belted The tel man Nige Lokya, | believe? We beaiie Arm thou Chet © resegnieed pou ot el olomeal No deed wee the pertectt; ltrurmfal repiy Tl hewe bees taken for « tw that same before, wee tote ie Leslie Army round the corver of the house toward the gardeneg wm front, which feule aises coud ‘be lente the The prewumplon was thet pres ont viet was only one of end Leele breathed « sigh of that the erteis wae deferred. As Marion was evidentiy met ip the room, be decided we w few min- Wie in came the 1 can see it pininly, should return to the response erent Leslie began Whereupon Mr Boorrier Youles, the pian of attacking him in the rear and | diplomatiot of the pair, broke into @ of forcing from bim & contession of flood of apoiomes. whiew the gut- his intentions Threatened with eap- tural base of Mr. Fayter Frayne ture sod imprisonment, the ved & running but UniDtelligibie might be induced to ebandom bis de- « om panimer and then, li sane without compelling bim te continued theif again deny that he was Lukys- along the Bm- risky procesding with Marion expeet- od back in the room at any moment. ut there wae no time jor the shaping of his nor off all right yet any opportunity of the myself or Impending bearded prowler to book, for b Marion.” he murmured as be 100k04 onoe again a figure glided atier the receding Sgures. it Was not that of Boorri ‘oules. Aunt Jane, who had hated Nigel, run the opposite angle of the haves ———--| | was loud in her praise of the bride- to that round whieh the latter had au poared e , on Aine, ed herself te of whieh he hie mother's 14, 4 whiriwind cour engagement Which bad gut bogwed the porter don the culprit. Then, the time tll the elevator de d rather than from euriosity, Aquired who was the jady who 4 gone up “1 thought | knew all the rem yuld hardly restrain y ith nd in a few days of dient search 0 a change, my ghe discovered the impecunious Les- Wpepiied the Wee Ua certs fee eee Oe mabie sop” fiona le Armytage. Me looked envugh like . tod believe now that he yp, Hat for all thet be spronreg sn tes hab mn’! Nigel © be his twin brother The elevator shot into view, and wan Insane, @ explained her plan to Army- Marion, nodding tonight to her 2 ms ta, Doctor and the le tage, which was that, for $10,000 pay- informant, crossed’ tho ha : om: 7 F an n, to Leases amasement thant, he should Bave himself coms tered the sottiy rrottoncd tans? Heaman has cured them. His man hdsped the catch and crossed COM= tered the softly cushioned cage. Kor pretty now, and did threshold into the room, loaving ners are quit mitted to the same private axyluw 4&8 the moment, the boy, busy with th ro Guile oer pallet” ay 2 Lukyn; spould got iu touch with the ieghanism, had bis buck to her, but ye tee a tearth do you meas, Pull of we " , bad his buck to her, “What o o ull of wonder what thi fatter, and, by changing placen with aa tho ‘elevator ‘bean to tie hy ©. PIFFLE! ag Alaa For Desenring aunty Oe ‘in ontia, we Stranee intrusion, “might “forebode, %j tos Li © turne owed the chubby and > R ST in THe oT matd bie An, natin, . Leslie strode rapidly forward, in " i yo Ni “ _ finger fe directly to “Mario's yacht, where ot pet of Billy PRESENCE OF TH used to bite ‘em down to the quick meanwhile keeplog his sie on eCuci # office boy ut) the ade interior, Bho ad- vanced quickly toward the table, and more, h* then, just as she reached it, reeled ENEMY AND LEAVING YOuR Guy on THe FIELO oF BATTLE \vare sign of & demon’a temper, He woman, who was plain! lean at it all the while he wae bere briljiantiy lighted. tf hefe but now there tan’t a trace irl, under the chaperonage of her eccentric Aunt Jane, would be wait- ton eurth are you doing here? lof the habit, and, wh ing to spirit him nb tie time Army tae bs hat wax @ nice way to treat un old You Wits, BE Courr. Jenn't have bean ot it for a cong ana 2°11 heavily to the floor. end~to leave me planted (here in able tin in nails Now th sumed the natn it be ? MARTIALED ‘a should oroughly alarmed and