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Show X - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1922. The Inspiration A Remarkable by a Master Love-Stor- of-- ' y Mystery. THE CHARACTERS. e DAUGHTER and HEIRESS Earl of Rexford. gallant explorer, end hi charming American wlf, Alto dead. This rosebud of A girl (though h looks like a flower, she ha the heart of Pinna, the huntree) Is adored by I.ORD DONALD MUIR, clean, fine, but blocked In h. manly 'suit bv KIR HENRY DERCUM. Outwardly of Percum ta actually A good reputation, fortune hunter and a satyr Intent on to become his He Is her forcing the girl The validity of this legal guardian. Is very much questioned by tuardianship Muir , He ha no proof for h suspicions, and appeals to that dydetective. namic mindel MONSIEUR JONCJUELLE. thftJKeiMt ' of the police of Paris. Th ef-th- )t -- jtf coming out. He saw, also, looking down . th long hall toward the drawing-rooLord Donald Muir advancing in tua J search. He would be her in a moment. the three ef them would meet, in a moment. Juat bevond where he e'ood behind I Ulustiated By C, D. Batchelor th chrysanthemums Already Dereum t and the girl were very nearly up to t -- would he do? Thera waa aometh'ng aurety to b done. Tha world behind it harsh, indifferent mnM sea of human figures, gay, bril- eharnt of inexperience, the charm of ad- machinery must be controlledAllby aom the opliant. venturous youth that doee not question, lmmenee considerate impulse. abandoned eration of life could not be The crowded Embaeov ball moved be- snd, like charity, belleveth ell thmgo law to that to mere a fatalism, phvsical low them. The jewels, the gowns of that inexperience which le gmUy ready for that unthinking, or to a tendency somewomen, th colors of uniforms, gave the any adventure Into what It beautifully were be must could not change. There to be a fairy world. thing the aspect of an almost barbaric Imagines The prefect of po.ice saw the expresthing In the universe to interfere against saturnalia. Th dene crowd overflowed sion bedded iniquity qf human intention and this Into a Percum heavy face, the Onto th bronsc stairway. He heard Indifference of nature! And suddenly, I ord Muir entered and wis loet In the and he knew whet It meant. saw a flash of vision, Jonquell with also the sentence was he Immense throng, seeking the one about' speaking. i happened In Rexford a anow whom ha was so greatly concerned. The "You will need a b'.t of change from what onhad durthe of Antarctic, th hut, plateau fvofect of police went elow'v down the all this artificiality.' th twenty minute that Dereum had moving his hand along the maThe girl laughed. "Do 1 look stale so ing bean there before his expedition had come hogany rail under which, in a magnifi- - sdon. Sir up he saw it aa clearly aa though b Henry? had been looking on. - He called to Lord Donald Muir, and Be advanced to meet Dereum and th girl. "Sir Henry," he aald, "will you r- these young people to th dane and walk a moment w.th me?" Dereum lifted hla big Oriental face, He looking out under bis heavy eyelids. hia moved the tip of the girl's finger to Muir. h to nodded and Up, Tou will be a very brilliant couple. he raid. "I shall be charmed to observe you. And then he turned to M. Jonquell. he aaid, "I have not "Ah. Jonquelle, seen you since th old days In Par.. of Th prefect police put hi hand arm and draw him through Dereum' with an along bealda him, down th hall, ware the ease of manner as though bo warm companion of a lifetime. am "I going to "My friend," he said. ask you to releaso this guardianship and go on your expedition alone. By MELVILLE DAVISSON POST him-Wha- -- - 'Will there be a bobby to hear her scream, north of the Zambezi? There were two persona In th room. It was a small room, looking out over Kt. James park, and attached to th library of the great London house. It waa meant for the comfort of on who wished ts withdraw from the library in order to examine some book a hi leisure, or There were to make some annotation. a table, Two comfortable chair, and a for room, repthe rather largh painting, resenting an affair of honor on a a French of In rear th highway rolumn, presumably Napoleon's army, in Russia. Th conversation between the two person In the room. Lord Donald Muir and Monsieur Jonquelle. the prefect of police of Paris, had passed its preliminary stage. Th youth seated' in on of the great arischairs was a typical product of the more He was little tocracy of England than a boy, but he had already something of th reserve, the almost pretentious restraint of hie race. But he waa rot entirely within this discipline; an ln- tensity of feeling broke out. It appeared : row and then in a word, In an inflection of hi Vole. In a gesture. He sat very straight in tha chair, Ja evanmg clothes his gloves