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a a R) again. Every one does. owe re aaa renee renner —- ail . If you haven't read it you have missed the ¥: t= A Gare Asa tc Ww ith - a ( AUNT BELLE \ ( I'LL Go Ta THE est adventure story of its kind in all fiction. iba: a tartling New Twist" Ciera, ( WRITES SHE HAS ) } EXPress COMPANY So it will be the best sort of treat for everybody. The (Conpright, 110, by Stain & Walton Co) BYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS Ashton, an assistant district attorney, comes to the table where Dr, Ronald MeAllsler, profesor of paychology, and hie young assistant, Cielpa who tells the story), are discussing the menn with Wilkins, head waiter of the “M Dr, Reinhardt, of Mt Martin's He he profemor to In at @ peculiar caw and Phelps go wi the profesor, who reciiee them with reminiscences of his boy! pet in New % od, where he saw Bully Franklin, the pirate, mbacquently Killed by one of his men because he mace lore to @ Maori gir! ‘The patient at the hospital i@ a wenan, the fumbles @ strange medley of sound, which Me Alister tells Pheips # an old Maori death chant Next day, the professor and Phelps go to Oak Mdge, where an olf man, Henry Morgan, hae been foond ts oo ur foun of his house, direogied with a violin airing which has a loop at dither end, There they ee WH Harvey, @ fopptsh young man who has given the detectires conse to believe that he know somerhing alvvat the mumter; and the dovtor arranavs with Ashton te G@ake sume perchologion) experiments tere wih tim, The investigators ayend the night in the redm where the body was found, and unearth « WR of mays drawn to @ gigantic wale, A women enters the room, finds tt occupied, and floes. To gether with Mallory, « detective, Phe follows fe vain pursuit, and finds i3 Hy rEig ; ; it the Maori girl has escaped pital, Harvey is examined, and the him innocent of the murder, but acquaintance with a girl named Jane feuonse to an ad, @ housmaid by . of the Meredith,” elaime the cloak, 414 of Wilking, the doctor induces the amit to some experiments, During the doctor makes wine reverence wo a bi envelope, in which he was supposed to Drought from Oak Kidee a map which be bed found tm the room whem Monan was mur. dered, After Wilking box taken Uh the doctor proves to il i i Py H ima’s instigation, went to Oak i Aypnotic trance, and murdered Henry Moran. it te Giscorered that the mantla envelope ie missing from the talie CHAPTER The Scent. it we atood ga ly into each other's stupidly trying to to the full, what the ppearance of that bie, envelope ant. Aash- first to recover himself. k question at me. rber, Phelps, whether Vilkins spoke of tho I, you glanced in wy nton, turning to thy On, y said Doctor McAlister. Py or 1 ike tid Ashton, « the ene » this demonstrat ” sald h “He's at once,” T aug In to dot n He probably ri envclopa the moment he closed the door behind him, and, find- ing it empty, would know, of course, that + ad been merely @ trap to catch “And its my nto,” sald the doctor contritery was guilty of an absurd piece of over-con- fidence. I knew he'd want the map, ther way of his getting It ed to mo than that he should come back here when he supposed we were all asleep and let himself in with a pass key and asieal ft." Bur the man he spoke to was alrcady the other side o! the room, Standing before the tele;hone and shaking up and down the \ittle hook which supports the receiver. “Give me the dining room, please,” we heard him say, “The dining room? This is Mr, Ashton, I'd like to speak with Wilkins. It was easy to guess the nature of the reply he got to that request from the question or two he interjected into it and from his attitude as he turned away and hung up the ro- ooiver. “It's as I ight, He's not been in the dining room since he went off duty after the dinner hour, They d wuat Lod become of him, wonde and sent a messenger up to his room in the servants’ quarters, The mes- songer reports the room locked and dark, He'll never come back to it, we may be eure of that; not of bis own freo will, at least.” “He has an hour's clear star claimed the doctor, “thanks to my