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Show ''" i m- ?5Se5- -- PLs- -r ' TIIB FROVO HERALD III -- - : ra l A,.:.. UB. I . " -- but she didn't dare let m,e .know for fear. If Bhould happen, 'I The tory opens at Harvard Where Col. would be anything mixed in it.-- . It waa out up Rupert Winker, U, 8. A., visiting, saw the of Col. kindness, suicide of young Mercer. He 'met Cary Winter, truly was. Mercer, brother ol the dead student, Afterwards when she saw that I was - Throe years - later? - Gltfr-4- Col. Winter overheard worrleffshe gavama hints TtBXl ISefftl ap-- . Cary - '.-4- .. . . M -- an, ; 1'- .... - - . III 11 : :s ccrYxoMT.sor &Ofi&3-M&ft.t- CO. Z.l. 1 interrogated by the eastern gentleman he gazed the moUnlesB trees, a live- - : oaks and olives and ' palms, wera shaken by a mighty wind; the pepper plumes tossed and .streamed and own-fututangled like a banner; the great altos -s along itoA ayfinufl JienUsTer-lparently planninr to kidnap Artlrfe the not worry," Archie was quite safe." ' Ing strain. Yet the silken cord of the 1colonel's ward, and to gaiti pogiiss-o, of " "And the Holland window shade did not so Aunt Jlebecca Winter's mill A Miss :. Smith was mentioned ?.t a "I suppose she gave it to them," anapp..r:iy Jnuchaa..Je.wtngi Tkaraw-a- s - not:- eyectw.9uJdj!.e.mer9blactoaiLtat financ.al magnate swered Miss Smith. was aboard the train on which Col. Win- -' robbery of the cipher, or assassination. wing's breath of air. But gradually ter met his Aunt Ttrbecra. "Iso m til "An the voTce I heard in the tele Perhaps he found the insensible man the earth and cloud vibrated with a and Archie. Col. Winter learned' ihiu t.e In the patio and was tempted by the strange grinding noise which has been He explained how firmly she financial magnate Is Edwin S. Keatcham. phone? -trua Sad halted tba conversation-th- e time I Winter, aided II ArJiie, I and weapon described a hundred times, but sever by tlffffly grisly opportunity " trated a hold-u- p on the tra:n, He took a r both absolutely to bis hand; tor It adequately ; a sickening crepitation, as great liking to Miss Smith, Respite her Arctiiewould"" have' reassured him. was established. .that..lhe dagger, had of the rocks in the hills scraping and . r alleged kidnaping plot. Archie jnjrster,-vusl- y "You weren't , there, of course?"! disappeared lnFrleto. Blood In a said be,. ! " ' been shown Tracy by Mercer as - a splintering. .. Before the mind could nearby room at- the hotel caused fears for " the boy's life. The lad's voice was beard curio", and left on the stone bench. "No, I was downstairs In the ladles' question the aound, there succeeded! over the telephone, however, and a' min- entraace of the, court in. the hotel; I an wa In It anarchy .of, uproar. .Perhaps he had,, not found Uhe dag' iate later a woman's voicethat cf M ss " Smith. CoL Winter and a set had come in a little' while before, havger, bat had Ma own .means to make Jumbled the crash of trees and build- - out for the empty mansion owned by ing carried an advertisement to the an 'end of his enemy and his own ter- ings, the splintering crackle of glass, Arnold, a Harvard jrnujuat. They were : I wonder why she wiet-w- lth ajixoioKian-j;iih:i- ! ror. Birdsall believed that he had ac- the boom of huge chimneys falling and maybe it appeared; He assured Winter t:iat Archie was. to communlcfite. ,K;th..them with'. or at least one accomplice, of vast explosions, the. hiss of steam, " liad complices,: returned. The .colonel saw" a vision out --- - -. with" W m: He . conceirel-thaL- . risking a letter." they the Jluxltngof timbers and bricks and house. .. It was Mins Joet RiiiltH r "But how did your voice get into my lain in ambush watching until masses of stone 6r sand, and the had -to himself Winter he loved admitted that 7 j Mfrnov titld that 'phone?" he asked. they saw Klto goaway. Then an awful rush of frantic water" " escaping:'! Archie had overheard ptanaf.or a. coup She looked' puzzledwohly a. "second, entry had been made. "Most like," from engine or main. and had been kidnaped. One. of Mercer's then he had not heard ber laughed-a- sconcluded, '"he jest flung that Birdsall, .'"Quake, cure's you're born!" said friends on returning the boy'toTiis .aunt had been arrested-fo- x' a speeding and when laugh in- - San Francisco dagger away for. you folks to find and the colonel softly, he returned frnm ntstinn tn hia laugh auta .the- - lad was gone.