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EIGHT THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1910 BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE "0 WT. mind with this UiTUWStiuidlng rhaMt j ncrness. "Tuortr Tie said ng1y. " . , .ji.,nt hu wr.!i.i her hands rest gently In his (Chapter XXVII Continued.) i ji u iliinl! so'" She shook hencl hi ! utt. "I j'.mi't know. I know so little if such things. You are rl?ht IVe must take lilm the Jewels, but" Her voice trallid off Into a sigh of profound rierturljarlr-". He (Jar:! 5;t meet her look. With a Jur tl train started and be gan to move more swiftly. Klrkwood lifted the traveling bag to bis knees. "Don't forget," he Bald, with some difficulty, "you're to stick by mo what ever hnppens. You mustn't desert me." "You know," the girl reproved blin. "I know, but there must be no mis understanding. Don't worry. We'll win out yet. I've a plan." Glorious liar! Ho had not the glim mering of a plan. The englno panting, the train drew In beneath the vast sounding dome of the station to an accompaniment of dull tliunderings and stopped Anally. Hurried and Jostled, the girl cling ing tightly to his arm lost they be sep arated lu the crush, they came to the ticket wicket Ilcyond the barrier surged a sea of bats. Boncath any one of these might lurk the maleficent brain, the spying eyes, of Calendar or one of his creatures. Beneath all of them that he encountered Klrkwood peered in fearful Inquiry. Abruptly he caught the girl by the arm and unceremoniously hurried her toward a waiting hansom. "Quick!" he begged her. "Jump right In not an Instant to spare!" She nodded brightly, Hps firm with courage, eyes shining. - "My father?" "Yes." Klrkwood glanced back over his shoulder. "He hasn't seen us yet They've Just driven up.. Strykcr's with him. They're getting down." And to himself, "Oh, the devil!" cried the panic stricken young mnn. He drew back to let the girl precede him into the cab. At the same time he kept an eye on Calendar, whose conveyance stood half the length of the slatlon front away. The fat adventurer bad finished pay ing off the drlwr, standing on the deck of the hansom. Strykcr was al ready out, towering above the mass of people and glaring about him with his hawk keen vision. Oalondar bad start ed to alight Ills foot was leaving the tcp when Strykcr's glance singled out their quarry. Instantly ho turned and spoko to his confederate. Calendar wheeled like a flash, peering eagerly In the direction Indicated by the cap tain's lndoz finger, tben, snapping In structions to his driver, threw himself heavily back on the seat. Stryker. awkward on bis 'laud legs, stumbled and fell In aa 111 calculated attempt to hoist himself hastily back Into the vehicle. To tho delay thus occasioned alone Klrkwood and Dorothy owed a respite of freedom. Their hunsoiu was al toady swinging down toward tho great gates of the yard, tlie Aniorlcuu stand ing to make tlie driver comprehend the necessity for using tho utmost speed In reaching the Craven street address. The man proved both lutein gent and obliging. Klrkwood hud bare ly time to drop down beside the girl ere tho cub wus swlitglng out Into the Strand, to the peril of tit toje be longing to a number of righteously In dignant pedeotrkiiia. lie turued lu tho seat, twfetlug his nock to pceo through the auuill soar window. "1 don't sea tbulr cab, he announced. "But of course tUofre after us. However, Craven street's fust round the corner. If we got there first I don't fancy Freddie Ualuun will have a cordial reception fur our pur suers. They most have beeu on watrh at Onnnon street, and, ftndhuj we won not corning In that way of course they wore expecting us because of Hubbs' wire they took cab lor Ohorlug doss. Lucky for usor Is It hiekyT" be add ed doubtfully to himself. The hansom whipped round the ear ner Into Craven street. Klrkwood sprang up, grasping the Uaauute bag. ruady to Jump tlie Instant they puUod In toward Mrs. Halktm'a dwelling. But as they drew near upon the address ho drew bark with an eickunntlon of amaseincnt. Tlie house wns closed, showing blank face to tho street blind drawn close down In the windows, area gate padlocked, an estate agent's board pro jecting from above tlie doorway ad vcrtlslug the property "to be k fur nished." Klrkwood looked hark, craning bis neck round the side of the cab. iu the moment another hausora was break. Ing through tlie rank of humanity on tlie, Strand crossing. He saw one or two figures leap desperately from be neath the horse's hoofs. Then tlie cab hot out swiftly down the street. The American stood tip again, catch ing the cabby's eye. "Drive onr tie cried excitedly. "Don't stop! Drive as fast as you dare!" "Were to, strt" Res that cab behind? Don't let It catch us! Shn'f It off. loc It some how, but for t" l"-o of heaven don't let It catch us! I'll make It worth your While. Do you understand?" "Yes. sir." The driver looked brief ly over his shoulder and lifted hl whip. "Don't worry, rlr," he cried. iy entering Into the spirit of the gifrtie with gratifying stem. "Rlinn't let 'em over'aul you. sir Mind your Vad!" And as Klrkwood