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Show r . Jfc y y r v tfANNI J1ER. MERWIN flJXZri7ZA7TC2VLr MIT RAY " VVAITERJP v J the crossbars which protected tin window at the end of the cur. In hi favor was the fact that Makt would not expect to see hlui. Doubt loss the Japanese was more concernei with IiIh Rdilrig head than with Bnj suspicion or pursuit, though hli somewhat Indeterminate profile, ai vIhIIiIo to Orme, gave no Indication ol uny feeMng at all. So Orme stood whra he could watch without teem lug to watch, and puzzled over the problem of following Maku from tht tar without attracting attention. The refiiHal of the other Japanese to accept the girl's offer of money forth papera had given Orme a new Idea ol the Importance of the quest. Maku and bin friend must bo Japanese government gov-ernment agents Just as J'orltol and Alcatraute were unquestionably acting for their government. This, at leant, wus the moHt probable explanation that entered Ormu't mind. The syndicate, syndi-cate, then or concession, or whatever what-ever It was miut bo of genuine International Inter-national significance. Though Ormo continued to smother his curious questionings as to the meaning of the secret, he could not Ignore his general surmlHeg. To put hla confidence In the girl to act for her and for her alone that wan enough for him; but It added to his hnpplneHR to think that ahe might be lending him Into an affair which was greuter than any mere tangle of private pri-vate Interests, lie knew, too, that, upon the mesh of private Interests, public. Interest are usually woven. The activity of a KuhhIuu syndicate syndi-cate In Korea had been the more or loss direct cuuse of the Kusso-Japanese Kusso-Japanese war; the activity of rival American syndicates In VcAUi zuelii had been, but a few yeont before, productive, of serious in-teruationnl in-teruationnl complications. In tho present Instance, both South Americans Ameri-cans and Jupanoso were Interested, llut Orme knew In his soul that there could be nothing unworthy in any action In which the girl took part. She would not only do nothing unworthy; un-worthy; she would understand the situating sit-uating clearly enough to know whether wheth-er tho course which offered Itself to her was worthy or uot, In events such as she had that night faced with him, any other girl Orme had ever met would have shown moments of weakness. Impatience, or fear. Hut to her belonged a calm which came from a clear perception of the comparative unimportance of petty pet-ty Incident. She was Btrong, not as & pathy with Mm went even so far si to accept his attitude when It was i i shade more than friendly. More than friendly! Uke a whlu I light, the truth flashed upon Mm as b ' stood there on the rocking platform ol 1 the car. He and Rho would have to b i more than friendly! He had nevei f seen her until that day. He did nol 1 even know her name. Hut all his lift belonged to her, and would belong tc 1 her forever. The miracle which had ' been worked upon Mm. might It nol also havo been worked upon her? H 1 felt unworthy, and yet she might car ' - might already have begun to care-hut care-hut he put the daring hope out of his 1 mind, and looked again at Maku. Th Japanese had not moved. Ills face still wore Its racial look of patient pa-tient indifference; his hands were still crossed In bis lup. lie sat on the edge of the seat. In order that his feet might rest on the floor, for his legs were short; and with every lurch of the car, he swayed easily, adapting himself to the motion with an unconscious uncon-scious ease that betrayed supple muscles. mus-cles. The car stopped at a corner and the man and woman got out, but Maku did not even seem to glance at them. Orme stepped back to make way for them on the platform, and as they descended and the conductor rang the bell, he looked out at tho suburban landscape, with Its well-lighted, well-lighted, macadamized streets, Its vacant va-cant lots, and Its occasional houses, which seemed to be of the better class, as nearly as be could Judge In the uncertain rays of the arc lamps, lie turned to the conductor, who met his glance with the look of ono who thirsts to talk. "People used to go to parties In carriages car-riages and automobiles," said the conductor, con-ductor, "but now they take tho car when they've any