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&) \ The Gre en Cloa A Detective Romance With a Startling New ‘Twist” The Evening World Daily Magazine, (Copyright, 1010, by Gtantle & Walton Oo) CHAPTER I. The Mystery. E lived at "The Meredith,” @ Me apartment hotel—Dr. MeAltster, the New Zealand scientist; Attorney, and I. W I am Phelps. paternal fashion, by Wilkins, the Meredith's peerless head waiter. Ashton, the young Assistant District We were watched over, in “The Oak Ridge Mystery,” as the papers called it, had stirred us all to unwonted excitement. An elderly man, Henry Morgan by name, had rented a tumbledown house in the Oak Ridge suburb and had lived there alone for some time. ‘Hts only servant, an old woman of the neighborhood, came every day to do ‘the rough work of the house, but did not live there, One morning on her arrival she found Morgan seated tn a chair in his etudy ‘stone dead. seemed to have been stolen from the He had been etrangled by a violin string, Nothing house, A village youth named Harvey claimed to have passed the house about 9 o'clock the previous night and to have seen Morgan's silhouette on the study's window blind. He had also feen the shadow of a queerly gestic- wating woman leaning above Morgan's hair, ‘Though Harvey declared he saw only the silhouette of the woman, yet he damaged his testimony by going on to say sho was young and pretty and wore a green cloak with a high collar. We decided to go out to Oak Ridge. On the way wo stopped at @ hospital where McAlister had been summoned to study a rather baffling case—the case of @ young and dark-faced woman with @ tattoo mark on one arm, She had been found in the street in a cataleptic trance. McAlister, to or surprise, identified her as a South Sea Ielander. ‘That night the doctor and Phelps, with the ald of Mallory, a detective, made @ careful search of the Morgan house. They found little of interest pt @ certain roll of maps on which rieither latitude nor longitude was marked. As they were ransacking the study a woman crept in at the window and moved stealth!ly toward the chair 4a which the murdered man had sat. ‘They recognized her as the hospital patient McAlister had been called to see. Suddenly she wheeled about and glided back through the window and down the rainpipe to the ground. The watchers gave chase, but lost her in the darkness. All they could find was @ green cloak lying in the snow; a green cloak with a high collar. “I have no doubt,” sald the doctor, solemnly, “that it was her hands that strangled Mors: Harvey was not @uch a@ fool, after all, when he de- eoribed the silhouetted girl as wearing @ green cloak. But I'm going to cross-question him and find out how he knew it.” He questions.’ Harvey after his own eccentric fashion, but with few results. All we could learn was that Harvey was in love wit) a certain “Jane Perkins.” Ashton did not be- Meve in MoAlister’s scientific methods of golving mysteries. He followed the more usual lines, and advertised in @me of the papers: “Found—A green cloak, Owner can Dave same by identifying and paying ‘abe cost of this insertion.” Later I heard him call up a tele- phone number and ask if any one "wad claimed the cloak. 3 saw bim start violently at tho reply he received. Then he ex- qlatmed: “A woman? What sort of woman? ‘What? An English housematd who gave the name ‘Jane Perkins?’ Did she identify the cloak? What ad- dress did she give? What? ‘370 Wood- tand?’ Why, that’s my own ad- dress! ‘That's the Meredith, And you let her walk off with that cloak?” He slammed the receiver on the hook and whirled about on McAlister, shouting: “This precious Jane Perkins of yours answers my advertisement for the cloak which you turned over to me. She identifies it, beyond any doubt, as any one whom you had In- structed in advance would be able to do—fdentifies it down to a missing button and a patch in the lining.” McAlister replied: “We realize better than you do, I think,’ what is at stake here, We're not ying to thwart justice In the lor un, We are attacking this prob- le. in our own way, after giving you the law on your power of the whereas we fair warning. You'v side, You've all the State Attorney's offi have no standing at all.” Btill too angry to make any reply, Ashton strode out of the room, not actually slamming the door after him, but shutting it decisively enough to suggest that he felt like slamming it, heard his and the next moment we motor chugging away down the avenue, The doctor hurried to the window and looked out after him, Presently he turned toward mo with a long breath of relief. “We're all rieht so far," he sald. “He's gone straight on without turn- ing the corner, He isn’t going ba to ‘The Meredith’ just yet. Come along. We'll have no time to lose even as it is, Ashton will have cooled down by dinner time, and when he's cool enough to his mind begin working again, he'll