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Show axO'll" f FMAbidn Cbawtodd e Logothetl to be Informed of her tivlty, and was absolutely confident that he would help her out of her AUTHOR OF "ARETHUMt'tTCnr trouble. Lady Maud was less sure of that, however, and said so, but it was soon clear that Baraka did not OO KbvuicHT 907 6Y AfAAOjy CRAWfiVAO speak a word of any language known SYNOPSIS. Logothetl by telephone. They'll be to Lady Maud, who was no great likely to know something about him linguist at beBt. Under these circumLr.k t Tartar Rlrl. became enamored at the bank if he's not at home, and stances it looked as If there were who waa ft arVMen beurded atranger he may come ta find out what's the nothing to be done, for the poor girl, I'S an'l etudylng T.erba In the and central in Asia, matter. If Mrs. Foxwell should look who made all sorts of signs of dismy . of hi...hom ;. ,h iochi on of a niln la and want to see when she saw that the English the girl, let her tress, would ,1m honing that. the stranger t, woman was about to leave her, In fu h dlsoloaure. in, of course, without asking me. If sheer followed to the cava by the- she's in town, she'll be despair of being of any use. L'iw here before up tha enlf relative, whonit blocked th water lUDD V. long, for I've telephoned to her house, Just then, however, the sergeant came to the door, and informed the visitor link the couple to die. Baraka'. counln as usual when there's a girl in trou- that the betrothed, attempted o climb ble." Lj girl had an accomplice who mine: n but "e'n niwliMik the U fcttt at f her The spoke him. wai language and knew some ahot granger traveler There was a sort of standing, un. car- uutor English, and that by stretching a point official and of the order out tunnel, in that I llu5 hla way any case of a th. Klrt and carrvlns or a young woman being locked he would bring the man, If Mrs. Foxill of ruble. Baraka gathered all the- girl well wished to talk with him. atarted In pur- up, Mrs. Foxwell was to know of it, ghe could carrjr. and The result was that in less than and she bad a Margaret way of remembering a half an hour, Lady Maud heard from kl.iva) a faniOUa prima uum, irainnia great many sergeants' names, and doEnd In Ixmdon to Konatantln a most extraordinary tale, of a wealthy Greek rlnandwr. Her ing kind things for their wives at Spiro l, 'U friend wwa Counteaa Leven. Christmas time, which further dis- which she did not believe a single word. To her plain English mind it posed them to help her in her work. all seemed Upon KlllvU UJr f uvmw ""a 'v. perfectly mad at first, and and Lady Maud'a moat Intimate But the London police are by nature on reflection she thought it an outI who had h:ome one of the rlche.t the kindliest set ot men who keep upon her " " " In the worm. order anywhere in the world, and rageous attempt to play Murituret. and ruenea lo i.nimon aa was thorough whereas she credulity; I he heard of her betrothal. He they will readily help a man or wom- ly convinced that the her pet an who tries to do girl had come f,d Lady Maud I5.iw0.0ii0 for : k good in a sensible, to In some way through LogoIf ahe would aid him In winning grief rity from ItOgomvu. tsnrnna. up-- practical way; and If they are some- thetl and had followed him from Conscmf LnKothetl at Versatile, with times a little prejudiced in ravor of He presented a ruDy to r,. to sell. stantinople, probably supporting her unu their own perspicuity in getting up a self and her a! iret. Van lorp imiubiii m companion by stealing vlalted wa He Venice. by casts, let that in of any other on the way. Lady Maud's husband Ua In male attire. She nave him va country, who policeman, is quite without fault, had been a brute, but be knew the ,lau after tne itnierii-ithe United Statea ft man throw the first stone at their brave, Tog east tolerably well, having done some Lrlnir the deacrlptlon of the one aha heads. Li The American followed military duty in the Caucasus before . I e Bayreuui Logothetl was not at his lodgings he entered the .go. diplomatic service; his t(Mik a liKltig to Van Torp. who pre-- d in St. James' place, and from each stories had chiefly illustrated the proher with the ruby Uaraka had Kuiinlan. two a of clubs to which the officer tele- found I ICS him. Oint Krallnsky. duplicity of all Asiatics, and