- - Mercer contassed musical, merry peal, suspect the.dpmestlcsj ssy Kltocause - Now,, that, his .invisible" peril wa x ' . he was forcibly - detaining Keatcham. that made his heart bound. he. was away." But this was not all real, was upon him, his spirits leaped Mercer teld his life story, relatins how "Why, of course,"- - said she, "it is so that Birdsall had to report. He: had up to meet it He looked coolly about Keatcham and "his sc'ouidrel secretary, was a reporter who ineasy Atkins, had ruined him. the AtklnS tp the haunts of certain him, noting in his single glance that . traced . his wife. Mercer was holding him prison-- sisted on Interviewing Mrs. Winter .. cr in order that he could hot get uontrol unsavory Italians; he had struck the the house - was standing absolutely of a railroad which was the pet project of about her jewelry ;"and I" was shooing stanch,: neither reeling nor shivering; : ral,Ja fine. To be sure, it raa'under-ground.anhim "awaytJ Somehow the" wires must was Jost in ihe brick-walle- and that the "chimney just .opposite . , i cao witn two men. d Tnen ne vanisnea. have crossed." bis eye had not misplaced a brick. Ia and celhjrs--.o- f " She followed In an auto into the Chinese "Do you remember this is very, same instant he caught up his reharbored which , sin Chinatown the every Of a use district and .by the mysterious ade ornament she secured a very pretty, don't you think? Just and crime known to civilization or to volver and ran at his best pace fronr I, Chinese irom an innuenuai umnaman like a puzzle falling into place. Do promise savagery. What matter?. By grace of the room. The hall was firm under, that the boy would be returned. Archiehis story, Atkins, for- you remember coming here on the day told and returned his aunt's powerful friend they could his Ijurjying feet. As he "passed the " : mer ecretary to Keatcham, being his Archie was returned?"7'-- : track the wolves even through those great arched opening on the western second Kidnaper, col. winter anarracy "I surely do; my head was swimnoisome burrows. returned to the "haunted house." They balcony he aaw an awful sight found Keatcham,. apparently stabbed to ming, for Mrs. Winter sent me and I Ihe colonel, "Yes," sighed Diagonally across from Casa Fuerta stretching death. Keatcham was not dead, howout his arms with a resonant breath was. the great house of the California ' ever. Cary Mercer appeared on the scene, began then to suspect. - She told me Winter believing his actions suspicious. Brother Cary was in danger; of course of relief, "we're out of the maze; all magnate who did not worry his' conThe party removed to the Arnold home. I wanted to do anything to help him; They-fearewe have to do now is to keep from be- tractor .with, demands for colonial lion- - . Atkins' gang. , became temporary secretary to .the mag- - and I carried, a note to him. I didni't killed.- - Which Isn't such a plain esty.' of "workmanship - as well a ing v nate. A Black Hand letter was received. as . in Massa- colonial' - architecture. : The - stately gave, the note and. saw The real characteristics - of the great go in,, merely preposion ' ' ; ' . financier were revealed. The puzzle of him. we can tackle mansion with its beautiful piazzas-anI reckon chusetts! But, the story fell Into place, the blame for "I saw you." it! And "then then,-mdelicate harmony of pillar and the crimes being lifted from Mercer's .darling; I " "You? How?" shoulders and placed upon Atkins'. Love be dare shone white and placid on' shall happy!" pediment, of Miss Pmlth and Col. Winter for each "Blrdsall and I; we were here, in ,hlrosi'lLJeanlag--otu"h.t- a o thex m g m bera Itaa for LUIatound aya. a,aeond. .then ..rocked la.. pthcr.was plalnlyjejn ' ' -"of the party. Tne patTo; we, my "tfearMTsT"lanetT "wlndowsill and staring like a boy on ghastly wise and collapsed like s were - the - Danger ! - You - tad - on a th landscape, lost In the lovely hal house "Ot ' cards. 