stupidity “Well,” said Ashton, “he hasn't got off yet by any means. It’s a straight police case now, and I think they're likely to get him—if not in this elty, at least before he can leave the country, which is undoubtedly what he will try to do.” He turned back to the telephone and called up Police Headquarters. attempted to, rather—listened a mo- ment to something that was being said to him, and then turned away with a very wry face. ‘ell, our friend Wilkins ts play- ing in luck all right,” he sald. “The local operator tells me that we have no outside connection at ull, [oth the telephone and the local stution here of the Western Union aro out of commission on account of this con- @ounied sleet.” “ The Green Cloa j By Yorke Davis = ree oxen ah a Sn el sh a Reet ing ms “The Eveniag World Daily Magazine. Thursday, March 9 \ | you've read {t you'll certainly want to read it ) NEVER RECEWED ) THE BOX We SENT ete {| HER For X-MAS _ WHAT CAN WE DO UOHN 2? cain story is Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD. ( AND MAKE A KICK He hung up once more and took a turn or two across the room tn a thoughtful abstracted silence, But presently he halted in front of my chief and held out bis hand. “Of course, it's absurd for you to think you're to blame because Wil- | kins got away, Doctor McAlister, or! to say that it's through your stupidity that it happened, The fault ts cer- tainly as much mine as yours. You detected the eriminal, but you contdn't been searontng for, atraightened up a Bim. I've got two men out in the o jan house watching it, on the catch him, I could have caught him [little out of har crouching attitude More od | and net out, briskly, at a gait which lockout for any one who might turn right enough, but I wae incapable of detecting him. He went out literally} between our fingers. If we'd been| Up there, and nobody who does turn neither precisely a walk nor @ up will be able to get away until the: BS but which, if she should keep It bave accounted to me for their visit, v ‘ould Woe had all lagged a little, “Come working together he couldn't have got _ re Oe Came dad ae powers to follow. | giong,” sald the doctor. “We musth'e away. | THE Box MY WIFE WE WILL SEND A TRACER ~ | She threaded her way down a three- got too far behind.” - for a final sprint, and turned into the ied the taal o Brent waiting-rooi just behind her. tied the length of this, with “she went straigit to the tloket window, but without a pause there or & glance througt in sharp angie, exactly as a dog would do, and padded acrows the waiting room towant the doors which opened into the train shed. EXPRESS | uot paved pasaage, which led out of OC “But you offered to work with me! SENT To HER AUNT BELLE | GIVE ME THE NANE Aporess, ac ine court, and “1 h led out of “Wo were pretty well winded, all of THEE ALY. thio memaets tt] || ar eects oeeN REGETVED y aabiiaad OCCUPATION OF YouRSELR, WIFE A] iii ailltaant rail Cuma Wom overt? ard to conc a hed been Nave Ia this FOE ARE ‘had | IT WAS VALUED AT wae ee fact; but wo gathered up our energies CHILDREN _ INVOICE oR INVOICES SHOWING WHERE Goods eae BOUGHT AND AMOUNT PAID OR. UNPAID ~ NANE , ADDRESS AQE, OCCUPATION Te KY OF CONSIGNEE €TC,. — known, as you knew, that Wilkins was under suspicion, would have pre- vented hia stealing the envelope from | under our very noses, If I had) known, I would have prevented 1 T whould have been on my guard Qgaingst the very thing he did. But, On the other hand, neither the police sergeant nor I could have traced Wil- kins's connection with the Oak Ridge TWENTY DOLLARS on trageting along behind her aa | best wo could, crossed the boulevard Without a gla to right or left, and went straight on down the alley aad {through the noxt block. i : ou ae,” commented the “he took elaborate rere | against being recomnized ot the im- the doctor command- mediate ne n bor i of "The More- ed Maliory. Wave ab trate” ith. Almost every guest at the 1 was at his elbow when he spoke |hotel, as Woll as the full force of t@ the clerk, ‘That functionary wae servants, know him, But his chance 64#ing after the @irl with wide, ter- Ea i ssa cas SISTER, DAUGHTER