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dastenaethe CE The Evening World Daily Magazine. Tuesday, ‘March 7771916 you've read it you'll certainly want to read tt again. kvery 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 story is i A Detective Romance With Twine” JOHN , You ARE You HAVE READ ENOUGH a Startling New ‘‘Twist VERY Rupe | Give ME THAT PAPER. WHY DON'T You AND TALK To ME (Copyright, 1010, by Sturgis & Walton Co.) 4 8 OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. “fears i |. an elderty man of mystery, fe found muntered tn the study of his Oak Ridge house, Around his throat {# @ violin #triug, with which he has been strangled. Harves, & vil lager, testifies that he passed tho Morgan howe 08 the night of the murder, and mw silhouetted om & window blind the figures of Morgan and @ @ flercely genticulating woman, The woman, he adds, wore green cloak, Ashton, Assistant District Attorney, 1s amigued to the case, Dr. Medlister, an cccentric scientist, trie to solve tee mystery by methods of hie own, (His am ips, tells the story), A women tins vt ‘Bie their sd tno Hind’ in the onew her rece clbat, ‘a couplicig in the ‘evurder His. pata tate « ‘uyyaste trance, : CHAPTER II. (Continued.) The Concave Mirror. ROM my station behind the chair I could see nothing of the girl, except one hand, whieh hung over the arm of it, I fixed my eyes on that, ‘and as I stood there I saw it change, saw tn it the index of some mystert- oma, incredible transformation that Brust be permeating ever fibre of her body. It had been Jane Perkina's end @ moment ago—a chamber- maid’e hand, pudgy, lifeless, inox- pressive, Now, indofinably, it was different, altogether different, The fingers stretched apart a little as if they tingled with the warmth and life of @ new current, intenser, moro @lestrical, The hand opened wide, / teen slowly clenched itself into a fist, ‘and last of ail it sprang open again, distended to its widest reach, with @ galvanic quickness which Jane Per- kins’s nerves would never bave been capable of commanding. ‘The doctor broke off his song, and there followed, for one dead moment, @ silence, which was shattered at the end of it by a strange, weird, bait- suppressed outcry. next instant the girl had flashed out of her chair. and stood confronting me. The quickness of ber motion was ab- solutely indescribable, Her face was now the one We had seen In the hos- pital and had glimpsed dimly in the dark in Henry Morgan's study, At sight of me she shrank, crouched, rather, for somothing about “Then why did you kill him?” She flung her head back, her eyes blazed defiance and from her lips poured forth @ torrent of speech. “Stop!” sald the doctor, “If you can understand English, you can talk it, too, Speak in the same Jan- guage I am speaking, and tell why you killed bim.” “I was sworn to kill him.” The words came thickly, slowly, clumsily, for tonmue and lips were finding difficulty with them, but they were clearly and quite intelligibly English. I eaw the doctor's face light up at the sound of them, for it was the completion of the most interesting experiment he had ever tiled. The girl was still submerged, completely, in her wild, primitive under-seif, She was no more Jane Perkins than aa if she had occupied another body alto- gether, and yet, by the strange hyp- notic power of suggestion, the doctor was compelling her to use Jane Per- kins's knowledge of English to talk with, “Who swore you to such an oath?” he asked, ‘My mother when she was dying. It was a vengeance. He had mur- dered my father, He murdered bim before I was bor “If it happened before you were born,” said the doctor quickly, “then, unless you knew beforehand that Henry Morgan was the man you were sworn to murder, how did you know it when you found bim in thet house?” Out of the front of her blouse she pulled @ little chamols-skin bag which hung about her neck by @ fine gold chain, “By this,” she said, “It had be- longed to him, the murderer, My mother kept it and gavo it to mo! so that I should know him.” For an Instant I did not understand, | but immediately after, the way sho ed our présence in that) had dete room, by the smell, gavo me an ink- ling. “Then you can teil people by t odor?” the doctor asked. “As a dog does,” sho answered | simply. “He murdered your father, you s TALK % MEL. ARE You CRoss ? 