Show the bookplate BY AGNES Ml service a 6 by the tb century ok CHAPTER XIV continued 22 and tulla wont be alone either now eald I 1 brilliantly she has hals her uncle she bo be alone long anyhow observed nancy demurely A faint flush mounted mouthed to fo peters berene brow but he offered wre no rebuke buke so we all smiled with highly spon ganeous cheerfulness and b be e observed well im not to start anything I 1 cant finish I 1 nancy snorted but here come came a fortunate interruption outside a motor rolled up to tile cury curb and in walked mr air dar da r row wearing a portentous expression something important was impending to bring him to the shop ut tit hour being one of the employees lie he spoke ke to I 1 said careful however not to be too forward or unconventional good morning ue he admitted my existence but not peters nor nancys good morning mr darrow sold said nancy sive sweetly eily it lovely out so eo early I 1 delightful indeed murmured mr darrow danow with slightly uncertain over cordiality you dont dont know me said nancy 1 I am miss burton miss wilkes Is kindly giving mo me special training to become miss MIS S fullers fu alers llers private secretary this Is my brother Or other ah h h hl I 1 observed darrow back are you Kur burton ton yes sir assented peter ieter then emboldened by our having survived nancys coup he added i 11 ll 1 got a full set of the broadsides broad sides mr ali darrow lit ct a bargain ahl observed air darrow you might come and tell me about it ILI lies iles a perfect dear but lie he needs a lot ofir help it viewing the retreating forms of the two gentlemen ff mr darrow ne needs eili help 11 all men do but I 1 was referring to peter lies going to marry julia Is he be well cant you see that Is it always necessary to say everything ever tiling right out arent yiu glad if it proves to be true I 1 shall be very glad giad especially I 1 ly because you helped it happen of course 1 did most of it but you ou certainly helped do tell me how flow you did most of it nancy I 1 I 1 begged II well IVell began nancy with intense satisfaction the first night ire we were at normandy terrace the most terrible noise woke me up it was peter ieter singing in his sleep he does that sometimes when hes fies very tired I 1 knew that trip to richmond and the fuss fusa about calvind and his fits worry about me had just worn him out nud and J certainly felt feli the anu pangs s of remorse but if he hud had roue gone on nn ernesto would 1 have put us on the street so BO 1 went to the keyhole and moaned like a banshee until he tinned guined over very loud find was quiet nut but that was not lot before I 1 find biad made out what he was singing a 0 love efing itna a slushy one nt at peter peler francyl then arst thing next morning ht nearly swooned when he saw the paper mid and tried to explain it by just mentioning casually that tile the who fainted in the shop yesterday lives di you thought there was more to it then th an that lonther when I 1 heard that tant young tody lady wanted yli finla books that tier her grandfather collected them lie he war wn fi in hie file law hook alcove especially when I 1 remembered that my old friend brandon tower had been after a book in suitcase which was an old Virg virginia lilla law book I 1 relate all chese henc facts I 1 admit until deur dear daisy abbott helped me slie site carughi ma me in the hall one day and chatted lovingly and asked ois IL enily bow peter ieter had met before I 1 she had detective aspirations ill tell you about them some time she had matrimonial aspirations too I 1 fixed them hem ill you how some time 1 I told julia about my elopement so BO she would never be surprised at hearing of tt it indirectly or think it was nt at all important or that I 1 cared a bit for him film ever and aej she said guldi 1 was vas a good sister and rewarded me ine nut but here even nancy had 0 to o stop a minute mr air case arrived as aa van acta guard rd of the staff greeting us affably and passing on to his office with till all the pleasant pen sant courtesy which had never neer deserted him during daring that past trying week except once when old associations soc lations had been too poignantly arob cro used sed nice bouny murmured nancy isome some would say any dull but I 1 say eay good I 1 affirmed affirm id how did julia reward you your bhe ecat leui me inc alita this to bring here today answered nancy from tier her pocket site she drew ilk small copper plaque she laid on my desk just as captain ashland As liland who lind tho the moment before stepped out of a taxi appeared ln in the doorway one look and with a shriek I 1 bounded toward him brandishing the plaque TI the it e original I 1 i 1 cried Colf axa own copperplate I 1 lie fie seized it stared pt at it speechless N 1 say bayl I 1 lid ho ejaculated d louall liun lly yes heres ilie circled serpent quite in form and itlie tile ship and the pillars and tile hie instruments where did you get tills this 1 I gut it I 1 announced nancy loud and clear 1 I got it ait it of tile lie little sewing tuble lit in hulln Grosve nors I 1 ni meun un julia florrIng lons house I 1 glanced nervously tit at the fie captain sorry for the altus lon in his presence to tile the grosvenor Oros venor mystery but to my amazement lie he looked more