murder, nor would even have thought of u Fified eyes, Jor ene r an oh person Pith » of suspecting him.” | diminishes rap ily rf he gets away In Heaven's name,” he said, “whet I have liked Ashton better ever }from the vicinity of the hotel He'll geet deur an a tte eave th A tak octor dl answer, since he made that speech. | | presently." to take fo the street ignored the question utterly. Well, we'll pull together now,” said | fhe prophecy came true. at the | “When is the next train for Oak the doctor, very , * the le the Bucs Feces bases Cee oe Facross two avenues, until she red over his eyes, “Did you see hor?” he : s orney mi eet) a street where the oars ran. asked, “That creature that just went word to police headquart At once, made as if to groas this street, through the door?’ (Buess wy Sout! TSA On THE EXP; COMPANY. SAYING Navan FIND NO TRACE of AUNT WHAT'S THAT LETTER JOHN 2 for she went straight out. to the I did not wonder that he was hor- | middie of it; then stopped, obviously Tfled. 1 remembered my own feeling at fault, and retraced her steps to the When I had seon her oe tall uearent thie Bunt, corridor toward Wiikine's room. Well, thats plain enough,” said . The doctor paid no attention, and tment, 1@ the same level voice in which he and give them a full description of both the man and the girl” rt down the “Do you think she's with him? | Before he could answer the tela. | a, phone bell rang sharply, and the ‘ lAshton In a ‘one of disappo! oo “she wrought us #o far, but sh apoken before, he repeated hi quickness with which he turned and! Bewe S Box taual For US « ne t ta “us ny fart! . question about the train. for oun TO SEND FuRTHER PARTICU OR SETTLE The Watren For FIFTY CENTS snatched the recety trayed the ¢ under wh r off the hook be- of excitement | h he was laboriny | “Been looking for met” he ex- jaimed.—"A man named Maliory!— | Well, why didn’t you try these apart. | ments sooner?—Where ix he now?” . . . . . ° 1 a . Ridge. is where he took \..e car, « Yes,” said Mallory, “Il suppose — With an effort the olerk rallied his that’s so, though it'’a funny the car Wits and answered him. should stop for him on this side of | “There waa a train pulled out about | the atree ten minutes ago,” he said. “There ait @ bit,’ etd the doctor, paboatt bs Mrseiegied to-night. The wires “Waten the girl." on account of the sleet, and She was crouched very low again We've practically abandoned the sub- and quartering round in a circle, Just UFbAN service. [t'e too dangerous as she had done at the foot of the Everything has to run without lwtandpipe. Presently, to the surprise OMers. ’ lof all of us, it may bave been that | “Did hear that, Ashton?” raid ithe doctor guessed, she caught @ the doctor, turning away. “The last scent that satisfied ber and led ber train to Oak Ridge that will run toe diagonally back to the aldewalk; and Meht left ten minutes ago.” el} All right. Don't waste any more | tine.” | ort ou, Mallory?" . . . . . . . ; ext corner the girl turned to Hidge due?” he asked. t, and then held on, straight — The weket clerk rubbed his hande od “What's that you eay? You've got noo here, without pause, she vot the girl. Came back to her duom, did Sut in the direction of downtown, ne ame back to her doom, did straight down the middie of the alde- CHAPTER VII. , | walk, her gait, that seemed un- uate ii ny wit i age hurried, unfaltering, @ mure-tooted What Mallory Saw. t e Uke? Violent at al ween walk an . 5 e ° 4 faba on —— berwes HTON had followed Mallory ) “Well, wait @ minute. Hold the “It seemed to be ou right,” be Dart way across the waiting ] wire, I'll tell you what to do with ror, swinging so, makes you caim ter and I found our ulsters and capa and Ashton to go in with the wir! Keep an close aa you can, We Ashton nthe vivtnienly 1 don't Pare be) Reeves 7 | er. agaln, even makes you sleepy. You're The doctor added to his equipment a What I saw through the doorway mustn't lose sight of he: quite see what he went out Into the aa pit je Idea of letting ‘ He turned round then and beran gotng to sleep already, Your eyelids heavy walking stick and a huge pair was