7 Simultaneously- ". CHAPTER XVII. Continued.' . brown-checkeJ were silk and dress you lucinations of moonlight, it was no torchlike flame streamed Into- the air, H r," "1 Should Like to Tell VNo," murmured Miss Smith meek- Answered, "If You Will- holding a wire' clipper In your hand." scene that he knew. It was a vision of AwQful zAin .Of 1 human anguish ..iv..-wit- n a ntue iwmKie oi ner-eyI" saw" it on the grass 'nYes,srr. old Spain; and by and by from yonder pierced the inanimate tumult of wreck: trust a awkward was of sentences over blushed declaration his Smith "T rtM that- bo bid rhpm Hrw ridicil- and "., picked it up." turret the princess, with violets In her and crash. ' Jocoseness. Yet,, the next moment he in Miss Smith. lous pf me to get in such a fright! She -- laughed .a Olttlebut directly loosened hair and 'her soft cheek like -"- Dully torvCasa Fuerte!" ried t& -l" crtalnTyT;ent"oir ""af naif-coc... v ner cneeus reaaeneaw' w pat must 5Xtefidedi8rhan.dltnT"hiBormat Batin and snowwould lean and look, soldier,. who now -- was. making a freu-- v n and took said "and courtesy e he, there," amiably; U...V. thought of me!"she mur- - Miss Janet's shapely, , firm fingers in I felt T. si te meuve a lastima ml eterno pa zied speed to" the other side of the shewas so awful-nic- e Know tne lenems uw suuu a wiuueia mured under her decer. breath; and bit the his own lean and nervous grasp. - "Al- obliged to " suspect her ; but I've got Como te amo, amame, belllssima mujer house. He cast a single glance toward' ment as his will" go. I did another Hp that would have quivered. the door which he knew belonged me low sincere to offer my' the real dog that killed the sheep this J "Ah"" you both, Billy thingrl found a daggerone of "I should like to tell you dear," he no, little - girl," he muttered time;-Jt:- a. .Redthought. of .C&r . halted, In ie,.nnd. aure Wulll" congratulations," teal began the., h stilettoes that hang 'With" a "BhaRe bf "tne bead,'""! llke"it j.. answered, ""if yen will OJlkordrfor-giy- e his eyes, which seemed so incurious It ran first to his old aunt-He- . but .he he a of boy, that had, appeared verity, the. library; itwas, lying in the door-wabetter to have you a plain, American young men for living! If they but were so keen, didn't need to go. the whole way. "WTien "no one was looking f bid traveling from the been usefully buBy.- - He had secured. gentlewoman," as "Aunt Becky would are not all coming back to ask me to woman's.. who-haJanet and". "I . her She came out-linesman's. ft confusionto the mechanic Atkins anti carried iUofL-1 stuck it in given me to battle with Archie at her side. door, were all send "singrButrJanetTdearriet me say ltlr beg your pardon; I understood Ar- plan of .the secret passages of Casa say, They one of the flower beds? I stuck it in a niclittle quiverx. Spanish yes,.yesx If . you" really won't chie who washere; gave me to under-- , Fuerte.--H-e" had found the. policeman heart! the fernsr I have stuck that wretched be Jaored r- - tb.ro w-- m e not good enough for : Oh, I and 1 didn't dare stand and I heard you singing; "you who had arrested Tracy (he swore attire, Archie plain Aunt Rebecca back in the arm- will my dear, rgy dear.' He felt an you, I believe but be ago was because it, years hardly going too fast) and the immense humility as he contrasted his ly had just plunged out of bed. Hl. it back and put it' in the empty chair, faintly smiling,- - while the old, carry :. " were dancing with excitements magistrate- -. who had fined him;-an- d place with the others because som bid "words ,""lBat"thbusanda'' Of'Iovers sangjhat to, my ,wife,"i-:.of eyes own lot: "with-t- heloneliness Is '"So" amas I concernedr house is a dandy, ain't it far "This ' not only that, he had captured the po- Keatcham and Mercer and the multl one" might have noticed the place. have thrilled with pain and hopes and " Oncle Bertie?" he exclaimed. "STc licemao,- a genuine officer, not a crim- .tude of And ' I didn't dare ' say anything to dreams beyond, their 6wn power of settled," said the colonel steadily. solitaries in the world, .who Arnold told me all about, the way . Janet lifted her sweet eyes and sent inal in disguise, who had been Atkins' "Cary; I was right miserable," sweet' offered to their or sadder still, had never had and lost, speech one glance as fleeting and light as the Instrument in kidnaping Archie. This built Iti "he said it wouldn't bar "So