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NEW YORK CITY. - "nrmr- irr' "mrnmiiiiniiT " TShe Holladay- Ca&e A Mystery Of Two Continents By BURTON E. STEVENSON Copyright. 1903, by Henry Holt And Compajiy "Oh, yes; it understand." "And. then it would be the natural thing for you to look him up as soon as you learned he was 111. To avoid him will be to confess that you suspect him." I "But his name isn't on the passenger list. If I hadn't happened to see him as he came on board I'd probably not have known It at all." "Perhaps be saw you at the same time." 1 "Then the fat's in the fire," I said. xr ne Knows I know He's on board. then he also knows that I suspect him. If he doesn't know, why, there's no reason for him to think that I'll find it out. unless he appears In the cabin, which doesn't seem probable." "Perhaps you're right," she admit ted. "There's no use taking any un necessary risks. The thing appealed to me. I think I should enjoy a half hour's talk with him, matching my wits against his?' "But yours are brighter than mine," I pointed out. "You've proved it pretty effectually in the last few minutes." "No, I haven't. I've simply shown you that you overlooked one little thing. And I think you're right about the danger of going to Martigny. Our first duty is to Miss Holladay. We must rescue her before he can warn his confederates to place her out of our reach." Th unstudied way in which she said "our" filled u;e with au unreasoning happiness. "But why should they bother with a prisoner at all? They didn't shrink from striking down her father." "And they may not shrink from strik ing lier down at a favorable moment," she answered calmly. "It will be eas ier in France than in New York." My hands were trembling at the thought of it. If we should really be too late! I "But I don't believe they'll go to such extremes, Mr. Lester," continued my companion. "I believe you're going to find her and solve the mystery. My theory doesn't solve It, you know; it only makes it deeper. The mystery, after all, is: Who are these people? Why did they kill Mr. Holladay? Why have they abducted his daughter V What is their plot?" "Yes," I assented. And again I had a moment of confused perplexity. "But after you find her," she asked, "what will you do with her?" ' "Do with her? Why, take her home. Of course." ! "But she'll very probably be broken down, perhaps even on. the "verge of . hysteria. You must bring her to us at ! Paris, Mr. Lester." i I saw the wisdom of her words. "That's very kind of you1 J Bald. "I am sure Mr. Boyce will agree. But we have first to find her I was glad for my own Bake too. The parting of tomorrow would not, then, be a final one. She left me presently, and for an , hour or more I sat there and looked, In every aspect, at the theory she had sug I gested. Certainly there was nothing j td disprove it, and yet, as she had said, j it merely served to deepen the mya 1 tpry. Who were, these seoole. t asked. nlyseif again, who dared f o play so bold end desperate a' game? The Illegitl mate daughter might, of course, inv personate Miss Holladay, but who wa the elder woman her mother? Then the liaison must have taken place In France her accent was not to be mis takenbut in . France Mr. Holladay had been always with his wife. Be sides, the younger woman spoke Eng lish perfectly. True, she had said only a few words the hoarseness might have been affected to conceal a differ ence in voice but how explain the elder woman's resemblance to Hiram Holladay' s daughter? Could they both be illegitimate? But that was non sense, for Mrs. Holladay had taken her into her life, had loved her And Martigny? Who was he? What was his connection with these women? That the crime had been carefully planned I could not doubt, and it had been carried out with surprising skill. Doubtless it was Martigny who had arranged the plot, who had managed Its development. And with what bold ness! He had not feared to be pres ent at the inquest or even to ap proach me and discuss the case with me. I tried to recall the details of our talk, impatient that I had paid so little heed to it. He had asked, I remem bered, what would happen to Frances Holladay if she were found guilty. He had been anxious, then, to save her. He had yes. I saw It now he had written the note which did save her; he had run the risk of discovery to get her free! But why? If I only had a clew one thread to follow! One ray of light would be enough. Then I could see my way out of this hopeless tangle. I should know how to strike. But to stumble blindly onward In the dark that might do more harm than good. Yes, and there was another thing for me to guard against. What was to prevent him the moment he stepped ashore wiring to his confederates, warning them, telling them to flee? Or he might wait, watching us, until he saw that they were really in danger. In either event they must easily es cape. Miss Kemball had been right when she pointed out that our only hope was in catching them unprepared. The impulse was too strong to be resisted. In a moment I was on my feet. But, no! To surprise him would be to make him suspect. I called a steward. "Take this card up to M. Martigny," I said, "in 375, and ask if he is well enough to see me." As he hurried away a sudden doubt seized me. Horrified at my hardihood. I opened my mouth to call him back. But I did not caJL Instead I sank back into my chair and stared out across the water. 