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1 r'wtmrr ' CHAPTER VII. -Continued, Hair dnied, to all seeming, she mor 4 toward Hie boat With clumsy an9 see rtive gallantry ner father stopped 'More her, offering bis band bla band -which she did not touch, for in the act f descending (be remembered and awnng Impulsively back to Klrkwood. "Good night, 11 r. Klrkwood. Good night I shan't forget" lie took her band and bowed above " It, bat when his bead was lifted be till retained ber fingers 10 a lingering bup. , "Good night." be said reluctantly. In sudden ffush of daring he turned ad nodded coolly to Calendar. "With IJi i I, f 11 F L. i,.. ,i j . r) boat drained away, the tart ItMnfl , wm. WflWlH UWUU MM Ulfff llIUKI 1 una ftHHnj. , - our permission," be en Id negligently S ' ""S" I mt Ui etarnvay. "Miss Calendar"- he began, but was -interrupted. "I lore-1 sajT Calendar had started toward him an- crlly, Ti:i..kJ .ii..iu u.Au.i li t. x. ft wont a Wold 111 hrlrnto with your atiguter, Mr. ralemlnr," ho tin ' nouuerd, with quiet dignity. "I don't ' think you'll deny mo. I've saved you iouie slight troublo tonight." Disgruntled, the adventurer paused. ' "Oh, all right." he grumbled. Ho ro- turned to the boat. "Forgive me. Mbts Cnlemlnr." con--tinned Klrkwood nervously. "I know I've uo right to Interfere, but" "Yes. Mr. Klrkwood?" "Hut hnsn't this gone far enough?"' lb floundered unhappily. "I can't like Im look of things. Aro yon sure ure that It's all right with you. I mean?" She did not answer at once, but her yee were kind nnd sympathetic. Ho plucked heart of their tolerance. "It Isn't too Inte yet." ho argued. W-et me take you to your friends you most bnve friends 111 the city. Iltrt this this midnight flight down the Ttuimna, this atmosphere of stealth mod rasplclun, this" "But my place Is with my father, Mr. Klrkwood," she Interposed. "I " 4iren't doubt him, dnro I)" "I supiMise not." "So 1 must eo with him. I'm elml "'Slisnk jou fur caring, dcur Mr. Kirk- hh1. And ngnln giuul night." "Cmnl luek attend you," be milt- ateml, following her to the hunt. Calendar helped her hi ami turned rack to hlrkwond vl;h a look of arch triumph. Klrkwmil wondered If ho hull m-i.rlieni-it l...ll,.,r p in. In. could afford to be ninu-minliiioua. Sola. lag Klrkwood's hand, he pumped It vtuorouslr. "XI V lle.ir Ih.v ,i'v. I.i n., ni.,.1 n ulgul.n. And 1 gues you think nie the devil lu inasnnertulo." He Tbm-kli'd. In high eon. elt with himself iver Hie turn of niTalrs. "(imHl nlgbt , an. 1 ml fare tliw well;" He droppe.l tola the boat, senilug himself lo lai-o . the rvcalcltrtuit Mulrrady. "Coal oil, there!" The bunt dropped -away, the oars Ufiliut and falling. Willi a weariful twuse of louelluiKS aud disappointment Ktrawood hung over the rail to watch 1 hem out of sight. Bouwwtut wearily the young man tettweed lb railing aud ascended the iMatra. "And that la the end!" be told blwaelf, atniggltuc with an acute aeuae f personal Injury. He had twen hard ly wed. For a few hours his life bad Jri lightened by the Ineffable glamour rouutm-e M)-slery and a.lrtulure krnl rngnired hbu. lie had serve,! a 01r wouiao and been o l.l,-l lili men -whose ways. tmi.,ui iue.tlotiablr. "were tt' ways ol nuiage. hedged " ilik-kly Toout with perils. ll-onsnlate and aggrieved, he gain- d the atreet He waa miles from Kt. 1'aiH-raa, fool wrary, to all lnteuu and I . u Ibis etiremlty chance jmll?d. umm I Louis Copyright. 1908, . , raToverelgniTSTIIcE "he "Sai "been "Bus- him. The cabby who at bis InltlaTIn-' banding to pay his steamer expenses stance bad traveled this weary way and which. If only he had thera now. from Quadrant mews, after the man- would stand between blra and starva- ner of bis kind, ere turning back bad Hon nnd a nlgbt In the streets. If sought surcease of fatigue at the near- Brentwlck were only In town! But be est public. From afar Klrkwood saw wasn't and wouldn't be within the the four wheeler at the curb and made week. all haate toward it I "No good waiting here." he conclud Entcrlng the gin mHI, he found the ed. Composing his face, be re-entered cabby, soothed him with bitter and, in- tho station. There were bis trunks, of arructlng him for St Pancras with all course. He couldn't leave them stand speed, dropped, limp and listless with big on the station platform forever. fatigue, Into the conveyance. CHAPTER IX. . F ROM the commanding elevation of the box "Three . 