Van Torp believed Led at I'.ayreuth. phoned rather at random, the only an- she had not seen anv reason to dis lu lo he the one unranu wan pursuing. n on me swer was that he was a member but believe them. fcka wn arreaieu in m jew-tl'- e 'c of ateaiing irom j inney, not In the house. The officer wrote sold to When Spiro had nothing more to Logothetl. ruby alie had DM a line to his rooms and sent it by a thlevea. were the gtrangera say, therefore, she rose from the only tuf I'BM Ik to be given to him as soon seat there was and shook her head messenger, CHAPTER VII Continued, as he came in. with an air of utter incredulity, minIt was late in the hot afternoon gled with the sort of pityingedb contempt was when Mrs. Foxwell answered the mes- she felt for all ut after hft was gone, Spiro ice. lying in general. She rd calling loudly, though not rude-i- r sage by coming to the police station could easily follow the cas, by the herself. She was at once admitted violently, from his place of of the sergeant and tiie police help m mi to Baraka's cell and the door was court irUiiL reports, and she might be able Mr. Policeman! closed after her. Mr. Policeman! to help Bara).a hereafter when the The girl was lying on the pallet bed, be come speak!" ielr t girl had, served the sentence she be man on duty went to the door dressed in a poor calico skirt and a would r. certainly get for such an Important and cleverly managed theft. The poor girl implored and wept in supra vain; Lady Maud could do nothing, and would not stay to be told any is IC more Insane stories about ruby mines In Tartary. She called the sergeant, freed herself from Baraka's despairing hold on her hand and went out. And when she thought of what must have gone before, and of the part had almost certainly played in the girl's life, her anger was roused, and she sat down and wrote to Margaret on the Impulse of the moment. She gave a detailed account ot her experience at the police station, Including especially a description of the way Baraka had behaved in trying to send a message to Logothetl. "I tell you quite frankly," Lady Maud wrote in conclusion, "that my friend Mr. Van Torp has begged me 1rUJ very urgently to use any friendly Influence I may possess, to induce you to reconsider your engagement, berearsi? cause he hopes that you will accept v fx f workl iw him instead. Tou will not think any tfjtro less well of him for that. A man may icfc to v. ask his best friend to help blm to n-ir-j.- r V , ,t woa i i ' I VI W1 MVVAv ect I marry the girl he Is in love with, I i am sure! I told him that I would not nMw--iTVI. w ii i Mi it on do anything to make trouble between ge of It v. i . DOlli: I V I I I 111 I I you and Logo. If I am HI Vf5TV making trou rinkM ble now, by writing all this, it is there i ,ble fore not to help Mr. Van Torp, but beid ltd cause the Impression I have had iucdM about Logo has really frightened me, IT6 Co: for you. I made such a wretched failjse. I ure of my own married life that I oou b have some right to warn a friend who rs. Bai seems to be on the point of doing just i ton St? have a right to WW ' V A the same thing. You be sure that the man you marry is most free, and that you won't sudI quite w n stent, m (I a lovely eastern girl of 20 meet denly .me Idh who claims him after you think he is yours; and your friend has a right to warn you, If she feels sure that he ts ier reu w mixed up In some affair that Isn't i, ill wq . . over yet roach tl A 1 "I don't know where Logo Is, but if ii I f ii i in ii 1 e from ' II ll he were near enough I should go to him and tell him what I think. Of cnrlnf course he Is not In town now noI of fc& body Is, and I've only stayed on to itlon,' clear everything out of my house, lrregw now that I'm giving It up. I suppose kacbe,i he Is with you, though you said you 1 a a a a Show did not want him at Bayreuth! him this letter if you like, for I'm Htnfiul Arm. Maud's She Grasped Lady quite ready to face htm if he's angry klilltli. Mrs. which I would even at tsked cotton Tn my interference. is jacket, :o what ha hla loose white int.J P0 KllL'tlnh ha Mowle had brought and had insisted join you in Paris, if you wanted me, .....ot nut nn and her mans for I have nothing to do and strange fly that Baraka had a friend in .l.i IIIUI BIIC nuinv her with to say I