distance to go. It's quicker and handler." "I should think that would bo so, here In the suburbs," said Orme. "Oh, this ain't tho suburbs. We crossed the city limits 1!0 minutes ago." "You don't carry many possengors this time of night." "That depends. Sometimes we have a crowd. Tonight there's hardly any one. Nobody else Is likely to get on now." "Why Is that?" "Well, It's only a short wuy now to the connection with the elevated road. People who want to go the b hack Into slumber. Through the open i door came the conductor's voice: "Wake up!" Shake "You get off 9 here!" Shake "Wake up. there!" , llut the man would not awaken, f Muku was sitting but a few ft , from the sleeping man. He had not r appeared to notice what was going on, t but now. Just as the conductor seemed , about to appeal to the inotornian for i help, tho tittle Japanese slid along the I seat and Bald to the conductor: "I t wake Mm." , The conductor stared, and scratched . his head. "If you can," he remarked, . "It's more'n I can do." , Maku did not answer, but putting his hand behind the sleeping man's , back, found some sensitive vertebra. With a yell, the mnn awoke and lcap-I lcap-I cd to his feet. The conductor seized , him by the arm and led him to the platform. The car was already slowing down, but without walling for It to stop, the fellow launched himself Into tho night, being preserved from falling by the god of alcohol, and stumbled away toward the sidewalk. "Did you see the Jap?" exclaimed the conductor. "Stuck a pin Into him, that's what he did." "Oh, 1 guess Jiot," laughed Orme. "lie touched his spine, that was all." The car stopped. Tho spectacled passt tiger with the portfolio arose and got off by way of the front platform. Would Maku also take the elevated? If he did, unless he also got off the front platform, Orme would have to act quickly to keep out of sight. Put Muku mado no move. He hud returned to Ms former position, and only the trace of an elusive smile on Ms Hps showed that he had not forgotten for-gotten the Incident In which he had just taken part. Meantime Orme had maintained his partial concealment, and though Maku had turned his head when he went to the conductor's help, he had not appeared to glance toward tho back platform. The conductor rang the bell, and the car started forward again with Its two passengers Maku within, Orme without the pursuer und the pursued. "I thought the niotorinan and I was going to have to chuck that chap off," commented the conductor. "If the Jap hadn't stuck a pin Into his" "I don't think It was a pin. Tho Japanese know where to touch )ou so that it will hurt." "An' I didn't even like to rub the fellow's ear for fear of hut-tin' him. I heard of a man that was made deaf that way. Smashed his ear drums." "I wonder where the Jap will get ' off?" said Orme. 1 "Oh. he'll go right through to tV barns and take a Clark street There's u lot of them Japs llv that way. He's one of 'em, I "I'liUsa he's somebody's cook) valet." J "I don't believe he Is. J coury, you pver know." -"That's true," suld OrmeTV never knows." ""w4 1 As the car plunged onward, 'Maku ' suddenly put his hand In bis pocket. 1 Ho drew It out empty. On Mm face was an expression which may mean ' "surprise" among the Japanese. He f then fumbled In his other pockets, but 1 vently he did not find what he v . looking for. Orme wondered ' what It might bo. ' The search continued. A piece of ' twine, a pocket knife, a handkerchief, were produced In turn and Inspected. ' At last he brought out a greenback, 1 glancing at It twice before returning it to his pocket. Orme knew that It t must be the marked bill, llut Maku was looking for something else. Ills I cheik glistened with perspiration; ev- Idently he had lost something of I value. After a time, however, he . stopped hunting his pockets, and seemed to resign himself to his loss I a fact from which Orme gathered that the object of his search was nothing so valuable that it could not be re- I placed. i When he had been quiet for a time, be again produced the greenback, and I examined It attentively. From the I way he held It, Orme Judged that he i was looking at the well remembered i legend: "Keiuemlier Person You Pay i This To." Presently he turned It over i and held It closer to his eyes. He was, of course, looking at the abbreviated 1 directions. "You'd think that Jap had never seen money before," remarked the 1 conductor. "Perhaps ho hasn't that kind." replied re-plied Orme. "Maybe ho guesses It's counter-felt." counter-felt." "Maybe." "Looks as though he was trying to read the fine print on It." "Something you and I never have done, 1 Imagine," said Orme. "TI'Ai'a a fact," the conductor chuckb d "I never noticed anything about a bill except the color of It and the sie of the figure." "Which Is quite enough for most men." "Sure! Put I b t I pass on a lot of counterfeits without knowing It." "Very likely. 