Show I CHAPTER I Suffer the Terror of Watched and Followed and Learn Fear The theft of ot the ring proved to me that one set of conspirators searching for the location of ot the sunken jewels had traced the clue from tron the Queen of Smiles to me The return of ot the ring together with Jims Jim's letter re reminded reminded reminded re- re minded me roe that I 1 might be in constant I danger Now that the thief of ot a week ago ha hat had learned by personal investigation tion that the chart was not in the ring it occurred to m me roe that the very safest hiding place for that chart was back Ii In the ring I took the wee woo fold of ot thin tough paper from beneath my pincushion I ion lon shut It in its lapis lanis casket and went down to dinner I Just as the dessert was placed on the table In rushed Eloise white as ever sho could been when whet she first Hirst faced the Hun Hup beat beast t four our years ago mol she wailed Un Un en homme-en en haut haut haut-dans dans le Is boudoir de tie Mme Jeanne I Jai Ji pour I Blen Dlen sur madame je lai vu cot I homme en Belgique The butler not pot at all understanding I what Eloise Elois had hat crl cried d out t tp to him as sh she ran rn down stairs had followed ived her I into the dining room I A burglar I r translated for tor Daddy In my room 1 I 1 had a hunch as ns to what that burglar burglar burglar bur bur- buri i glar wanted there and I would havo I followed the tho be men nen upstairs to see him if it I possible but mother culled called mo me back bach I Eloise loiso had collapsed in a l heap on the I floor noo I After we had revived her and put her herto herto herto to bed I ran to my room As I suspected suspected sus sus- peeLed it W was Uttered littered from elid eM to end with my personal possessions Even my calling car earths cards a had been Scattered the thin sheets of pC tissue which protected pro the engraving had been sUpped slipped off into a n. snowy heap It was plain to tome tome me mc that whoever had stolen the from rn my finger a a. week ago had just searched my room for tor the tile key to tho the location of ot the tile ElOIse Eloiso scar scared the scamp I suppose e said Daddy Lorimer as mother and nd I 1 surveyed tho the havoc I guess she kept him from Cram trying out the tile rest of ot tile tho house lIes lIe's taken nothing of ot Janes Jane's so Ho far Car as I can cnn tell That comes my girl of ot your not caring much about Jewell jeweh y Sensible Y You'll never have havo to cry over your losses Daddy peddy ordered iron liars bars set over o m my windows next day and he puan puan pu PUI an extra night watchman on the tha grounds Nevertheless I did not sleep well But nut Eloise felt much safer No wonder wonder wonder won won- der she fainted if Jt her eyes had not deceived her She said that the man she discovered at my desk was one of ot other her Hun persecutors in Belgium She described him liim as having on the left loft cheek the scar car car of a a. slash from mouth to ear ear tile the scar of ot a cut made by her husbands husband's own sword Mother avers that poor Eloise's bitter experience has made her but hut I halt half guess that th what she says may be true At any rate J I must have been hypnotized hypnotized hyp hyp- by hy her story For now I J too am afraid I have It n f oi sc that I J am boing be- be ing followed wherever E I K g t I am persecuted persecuted per per- exactly a as ilary Mu lar Thomas was Twice my handbag has been opened Ina in ina ina a crowd on once e my office desk was r rum rum- rn- rn maged Certainly getting Into an n Intrigue In intrigue trl is far easier than getting out of pf it Strive against It as I may I am sied sed with fear And I wish I had my own man map here hereto to tales tale care are of ot me mo To be continued Copyright 1918 by Newspaper Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Enter Enter- prise Association |