Show of i e let Pimp i ie fie r ness P Or- Or e 7 It rr Olt O zY FROM THE START TORY STORY Pimpernel known fill scarlet uY t revolution a. a French far ll the Ih Vt adventurer In Ini intrepid P rte 11 1101 rt Englishman At Ati a i H la ID as n CoroM given by Sir Percy toga 00 pert l. the lb i latest atut adventure of B kIU Pimpernel the th rescue the Ibl Scarlet Is Ii belal be be- OD-d' OD d' d Ag nay of the Andrew related b Sir Bit Andrew lei te Pimpernel The Tb e Scarlet Blakeney Sir Sit Perry Percy really mil T Y It London dandy The fall fan popular chief 01 revolutionary art aio In III which the Scar Scar- II d the III Pimpernel h baa been bee II operating a r prevent nt the escape of the u 10 d' d brings the of the tb government Covern ment epee apol Urn him Chapter II Continued Il-Continued Continued 4 q- q Hat bat oppose be tie murmured they I t k better beller of It II and allow the dill dill- t to 10 proceed In ht peace place Or Jr sup sup- that but they are engaged In 10 their nui deeds deed la in some other dep depart depart- rt t r of France ello rejoined coolly you'd roud have bare to do would be v L-v rm Journey to Parts Paris s Ro and 1 set eel tamil down In to the Berle J b to 10 awalt trial and Bod the the Inevitable otta it No o harm will have been is t. t Therell There'll be a family of traitors traUm In ID your our district anyway And you ts the setting salting of your Cornell com Corn Kj ill ell over again Sooner or later U Ur r set et your four trap In the way I have 1 td ed for you fOU that cursed Scarlet lII will Kill fall Iota into It Sooner or orn n r be lie reiterated federated emphatically 1 afire of It My only regret Is that tot Am think of this plan before now never lever theres there's nothing lost and allas ull all ullen en taD do now my friend Is to wl wish h j S success merest i If It yo you succeed you ore are nude made moo lion And you will succeed concluded rising and hold bold it out oat tilt bis hand to his colleague If follow my Instructions to the last ft 1 ion Ioa o ma may maj be sure lure Ill I'll do that that La Lau Loo- o. o said hid with Ith earnest emphasis And Ind the two sleuth hounds bounds shook k ts i i on 00 their project and drank dran k a ai i of wine to Its success But ut bet be be- t finally took leave of oft ofa p a t Mend friend he turned to him wI with h reed re re- reed ed 1 earnestness and solemnity pud ltd e ibm all all my tny good Lauzet raid laid aid II slowly remember that In p jour watchword ord must be Silence 4 M lid discretion renthe but a word ROM boar Intentions to a living soul and Bod P ns 1 are bound 10 to fall fail The English et es s have bite their spies who serve them themi lit i They have bove a long purse which ly purchase help from tic trends fronds and treachery from ours the not Dot of your project to u urn any n coal loul 1 friend Lauze Lauzet or your d viii 1111 pay por the price of your India on 1 was only to too ready to give ghe required promise and the two di da then Iben Parted Darted on a note of mu mu- and esteem CHAPTER III Enmeshed I litter laler the whole ot of the le Ie city fit if Moisson was In ID f farrest u a ferment rat Inlo to the arrest of one of Its most ed Cd tradesmen S CItizen ho would have thought wait above suspicion us had bad been heen It h to 10 the of a 8 in 10 his house tie had bad pro pro- red 81 was only natural under UDder the ond in 10 consequence of he ha J heen ratted tie t ore fore neat the tales Inea 18 chIef of se section i lon al al aid Ind had find to submit l to a 8 mOSI most and tory most humiliating Inter Inter- Nay more I lie fed 4 was de de- for tor two 1 Whale days while his hb ire pretty little a dough th were ere well ell nigh et y distraught ht with ben wed ed of the top ot of that there tol fol riot another n just as 8 It II I of reason could Suspect the tam fam farnI against theIr country certaInly o 0 the hud had never been boll bully br bb extreme the be h b la 4 revolutionary government rani the lilt lor execution ot of the erat erst soft and ot of Marie queen of hut Prance City D Uta had bad always abt abstained tr m lie Ill It 11 God sot Dot men toen had been wont to sa say I COUntries ruled the destinies happening sod end that n no 00 doubt what these duys days ln tn France lid la by bl the e Will of ot God Gort or they It tic fat occur et Bt ell all lie Ie for hIs content 1 acon to sell good vintage t fal lather or Nulls Nutt just as b l bad done dooe before him and ate CIt of 1 before that for tor the tze eze win wine 0 of CI it of Seine b bad d bf bea tD for three nd a Pattern more and had hl always t fly of commercial Integrity 04 parr r these P. P I these JIlts t amid IDd tl all ally the the arrest ureal not only of ed KH II Islam xe e