1 he Jap has evidently finished his I'rjMi.sh le-iui. See how-can how-can lully he fold the bill before he puis ii away." "Wt'ro cumin' to the barns," said the conductor. 'Tar as we go." As he spoke, the car slowed down nd atop ed. I'nd Maku nri.se from his m :it. Ohio was at the top of the Heps. r ady to fwing quickly to ti e ground. If Muku lilt the car by the rt r door. Pyl the Japanese t;in,e' to the forward entrance. Orme wa!t d until Maku bad got to the ground, then he. too, desei nded. ku did r.ot turn at once toward the (iark street cur that was waiting to start downtown. He stood hesitant In the stre. t. After a municnt. Ms attention teemed to be attracted by the lights of an allnight restaurant, not tar away, ac4 b crossed the street and walked rapidly to tnt gleaming sign. Orme followed slowly, keeping on the other side of the street. If Muku was hungry, why, Maku would eat, while he himself would wait outslda like a starving child before a bilker s window, llut Maku, It seemed, was not hungry. Through the window Orme saw Mm walk to the cashier's desk and apparently ask a question. In answer, the woman behind the desk pointed to a hugo book which Iny on the counter near by. Orme recognized recog-nized It as the city directory. For some time Maku studied the I ages. Then he seemed to appeal to the cashier for help, for she pulled the book to her, looked at Mm us though she were asking a question, and then, rapidly running through the leaves, placed her finger at a certain part of a certain page and turned the book around so that tho Japanese could see. Ho nodded nnd, after bowing bow-ing in a curious fashion, came back to the street. Orme had, meantime, walked on for a little way. llo would have gone to tho restaurant in an endeavor to find out what address Maku had wished, but for two reasons: Tho cashier might refuse to tell Mm, or she might havo forgotten the name. In either ru on vr Maku Seemed to Have Had No Su picion That He Was Being Followed. Fol-lowed. event hla opportunity to follow Maku would thus bo lost and to follow Maku was still his best course. Ac-t-ordingly he watched the Japanese ko back to a Clark street car and imb aboard. It was an open car, with transverse ats, and Maku had chosen a position iout two-thirds of tho way back, here was, as yet, only one other pas-nger. pas-nger. How to get aboard without ing seen by Maku was a hard prob-tn prob-tn for Orme, but he solved It by aklng a chance. '"Warttirlg'Vai.icny s ivard tho next corner, away from the -ar, he got out of tho direct rays of he street lamp and waited. Presently tho car started. It al-nost al-nost reached Ornie'a corner when he ilgnaled It and, hurrying Into the itreet, swung on to the back platform. There had been barely time for tho ar to slow down a little. Maku could lot well have seen him without turn-ng turn-ng his head, and Orme had watched he littlo Japanese closely enough to mow that ho had continued to stare straight before him. Safe on the black platform, a desire o smoke came to Orme. He found a igar In his case and lighted It. While io was shielding the match, be looked ver his hollowed hand and saw Maku produce a cigarette and light It. Tho Japanese had apparently wished the (insolation of tobacco just as Orme nnd. "An odd coincidence," muttered Drme, "I hope It wasn't mind reading." read-ing." And he smiled as he drew a mouthful of smoke. Lincoln park slid by them on the left. The car was getting well down Into the city. Suddenly Maku worked ulong to the end of his seat and got down on the running board. The conductor con-ductor pulled the bell. The car stopped and the Oriental lumped off. The action had been so quick that Orme, taken off bis guard, had not had time to get oft first. He, therefore, there-fore, remained