'n' six!" enunciated the cabby, bis tone I tbat of a man prepared for ! trouble,. Inclined to give trouble a wel come. His bloodshot eyes blinked truculently at bis alighted fare. "Three 'n' six," be Iterated aggressively. An adjacent but theretofore abstract ed policeman pricked up bis ears and assumed an intelligent expression.' "llermondsey 01' Stairs to Sain' Pan eras," argued the cabby assertively, "seven mile by tb' radius tare, 'n' I six!" ! Klrkwood stood on the outer station platform, near the entrance to third cJnss waiting rooms. Continuing to fumble through bis pockets for an elu sive sovereign purso, be looked up mildly at the man. ."All right cabby," he said, with pa 'clflc purpose: "you'll get your fare In half a shake." "Three 'n' six!" croaked tbe cobby, like a blowsy and vindictive parrot The bobby strolled nearer. "Yes?" suld Klrkwood, mildly divert ed. "Why not slug It, cabby?" . "Lor' lumme!" The cabby exploded with indignation, continuing to give liiollke Imitation of a rumpled parrot "I 'ad trouble enough wif you at Iter mondsey Or Stairs hover that quid you promised, didn't I? Sing It! My We!" v i "Quid, cabby?" And then, remcm- tiering that he had promised the fei- , , . . . . . . . j I low n roi ercigu ror rust driving rrpip ; Qum.i Klrkwood grlmied llP.t.llV A.V.J ftvl..!-1ln !.. 1 must have u.:-, heir to that covenant "Dut vou 'mil i:,j"sr.rln Vim ( o It, didn't yolt, Cabby?" . Tilt! am'et illtirWd the fnct with un-1 uwessnry bent and profanity and an . nmotiillnont to tho effect that he would i""1" i"'ii.-u um mrua BHuguiuary . cwnK naa tne outcome been Iphh antin. ' factory. The Information proved so amusing Hint Klrkwood, chuckling, forbore to resent tho nuinner of Its delivery nnd, nlinmlonlng mull a more favorable time tho chnso of the coy .sovereign purse, extracted from one trousers pocket half n handful of largo English small change. "Threo shillings nnd sixpence." He counted the coins Into the cabby's grimy and bloated paw and added quietly: "The exact distance Is rather less thnn four miles, my mnn your fare, precisely 2 shillings. You may keep the extra 18 pence for be ing such a conscientious blnckgunrd or talk It over with the officer hero. Please yourself." lie noililid to tho bobtiy, who, favor ably Impressed by Klrkwood, smiled at the cubby a cold, hnrd smile. whereupon the latter, smirking In un- abashed triumph, spat on tho pave- nient at Klrkwood's feet, gathered up , me reins onu wneoica out. Restoring 2 shillings and a few fat copper pennies to his pocket, he entered the vast nnd echoing train shed. In the net his nttentlon wns attracted and Immediately riveted by the oetelc of a burly luggage navvy In n blue Jumper In the act of making off with a Inrge folding signboard, of .. ' surface was lettered ex pansively with the .advice. In red airalust a white background, "Boat Train Leaves mi Track 3." '"n" MrRwood touched the !"!'"' !,r,n.wl" detaining hand I irainr he gasprd, pointing at "onnl "left ten minutes ngn.'.fhank you, sir." " '"" or course 1 can get another train nt Tilbury?" "For yer boat? No, sir. thank you, sir. Won't be nnolhcr tr.vnc till morn In', sir." "Oh-h!" Aimlessly Klrkwood drifted nwny his mlnil a blank. Some time Inter he found himself on the steps outside the station, trying to stnro out of countenance a alnrlug electric mineral water advertisement on the farther side of the Huston road He was stranded. Mstrscted. Jn iu r. bed pocket after pocket locating1 111 watch, cigar case ami cigarette case, matchbox, pen knife, all the minutiae of pocket hard ware, affected by rlvlllted man. with old letter, cardmse, a square en velope containing his steamer ticket, but no sovereign purse, ills mull i change pocket held less than 3 j shilling- wo and eb:ht. to be exact and a brass k,y, which ho failed to recognise us one of his belonging. I And that waa all. At some time dnr ; big the night he had lost (..r been cun ningly oeren of?) thai little purse of cnatuou skin coutaiubi line tore Sow Joseph Vance by the Bobbs-Merrill Co. I tie rouna me luggage room unu m- terviewea a mecnanicany courteous at tendant, who, as the result of profound