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SYNOPSIS. t "Mad" Dan Maltlund. on reaching his New York bachelor club, met an attrac tive young woman at the door. Janitor O'Hagan assured him, no one had bt-en within that day. Dan 'discovered a wom an's linger prints In dust on his desk, along with a letter from his attorney. Maitland dined with Bannerman, his at torney. Dan set out for Greenfields, to get his family Jewels. CHAPTER 11. Continued. An errant cabby, cruising aimlessly but hopefully, sighted Maltland's tall figure and white shirt from a distance, and bore down upon him with a gal lant clatter of hoofs. "Kebslr?" he demanded, breathless ly, pulling In at the corner. Maitland came out of his reverie and looked up slowly. "Why, yes, thank you," he assented, amiably. "Where to, sir?" Maitland paused on the forward deck of the craft and faced about, look ing the cabby trustfully In tho eye. "I leave It to you," he replied, politely. 'Just as you please." Tho driver gasped. "You see," Maitland continued with a courteous smile, "I have two engage ments ono at Sherry's, the other with tho 10:20 train from Long Island City. What would you, as man to man, ad vise me to do, cabby?" "Well, sir, seeln' as you put It, to mo straight," returned tho cabby with engaging candor, "I'd go home, sir, If I was you, afdre I got any worse." "Thank you," gravely. "Long Island City depot, then, cabby," Maitland extended himself languid ly upon the cushions. "Surely," ho told tho night, "the driver knows best ho and Bannerman." The cab started off Jogging bo se dately up Madison avenue that Mait land glanced at his watch and olovatcd his brows dubiously; then with his stick poked open the trap In tho roof. "If you really think it best for mo to go homo, cabby, you'll have to drive like hell," he suggested, mildly. "Yesslr!" A whip-lash cracked loudly over tho horso's back, and tho hansom, lurch ing into Thirty-fourth street on oue( wheel, was presently Jouncing eastward over rough cobbles, at a regardless pace which roused the gongs of the surface cars to a clangor of hysterical expostulation. In a trlco tho "L" ex tension was roaring overhead; and a little later tho forry gates wore yawn ing before them. Again Maitland con sulted his watch, coramonting briefly: "In time," Yet he reckoned without tho ferry, ono of whoso employes deliberately and Implacably swung to tho gates In the very face of tho astonished cab horse, which promptly rose upon its hind logs and pawed tho air with ges tures of pardonable exasperation. To no avail, however; tho gates remained closed, tho cabby t (with language) roined his steed bock a yard or two, and Maitland, lighting a cigarette, eomaosed himself to Blmulato patience. Followed a wait of ton minutes or so, in which a number of vehicles Joined company with the cab; the pas senger was vaguely awaro of the Jar ring purr of a motor car, llko that of some huge cat, In the immediate rear. A circumstance which ho had occasion to recall ere long. In tho course of time tho gates were again opened. The bridge cleared of incoming traffic. As tho cabby drove aboard tho boat, with nico considera tion selecting the choicest stand of all, well out upon the forward dock, a motor car slid In, humming, on tho right of tho hansom. Maitland sat forward, resting his forearms on tho apron, and jerked his cigarette out over the gates; the glow ing stub described a fiery arc and took tho water with a hiss. Warm whiffs of tho river's sweet and salty breath fanned his face gratefully, and ho be came awaro that thero was a moon. His gaze roving at will, ho nodded an evon-tempered approbation of the night's splendor In tho city a thing unsuspected. Never, ho thought, had ho known moonlight so pure, so silvery and strong. Shadows of gates and posts lay upon the forward deck like stencils of lampblack upon white marble. Be yond tho boat's bluntly rounded nose tho East river stretched Its restless, dark reaches, glossy black, woven with gorgeous ribbons of rellected light streaming from pier head lamps on the further shore. Overhead, tho sky, a pallid and luminous blue around tho low-swung moon, was shaded to pro found dopths of bluish-black toward tho horizon. Above Brooklyn rested a tenuous haze. A revenue cutter, a slim, pale shape, cut across tho bows like a hunted ghost. Farther out a homeward-bound excursion steamer, tier upon tier of glittering lights, drifted slowly toward Its pier beneath tho new bridge, tho blaro of Its band, swelling and dying upon tho night breeze, mercifully tempered by dis tance. Presently Maltland's attention was distracted and drawn, by tho abrupt cessation of Its motor's pulsing, to tho automobllo on his right. Ho lifted his chin sharply, narrowing his oyes, whistled low; and thereafter had oyes for nothing olso, Tho car, ho saw with the experi enced eyo of a connolssour, was a re cent model of ono of tho moBt ex pensive and popular foreign makes; built on linos that promised