on the car, which begun be-gun to move forwnrd again. looking after Maku, he saw that the Japanese, glancing neither to right nor to left, was making off down the side street, going west; so he In turn stepped to the street. Just as Maku disappeared beyond (he corner. He hurried quickly quick-ly to the side htrect and saw Maku, half a block ahead, walking with short, rapid steps. How bad Maku got so far? He must have run while Orme was retracing tho way to the corner. And yet Maku seemed to have no suspicion that he was being followed The chase led quickly to a district of poor houses and shops an III looking, look-ing, ill smelling district, w here every shn.ii -w termed ominous. Win-never they approruhid a comer, Orme hurried hur-ried forward, running on his toe, to shorten the distance In the event that Maku turned, but the course continued contin-ued straight until Orme hi pan to wc.n d'-r whither they were nrit genie n ar to the river, one branch of which he knew ran north through the city. At last Maku turned into au alley v.Mi-h rut through the middle of a block. This was something which Oiine l ad not expected. Ib ran forward for-ward and peered down tho dnrk. un-l:'r,,nut un-l:'r,,nut f.asag-. There was his man. barely visit lc, picking a cartful v,y through the ah heaps and folding the pestilential p.irb.-ige r, nt. (To j i: roNTivi'KtM Tht Manly Part. The wanly iart is to do t!i x iv and mala what i ca do -: n a ' - ' T SYNOPSIS. At the expo nun of a soilnl hit I Itnlirrt Ormn suvus from urn-At a Kill In n liliirk Inuring citr who I win emmed a trnfllo Jmn on HtiitA Btr.M-t. Ha buys a new hut ami la Klvni In thaiiKu a nvo dollar bill with: "Itememlipr tint pirori you pay thin to," wrltton on It. A second tlmn tm helps ton i'u'iy In llift Mack chi-. ami learns that In Tom ami Pes.-tle WnlllriKlium they have mutual rneiiila, tmt gains no further hint of her Identity, llo dmnivers another In-acriptlou In-acriptlou on tho marked hill, which, In a fulilu ttllempt to ilecliiliir It. he ropteH and plueea the copy In u (Ituwer In hlx apartment. Kerior I'uritnl, Houlh Ameil-cun, Ameil-cun, cmIIh, and tlitluia I he m.irked hill. inn rerio.es, nnd a flklit enmien In whleh ToiUol la overcome. lie culls In Henor Ah uiium... InltiiKier from his country, coun-try, to vouch for hint drum mill refuse to gl up the hill. Orme koch for a walk ami ee two J 1 1 h iitiaek Aleatruriti'. He renews him. Itelurnimf to hla rooms Orme la iiiiueked hy two J up who ef-f ef-f e. t a fori Pile 'xehane of the marked hill for Hiioihcr. i n ine Muds the mi l of the hlnek cur wuIiihk for him. Win ills.) wanis the hill, in me tells his story. Hue recowiliea nun of tho Japs as her f.illicr's butler. Maku. The second loBi rlpimn on the hill Is the key to the hhimit place of Important piipets stolen from her father. Jtotli J;,ps and rioullt A i leans want lliu jiapert. orme nnd the "iliil" slurl out In the black car In (pest of the pipers In tho university grounds In i:unsion thn JiJdlng pi ti e is located. Maku nnd an-dlier an-dlier Jap are there. Dime fells Maku and tho other Jap esenp, s Orme finds In Muku' po krt u folded slip of paper. lie takes 1 1 if girl, wlo.se iniinu I slill tin-known tin-known to him, to the home of a friend In KvHiiston. Iietiirnln to the university grounds Ol me gets In conversalloii wllh a guard lit the llfc-sm Ing station. They her a motor boat In trouble In tho darkness dark-ness on tho lake. They tlnd tho crippled boat, In It are th Jap wllh the papers an I tilrl " Hhe Jumps Into Orme b,nt but tie Jap eludes pursuit. CHAPTER VII. Continued. At the side of the girl, Orme now walked slowly through tho deserted streets. It was some time before she "After you left me at the borne of my friends" she began at lam, 1 . "iHint t-ry to tell about It," I tB. . Thel -e" tindefT street lamp "ai loo motntnt, and she glanced up at Mm with a grateful smile, pleased apparently by his thought of her. i ,4T!i-l 1 gof.'l of you," she exclaimed, exclaim-ed, "but Tu'y Storf is easily toiil. Let me go on with It. I explained myself to my friends as best I could and went to toy room. Then It suddenly occurred oc-curred to mo that Maku and his friend might have come to Evanslon by boat." "Just as, later. It occurred to me." "I thought that the other man might be waiting for