was I," said the colonel, "think-"- - hearts, rose poBsesseiL'-ih-e divine, dream, lhat-1- b winged by . the eternal flash of a bird's "I Us""ey"e "for an earthquake. It didn't knew tefmah.Twhom Birdsall the wing. tow.to werfr ing you trying such As of soul. the the only reality longing:--- "" " murderer." "But do you- know what I "Y si "te mueve' a "lastima" mf 'eterno' it is settled,'- murmured she; but im- rify completely had confessed that It thoughts moved "his heart, "suddenly In either; but that house opposite i Just was nurse kindling-wood- ! she the Say! - here's Cousls again. was purely by chance that Atkins bad the full tide of mediately had sense to do?" padecer,--.hope and thankfulness, Uncle. Bertie; .Mr. "Mr. Keatcham, you are staying awake seen the boy( left outside in the motor and look, Cary; , "Go to Mrs. Winter? Oh, I wanted stood still, chilled, as if by the Como te amo, amame, belllssima much too late. Here is Col vin, who car. Atkins, so he said, had pretended it Keatcham' has got up and he's all to!" . In an of seas summer. glimpse iceberg mujer! "Exactly; and do you know what . - Como- - te --amo, amame,- - belllssima will see. to anything you wantr- - Good that" the boy was a tool of some ene- Yet how absurd;" it was only that he dressed. Hullo, Colvlnt Don't be . . mies of Keatcham's, whose secretary had recalled his stoical aunt's most scared. It's only a 'quake!" .Colvia night" that dead game, sport said Id me? She hzrrr-mujerr had he was, trading, not for the only time,was Keatcham Mr. then that It grinned a sickly grin and stammered. said she found those washed and ironed "And what does it mean in Engunexpected "touch of "superstition. Bir, quite. bo, sir." Not an earthr "Yes, cuffs and trousers neatly cleaned lish, Bertie?", said Mrs. Melville. taken the colonel's breath away by on his past position. In reality, Blrd- Quite in she jest he bad asked her if he which after could shake Colvin out of bis Janet's come sall. had. the "Can't Vou translate it?" believe knew io Atkins "with milka what's milka?--ankissing hand; quake fflfanv prPKPnHmpnrgir...qiiPf!r thin pa manners. witn thetiioiiei wita Mercer KEaiena ttmtrTimM WaB"eTHploylhg" rjlaf' Tnffika cTeMecnuTspolFloruirC! In her bones. Shall I?" said the colonel, his " .expected.to " ";erthan'"therest that she" had her-ovoice" was careless" "enough, but hot so strange new cordialltyr and watched In his plaee. "Arey6uable to do this," Mr." be ans wered that Janet had d riven a with both go away together Keatcham?" young Arnold called started. , But says she: the eyes which looked up at Janet them, . slispiclons ''J can't absolutely put my finger on every other anxiety ut of he mind; look on his gaunt face unlike any his information," said Birdsall; ''but I and-hobeing a' plumb idiot, J went Smith. was she to break it to Mijll-cent? breathlessly, plunging into the patio to known 'to- Colvin. . straight, to Cary and he told me the . "Not suspect MrsMelville Winter; I know or with some such caustie re- which .they had all instinctively graviplease," said she.' "I with she was Jtalking to him, for one of my whole story' " " Only three minutes In the. I think Mr. Keatcham is expecting Instead, she had replied" test- tated. Keatcham laughed a ahortr partee. 'r "Which was like your story?" me to read to him a little."' Good night; the' moon through the arched window; men saw her.The lady meant no harm, ily; "Yes, I do, Bertie. I feel hor guntlng laugh. "Don't you ; under- ' - "Very near. And you see it would Thank you," Cor. Wintor." of the kind that Is al- - ridt . 1 feel as if something out of the stand, this is no , little every-daand his arm about her-- and the fra- but she's-on- e s aufl-lr- e7 be like Atkins to leave incriminating She "was on KeneetTasTsRe Bpokef grance pf- her loosened hair against y ways slammlmt-therdetectivecommon awful were going to happen. 