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Ca&e
A Mystery
Of Two
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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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