curious and interesting, The We had lost eight of her already, atreet for.” ee @ tri o fo je sight. So he had speaking rapidly to Doctor McAlister. are heavy, Your hands are heavy, of what he called galoshes. doctor did not waate a single glance for she had turned to the right into “To soo If a oar wae omit — Ly heard pee the olerk had just The girl went to her room and too, and quite relaxed, just as they Ashton was ready as soon a8 We upon the room itaelf. I suppose that @ crons corridor, When we reached eT cee th aight, fo rather than told Doctor MoAllster through the | Mallory has got her. He says she's are when you go to sleep, You're were, and Mallory didn't keep us Mr, Sherlock Holmes or any other de- the corn re ahe had turned, wo fier airing, he set out afoot. And Uoket window, I. perfectly quiet, not violent at all, asleep now; fast aslee waiting more than two or three min- tective would have plenty of material all halted, us if some medusa hand | think he did wisely, T haven't sean “Well, oI oad, “that ie al! right, that is, but sho's taking on a‘great Ashton, who had watched this per- utes, He wae dressed for the exped!- up here for study and observation, had suddenly turned us to atone. 8 car in either direction, Have yout) im’t it? We don't want to go to Ouk deal, protesting that her arrest must formance with ataring eyes, turned to tion himeelf, and he had over higarm gnd, indeed, Ashton was gazing curl. ‘The Meredith" t# @ high building, We Nad, nem andy Twi, fag Ridge, If the train Wilkins took be a mistake, So it's clear she hasn't me, the green cloak, and in his hand ear ously into corners; but Doctor Mo- We were on the eighth floor, but the ar the rapid pace ahe net, for half starved only ten minutes ago there's Kone off into one of those subjective “Is he hypnotizing her?’ he whis- ried @ rather pi poaterous hat, which Aitster strode straight across to the girl was in the act of getting out of an hour withd nat ranel ag ats with hse ampte time to arrange to have him states of hers, But what are wo to pered softly. was just about the sort of piece of wardrobe, flung open the door of {t, a window, Mallory recovered tho use | When we liad frat fet oul Rite tg ppt sesd betere he sete fect 08 the do with her? Do you suppose she'd | "He's already done 11," said 1, Millinery one might expect Jane Per- groped for a moment in ite interior, of his muscles first, and rushed for- io" prevented us from paying much Puatrorm at Oak Ridge, Where's the be of service to us In Ketting track of “There's no need to whisper, Noth. Kins’ taste for adoramente of thiseert With” one hand, thea withdrew it, ward in an attempt to forestall what ‘ateniion. to tho condition of the aera office in this station ™ Wilkins te'd probably take pretty ing you or I could do would wake her to result tn, waving, triumphantly, an old shoe seemed to him a deliberate attempt strents; but when a Gre} Pos it won't do any food,” said Doctor good caro not to get him into trouble, now." The girl got up and huddled herself And now Ashton’s eyes lighted up at euicide atraizntened itemlé oov mule, we, bad moAltster, “There will be so telex ose, | ded : ? pure jon 5 I suppose, if she suspected that we Once more, and only once, the doo- into the cloak when the doctor handed with the surmise which had come to “Hold on!" erted tho doctor, “She's tna la think of our surroundings, Staphie Commeanteation with Ook really wanted him.” tor hummed the strange, droning tune it to her, ina perfectly natural sort of ing a faw moments earlier. 