'quaTteToolriJUtr-"ls-theTraJwa:. -- w and. not see a spout of. ? testimony round loose. That Is, In- and Winter did not try to detain her; his cheek, and her. voice fctirring. Wb' ing took la by the rascals." It isn't exactly Atkins, either. Do you you- - can-loHe argued- that Mrs.' Winter, and recktwrit could be the I Suey ,Whe.n, flame? I've got to go downtown. criminating testimony against Mercer he had held her hand; and he had felt heartstrings with an exquisite pang. and Tracy. The dagger,' Tracy remem- its shy pressure and caught a fleeUngJ -P" time for the immemorial ques Miss Smith. knew where the boy was; that for the machines all right?"; "We must find Randall; the poor sure, dear, it for some reason they had lef him go dlnnerT - bers, was not in the libary; it was in frightened, very beautiful glance. . His tions of love: "Are-yo, "- - the patltf.- - Right to hand.---AtkiIs Teally I?" and "When - did you and" werepret eliding hbtf" 16 - know "quake TTOiil has a mortal terror-c- -f dark 'facS with a .20 of the mln "paled good intensity spent they, " 'must Tiave "got in- and found Mr. his emotion. Janet moved away, quiet- first" To this last she had an- where .he was. "Ain't that so?" the utes after, that, joking over super- Aunt Rebecca's wellbred accents jWere adorar defective appealed to Aunt Rebecca, stitions, and he had unruffled: she appeared a thought the floor in a faint. ly and lightly, with no break in' her swered with, her . Keatcham pn repeated. to her I hci Whether he meant to make a bargain composure, but as she "passed "Mrs. ble little- - lilt of- "You're some-o- f Tracy's and Arnold's most stimulated, nothing more; danger . al- "" wlth..him or to kill .him, perhaps we Winter she bent and kissed heiv And reckon it was a --little all along, a wonder,: Mr, Birdsall!'' According to make "the ways acted a tonic on Winter" "nerves " " Archie, you go put your clothes 00 shall never, know;, but. when" he saw when Archie would have run after her ever since. I read about your saving to Blrdsall's theory, Atkins was neighborhood keep, its distance from 4his .hebelieved a -- ihe -- affair, Casa - Fuerte, and honey,." And I .suppose we hirahelpJeaaJbfifore.-hlonftliatthey had laughed oughtminute, d servant look to find up Millicent." the But he could believed he Not ArcUe.iiveQnewhoJwasj'our as freely; she taddterl heartily as he, never : (TQ BE COSTIKL'EP.-- . get the cipher key, removing iis ene-- want you to help me down the steps." In iranila-,- . and going hungry fofhfm boy's present hbsTs Be - "Wuir"flndy"Ed - tthe1Psr With her hand on the boy's shoulder 0HT:hemarch"anar3umplngHnto-th- B my and making blrfortune at-- a blow, "wjn ReatcnaniT It would "not" be'"the" a r,reiense.Buaqeniyx- an.unruiy .tremor Meatthfut Bath. tr - as he French to lTuperf,;and lnclfne"d1pids--t- o "you ere ursfftime Keatcham had hidden saye fshook:hls own JLrm' spirits..; Looking favored by the Kneip much A bath "Do you think" her voice sank low-- . ber handsome head in Janet's direc the better to spin his web for the out on. the ..stepped and lanterned with the bare-fee- t habit, I along pists, Here tho colonel burst in with a trapping of bis rivals. That Mercw arelies. jaf 'the. wing. he" was conscious er; she glanced - over her shoulder think, by rights, that kiss betlon.';I needles---anof solution a from formed pine .' "do you reckon Atkin had anything longed to;youy-mo-n of the same tragic endowment of the enfant" said she. groan: 7 "Ohrthat monstrous newspa- was" with" hir'employef the with cones. watercold Cover had no manner of doubt, any more darkened pile, jwhlch had oppressed aboutpine per liar!. The 'dear little Filipino boy tp do with, that train robbery? Was it neediest- - -fresh of a pine pound a' mere "pretext to give a chance to was' a married man; and I didn't jump than" he. doubted that Mercer's scheme him lhat night, weeks before, when he CHAPTER XVIIf. and pine cones broken In small pieces. " ftiurdef Mr: Keatcham,.. fixing the into the rives to save him. "It wasn't rtiad been to oust him nd to'build his had stood outside on'lEe cresTof the Casa Fuerte. . . : ,".". BflU for half an ht)urt strain and afts' . -tylarae on ordinary baadits?" " He hdlr and "the would-b,Wmter, would have salffthat he was more than wading depth I only swore own fortunes' on Atkin: .ruin. murderers the.. solution to the bath. If yowb' be." too old a man to stay awake all night, at him for an, idiot and told him to knew both Tracy - and young Arnold might !Dy Jove!' .it might in'" the not want to use the entire amount at e.ver wbea .he. Jiada Jicrmal '& jshaJJ 4i4 -- i8ightrWea-he-ouldn shadows of frmiirrppgr treesr- -I frtrtKl once'lt " can" De"TjbttVed an J". li"pt" lor .teupratttri know. But, Col. Winter, do you.mind yet he saw the stars come out and the boat and was floundering about And frighten' Archie into telling anything, vainly to" sbotaioff. this distempered future occasions. This has a tonic ef- explaining to ma Just what Brother stars fade on that fateful April night. he did! He was the limit as a liar1' probably ha went;, back to his first mood Although, he might succeed for fect both on the nerves and the skin..