a deal In the way of speed, and furnished with engines that wero pregnant with multi plied horso power. All in all not tho stylo of car one would oxpoct to find controlled by a solitary woman, es pecially after ten of a summer's night. Nevertheless tho lono occupant of this car was a woman. And there was that in her bearing, an Indefinable something whether It lay In the car riage of hor head, which ImproBsod ono as both spirited and independent, or In an equally certain but loss tan glble air of self-confldenco and re- llanco to sot Mad Maltlnnd'B puIbob drumming with oxcltoniont. For, un less Indeed ho labored gravely iindor a misapprehension, ho wnB observing hor for tho second tlmo within tho past few hours. Could ho bo mistaken, or wbb this In truth tho samo woman who had (as ho bollovod) niado herself free of his rooms that ovenlng? In confirmation of auch suspicion ho remarked her costume, which was al together worked out In soft shadoa of gray. Gray was tho misty voll, drawn In nnd daintily knotted bononth hor chin, which lent hor hoad nnd faco such thorough protection ngalnst pry ing glances; of gray suodo woro tho light gauntlets that hid nil aavo tho slendorness of hor small hands; and tho wrap that, cut upon full and flow ing Hues, clonked hor Hguro boyond suggestion, was gray. Yot oven Its amplo drnpory could not tllsBomblo the fact that sho was qulto small, girlishly slight, like tho woman In tho doorway; nor did aught tompor her impersonal and dotnehod composuro, which had also beon nn attribute of llio woman In tho doorway. And again sho was alono, unchaporonod, unpro tected. Yos? Or no? And, If yes, what to do? Was ho to alight and accost hor, iccuso hor of forcing an ontranco to his rooms for tho solo purpose (ns far as ascertainable) of presenting iilm with tho outline of her hand in tho lust of his dosk's top? . . . Oh. hardly! It was nil very well to bo daringly eccentric nnd caroloss of tho world's censure; but ono scarcely eared to lay ono's solf open either to an unknown girl's derision or to n sound pummellng at tho hands of fol low passengers enrngod by tho Insult offered to an unescorted woman. The young man was still poudorlng ways and mentis when a dull bump ap prised him that tho forry boat was on ering tho Long Island City slip. "Tho lovll!" ho oxclalmcd In mingled dia rist and dismay, realizing that his lislrnctlon had been so thorough as to .tormlt the voyngo to tako piano almost without his realizing It. So that now worso luck! it was too late to take any ono of the hundred fantastic stops he had contemplated half sorloiiBly. In another two minutes his charming mystery, so bewitchlngly Incarnated, would hnvo slipped out of hlB llfo, fi nally and beyond recall. And he could do naught to hinder such a finale to tho adventure. Sulkily he resigned himself to the Inevitable, waiting and watching, while tho boat slid and blundored clumsily, paddlo wheols churning the (llthy waters over sldo, to tho lloatlnK bridge; while tho winches rattled, and tho woman, sitting up briskly In tho driver's seat of tho motor car, bent forward and advanced tho spark; while tho chain fell clanking nnd tho car .mot out, over tho bridge, through tho gates, and away, at a very consider able, even If lawful, rato of Bpeed. Whereupon, writing finis to tho final chapter of Romance, voting tho world a dull place and llfo a treadmill, an athematizing In no uncertain torms his lack of resourco and address, Maitland paid off his cabby, alighted, and to that worthy's boundless wondor. walked Into tho waiting room of tho railway terminus without dovlatlng a hair's breadth from the straight and circumscribed path of the sober In mind and body. Tho 10:20 had departed by a bare two minutes. Tho next nnd last train for Greenfields was to leave at 10:59. Maitland with assumed nonchalanco composed himself upon a bunch In tho waiting room to onduro tho 37-mlnuto Interval. Fivo minutes later an able bodied washerwoman with six children In quarter sizes descended upon the samo bench; and tho young man In desperation allowed himself to bo dis possessed, Tho news stand next attract ing him, he garnered a fugitive amuse ment and two dozen copper cents by the simple process of purchasing, six "night extras," which ho did not want, and paying for each with a five-cent piece. Comprehending, at length, that ho had Irritated tho nows dealer, he meandered off, Jingling his copper for tune in ono hand, lugging his nows- papers In tho othor, and made a de termined onslaught upon a slot ma chine. Tho latter having reluctantly disgorged 24 assorted samples of chewing gum and stnlo sweetmeats, Maitland returned to tho washerwom an, and sowed. dissension In hor brood by presenting the treasure horde to tho eldest girl with Instructions to share it with hor brothers and slstors. It Is difficult to Imagine what folly might next have been recorded against him had not, at that moment, a fe rocious and Inarticulate howl from tho