per- two very interesting facts: First, that the hall, But perhaps you didn't see | : —— se arrest ry you the change lexed, Lealie ran across the interven- Lukyn was really insane; second, that ie name. as it carrion with It a change ng #pace, and, passing thro the two or three mysterious men and @ renee fake out wo rom America were in search a-purpoxe to ot ‘bi, fertaitentis with the idea of YOUF recognizing of me afore her,” be Killing him, Indeed, one of these Téblied with an upward jerk Americans bed apparently mista arm to the unseen floors above. Don't Armytage for Lukyn. For, while Loa. Yow vials ny error, inies, 1 haven't He had been talking to Marion the [it ‘lt Quayne, and I ain't going to. day before he entered the asylum @ don nero on the professional lay— pistol shot had rowly m: dd him. ote tee work for him, ‘ Nigel's mania took the form, amon; “How very clever of you, and how | other things, of violent hatred toward Véry interesting,” said Marion. And ‘cop on OPH window, was immediately con- from 96 much nasting meee scious of a feallug of suffocation, He came you think it wil make him fould detect no oder but that of r trom. purmult. To fact, 1 cou yong tit eet cvonce siewedeat you: the man himself, TKO iis lungs and hie throat, sti ing bim him ———— and causal: wee stagger tc he wo woman's as. CHAPTER IV. Peril. he was golng to fulnt before Te'sould re 4 Sa be rion Clear “doing Marion, and Leslie Armytage was thea with a happy intuition she add- 1113 quiet wedding was over any use or, the 0} sore pusgied as to the advisability of ¢d: “As you didn't want me to rec- tr — 4" “| a (ones fret iene suse hele to turn such a man looe on osnize you, T suppose the lady you dat Kipot Cottage tor gret wevecauses” wtnuict Tan” the world, Also, Leslie gradually be- took up is the person you have got 7 tne pole aioe ate Pe a ta gun to realize that he himscif was to keep those sharp gray eyes of ad thelr briet_benegme poisonous fess, “which wa a Very much in love with this girl he yours on, eh, Billy?” | fa fore starting on the te Patek gas, Py y i had met but once or twice. Altogether, "Ah! that would be telling, and a ag elegy So er ae year te he was ina Praia ay et Y. vont Quayne's i lers don't give his = = se = a Marion and Leslie dined tete-a-tete ually mysterious person . pusiness away—le : ‘ this on% the man was aware of, and had used, that be will find time hang heavy on hope that you will some day forgive bagless and fitted away in the tn a room with French windows giv- tnx on to the lawn at the back of the house, and afterward they elected t tting-room of a handsome don’t, even to you, miss,” su f Fee eee om vel Coloeal ta with an air. of importance ie ade * the name of Mrs, Molyneux—the lady his hands till he can recover for the me for—for not having been # better Marion laugh " whom Badger had so adroitly pre- second time and leave the asylum man.” private suite at the Northuinberland A SUM ohtered he Vented from learning that he was 18 to enjoy his reward,” thought “Chere Is nothing to forgive tn TPP Tay Bere te ally, yet » Marlon entered her own fat, to Mr, Quayne’s office, Marion. misfortune, my poor, battered Nigel,” CHAPTER Il. to remain there In preference to seek- with the alr of not going fully into fad late as was tle hour, her Sunt Tt way not to the police that Marion | But there was no time to waste on coved Marion, under the | spell’ of A Warning. ine the leas cozy expanse of the great U! their subject Decauae (NO Joni the A “strange “thing ‘Ippened thie J0gk Her story next morning, but to the abgent, with that tall form 4 awakened love, all the pity in het drawing-room across the hail. Hore ning.” the old lady announced, at Eyot’ Cottage, in contrast to the Ono was a loosely-Jointed, large “About half an hour after you had to what she told hi 6 Investl- to greet lover, ready to yleld to lover's obvious depression and atrike man, with a drooping fair mustache started for the theatre, while | was gator, however, having assimilated fie’ embri ee aaela Be ves ier one, 4 Jivelier key, she plunged into prac- and faded blue eyes, whom his com: {ndulging in an after-dinner snooze her Information, had very ttle toway and angry with beraglf at her rellef tt 1 details.’ Sho would return te panion addressed ‘oules. nom and on this sofa, your in return, He thanked her for com it wit, ondon in the morning, and he would tt Pegistered at the hotel bureau as Mr. mald Crispin came invand auld thet inenand admitted that “Mr. Pereye” tongyta, comme Mmwele WHA ® follow by a later train ‘and put up wt 4 fean, Ht seemed that in Kept, most of them old retainers dat- by & inatinct, Beorrier Voules, of Denver, U. 8. A. a Mr. Percy had called with a meses Visit might betoken a hostiie in PSRGSPAKS. 1 it would be best for the Hotel Colossal in Northumber. America Nigel Lukyn had jotned a 11) icy to her father's lifetime, and the curtains veill though the superficial observer would for ‘my niece. As you were out, fluence, but he professed himself un- our frat meeting to take place here— and Avenue, still using the name of #ecret organization there for the pur- jog with @ loyalty to thelr mis- Bure scones attributed American and it might be important able to define the scope of such in- away from all possib Nesdroppers Lesiie Armytage. They would ab’ pose of selling ita secrets to the police. trusy which insisted that she po A Between the Citizenship to one who lounged with Crispin to show bim in, fluence. He laughingly confessed to gt ihe hotels,” she said hurriedly. once apply for a license a8 600N 4% Fe nad betrayed them, And they had ; ‘Tho silver-haired butler the window euch languid apathy in his easy chair, r 1 having put Badger on as elevator Boy ghe dreaded the sound of his volce, the qualifying period was up, and be 4 no wronk er Pr] of returning consciousness de- ine for 8 gravely-—very, gravely, she thought— ise"It she wae holding out her hand depreciation, And then, to cheer her Qu y d 4 le unyne's office the detective ich had formed Mart- he homely flat whic! him in Savor of the latter course. Quayne himself, who listened near. Almost before she could real olng out to him in his halting self- W MEN next Marion visited was able to tell her more . cided on’s “digaings in her gtrl-bachelor 4 about the mysterious Amer- 4), (q full staff of -servants was Sn 4 sfeone arouse eS = gent » who waited on the bride and bride- ‘The other man was in sharp con- He just sank &t Grandison Mansions, but was care eit. for it might avletly married directly afterward. sent the two men and the woman to who 9 bese Ane eee trast to his roommate. Short of rd Chait ail fied ine Sank ful te leave the. boy's’ mission there Xehwwaseaeer to Ren Ata terrible “And, Nigel,” she uddgd, “you hud England to avenge hie treachery by room bet ‘Bo emotion at thé ad- gtature, but powerfully and compactly his faded eyes, stroking bis long fair Obscure. put to herself, better be married in the naine of the killing bir Vent of a master, bayond perform uestion she had ju Duilt, he paced to and fro, and Jerked imustach Spur no; the reply came in the ian who helped you so cleverly, If Marion told her lover the story, He } (Miclating at some imports and Jerked Tus . H H , E c 5 timh priest officiating Pes “Relicenea irritation at ths at hone, taadatt ae wane eae TE ley nal dean-chented, ‘woll-modulated tones Kad Mra: Niel laukyn before ne was promptly and with evident honesty ant ritual | a aay gg, We lazy patience, Ateverysecond you are in her confidence there will Escape! fin, ob waanene oh it! Clear of that dreadful Gray Gables, denied uny knowledge of the affair, | This ancient sittin ill aes tag turn he wipped out his watch and be no harm done. I am the repre- URING the next three weeks “It was very wise, for: have an Dr. Beaman might hear of it, aw 6 jumped to the conclusion tha: tran the room when there camo @ conpulted it, According to the hetel sentative of vii clever Individual who Marion was conscious of a idea that I was followed from the Mr. Armytuge miht got into trouble. 