Show ' !!- 11 GIRLS’ BOYS AND SECTION SUNDAY THE O HERALD-REPUBLICAN 1 fSSr 11 1 - & unt ane ' Nieces s S I By Edith (Copyright by the A!1 Dy Van Bellly & Britton Company rights reserved) ’ e ocieifg f y - in ne s- i "w “4 I ! rwind fellow mote happy' preventedany the young and grateful than ever before he was enbeing heard within but don’t make a noise ai nis last "bachelor tertamea dinner’ — where he" Instilv made arhastriArt rema-rkabte what to be a and was seemed of and farmer a man Gl course Bettu tneir Patsy wer e the cousin years led him to a front room oriaesmaias ana Kenneth and again cautioninghim to he silent came ail the way 'from E'lmmotioned him to enter made the place nurse knfiw lq ’ue oeac man JNO' One wtiat it ITnnln sheet-iron stove Avfif A fairly comfortable By a sat the wonderfuldecorations at the church window a meek-faced woman bent over some and home for the music the banquet p 1 On a couch opposite lay Louise and all the other things which he himsewing by covered a heavy shawl She was sen eaeenv on a maanirirnt arranrea i fast asleep her hair disheveledand scale and claimed was a part his of straying her over crimson cheeks “wedding present” flushed from to the weather all it’ was over and the young' the result of Her slumber exposure seemed people had driven to begin the away the for her lips were $’ physical of life together little exhaustion Journey man parted and she breatheddeeply put a Beth and Patsy lovingarm around after gazing at her for a moment and said smites and tears: Arthur between with a beating heart for the "Well I’ve lost one my dears niece actions of the old mysterious farmer and that’s a fact but I’ve still two' had made him fear the w’orst softly left How long will they remain with the couch and knelt beside me approached wondet?” the girl he loved thankingGod in his "Dear me Uncle John” said practical ' inmost heart for her escape Then he Patsy: "your necktie's untied and leaned and pressed kiss -f over a upon hope it danglinglike a shoestring! her cheek wasn’t that way at the wedding" Louise slowly opened heryes smiled "It was though” declared the major and her atxns in divinely threw chuckling "irhll th fee of ye get married slvely around his neck my dears poor Uncle John will "I knew you would come for come to look like a scarecrow and all the face 'of swell society!" — dear" she whispered that in "Aren’t wo about through with swell XXIV society now?” asked Mr Merrick A "Aren’t we aboutdom? with It? Matter of Course It caused all our troubles you A IL know" were barred until gerty explanations Beth complacently "Society announced “Oh shut up Di you’re in it Hi "With loathing and contempt" the girl had been tenderly taken "is an excellent tMlng in the tne criri naa as It has He am" he retorted turning away to her black ’sheep of course scowledat her savagely own home and under the loving but with a flushed face think no more than any other B of her motherand cousins had "Do you think she suspects that I not sir! have care class of M "I’m Nevercriminal coun humanity" recovered to the carried her away?” this an extent from tenanced wicked act” "Dear me!’’ cried Uncle John "you she had undergone declared "I have come here today to experiences once denouncedsociety” know It absolutely” she Louise by degrees she told them her to save from your wiles and Then and said she “was before He stared at the fire again “That" knew story how the voice of her back to her friends dare hearing all about it” 'T’va got a queer job on my hands carry her persecutor Mershone in the hall below anythingat you or your confederate" with a END) Cterise and rely on you to help scornful she had become frantic with fear look at detective “to 7 he presently assuming a more and resolved to trust herself to the with me in any way” Then I’m in she mercies of the storm rather than submit of a turned to Cerise and manner "Perhaps continued: to interview with him Before hole or is Miss Merrick now?” an box or a whatever else you "Where this she had decided that she “In your like to call it but it’s too late to back own room ma’m’serie” the trellis and that part with me down push and win "Come then" dowln now ahead of her flight she accomplishedeasily (Continued Page)'" — must With a defiant glance at fou love the girl Mershone the dismay “ain’t you see the case is this: she turned haughtily Then she ran toward the rear of and left the room going to let us go her and had her brought her to keep premises to avoid being seen and managed ahead? Cerise followed obediently somewhat to find the lane and later the to° rftky” replied the aviator from By hook or crook at the queer turn of events another inan her astonished It but her I’m