'M. Martigny," said the steward's voice at my elbow, "answers that he will be most pleased to see M. Lester at once." M CHAPTER XVL ABTIGNT was lying back in bis berth smoking a cigarette, End as I entered he motioned zoe to.a st.pn the locker. "It was most kind of you to come," he said, with his old smile. :It was only by accident "I learned you were on board,' I explained as I sat down. "You're getting better?" "I believe so; though this physician is what you call-an alarmist?. - Most of them- are, indeed. The more desper ate the illness, the more renowned 'the curel Is It not so? He has even for bidden me cigarettes, but I prefer to die than to do without them. Will you not have one?" "Thank you," I said, selected one and lighted it. "Your, cigarettes are not to be resisted. But 'if you are so ill why did you attempt the voyager' "A sudden call of business," he ex plained airily. "Unexpected, but what you call imperative." ; "The doctor it was he who mention ed your name to me. It was not on the sailing list" "No." He was looking at me sharp ly. "I came on board at the last mo- - He motioned me to a seat. ment the need was ver? sudden, as" I have said. I had not' time to engage a stateroom." "That explains it. Well, the doctor told me that you were bed fast." "Yes; since the voyage began I have not left it." I watched him as he went through the familiar motion of lighting a sec ond 'cigarette from the first one. In the half light of the cabin I had not at first perceived how ill he looked. "But you, Mistair Lester," he was saying. "How does It occur that you also are 'going to1 France? I did not know you contemplated" "Kb," I' answered calmly, for I had seen that the' question was Inevitable, and I-even welcomed It, since it gave cne opportunity to get my guns going. "No; the last time I saw you I didn't contemplate it, but a good deal has happened since then. Would you care to hear?" p " ! Ohr how I relished tantalizing him! "I should like very exceedingly to hear," he assured me and shifted his position a little so that his face was in the shadow. "The beams of light through the shutter makes my eyes to hurt," he added. So he mistrusted himself; so he was not finding the part an easy one either! The thought gave me new courage. "You,may remember," I began, "that I told,; you once that if I ever went to work on tbe Holladay case I'd try first to find tne murderess. I succeeded in doing it the very first day." "Ah!" he breathed. "And after the police had failed! That was, indeed, remarkable. How did you accomplish It?" "By the merest chance; by great good fortune. I was making a search of the French quarter, house by house, when, on Houston street, I came to a restau rant, the Cafe Jourdain. A bottle of superieur set Jourdain's tongue to wag ging. I pretended I wanted a room. He dropped a word, the merest hint, and in the end I got the whole story. It seems there was not only one wom an there were two." "Yes?" "Yes, and a man whose name was Betuny, or Bethune, or something like that But I didn't pay much attention to him. He doesn't figure in the case. He didn't even go away with the wom en. The very day I set out on my search he was picked up on the streets somewhere suffering with apoplexy and taken to a hospital, so nearly dead that it was a question whether he would recover. So he's out of it. The Jourdains told me that the women had Bailed for France." "You will pardon me," said my hear er, "but in what way did you make sure that they were the women you de sired?" "By the younger one's resemblance to Miss Holladay," I answered, lying with a giibness which surprised myself. "The Jourdains maintained that a pho tograph of Miss Holladay was really one of their lodger." "Ah yes," he said. "That was ex ceedingly clever. I should never have thought of that. That is worthy of M. Lecoq. And -so you follow them to France; but surely you have some more definite address than that!" "No," I said. "It seems rather a wild goose chase, doesn't it? But you could advise me, Mr. Martigny. Where would it be best for me to search for theni?" (To be Continued.) 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