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Show ! -gHT lib . ' (.iii.-ie a uie .m sweeping the curtains cur-tains bHrk from my ten window. I " bad heard the rio ka strike all the houra and hulf-hrxira-of the tiHht. N'ow they tolled ;iaill--"one two." I llitiNl ieep. 1 nwe to lower the wiihIom and shut out the xtonn. lint aa my ftnKers Krasped tha rash. a strong hand rame nut of the drk i and seized my wrtst. another band tre th rinjc from iry ftnicer, and l-e-fore 1 had time scream, the thi-f had slipped dovn tha veranda roof .aas,l,sTBB and waa pone aW 1 stwd stupidly iti the middle of the reVom, knowina; only that 1 must not " cry out. Thia wia not a aecret I could share. Then I giarR'led hysterically to think how the plotters were going to shred up that blotting paper, layer by layer, bunting: for a secret at ita heart: To reassure myself that I still possessed pos-sessed the only original and genuine guide to a modem hunt for burled treasure 1 felt for the paper unde'r my cushion, ami In so doing, I upset u bottle of delicately scented toilet water. wa-ter. Kverything on the table waa saturated. sat-urated. I dried up the liquid aa bear. 1 could with a bath towei and went tn sleep to dream of a L'-boat made of Jewels floating in a sea of perfume. In the morninp I rescued the miserable miser-able acrap of paper from the confu-aion confu-aion of my totiet articlea. And outlined out-lined upon It I beheld something new drawimca which had been Invisible until wet with the toilet water ' At last 1 hald the aecret of th sunken treasure In my hand! Copyright. 1 !1 by the Newspaper Knterprisc Association. Tn hereon tinned ee i " -a -s..,.. ,r-j. irr-- CHAPTER 9$. I My Mystery .Ring Is Stolen, but the ' Treasure Secret la Found. Little M(p dul 1 fc-t that nhrht. Hut often did I laugh to think that I, June : I4irtmer. married into the richest fanr-j fanr-j dy of the town, should yield to the I lure of buried treasure, should be ' charmed aufftcietitly to suffer fntn in- eomnia on Ua account. Just how did i the mystery stand? In any search f'r j tha jewels, who were tha persons to I 'be reckoned with? There waa Oertela. who, as a secret j service man. had discovered that the j V-boat ft ad brought over the Jewels probably to pay for Hun propaganda, I But now that Bremer was dead. Cer-J Cer-J teis had no way of finding out In what I deeps or shallows of the. ocean the j L'-boat had been put to bed. ! Hretner had given the secret to j Mary Thomas because he was afrmd j he would be interned by the guvrn-' guvrn-' nient but Bremer and. his command - ing officer and all the petty officers of the submersible had perished of the platcue an my own eyes had assured me. i Marv Thomas was pursmed by aome-bodv aome-bodv else, who waa hot on the trail of the K-nis. Who could tie be? Aa a possibility, some meni her 'f the U-liMt U-liMt crew. Aa a probability. some 1 aent of the men who were to receive! and pay for the gems in New York. J And Tiny J"ff whs to be reckoned J with. The cowboy and soldier would tie. ire no greater adventure than the winning of a fortune and the girl he loved at the risk of his life. 1 turnd the ring on my finger and recalled th;it naive confession of a j lover now hidden carelessly under my I pin ciihhion; "Acrept my admiration " t Ieath clings to love s often jut ua i j .t ilm(n to thia ring. j I ihtid'iered rvu from. fear- "hut i e-j .'.. |