hit weli-ccrushed together and gripped In a ftnn hand that could not remain Idle under his intensity of feeling. He ws a very boy, writh a single startling and feature; hla eyebrows were straight dark, whllo his hair, weathered Ifr the colored. It was gabs his straw outdoors blue eyes at all times a somewhat tens expression. Monsieur Jonquelle had come to London for a conference with the American ambassador on th passport forgeries, and he had remained a guest at the embassy ball. And when the ambassador had th girl; when he gets her, he will get Asked him to hear th boy and help him everything with her. Why hurry? When Dereum has degraded her enough, he will he could, he had gone with Lord all the rest of it; he knows what he Jif Muir Into th little room beyond th get I library. doing. had explained the The man got up suddanly. Th ambassador "And I can' matter to Jonquelle. He bad given him top him," he said, "uneach detail; th girl's mother was Ameri- less I go and kill him; and the beast is can; ah had married th Earl of Rex, too clever to b killed except In the nasford; aha waa dead; Rexford was dead, tiest way. The duel has gone out with and her was this dilemma, i Monsieur the lace coat, he laughe at me with hi Jonquelle knew each of th persons In little reptilian eyes under the heavy eyelids. Have a bit of patience, my boy; I this drams, especially Sir Henry Deroum, who had been in the English foreign ser- - have no objection to you. .if you please the to on attached tlm my ward. But you must wait a little: vice, snd st sli quits young. It is admirable to embassy In Paris. now, waa be youthful and Impetuous, but It makes Monsieur Jonquelle standing, before a window looking out Into th Ufa difficult for a guardian.' That's night that toenveloped London. The boy what ha says. And I know what ha continued thinks, and I know what he la going apeak. ! "Will he not have the right to take to do." The prefect of police Interrupted: her anywhere he likes, monsieur? The prefect of police made a slight What, as of on rejecting a suggestion, be Just what I told you a mo"It will precisely? gesture, i Th gesture was uneonactoua. The men ment ago, replied Lord Muir. "He It ' was thinking of what Lord Donald Muir laying plans now; shes quite keen to wae saying to him. get into any queea. corner of the earth. I suppose ho has th right ,to take her It Is easy enough ffc get a slrl worked anywhere he likes, providing he remain up, especially when a He has th big legend within the jurisdiction of th English of her father before hbr He will do prelaw. cisely what 1 have mh-taher to , "Surely, replied the boy. "Dereum Is southern Africa. within th a clever beast; be will keepJaw. got UP wlth udden ehergy The law can't stop hliyf, jurisdiction of th Englleh but there Monsieur Jonquelle turned slightly, hla xnuit be something. and thata why I blsck th come outlined was to you, monsieur. He added. face gainst To me said Jonquelle, night framed In the square of th because window. you believe In Providence ?' Un Then why do you have this fear about man ookt,i tNta-prefhe said, inunUy Lord Into There cambg sudden energy PreiHTa,;Jnonsleur".h ,ald' "that Muir's vole. reason I came cisely to you. It Is true that tha American ambassador That Is all very well as a theory, has he said, "blit It is quit different In s point of sttsck with Dereum because fact. . . . The English law run south of or these American properties, but that I a very not the thing I depended upon. My Africa; that Is the theory. It is fin theory, as It used to be lectured h wa chief of the criminal Into us at the Hill a great empire pro- investigation of Scotland department measure of same proYard, used to aay when he had a per viding precisely the tection for Its subject st the most distant point of Its dominion that it Provided for him In the very capital Itself. That Is aa nearly as I can remember It. t Is a theorvJ it "It magnificent theory," replied and England has Monsieur Jonquelle, endeavored to maintain it. always - Lord Muir Twisted his gloves; his brown hands gripped them. "But England cant maintain It: that la th verv thing I metn. What protecCsatiaued from Fag Twe. tion ctn th law of England give her In northwestern Rhodesia? Th law of England will- - run there in theory, but it I suppose the supernatural acDsrcumt damned will that will run there curacy of Mr. uncanny, Moore's performance wae In faot. on even hie sturdy getting nerves, He gripped the gloves suddenly with for the next shot, which British he ohose to both hand, at though he were about make with a desk, ran too fast to tha to destroy them. skidded over It, rolled down the . "Will there be a bobby to hear her Keen, And Into the road. He waa a ahot cream?" behind, with a bad He. I glanced at Mrs. He leaned forward In hts Intensity. Bavin. She