Show the mystery R oad by E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM by little altro n A co CHAPTER V continued 23 weve done campaigning both of os as he sold said 1 I read of 3 sou ou N when hen you led your regiment into germany I 1 was in a trench ma myself self for five days at a stretch those things dont really ro matter atter five fihe days was quite long enough there in the mud we worry about soap then get on with it please number twenty nine closed his eyes as a he shed his last garments then he drew on Ge geralds raids presently the governor laughed upon my word he declared it it Is better than I 1 thought I 1 have ordered the barter barber into the next cell he is 1 a d prisoner elf so there Is not much chance of his blabbing come along we will be back in flie five minutes lie he added turning to gerald in airn time to take your orders tor for lunch ell eh give ive you time to settle down they passed out gerald felt a queer sense enee of loneliness as tl tle ie door closed behind him ue looked around him halt half fearfully everything vias vi as worse than he had feared the floor was of concrete and there was not a single article of furniture of any description in the room except a straw mattress mattre sg already full of holes the floor bad apparently not been swept for weeks while he sat there however there was the click of a key in the door and a burly russian entered without a word he commenced some effort at cleansing the place when he had finished he threw in a rug and disappeared gerald breathed a little more freely then he be heard beard footsteps outside again the governor and number twenty nine entered the latter curiously changed in appearance by all the saints th the e governor chuckled 1 I never realized realised reali sed that the barber was so wonderful a person this little scheme of mine marches well now then for your share he hanae handed d a fountain pen to gerald wiio w 0 indorsed endorsed Indor sed the draft he had brought w wroe I 1 te out a further check tor for a thousand ifan pounds runas and handed them to tether lather with his american passport to Krom the latter thrust a document into number twenty nines pocket you ion may not know it he said but you are now the owner of five hundred acres of forest where oil me may v some ome day be found he roared with laughter neither of tile the young ruen men moved a muscle now listen both of you he went on the only automobile in the town awaits me outside we depart in a minute say your farewells you two at one tomorrow morning he concluded turning to gerald icell ou will he be moved into cell and later you will go to attend your own funeral from now until one or perhaps half past one tomorrow morning mi orning vou iou will have to make the best of it I 1 will corne come and superintend your removal myself and let you know that all Is well 1 I shall hall try to sleep until then gerald announced 1 I am very nery tired you shall hhall have a little meal in my office in the intervals of being changed the governor promised him 1 I shall lock the door and no one x will ill know now mr harmon P ars please american speculator who has bought my oil fields come with ill tee me I 1 am going to drive you to the train number twenty nine held out both his hands to his del deliverer herer there was a simple dignity in ills few words sir lie he said faid 1 I know bothin nothing of you but my life will rot not be long ing enough for tile me to express my gratitude the day after tomorrow the day after tomorrow there will be reach much for us to 1 talk about gerald interrupted what I 1 have hae done I 1 hai haap P done joyfully so far it ties lias been reach easier than I 1 expected the governa gover nir nw and ills his charge took their leave the door chosed behind them gerald heard aljer thear footsteps die away on the paved floor ile he threw him elf down on the mattress and tried to sleep it was fin an impossible task tack but there was as plenty to think about at one tile the samp same burly russian entered hearing a bowl of something which was half stew few halt half colip gerald smelt it looked at it and ret pet it lit in a distant corner of lite hie room then ahrn he walked back and forth counting how many paces it took him film from aall vi all to wall presently with a throb of joy lip lie remembered his cigarette ease tie he sn smoked pinked two cigarettes afterward he boyrd for a little time toward evening he aroused himself tran to make bi his predecessors dally daily jump it was not until the lie se seventh venti tit ot tempt thit that lie li succeeded and then the rut of tile liars cut so hn deeply ae aply into his palms that he let go at almost mot at 9 t once at eight the appen appeared red again with a howl of rouf similar to alie lie last gerald waved it away not hungry the man asked in german Ip gerald shook his head somehow So mellow or other it was a relief to find that lip lie was not shut out altogether from communication muni cation with the outside world you spear Op german eh he be asked the man shook ills his head few words biln bring ID me something better to et eat gerald begged cant I 1 have some beer the man held out ills his arnd and gerold gerald filled it with