responsibleto I’m going to She Left alone with crossroadsand was very cold Remember your make my wife Mershone ogerty the fear of pursuit kept parents for this affair As soon as the excitement won’t take kindly to that at first perhaps chuckled gleefully her warm until suddenly her strength Admiral is put in shape I’ll take up faake her happy in the it seems wasn’t needed after but I'll all" said he failed her and she sank In the the chase "and we've both down At myself” end In one way this delay has been a us Over her shoulderthe startled black eyes of old Oerise peered down upon the group below snow to this the matterwith her?" taken a lot of trouble for nothing without power move “What’s asked thing her good It must have worn juncture the farmerand his wife drove Husky Mershone The chances are Miss Van by trip io to the town brace last night out and broken her spirits quite a bit Taer would have having been on a and “Snapped got turned the trick in and slowly made his way out in the storm to find the others skip right now and turn over a new lifted her In ehT’ sagaciously out your smoke message and hurried back any event don’t you think so?" the sprang the trellis at the end Here it was ogerty and Arthur were by this time leaf you are free" and man the tenderly wrapped in her to camp intending to give “No you don’t understand her She toplain woman you a hand "She seems very miserable"conceded wouldn’t that the accumulationof snow in the lane back of the grounds where could go?" and pillowed "Where the robes and blankets in the chase But of the have Interfered if she hadn’t the woman had recently been brushed from the detective slowly a town mile ahead of us men the other was advancing "There'S head upon her motherly bosom' slipped while hauling one been scared out” away out the machine find her hard to manage? growled the frail with fixed the can the buildings and then "Do you framework his eyes on ground see now the time they reached the farmstruck her against the doors "She’s sacrificed me to herself Bv and tore save ‘‘It was her You’ve to Does she show strong enough to hold "The tracks are faint but easily money for you offered it I’m quite warm again but out the brace much temper? In other that’s all" house she was that It’ll Ije looking haven't any assistants here readyin in hour though” declared ogerty he was saying “The high heels ine with a brief explanation or so exhausted t©'o” words do you suppose she’ll put upw "You may be right al)out that" alone on the job That talk about over the edge of the roof "I’ll of her shoes leave distinct mark” that she was lost but somebody fight?" ogerty and then he got up to bluff “But in by thep he’ll be safe!” cried the same sir Go back by was only Push me over way Mershone joined them Arthur inmen the be Cerise the doorbell would sure to find her before long Poppy dismay "You got to let us go regarded him wondering! answer which once more the stairs and meet below1” snow and tracks I’ll me at the fellow but said nothing make she fell upon the couch and almost violently scowled ahead captain? ain’t going to rang tell and advise quit y the lattice and ogerty smiled Weldon you’ve escaped lost grasped began merely consciousness now if I’d stood outside and lane the tracks already hint not to bother you It's known that we’d never to lower himself to the the very easy” found her and have "She is a good girl" was herthereply from itautomobile rom So Arthur assured one look come an excited party trooped into cautiously short seized the back” he addted bitterlv "She loves with much devotion nearly obliterated by the fast falling Mershone stopped into his her that all her man the hallway ground and Arthurturned to rejoin his snow cutting and Well where are you goingto follow am disregardingthe that friends in the room along nearly quarter detective’s hand wrung it gratefully troubles eyes from you have stolen her wandered were over him to?” smiled the whom Wind and blinding other “Did he consent to snowflakes is the way she escaped without of a mile to did prosecute Charlie Mer-shone quite positive she will never crossroadswhere they They not go south?” them a good fellow ogerty as they passed in There “That to them "Poor lost "You’reyou doubt” he said became wholly — after all ogerty pleaded for But can’t do it In the you become you wife” was Arthur Weldon and Uncle John child she had about thank might know” put no idea we were ogerty looked up and down the first and Uncle John pointed Intend she shall Patricia afld place can’t rest in peace? until him earnestly He went are? Well Beth and all as they saw up late last night "Oh you und to rescue her and her long confinement roads and shook his head with a