Show MR N af NOL 8 ON OY jorj AND AS TO FANS richard ni eliard searles SUC cotis fut 1 american con fides to his friend cob bob bingle fingleton bin gleton ton the fact th eliat at inspired by the genlue of a young actress whom he had seen in london tie be haa has written a play oay lady larkspur solely with the thought that 1 I e houll interpret the ilia leading character thia eirl girl violet delving ha has disappeared singleton an aviator has just returned in from I 1 ranee rance ills uncle claymond bashford Bosh ford a wealthy man hid contracted a marriage a short timo unla before hie his death while hile on a to japan lie its lott tott singleton a comparatively email small amount of money and the privilege of rest dence dance in the I 1 garage of his hi gum sum ajr homa bottle barton on the sound connecticut mr birs bashford la is believed to be traveling in the orient the tile household at barton la is made up at of broken down employees of a new tork york hotel where bashford nash B ford made its I 1 Is home singleton goes to barton taking with him the manu geriat of 0 lady larkspur lArke pur there he end the household strangely grniet rome some of ILs its members being suspected by their comrades of pro Oer monism antoine head of the tile establishment infirm him that he haa has boon been perplexed by the some ahat hat mysterious visits of a tranger stranger apparently a for foreigner elgner v king lire bashford Gae liford antoine haa formed for 4 the male members of the ilia into a guard for or protection lection tec tion singleton reads bearlean play anil and think thinks highly of it aunt alice arrives unexpectedly meeta meets with a lively rece reception ilLion and turna turns out to be young and charming mrs Is her traveling comp companion anlon torrence bash ford a lawyer suspects Bue the two wo women I 1 nen anal warns singleton I 1 aunt alice nay inay be an impostor the try sit Lr anger count mon blon tani inarea A call 0 6 CHAPTER ill continued a n bloke of lie tile porcelains oli off to be b hurel I 1 they dont don t show to best fit n clec electric light do alu hut but I 1 can have a few of tho the prize pieces dakil akin a into the dining ro riipi ivi said allm mra farnsworth lud had excused her tier sif 1 lu to a letter and from my lay clinar I 1 could sec see her tier imad lent tent over ove r tl ti e big aebli tn in the lie library alice rang fr r antoine Anto inc and I 1 fol follow loLd d lier ter into the hall to offer my aid oh dont trouble tro ulle sin blip auld sald antoino can do 10 lo anything necessary yes thanual if it ou will turn on oil the dining room Hf clita tat I 1 was gone hardly half a minute han I 1 ranched tho the draw ing room loor door montant blon tani had cro aed tho room to the table on which alice hid droppa fan and in as examining it dowly do he ile faced tho tile door and tile moui moment plat hn he detected detect Ml me inc exclaimed carelessly an exquisite little baublet I 1 nm am always curious ca us to the source of euch such triune I 1 m as looking for the akere imprimatur I 1 know a parl lan who la is tho lending leading manufacturer ot of hie the world hut but it is not his I 1 tt ks a we stood bilking talking of other things he piled the fan fait cuic cute leesi lessi ns though for tile pleasure tauro of the faint scent it end and when alice called us ho lie put it lon carefully where he lie had found it he lie reilly really re illy did to know something about and praised ith lilily the pieces that flint had been act get out on the table one piece as s to whose authenticity iny my uncle had serious Borlo iia doubts pronounced genuine land stated tati d very plau elble reasons rea flona for hia ills opinion ep inton on the tile whole iv liole he was an interesting fellow when he had finished hia his in lit sections ho he lingered for only a few ral nini autes ites anil and took hie his leave saying that ho lie nu spending the night at an ion inn near stamford 1 ell said alico when hen the tile m whir clr of mi his machine had died away what lint do you think of 0 hemr A very agreeable gentleman I 1 an ered if he tie dot dotan an it know borce balits 11 he fakes hie his talk admi admirably rubly 1 and ral to fana fans jl suggested lira mrs barnsworth tarns larns worth I 1 had not intended to ment ln monnia interest in lit alac allej j fan and the tile groark surprised me oh I 1 saw it all from the library I ug hed mra lira l my back aa as to the door but I 1 