become danger- ous. g into his I turned to go to the other Already he was strugs overcoat. room for mine when he called me back and sent ime to the telephone, “ vhink we had better have a taxi,” he said. “Tt'll wave some prectous time and will enable us to take some of our traps up to the hotel with us.” “Traps?” I inquired. “Some of your Instruments, do you mean?” He nodded. “The chronograph and telephones,” he said. ‘T fancy they'll be all we'll need for any real test we shall want to make, but it will be well to take something else for the purpose of diffusing attention. Here, this plece of heavy artillery will just serve the purpose, It’s rather cum- bersome, but that makes {t all the better.” The Instrument he indicated was one T had never seen before, tt having come In only that day from the model makers, The doctor waa al- ways devising new Instruments of one sort or another. This one looked interesting, and I should have ques- tioned him about it had not my mind been so full of other things. “You'd better telephone at once,” he concluded. “If this sleet storm keeps up, the wires aro likely to be down before night.” Both of us, I think, would have been a Uttle surprised If we could have known how true that prediction was and how vitally it was going to concern us, “You are going to make some tests up fn our rooms In ‘The Meredith'?" T asked. “T imagine,” he satd soberly, though his eyes sparkled with excitement as | he spoke, “I imagine that our own rooms will be about the only place where we will be secure from ioter- ruption, I could se@ {t in Ashton's eye that he meant business, and I'm pretty sure that if we attempted to come back here after dinner and bring anybody with us, our Ittle Party would sustain a rude interrup- tion.” All the while he spoke he waa busy gathering things together, and as soon as I had finished telephoning, I helped him. Haste spoke in every movement he made, and It was not long before I was thoroughly Infected with his excitement, although I had only a vague idea what It was all about. Not until we were seated in the cab, with a sult-case full of instruments at our feet, did h y anything that tended to clear up any part of the mystery. “It was a great plece of luck,” he observed then, “we were able to send Ashton away in such @ rage. It won't occur to him for some time to begin making Inquiries about “The Meredith.’ “You mean," I exclatmed, “that the address ftour—seven—0—W oodland Avenue was given in good faith, by a real Jane Perkins, who js actually employed there?” He only laughed, and told me to wait and see; but the Inflection of his voice and the eager expectancy in his eyes made it clear that that wae what he did believe, “But,” I protested, “even it if were possible to imagine Jane Perking as having any possible connection with the crime, it 1s inconceivable that she would go and risk answering the ad- vertisement tn order to reclaim the cloak, and then give her own ad- dress.” He vouchsafed no word of explana- tion or argument, but I could see that my objection had not shaken him in So, perforce, I walted with patience I could assume to see at would happen when we reached © Moredith," doctor turned over our bag to a hall-boy, with instructions that It be taken to our apartment, Then ho the way straight toward the din- ast, ing-room, It was barely 6 0’ a hour cartier than we ‘usually , and the room was almost pty won't entirely destroy your appetite to sit down to dinner In tweeds, will it?” he asked. “We really haven't time for frivolities of that sort this evening,” And yet his manner when he took the chair that Wilkins placed for him, and glanced over the menu card, suddenly became leisurely and de- it sate, He had a@ Uttle chat with Wilkins, taking the advice of that gastronomic expert as sertously as if 4 good dinner were the only subject that he felt the slightest interest in just then The waiter t our order at last and went away with it to the kitchen, and Wilkins himself, with a grave inclination of the head, started to OUN( HIS a my SO NEAR IS DAUGHTER «| WANT You’ HER AUNT BEWE SON, HE WHISTLES LIKE A IT'S HEAVENLY | Kota move away, but the doctor called him back, “IT wonder, Wilkins,” he said, “whether you cap find out for me if there ts @ chambermaid named Jane Perkins employed here tn the hotel.” The man shot a quick look of sur- prise tnto the doctor's face, a look quite at variance with his ordinary stiff! immobility, “Yes, sir, there is such @ young Woman working here,” he said, “It happens that I am acquainted with her personally.” “Ab, !d the doctor in a tone of aatisfaction, “that simplifies matters. I might have known that you would be able to help us. Wilkins, it hap- pens that I very much wish to have @ ttle conversation with that young woman.” Wilkins inclined his head gravely, without a word, “You'll arrange it for me, won't you?” sald the doctor, “I'd like to