wa again. And And what will she be whan she comes now she addressed quivering me for the first time.. out? And the won't come out until Dr-cume close and listen to what GilKeep ready. I will tall you what th Bays," she whispered. "If he tell will be. Monsieur Jonquelle eh will be lespie Mr. Moor to try to holo out what Dereum intend her to be. The chip shot from that tricky He looked at the prefect of police, hi Ilo wentBritan's wild. It stopped just at th face covered with sweat. Then he con- sdge of tho long, undulating green, at tinued; least from th hole, and with Do you think thla fine English law two f.fty feet to ridge carry. Ha was shooting will do her any good then? ftvo, and Moors In all probability Jonquelle came a step or two away only by a mlraelothree; from th window. He looked down at th even get a half andputt could tho visitor the match to carry boy. His face waa composed, with that extra holes vague expression it always took on when Bavin Mr. and I. ducking through tha hie Interest was very much awakened. as was our r.ght, crowded close to Sir Henrv Dereum' he said, win ropes, where Gillespie stood studying th tersome a of have Instincts gentleman." hla with rain Intent light. i eye. He drew If he ha anv instinct of a gentle- - out an approaching club and spoke at man," replied the boy, with a sudden last In that almoet even, monotonous -i conso he them ha far kept energy, coaled. London does not know about tone; "Run It a eo below up or there, yard I man. have had him looked tip. th hole. this I heard a long breath escape i He was unspeakable In Hongkong. No Mrs. Bavin. members of the English .colony cam Mechanically, Moore laid the ball as down to th boat to see him off, although A premature cheer, rudely he Ld represent th empire. But he is specified. checked by th ushers, escaped from the a clever beast; on cant get at him. as crowd Willie Carr, the Briton, daring I wanted my solicitor to resist his chance, tried to make It and confirmation aa guardian, but ha said 1 aransuperb hie approach shot eight feet hevond was not a party in Interest th Mr. Moore had only a three-fohole. Th man's voice was charged with an putt to win. Intense vigor. then, as Gilleeplo drew the putter "I wonder why th law ta always so And hia bag, handed It to Mr. Moore.. helpless about anything that is impor- -' from Mrs. Bavin stepped forward and touched see to tant. I had rather her go the on the arm; he started so viodevil than to Dereum. The devil has a Gillespie his head Jerked backward. that lently he is, and Dereum reputation for what She in his ear, but I heard. spoke in has a carefully built-u- p reputation London for what he I not an explorer, out"I suppose when you've made him hole you're going with that sporting instinct that is dear that man in Texasto kill him as you did you murderer? she to th English, and a gentleman, when said. Gillespie hed been holding th golf the fact is, he Is a crook, a thief when handle. bag the loosely His fingers by comes to accumulation the of scientific it to go limp; the clubs clattered a teemed, data, and a bounder! But he Is not on the At this I saw a green. sound damfool, and that's what makes him o nably dangerous; he la Infinitely clever. nervous Jerk or so from the heads of the Th prefect remained where he had gallery beyond the ropes; then all eyes been standing, looking down at th man went back to Mr. Moor. I realised that of Madge snd me inside the In th chair, his face In Its varus re- th presence waa attracting no attention; we pose. The dilemma ef Lord Donald Muir ropes were the course snd had that Policing him. profoundly impressed I am very much puzzled about this privilege. All this in the Instant while Bavin drew In her breath to add: Madge I cannot matter. he eald. "I say that Stay Just where you are. Professor trust Dereum, but I ctn say that I have Hansen. If you make one move or no reason not to trust him. In fact, ha one word Til tell your record to say the has acted, the American ambassador tails me, with extreme delicacy. The property crowd give your whole game away! He The Jaw of John B. Gillespie wsnt which th girl takes from her mother tn America. He has made no effort to slack, hie complexion turned green. I exercise any control over It: he has. In saw that he wa paralvzed. silenced, and fact, advised the ambassador that be needed no further present attention. ,1 would be pleased to have the trustees turned, snd so did Madge Bavin, of her mother's estate continue to ad- Edgerley Moore. He hsd been standing minister thi property until the girl comet like a statue over his Schenectadv putf age to receive u. That did not sound ter; and you could hear the breathing of like a man with a design. the gallery at they waited for him to "It wa quit possible for him to ob- make that one easy