1 NEVER SAW SUCH WEATHER AS THIS — | HATE To CARRY AN UMBRELLA — 1 DON'T AND A CANE — MY TAILOR SAYS. COLLECTIONS ARE Slow. MY BARBER TALKS Too MUCH — | PAID THE RENT To DAY | MET MY ACDERNAN, TAE WEATHER IS PUNK _ MY OFFICE RoY HAS THE ' GAVE MY STRAP To A Any AND SHE THANKED ME }— SOME SPATS _ LIKE RAIN — - 1AM GOING To GeT | Jane tween them. It was, indeed, a won- derful exhibition of the tact whieh never failed him when he needed tt, that he had brought the girl up to the point of an important test without the slightest feeling of misgiving or alarm on ber part That my chief had, by fo moana, exhausted his store of suprises, be- ame evident when he b nation of the girl hing paychotogical questioned her very 1 would have done ad no list pesOCLALIV® Word the pi telephones and chronograph might, far as T could sea, have just as well boon left in the ry His first questions were about the cloak; where she bad bought it, and whether, so far as ahe know, there were a Kood many others lke it. The girl's whole to repli it, aw ahic to be to sre leation of it, She admitted, intly, that hundreds of them had old in the city that fall; admit- that she herself had seen dozens on the street, the counterpart of It tn cut and in color, But this particular cloak, she protested, she knew with- out abt her own, It was badly rumpled and had been exposed to the v re, but, notwithstanding the: any 1 facts, she knew that It was bers, “Waa it in good condition the lat time you wore It?" good aa new." ycan you be sure that the lvortised as found whic Weil, she was gure, And she pro- cooled to demonstrate the fact by a multitur jotaile—some of her own sewine. pateéh on the Mning whielehe could not miata k As n yawned rather ostentatio Vv th thme, and observed, behind hie hand, that there really wasn't any doubi (of er {aentification: | they hin't have let the cloak go unless rl had been established beyond a doubt Mine doctor turned Dlandly back to “How did you coms to lose the cloak?" he asked. “LT don't know, sit," she answered, Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN TIE EVENING WORLD. air, Ho's just @ ailly.” ther, Was hardly Ot to wear tons, They were chiety avout Witt Harvey, her acquaintance with him, how long ago it had begur and, in a general way, to what length of intly macy it had gone, Pho gifl answetdd ll these questions freely enorgh aed With no Appearance of hesitation. “You knew he lived at One Rida, didn't you?" the doctor asked “only tWo of three ogee fran tA ho where Morgan was murde! You don’t think he had anythjn’ te do with the murder, 66: YouT” she ked. And then she laughed a Ittle. 4o wouldn't do nothin’ of that kind, T'm Inclined to think, Perkina,” the doctor commented, “that that's a good diagnosin, I don't believe Will Harvey, even If he showed us every thoagNt Within that rather empty head of his, would ever take ua very close old Henry Morgan with bis maps and iN gs | oy nl © turned away there rather sharps dy, his back to, all af un; tossed hie head back once or twice, with 4 gen- ture very familiar to me ae char aor. istic of his periods of intense { vent, Them turning back, he spoke to Ash on. “Did we tet you,” No asked, “thet Phelps and 1 discoversd one maw which your detectives had evidently overlooked, an dd sort of map, from 4 geograpl point of view, drawn on @ Very large scale? And the queer Ming about it was that it showed neither latitude nor longitude. Thong Was nothing about it to Indieate Wha part