puzout that to arrest the the detective Louise is found her would Did you see any lights?" that settles it She’s cried with one voice zled or know fate young man had made her desperate" expression give the whole affair to the marry me Secondly I’m give an account mean to and Louise?” to "Not a light” said Rib eagerly "But and miserable' now have a cloak or any warm surely traced her so gamenow not mean "Where's "Did she asked “We’ve far" for all my deeds that I’ve which until now ofhad what played newspapers ©’as on an’ she hasn ogerty had just managed to close clothes?” Beth said he but now we must guess at gleaned the slightest inkling guard the last watch to grind her down till That Madame Cerise lost heard an engine the door against the wintry blast when hurriedly You'll notice this the farce out and I— really Just before sounds In direction Publicity to be thought strength to resist me examined the tvardrobe her further the ambition ogerty happened was the from to from the east anti came the stairway the closets have pa'ssed haven’t make had daybreak to Rounded only way to track of a wagon It may avoided if possible as it would set loose died hard Just answer above: new start in life and try to the north” know butit’s the ma'm’selle: she has taken fifteen hour reform away “Yes a minutes or an ago The and benefit After she’s my the use?” thousand malicious tongues north?" my is gone!" scarf” she tracks of the horses are covered Whet’s "The questioned Mr accomplish purpose "She thick coat and knit hoof The only thing' to be I’m not positive they ogerty did not reply Perhaps he gainednobody sure? should think he’d slip wife I’ll very znd to her poor thing The voice was Shrill and despairing "But am sure she had no so which way by prosecuting Mershone was south you p only know there are indications realized the case ©’as entirely hopeless to his tribe" to love me A man can and looking up they saw Dianastanding gloves and her shoes were very thin” headed and touch her©nth But he had done what he could to save were willing to forego revenge and allsatisfa'otion put in If he gets dramatically posed upon the landing long do think she of hoof tracks proves it "No” Poppy quickly which the misguidedfellow and give him that doubtful “We do anything fight a woman nas farmer's figured out last night that he’d strike hands clasped over her heart been gone?” Patsy you inquired The question is wagon chance and he was Uncle John had an interview the way I'm not taking ana a her sorry he had not north about look of fear upon her face Over than an hour talking the lady met it and over the line You “Not more was whether with the man in the office see this rm cruel cerise succeeded young naturally weM nd ( cause her shoulder the startled black eyes of and look for him in the south with Mr caught ride oryoung whether she proceeded almost-dazed of the nrosecutingattorney at I’m desperate All’s fair old Cerise peered Meantime Arthur Weldon which can’t so ne’d figure we wouldn’t down upon the group "Mershone! Mershone Is he here?” — demanded along some of the other trails by the calamity that had overtaken Mershone was given to be Very this is permission chase love and war find anv indication of those high-heeled likely to In you know and big sweetheart found leave town quietly and his north0 oeiow an able shoes from this point in direction pursue talking the irit of The newcomers were evidently bewildered Arthur ‘‘He is in in his chauffeurwho in other fields If he Whileeating boys had beeu a both” my room downstairs ever — or Better get your car Mr anyWeldon and assistant when busy the patrol pacing the floor by this time by this reception They had come in was was when you came" said the woman the case was explained to him developed or any way any having molested he bmKted themselvesabout Hrfeakfastjust pockets to rescue Louise for her few miles whom they imagined "That accounts sudden run east a keeping sharp an eager and Intelligent Interest of the Merricksor his cousin m-’ his hands thrust deep in his Diana confined in a lonely deserted villa with the Petre! arrived N’ow Husky leaped his face that flight” declared the young man bltter- watch of the wagon tracks on the way in the chase they’ moved was assured that he would be immeortunately an anxious look upon other than the It for the to his teet facing the inventor no companion a heavy wagon wheels his bombastic words woman ly Hhe doubtless heard his voice and cut was deep and will go west Mershone Eetus so Mr Phillips” he pleaded expression©’as you've driven far enough to satisfy earnestly The renchwoman’s for When won’t to close "We come the wretch yourself you’re going the Her scorn quarters with him honestl