train startor announced tho fact that tho 10:C9 was In waiting. Boarding tho train in a thankful spirit, Maitland sottled hlmsolf as com fortably as ho might In tho Binokor and endeavorod to find Biirceaso of ennui In his collection of extras. In vain; oven a two-column portrait of Mr. Dan Anlaty, cracksman, accom panied by a vivacious catalogue of that notoriety's achlovoments In tho Hold of pollto burglary, hardly stirred his In toreBt. An elusive resomblanco which ho traced In tho features of Mr. Anlaty, as presented by tho skotch-artlst-on-tho-spot, to some ono whom ho, Mait land, had known in the dark back wards and abysm of tlmo, moroly drew from him tho commont: "Homely brute!" And ho laid tho paporB aside, cradling his chin in tho palm of one hand and staring for a, weary while out of tho car window at a roollng and moonsmltton landscape. Ho yawnod exhaustively, his thoughts astray bo tweon a girl garbed nil In gray, Ban nerman'B oarnost and thoughtful face, and tho pernicious activities of Mr. Daniel Anlaty, at whoso door Maitland laid tho responsibility for this most fatiguing errand. The brakeman'a wolMIke yfto "Oronn(intrt.. . oara whnn i, " B. "nglns pscB own resources. ruin,e!!y , white disk agSSi era urn ... r'ol,nn6i!: t.Jm habll ntloiiB, all wrannL . ' lat!N nl ami Impenetrable N 7 log howled; not a belated 2? In Bight; and It was , a J that the local livery sorvS down for tho night ha4a Nevertheless, Kaln, desperation bred of h "ve-mllo tramn. .Z, T PrW, tmblo .nlnutes bammeZlej Uoor of tho house taS2?bS prlotop of the livery i ....v0,....u us no was not nn J : terms wilt, tw A.1. 08 Wen, u.v..lUB upon tho opearoai enough, a ribbon winding j botweon dark natrhn. J "Jm4 scrub-oak or fields lush with eorn and wheat. And! vnlna Mnltln...! 1 "w 0 El ...u.i.uuu uucurao aware thn, uu,tl ",nu. "'in a nignt soiieeLtf nlrn nn lilnml nnl r. ..... 1 mm iiuoii-iuinuu carta, with M ci a light to show him his mj. Ho stenned nut m.m. . swlndnc his stick Hhadow, a squat, Incredibly t&JM nlllir.nr.ti.. I ,1.. . ""imi"" i" uiu somen $tfi g, gradually and Insensibly the ptate! ItlMllnnnn nf il.nt ..111 ... - iiiiiiitsmu ui mm nuu ana lovely in tampered his heart's Impatience' c no iounu nimseir walking at i more leisurely. After all it,.-.. no hurry; ho was unwearied, anllto lanu -Manor my less than tire tikB distant. Thirty minutes passed; be Ltd k covered n third of the way, yet n mnlnod content. TJy well-rememtea landmarks, ho knew ho must b$ set Ing tho Httlo stream called, by ccatia; Mavannls river: and. In due pnnmi stopped out upon tho long woodenitnfl turo that spans that water, He i cloao upon tho farther end vhei upon n hnpehance Impulse-be (luofl over tho nearest guard rail, tarn tho bed of tho creok. And stopped 1: continently, gaping. Stationary in tho middle of tie prosslon, hub-deep In the iballoi tors, wag a motor car; and it, beja dianuto. was Identical with that rti had occupied his thoughts on the fofl boat. Loss wonderful, perhaps, out him amazinn enough, It wai to cover upon tho driver's seat tie s'. In gray. HIb brain benumbed beyond forth' capacity for astonishment, he &cpfe without demur tills latest ana most trmn dine of tho chain of amaiiaj Incldencos which had thus la S onod tho night's earlier hours; t stood rapt In silent contempiat. sonBlble that tho girl had heea aware of his aiiproach, deadened lilo fnntntnnn must haVO btea J blankot of dust that carpeted ba road and bridge deep and thick. On hor part sho sat motionless, v dently loBt In reverie, and bbm tarlly, at least, unconscious ol the ei , which f hors. So complete, Indeed, seen abstraction Mmt Maltiano w iir.r.i., thn realty 01 r: Ad well' might she I seemed to him a pale lltuer; tho night, uio bhibiiu v. o- Bho made against the - .t. nna a most w1 on UIO waier r --. w parent, slight, and un. scorning to conieniiiw. - bb any mouse. Looking moro attentively. It h evident that hor wil ', This was the first time J " soon her so. But her countena m malned bo deeply visor of a mannish motor tho most searching " moro than a dim " -; fltei tory impression of alluri Ma.t.and turned noise eslr-J oidows on i"u i or framed a theory to acc n r position, If not for ner 0i n.. iti.,. imnd the roa'.u J struck off at a tangent, J banks and into tho , ri J credlblo to pre bui- mjSf lost' control of thomMwJ ly and that It, taking tbe j1, lis tooth, had swuus - Incline to Its bath. hoT, Why she lingered I tnwj i.. ..ntnnt. 'Ill" "- U been Indicated .M"" tno tonnouii; v . ld i,. able to assuino t hat At w tf torfored with either runm motor. . ...i.i.nd's At this point in t tlons tho gray girl PPJ arrived at a doclsiw. J 0l oned up suddenly, , p lute nod of hor Iwad, foot to hor kneo, and fumu lacos of hor shoo. , (esiioJ abandon tho machine, Boom to uuih""-" lrrepar""-fJ beon a breakdown, IrJJ frail feminine WJ Jj One Bhoo removed, i 0BM follow, and tnon. . chivalry, the involuntary moved to ouneyV 1 "Don'tl" ho crl, bBaM." ky Maud Diver.