deliberation, advised blm to try his luck at the lost luggage room across the station. He accepted the advice. It was a foregone conclusion tbat bis effects had not been conveyed to the Tilbury dock. They could not bnve been loaded into the luggage vun with out bla personal supervision. Still, any thing was liable-to happen when bis unlucky star was In the ascendant ' He found them In the lost luggage room. ... . A clerk helped him Identify the arti cles and ultimately clucked with a per functory note, "Sixpence each, please." ,."Iuh pardon?" Sixpence each, the fixed charge, sir. 1 Vnt For every twenty-four hours or frac tion thereof, sixpence per parcel." "Ob. thank you so mudi," said Klrk wood sweetly. "I will call tomorrow." "Very good. sir. Thank you, sir." "Fire times sixpence Is two and six," Klrkwood computed, making bis way hastily out of the station lest a worse thing befall blm. "No, bless your heart not while two and eight repre sents the sum total of my fortune." Ho wandered out Into the nlgbt. He could not linger round the station till dawn, and wbut profit to blm if be did? Even were be to ransom bis trunks one can scarcely cbaug clothing In a public waiting room. Somewbere In the distance a great clock chimed a single stroke freighted sore with melancholy. It knelled the passing of tbe half hour after mid night, a witching hour wben every nubile sbuts ud tiebt and eentleinen - o - .j In 'toff liftts and evening dress are , . - - A 1 1 1 jftorlng thej hOVe homo or visible I .... .i.. ......... uicauB ui du,,ui i nil uujr, nucu pawusbops open and suob personal ef feels as watches and hammered silver cigar cases may be hypothecated. What was he to do? An hour passed. xurougu tins long uour iviruwoou walked without a pause. Another clock somewhere clanged resonantly twice. The world was very still. And so, wandering foot loose In a wilderness of ways, turning aimless ly, now right, now left, be found him Self. in l'rognall street. Klrkwood Ideutliicd It with a start and a guilty tremor. He stopped stock still lu nu unreasoning state of seuil panic, arrested by n silly Impulse to turn iiiul lly. as If the bobby whom he descried approaching him with meas ured stride, pausing now nnd again to try n door or Hash bis bullseye down nu urea, wvjre to be expected to Iden tify tbe mau responsible for tbat racket raised ere mlduight In vacant No. 0. At the corner he swerved and cross ed, still possessed of bis devil of in spiration. It would be unfair to him to say that he did not struggle to re- slst it, for he did, beeause it was fair ly and egreglously notable; yet Strug- gling. his feel trod tbe path to which It tempted blm. "Why." he expostulated feebly. "1 might as well turn back and beat that bobby over tbe head with my cane!" Hut at the moment his hand was In hlS ChtinuP nockpl ffwillio. nt, h.i same brass door key which enrller he had been unable to account for. and , be was Informing blmself bow very : easy It would have been for the sov ereign purse to have dropped from his waistcoat pocket while he wns sliding I on bis ear down the dark staircase To recover It meant, at tbe least, sliel ! ter for the nlgbt, followed by a decent, i comfortable nnd sustaining morning : meal. Fortified by both he could re deem his Itivgage.. chance to clothing i more fultnl le for dayllghtttraveltng. pawn his valuables and enter Into ncgo ; tlatlons with the steamship company for permission to exchange his pas- sage, with n sum to boot, for trans j portatlon on another llner-n most i feasll.l,. project, n temptation nil but Irresistible! Hut then-the risk. Supposing, for the sake of argument, tbe customnrv i night watchman to hsve taken np a imiinieni resilience in o. p. sup posing the police lo have entered with him and found the stunned man on the second floor, would the watchman aot be vigilant for another nocturnal marauder would not the police now, more than ever, be keeping a wary eye on that house of suspicious happen ings? . Decidedly to re-enter It would be tc Incur a deadly risk. And yet uiiilef);. edly. beyond .Qstion. his sovereign purve wns walling for him somewhere onMlie second flight of slairs. while Ibis means of clandestine entry lay warm In his fingers the key to(Jie dark entry, w hi, h be had by force of I habit pocketed