stroke which meant tain the sale of this property In America But now he raised up a little victory. and turned his head uncertainly In our and.th transfer of the funds into-hi- s custody Under the English law, but he direction with the look of an old dog who takes th other course. This does not expecting his master's rail. The moseem precisely consistent with your es- -, tion released the tension qf the crowd; a faint bus of whispers broke out. And timet of the man. Thera was a note ss of a bitter laugh Madge Bavin strolled past Mr. Moore with , under Lord Muirs answer. the casual air of an official who Is seeing I Its precisely consistent with mv esti-- i that all is well. As she she spoke mat of him. What tha brute's after Is Her voice. I suppose, passed was loser than ' enow-cover- body Dereum stopped suddenly, hi ; rigid. You hav overheard," Be aald. He made a alight Jonquell emlled. geiure. It la of the one of th perquisite "You. he aald. Service de la Surete, will grant my request. Sir Henry' Your request?" Decuma voice waa almost a atutter. "I grant It? The prefect of police took a firmer hold of hla arm. Walk with me' he aald; "wo may he noticed. . . . Ah, ye, my friend, you will grant It "Why should I grant it, prjy? aald the amazed Dereum. Ydu will grant replied Monsieur Jonquelle, because you wrtll not wish to answer in the Englleh courts in the English criminal court a. question that hat just occurred to me. The prefect of poltce laughed; two persons connected with a continental embassy were regarding him. Then he went on; "How d'd It happen, Shr Henry, that when you cam on Xprd Rexford' expedition on the Antarctic plateau, that morning, when you entered hla anow hut eome twenty minutes ahead of the other membe.-- t of your expedition, and in that low temperature, in that deadly Antarctic temperature, you found everything frosen, th food, tha very mercury tu the thermometer, the bodies of th dead how did it happen. Sir Henry,' and hie hand moved on Dercum's arm like a caress "how did it happen that tlfc Ink on tho canvas table was not also frozen ? ut It' good-looki- -- (Copyright, AH right reserved.) (Printed by arrangement with Metropolitan Newspaper Service, New York.) 1 - ltf -- ect plexed thing to take up with France; 'We can unravel it. If Mons.eur Jonquelle comes up with one of hie Inspirations from heaven. Well, monsieur, I have come to you for one of these inspira- tions" The prefect laughed softly. This reputation wa perhaps his greatest asset a sort of intuition arising at certain complicated stages of an affair, the sudden swift realization of worn essential i hitherto unobserved. Jonquelle continued to shill. The young man wae looking at him with a tense, serioua expression. You will have one of these Inspirations. Monsieur Jonquelle? he pleaded. Th prefect of police began to walk about the room. He was disturbed that Lord Donald Muir should come to him with thla affair. It was not a thing In which he ought to take any part. Outside of eome courteous discussion at the request of the American ambassador, he did not as how It waa possible for him to have anything to do with tha matter. And, further. It disturbed him that this youth should come depending upon what wa to him the? absurd phase of a detective reputa, tion. , Scotland Yard called his sudden swift insight into eome complicated matter, "the Inspirations rrom heaven of the prefect of police of Paris, and not prec'se-i- y with a complimentary accent. The thing annoyed him But he smiled t the In the chair that vague, placid youth smile for which the man was famous "I do not see whaT I can do. my dear Lord Muir, he said, but I shall be receptive to any Inspiration that may arrive. Let us go down. They went out of the little room into the great library. It waa a long, Immense room, and the doors were closed. As they passed through, the music from below ascended, and the vast confusion, of human voices, like the hum of some distant insect hive, Jonquelle opened tha door, and thev were at once above an im- . . tow-ar- d ! in a flowering vine fled from the pursuit of eatyra. He wa more disturbed than he had been willing to admit. This girl wa th daughter of that woman who had charming American married the Earl of Rexford. She waa aa mother her had been lovely In lovely that vanished decade to which now, at thla time of life, the prefect mind wa He had watched continually revartlng. the girl moving in the dance, and this youth who with so little tact had on this evening, tn all the confusion of an embassy affair, aakad to speak with him alone. He had not cared greatly for the Earl ef Rexford; he was too typically an Enconventions that glishman, following seemed a trifle out of modern times; hut he was compelled, in a measure, to admire him. While other men wasted their fortune