1D shicbio tis rg icdia livery imho had’ tap at the door and her mald Crispin Metis aye, oF Chicnag, ed as to Crore ee setae a ee revulsion of feeling toward mates of Gray Gables. Butt AM suipposititious “cash fo a” frienily tho avengers were mistakenly pursu- sctared. ak serio, US Siteates Gee his nationality there was no doubt pleasant surroundings’ And there he her engagement with Nigel {veiia have chosen such an exposed YOunE barrister the other day, and ink Nikel, deceived by bis rewombiance Wiig and tnepect @ priceless tare, of duit ‘a the Walters and ried the © fay if he expecied me to put # Lukyn, which she resolutely beat place to—to hear my news.” fuise imme holds ood provided both“ ‘he wadding date was hurried fer. diamonds which, though senetully ‘bee * Chamberraids was aggressively ils precious Individual,” con” gown because sho persuaded herself “How good of yer to think of m: contracting parties are aware of It ward, for Marlon wished to got Nigel stowed in the eum Paen the teereay out his w 4 or oO! scheme to substi- edt ° - ’ ~ OF RS = o thing ign't missing, you sure! Se Me teint oon be out of; your GUnYNO OF Of her scheme to subst. ed to marry a man who might be shot. wing of something atthe aayium: | the grave reply. plahned a run down for a day or two aa the (hing taht oigmocnight,” wal misery, s our Mlued order to facilitate Si utente Ali at any moment, and who would make J, looks like it,” was the reply “Then it is all settled, and we had to Marion's country place, Byot Cot. ' Marion, laughing colleague as the door cape. Yet this stranger's visit pointed her life one of constant dread and “The fellow shadowed me to Victoria, etter return to our respective tage, after which they bad arrarged SMT Sour pardon, madam, but in ened by a bell-boy, who an- 4, “a . and there I lost him. All the sam@ hotels, I am simply famished, and to go (with Aunt Jano, Marion's mald, 91) 0l 0 myself,” the maid insisted MetasiaieMice Berthe Roumier,” ig, la Kane itd Si eeu bar pecrat. aRsieys litte bout of Be !# here in Broadstairs—s ttle, {un sure that you must be, I would Crigpin, and Badger, who was to serve ee eettany, et Gould not sleep UA- The young lady who entered an emissary of Quayne's, though It ca etoe eee e ind of Snrivelled old man, ike a monkey try- ask you to dine with me, only in as cabin boy) for # cruise In Marion's TOM TG vecked the loowe stonee vivacious brunette, with an ould be Manly oprehenaitte wt rag casulstry there was an undercurrent ing to chew nuts without tnoth | naw case there is ever a fuse about this, yacht. hid: indaraone haken from their figure and a graceful carrla dirt e 3 Marion knew that him during the afternoon, Hut now, gome day, Tam anxious not to give The bridegroom ha peta cantar ehive of «! ling. y detective to employ a person who of Sullty tee : ‘1 tal torment, for he was y i ‘ol ‘ac! t (rr Miss mi . O a loopho! ‘0 candal, days of mental rm ‘ compensated for lack of stature. would give ber away to her relative Sh was not @ coward and that she Miss Fermor * came the auick In- Nigel eaten eae? = hot Nigel Lukyn, He’ was Leslie and they can't be left as Her dark eyes flashed triumphantly rth is ea gnion was actuated by no such fears, “Miss Fermor: not Nixel Lust lett the asylum they are FI especially upon the anxious Mr “wwhat did you say to him?” Mar t : ., terruption, “Call me Marion ut once, Marion's sudden staccato question Sigel" ol insan- _ "Oh, if you put It lke that,” waid Frayne. [ asked BtrIVing, to conceul her agers noted Soule put Leslie Armylagee air, or be no longer officor of m!ne. wax due to u rupldly executed aym- WV Narord of Nigel's hopelage Insane Meting puod-uaturedly” Aad, “[ read the riddle aright!" she ex- ho.y" nature into Nigel Lukyn’s body 1 ff, oF be Bo longer tetions warrant naatic feat on the part of her lover, it, be m stairs to break the news to her, Her assuring her husband