XWe’ll just impassive wrong her the direction you may easily overtake us get on his track and trail him before was tempered with we’ve discovered down plan was on your return Then if then 11 back and meet come the knowledge that his cowardly nothing on this road we’ll try the had was she who doomed to defeat other” ‘‘Well” the aviator' slowly him and she glad answered was checkmated Arthur ran back at once to the house that m ght do if you’ll not and again her eyes sought the promise and in a on to attack him Now fw minutes hadwas started or let him attack you clock while she silently calculated the his quest The powerful But how will — find you?” motorcar time elapse bef re “If we could only “carry Arthur Weldon enough to plow through the deep snow two” and arrlvejd with comparativeease be a pretty scene Poppy glanced at the gray There would machine left together in Cerise Those Madame ©e could drop a fellow off to signal! then ©ould have much enjoyment little room were mdre to be pitied you’ jn witnessingthe encounter than the ones engagedin active search "Good idea!" Mr Phillips "Noiw then take me to Louise"com-j for there was nothing to relieve their beaming line!‘exclaimed That’s exactly whatl suddenly fears and anxieties unable to manded Mershone Diana you can dotoo Jack!” The mechan4 bear the accusing looks of Patsy and Rh6 shrank bhek in dismay Irian hurried over from the Beth resolved clean breast to make a “Oh not yet m’sieur!” tPV it£ut £he ex?ra’ Petrl seat Admiral and 4:'-' of her complicity in the affair and not?” Hurry! them to every detail of her She will You ®o and Mr Phillips turned tc "The young lady is asleep with her cousin’s despicable Poppy can carry three eytra people not waken for an hour two” plot She ended by begging their — perhaps if necessary in the Petrel We’ll her That re"I can’t wkit waken and wept so miserably that now quires pretty nice but and give her an idea of the change of Uncle John found himself stroking her handling though guess you canhandle two because? hair while Patsy close and J 11 !’ came program” she was built and balanced pressed the penitent girl's hand as if to for two nas4' It m’sieur! Is SCne’flrJ!Afirrinnlli XTrttvs "But no thing comfort and reassure her has but now your extra 'man?” 1 poor sobbed nothing She could not find drop L said bitter 1 Bethher heart as yet to forgive Diana's herself to sleep after "Get that big nap said th© many 1 it in Husky”leader selfish and when hie assistant returned! hours Can you bu£ wait a brief hour against her cousin’s conspiracy from the shop with the roll of happiness If Louise perished in this paperi having waited five days?” ilkhe bent over it “He dreadful the proud must have headed! storm Diana Von “No he Take me to herherat the once” either for Rainy lake Taer could not escape the taint of murder ort rances oi came toward As woman The end was tiTan not yet ovy ne proDdrew 4 ki put the plans In the mall away ably means to them firmly "I she said SOS to safe then take to’ cannot" Cerise make 'cause XXIII Intend to be the railroad the 'monoplane "See here The Crisis be traced too easy yron't endure any Hera ha obeyed nonsense and ogerty plodded placed his finfeer on a point five milea at this stage of the game believe me" side airectr north of the camp "Is “In order to through the snow together Sepisew he announced fiercely hill If Vre get any traces of him They facing the win there’s just one way to by side were manage then I'll leave Rib there’’ this affair and insist upon your wind which cut their faces cruelly yet “Gdin to take me?” broke in the deinstructions Take me to lighted Rib my ©"ith ©’hoop of Joy neither seemed to mind the bitterness Louise!” Poppy paid no a attention and of the weather "I will notl” she returned the bead“If you don’t find any one there along the roadside" “Keep watch you’ll know he ain’t come that ©’ay like glittering as they met his eyes “she have Then go straight back suggested Mershone we saw gaze may tawnere angry She you yesterday just at th© mouth of Give the fallen anywhere you know "Then I’ll go alone Tgffi Mr Phillips Poor Rainy river Remember?” couldn’t endurethis thing long key” "There's a little flat nodded quickly did she andid not move nor Louise island there to light on" conShe him dandy At her waist hung swer That was why made such unued Peppy “If ©’e find that lya small struggleto get her about went oVer that way bunch of householdkeys and this he toward ortJj a a mistake Provided rances I’ll leave one o’ the fellows seised with a sudden movement and is won by force or trickery there to flax you then go ahead an’ get cord Jerkedloose from its she's never ng she worth the hag!” he -X cops after