in th frivolities of London, this man had spent what he could get In exploration, in fitting out expeditions to discover unknown places of the earth. And he went with them, enduring th hardship and peril. He had died tn hla greatest venture. Th whole expedition had perished on one of tho plateaus of th Antarctic. It was Dereum who had gone In to find him. and he had found him frozen to death the very dogs frozen. In on of those fearful depressions of temperature that sometimes descend -- In an Immense blizzard on thla windwood nymph entangled wind-swe- tn ot cent frieze, a pt -- when she addressed Gillespie It could not have carr.ed to the crowd behind the It seemed to moment ropes. Yet at the me that the whole town must hear It. Even, monotonous yet how It rang! "Drive It over the bulletin board there. ' the said. "Drive It as far aa you can!" Mr. Moore straightened his shoulders; I saw the wooden head of his putter come up with a perfect, slow back swing; mw it sweep down, saw a divot spring from the surface of th green. The bail soared over the bulletin board, over the driveway wa lost to view. It landed, I learned later, in the brook, a good hundred and forty yards away. The fixed ef the gaping gallery followed the eye ball. Before thjsy looked back Mr. Bavin had spoken agqin to Mr. Moore: "You will eit down. You will go to By sleep but you can still walk the time the gallery turned back Us gaze to the enactor of this remarkable performance. Mr. Moore had sunk down on tho green with something of the motion of a baby who is learning to walk, and hla eyes slowly closed. Then babel broke the out; people began to come through y ropes; but Mrs. Bavin, leaning over n her natural ton Moore, cried now: nd Dr. Carrington Give him air here!" Almost as soon az, she spoke the doctor was at her side. He can walk, doctor get him to the eald and eh then, in clubhouse.' Moores ear; "Get up when the doctor Moore, the helps you. Go with him'. doctor supporting him, struggled to his Mr. feet. His' eves were 1111 closed. Gillespie help on the other side, In she an this J.mmie" "end out whipped aside to me "keep them off but Join desa All I the us Inside." way fought rear guard action with th pres perate and the gamblers. 1 succeeded somehow; when I arrived in the bedroom to which thev had taken Mr. Moore I saw that someone either Gillespie os. Mrs. Bevln had awakened him1 from trance. He lay on thebed looking bewildered but normal. And no sooner had I cammed and locked the door than Mrs. Bavin tufned to John B. Gillespie. hours to leave You have twentv-fou- r this town and take your addition with she began. The rest was splen. you did but what with my anxiety lest tha reporters clamoring in the hall break in on us, what with my general emotional upheaval, only flashes stick In my memory, like- "The full etory of that Texas episode Ive been working with Dr. King, I tell you a 'subject in the third of hypnosis will take suggestion suit from anvone I did it publicly eo that I d have the proof In case you should try on single trick on me you're not to say to the (reporter that this is a nervous collapse I tell you, if you make a move I dont like. I'll give the full etory to the newspapers that s 11, Mr. Gillespie go and don t come back" I remember the face of Gllleeple pale, the lines fallen, the pow-e- r gone from his remember that he babbled out a eyes. futile word of dn al or protest her and there, which Mrs. Bavin stopped instantly with her own steely tone. At this final command she turned to me. And I, moving as though myself hypnoth somehow tized, unlocked door, jammed the unresisting Gillespie Into a cranny of th crowd of questomng reporters, dammed the food by main force, and locked the door again. Madge Bavin turned to Edgerley Moore. Np, she said, w.th all the mother Edg-srle- t - 1 7- - of her In her tone, we'll take rare of your case. Don't worry. Were going to get you out of this eo that no one will ever suspect. Madge Bavin carried th operation all through to the end; however, th next week was a period of strain, not only for her, but for Carrington and me, her committee on suppression. W Mr. Moore to Carrington's private got under charge of a head nurse whohospital is officially deaf., dumb and blind. The doctor and I were always on guard; and w managed to put over our story to the Pfess that the stra.n of a tournament season had been too much for s man of Edgerley Moore's ysars; that a sudden mental aberration made hlm drive on the !at green Instead of putting, and then collapse. It wasn't all a lie. He had been under an awful strain of another kind: and when, explaining as to a child, w got into his dopey old mind th full enormity of what he had done, he wa frightfully broken up. Mr. Moor wa hazy on every subject except archaeelogly and especially so on th