1 ing where Wilkins went. If and to speculate whether they be Ridge to-night,’ 1 him to bring her hero,” sald of the death chant, and I eaw, by the way, as if it wae @ garment WIth wcooq God, McAlister!” he ORIY: COINS. ‘Here See veae bhun, tered the chances of the man wo Were Ashton glanced thoughtfufty about my chief, his eyes shining with ex- little shiver that went over the lri's which she was well McQUainted. claimed, WVhat are Yo ROI to cee eee eee ee cm aately.” RUrTuing or Improved Our Own [°F the room. “That possibility hadn't om tement. “We shall bo able to use body, that the transformation of her When he also offered her the hat, she 4, | TOU SOne: 50 ab He i” =i to Landa pi ier sasolng Dt wires wore evidently curred to me” he aid at least, her, never foar, Yes, have Mallory personality had already taken place, gazed at it In perfectly blank eurprise. haan ey : an hag " ae Se poet pot dow, (rel ory direction and the “Tt ocourred to Wilkins,” aid the bring her to this room. “Watch,” said I to Ashton, “watch “What—ts—that?" she asked. ; going to find Josiah Halnes, Ashton, gu 4a she Streets were so glassy with the frozen doctor, “That's why he went. He's Ashton hesitated for an instant, the girl's face." “A hat” sald the doctor, “It gory lias Wilkins, If ho hasn't gut tuo He atarted down the corridor as he Cir" and’ wo perilous with the #NAP: the one man of us who really grasped 4 then transmitted the message, word “You've been showing me wonders on your head.” yd © start on us,” spoke. I should Breheny bare nave’ ping plitting anda of Ie wet ite the situation, He knew just what for word, to Mallory, and hung up to-night,” ho #aid, ina voice thot was — Her eyes Hghted with admiration at Anne finished speaking, ' 1- with Bim, had I ee sey vviuh wheel trafic there was moved only that sleet storm meant—that over « the receiver, dulled with amazed bewilderment, that. She snatched it out of his ‘tlously sniffed at the shoo himself, Just then that the door on with the very greatest diMeuity, With- territory fifteen or twenty milew “I don't quite see it," ho went on “but this te @ wonder that out-tops hands and clapped it on her head, “"d held it out to the girl L was standing opened into the le Out''the moana of tracing hie, wales square electricity wae going out of thoughtfully. “Unless Wilkins took them all.” backwards, I tmagine, though I really vator shaft, and the gauge gens oe Ghotor & WuGnOne oor aa would, business of serving civilization for = her into his confidence, she won't All that was true, for there, under did not know which was the front and “Josiah that the elevator was descen' pad after several hours, have been abso- few hours, That one vital fact tums know anything about him. If he did, his eyes, he saw, reappearing in the Which the back. At any rate, tt was E ; signalled it to stop, on the ChANC® jitely gecure from pursuit. a the world topsy-turvy, and makes she'll be on her guard not to betray body of this English chamberinaid, evident that with the loss of Jane “You oan't posmibiy mean,” ex- that it might prove useful ; od ave vine for him than by this ®0me diffioult things easy and eoms him, and a stupid, stubborn person the strange, wild creature he had gone Perkins’ personality she had also lost Claimed Awhton, ‘that you're Koing to By that time Asi’ om had already ceeinities method of tracking Commonplace things {mposstble. For ike that sometimes makes a fot of with us to St. Martin's Hospital to all knowledge of this particular sort ‘Y to track him with her, oa if--as joined Mallory at the window. Ap- his scent Jnat to-night our thoughts can't move trouble.” dan asecunlalatalenia hetara of feminine apparel. She was no more !f She were @ hound! It'n imposalble, parently one glance was All they § vie). only keeps going far enough.” any quicker than our bodies can. S> The doctor's only reply was a com- The doctor's voice broke the silence, able to balance tt on her head than Impossible and horrible, too,” he needed, for they came hurrying back guid Asiton, “well catch him. He may Wilkins had wet out for Oak Rid | ment, which sounded o little irrele. He spoke to tho girl, a single, short one of us would have been, and when *74¢4 with @ shivor, with white faces eee ney eatin for the mo. M4 we can’t head him off. The only | vant. nentence in what I now recogniznd to two or thred trials had resulted in fai)- “Bo far aa the horror iy concerned,” “She has worked herself along a six Vi MN" on his powers back, thing we can do ts to follow him. “I told you, didn’t 1," #i be the Maort tongue, Then, without ure, she tossed it away, impatiently, 4d the doctor, “we can't afford tobe Inch ledge,” said the lawyer, "to 9 fio must have dene so to have