that she should should be well content,” she sighed 1, familiarity,” abe added archly, for They had been standing in front of trimtaking of him for Nigel had not be long, #he went away to satiety claimed, 4s soon as the bell-boy had Id him that I hadn't the alight Geparted. “'Lukyn has never left the og: knowiedie of what he Was taining Quay nee during that period Of gh, felt a womanly desire to spur on the great folding doors of the life. MINWHME OT vay a temptation Crispin's conscientious scruples. asylum he was sent there four qhout," replied Aunt Jane. “And the ae tal attitude on a % lover whose wooing had not shown boat house, facing the curve of the tn “ trong to be resiat Hie had Leslie sat for a few minutes, smok- months agp, The man Fayter fired at hext minute it acemed that } couldn't jane yea nee mente aeariy two this diM@dence on the day when he stumpy jetty and the sea. Her com: | pied the situation and Wad per- ine his cigarette, and then weiked hie came round ‘was somefone eine. porsibly have had such kuowedue. for Mite November | day, neatly two had taken her by storm. Masterful panion darted from her side, round MCrhoOn EM, “ey on thinking he wae over to one of the French windows, ‘the room—only at's a load off he wuddenly asked my name, und, on A Nigel Lukyn had been always, and the same angle of the building % both of which were draped with heavy ‘3 rayne, iny telling hun, exclaimed that hehad t Gray Gables. The morning bad oven imperiously didactic, nut he hud whence she hid fancied | herself Nigel. sg tried to drown the voice of curtains, Drawing the curtain aside, Phin) Mave saa asked her, come to the wrong flat, De eee tp ed eee and back on never bung fire like this. Her quick watched just before his arrival, and oe oie suotifying himself, but he stood gaging acrope the moonlit yo "Linteng to take a small flat in the thousand pardons for the mistake,’ Bfler a rin to Richmond and Padi OO gympathy went out to him, because returned, dragging a frail wisp of ea iinerably. Po the argument 4y the river. The peaceful Grandison Mansions, where Miss Fer~ he waid, ‘but I thought that I was in fe" "onvrocar Ma tanens At her he must have suffered sorely in the humanity into the Nght of the AM iii would be Infinitely hap- npted him, and unfastening agi mor residés,” Berlin replied. shall Mrs, Molyneux's rooms.! 1 die] eee a eae a fire with Aunt alum for his spirit to be so crushed. flickering lamp. iret ae his wife than as that of Nigel the catch he stepped out for e breath jy, he able to launch you es ivehlher| ie sioned him, and he wiouched out ef Fone in pr ene itaving the “Well, Marion, then, .f you will | “Thia ts the chap who has been Lijkyn, who would have to incur the of fresh air, for the atmosphere of m, ged with polsoa- moment this bright Marlom AIAF# the chair dnd took himacit off with foggy atmosphere, in_search of the have it 60,” he jerked out awkwardly, foxing after me all day,” he sald. same menace and was a dangerous the toll tte heavy with the scent ouy gas.” And he burriedly told her out to meet } Hog yo e. next time Muny ape a tea tables of her friends. ‘And then, as though he recognized shaking his capture Into an wetlkht junatic as well, there was a plain of hot-house flowers, In his | how and where he had found the Bo ee a ene eapred peiarion breathed a sigh of relief. “Ene had just tucked herself into and regretted bis rudeness, he want position. "Now, who @re you. sf and simple anewer: she need be the shoes he avolded the open atretch of thing, YoU PUL me yhe his heavy black The Smbiquous language Heed By the yer favorito chair, with her toes on 08 in more level tones: “Vou must and what do you mean by sneaking Wife of neither if he did his duty and lawn and struck Into « gravel path Marton gaged at him with frightened Ta eee orinuin Visitor must have referiod to a totally Th! gender, when the outer bell of the forgive me if I am not quite mysolf and prying?” told her, before it was too late, the that