ethjca of amt-teu- r sport. A week later the creditors swooped down on the offices of the missing Gillespie and found that th whole proposition was a alien. He had driven th last nail Into his own coffin when he all his reedy cash together to bet scraped on Mr. Moor agajnst Willie Carr. In that rush of the crowd over the green after Mr. Moore singular performance, some unknown person One of the gamblers beyond doubt stole Willie Carr's ball, so that the match was never finished and all bets were off. Long afterward a detective in Bob Bav.n s firm learned that Gillespie's betting commissioners hung on to hi money. They believed that h had d them and shrewdly suspected that he would never dar make a protest. But the news of M& Gillespie' failure and disappearance drew the attention of th newspaper momentarily away from Mr. Moore and gave us our opening. That night we motored our patient down to New York and put him on a steamer tor England. He never came back. -- Dr. Carrington was in London the next year and ran across him in New Oxford street. He had settled down near the British museum, which ha more odd and dull books of useless fact than any other library tn the world. He waa feeding eight hours a dav, had other dope of his own class to tslk with of evenings, and was quite contented and happy. Dr. Carrington took him to luncheon and, following an almost Irreiatibl lmpu.ee, turned the conversation indelicately toward Mr. Moore's career at golf. Th doctor said afterward that he felt a little conscience atrlkenrwhen he did this; hut he certainly paid high. Th disagreeable episode which closed M career as champion had evaporated from Mr. Moore mind: he remembered only hi glories. He held Dr. Carrlngten until nearly 4 o'clock while he droned out the full details of every reund he had played. As a device for breaking away Pr. Carrington dragged In a reference to Gillespie and the climax of th last match. At that Mr. Moor' eyes flickered and hi expression grew for a moment eheeplsh. But he recovered almost instantly. he cackled, this old Well, anyhow. dog had his day! sdv-sncs- , double-crosse- (Copjrght, v i 1922, by lywfffj swept plateau. From Dercum's report he had very nearly reached Rexford alive. The expedition had evidently held out far days against .th blizzard. The Earl of Rexford had been th lazt man to go. - In tho anow hut, on- - th canvas table, was his diary, written up. Beside It, on th blank sheet, were a dozen paragraph tn which he had directed the appointment of Deroum a guardian for hla minor daughter, with all custody and direction of hi estate. Monsieur Jonquelle passed these things through hts mind as he descended th brilliant laughter, th murmur of voice below, making a twirl of noleea. Ho bared torn of th details arising In th formal matter of Deroum appointA solicitor or ment after hi return. loans official authority had ventured a doubt about th handwriting on the page beside the last entry in the diary. But It was shewn to him that the writing of Innumerable pages ef the diary varied, due to the cold or to th physical condition of the writer at th time. Th person In Dereum' expedition, whoa parson Integrity could not be doubted, had been but a few mlnutee in behind him entering thla enow hut in which the Earl of Rexford ' had been 'a found, and they had at once, at direction, written their dignaturea at th bottom of tho page. The diary had been Immediately authenticated. It could not have been afterword changed. And it was thown that 'these Cold signature, written In that Immense by benumbed fingers, varied from the normal signature of th individuals raturning to their common In fact, no on environment of life. could have said who had written these men if th who had written signatures them that day, at Dercbma direction. In tho snow hut on the cenvea tahle hd not been present tn England to establish th fact. Th diary, the Ink. th pen war there on the canvas table, and these men had established by their signature of thia writing beyond the authenticity m Der-eum- queatlon.At thla moment a tajl man wearing a distinguished order passed tlB prefect of police. he said, "an you prhaps "Monsieur. receiving an inspiration from heaven on our Hyde park murder? Jonquelle smiled. "It would b my only hop." he aald, against th superior Intelligence of Scotland Yard. And he went on. He wa annoyed bV the incident. Would he never escape from thla rldleuleu pretension! crowd overflowing A h entered th on the bottom of th gtairway, he caught a glimpse of Sir Henry Dereum and the girl In an eddv beyond where th great newel-poturned, percum'a b!g shoulders would be anvwhere conspicuous. H a wa! massive Englishman, with a wide. Oriental face, purpled by good feeding, and little reptilian eve1 under heavy lid that very nearly obseured them. The man had a