-- ' - Cary' - scheme - with . Mr, Keatcham He entered his room at the hour when To Wb - relief, the most sensible as plan ot Shadowing' the. Winter party a rh.nrnent-i- n a Invar's abBorptlon, it It can be used uu altetnuta dujs 'wilti was? -- Mrs.- Winter told me- - yoirt midnight" bmshea the pale skirts'- of well as the most lovable woman in the at the Palace. He - must have ' seen would come again,, jngidiouBly, seep- a bath of sea salt ' " -Would"." dawn and mlsguidedbocks are vocifer- world had burst into a delicious bit of Tracy. ..here. He penetrated his dis- ing through bis happiness like a fume, "0h, r.welL guise.. ("He's s sharp as the devil, "After futile attempts t sleep lie rose, ;'he .told. me,".mused the colonel, ating their existence to an indifferent laughter and Keep Your Eyes "on the GrouftcT. "that you; didn't know.anything about world. . Before he came there had been you .would have jumped In- - and Baved I fell you, Colonel.") He either fol- and still at the bidding of his uncanny "", In. walking, about, the Australian this big game, which has netted them a long council with Mercer and his hinv lf the water" had been deep; it lowed him himself or had him fol- and tormenting impulse he 'took his fields It is always advisable to kri- millions. They've closed out their aunt. Mercer, who had been" success- wasn't your fault It was shallow!" And lowed; ac,d he heard about ihe tele- bath and dressed himself for the day. your eyes on the ground. Yox cax deals and have the Cash".' No paper ful in his mission, had barely seen his Just at this point Mercer, and; Aunt phone.; ("Somebody harking in the By this time the ashen tints of dawn never tell when- - yo'u may J:kk Uj3 She', said that' chief for a moment before a gentle Rebecca must needs come with a most next "room, most likely.") . Knowing .were in his chamber, and" on the profits for Auntie! nugget or .fall down a deserted shart..' "'she "would not risk your being mixed but Imperious nurse ordered.; him unusual premonitory racket, and Janet Tracy's Intimacy: with Arnold, "it was fields outside.' Hje stood looking at the From. Tarragulla, a district that bsw, . . not hard for so clever, and- Subtle a unlovelieBt, aspect of nature, a land- been very proliiic iu valuable up In it; so kept you absolutely, la the away. Winter e"aughf a Qwr, abrupt had ftd. nugu'r Th- - JatiF come the - council. mind aa Atkins' ia jump..to the con- scape on .the sunlrws-slde- ;lausb, .from- dark."71 rm" 'there, before thp ComeS news of a remarkable fir.it A Bird-sato as ' Archie?" beckoned All the coil had been unraveled. hlm,,,."fVe you are know Mercer had kidnapped clusion and .test It in the nearest tele- east is red. The air fult lifeless; man walking a'cross the flci-ithM-how- -I as "Blcrk-- . phone was a r'f-r-!there -- were- no deaths- In b hr fW: tip l'8t appeared " "No; I'diita'trkirow he was with Mr. obedient as I am wkpn your-- time "" and he chuthld smiiiftg and It would conies," he was a flat (Inf., ciaqiif and It proved" to bu a Uwac": aiiJ c Keatcham at the. hotel. miphimit over his figure. It out; Colonel.") Blrd3j.il had the . wbi-"both (he pc.1'i-.'arnl Jvlibs blunders,. .PS .ever:..One .of.h.is ..flrat tracr4.lha clever.'. mt'hau.ic.wlia-fi-a- a taiueil.".iliiiL-oillthLuJIIia.a..i)ot.:,!i-aLcret)lc!c.WI.1J ut guid. spvofl ni a'hHD of siiSorlng; i 1 n note-paper?- A-r- 1 about to build; this man bad given the lavish and Inquisitive easterner a plan of the secret passages to use in his residence. Whether At- Wanwnt alone r In'company toUbe Casa Fuerte the detective could only surmise. ; He couldn't tell whether Ms re LJ -- f-- Hcwrecrni Ki .5 BaaJCklaaagfl aWA. vlM V; . :,' ; Jr, - , -- . 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