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Show CAESAR'S WIFE. (Continued from Last Issue.) Delano Pasha straightened up. "Shoot now!" he whispered. Evelyn saw the package of papers in his hand. "Put those down!" "I need them, soul of me! And I have found them in time. Shoot!" Ho turned to smile at her as he edged toward a window from which he could easily jump to the ground. Adam's hand was on the door. In a flash it came to EvelyD that it was not Chard's wife that Delano Pasha had wanted, but Chard's papers. That was the reason for his preference for the library. He knew the papers were there. The knob turned slowly. Should Adam come in and find that the chief had escaped? She raised the pistol how well De- M lano had staged the little comedy M but she did not aim at the breast- M plate. M 9 Chard carried Evelyn up to her M room. Delano Pasha, his right arm M hanging helpless from his shoulder H had been turned over to the proper au- jH thorities. His eyes had telegraphed M vengeance, but Evelyn had hidden her M face on her husband's breast and M Chard's arm had tightened about her. M Upstairs in her room he explained M the reason of his return. "We have M been watching Delano Pasha for some jH time, but we had no proof he "was betraying his country and our hospi- M tality until today. Meadows is in the M secret service and he sent me word jH that I was needed. Thanks to your quick wit, however, there will be no scandal attached to the affair." M Evelyn opened her lips. "You are H thanking me!" she cried. "Don't you H know that I nearly ruined you?" M H Ho raised her hand to his lips with H flno old-fashioned courtesy. "I know H nothing. Yoa are Caesar's wife, my H dear." H H Embargo means the international H criminal is to he put on rations, pend- H ing trial aftor tho world's indictment. |