skirted it, running through An eves. mustache Pristine at nim ‘erent kettle of flan, “Well, surly flat rung sharply, anda moment later to-night, but this interview has been | ‘The lean iittle yellow man, held secret of his sudden, temptation and avenue of evergreen shrubs to the | “The Americans?” she faltered arent © tam bepinning to think wan nothing in taG OK Crispin, her. muld, entered with @ Ranging over me Ike a nightmare. though he was in a) grasp, of fron. the perfectly, honorable motives tha river bank bots Coie be eauanere, men, after all. there ts dan from Cet Pire-arme are clumsy weapons,” Bp. analy che telegram, Marton read: It is a difficult and—and a cial thing showed no dismay, “If you il kndly hud governed bis dust in declan i treat telurned toward. the ndohh MbAt OF ine GtAY The Jnst arived here, Left Putney thie to have to tell you what happened in loose me so as T ean pro be can she sald, rising and flinging her e} must have been ignorant of the dan. house by the way he had come, But ette stump into the empty grate morning. Staying at Royal Albion the asylum, 1 hate to huve to bar- card to the lady, sir, you'll see a Gables was al ‘ ' w " ; oe rubs @nded ger of entering the room? Ah, per otel AR row yo I'm on the squar he panted, And Dare he tell her, in the hope that at the potnt where the # urd » pel shall try and work it #o as te let man was gone | su H i 1 ARMY row you had f came to @ su halt, drawing haps this plains | ase oii ough : neMibenad Kor a moment the signature caused ju won't do anything of the kind, he lugged out and presented to aho would ratify the token she hac ‘ . Giorrier Youle, Be. Lerawah “BIB: Rar Sod suemlaned Her oF OMT fine rearnbered that Midge Teele anything of the Kind: Sfaurion a dirty pasteboard on which given, and marry him in the knowl- back a little into the leafy screen, folded. paper, overlooked by lor tricks next tn 1 is too well trained to make biun ie On ving the dining-room he had Lesite in his agitation, lay on the : nat the She hud arranged for Lukyn to sign of what passed at that boirid place,” Was printed “Silas Peckthorne,” with edge that he was really Leslie Army- . _* © #8 . was positive , “4 y Ty oh he French window behind edge of the table close to where the nant ia Le or Miss Fermo Armytage's name to avoid suspicion. on interrupt 1 the significant words "Quayne's tage? There had been passages In H One nisht, three weeks after Lestie ‘ ai dts Permor PY ‘The summons had come, and Marion, Op Intereupted (his Belin: Aud Agenoy” at tho. foot thle intersourne- while arranging his him, and through the wnourtained girl lay, suggesting that she had Armytago’s departure for the asylum, oh having long ago decided to meet it, Lei ie all riht.” said Marion to personation of Tukyn which had aug- plate glass panels part ¢ Just placed it there when sha fell. . hi Rd by & oiwiny dugiaiic orio: ured to do so with as much Susiith, Abd Dy & otsiny music ner lover. “You will have heard gested that had she been free she Iantiy th imlellor Had pollen, ¥ ” 20 . he richly-furnished dessert ti vigor as though it were { rat. tl “ that I have been employing Quayne.” would not have been tndifferent to —the, rienly-fur , Miss Middieion, “Whereby he standa entirely welcome, Found Mish ade raining’ horaelton ARG. <Quayne employs, “me,” him. And that Klaa! Tt wae iy ane eating by. Marion. and convicted asa fraud—probabiy a thief ° * s © 9 ® tiptoe, pressed her warm lips to his. ed the old man, “Tm - meant for him and him alone, or in- a ho wi ‘ ate Himself, Hut what held him apell- prospecting the flat with. view to.a Next day found Marion on the pier “There!” she cried. “That is @ counted about the best shadower in atinct would hound was the ficure of @ man. ail ghted from a nansom at O8S 5a far ao to c door of the Grandison Compliment of knowing even my in- Was PE significant patronymic and asked for tact and Nave not seen it," said ( este. “As I have my hands full, perhaps you will be eo good