interested tit than in ever I 1 stammered out of the setting table but it was a dummy it open open what everybody thought returned noncy nancy ignoring the lie captain le temporarily harily fo for r it was no time to ex plain to him about sewing tables but julias mother must have discovered otherwise anti and I 1 suspected that table all along myself it was so curious and striking julia thinks tier mother probably hid the copperplate there to safeguard tier her copy of the that Is so that her copy would never be shown up by some engraved one being struck from the lie copperplate she must have realized that with everybody thinking the table was waa a dummy the copperplate would almost certainly nevor never be disturbed asri if she hid the key too I 1 tried the he sewing table yesterday atter alter id tried jullas julias boxes and given her the chance she wanted to talk to you and peter and there was this copperplate all carefully packed into the little drawer so it would never rattle with this hits paper 1 dramatically site she prod produced need an old stained yellow sheet bonding bending our heims over it the captain and I 1 deciphered the following legend 0 to dr charles grosvenor 11 from hugh colfax tills bookplate in profound gratitude in his peaceful home may he recall the great days of the macedonian and tile the esmeralda meralda Esme Rs raida this was pure greek to me but the captain started back in amazed recollection the Esme esmeralda raida he cried why that ships one of the most famous prizes in glands En nava lili history tory I 1 site she was captured off callao by the british britian fleet that went beni to the al aid d of the revolutionists of chile in 1820 weve KOP gor it at last I 1 bel level con on must beena een there bere iere 1 ue was wasl 1 1 I 1 cried never mind how bow I 1 know that can cal wait waft but afterward he tell fell a victim to yellow fever and his life was wag saved by doctor uros anor nor then an american naval surgeon though just how he be happened to be on the spot I 1 dont know 1 I dol arole in nancy determined ly julia told me that ship on the bookplate Is the Mace macedonian donlan the doe doctors ship which was on a voyage and lying off callao at agthe the time limb of the action between the Esme esmeralda raida and the british fleet but I 1 edep 1 had been exi ex amiling the tha copperplate closely aguin the macedonian was a very ruinous famous american ship nancy and captain ashland As liland says this Is a british allt frigate oh my gosh 1 just too WE late I 1 perceived that my wonderful memory had not been quit wonderful enough the sincerity of L I 1 V you dont know me said nancy 11 1 am miss ml burton 09 my contrition was such the anere e gance of its express expression lon was overlooked overlook ea by nancy who saw that site she must quickly forestall questions hovering on the he wholly perplexed cupta captains ins lips of prizes prize she sala lightly tile was ne too it alas captured lo in the war vat of isia oh you reine niber now i 1 you constance I 1 guess you foli take many prizes in history dirt did you thai nice ashland ills sweetest smile in fact lie he laughed the ther the he last of the mya my merya solved tie lie declared llian ks to miss burton I 1 how I 1 deman demanded Ced recovering rec speech since tile the Muce donlan was a captured by y america in 16 the war var 0 oi 1812 that uc counts for its being brit lab ULM oh dearl then iceie weve finished altti i AV i i the tha bookap bookplates latel nancy pick ick log 1119 up the he copper plaque regretfully 1 I said ald the captala now ilow so BO tile the asked because ive really just tegan began on account of it it had and great influence you see lu in forming wy my decision to stay here I here lerel yes im staying indefinitely my uncle always urged nie aie to 10 coule come but roy my first morning here I 1 I 1 very reen keen on it I 1 must adail I 1 felt put off a bit safer in th the ewar what but then xou jou and miss bliss fuller ut of course drew my attention to the book pinte and so BO ive decided to stay and help in tho the business on tills this side I 1 telephoned my uncle my decision last night tind nd I 1 must be off now to see him for he said held hed be b e here early to welcome me I 1 believe ill have time to loarn learn the tha business and d do 0 some other things I 1 want to now that dint almy sus says hes through with me mr almy Is through with you youl I 1 I 1 ela ejaculated culata why ahat do you mean captain ashland you I 1 helping solve the grosvenor inist mystery ery all this time and I 1 never knew itil it I 1 helping repeated the captain dazedly 1 I say were you in lt it tool too I 1 had no ideal idea I 1 oh I 1 do touch much I 1 demurred feebly nor I 1 II 11 I 1 just made a nuisance of myself soothing my uncle and begging for tea and insisting on an inal for that copy of the bookplate and what not see here sald said 1 I severely how long has bas mr almy known ani anyhow how that that book bool was an object of interest to the grosvenor connection the captain chuckled delight delightedly adly good joke on nil all of us what why you know his interest in the case started when mien he heard professor aar arington rington was among those present of course lie he thew about him personally but he also rew