him” muttered doesn’t care for you it’s better to give "You miserable ©’ell” faid the aviator gravely “Very with at her opposition her up” inflamed “You anger really haven't the ambition ogerty promise that you won’t come "If you propose to defend this girl and "I to make a new start in life and know now” — ouarters’” ‘The tracks are faint but easily followed” he was saying “The high heels ‘‘You're a— bright fellow defy me you'll find I’m able to crush Mershone try to jneeting the reform What’s the use?” “Yes” returned Poppy fellow It you couldn't of her shoes leave a distinct clever a pity his honest blua you 4 wl11 brWhile I’m gone stern black eyes with direct your talents the right way ones “onlv unless somethin unexpectyou to come to your senses ana They’ll jug for this” expect you can’t make that kind' ed turns up decide to obey me" of life isn’t with the storm and the snow presently dlately arrested and prosecutedto the We mina The an’ then Arthur’s in fly Did Never game with it and moderated in of a lose a own to olavineI’ve done the full extent of the law promise you know won't attack With these words he advanced to the who guarded herthe door sudden panic decided worth volume although and good or to them he asked the wind was still fierce gale and chance But Ave got door iof tne little room and it opened Mershone see her?” sooner go to the devil the bet blowing Mershone accepted the conditions opened Taer Diana "Von replied ftwwe could be sure Louisa Tliis gave them better enough smiling whom they certainly "No m’sieur" ter If only I opportunity became an exile passing at once out nothing like that inside stood ogerty Just did not expect to meet here confronted With they to than the others to observe the road of the lives of those he nad so deeply one accord descended safe I’d toss every care genially well" said fr Phillips again them with the thrilling statementthat the lower hall and the caretaker led was — and every they followed honest to the from wronged ery Mr thought winds all Go to it!" again Mer-sald Louise had gone the way to her room To their surprise want “Glad to meet you“May this moment” — joyful reunion of the lovers led "That’s Jones had good eyes and although The early ’as in? his they found still tha& come Arthur was the first to recover seated In the the trail of the heavy wagon was lost date being set for the wedding A yell went up from the patrol shone” he Mershone During the silence that followed to an wits three boys darted the machine! chair by the fire his hands clasped Indeed his at times he soon picked It toward Thank you’’ was thoughtful up again They met all protests by pleading stuffing food into thelri he repeated his head cigaret between his mind dwelt more and they were enabled to some by "Gone!" “gone where?"lips a upon the defeated and make fairly their fears of While Mershone stood bewildered anotherheart-rending pockets It to leave "She has escaped run away!" beside him than good speed was arranged the detective desperate upon and no one venturedto this unexpected apparition — man separation behind and signal Mr Phillip “I believe” said Arthur presently Diana in real distress was searching for oppose their desire entered the room closed the door "Here is anothercrime for you to the waif he been the marks are getting clearer” with the flags which Rib hastily' toret done Mr Mershone” ‘‘that asked Uncle John account for!" cried Arthur advancing “What's quickly recovered her carefully and putting his back to it “1 know they are sir” agreed Jones Mrs Merrick from theij staffs and tied around hist time “can't be helped "Just now “Within an hour wasn’t upon him angrily You have driven he saidTheafter spirits the excitement h accustomed waist bowed politely to Madame Cerise Cerise?" Louise to her death future of every man is we've come in the right direction during it now "Then of those weeks preceding cheers for the Otters in- th© this bigger proposition than his past for It is proof that the wagon was anxious "Three "Pardon seeming intrusion 10 o’clock left her now she is Mershone raised one hand In mild a "At the wedding Cards were issued to air!’’ yelled Mart and the cheers rang he may be With he "I’m hero on a littte gone" said the old woman who your headed this way" ma'am of said protest — whoever "the very best people in the out lustily as the three boys scrambled genius could yet of right sir" town" business greatly agitated as her mis and you make “Quite matter having a warrant as time cursing me involved anxiety by day and “Don't waste he and Tills back section was thinly settled trousseau into their seats Jack having attached’ yourself a successful for the arrest of Mr Charles Conn oldy tress said “Try to find Louise before it is prosperous restless dreams by night-— all the occasional they eminently the third seat beside that of Huskyjrespected by the community if and farmhouses "Good gracious! You don’t mean to too late" man could — from enjoyable:there were entertainments and MrPhillips Mershone” get out of this miserable passed wore set well back the mechanicians justified Aryou say she’s left the house in this storm?’’ The reoroach and to quick inspection of the rut that has helped to drag you down” road It was evident from the closed to be attended congratulations made afilling maf XXII exclaimedPatsy aghast at the very thur paused and seemed turning to Mr Merrick from every side the oilcupsand changing can't" said the gates and drifted snowban that no be received "But otner aeof' the cbine " thought shall said: Gone had either left these places or Society suspecting nothing the spark plug for a new one then all do?" spondently teams "What we What can we go help ogerty tragedy so lately enacted in these drew “He is right stayI’llhere arrived during a recent period back !' grim face of do?” demanded Beth eagerly “You can if vou try But you'll have Arthur Madame Cerise and you must and look after lives was especially gracious to you!” place a good from by the young luck to cried the aviator! to allow a quaint smile to started up the stairs Cerise the girls until to strike for way was encouraged moreover “Good the betrothed Louise was the recipient J ogerty we return” Go forget past ruts still more clear "Go ahead!" flit it York west your as across She returned turned to show him the way and the New carve wagonproceededgrowing of from he passed they and his excitementwas innumerable merryand"showers" As he went out Diana and out an honest future under And with fresh cheers ringing in theiij ogjerty’s bow with a deep curtsy others followed in her girt associates her cotislns an awed group She sat in a corner of Jones abruptly- halted and without alook and among new associates great when ears mingled with the rohr of the en4J-gine after brief exclamation key In the lock of the door a new xeth followed in line with Mershone one The was the room Beth was Patsy and sobbingmijserably You’re name equal to it" pointed to a place the three boys went into the airi of where the wheels “glass “china dismay wrested from him by to the missinggirl’s room but the door thoughtful and quiet Patsy head had made turn and entered a farm showers" and bride showers" Up went the Petrel till she was nervous Mershone shook a over"' surprise itself now stood ajar ogerty entered until the prospective was stoekecL the river then threw himself into the chair and indignant Uncle John was apparently forget" "They’ll give yard he Poppy headedher northi:’ again and stared at the fire cast a sharp look around and “You Jail with establish or a few walked crushed’ by the disaster that had folly “Here’s the place sir” announcedthe enough wares to a we’re over the Canadian line”’ y me sentence for this there was intense stillness in straight to the window 'As the others “house-furnishing moments them emporium” as Uncle he shouted cheerfully overtaken suggestion sure as fate and that will be the end chauffeur “Hope we ain’t the little room in curiously about them John proudly’ declared came glancing that Louise perish in the storm of might me "Can pretty you get in?” breakin’ the law! Mow'd you feel Rib? said ogerty in fire by this time quite “How easy ittoneis” “‘to and noting the still smouldering was idle the girl was not only here Mershone “It’s deep sir but I’ll try?’ Merrick great?” one See Ain’t it read “Not it necessarily and palpably pleased the musing one’s and the evidences of recent occupation frail noand delicate but worn out with and light at won’t help ary of those people The snow was crisp owing his eldest (To be Concluded) thought— under certain circumstances the detective the rench her long the machine approaching marriage of unlatched imprisonmentand its anxie to prosecute vou If the girl to the excessive cold and are thinking Mr Mersn&ne that windovrand stepped out into the snow ties niece was hot to be putdonein “social You They all realizedthis with her life no real harm has plowed throughit bravely drawing up stunts" I’m a boy and not very strong while that might add to her happiness that covered the roof of the little porch “I believe" said rising been at last to the door of an humble cot Mershone done although you’ve caused He theatre parties And lifrks a very real danger iru you are an athlete and can easily overpower below out beside him abruptly “I’ll and join the search gave There Arthur sprung go deal of in one way or an tage unhappiness nv rVn ©V rr ak Yw me have come at a disagreeable leaving the rest to shiver in the cold has arrested but the car a ntfmber and gave ogerty me you other lor part I'd like to see As Arthur leaped out of banquets without Not long agotime and all your plans blast that rushed in them from needn’t the marked success that er so very apompoustc depend upon about mv trying to es because I’m sure this worrycare escape man nrpeared upon the steps closing them with attended on your ability to get ri of But the open don’t what his efforts English gentleman"gave- utterance me window becomesof me you fair will be to you that will the door softly’ behind him cape warning the follo©’ing assertion I’ve four good men within call who are his the going the lady sir?” he Thebefore the astonishing ogerty on knees scanned and I’m straight to join the induce give up all trickery in “Booking for evening the wedding "All along the untroddenpaths-of you to young th Just the approaches to carefully and although Weldon now John and claimed guarding the future wouldn't bribe asked Uncle major now snow detective" Money me this house They’d like to come in for their own and after ah hour’s future we can see the hidden footprint! could discover no sign of a footprint him to go withoutprotest ns hut sympathy’ and good “Is she hero?” cried Arthur Theyandallowed you know left 'of an unseenhand"he buttoned his coat and set 4 kdow becauseIt'g very cold and dis-' the young detective nodded his head If you’ll promise to The man placed his finger on his conferencebetween the three fellowshipwill k"1 SYNOPSIS — outside: but agreeable we them to freeze for asuppose time? Ah kindly John Merrick been able you’d sir agree with me pierce the veil wliich shrouded thought —to you say you were about the future of his nieces the overheard at visit Miss Merrick who is confined in this atory he time have doubtless opens would upstairs but d like to refused to you sanction the idea a room that while indulge in of we a launching them on the troubled ne sea You of social life confidential chat together Not being a prophet acting for what kowevertheandglrli’ ne violently ogerty best interests he used The doorbell rang Cerise glanced business at 'Madame influence with is?” be asked "Will you see who it 'left Hedrlk Von Taer to have his three the room nieces make their She arose at once and the auspices underacknowledged quickly of Diana Von debut Taer Mershone turned price an ogerty?” he leader of th© “What’s your set younger The rivalry that follows asked meaningly between and what Diana Louise Merrickleads to some getting out of here making underhanded scheming on the part of tracks and leaving me alone— the society girl and a tragedyis narrow Every has his price and I'm trapped — yaverted when Charite Mershone I’m man willing I’ll fellow-conspirator fellow-conspirator to pay anything plana spirits — this Louise sir You’ve — tried friends "Cut it out I’m away trona her family betrothed once before not to be bribed” and betrothed you for my "Have reany a warrant arrest?” (Continued) carried It since It’s ‘Tve riday no thfew himself into a use Mershone the game's up and you well- grin and bear ltd chair and stared thoughtfully at may as Mershone"was aboutto reply when the fire the door opened and on Taer Diana in with a swift catlike tread and Louise "Has Merrick you came — Miss confrontedhim with flaming eyes all You low miserable know — mentioned my name a "You coward! dare Cerise?" you come hereto scounarei: and browbeat poor girrr annoy she cried in clear that "At times" cutting accents noticing the of without presence "In what way?" allow I AD ! hi— pP ' I to nil - lips sound although the of X ' voices sir “Gently come in" They entered kitchen The i - t advanced i I -orbes ' considered wshty i p') ' t M 'or “or ” s P When — t CHAPTER I Ki XXI— Mershone - rr- OP' ' ‘ r I ' i K H B 1h me ’ How i CHAPTER anxiously o - " ss-Jteep b abstract I I I established I terrible "She-seems I I (THE me”said I interfere -e conciliating Scoots Boy couldllinb I the Air rom-Preceding I z "Why I t a I I a ’ I followed" 1 admitted descend a I -four When Madame a immediately I He An I a assailed a 1' I ’ I “TYethWht I I I I ' unnerved - H I I I t I 1 ' J a ' a a PhillipsAre answered I 1 I ' "How a a However I " a I fortunes returned He belled ' - I w V I i t o "Why - ©-e Ad-mlral I Cerise’s attach related — connection I forgiveness ' I outrageousThe rr 1 1 ' --Jr-’- —I - ' I t 1 — a a i — ’ Wr I p I following I ± -- - - CHAPTER ©-ould MERSHONE before - ' ' continued M r-IJ 1 1 'j me !’’ I a ' s woman It’ : I ? - J ' to-close “I I ' - - a -f mark” I 1 s detective a a I ? 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