Show IL tit FA jn K BY ft A I 1 by AGNES MILLER 0 by the tb century co WU service CHAPTER continued 9 but in removing remu the lie original hook book ill pante ate in order to conceal tile the lift cute cate he thought site she must have torn the former corpier for pier hence tho the need to inake a copy ns I 1 had seen her to ilo inelder tally grand faither was aris much vexed that that original should have disappeared for it was a real colfa en ell graving the file only copy lie had of his father the lie doctors tors honk plate it if air almy lindet interrupted I 1 should lime tin and to 0 o f I 1 was so 90 bursting with curiosity and I 1 should lime have riot not been tible to compel the answer he re calved one minute macivor Macl hia elvor vor hew hd did your grandfather happen to own u comas colfa x bookplate hugh dolfax col fax it jutt jut before ills his benth denti lIt 11 was in fact lila ills lum lus work in for the di ductor w i having hnud d tho lire of co sort eori who was a british naval officer when lie he ws was ri with yellow ellenw fever ever in south america answered Ma macivor Macl elvor vor briefly merely whetting my mv curiosity but he be had to go on oil with walli his hi story hut tile the main wn wal thal thai the birth certificate was nils missing sing grandfather knew case rise had it and case arid gone abbond direct directly Iv after your mo mothers thera death julia and ami prof royall harrington to whom your mother had find referred bs b nnnie have you ever heard of will mm 1 I think ive ve seen tits his name tintie la in the paper julia reflecting well he la Is your fathers elder brother what V I 1 yes your uncle ate rie had rone gone to oxford the previous sum bummer nier oo oil a yenes years leave from the university knew case must have taken him film the hook hut flint your 1 must havoc have told case the secief secret in it lie knew harrington would try to t trace you so lie he sent seat you awai away ond and kept kepi you away alt all those years and took iny name aanie from me so BO you yon might inam all the he proper property tyl 1 well partly not altogether whitt what other reason could there have been Y 0 your name was harrington 1 I dont understand ill 1 macivor pointed ti t i tile the certificate your father came from el cloots lots crossing Tir virginia ginia so did the itie grosve nor family there was a n feudi deuil between he those families for decades no I 1 yes and it ft started yo so long ago thai flint even grandfather had only a angue idea of what begun began it it ue lie thought it was a political duel net around the year eighteen hundred in a grosvenor Grosven nr was kit led of cours eills father a boy at that hat time hated tile the very mention of tile the name harrington grandfather ans a hidebound conservative serva tive you know knew the family traditions and held to thero them fast so when he learned that his hir daughter had married a B harrington of all people in the world where how interrupted julio julia eagerly ive never known confessed macivor ile he never neer told me maybe mabe he know everything about it himself it 11 was a secret marriage of course but when he learned the main facts about it im ure aure he resolved to out all ul traces of it that was what mode made him so eo bitterly determined to recover that after professor harrington ret returned arned from abroad grandfather made various attempts to regain that hook book you mean of course to steal elect it suggested mr air A I 1 toy my harrington would never have hae sold it 11 Alu machor elvor nodded anti and he years ago he neala nearly y j got of it it the professor library was yes I 1 know suld mr fr almy A nut of rare anre ho birks aks were taken and some of it them tinned up later in varl ous of tile smaller titles cities though the file thief wits never neer traced yot yon mean to say ny mr Uro grovenor Sms venor instigated that flint lie ile did he ha hired the thief but did ld a remarkably thorough job ile he t took ook a lot of books bonks besides beside s the Clari clarified fiew tind ind disposed of them hem all himself taking his flageol however hittner Hitt flint failure started my iny VirgI ninna lie ile inc ir if lie fie wits known as a collector li vituld lie ile wi filled of nil all the virginia boelt that were tint HII on in the lie market lie could ext examine indue all put up for ente ante have the ruu run ul it seand hand sti fips nut hut he certainly was aston ched that evening when you read out thet the title lile 0 y hook he wanted julia I 1 and there was que one thing he find that w vituld identify alie book tit absolutely sol not the bookplate demanded mr air almy something besides s that answered and pointed to the spring lancet which wits distill in mr alays canil ile he told roo me when cherr V I 1 to to 0 o ti notice otice in n addition to the book whether there were a number r of parallel ie scratches here and there on and inside that bok he fie had made hem when a buy boy with that old of his bli fa he remembered he fie bad been punished for doing so 0 I 1 think thit was ue the reasor t the V lancet with him film that monday tn in dor dar rows io to compare the scratches that instrument would cut of nil all the revelations of the afternoon this wits was so far the most satisfactory tory