of the world it represented, £ brought it away with 1 ts morn- ing. {ll show it to you presently if you are to look at it. Ive there on the table in that big manila envelop “L beg your pardon, sir Ht wae Wilkins who spoke—-"I wonder if you could spare ine now, sir. I'm auppose to be th the diniug room at this hour, The cifactt¥ of a trained servitoe Uke Wilkins for eliminating bimself, transtorming himself into @ ine Plece of furniture, is something es traordinary, He had sat through the whole ex= amination, over since the mild little Joke about the portentous name of the machine he had been harnessed to, with a countenance of the same Wooden imperturbabiNty that he al- “1 Just wish I did, Tthink one of the ways wore when on duty in the dine other housemalds tole It, alt, oF bots ing-réom, it and didn’t bring it bac! Aube: ond Let they thought because TWAS atthe sound of his mae multaneously for both of ck T wouldn't have any use for my up had practioally tareeit cl yt know nothin’ about ¥ y forge that he Was there, The doctor untastened the the action susgested that It might be before you were born? Do you know | followed by ‘ring. Her hand who your father was? What waa his| flashed to her bosom and explored name?" there for something—a Knife prob- “Flanka," she answered. : ic seat ie ore ee htes semean aaee ett eeteyine. eo 1 homan asia’ forecasts (wires BY which ho wes Sioa’ BAe eae thon, Weather ieee RSA ACeG vse ae Shey St ia other girls about it, and at lust syne ‘2che natrument, uf PERU AH a dr boeiea airy 4 paligr atligs toreater tour iabar elie; Mtotieey you would [make| ta) Vial” alarmedse ahd belkimost| sure tel bel elessal is coor betinal hha: beards ozs) tes aniignt ody) Wilkina ht ane Fae or ra etn itiog Ara WamireMdla THe GRRL RTCA eee unarmed, 1 do not know, et just the other fist, this evening, panic-stricken at the sight of these the doctor call out, “Perkins. asked. ‘Thon quickly turned back to ‘tl Kiven notice wnt wit ri ikl FH Se ween re ‘nen, uietiy, authoritasvely “and in Presently he turned back to the ‘am afrald I am a aelf-cohvicted instruments, All Ignorant persone are Well as I understood his expert. the doctor, “I beg your pawdon, air, yi. Ay a greon cloak advertised y | have to teave now,” en, a i fi too ‘It was very ie st," Fat ” for askin’ such a question, but I ound. Sol went and got t., Butld © "sald the doetor slowly, "1 the Maori tongue. girl. “Did your mother swear you to °° sald Ashton, “It took an the same way.” He paused and abot ments, and confident as I was in the Serres Gitte Sea ve he ways fie to get noid OF themrl that Lon think walarcemee, emeenm etre es t trying to soothe her anything else?” hour or more for the thought to oc- a derisive smile at Ashton. ‘They euccess of them, I found it hard to .w " wed 4 I'd mak or take it and J, ‘here haw been ill, and we mugn't \ He was not tryl ih any UNG cur to me that there are other people, put them in the category of black-art go on breathing steadily while I !t's all right"—— : buy a new one, or I'd have the law keep her too long. 1 don't think of , fears, or at least not doing beet besides myself, living in ‘The Mer t's all right, Jane,” he assured (1°), anything ise | want to question yb n had lis! 1 to this speech about, Jane. ‘Thank you very Thuch * her orde: i tor idently it occurred to him — He removed the little taleph h Without any reference to me what- be Jane Porkina in her Worry about. that an inquiry as to. the gil hung before the girl's lips, ‘and alipped ever, might have given it in perfectl: . ? “A right, alr,” she sald, turning suxpectad of having taken tt might be a dollar bill Into her hand as he spok good hats So bah i I Hot tabiey 4 Owe Proper person: who would appaes: * pedelgak Dootor MeAlister, “I'll productive of reauits. She could eas. Then he turned to Wilkins, whe rly] ‘i in the doorway in answer to the call, peepee to tell you anything I know, 