have her sent to my room immediately after dinner, There was a momentary silence after this, Both of us looked up In some surprise that the man did not answer, His face was unusually grave. e “L beg your pardon, alr,” he satd with a little hesitation; “I hope you'll forgive the liberty, but 1 have, as I was saying, something of a personal interest in that young woman, I hope she's not in any difficulty, sir. I hope that she has not been doing anything that she shouldn't have done.” ‘I'm inclined to think not,” #ald the doctor, “but unless I am mistak- en, she's in a difficulty.” Wilkins said nothing, lence was expectant, He was too well trained to ask any questions, but it was evident that he wanted to know more, “I think I may venture to be fra with you, Wilkins,” the doctor sumed, “Of course what I say ts tween ourselves, and I want y promise to say nothing of it to the young woman in question,” “ye sir; certainiy, sir.’ “In the investigation of the Oak Ridge murder the other night a cer- tain green cloak was found, which in the State Attorney office ts be- Heved to have been worn by an un- known woman who committed the crime, That cloak was advertised found, in the afternoon papers, and was almost {immediately clafmed and {dentified beyond a doubt by this Jane Perkins, who gave ‘Tho Meredith’ as her address""— “She didn’t do tt, sir,” Wilkins inter. rupted quickly. “I'm sure she can't be gullty of the crime of murder, A very quiet girl, sir—a good girl.” “L have made a little investigation of that mystery ou my own account,” gala the doctor, “and I'm Inclined to but Mia si- yur JEST SON AME 21 ER NRE gt ANT GOING To BE AN ACTOR. LIKE HIS UNCLE IRVING RABELLA MY YOUNGEST. HEAR HER SING ~SHE HAS A wolve LIke THIS IS PERCY MY NEXT YOUNGEST 1 WANT YOu To HEAR AIM . Biro think you're right. I should, how- ever, be glad to have some butter founded reason for that opinion. There Are certain circumstances which point at her directly enough to bring her under serious suspicion and to make her a good deal of trouble. If Mr. Phelps and I can convince ourselves, in advance, of her innocence, we will gladly do all that ts within our power, both in representations we will make to Mr. Ashton and otherwise, to sliteld "That's very good of you, sir,” said Wilkins. “I'll see that she's sent up to your room the moment you have fin- ished @inner.” There was another little silence; still Wilkins kept his place beside our table. Presently, after a little apolo- getic cough, he spoke again “It etrikes me, air, that it might, perhaps, be as well if the young Woman were not to know that she was to be questioned. If ahe ts innocent | would only fluster her, and if she is gullty tt would give her time to pre- pare herself. If you wish I will ar- range to have her sent to your apart- ments Instead of the regular chamber- maid who works upon that floor, to prepare your bedrooms for the night In that way she'll suspect nothing.” ‘The doctor glanced at him shrewdly “That was a very able suggestion Wukins, Thank you for making it.” “Not at all, sir,” said Wilkins, “For the present,” the doctor con- cluded, “you will remember that you are to say nothing of thia conversa tion to any one, either to the other people in the hotel or to—Mr, Ash “Certainly not, sir.” The arrival of some other peor in the dining room called him aw Just then, and we did not see again until we were half through meal. Then, looking up, we f standing silen “The ‘matter is a 1, sir,” he #aid to the doctor, “The young per- son Is at her own dinner just now, but he'll to attend to your rooms an hour. nod," sald the doctor, "We our instruments ready by that time." At the word “Instruments” the man started and, look . T found h regarding the docto’ th a que half-frightened going to be any m The doctor | full vo anything of that sort ruments I speak of serve the purpose of a st and the test Is a perfectly stratschtforward one.” Then, ng that the man was hot entirely convinced, he added, “You can be present yourself tf you care to be. ; hat's very good of you, sir," sald the man. ‘On the young woman's roount 1! be glad to come, If you can walt until (can leave thr That will be at y, sir, I'd be sorry to } ting, but she might be alarn any sort of t id she has « deal of confidence in me, slr." CRTs York Brening World.) Gain SIE { “Very good,” said the dootor, “only don't come up to the room with her.” Follow along later, on some er- rand or other, and we'll call you In Perhaps we'll make @ little demon- stration on you in advance, just to give her confidence.” A look of decorous amusement ap- peared on Wilkins's face. “That will be very interesting, I'm sure, slr,” he said, As he bowed him- f away I could see that he was still ailing, “It's curious,” I observed to the doc- tor. “We've seen that man daily since we came here to "The Meredith’ to live, but 1 got an absolutely new impression of