remembered that the police had bad been called in ahel library was robbed some years back so lie he reads that case over to refresh his mind and then when he walks into my uncles office lost last monday noon theres one of the very books that was stolen lying on the desk I 1 and men with all the grosvenor clan rushing hither and yon for tho the rest was easy oh was it said 1 of course it was when he had bad so much help from experts I 1 mr almy observed nuncy nancy irrelevantly told me one day to take care of roy my fine brother so I 1 did we were puppets in his hands hand sill 1 I 1 murmured positive the puppets beamed the cap tain going up are you miss alls curton curon on do tell me vow bow you to took olt care of your br otherl brother 1 it I 1 so sq england end and young amerle america d departed p arted each with a prize or perhaps america had two for nancy Noney bore off the colfax copperplate miss fuller you seen the paper tills mawn A dark hand band held out dally snapshots bookshop mystery ran the largest caption clews deboue anent m e nt ab neove or e a an n eril enlarged a rge reproduction production of the spring lancet Is that there a 0 clew claw miss puller fuller inquired ulysses indicating the inspru ment yes ulysses with sudden deter ruination I 1 resolved to ask ash him one question he seemed communicative for him have you ever everdeen seen miss too I 1 mean as s well se as tier her grandfather no know her it t all de nied ulysses we all knew professor Harring fou of course you mean down in virginia fortune favored the bold ulysses proffered a 6 single confidence Yas lizi my old father he lived with the he they had elegant big white house all till full 0 of cred red satin furniture furn ture I 1 loves grand furniture furn lure ture then he was its gone with his Smili snapshots shots leaving me with my thoughts and cata lugue logue proof which lasted me until latr late that afternoon when true to form mr air roberts robert interrupted on the telephone are you busy no I 1 answered cred also true to form then 1 was kindly 0 come to sir narrows darrows office not once before in nine years lind had I 1 been summoned it to fie presence I 1 wondered why mr darrow should anke the trouble to fire rue lue personally hut but marched into his cherry cherrywood wood headquarters and faced him and mr air roberts with all tit the e composure 1 I could muster ahl alls mt fuller suld said mr air dar row as if he quite sure sit sh down now in reference to 0 o that book plate you know what I 1 mearil mean 1 thinh so I 1 murmured miss fuller showed considerable in n tellI gence in that connection inter erupted d sir mr roberts roberta all aloiys efforts seem to titine teen been crowned with suc refis suld said mi ali darrow hastily 1 I 1 have been glud ato to exert my poor influence to obtain for eor him bilm the vacation lie he has fins long desired to spend with his worthy aged parents on their picturesque maine island I 1 would nt not see tine one who has exerted blin himself in behalf of the cause of 1 jus joe lice and my house bouse remain wa warded crded then dont forget ulysses Ulysse sill 1 wild I 1 and swearing both my hearers to secrecy I 1 outlined ulysses epic of devotion for such his whole course of conduct during ahe tie previous week lind had to he accounted will lit analyzing too closely tile the ethical aspects of ills delay in identifying mr air gros grosvenor velior it could be seen that it 11 had won a advantage or julia liy by giving ulys ulysses et time little to sound mr ir case tind win tits ills friendship for hillur daughter por for tie lie knew kimt aliat julia tras also tin the dali gider or miles 41 ju if the he z imil librn lif filanti fil W ho he had seen the professor protes soi then a boy down in Vir virglnia glaIA he must have known miles allies too and an old colored nurse long years a grosvenor retainer who had tended both bot hAlary grosvenor u nd her little daughter biad been sent home hoine to virginia for giving that child In forina tion flint was nas to be kept from froin tier her far more important information confided by that dying mother to tier her old nurse must haye have goue gotie the rounds of the log cabins in ellets crossing end and found its way north ngali to one who secretly knew the gray haired professor as more than one of tile the details of life in darrows Dar rowls and finally ulysses seeing the spring lancet under my desk that thursday had undoubtedly recognized it in some way exactly how would never dever be known yet it might be safely that his old father fazlur fat lur with the interest I 1 in bodily ills characteristic act of I 1 its his race and class had lot told ulysses over and over again of if the flue young naval surgeon who once long ago by means of a strange little brass ito box full of knives lind cured him of pleurisy and it was the more likely that ulysses had heard tills this story frequently because tills this admar I 1 11 la is that there a clew miss fuller inquired ulysses indicating tile the instrument ment able doctor was so strangely one 0 of I 1 these no coi nt Gros venorE no harring ton re retainer talner would hive have had bad use for and so I 1 ulysses seeing the spring lancet under the desk and knowing the suspicion hovering over julia and the evil |