nego- shall we try to do in her subjective states her whole @ Pause, he went on: and shook her head. squeamish, with telephone and tele- tron etandpipe. I've sean magazine tated that ine Lg Be be — system of sensory nerves seems to be “! am speaking tn English now, “No—Itke,” she observed kraph wires down all over the city, !llustrationa of firemen doing things (ji |' Was f Cle ie man, and to I followed Ashton’ glance fuse abnormally stimulated, almost to a Fanenna, and you understand me. Tell ‘The exhibition struck us all as cur- "! Hkely enough trolley wires, too, Ike that, but T didn't know they iy personal Knowledae he's been & then, and eaw Mallory coming back hysterical degree?" me that it Is #0." fous and rather grotesque, Mallory, '® has too great an advantuxe of us really happened, It's not concotvable head waiter for long enough to LU with the girl, She soomed unconscious Thad it on my tongue to ask him Her answer waa a fort of cilcking I imagine, thought it waa nothing ‘ Arrant our re 1g any means that Wilkins went that way.” oy TANS nus lon Lida ip the pace Of HIS presence, and mado straig what he meant, when the sound of Suttural, tinpossible one would think more than that she must . of finding him that come to hand, “Don't forget that he was Bully sar ing us. We must across the room to where the doct footsteps approaching along the cor- oT a western throat to produc ming, and I think, perhaps, that even n though they are primitive. AS Franklin's first mate,” suid the doctor, was standing {n oonversation with ridor, cut the question short, The “Say tt in English,” the doctor com- Ashton was a little suspicious. for \t@ being impossible, that's ex- “But thie ts a better way for us p for us that there ug, She halted beside him without « next moment there was a tap on the ™anded, “However,” he said, as though “ly the thing we're going to test. I Come along.” tor thie Ue ace Uncaene word, ber manner perfectly quiet door, and the detective, Mallory, “E®~es.” he aaid thinking aloud, “It's perfectiy true 20"'t Delleve it te, The girl wcented We all four piled into the elevator ind our hurried, breathless pure tBOUgR expectant. She was merely usherod Jane Perkins back into our The doctor turned to the detective. that Harvey waid nothing snout a har WU" Malt Way acroas Morcui's #iidy, and told the boy to drop us ax qulokiy ft would, In anything Uke waiting for him to tell her what he sitting-room, “Mallory,” he aid, “vou know where when he described the silhouette Le end ‘pointed’ us, exactly as 4 #etter as he could right through to the base- 1 rrmal condi ne, he occers £90: wanted done next. “Here she ts," he said briefly, “Do Wilkins’ room tn the hotel te, don't saw upon the window-shade.” Pointe & qual, And sho confessed 19 men, The excitement in dur faces Me Wi Mle For the moment he paid no atten: ‘ou want me?” you?" WAM aeane®? habat doctor, 1° that she identified | 1 #he was imperative, He threw the lever it wam, the few people who had tion to her, did not even glance sid Yes," anid the doctor: “eit down, "T@A, eir, but it's locked. He's gone “Then let's bo off Mellorg, vou ahow murtered by his odor over and let us down at a tremendous veniured out found all they could ways at her as ehe came up You sit down, too, Perkins; here in Of with the key us the way. We want to go to Wii. Without waiting for any reply, ne mute, attend to in the Ica-ginged sidewalks, wrnat's the question,’ repeated the easy chair where you were be- “Don't waste time trying to fina’ wane, Ane turned abruptly to the girl and spoke “This way.” cricd Mallory, rushing ‘RO Wt Teil cf the etreste, & to the attorney. ‘"‘S t i fore,--No, my poor child, there's noth, Nother key," wald the doctor. “Ti ra ve nton 12 BOF in Maort, asking ner a ques off in the dark tow curious glances Were cast after us out to Oak Ridge t? Yo ing to be frightened about. Don't the door down and leavo it so that sh nd Fag? Questioned Ashton ion, if one could Judge from the odd We lost sight of him, but heard a» we went hurrying by, but that WAI gpoke of having two men on wat cry, We're not gotng to hurt you," "can walk directly tn, Then