habit ef lifting hla head when he wa very much concerned, a a though to get a better view of hia aubject with, or tho danger of raising out the effort hi eyelids. -Th girl before him wa In th splendid lure of youth: her dark hair wa lifted, art, bv sflme aubtlety of th coiffeur' into a beautiful. nft background for her delicate akin and her dark eye face; her were exquisitely brought out by It. She was n th first bud of Ilf, and she was very lovelv. But there wa more than mere physical beauty; there was the st His eye traveled over her. h!s head thrown back in a slow, heavy-lidde- d expression as though it were a physical . caress. Ah. no, he said; but you will have Inherited some of your fathers interest in the waste places of the earth. How would you like to go with me and find a lost river? . I should love it. she eald. Where Is your loot river. Sir Henry? He looked about him. Let us find a seat aomawhere, he aald, and I will show you a map. They got out of tho crowd, traversed th long hall that runs parallel to St. James s park, and entered .the conservatory. Monsieur Jonquelle followed. Dereum' word had almost Uie sting of a blow. It waa the verification or Lord Donald Muir1 anxiety. If lovqi-weblind, Jonquelle reflected, It had surely the Intuition of the satnta. Deroum' plan, the plan which Jonquella had considered academic and unlikely, was practical and on tho way. , Monsieur Jonquelle went 'on Into the conservatory, through fringes of the gay crowd floating everywhere ilk gorgeous butterflies disentangled from the mass. He stopped beside an immense vase filled with Japanese chrysanthemums of a peculiar color, huge like a shock of hair on an lmmenee stem. They entirely ob scured him. and he did not move. In not It any definite plan that he had entered the conservatory and behind thia mas of flowers. H stopped had been surprised, shocked by the ewlft verification of this boy's fear, and he wished to reflect on it. It wa not that he had followed to hear what Der-cusaid; th details of whet he aald would be now unimportant. It ws the mans intention alone that mattered, and this intention required no further explanatory word. He folt a sudden and desperate anxiety. This girl, lovely and inexperienced, was will; aa her guarentirely at Dereum dian ha would have exclusive control of her, and. with th man's cleverness, Vhat hs wished he wouid accomplish. The English law, having put the girl into his charge, would not condem itself about Intentions that could not bq established. It Itself only with the overt set, and when Dereum resorted to that B. would be beyond a running of tho king's writ. Monsieur Jonquelle felt himself pressed for reflection, and he stopped here unmoving, without a plan. But, as chanco would have It, he stopped prec.seiy at th place he would have selected if he had followed In determination to hear every word that Dereum was .about to say. Sir Henry and the girl were just beyond him beyond the screen of flowbench by the wrindow. Their ers. on cam words, although to snd In his vague reflechim; alear.y skill with - which Dereum tion. th moved in hla plan was conspicuously evident. Th man was getting th lur of a land ef mvstery into hi story; h was deftly callstimulating the girl's fancy; he wae fathers 'advening her interest in tures to his aid; he waa maktng a wonder expedition out of thi thing he had in mind. No element 'of thrill, or color, In this adventure wa lacking. e DCfcum's Jonquella could almost finger on the map. But th map would be only a property of tho thing he waa He did not explain precisely staging. where this river lay. or th route to it. But on some golden afternoon they would unship at a seaport, assemble a fantastic company and go into some lost country that would bo ilka the Wood beyond the World, or the waste regions of some fairy kingdom. And they would go now. this very summer, when the London season had slacked a little. Deroum eras beginning to specify dates. Jonquelle could net see him, but he knew that the bit of pencil moved on th map; h would arrange everything. From the few words of the girl, reaching him across the Japanese chrysanthemums, she was entranced. A butterfly entangled in Illusions aha was ready to go, and she would go. And with hi clear vision, the vision net accustomed te be obscured by detail, the prefect of police saw that The th.ng could not be prevented. One could the custody Of a guardian only with aa established intent In an English court. This Intent must be based on evidence and there weuld be no evidence; there would net be even the knowledge that' th thing wa contemplated. With Infinite cleverness Dereum had drawn the girl Into a conspiracy of ailence. Thev would arrange It; they would keep their ewn counsels, and they would go. 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