nfter locking the d.x r on leaving the bouse with Iiorolhy ... c,m,u ,. ,.. ' . THZ BUOKfl DAILT ftnVttP. SATURDAY, 11111 i Alts -Windows were oim W - .... nn.n Hi. covered turned gasiignts. i,u.. -- iy be re-entorcea uy mm ee- alleyway Quadrant mews slept In i a ' f Moreover. t was to. Ax re dusk, but fitfully relieved by a lamp , d that tne one was In that or two roumU-hlch tbe flr endly mist , clung close and thick. There would be none to see. Ct-..ll,lM ,h,nnt HWOllcn With fear, heart beating like a snare drum. hirK wood took his chance. Buttoning his overcoat collar up to bis chin nnd curs ing the fact that his hat must stand out like a chimney pot on a deiached house, be sped on tiptoe down the cob bled way and close beneath tbe bouse wall of Quadrant mews: but half way in, he stopped, confounded by an unforeseen difficulty. How was he to Identify the narrow entry of No. 0, whose counterparts doubtless commu nicated with the mews from every res idence on four sides of tbe city block? He almost lost his head when he realized tbat escape was already cut eft by the way he had come. Some one or, rather, some two men were entering the alley. He could bear the tramping and shuffle of clumsy feet and voices that muttered Indistinctly. One seemed to trip over something and cursed. The other Inughed. The voices grew more loud. Tbey were coming bla way. He dared no longer vacillate. He dived Into tbe nearest Mart, hole of a passageway and In sheer despera tion flung himself, key In hand', 'nsjilnst the door at the end. Mark how his luck served him who had forsworn her! He found a keyhole and Inserted the key. It turned. So did the knob. The door gave Inward. He fell In with it slammed It shot tbe bolts and. panting, leaned against Its panels, in a pit of everlasting night but saved for tbe time being, at all events. CHAPTER X. r NDOORS Klrkwood faced unhappily the eulgmn of fortuity, wonder ing If this by any possibility were No. 9. The key had fitted, the bolts bad been drawn on the Inside, and, while the key bad been one of ordinary pat tern and would no doubt have proved effectual with any one of a hundred common locks, the finger of probability seemed to Indicate that bis luck had brought him back to No. B. In spite of all this, be was sensible of little confidence. Though this were truly No. 0, bis freedom still lay on the knees of tbe gods; his very life, be Hire, was poised, tottering on a pinna cle of cbance. . . 4. In tbe end, taking heart of despera tion, be stooped and removed his shoes, a precaution which later ap pealed to his sense of the ridiculous in view of the racket he had raised in entering, but which at the moment seemed most natural and In accord ance with common sense. Then, ris ing, he held bis breath, staring and listening, - About hltn the pitch dark uvia was punctuated with fading points of. fire, and In bis ears was a iiolsej of strange whisperings. He went forward gingerly, feeling his way like a blind man on strange ground. Ere long he stumbled over a doorsjll and. found that the walls of the pnssnge had fallen nwny. He had entered a room, a black cavern of Indeterminate dimensions. Thence, progressing over complaining floors through what may have been the serv ants' hall, a large room with a table In the middle nnd n number of pro miscuous cbnlrs (witness his tortured shins), he finally blundered Into the basement hallway. By now a little calmer, he felt as sured that this was really No. 9 Frognall street nnd a little happier about It all. though not even momen tarily forgetful of tbe potentlnl police and nlgbt watchman. However, he mounted the steps to the ground floor without ndventure and found himself at last in the same dim and ghostly hall which he had entered some six hours before. The mockery of dusk admitted by the fanlight was Just strong enough lo enable him to Iden tify the general lay of the land and arrangement of furniture. More confidently with each uncon tested step he continued his quest. Elation was stirring his spirit when he gained the first floor nnd moved toward the foot of the second flight, approaching the spot whereat he was to begin the search for the missing purse. The knowledge that he lacked means of obtaining Illumination de terred him nothing. He had some nope of