sliver silver ile fie disappeared and returned presently wit with two bottles of beer concealed I 1 in n his baggy trousers and a loaf of brel brend lil not understand this it lie sod said still slinking k his head where number twenty nine gone gerald shook his lend head better ask no questions until the governor comes back he be enjoined no tear fear talk the man declared with a laugh governor Go lernor ghen me twenty marks it if talk I 1 get tw twenty eci t y lashes instead goodnight 1 he departed finally closing and locking we the dour door behind him gerald ate some bread hungrily and drank tile the beer then for a time lie he dozed ali when n he woke up and inked at his wath it vp was as twelve very soon lie w would begin to expect the goer governor nor lie he sat up on the mattress with his back to the wall between and one he looked at his watch twenty times one came and passed half past one then he ros rose to ills his feet and began pacing the cell restlessly two came halt half past he be field held ills his watch in lit his lie liand nd now to save himself the continual dragging it out from ills his pocket the great real fortress apparently slept there was no sound anywhere only time went on three arrived and passed four fivel five presently streaks of daylight dai da light began to appear at six at last there were footsteps outside the warder entered once more this time lie he carried it a jug of hot liquid tea lip lie announced from kitchen give roe me something gerald gave him more silver the tea was the color of straw and water but the faint smell of it was refreshing where is the governor lie ili asked the warder shook his head not ask questions he begged governor Govern pr not bere 11 gerald pulled himself together and dismissed the roan man ile he drank the tea slowly once more he sat down on the mattress the room now was a little 11 lighter ahter lie he could see as tar far as the opposite wall ile he sat down and waited every nerve in his body seemed tingling ile he tried to keep his mind off the subject of what hat could have bapp happened ened to detain the governor to turn bi his thoughts back to england ile he suddenly found himself by the roadside watching the mending of tile the puncture looking impatiently along tile the white ribbon of road which led to Con cannes rles and beyond to monte carlo where the lights were burning and the violins were playing their pagan overture ile he saw Ily rilles pale terrified face gleaming out against the background of the cypress trees hear bieard her pathetic story throbbing in the pine sweetened stillness ile he remembered their drive all those things seemed part of another world ue remembered those few furious moments when christopher had bad taken her from his arms A faint feeling of shame crept over him as he sat there huddled up then with a rush came the memory hah swept everything else out nut of ills his mind milid lie he saw pauline felt the dis tui bance bince of her ter presence remembered the slow ebbing away of her pride her first few kind word the holf half spoken promise what was there about her he wondered v vaguely which ix aih had brought liim him with all ills his experience so completely to lier her feet she hit had d shown shonn him no kindness site she lind had not nen een been gracious gra clous ile he had read dislike in her ber eyes more often tonii any other feeling there remained too the pitiless truth that all the favors lie he had vion on f from brorn her ter lie had hought bought indirectly it if not hot directly yet there she was ruling over his bis life the one sweet dominant domin int figure tor for whose sake lie he got at in these miserable clothes a forgotten figure peti laps even in 1 hinger danger ile he took out ills watch with fiend ling lingers fingers it was ten ills his thoughts glita mocked him now lie he could find no esc escape p by means of them ile he could think of nothing but the present something find gone wrong apron with wilh their plans what would it mean for him not a soul in the world knew where lie was it if lie he had a name nl at ill 1111 here it was the name of the man whom the people of russia had once threatened to tear limb front from limit at last 1 there came a little stir an unaccustomed tomed sound of voices presently tie lie heard bieard footsteps outside the key turned in the lock ills his heart turned sick with disappointment it was us the warder alone gerald lug dug aisi h hand bond once more into its ills pocket this time lie brought out a note for some tr or other he be was as terrified arn 17 an the stolid features of ills his visitor seemed disturbed where here Is s tile the governor gerald demanded see cherp Is this note it you will go and fetch him 11 the upon man returned to the door and a shook took it to be quie that it was stepped alil n lie came bicle back to lo gerald 1 appl A strange tiling thing has happened 11 lie he said ald tile there re Is a german woman in the ton lost last night the governor spent at her house they were both drunk they quarreled biga 1 killed him the governor Is dead chapter VI the telegram gaarn was brought in to t lady mary dary 2 as site she sat alone in her little littie sitting room in the hours