Show mazaroff Z aroff ter y 1 9 P by I 1 J so S FLETCHER r lito A service illustrations by IRWIN MYERS pick ai ter is a fil lairs who S of rightful the hlll to 3 lose 11 geniality ss F milre ss jc racy of MIt loer 1 film I 1 w M him oil of but element ci dori we at it wo ba too I 1 of blie 1 produce type t 0 a 0 handly late it flo ully a r K jal man handed be slid groodt in the last 04 wall 7 of Is likely powerful natt W tie S koblect fact cf or A ia should sinister why to go harm to 11 this abla mobil abl ina ty were end till I 1 Is file life pen 0 i to the tb more or lin H A if t arward do ili U tin be belan bel talley ln him j safe 14 cen ter that was w cunning nirl J 8 fitcher teber was abl reels 1 pon upon it t ovill has b an n enter to till and tells it Us always ariy human and sea i track of the ill i mystery or fall to a pussies satisfactorily chapter I 1 Mi 1 dick ck harker wo arst antolich touch with the man bedou lous murder while in T formed he the asis of at to i be famous in three U th 14 ga bazaroff affair I 1 biere ere old school fel mod d the army to together eaber j ire were in lie the same lehunt the great preat war in the tile same h before the he orals M t tent sent to tc tie same 14 and were eventually mm n it at the same time or toy further military fort la in poes full complement of ier walked into my cans ilca while I 1 wag was still t and nd flung diirr a vs indicating a blue il in the per TA fur f job it arvyn he direct fialon the be paper and end reail read lent before making t eraser w who has recently 2 LJ laii I 1 after a pro M ind nil Is desi desirous rots of even alve tour through libres in n tift hi ains tie tile company of it able well educated ltd td youn loun gat lemin M 01 k lee application ul precise demills dot ill and to be addressed 11 1 4 iru more out of at en cit lily thing hat that I 1 replied mett setting forth ins and lad detaille mj my let rt 1 never expected I 1 knew ew veil well enough atre t hundred hundreds of men on and references as phairy md Pd alt airy try own I 1 lif itle led doot out it was kii I 1 tood deal of fortnight inter litter id read the following otel cecil i Sep leber 1019 rr I 1 jim mi obliged loar letter of the I 1 nr d you and I 1 woul d illes d I 1 shall to 1011 if log mt it this hotel tomor hall past dwely e we MAY alive I 1 lit aa MY atar 8 r 61 rillY yours 2 wit ma HOFF into the hotel cecil next precisely e thirty Uli bad a of 13 tit wo as if inquired toy fr turn was asked Ifer and on aras harlee r to ind d ane orf to palatial e levalley le of die 10 rpm a n onte at M an r door idame to aed the somebody rf ila door 1 ot woul dilt 11 disc 11 ent alered 21 once for bafo 0 really A min the lanute them U I 1 maln in as I 1 MIA bell d led blin to be ills breadth or lie admul gaie n of I 1 his I 1 it it and his b was cilli kull to th ek ltd beaw hair ind beard en bit mache th aea I 1 and ere ivil it roni hilale in who I 1 h e looked I 1 ben en Z fler ce suns of the re aras a to of bod nature good it W to about botn ion ell p hose aad tile let further eye but his emile wit woe was pleasant enough en on win will the twinkle of till lils eyes and there wai was nothing cold nor formal about lile ills handshake glad clad to see jou be he said al most brunquell brut brus quely quell I 1 was vas certain that wherever or however mr Maza mazaroff had come by hie his un english rime he lie himself as a Sc there was as no ing his meent 1 11 I hope youna feeling quite well ell again after wounder wounds be he asked quite fit thank you I 1 an fit for light work auy way aye well he h aid sold nold ln as 1 eald said in my letter I 1 think you and ill 11 get on very pleasantly if ou care to coine come with an old fel low like me 1 I hall shall be pleased to go with jou 1 answered 1 I hope I 1 shall be able to do a I 1 you want oil think I 1 inlall its it little I 1 want ran but company com puny parly ho fie replied im a lone tone num nel tiler lith kin nor friends ieleen rut out of this country many ninny years ani ant now im back I 1 just want to dan 1 5 if I 1 ial 11 fi mr Fl Maia azaroff and I 1 spent a couple of hours over oyer that lunch and our clear and coffee der round a bit seeing places an idle time eh ell youve no flied plans 1 in 10 quiren 0 no o mire illan th thil thit it well just eft get into my tar end and go north he fie an stopping where we ue like and when we like tell you ive a it fancy for old towns any anything thIn old and gray and cool you tale take me the tile great north road then will be a good route to follow I 1 said I 1 inow know t oat road and its surround kingswell Ing swell vv ell 11 it ia b exclaimed joy fully well do very well ell just progressing northward I 1 ve te no par nicular object except that when mien we get far fur north there theres s a 1 I 1 want to turn aide lo 10 marras dale inor jost Jast to renew tie ato about terna terms now he asked diffidently 1 I 1 think I 1 ought to leae that to you M mr r haw a iroff I 1 answered id prefer to a lie gave n sigh of what it 1 was plain was its cheer sheer relief jus aliat hat I 1 id d like you youl to do he said simply that 8 a thing that gentlemen t bargain about leave leare it to ale you 11 not regret it 11 im a very r 16 uan man laddie fuddle and ricci men are entitled entitle ll to hae haie heir