1} be Induced to tell all #hé knew risen, stilt i mis harness, and was or would the occupant of her body ; about the other employees in the inizing, with amused’ curlosity, prove to be that other, wilder soul? |'m sure, though I don't aoe how j 40) portentous® named instrument Not even a message? I mean did beat “8 AM les submitting to be wouta it hy a " arnessed n the same way we pro- o should make it necessary, So she tell you anything, anything about ’ ‘ . thes was plain from his manner. = Flanka?" dinner I made some inquiries, and cereeq” pets “ad he nig pd Of course I could not understand he told me these words,” sald y agreed to do, it will quiet whate : was cool enou by that time not to ” } @ word he said. The girl cowered the girl, “she said them a great many eh by tha foars she may have. / pared to enforce by brute strength commonly Pp ed by “Did she give you anytuing wh and hocus-pocus, and regard them waited for the response to the call i ne." a way that Is commonly practised by -— S when ith! and that Jane Perkins might with a mixture of contempt and ter- to come from that inner her. ‘I came up here a purpose #9 Asht us Western people, He was giving she ¢ that there’d be noth y ¥ w of 8 lat greater in- for } . a ay, wiurentees ea ete + ror, But she has confidence in Wil © nothing for you to with f somewhat « for helping us orders which he was pr D be overwhelmed with surprise to find é lik ae what I know can help much un- so much was cloar, But when,in- to which he had beon.attached| at the voloe, but it seemed to reas- times, ‘Quan feef, (1 oues. Ten that the address was apparently given «A*8ton looked dubious, Already when @ho answered, “Coming, #it,” isauh She frowned and rubbed #tead of following up this lead, Dr. | The doctor, with a emile, wae ua muro for all of that. The wild sout.’" 1 wet Wilkins had tapped on the door. I drew in a deep breath of relief, for it 4). cross her fore- McAlister changed the subject @b- strapping the small recording inateas pag cam: in Good faith. At any rate, ioe gt bit, Phelps,” said hiet the back of one hand a ruptly, Ashton dropped back in his mente that were attacn ‘\ Mght in her eyes died. They became That is the best roproduction I cam pousemaid named Jano Perkins living ced a bey te sea que ee my He Was the voice of the girl who used ptly, attached to his ohet etarte: Low are ie door, “Loo! ead. chit ha litte gesture of Impa- and waist. | “Wer 4 ) gullem, She squatted on the floor in make of the sound of them. I sup- jn this hotel” ir ience. rie a ye RA and abused Mnglish as her mother- Apap yy t liged.""he said. “You've really hele | ft the room. Evidently posed she was speaking in Maori, here, Ashton! & little plain com- tongue, ‘The next moment she was 6 rr thinkin’ For” myneif, the doctor’a course us materially."—Hia tone wan | Ore eea thetr uses were an Mcange Until, gisnciag up at the doctor, I Pee Sie co ates ne eae mon sense for a minute, You don’t j/"0y pale Bho-was not Fanenos, cp NoHR ne peinsieatapes ta it puzried i profoundly.” That all thie éonfidental not inten ted for the gins incerment, ve . sort ‘i PXAMINALIO! a a mere ri cars, “ jon’t think 7 to her aa hor presont attitude would caw that he was as muoh pussled as Cosi eimiouncement: pe belleye) ernres ad in sil not the girl who, with green, blazing my mind was tryin’ to wander like Was, of course, Obvious to mM. Wo Worm for her examinations Wiikine > ave been to Jane Perkins, I was, “You will not have geen her yet, I Grime: Winioh are elt cod tad ane ¢¥e% had flung that defiant challenge "the doctor laughed. “We're all that jew ail about Jano, Perking, inf he concluded. ‘ j ‘Then began one of the strangest “What's that?” he asked. “Say it i ve orime, Which way will you find out ick at the doctor onl: a few min- times,” he gaid, “Sit down nitely more about her than ahe knew — “Oh, n0; likely not, air. She looke : suppose. the most? By making