Maku. The motor mo-tor car that we heard there was no good renson for thinking that our man was In It." She paused. "1 know." he said. "1 thought of those things, too." "It flashed ' on me." she went on, "that If 1 could find the man, 1 might be able to buy Mm off. I didn't believe be-lieve that he would dare to Injure me. There are reasons w hy he should not. My" car had been taken In, but I had them bring It out, and I told them well, that part doesn't matter. Knough that I made an excuse, and went out with the car." "You should have taken some one with you." "There was a likelihood that the Japanese would run If I had a companion. com-panion. As long as I was alone he might be willing to parley, 1 thought. At least, be would not be afraid of me alone. So I went north on Sheridan Sheri-dan road to the tipper end of tho low-r low-r campus. There Is a cross-road iiere, you remember, cutting through to the lake, and 1 turned In. I lelt the car near a house that Is there, and walked tin to the tdge of the bluff. "Moored to a breakwater below was a boat, nnd a man was standing near her. I called out to him. nsklng what time it was. He answered, ikm' know,' and I knew him at once to be foreign and. probably, Japanese. " So I went down toward him. "When he saw that I was coming, be got Into the boat. He teemed to be frightened and hurried, and I Inferred In-ferred that he was about to cast off, iinl I tail' J out that I wns alone. At that lie walied, but he did not get out ef the boat, and I was standing at the edge of th breakwater, just above Mm, before be actually seemed to recognize rue." "I'ld yet know hl:n?" asked Orme. "I never saw Mm before to my knowdg; but he made an exclamation exclama-tion which Indicated that he I new me" "What did b do then?" "I told him that I wished to talk to Mm about the papers. His answer was that. If I would step down Into the Ixutt. be wculd talk. He said that Ue would rot leave the boat, and tdded that he was unwilling to d tuss the matter aloud. And I was foolish enough to blleve his excuses If h wished to whlspev, I said to my self, why, I would whisper. I never felt so Ilka a conspirator." She paused to look up at the street sign at the corner which they had leached, and turned to the right on a shady avenue. "Well, I got Into the boat." she continued. con-tinued. "1 told Mm that 1 my father was prepared to pay him a largo sum of money for the papers, but ho only shook his bead am said. 'No, no.' I named a sum; then a larger one; but money did not" seem to tempt him, though 1 made the second offer as huge as I dared. " How much will you take then?' I asked nt last. Instead of answering, he bent down and started the motor, and then I noticed for tho first time that while I was talking wo had been drift Ing aw ny from the dock. I made ready to Jump overboard. We were near the shore and the water was not deep; anyway, I am a fair swimmer, llut ho turned and seized my wrists and forced me down Into tho bottom of tho boat. I struggled, hut It was no use, and when I opened my mouth to scream, ho choked mo with one hand and with the other pulled from lis pocket a handkerchief and tried to put It In my mouth." She gave n weary little laugh. "It was such a crumpled, unclean , handkerchief, I couldn't have ntood It. So I managed to gasp that if he would only let me alone 1 would keep i quiet." ! "The brute!" muttered Orme. "Oh, 1 don't think ho Intended to hurt me. What ho feared, as nearly as I can mako out, la that I might h.-uo him intercepted If he let me go filr. That must have been why he fed to take me with him. I'rob-W I'rob-W he planned to beach the boat Tarfu sUe and leave me to shift for Ivself. "Vhen your boat came, of course I Jtyl'i't know who was In It. I never dri,iimpd. It would be you. And I had utilised to keep still." .Hardly a binding promise." .Veil, before he stopped threaten- , '!!with that awful handkerchief, Inr nu , he had m me .wear over and over that I womNT1 ca" f,,,r hc'ttM I would not maXy "",- 1 would sit quietly outtC""1' ,he" you recognUed me, I felt B" ,1P?. ' of obtervlng the promlse'iLOTer' "Naturally," muttered Orme. ( She sighed. "It does seem as thoujf Fate had been agnlnst us," she snld. "Pate is fickle," Orme returned. "You never know whether she will be your friend or your enemy, llut I believe be-lieve