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No Reserve 'i t vA ii KtncaiJ & J 1 4&L , ( Wood. E?.. 4i Copyrighted, 190S I A $10 : Will Ik) rtri nn 1 rin JV No Reserve f artier at J. EU3. WolarrH bring Men and Hoys to their f that will in a hurry After mature consideration we have concluded to close out without reserve our entire stock of Men's, Young Men's Boys' and Children's Clothing. We want the room for other lines of Merchandise. .at The Decks must be cleared before the 1st of July. t OOO Stock, including our be thrown on the market at la te spring arrivals, reat sacrifice. This will be the Greatest Grandest, and Most Stupendous Sale of High Grade Clothing ever conducted in the W illamette Valley. Profit and a big part of the cost, annihilated. The time limit is set. We will clear out this stock quick Double Quick, i Better be an early buyer than a late one it you want tlie eream. I Wo Reserve! Sale Commences Saturday, Mar 24. ALL SALES SPOT CASH. No Reserve A Mystery Of Two Continents BURTON E. STEVENSON Copyright. 1903. by Henry Holt and CompaLny "oo, irs not me ocean!" I protested, and what with the moonlight and the eoft night and the opportunity "the time and the place and the loved one, all together" would have uttered I know not what folly had she not sprung suddenly forward with a sharj cry of alarm. "Mr. Royce!" she cried. "Mother!" Tlvsy stivM and turned toward her Jast as o heavy spar crashed to tht deck before them. I CIIAFTER XV. UNDERSTOOD in a flash what had happened and sprang up the st&k to the upper deck, determined 'to have It out with our enemy once ! for all. I searched it over thoroughly, looking In and under the boats and behind funnels and ventilators, but I eould discover no sign of any one. j When I got back to the promenade a little crowd had gathered, attracted by the noise of the falling spar, which a dozen members of the crew were busy hoisting back into place. "I do not see how those lashings could have worked loose," said the of ficer in charge. I took a look at the lashings. They had not been cut, as I expected to flud them, but had been untied. Martigny had doubtless worked at them while we sat there talking. "Well, luckily, there's no damage done," observed Mr. Royce, with af fected lightness, "though it was a close shave. If Miss Kemball hadn't called to us the spar would have struck us." Mrs. Kemball closed her eyes with a giddy little gesture at the vision the words called up, and the officer frown ed in chagrin and perplexity. Just then the captain came up, and the two step ped aside for a consultation in volcea so low that only an excited word of French was now and then audible. I turned to Miss Kemball, who was lean ing against the ran with white face and eyes large with terror. "But it was not an accident. Mr. Lester," she whispered. "I saw a man leaning over the spar.' I nedded. ."I dont doej It to ; th least. But "don't tell your mother. It will only alarm her needlessly. We'll talk it over In the raornlne.'.' . . sue said good night and led her moth er away toward their stateroom. I went at once in search of the ship's doctor and met him at the foot of the saloon staircase. "How Is Martigny, doctor?" I asked. "Worse, I fear," he answered hur riedly, "lie has just sent for me." "Which room has he?" "He's in 375, an outside room on the upper deck." I went forward to the smoking room and looked over the colored plan of the ship posted there. A moment's inspec tion of it showed me how easily Mar ! tigny had eluded pursuit He had only to walk twenty feet, open a door and get Into bed again, j When I sat down next morning be ! side Miss Kemball she closed her book ' and turned to me with a very deter mined air. "Of course, Mr. Lester," she began, "If you think any barm can come from telling me, I don't want you to say a word, but I really think I'm entitled to an explanation." "So do I," I agreed. "You've proved yourself a better guard than I. I'd for gotten all about Martigny. I was thinking well, of something very dif ferent. I had no thought of danger." "Nor had I," she said quickly. "But I chanced to look up and see that dark figure bending over them, and I cried out, really, before I had time to think." "It was just that which saved them." "Yes; but, oh, I could think after ward! I'd only to close my eyes last night to 'see him there yet, peering down at us, waiting his opportunity. And then, of course, I puzzled more or less over the whole thing." "You shan't puzzle any more," I said. Then I laid the case before her, step by step. She listened with clasped bands and Intent face, not speaking till X bad finished. Then she leaned back In her chair wits a long Blgh. "Why, If s horrible r she breathed. "But you haven't