him this evening. It never oc- curred to me before that when he laid aside his professtonal manner _ hiv might be a thoroughly human, kindly old chap, with ag many affections and concerns as any of us, and with, per- haps, about the same opinion of our reality that we have always had of his." “We'd better get on,” aaid the doctor, sulting the action to the word * haven't any time to waste.” As we walked over toward the ele vators Wilkins preceded us an the bell for us, just as he always I had {t on my ‘tongue’s end to 1 ne reference to our engagement m for @ little later in the eve ng, t that it was necessary, but sim- ply because {t was more natural to 1y, “In half an hour, then,” or some. thing of that sort, than merely to nod and answer his good night I think he must have perceived that intention, certainly he checked it by King just then @ little more " 20d u 1 and professional than aver rstood when I glanced over his der and gaw that Ashton had Just come in. He was not looking ir way, Whether he had made a point of not looking, I do not know; but 1 was glad that I had not biurt- ed out in his hearing, any reference to the unusual and highly unprofes- sional sort of engagement that the doctor and I had with Wiki: "A rather remarkable man. 1 a¥ we stepped into the elevat The doctor nodded. A few minutes later in the doctor's ious sitting room, where we had up our instrumen and now sat ing for the arrival of the sub ject we meant to test hy we heard @ rap at the door. wa > timidity about that, the doctor In a wh ‘and no ‘ ry, either, A fp Amnon we professt let her i you, It wos with a mountt t 1 crossed the root n the knob, for thera on the her side of this door was one of © elements of our mystery What sould she prove to he? Another r nt person tangle! by pure hance tn the spider's web of clr cumstance mirrounded r¥i or would whe turn be herself one of the apinners of the ‘which ur en T opened the door I got in- taneously @ very lew of «irl, for the alt n hted an ly Ox llway where she stood com- ely dark. ! that first look of mine brought «ppolntment, the. « hat I had expected Jane F like, but something diff this, certainly, ‘The wh ua sho stood thera, an appearan vasive that it baffled analysis of stolid, stodgy stupidity Her eyes were dull, her cheeks a very dark red, #0 that aa I looked at rkina to nt from Monday, THE BOY. STOOD ON THE BURNING DECK | EATING PEANUTS BY THE PECK LIKE ROME eee observed | ok of * Match r annnnnnnnnnle | By Maurice Ketten 6, I again. story is NING WORLD. you've read it you'll certainly want to read it Every one does. If you haven't read it you have missed the very great- est adventure story of its kind in all fiction. So it will be the best sort of treat for everybody. The Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson NEXT WEFK’S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVE- Just dropped my penknife in there,” he said, “and my hand is too big to so in through the throat of it, Do you think you can fish it out for me? My hand tsn’t as small as some, she said with fat good humor, t anyway, I can try.” “Hold ot “The thing Is full get your sleeve wot.” I was standing clone by waiting to seo what would happen, still utterly at a loss for a guess an to the doc- tor's purpose, The girl slipped back her sleeve and plunged her arm into the vase, And I, unable to believe what my eyes had seen, clutched the doctors shoulder and stared, astounded, into his thoughtful face.’ For high up on the elbow, was « tattoo mark in red and blue—a mark that I had not for- gotten, CHAPTER II. The Concave Mirror. 'T was fortunate that she aid not ouce look into my as- tonished face, because for the first few moments I had no control of It at all, and to any eye, even @ stupid one, it would have be- trayed strange matters, At first [ simply stared at that mysterious little tattoo mark in red and Dive; ft s—) her first I suspected a perfectly reck- loss use of cosmetic. Of course the standard 1 compared her by was the wild girl in the hospital, for, upon the doctor's theory of Harvey's testl- mony, that wild girl's profile had re- minded him forelbly of this English There waa a crude sort of resem- the two faces—the heavy brows and lashes, the black valr and general contour of the fea- tures, Indeed, the thing that occurred to me as I stood there was the ridicu- Jous futllity of written descriptions of faces, when the same description would Include two people whose gen- eral oir and appearance were #0 dia~ rieally different. 