waa was facing a mirror the tile froment Trot nent aou ou and alice client nt into lie the hh hill lie pounced upon the oe fan pounced Is the only word that de it IL he lie concealed his tri terest in it very neatly when you aught him examining it fans are harmless harm leaa things said ia e and if it theres any etory story at ched to this one im not aware of it afy father bought it in iaria parts about tree year years ago and it has never been ct t of my pol waston except to have reP repaire aird theres a japanese jew er r who ho does wonderful things in the AY of repairing trinkets of every d I 1 left it with hica him tor for a few ya I 1 cant tell now which aich panel erx broken ba be did bui ills work so h Y I 1 took it from front her aal an balanced it in my lily limits it nas ns a beautiful piece of with jill the sliu ilist car canines ings on the hory iio ile couldn t liae line sn it achre anh re before tonight ed aiko alke luus in in ID filet I 1 used it nt at nil all tor for a icar it was really b in mistake litake flint my lily inalia put it into my trunk when lien I 1 went ment to japan I 1 dida t want mant to risk breaking it again so lo 10 I 1 e been carrying it in fit n handbag the last da we me were in toldo I 1 think I 1 had it in our sitting room in the tile hotel to inal dial e sure it wasn gasn t jammed into tho the trunk again we had a good many callers a number of people came in lit to bid us hood by but I 1 in kure count blon tani as not among them and it would mould have been impossible for him to sie ste it tit at any other time oh thelle Is nothing disturbing in ho the count counts a interest pter cst in the tile thing said farnsworth lh ith an air of dismissing he lie matter I 1 if it mere w ere a jade trinket inscribed with chinese nus terl berls 3 ou might imagine that it u would bo be sought by some one I 1 hae haie heard of such things but alices fan has no such history 1110 0 o very hospitable said alice 1 I 1 might lue hae asked count Blon tani to line vath us tomorrow and wo c might even enen have liae put him up for the night in this vast houe not with jill antoine on tile premises I 1 I 1 exclaimed Ant antoino olne Is convinced that the man titan Is alint hat 0 we o call in america a crook and antoine takes ills retson st bit I 1 ties very seriously alle I 1 i is breakfasting nt at the tho the next morning antoine ap appeared and walling until I 1 lyun lynn was is out of hearing handed me a blip of paper I 1 vint s a new york automobile cumber number he lie slid said it na ans on the tile tug t f flint machine the party came in last I 1 heard him film saying sir us its how all I 1 clung to the sideboard listening LItt enIng he lie had motored up from the elkton inn at stamford visit visitors from stain ford mould hardly tend in to tho tile city for a machine I 1 bade him wait alt while I 1 called the elkton by telephone no such person ns as giuseppe seppo had spent the night there mere or had been a guest of the house within the tile memory of the clerk Ant olnee chest smelled at thia this confirmation of fill ills suspicions I 1 if it the roan man returns treat him ae no ou did last night as though he were entitled to the highest consideration lie won it come lack back not the same way uny 11 cald said antolene he ile mentioned the elkton just to throw aou ou off the next you hear 0 him mill v be quite different dl you mean he 11 II come na as a burglar in my mind mr singleton everything aveo Ever thing seems cry queer sir such as what Antol antoinet Ant olney neT the widow has been telegraphing and telephoning considerable sir 1 chere I here must be no aping upon these lad leil I 1 admonished see severely rely all the people on the place must remember that mrs jim bashford la is mis trev here and entitled to fullest respect he ile had hardly gone before torrence had me on oil the m wire ire to hear my report and to say any that had left washington for a m icek ind in I 1 irginia I 1 assured him that had bud occurred to en encourage cournO a suspicion that mrs bashford wa not all that she pretended to be the day was vina marked by unusual activities on the part of the waltera waiters and bell hops instead of the company drills to which I 1 had become accustomed they moved about in pairs along the shore find end the lines of the fences I 1 teamed learned that antoine had bad ordered this and the troops were obeying him with the utmost ee se rlou sn the serje serj e ou on ho he ra