that she Is now going to be our friend for a change. Tomorrow I shall get those papers." CHAPTER VIII. The Trail of Maku. When for the second time that night he bade the girl ndleu nnd saw her enter the house of her friends, Orme went briskly to the electric car Hue. He bad not long to wait. A car came racing down the tracks and stopped at his corner. Swinging aboard at the rear platform, be glanced within. There were four passengers pas-sengers a man and woman who, apparently, ap-parently, were returning from an evening eve-ning party of some sort, since he was In evening dress and she wore an opera cloak; a spectacled man, with a black portfolio in his lap; a seedy fellow asleep In one corner, his head sagging down on bis breast, his bands In his trousers pockets; and was It possible? Orme began to think that , t-'ate had Indeed changed her face , toward him. for the man who sat huddled midway of the car, staring , straight before him with beady, ex- , presslonless eyes, was Maku. I'luler the brim of bis dingy straw hut a white bandage was drawn tight around his head so tight thnt from i Its under edge the coarse black hair bristled out In a distinct fringe. Tho blow of the wrench, then, xuust have cut through the skin. , Well that would mean one more I scar on the face of the Japanese. The other scar, bow had Maku come by that? 1'erhaps in some battle with the Russians In Manchuria, He seemed to be little more than a boy, , but then, one never could guess the , ii C of a Japanese, and for that mat- t t'-r. Orme had more than once boon , told that the Japanese had begun to impress very young soldiers lung be- fore the bat! hi of Mukden. , Whll" making these observations, i Orme bad drawn Ms hat lower over his eyes. He hoped to escape recti- i nltion. for this opportunity to track i Maku to his destination was not to be i missed. He also placed himself in i ruch a position on the platform that his own face was partly concealed by i m ; ..i.isi ii iiii m soi i in Hill ii i i. ii I. m ..iisjsiy isp. aisny ... e .y iiw?Tryi j t lMn.ua fa .Ufa riiis ml m -1 fi 1 1 EJ J P, .4 - ymr-;v.m.,--" ' -'j, - j iJ 1 tuns ii- if4-- - t) li'i pp i ir " 'if i' ii'' Cave No Indication of Feeling at All. mnn Is strong, but In the way a woman wom-an should be strong. Tho blood went to his cheeks as he remembered how tenderly he bad spoken to her In the boat, and how pl ilii ho had made his desire for her. What should he call his feeling? Hid love come to men as suddenly as this? She had not rebuked biui there was that much to be thankful for; and she must have known that his words were as Involuntary as bis action In touching her shoulder with his hand. lUit how could she have rebuked Mm? She was. In a way. Indebted to Mm. The thought troubled him. Had he unintentionally taken advantage of her gratitude by showing affection when she wished no more than comradeship? com-radeship? And had fhe gently Bald nothing, because be bad done soim--thlng for her? If her patler.ee with him were thus to be explained, it must have bei n based upon her recognition recog-nition of bis unconsciousness. Still, the mor he pondered, the more clearly he saw that she was not a girl who, under the spell of friendly good will, would permit a false situation situa-tion to exist Her tlncerity was too deep for auch a (lotting of fact He dared assume, than, that her sv ra rest of the way by the elevated, would walk. And after we pass the elevated ele-vated tin re's other car lines they're more likely to take, w here the cars run frequenter." "Do you go to the ueurt of the city?" "No, we stop at ffie barns. Say, have you noticed that Jap In there?" The conductor nodded toward Maku. "What about htm?" "He was put aboard by a t op. Iioks aa though somebody had slugged him." "That's so." commented Orme. "His head U bandaged." "Judging from the bandage. It must have be n a nast crack." continued the conductor. "Hut you wou.'c.'n t know he'd been hurt from his lace Say. you can't tei anything at out (hope Johns from their looks, can )ou, now ?" "You certainly can t." rc lied Orme. The conductor glanced out "There's the .icvattd." he said 'i ll have to go In and wake that drunk. He gets off here " Orme watched the conductor go to the man who wat tleeplrg Id the corner and shake him. The man nodded bit head vautly. and settled |