given me your ex planation yet, Mr. Lester." - "T haven't anTeTVlwrt" T waM helplessly. "I've built up naff a dozen theories, but they've all been knocked to pieces, one after the other. I don't know what to think; unless Miss $61 laday is a victim of hypnotism or de mentia of some kind." "Sometimes she's nice and at othtSt times she's horrid. It recalls 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' doesn't It?" 1 "Yes, it does. Only,aa I say, such an explanation seems absurd." "There's one theory which might ex plain it part of It Perhaps it wasn't Miss Holladay at all who returned from Washington square with the new maid. Perhaps it was the other wom an, and thei barred windows were real ly to keep Miss Holladay a prisoner." "But she wasn't there!" I protested. "We saw her when we gave her the money." "Yes, in a darkened room, with a bandage about her forehead, so hoarse 6he could scarcely speak." I stopped a moment to consider. "Remember, that 'would explain something which admits cf no other reasonable explanation," went on my companion "the barred windows and the behavior of the prisoner." "It would explain that, certainly," I admitted, though at first thought the theory did not appeal to me. "You be lieve, then, that Miss Holladay was forcibly abducted?" "Undoubtedly. If her mind was go ing to give way at all it would have done so at once and not two weeks aft er the tragedy." "But if she had brooded over it" I objected. "She wasn't brooding at least she had ceased to brood. You have Mr. Royce's word and the butler's word that she was getting better, brighter quite like her old self again. Why should she relapse?" "I don't know," I said helplessly. "That affair last night has upset me so that I can't think clearly. I feel that I was careless that I wasn't doing my duty." "I shouldn't worry about it; though, of course' she added a little severely, "you've realized by this time that yo-3 alone are to blame for Martigny's pi?s ence on the boat." "But I had to go to the Jouirdains," I protested, "and I couldn't help their going to him. To have asked them not to go would have made them suspect me at once." "Oh, yes; but at least you needn't have, sent them. . They might not have gone at all certatar ihe$ frotfldtft have gone so promptly If you hadn'i sent them." 1 "Bent them 7' I repeated; and stared at her la amazement, doubting if I had heard aright. "Yes, sent them," she said again em- PMinv. "Whr do yon impooee they went to tne nbspftai so early the next morning?'. "I suppose they had become suspi cious of me." "Nonsense! What possible reason could they have for becoming sus picious of you? On the contrary, they went after the key to those padlocks on the window shutters. Of course Martigny had it" v . For a moment I was too nonplused to speak. I could only stare at her. "Well, I was a fool, wasn't I?" I de manded finally. "To think that I shouldn't have foreseen' that! I was so worked up over my discovery that night that I couldn't think of anything else. Of course, when they asked for the key, the whole story came out." "I shouldn't blame myself too severe ly," laughed Miss Kemball as she looked at my rueful countenance. "I myself think It's rather fortunate that he's on the boat" "Fortunate! You don't mean that!" "Precisely that. Suppose the Jour dalns hadn't gone to him. He'd have left the hospital r.nyway In two or three days. He isn't the man to lie inactive when he knew you were searching for the fugitives. He'd have returned then to his apartment next to yours; your landlady would have told him that you had sailed for Eu rope, and he had only to examine this boat's passenger list to discover your name." "But, at any rate," I pointed out, "he would still have been in America. He couldn't have caught us." "He couldn't have caught you, but a cablegram would have passed you In midocean warning his confederates. If they have time to conceal their pris oner, you'll never find her. Your only hope is In catching them unprepared. And there's another reason since he's on the boat, you've another opportuni ty. Why not go and have a talk with him that battle of wits you were look ing forward to?" "I'd thought of that," I said, "but I'm afraid I couldn't play the part" "The part?" "Of seeming not to suspect him. It's too great a risk." "The advantage would be on your side," she pointed out "You could tell him so many things which he already knows and which he has no reason to suspect you know he knows. It sounds terribly involved, doesn't It? But you (To be Continued.) CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Have your printing done at the Gazette office. We give you quick service and save you money. 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