their little guinea and fin tin cles eh ell very well now nud iud when can you be ready to any time with a n couple of hours notice I 1 replied goodwood Good good I 1 he exclaimed then III just tell you what bildt ell do halt bring your lit along here this afternoon end and we well I 1 start about cre clock and run gently along na as far is as n we e like before din ner time ti theral be some old town 1 here we can spend a peaceful ful evening and a it quiet night in an old fashioned hold hotel be ile afine a fine kalls royce car in to the garage and a thoroughly dependable chauffeur 1 easler a trusty good sensible M low and well ell be lie right s rain come by fire that 11 suit rou you good and now well we 11 just go iowa down and tale a bit of lunch to gether set her sir mr liti and I 1 spent a couple of f hours over hat but lunch and ot air r cf agars ars end coffee he lie proved him self a knowing id generous liot ind and a great talker taller ills t ilk was worth to I 1 own red ered fiat he ie lad find seen sarfin e larj and peoples pro plea vilt althou hout ghang mt n any definite information about himself or his pursuits he let me we know now that thal he had raided eiten avely in to various out outfit efly ay jarf parts of atla asia and africa pres antly I 1 left liiro him ond went away to 0 o make ready for my rily jo journey urve at it lise fit a clock I 1 was haiback back at the he hotel with ny my luggage and by a quarter past post ve we were od off we lve fol followed lomed ont out Alazar offs 1111 of if going st As far as we liked and stepping whore and when we ch 1 I it t was dini cult to get him away from rom town towns like stamford and brantham bi al rork york after a prel prelim lall enary nary of the th old city be he seii announced ills of slaying a e tan days AH all tile way north he nai vias licher tired of drawing Iru wini ne nie out lut tile ia va or lily own doings in IL it WHO w of no 11 te e to prefers hat that one had fo fitten rotten te tie have the bole tale and for oil tile I 1 ling xai rs who haa adfle their I 1 it ae pro an or n anich la was akin ok n to herft ble hero norsh lp we e got on together lie e was e an allent tl lent a fatherly and brotherly comp lulon at A abe ie antl of f a month he 3 a and I 1 ere lr ep arut rubles tea we had thi thin th i run runa into tile crisp october weather eather of the e north and ere oil de file southern edge of northumberland ther after consulting his hi map he me gave 1 11 l thau chauffeur order orders to cm cut scram country north by wet making milling by way of find ark for r the wild land lands belond and fur for a par nicular place rocked marled on tile lip chart a as he the woodcock nn on oa on narrah dale date moor when rounding a heither clid bluff luff that sloped sharply dorn lo 10 our track nc we n c cime in sl eddit gilt of the Nood cok inn I 1 was amazed to think that a hostelry be foun I 1 in such a desert it rood stood a taunt count arar mass mas of tone stone on the dge edge of A peat great moor ringed about by high hills as lis veritable a tude a one could set eyes on up be ond and it here there was not a sign of hu imn min habitation mint hat an place for an inn I 1 I 1 exhumed d as n wo a moved nearer ill lint custom can they get there 1 I inow know this country macaroff May aroff used to come here I 1 was vins a tr and kg its true there I tj I 1 a sip sign of life about us excecil hats signified by the old inn itin yonder its not guch a des crt ert ns it tools at first sl tight ft theres nothing on the moor moor but 3 aull observe hit bit s valleys cutting in between the hills that run down to its edep edge 11 belt ell there theres s ill III laes aes in these alley and farmsteads tco too and more than one sizable country hou houp houke ke I 1 mind them all well enough laddie addle though it its e more years ban than I 1 care to estimate since I 1 set eyes on them I 1 therell be deop e you remero ber her I 1 su tusK gt eced K and re you I 1 not after all these years he ansu answered ered quickly and between iou and me and the post holt ive no wish to remember people nor more particularly to be rebern by anybody I 1 don t I 1 ant int it to be known that im other than a 0 complete stranger stronger to the be I 1 vas gas pondering non uon dering he lie should lc be so lons about this when we drew UD ur to the d or of the tile inn there was a plain board sign over the wide open door undecorated decorated on sive sire s ive by a laded painting rf if a wood cods cock flying across a scene beneath Ile neath it in tarnished gilt letters appeared the tile words the inn ini ly james it was Ilane shiw tint thit hid it when I 1 was last here murmured roy my companion dc dead d find and gone DO no doubt all of tbell and this tills man no doubt 11 be allu zdrave A man had appeared at tit ife open orel door and ws wis coming comin acress the road to ns us he lie was a a middle aged looking fellow behind him oune line a woman a 2 chirp featured alert quickly oti erving woman w who ho I 1 lipped past the tile man and the tide side a of our cir first it was she who did the talking good day maam said sold mr macarol you 11 II be the lanu lanni lift lv no doubt and thit it be your lour bus hus band bond aye well now dow were think ing of bre breiling aking our