1 had found It tmpossible to de- scribe the wildness and curtous un- earthly distinction of that other faca; I found it as difficult to analyze the tameness, the commonplace banality of this one. And yet, seen in allhou- ette, they might look a good deal alike. “LT was sent up here to do out the bedrooms, sir,” she salt. “Was there any mistake about !t, sir?” “No, it's quite right,” aaid T, “Come tn.” Doctor MoAlister lot her go stralght through into the bedrooms with no more than a glance at her, and @ nod in her general direction. “Well,” be said, “how about Does the resemblance strike you “I don't think it would have struck me had I not been looking for it, But T imagine If we could get silhouettes of those two faces and put them aide by side they'd look a good deal allke.”* He looked at me mther oddly, turned away and paced the length of the room @ couple of times, It wes one of his incongruous and unex- pected characteristics that he liked to whistle or hum popular tunes to himself when he was thinking tn an abstracted way. He began to do it now, though It was no popular tune whieh h fancy Lighted on. Indeed, @ ininute or two to identify ng cad *6 which he und over again, entify tt, In fact, until vumming and began to n the guttural worda he it was that » had heard droning and bling to herself over to the man- ce ere wis a large, ornt= 11, narrow-throated vase at the end of tt, and the doctor began tap- ping tly enough upon the side of it a Mttle pearl-handled pooket 4 round tn some a#ur- at sounds as ff tt * sald I ia. 1, who tn the ught of putt! was full of 14 can ever ater In that Who, tndeed? he watd, “Oh, look here, will you, Phelps? I've dropped into It.” It wa ly unlike him to do thing Itke that—quite the vase, which should he nly some- me that the thing Waa part of @ carefully loulated triek t moment he called out, chamber- next room, came from the maid h mm, ate,” As she entered the room he turned to ber and indicated the vi ‘Te seemed as If I could not pull my eyes jaway from it. But et last, rubbing |my hands over them, I looked up at the doctor, astounded, questioning, in- credulous, and yet convinced. | Of any euch momentary turmot! his ‘own face showed absolutely no sign. ‘It wae calm, almost to the edge of in- difference, but his bright old eyes met mine for just an instant with @ flashing look that admonished me of the necessity for self-control. I pulled myself together, turned nway for just the space of one deeply indrawn breath, then turned back gain for @ look at the girl She was bending over the vase, her hand plunged down to the bottom of It, where she was fishing about for the doctor's knife, She waa evidently a good-humored sort of person, easily pleased. The doctor's pretended mishap and her own efforts to retrieve it, seemed to be providing her with genuine amuse- ment, She emiled and giggled and chattered all the while she was grop- ing around for the knife, and uttered & triumphant exclamation when she found it, AN of that I barely saw, for I was searching too, searching her face with @ concentrated gage that would have astonished her had she encoun- tered tt. As I looked, in the Mgnt of my new knowledge of her, the physti- cal identity of her features with those of the wild girl became steadily more apparent, until I was forced to marvel at my previous biindnens to It. Physically the face was the eame; but everything capt the actual modelling of bone and flesh, every Infinitely subtle muscular strain or relaxation about Itp, eyelid and brow, everything which makes of the human face a window through which the soul looks out—all of that was dif- ferent. Her movements were differ- ent. Sensory and motor nerves must be keyed to an altogether different pitch. The deep, stable color in her cheeks told of a pulse that beat at an entirely different rhythm. I remembered the polse of her body the last time we had stood face to face with her there in Henry Mor- gwan'e study, her attitude of frosen alertness, the deep breath drawn in through the dilated nostrila. she had caught our scent then and, recognising It as something strange and perilous, had fled itke a shadow. ‘The doctor wae standing close be- side her, and now again he began humming the weird cadence of the death chant which I had heard for the first time from the girl's own ilps, He bummed It through once tn a rem- Iniscent sort of way, and then began singing the words, The girl looked up at him burst into @ peal of laughter. He stopped abruptly, “What's the matter?” he asked, “I beg pawdon, I'm sure,” #ho sald, “T couldn't help laughin’, ‘That was such a funny lot of notes,” and “Ia my singing aa bad as that?" he | asked good naturedly, “Not tho singin’, sir; the noises that went with it” “Oh, you mean the language. Didn't you ever hear that language before?” “Do you call that @ language, sir? Does it mean anything? Do people talk like that?” Then she went on, without @ pause, “I beg your pawdon for betn’ such a rattle, air, And hero's your knife,” fhe wipe lit on her apron and laid it on the centre table, than wiped her hand and started to pull down her pleave “Th Ce @ curious Dit of tattooing the girl's bare forearm, just inatde 7, on your arm,’ loetot comment “How did you come by it? “1 don't know,” she replied indif- ferently, “It's eiwaya been there, [ fancy; ever since | was too small (6 remem anyway—L hope your knité won't get rusty. sir, And [ hope You, don’t mind my laughin’ at thet bt the doctor, “ don’t wonder the language struck you % queer, Yet it was common enough down in the quarter of the world where I was born.” “and where might that be, ar?” ehe asked. “Oh, I meant the South Pacific gen- erally. Where 1 lived was in New Leeland.’ “Fancy, now!" she said, obviously surprised and yet no less obvioualy Pleased. “That's where I come from myself, Wellington, New Zealand, but I never heard that language.” “No,” he said, “you'd have to go 'a matter of a thousan e c from | Wellington to ntiias thats bd sald ‘1 never heard of him. Is that ali, sir? Shall 1 do out the rooms?" He nodded, but as she turned to Jeave the room he called her back. “You're rather near-sighted, aren't vou, “peptone hil he said. “Oh, no, sir; quite to the con! . in fact. I can see further ‘nn eaeet ve “Measured for glasses, do air?” she asked. ‘No, air. Tenant Reyer come to them.” ¥ down tn ‘at chair a mini ‘2 said the doctor, with an easy seu ton of authority, “No, not that one; Oa ae 1 want to see if as good ‘think they are.” tebe ‘The chatr he indicated and in which she rather reluctantly seated herself Was deep and soft and heavily uphol- atered. Neither the doctor nor I en- Joyed sitting in it, however, because the curve at the back thrust onele dead forward at an unnatural angle. Lean back,” commented the doctor, all the way—#o.” When she was seated to his satis- faction, he wheeled the chair around with its back to the table, and then adjusted the powerful electric reading lamp 60 that it shed a beam borizon- tally above the girl's head. She surveyed these preparations a Uttle uneasily. tooth pulled,” she said. “Not @ bit,” said the doctor cheer- fully. “It’s not going to hurt. I only want you to look into this little mir- ror and tell me what you see.” He held it up before her eyes a he spoke. It was circular, slightly cave and was adjusted upon a Jong ivory handle. He held it above her head so that she had to strain her eyes upward to see it at all, and at such an angle that it reflected the light of the reading-lamp straight tntr eyes, I don't see anything at all but « mpot of yellow light.” “You only see one?” questioned the doctor. ‘Ho pulled out his watoh and glanced at it, “Don't mind what { am doing,’ he admonished her. “Look steadily at the little mirror, Let me know how long it is before you begin to ee two of those spots.” He stood perfectly still before her, except that the hand that held the mirror permitted {t to swing very slowly, pendulum-wine, before her, thoush always at an angle that een! the beam straight into her eyes. From my oorner of the room I watched him breathlessly. Of course {t was perfectly obvious to see what he was doing, ‘The examintion of her eyes had been a mere pretext, Hin real object in inductig the girl to strain her eyes upward at that Jumin ous cirole was to throw her into « hypnotic sleep. ‘The method he had taken was an old-fashioend one, and one he rarely used. At the laboratory he hypnotized people almost daily by the simple and almost instantaneous process of having them lie down and telling them that they were going to sleep, absolntely people.” “Bia you ever have your But that method wa: dependem upon a condition whieh could not exist here. The patient must expect to be hypnotized and be In @ state of willing submission, We had no reason to suppose that Jane Perkins would aubmit herself? to any such test as that In the hands of strangers. And even with his mirror he would not be able to hypnotize her if she should suspect that this was what he was trying to do, and should reatat But his nt, friendly manner, imption of authority, the 6 from the same pare as herself—all thie speedily disarmed suaplclon, At the end of three or four minutes of silence the doctor turned away and ald hig little mirror upon the table, “T's flve minutes past elght,” he with a second glance ai "We havei Ime to loee. nthe windows; that's the first ) do~and lock them. And 1 bolt both doore—it won' Jo to take any chances—and, In gel eral, try to be ready for anvthing ehe may do. IT think you'd better stand behind her chalr, over yonder, where sho won't aeo you at firs Now—are you ready Ho stationed himsolf where he had stood before, just a pace or two away from the chatr where tho girl lay asicop, Tile eyas were shining, and every Iino of the attitude of hin Bie ainewy body bespoke the relaxation possible only to nervous ayatema of very high order, the relaxation that in ready to exert {te utmost effort in any direction; that fa braced against nothing beeause {¢ le expecting anything, And then, softly at frat but grew. ing louder, he bewan to hum onoe more that old Maort death ohant, (To Be Continued,) sald, wateh Close a thing