as to read it to me, Marion glanced at him, @ world of Marion al the big outer alansions "t a litte before midnight Ghe had been to a theatre, and after~ wards had looked in for a quarter o} ve snatched her lips an hour at a women’s club In Regent Poy tonont raid on your Jewelry”. at Broadstairs (as sbe had arranged token that I want no raking up of the business. The governor's or- from him and her arms from his Meck yo veried against tho light—the figure questioning Goubt Senling ite sie » Btroot. he great hall» Perhars” said Marion dr with Nigel, through Armytage) walt- bygone horrore—a token that 1 am “ers were not to lone ’sight of the before it was half Kiven. of 4 tail man with stpoping, studious sond°mmem ene gamer’ As she passed into the great hall go. she was m ing for the escaped Lukyn, ‘ours in the present and for the Kent when he came out of the asylum he dared not tell t and he Qioulders and a wavy beard, who J a indy who had preceded her through quite other 1 Here came her lover at last, striding future, if you will take me, dear.” and report if any other party was at married her, Hut on the » of the “Cruel and ithiesa! TI could not ‘as peerini o th the swing doors was crossing toward slit wyied Mr f down the sloping road that led. from whom she had kiesed choked the same game—following of him we he mado one row ee pee Into the room through ot the climax of your treachery pass the elevator opposite, where the uni- out partleula F the sea-front above, There was no pomething very Hike a sob, and down here or wherever he might "She shall not marry me untess T "Posie had no diMeulty in recog. Without letting you now that you formed boy in charge stood in readi~ ue Lukyn, and, on find mistaking the broad, well-knit shoul- with a sudden stiffening of his 8°" can prove to myself that thpre Is no piging the marked characteristics of N&¥® Not succeeded in hiding from ness. Marion quickened her pace, hop- J wuld not enilehic the swinging Walk and the bold frame that foreshadowed the “Were you around that corner a reason for alarm,” ho sald to himself the inquisitive stranger, He was one me. I write this, intending to take ing to ascend at the same thme, but poise of the head. There was only a8 of his volce, he made an- Quarter of an hour since?” asked as he rose and f 1 the narrow lim. (fe me two men Who had waylaid him ®8¥ opportunity that may offer of to her annoyance the boy started be- fale excuse, she way raul one other who carried himself Lk» swe ‘ Marion, remembering her fright. ity of his room, “I will tun away to On the Hinbankment a fortalght be- Placing it in your hands to fore she could reach the lift, She yvineed. Mut bow could her seheme that, and he was the man who atthat = "Then by that sweet token, my "2 but ‘some one else was, T the ends of the earth frat, or put an fore, and whom he had fondly tm. tt ts not Healy : aga Ter ace fore ad and vented her anger on the have leaked out, and who could take monient must be under lock“and key Marion, there shall be no raking up expect, miss," the old man replied, end to myvelf, Tho meana of proof agined that he had disarmed with hig heart, but if {t will add one bitter hhall-porter, who had watched the gsufficlent interest in the affair to pry at Gray Gables, congratulating him- of the past. Take you? I will take “Leastways when 1 was coming ought not be difficult to obtain, as disavowal of being Nigel Lukyn, drop to your cup of happiness 1 oceurrence from his glass cage. further Into it? There was, too, the self on the success of his task. You, my own geif-bestowed flower, around the back of the building a Voules and Frayne are staying In this And now, on his wedding ‘night, @ball be satlsfe “L's @ new * y "u's" sald the curious chance, if chance it was, that “Poor Mr. Armytaget I am afraid and wear yaa, God willing, in the woman rose trom behind @ pile of hotel, Happy thought! They sball this lazily plausible gentleman from (To Be Continued.) tok | een enemies P ™y\ ea