journey here for a it day or two perhaps per hapa or two or three jut to lock around this grand cou country of yours you 11 have lave ac r oli oil yes indeed irl answered the woman taking in the car and its occupants with will appraising eyed 8 ance nee his this motoring became become fah lot able weve a it lot of custom and anti ie re r ind CM it M efort ible tir as 83 sli lert led he tile tily ay enade abie had cus tomera rs atee thit th it said sold they were gorry sorry tome to leave it there a a sitting room here sir that you OU cin bare all t your seli es abe he plowed I 1 lie its into nn tin od old fash boned parlor still snugly dy fun leil wh whit solid old stuff and lighted by till fill windows lint look olt it 1 narrow S the moor and the hills mr sir ma ala on laroff nt at the mere sislie si jil of at it ga gae e of pleased fatia if tion on a it grunt I 1 be he sail vald ri Is 11 do aye ye 0 aye ye I 1 tills room for me keep lp grandly lull holt I 1 as its long 11 as s we astl nia am he be W exclaimed 11 when lien he tin had con berred with the lind lidY a ahou bout dili hint that bening S an annl I 1 she had left cpr der this Is I 1 the fie sort fort M to 10 ou of place I 1 I 1 e amell cf of ninny and a it time ulla wl ie been in many ninny 1 where there it IM I 1 the tile L of a wall nor north th I 1 leaf of A ire tree e to under 4 1 coq cool cray gray skelly creep time seems to stand still place alire fal vi I 1 here tike like I 1 bac holland holl and nell ell allt M have a to look k round before our danner e went out to t look round 11 II ill 41 powers diters 0 obe nalon needed sn s 8 n 11 I 1 that to show me on my part was nas as ell acqua mazaroff PU did wayside inn a as it 1 willi this I 1 could and ord and landlady were stone of see that be he knew aery nd aery buildings A be bs ancient T here of their yard balled at the stile of VIPs it lit it tile 1 loue be wha of 2 with knorn the place in As e acre ere coming ninian out of it 14 ire we saw lit at lie its we ale e li id d cu co ie it ui up to he the got pile band mid as musgrave rave ius about to open it 11 PAO came in view froni from le tie hind blud the tile high nil alon dion ile e ball trick by which blell se e hod had ni orel red tile ini last three or r four ralles tulles of at our journey alj rive lifted till ills bat bit as liny filly ganc el in our di redlin each pr fine alir a 11 I 1 tod od and a strich us as they pa ism on wore the tie front of lie the ini ill at ne tie or 0 hem them I 1 merely looked to the other I 1 gue more attention she via fam a 4 girl of possibly twenty one or two ino year years lislie colored and graceful in her country coat coal and skirt dis trac tingly pretty as I 1 could see lu in hat that brief glance lance the other was a tall till handsome woman of middle age somewhat stern and cold in manner despite the grales grail re aliki the tande to the land birds chil greeting from their darers and appearance alpe oa arance these bere iere ere til dently folk of consequence I 1 glinted at mr elazaroff Maza as the adies dl ai scared he us gnile after them it seemed to me iab with unusual attention neighbor neighbors of yours he asked suddenly turning to Mus grae ie chats a ire im sir of toner replied the landlord tho thole s he lit lilg old house the moor used to laplan to sir ilich ird Vot cotgreave greave did mar toner been in the family hundreds of years by all biben bir alcha il biti a bev yeara years kince loce this mr bought tie place and came to lle ike here most of the tile land hereabouts Is his mrs stone chr said mr 1 elazaroff Maia and the tile youn lady i miss I 1 of course no gir sir replied the tile YO young ung lady Is mise miss merchison alks get a es is we all call her mrs cl el daughter by a re revlon r evlon violis marylise marr mar lise dige sir sira I 1 fancied I 1 detected rf dewed in tereca in the express expression loa of mr air face daring tills this ex plano tion put but he a good hah at concealing his thoughts and he turned and waved his hand the wide pro peel before is ns so mr bir of naras dale toner owns most of what ft e seel he suggested well not what yon you mi might ht call most sir replied monsgr those moors to the tile couth south and east sir mr high cap moors tiny belong to a 1 london gentleman mr I 1 verner emer ourt Lope a ba barbler riler lies iles got I 1 shooting ng box in the middle of 0 em illah cap lodge they call it end hes ties there now with nith a small 11 shooting party man occasional bits of gossip of 0 this bort fort our firby evening at the J went off very pleasant jr I 1 wondered nhat hat we were go ing ig 0 do with ourselves ours our clies seles next text day in so 60 solitary a it place but mr Maia rolT it teemed seemed had notions nations of bis his own U which he be promptly ci el plaines on od oming down to break fitt hult laddie he fie paid fald with a confident confidential lal nod a jou 11 understand me tile I 1 im m durei want to have this day to myself tooling round old spots you know clone pione and also there 8 a man mail I 1 it nan ant to see on a hit of blI business alness amuse your self till evening when lien ill I 1 II 11 be back in god good time for dinner of courbet co u urbel I 1 agreed ill be all right bont t bother about roe me 1 he lie thawed me almost as if |