have a little money! I've "Ion who was one of the great of clothes had been taken from you Wrth. and who would certainly all her other belongings, sne sat up, sold almost all my furniture, . as the Kind know, so I'm not such a total pauper l6 hot Innni, . Lam . , ana loveiy, ner voucn pale Z lor lonuru, I racter aninnocence, . i viaitnr entered and stood hestde her as usual. But in any case answer k - without this, please, and tell me thnt I have "Poor child! exciamiea iuc delay, it he knew of ner can done right, or wrong, just as you feel it. Hie. touched by her sad eyes. "What about it and then we will go on beis the gentleman's name?" I do to help you?" did she ing friends, or say good by, whichever !yht the policeman. Daraka shook her head, for looked up she you decide." Then not understand. Maud signed this long letter 'nttn Logothetl, and Spiro knew Into eyes almost as beautiful as her Lady it to Miss Margaret addressed and slowly a name, Mress of the lodgings he always own. and pronounced impos-Bibl- e at feeling sure that Bayreuth, was Donne, It St. Jumeaand so distinctly that , piace It would be delivered, even without each syllable. hoar to not well," said the policeman. the name of the hotel, which she did hunt i. ,i "Konstantln Logothetl." ine oraf er at nce- & e not know. But the Bayreuth she well might, as wank very started, The lady limmuch, sir," Spiro noverworked the was during Lady than no other rQ and he mnrla tin mnn nnlaa for she was own ited time of the performances, and It n who called herself by her ""rgeant looked surprised whsn extra assistant HesRar. .... family name, "Mrs. Foxwell," in he hannened that the . L, hands the letter passed whose of women through NUecr rnao tki- v. . j work amongst the poor for distribution either did not know ' thief : to the London. I, w the Miss Donne was the famous Corappealing that owMt Baraka saw the quick stolen nronertv for heln: as dova, or did not happen to remember understood that Logo heti the hotel at which she was stopping, She I ..0w.ner 18 one of th0 milium-- -f and visitor. nncliTg; and the thief Is aloft- well known to her arm with both or both, and It got pigeon holed under Maud's Son C,0the"' B3r th b3r 5 fmall Lady D, to be called for. The consequence tell Mrs. Mnwl. nut was that Margaret did not receivs It teouM face with a beseeching i and dress her LI0?'"'1 1 Sht wisasq until the morning after the performmisunderstood. be ee not If I can find Mr, J cap-tanc- dWACmai," n V' t Ix-C.- .ti L r" good-nature- d ,iiyi. i - con-meu- t. oil um z, yLmfe i, ' w:v &ay vi eV''' ui tN JT 1 a " iWi...v VKt n, in i iii'. f 1 I -- "- r post-offic- rf 1Z of "rarslfal" to which she had Van Torp, though it had left London only six hours after him; for such things will happen even In excountries when tremely people send letters insufficiently addressed. Furthermore, It also happened that Logothetl was cooling himself on the the one IogothcU had given her for deck of his yatch In the neighborhood her engagement, and which she had of Penzance, while poor Baraka was insisted upon having set as a ring, in the police station. For it would cover more than halt the yacht, which was a very comfor- though the space between her knuckle and table one, though no longer new, and the Joint ot her third finger. Further, not very fast according to modern it had been stolen by the very girl was at Cowes, waiting to be from whom Logothetl had ideas, pretended wanted, and when her owner parted that he had bought it, a fact which from Van Torp after promising to cast the high llg'.it of absurdity on his dine on the next day but one, it ocunlikely story! It was natural enough curred to him that the smell of the that she should have seen it and wood was particularly should have known that he was pavements taknasty, that It would make no real dif- ing it to PInney's, and that she should ference whether he returned to have been able to a little at once or in two days, or two screw or paper with prepare a bit of glass weeks, since the ruby he had left lnsldo, to substitute for It The immust bo cut before it was mounted, probabilities of such an explanation and that he might just as well take did not occur to Margaret, who saw the fast train to Southampton and get only the glaring fact that the hand 3G to sea for hours.' This he