this girl feel WAY: BORDON ED: acenes I ever witnessed, Except for again. ? ‘bout herself, We Knew she had @ little pale, but I fancy that Ja ne w the cloak; knew that she, or more than because the room 1s somes rather, Who had for ® what clone, y while inhabited her body, had actu. “Is it?" asked the doctor, dpa oe rerronD stea before ” ‘So you know about her, tov!" ex- that there's nothing to be afraid of: in this big chair.” claimed Ashton, “And you were that we're simply investigating, and ANd Yet, she was not preciaely Jane She obeyed a iittle ahead of me again, Well, that's not not accusing her at all? Or, by put- [erhins elther, not the stodgy, tiick- Whether it was a half-m what I could gather from their faces, She ropeated the syllables glibly and and from tho inflection of his ques- without the slightest variation in her tions and her sullen, half-defiant an- inflection of thom. n- y murdered old Morgan, And if “Well, it struck me ao, air. And ‘s remarkal you kept your temper A eq “ited housematd who had giggled that troubled her, or merely tho In- ally " rt th Fas , air swere, it was totally unintelligible to “What does that mean?” he ques- and I didn't, But trough T haven't rg died CRESU GH: 82 /OldsfeaIONSG itn guch Goalloyed delight ae ahe gtactive nesitadl: of one of ber Olasa the object of the -BraGney ware OD atic pees tat Tealincee aoe me, Even the inflections told me tioned. “That's not your language scen her yet, I don't believe you have edie belie nt “All right,” eald Ashton; “have tt [85d for the doctor's knife in tho to make heraclf comfortable tn our iit {t was leading him to @ it is really very foul, sir. If you like, little, for the language itself is spoken nor mine." either, because I have been given to a 4 vaso of water, ‘The girl who stood presence, 1 did not know. Mutton of the mystery, then I'l! speak to them in the office and in a queer sort of sing-song, which She shook her head. Te cea ee etree SIL Ne WOME CRB WRT (QOI7TIHAYAIRIY MOY cee lockinigiar va tiad TROUEHIE? rr eecia” Gasca hiss@iberliania LF DAG: elnnally TRIAe have them send up & man tommorrow betrays no family relationship With "You don't understand it yourself?” 1 guppose,” said the doctor, “that ‘°cMOrrow: ful, troubled eyes. Something-an instruments, Tho girl watched him cn waa bored Sat. ernest, He Wedded) when te \gpaunies the any other language 1 ever heard. ‘There was a moment of silence, the you have taken precautions for appre There won't be any need of that,” siusive memory, « nameless emotion, rather nervously i But It ae Rot ee Was no Vonthatar, toe erated sosning hia But in the doctor's face I could read doctor gazing at her in a puzzled wi hending her when she comes back?" *8!4 my chief. “The Oak Ridge mys- . vague, fluid thing that would not "T beg pawdon, sir,” she sald, “Are joo efea ut his fac Hie wall, and my eyes followed his. strange mattors—-excltement, dawnlD& aij his faculties concentrated upon “Yes,” eald Ashton; ‘there's a man ery fe going to be solved to-night, crvstaiiise was porplexing ber. 8h® yoy goin’ te do anything with those? was plishinwe something, 1 felt est eee an thing ‘wrong with (t tay Open the door, Phelps.” I imagine that Ashton himself was elenaeemed to me to _.TH® doctor feed him also, and ither- owhat nearer the point, VY, And the next moment the head- as the very one that WAlter and the chambermaid were out drop back in bi in the corridor and the door was know that this mystery, tho clue to sprang suddenly erect, and from her 8° far. I understand she's been iil th tense attitude it was evident that she greater part of the week.” whieh I had vainly sought, was In was jistening; that she had beard prscess of being unravelled right be- something. To our ears all was still, TR@ doctor smiled and waved his fore my eyes and I was as much in “Hearing abnormal, too,” murmured h@nd toward the telephone. “You may thing Lam willing to wager that Jan® sir; all those queer lookin’ machines. Perkins had never done | Nf@ Is it anything like goin’ to the den- turally, the first person I looked tist's?"