go to wyynn ree tor. “She's the Mfeotion of the thick, guttural words, sounds of a struggle ho was having % ily the doctor dropped a hand there all the time. Can you sate The perfect poise and balance of his ‘M8 girl’ room, find some warm sr" wald the doctor, “She's the in her eyes already there was a kind with a badly warped door which evie | Pu NT Ne pen i Amore she's leave the matter of coping with Wt a ce of his {important member of this oxpedition.” ¢ wnoulderiug tire. ‘Tt rcried dently had not been opened in a long pr ar ht h hem?” own nerves gave him a tremendous WFAP# @ hat and a cloak and a pair "yoo Gamer a ons Unpee ug fire, docior eried dently had not been op inal fa said “L ought to have kins to them . of overshoes, Then get your own hat i ¥ out something more in Maori, andac- thine, He conquered {t just as we guessed it before ever we stirted. Ashton waiked away a few paces, power of calming the nerves and gery creep 4& ttle, my first inkling of his i As he spoke, he pointed quieting the fears of others, ‘That #84 vercoat and come back here." 0 : J companied the exclama ac up with him, and the next mo» 100K As ho spoke, he pointed then whirled and came dick 4 Geek Waa Geckes Ge ca ct Mallory hesitated, and cast an in. PUFPON®. But it was perfectly evl- yesture of both hands toward the ment, peering out In the misty gray “ae the direction. of his (ook was troubled, disquleted ; calm quiring glance toward Ashton. dent from Ashton's face that no such gourway, leht to soe whether we had taken the pointing finger, | made out, faintly, “I wish you wore there, M y." resonant voice did more to reassure 94,0 )'* Bat idea had occurred to him. ; i : tS TEAI DIS ALOE fac ; ; the girl than I could have done in an ‘Oh, yes,” waid Ashton with a laugh, “~* q ai 4 The girl darted out between Mal- right direction after all, we mado out 4 | ymin Be i havent al eaid, "Green and Bens n't ee “He'a the boss now. You'll take all Hadn't she better be handcuffed |... sig me, ike some wild benat « dark, blurred figure, which was, nae 6 we were going, &8Y too wide awake. They'll have a ‘ nt ality bed jane your orders from him.” to Mallory?” he asked, as we Were | nicaphed, and eet out down the cor- nevertheless, unmistakable, Still in , i nice tp deal wilt Who kia just cor } scl erates what be Tho doctor emiled. “1 think yuu' leaving the room. “She might SIV rigor at a slow, swinging trot, her that crouching attitude, with bowed irs in uiatlan.\ eaid thas witted une . 1 ta oe ki i on @ BUT want your overcoat yourself, and let US the silp. head bent low and swaying e.leways 1 swaying from side to side, the ' kins, my boy." he sepney’d be all right,” said Ma inise of his purpose, until T aw RIM me recommend a cap, !f you have No,” aald the doctor, “she'll fol 1: was uncanny to mee her. { feit my xicl wan working round in wid tine HemMare with a puree lory, “if there was only some way oF ae Up the little concave mirror guch a thing, rather than @ derby. l0w—follow Ike a dog.” flesh creep ag I set out to follow he Jom, trying t toh th hed ! ought to have Known Warning them,” ¥ th which he had pretended to teat ‘Thero's no telling how long we'll be We threaded our way in ailence Muilory had not understood, and ! 1) was tot because of t nongh by this time to have “Of course they w \ ter eyes earlier in the evening. He out, and the alr is cold to-night with through the corridors to Wilkins's made a motion to detain her, but this ed, we four wh . that was what he would ped impatiently. “Anybody w dangled {t before her on a string all thia half-frozen dampness in tt," room. [t was a amall room, and was checked by @ peremptory order \\iidled in the doorway, watehing } I don't believe he'd be euch a fool,” But there jen't any way of s Now, you're not afraid any more, While the other two men went on stayed back in the corridor with from Ashton with staring eye A but T hope you're right, them," Jano," be went on, ‘bie little mir- their @everal errands, Doctor McAlis- Mallory to make room for my chief Follow along: cried ,ue docto Presently sue caught what ehe had If he's gone to Vak Ridge, we've got (To Be ©