did, after some Tartar girl had accompanied to telegraphing his between London and Paris, have steam as soon as possible: and Logothetl, as a man, and had ultias he bad only just time to reach the dtsgulshed robbed him, as he richly demately Waterloo station he did not even take served. She had Imposed upon Van the trouble to stop at his lodgings, too, and bad probably tried to Torp, lie needed no 'luggage, for he had sell him the very stone she bad stolen everything he wanted on board, and from Logothetl, and the one she had his man was far too well used to his made blm take as a gift was nothing ways to be surprised at his absence. but a bit of glass, as he said it might The consequence of this was that for all he knew. be, when Baraka's case came up the next She devoured Maud's letter tn morning there was no one to say a a few moments, lady and then read it word for her and Spiro. Mr. Plnney twice which took so long that identified the ruby "to the best of his Mrs. again, Rushmore Justine to tell belief as the one stolen from his Potts to ask it sent Miss Donne did not counter, the fact that Baraka bad mean to go out that morning, though been disguised in man's clothing was the weather was so fine. treated as additional evidence, and Great singers generally develop a she and Spiro were sent to Brixton for flying into rages, even capacity jail accordingly, Spiro protesting if they have not been born with hot their Innocence all the while in elotempers. It is very bad for the voice, quent but disjointed English, until he but it seems to be a part of the life. was told to hold his tongue. was very angry, and Potts Margaret Further, Lady Maud read the po- became as meek and mild as a little lice court report in an evening paper, lamb when she saw the storm signals cut it out and sent it to Margaret as in her mistress' face. She delivered document confirming the letter she her message in a pathetic and op-had posted on the previous evening; and owing to the same insufficiency In the address, the two missives were taken Mm half-stifle- d Pin-ney- sailing-maste- 's r that she was quite white and that her eyes were bloodshot. But she was really a sensible English girl, although she was so very angry. "This is ridiculous!" she said aloud, with emphasis. "I won't be so silly!" And she sat down to try and think quietly. It was not so easy. A Tartar girl indeed! Mora probably a handsome. Greek. It was no wonder that they had succeeded In deceiving her for a while, tbe two orientals together! They had actually made Rufus Van Torp believe their story, which must have been a very different matter from lying to a credulous young woman whe bad let herself fall in love! .But for her friend Lady Maud she would still be their victim. Her heart went out to the woman who had saved her from her fate, and with tbe thought came the Impulse to send a message ot gratitude; and the first fury of her anger subsided with the Impulse to do so. By and by it wo ild cool and harden to a lasting resentment that would ' not soften again. Her hand still shook so that she could hardly bold the pen steady while she wrote the telegram. "Unspeakably grateful. If can Jole me here will gladly wait for you. Must see you at once. Do come." She felt better as she rose from the table, and when she looKed at herself In the mirror she saw that her face had changed again and that her natural color was retiming. She rang for Potts, remembering that the half-hou- r must be almost up. "Potts," Margaret said, "I've been in a rage, but I'm only angry now. Do I look like a human being again!" "Yes, ma'am," answered the maid. Inspecting her gravely. "You are still , delivered together. Lastly, Mr. Pinney took the big ruby back to his shop and locked It up In his safe with a satisfaction and a sense of profound relief such as he had rarely felt in a long and honorable life;, and he would have been horri fied and distressed beyond words If he could have even guessed that he had been the means of sending an inno cent and helpless girl to prison One thing more which concerns this tale happened on that same day. Two men drove up to the door of a quiet and very respectable hotel In the West end; and they asked for their bill, and packed their belong' ings, which were sufficient though not numerous; and when they had paid