* at when I withdrew my eyes from I hi " “Nothing tn the world,” laughed the EP a rey closed behind them We ds ever, the doctor In a awift aside to ine, as well tell your man to go home,” he Pea Drees urthr T nag MOF wan Ashton, He was looking goctor, “Thea machines don’t hurt. "Ary your patente iiving antfothe,mund, of that closing door ‘hen, as if the doctor had read my he sald, “you are to go into ‘és “the wirt’s hore, shared with my ohlef the knowledge“. Ui8D" IMO her face, an is Hore, Wilking, alt down in this chatr No sir, Need in this country Ager, 'as I halt exproted he would, thought, he spoke tu the girl in Hng- other room and wait until] call , Ashton sprang right out of his chair. o¢ Jane Perkins strange cther wnt. ne face, Ina purely physical WAY, Heide her, and we'll harness you uy but with | pure “amusement. is Msh: ee ate then T wane you 1 will call “What's that!” ho demandod, "You've y knew that the mysteflous, savage ‘iat Be bad seen the night ho want too," Five or alx yoara, ai thes slightest: shore te annemena nn ” 4, “I am talking ‘Perkins," and you will come out, be- got her hore; ing her from me 4 ' Mf wd to the hospital with us. It was not He hung up before the girl one of \ ¢ trom land or Aus teh effort to suppress his Vanenua,” he said, lieving that it is the first time L have « creature in fulfilling an oath, which iit) 1 gaw th tb ndifs 4 fais that we ‘, aren't re not Eng- Mirth. Dr. McAlister paid no at English, Tain going to ask yOu dues called, you trom the bedroom, You . 1% were hiding her from you, I to ner must have possessed a rolig. Viti | aw the look o He ON cD cane ca 3 Undictirned, oF Gan eRlOY Bie lauey tions In English and you will unders will remember the knife and vase of Shouldn't have told you No, sie's not toug sanctity, liad committed w ST Rpon nls OND JBAY ting sed in cur association. teat: onan e | de Aahton eit up UR ned Ist ; ne, Did you understand what water, but you will believe that you iM hiding at all, She's doing out the ie allan c ; tho realization was force Harveys Then he turn ention nny that and the girl's ane ee et ee ee eect attorney ’ pny en have drear And when I cull the bedrooms in this apartme She'lt et neke Sivilined: acglety called & 6 would not recox er any to Wilkins, who mele swer to It risen are seed. A hente pure that if | had spoken to her she door as he spoke. do in « very fow minutes, When sho | And ye § Gelt sure: that Drs Meas 1 him my gage flushed round ty had designated : eer pace nd cna sto have would not have comprehended @ word, | She giares without ation. By comes, I mean to make a little exam- eee Lorn ane pee that when ho the doctor, and on tho way tt took “That's a very impr ° y , Med ra grunts It was In ity way as strange and pers [or oaching ¢ miyeelt Heard | t20uatape ination of her mind to determine her Hes vane om ee yo ieee n Wilkins, Both of them were machine, air” the ma et xed and ' i. a fas interesting as it will fect a demonstration of the possibile “hIGo*n Met ter her, Phelps,” *¢tual connection with the orimo.” (00 Of the mystery, The heart, tho watching her, both, I guessed from “May Cask what name it's ci Pen tt 12 nad: Oe Reon Be laa he aaa Jes of hypnotism as I had ever seen, said the doc! ‘and see that the “I suppose,” said Asiton rather sar- ee - TAYNATN, WAM BHU cos, had noted thé sane Im “Ite namo is Just aa | Mh aaa ad talking to you about 9 //% was bu Fpane ‘The doctor called in Jane Perking’s Windows and doors in all the other eastically, “that you won't mind my tae cp ee ee at et nay MeAnahle difference that lad struck it 49," replied the doctor, “It 1 f oat the Cire to wait Iter he memory to act as the girl's Inter- Ang bolted. “Phen come back hore ey @Kina permission to contribute