finding matches in one of the adjacent rooms, but, falling tbat. was prepared to ascend the stairs on all fours, feeling every Inch of their Mir face !f It took hours. And thus It fell out that, at the pi slant he was thinking It time to licgi: to crawl nnd hunt, his stockinged feel came Into contact with something heavy, yielding, warm something thai m-ived. moaned nnd caused his tmlr to bristle and his flesh to creep. We will make allowances for him All along he had gone on the assump tion that his antagonist of the dark stairway would have recovered nnd mnde off with nil expedition In the course of ten or twenty minutes at most from the time of his accident. To find him still there was something entirely outside of Klrkwood's reckon lng. He would as soon have thought to encounter, say. Calendar-would have preferred the latter. Indeed. "roor devil!" murmured the vonng man. -He must be In a pretty bad way for surer He knelt. couiwsslon gentling his heart, and put one band to the Insentient face. A warm sweat moistened his fingers. Hs ,, fanned by sternly respiration Immeasurably iwrplexvd. the Ameri can rose. sllpH-a on his shoes KtU . t.i.d (hem. thh.Utfth.ml the while "!n ought be tudi.j Ol.vle;. flight xuggcsied liself-liicontlnent tl.ght. an tlcipating the u Q s recovery, on the other baud. Indubitably th latter lad MAY 81, 1910 O 'stalnea sucu. injury ness wben It came to mm, wouiu . , L K anr,Bsive fccliaa lilt will 1U o blind man m strange around, bouse wltb quite as much warrant a the other unless Klrkwood bad drawi a rash Inference from the Inoldent o! the ragged sentry. The two of them were mutual If antagonistic trespass ers. Neither would dare bring about the arrest of tbe other. And then and this was not tbe least consideration to Influence Klrkwood perhaps the fel low would die if he got no attention. Light upon the subject actual as well as figurative, seemed to be tbe first essential. His' mind composed. Klrkwood set himself In search of It. The floor he was on, however, afforded him no assistance. After some momentary hesitation be went upstairs, his ascent marked by a single and grateful Incident. Halfway to the top be trod on an object that clinked .underfoot and, stopping, rc trlevcd the lost purse. The rooms on the second floor were bedchambers, bro.-d, deep, stately, In habited by seven devils of. loneliness. In one, on a dresser, Klrkwood found a stump of candle In a china candle stick. The two charred ends of matches at Its base were only an Irri tating discovery, however evidence that real matches had been the mode In No. 9 at some remote date Disgusted and oppressed by cumula tive Inqulsltlveness. he took the can dle end back to the hall. He would have given much for the time nnd means to make a more detailed Inves tigation into the secret of tbe house. Since bis latest entrance his vision had adjusted Itself to cope with tbe obscurity to some exteut, and the street lights, meagerly reflected through tbe windows from the bosom of a sullen pall of cloud low swung above the city, had helped him to piece together many a detail of decoration and fur nishing, alike somber and richly dig nified. Klrkwood told himself that the owner, whoever he might be. was a man of wealth and taste Inherited from another age. He had round little of meretricious today In the dwelling, much that was solid and sedate and homely nnd-Vlctorian. He could have wished tor more. A box of early Vic torian vestas had been highly accept able. Making his way downstairs to tbe stricken man. who was quite as be had been, Klrkwood bent over nnd thrust rifling fingers Into his pockets regardless of the wretched sense of guilt nnd sneaklshness Imparted by the action, stubbornly heedless of the possibility of the man's awakening to find himself being searched and rob bed. ' In the last- place he sought, which should, he realized, have been the first -to wit. the fob pocket of the white waistcoat-be fvvn4 a' small gold matchbox pack! titg wfch wax v tas and., bcratln himself for crass stupidity- he hart saved n deal of time and trouble by thinking of this before -!ihKd t!ie -indie. Continue J next Saturday.) 20 Honrs Portland to Coos liny New and Improved schedule via steamer Hrcakwnter. 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