what they owed and given the usual tips, they told the porter to call two hansoms, and each had his things put on one of them; and they nodded to each other and parted; and one han som drove to Euston and the other to Charing Cross; and whether they ever met again, I do not know, and It does not matter; but In order to clear Baraka's character at once and to avoid a useless and perfectly transparent mystery, It Is as well to say directly that It was the young man who drove to EuBton, on his way to Liverpool and New York, who had Logothetl's ruby sewn up in his waist coat pocket; and that the ruby really belonged to Margaret, since Logothetl had already given It to her, before he had brought It to Mr. Pinney to be cut and set. But the knowledge of what is here Imparted to the reader, who has already guessed this much of the truth, would not help Baraka out of Brixton jail, where the poor girl found herself In very bad company indeed; even worse, perhaps, than that in which Spiro was obliged to spend his time. well-dresse- d Hi CHAPTER VIII. Margaret received her friend's let ter and the account ot Baraka's trial by the same post on the morning aft er she and Mr. Van Torp had been to hear "Parsifal" together, and she opened the ing her other letters, though after assuring herself that there was nothing from Logothetl. She read the newspaper cutting first, supposing that it contained something fluttering about herself, for she had been a little short of public admiration for nearly a fortnight Baraka's case was reported with the rather brutal simplicity which characterizes such accounts in the English paper's, and Logothetl's name appeared in Mr. PInney's evidence. There had been the usual "laughter," duly noted by the stenographer, when the poor girl's smart man's clothes were produced before the magistrate by the policeman who had arrested her. Tbe magistrate had mad a few stern remarks when ordering the delinquents to prison, and had called Baraka "hardened" because she did not burst Into tears. That was all, and there were barely lines of small print But the prima donna bit her hand-some Hp and her eyes sparkled with anger, as she put the cutting back into the first envelope, and took the folded letter out of the other. The girl had not only stolen a ruby, but it was Margaret's ruby, her very own, two envelopes before read- She Saw That She Was Quite White, and That Her shot Eyas Wsrs pressed tone, like a child reciting the a bit pale, ma'am, and your eye is a collect for the day at a Sunday trifle wild, I may say. A motor velL school. perhaps, It you are thinking of going The prima donna, imposing as a out ma'am." "I haven't got such a thing, have young lioness, walked slowly backwards and forwards between her win- If I never motor now." dow and the foot of the iron bedPotts smiled the smile of the very stead. There was an angry light in superior maid, and moved towards a ' ber eyes and instead of flushing, as perfectly new- leather that cheeks did for any ordinary fit of stood in tbe corner. temper, they were as white as wax. "I always put in two for sea, Potts, who was a small woman, ma'am," she said. "You wore one seemed to shrink and become visibly when we crossed the channel the last smaller as she stood waiting for an time, if you remember." answer. Suddenly the lioness stood "Potts, you're a treasure!" still and surveyed the poor little jack"Yes, ma'am," Potts answered al that served ber. vaguely in her meek voice, as she "Ask Mrs. Rushmore if she can dived Into one of the curious secret wait halt an hour," she said. "I'm very pockets of the . "That is, angry, Potts, and it's not your fault, ma'am," she said, herself, correcting so keep out ot the way." "I mean, it's very kind of you to Margaret's wrath did not subside say so." i quickly, and as it could not spend (TO BBS CONTINUED.) itself on any Immediate object it made her feel as if she were in a English Jew In High Position.. Herbert Samuel, who was recently raging fever. Her temples throbbed, her hands trembled and were as hot named as chancellor of Lancaster, as fire, her Hps were drawn and with a seat in the cabinet, is the first parched, and when she caught sight Jew to attain to that distinction la ot herself la tbe looking glass she saw j England. hr - hat-bo- x , , hat-box- 1 ! , Blood- . |