a few Pre ier aa. th fnecrat, 2, Lt was the doctor who svoke FOORERIME BRONOBR SIRE AD RY ETO". (ow did You come to guess anid Ashton, t eter. a A iG ee J Questions of my own to that examina- gi) Ungoived, in the, He aif ee ae ee, APP Ha uray love, do vou, that Sony hay What is the mé name,” the doo- heard a tap at she door just as tion, . ibis vet, n. ote te one of assistant? — Uy to that moment Ashtor 1} r sa 1 snything Bone ane tor asked, “the man who sent you 7 wa LAA ie Bien aut momedle “Not at all,” said the doctor quite ig Peal A vewshll sew Mt t2 co the district attorney, and he and , ly quiet, but at the sound of chief, MG 2 process of yours, about that Her answer was two words that | returned to the aitting room he #!™Mply. “You may ask her anything i " * ri fand Mr, Phelps here are in’ ed portentous w he burst into a A ; sounded Ike "Osa Enns." I saw that turned toward me and spoke rather you lik T opened tho door and told Wilkins jn trying to find out something about your of laughter, which. Wiljium ae 1 ty)! for a moment it puzzled the doctor WUE rere Wea 8 uote Of #up- There was a little silence. Then to Come in, 1 had an impression tho :uuidor which took place at Oak corously and respectfully « . even ’ ay much 4s it did me, But the next that he started @ little at the sight 4 fow nights ago. le What “Phelps, here's Ashton come to pay 822M said impatiently: ughed frankly my moment evidently he understood, for 4. @ eal, “Well, what are you waiting for?” Of Ashton; and I didn't at all won- Murder!” she erled with a gasp. pose of the instrument might | x dig oa : “a oer bd his face lighted rather grimly. - * “I'm expecting another visitor, When der, @ince I remembered the tacit "I don't know nothin’ about any mur- | had no idea, but the prodiious na . Se eiie: f fight auddenie burt hoe “You came away, did you, without CHAPTER III. 1 heard your knook, IT thought that Understanding between ourselves and der, sir.’ whieh the doctor assigned to ft atrucis und 1 suppose you don't res me, but Ashton was not so } the thing he sent you to get?” vou were he. It's none other than our Dim, that this examination of tho xo," said the doctor, ‘I'm quite mo a# nothing more than a flight of ‘erber Ani, RAYS AVRR TARR HARE Rainey Sans ; ; a ie The Trap. friend Wiking,” girl was to be for the purpose of sure you don’t, But we think it pos- his rather grotesque fancy heard at Bully Vanes PANG ORO oat gtiotiinet What ate oak “And you hadn't been told to kill ITHOUT waiting tor me to Ashton laughed “Wilkins!” ho re- Sbielding her against the District At- yinie that you know some things “Well, air,” eald Wilkina, “it » ae naan nt mae He stood you have been doing? Whe also wos the old man? You didn't mean to kill comment on the situation, peated ‘What do you want of him?” torney, rather than of betraying her whict will help us to find out who the have to accomplish a good deal to att stience, like there to examine?” , him when you stole into the house?” he turned back to the dis- ‘The doctor glanced at h' watch, to tim. murderer 18, Are you willing to help live up to that name” or t Io F {scence, the PRA be he fist upon the tables “Whe She answered with a dvep-throat- trict attorney, “IT faney that he's coming now, But I had very little leisure for us?” My chief smiled and nodded at the ee ee a himeelf together and kina! And, by thunder, 1 believe. t ed guttural, even to my ears, unmis- “I thought tt not unlikely," Why, Wilkins knows-thts girl, who reflecting on Wilkina's fears or mis- She hesitated @ mowent, then «irl in @ half-contidential way, wh began asking the girl a sertes of rapid have got Kim!” | takably negative, he said, “that with one intentidn or iv @ stupid creature and rather casily givings, because, almost before I had turned quite traukly to Wilkina, poke of @ perfect understanding be- and, todgis, rather meaningless quea- (To Be Continued, te { ie ie .