ira fait nas as abundant it vias only to whistle bild une one of the tile veterans would mould cou ni rilling running in III of ill hi complete I 1 had I 1 if I 1 art ne ills ii to lit fie vie leafu ln trU tind nil hintt intuitions of tile two women the tile culli uil of fit the in mud ginte and the visit of Alon taid I 1 i belond ui powers at dinner they w t re lu in the merrilie merri Lit humor 1 I 1 I he lie per of the little army th through routh out the lit had them greatly how ilon ft I 1 ex ell claimed allie really ll eully we ae should hove haie i it in I 1 to it and dram bridge to make the thing p ra ct constitute and I 1 kire the bist protect tl it lit tim the world orld I 1 Q e oil all tie the fun po possible from the lie ideal that the estate mas ds under hlee tint flint alice ans na the chatelaine of a it castle and that lit fore lull rt adi ui us we 0 were ere in danger of bling star stared out by tin tile eneta the called into play the poo pop to flach lind had so roused antoine Antol iloe a atil their talk bristled alth quotations alice rose after the I 1 salad and repented repeated at leant a page of malor major lind the killits of the hound inning thus been intro ducle mrs lira recited al RI sonorous pa sages from tho tile ldes id la of the tile king I 1 nung flung lines from brownings in a balcony at each other as though they mere ii Iro provia ing the befuddlement of antoine and the ile waiter alter 1 I ho nho assisted him addid to the joy huy bere cre un doubt edi edl the tao cornea momen quite out of thair heads and it was aa plain that I 1 suffered greatly in An estimation by luy my encouragement of this fri sirs mrs walked maj round tho the table and I 1 to ino ine the lines from macbeth begin ning I 1 alamis thou art ard cawdor and ehalt be what htiu art promised prom leed I 1 while antoine clung to the sideboard deboard al iv ith mouth open and eye eyes I 1 in the living coorn alico alice sang sting soine some old ballads mie va mas more adorable than ever at the piano it fig a happiness beyond any in my experience of women omen to watch natch her tier to note the play of light upon her tier golden head to beld to the apell of ler tier voice I 1 ballads had never been eung sung before with the he charm charin and feeling sho put int them and after ending with douglas douglas she responded to my importunity with den holt and lien then into a sparkling thing of cl c pin s played it brilliantly and roti laughingly mocking my applause I 1 lift the tile house like a man whom N at an enchantment liaa has been and ats w as not pleased when all an tolne colne blocked my toy path vardon me sir 1 I lother ma a pardon what a troubling blan sou ou bowl now I 1 demanded its nothing troubling me sir air not particularly if aou ou give me time I 1 think grow used to tile doery talk and claing at being queeni it ita a liko like in a family I 1 served once an Ut iLlIsh family most respectable hut but in 0 ij iddo widow do sir I 1 god knovis we me ought to bo b glad ilien grow gronn grownups ups have the heart to play at being children and can call get away with ith it oj aa as those women dol dot hat else la Is on your inland its it s about lisle sir I 1 groaned at the me mention of I 1 lynna lynns dulnuan wife 1 I I in lit sorry sir air but I 1 tilou thought glit I 1 should liport it it was wits a roan man who came to see her tier this afternoon lou IOU was nag out for our walk A ach anil and I 1 lynn had taken the ladles ladies for a drive so lisle waa mas alono alone at the garage this pison rode rede in on the grocers groters truck track from tho vil lae lahe Is how ho lie got by the tile gate As it happened alerre lie waa was a waiter nalter at the TrIn glinin a kilss who understands german grman had lind gone into tin the garage for 4 nap lice lies quite old sir and I 1 is his ills snooze eury afternoon lies entitled to it I 1 remarked lie last be ile a thousand years old I 1 rom roin what that he lie heard thought the tran a spy sir air he lie wanted lisle to tal something from the house it las as a fail he lie wanted her to take most 1 1 and it N was as to be dono done soon today if it sho she could manage it waa was for the lie love ime of or the fatherland rit ra berland that he lie wanted her tier to do it IL did you notice sir that mrs bashford liae have the tile fan tonight not that one she curried carried last lost night guard makes make an n exciting captus cap tue tuie TO BE nn CONTINUED |