hitherto there fird been no nono lie us to why the spring lancet had 11 heen 0 en friden enlen to darrows Dar rowa and now macivor wite wac proceeding drearily to the close of tits his ill it was that long ions strain of the pursuit suit of that book and tile fear flint somehow the copied bookplate hooli plate would be not noticed leed mid and maybe uylie iii the hidden birth discovered that broke grund grandfather father down lie ile was afraid his secret would be revealed tile his con science would levei lot let him film rest tits bit bitterness berness would never neier let him forgive your mother 01 0 yon julia lie he have lauve ben been here ninel much t longer it in tiny any case oil oh why did he trent treat tier her so cried 1 olla lulla ills was a judgment III ent tin nn him I 1 why did she endure ills unkindness slits site find never film ex cepl pt fly by tier her marriage I 1 suppose slit wits dept on ns as tur her husband laid bud died before you were horn burn no I 1 dont know how tits brother who would doubtless lieve helped tier her wiss was abroad tier health was falling you had to be thought hought of and you know my mother her sister lster ti never came howe home liere here her fler divorce li vorce hit and vexed grandfather very much so your other mother was nas put cut off from practically everybody hut but she did get grand father to lo promise her when she was actually dying hint flint tie would have you vou brought up rind educated prof properly berly julia he did better by 4 you ahn than by h me file you see aee what i 1 am ni today ills his work a hue specimen I 1 charles macivor fave guve a so on bitter flint hat it was dread dreadful fal to bear for or the first time lie fie aroused my sympathy the one thing thine he bared anred for the grosvenor estate for which he hall had agreed to a silence that flint hod had defrauded defroud ed hn hh cousin for years ol of tier birthright hit bright was io to he be largely lost to to win him after all rind find it had taken flint loss to show film hla his own worth julio gazed at him sorrow fully sho she could nut not have found in her heart bean a spark of tier her old cousine regard for forli bilm lm yet her true womanly loyalty prompted some speech that hint might yet revive ills bis malhot d I 1 a listen 1 harles she a a lit last ill ili never forget flow bow you went tn darrows that rant night for tile me I 1 thought kenly yon know that you went on your own arcouet ap ar fount count after I 1 told you where tile the spring lanct lancet wits was I 1 smaill always be grateful for tint lint because condid did tt it when you thought i was guilty tY unit and you wonted wanted to help me and then where opposition and an ger find and severity tind find only aroused delance lance in thit cold and mercenary heart the freel fre forgiveness of that bitterly injured g 11 1 who had sacrificed herself time an ana a again g aln for it him im broke jt it completely I 1 macivor collapsed groaning dont julia dont I 1 he cried 1 had no idea whatever what had happened to grandfather but I 1 always knew you must be absolutely innocent I 1 only wanted to keip keep you from getting that bookplate I 1 wanted time to get it if myself ayt elf so BO I 1 tried to throw the guilt on you god forgive me I 1 I 1 lied kedl I 1 lie ile hid bid ills his face silence descended on the room julia sat motionless looking at him she was cleared vindicated dica ted if she had wished it fully avenged but all that anyone could have read on her face was compassion sion presently she rose went to him and laid tier her hand on tits his head and as mr almy and I 1 found ourselves in tile the hall we ve met peter burton coming up the stairs ile he started to greet us suddenly I 1 saw tits hla eyes become fixed on something behind m grasped the banister tits ills anc fit C blanched Ian ched the greeting lips died on till his lips next instant however ki wever he had find commanded himself mr almy signed to him find and we ali all went downstairs down stair and out of tile the house bouse together we turned uptown peter walked long clong with us in PI silence lence which mr almy presently broke lots of auter hits buy flowed under the bridge since you left on your trip burton sonia of the news Is good and somes very bad I 1 looked ut ul him to la surprise all the news I 1 had bud heard seemed to me extremely good sly glance crossed peters lie he was still very pule pale I 1 said cold mr air almy the lie fact that miss grosvenor Is no longer under suspicion ought to counterbalance any bad news I 1 r should think happe happened ried dei funded peter I 1 in a strangely incredulous tone before mr air almy could answer well lets have tile good rims news llast agreed mr air almy quite true burton miss alias grosvernor Grosve Is clr leared ared hut we vant call tier lier that uny any longer loti gerl 1 and ami us its miss fuller Is responsible for that fuel ole atie cun can tell douall you all about it taking tills ills statement as ao an order I 1 than told peter us succinctly us as p possible os all nebout at the also discovery ery of the birth certificate still as till full clarity involved a ot of tile the strange and adventures ol of far diews notes during bib absence the story took toa some little tinie time when I 1 had tinis hed