between tea and the dressing bell hours bours which so for far as possible especially during the last few months she tried ti to keep to herself it had been handed in at a brancha office in the north I 1 of london und and contained th the news nena for which she had been waitie wailing elected majority two thousand heart heartless he artlett lest thanks for good wishes iler her first impulse was one of genuine pleasure slie she started to her feet meaning to take it to her father who was with myrtile in tile the library then she stopped slopped short and slowly resumed tier her heat beat that little orange orang colored form might haie hae meant so much more so much food for her ambitions her ber natural and proper ambitions for the man an she loved it might have be been p n such a pledge for the interest of their life together such a vond wonderful erful life brimful of movement and color in which slie she too might well hope to take a part in her quiet way site glie had for years looked upon her marriage with christopher sooner or later as a certainty without the slightest desire in any way to mislead her christopher had subconsciously encouraged the idea she knew perfectly well vell that as soon as his position was a little more assured lie had intended to ask her to be his wife it was as one of those pleasant yet wonderful arrangements which seemed to develop automatically christopher was well el I 1 born his friends were her friends his disposition accorded with hers she could never have married an idle ile man CIrito christopher had many a worthy ambition she was precisely the wife to further them ifer her money and her social influence would save him years of fruitless labor he could leaie leae the bar win mil never enever he liked like d and turn his whole attention to poil politics ties and now the dream had crumbled this slip of paper was nothing but a friendly message telling tier her of the success of a friend with whose career slie she had no intimate concern her disposition was too kindly not to feel a certain amount of pleasure at his success but that ery pleasure brought its shadow of personal grief site she sat looking into the fire twisting the little slip of paper pape in her hands she knew wery well anell that she was cursed with that one terrible and self mortifying virtue the unalterable fidelity of the woman who permits in her mind the thought of one roan man only and who can nener neer replace him the very thought of marriage with any one but christopher was revolting it seemed to her as she sat there eliat she was doomed to a career of and inutility she might labor in good works till her hair was streaked with gray and her bet face lined and she knew ery well nell the fruitless nt os of all that she would accomplish the best work ork of a woman as she well knew Is tile work vork don done for the man slip loves it was wag perhaps nit natural tural that her thoughts should turn to myrt Myr myrelle flee sh she wondered for a moment slowly and painfully at the instinct which had warned her of coming trouble when the two young men had told tier her of their adventure slie she had felt it when first slie she had seen the frightened child whose unspoken appeal for protection tied met withro cold a response fro from her she had been conscious of I 1 cruelty wholly foreign to her nature in those there das at monte carlo whenever the name of myrdle was mentioned slie she had puzzled chris christopher op I 1 ter and tier her brother alike by her lack of 0 sim sympathy pathy vall ell she was punished now f the child had Ju justified stifled all that she had felt slie she had bad robbed her unconsciously and un unwillingly of tile tha greatest thing thine in life As slip slie sat sal there ill the telegram crumpled up in her ter fingers all that old hardness came back to tier her it edmed i to her a bitter tiling thing that this unknown child should liae hae been brought into the august hou household hold in which her own serene iserene days had been spent to rob tier her the benefactress of the crown of her life to draw tile lie sung sunshine idne from her days lay and send lier her down to a joyless grove for a moment site she was on oa the erge of it 11 passion slie site hated myrelle Myr liard haled the sight of tier her gentle amov movements tile the thought of her ter and all to do etli tier slie she rose to her feet with will an unaccustomed ire fire in tier lier eyes and ru swung ung round to find that the slight blight noise nhoth had disturbed dlf her meditations had beo caused by the entrance of myrdle herself TO BF BE CONTIN CONTINUED TIED historic battle the name battle of the giants in I 1 ghen to a battle fought at carignano marignano Marign ano anuw near milan september 1314 13 14 1515 between the allied french and venetian forces under Fraud sI of france and the italians italian mid antl sabbs commanded by the duke of milan the bottle was aris hotly contested tin and d resulted ie bulted in a victory for francl francis tile the total number of slain Is said t have exceeded 20 tri wilt had deeo been present at IS 18 pite pitched hed b battled batt ott I 1 lea es called them all childs ibi play y as com pared with ibis ln battle ittle of giant |