himself hut but ol tit his Invalid wife and ant pretty prett lIttle daughter If one tine dared one would protest rut cst call coll a meeting anything II It was almost l so co unez unes Will was It Il What hud had the fatally family dune No One line knew Inquiries at the o of 01 the section elicited tun In I Ilia There were vague rumors that the Hie pour poor invalid In had hart remained pious She timid hurt been Insight ht piety by hy hr het parents no doubt and hurt bad been brought HD III In n a consent school he he- sides aides lul what would you 2 Pled was reckoned a sin sill these days and who would dare protest The servants at the substantial house Inhabited bj by the family were Terl speechless 1 with terra tears The per and then the arrest had cove come as u a thunderbolt And now nol thy they were Irl nil under r orders to quit the house huu for tor It would he shut shill up lip and nii ultimate ultimately ly Iy sold for the tit of ot the state stute Oh these he were times I 1 IThe IThe The en rime IIII tra t tragedy had lind occurred d not out far for away from In the use case ot of the IIII Tournon whom hum no one unc was r emote comte und end ssp these days too hUll had been sum lIum warily arrested lell and were being drugged to III Paris for tor their trial when whenby by some unforeseen len they timid been and conveyed erl In to safety to En England No one knew v how haw nor nur who the rescuers were hit rumors were rUe rife nand mill some were lre wild wilt The superstitious superstition believed ld In direct divine ItI Interference though they dared not any openly Inn but In theft hearts they prayed that God Onil might Interfere In In the seine way on of ol good and his hi family Poor n himself had not nOI much hope nope on that score lie Ill a te pious plou man mun It II Is true Irue hut bat his piety consisted In resignation to the will ot of God Nor or would he have cared much 14 k God had only chosen to In strike at It him It was the fate o 01 his Invalid wife wife that wrung wrung his heart and the future of ot his hi young daughter that t ter terrified r rifled him lie had known the citizen m commissary practically all his tits life Lauzet was not s II bad man really Perhaps he hud had got his head rather turned through his bis rapid accession from his original situation as packer In he house bouse of business with witha In the a bed underneath the counter bock hack shop to thin that of chief of section In the rural division lon of or the department depart meat ment of ot Seine et Olse Oise e with an official re residence In 10 Mantes a highly Ira Ira- post poOr considering Its proximity to Paris But nut all nil the same sume Lauzet was not a hart had man ami and must have kept some lIum gratitude In 10 his heart for nil all the kindness shown hown to him him by hv the family when he was a B lad Iud In their employ But ut In spite of ot every appeal Lauzet remained stony hearted If I 1 did dill anything for you yuu citizen on my own responsibility relon he said to i during the course of 01 an on Inter Inte r atory I 1 should not nul only lose m mj my position hut but probably my head ud Into the bargain I 1 have no 00 ill 11 will toward you but hut I am not prepared to take such a R risk rl k on ou your behalf Rut Om my poor por wi wife fe protested pro pro- tested putting his Ills pride In n his pocket and stooping to tn to the man had once onre been a B menial In hU his Is almost bedridden now V pay She Slue and has h not lon long to live lire Could you OU not exercise some benevolent bene authorIty author Ity by for tor hu hr sake Laurel shook his hili head hie he said ely derisively And my mv daughter moaned the bout U is Madeleine little tile traded fattier father her my her not out yet yel thirteen What will be fate My God Lauzet I Have you yon Oli no bowels of ut compassion 1 Have not you yon got gOI a daughter of your our own own I have ha Lauze Lauzet retorted curtly and therefore I l have lIa tn taken ken special care to keep on the right bide of the to express an government and amid never oe that Is done dine for fur forthe forthe anything opinion on should the good goud of the Iota Ie And I advise rou yon Citizen to do like like- earn for yourself your that you may wise whet so sn measure of some self and your yur family mercy tor for your transgressions And with this grandiloquent phrase Lauzet Indicated n t Ill I'll that the interview He Ill also ordered end now ono at an was Mol taken takeo back to the prisoner to be cells cell In the Hie be he kept to tn son sun and there I until the following day when wilen arrange arrange- meats menta would be he complete for convey con y yIn under escort to family ing In the Purls TI TO BE UE CONTINUED CO |