he turned to our corn com imn ton do you know anything more than flint scamp Moc macivor ivor WWI told he be demanded mu tided yes replied mr almy as it if he bu lind had received u d good opening 1 I know where miss filiss lullu julia parents ent were w ere peter und I 1 registered amazement at this unexpected reply ive known only since this morn ing continued mr airily it 1 wits asia on alays island up lit in I 1 arroll lluy buy where my folks lieve always been I 1 might tell you now that my special lu interest Inte teresi resl lo jn tills this grosvenor Oros ri senor venor cuse intes from tile die minute I 1 rend ithe preliminary report of it 1 l mid find learned that professor ainu was 9 one life ot of those in barrows last morning you vou see thoi ili I 1 never knew hini him personally I 1 knew who tits hla brot brother lier was you knew who miles harrington wast I 1 exclaimed mr air almy allay nodded in III the lie village culled carroll buy bay willell Is on oil the inal a few miles up sip from arom our laland theres a cenotaph put pill up to miles allies memery I 1 was serving in the tha philippines when it was erected but when w fien I 1 returned home hoine I 1 learned it had find been put up in memory of the younger of two broth ers era of that name who had bad teen drowned saving same fishermen in a storm they were often summer visitors at carroll bay the elder was a professor p la in a new ne W york V ork college lie ile went on but I 1 listen broken sentences went ringing through tuy my ears sentences I 1 had forgo forge aten entirely ive find bud an invitation my iny summer playground cardull bays the aaroe I 1 stick to the old traditions my brother was highly romantic were not oil nil yell well suited salted to stand the blows ot of life the ley icy fengers of pro premonition grasped me and I 1 heard peters eters ll voice saying heavily not our processor professor sor mr air almy nodded reluctantly iles hes under tinder arrest I 1 stopped short in the street in horror iles hes not the suspect you yon mentioned to julia harrington when you told her she was cleared lie nodded again now you see why I 1 put it that I 1 way f but hes tier her ancle anchel I 1 I 1 gasped oh it if this Is your bad news it certainly la Is very cry had bad I 1 then she does not know it yet does she almy demanded peter vigorously orous ly not yet but the evidence against mai him Is very strong shell have to know it soon tell roe me first what has happened 11 urged peter this evidence and finish about that marriage on alays island this Is terrible I 1 to begin with the evidence answered mr almy ahoy all along there was a tiny gup in alibi that appear to many observers and might have been unimportant there were three thred or four minutes when he was lone alone in tile the aisle osan ostensibly kang looking at hooks books on the table there that were not accounted tor for to in detail we started to I 1 took him blin up and found directly that tits his birthplace was ivas allots Crus crossing slug the old grosvenor home homestead stend cud and while the grosve grosa 0 nor nir feud seemed rather remote as a motive for an attack on mr grosvenor it was well remembered no as very bitter down in that section 80 there it was a factor to be remembered and there were the proud conservative serva tive characters character of those two elderly men mea an investigator went up to the eel eb ration ehr atlon at carroll bay and there talking to the oldia boldts townsfolk about young miles allies barrington stumbled on a trail which led finally to the unearthing of that flint secret marriage the man who performed pel formed the cor ceremony emony was a justice of the pence peace in the one little town on A amys island twenty odd years ago ties a miserly old character I 1 know well who he be la Is miles Harrington was spending his bis vacation alone at carroll bay that summer as his brother broiher lind just gone to oxford mary Orns evenor was up there with a party of artists who had come to point paint tile the const coast when they decided to get married it als was ceasr to salt down the hay bay to that tha 1 t remote 0 sin aland n d anh anal bribe the old J P to hold his tongue it ans easy a day or two ago to bribe him to loosen it then we learned that Clar notes lind had hp belonged longed to the professors library find nd had hi en stolen that it lind had turned up again and had bad been sought by many people among whom mr grosvenor was included without doubt for he bb and his bis grandi granddaughter laughter had been engorged tn in controversy over a book and that book was the one she was so eager to obtain that it was certainly of extraordinary interest seemed proved by the presence of the cleverly forged bookplate ate concealing the key the keyl key I 1 I 1 interrupted 1 I flung it on that table tn in alie living room 1 have to leave it there now said mr almy perhaps the best place for it well to a cut a long story short it seemed as if professor might be among the persons interested in recovering that book perhaps the most so since it was his own possession he had had opportunity port unity to try to do so last monday morning of the five persons in the shop then suspected of trying to get the alie book four were 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