ducked the whip lash shot cut over the roof with a crack like' the report of a pistol Startled. Ihe horse leaped Indignantly forward. Momentarily the cab seemed to leave the (."round, then fettled down to a paco that carried tlicm round tlie Avenue theater and across Northum berland avenue Into Whitehall place apparently on a single wheel. "Good little horse!" lie applauded. A moment later ho was Indorsing without reserve the generalship of their cabby. The quick westward turn that took them Into Whitehall, over across from the Horse Guards. likewise placed them In a pocket of traffic. A practically Impregnable press of vehicles closed In behind them ere Calendar's conveyance could fol low out of the side street That the same conditions, but sllght- modlfled, hemmed them In ahead went for nothing In KIrkwood's estimation. Good driver!" be approved heartily. "He's got a head on his shoulders!" Tho girl found her voice. "How," she demanded In a breath, face blank with consternation "how did you dare?" "D.ire?" he echoed exultantly, and In his veins excitement was running like liquid Are. "What wouldn't 1 dare for you, Dorothy?" "What have you not?" she amended softly, adding, with a shade of timidity, Philip"- .... The long lashes swept up from her cheeks, like clouds revealing stars, un masking eyes radiant and brave to meet his own. Then they fell, even as her Hps drooped with disappoint ment And she sighed, for he was not leoklng. Manlike, hot with the ardor of the chase, he was deaf and blind to all else. "1'vo got a scheme!" Klrkwood de clared so explosively that she caught her breath with the surprise of it. There's Hie Pless. they know me there, and my credit's good. When we shako them off we can have tho cabby take us to the hotel. I'll regis ter and borrow from the management enough to pay our way to Chiltern and the tolls for a cable to New York. I've a friend or two over home who wouldn't lot mo want for a few miser able pounds. So you see," he ex plained boyishly, "we're at the end of our troubles already P She said something Inaudible, hold ing her faeo averted. Ho bent nearer to her, wondering. "I didn't under stand," he suggested. Still looking from him, "I sold you were very good to me," she said la a quavering whisper. "Dorothy!" Without his knowledge r Intention before the fact as In stinctively as he made use of her given name Intimately, his strong Angers dropped nod closed upon the little hand that lay beside him. "What Is the matter, dear7" Ho leaned still farther forward to poor Into her face till glance met glance in the ending and his rnelng pulses tightened with sheer delight of the hnmld lmpplnras In her glistening eyes. "Dorothy, child, dou't worry so. No harm shall come to yon. It's nil working out all work ing out right. Only have a little faith In me, and I'll make everything work out right, Dorothy." Gently she freed her fingers. "I wasn't." she told him In a voice that quivered between laughter and tears "I wasn't worrying. I wns you wouldn't understand. Doiit be afraid I shall break down or or auythlug." "I shant," he reassured her. "1 know you're not that sort Huskies, yotrd have no eatoose. We're moving along fatuously, That cobtiy knows hie buetuess." Past the houses of porUawont. through Old Poloee yard, with tho ab bey on their left, thoy swung away Into Abingdon street, wheaee sadden ly they dreed Into the mess of back ways, great and moan, wMeh Hea to the smith of Vwrorla. Donhrmg and twtsttng. now thti way, now that, tho driver tooted them throngs the Intri cate heart of this labyrinth, loading tin pninueM a donee that Ktrirwood thought calculated to dWttertun and shake off the pursuit, hi the Drat live minutes,. Yet always, peering back through the trttM ieopliole, be saw Oil cnuafa cab petting doggedly In their rear hundred yards beliuul, no more, no lose hanging on with Indom itable grit and determination. Children cheered them on. and po licemen turned to stare, doubting whether they should Interfere. Min utes rolled Into tens, measuring out on hour, and still they hammered un. hunted and hunters playing their giune of hare and bounds through the high ways and byways of those stuld and aged quarter. The sun was Tory low behind the houses of the (tarrey side when Klrk wood became awn re that their borne wns flagging, though, as comparison lotoriuluud, uo more so tbuu the one behind. In grave concern, the young msn raised his hand, thrusting oiien the trap In the roof. Immediately the square of darkling sky was eclipsed by tho cabby's face. "Yesslrt" "You bad better drive ss dtreenj as you.cog to the Ucte' Vlns," Klrkwood cancn up. "I'm afraid It's no use pushing .vour horse like this." "I'm sure of It. sir. 'K's a good 'oss, 'e Is, but 'e etiiu'l keep uoiu' forhevcr. you know, sir." Despondent recklessness tightened KIrkwood's lips and kindled nu un pleasant light In his eyes. lie touched his shlo pocket. Calendar's revolver was still there. Dorothy should wiu away clear If If he swung for it. Ho bent forward with the traveling bag In his hands. "We'll have to drop off in a minute. The horse won't last.' They're hi the same box. I'll undertake to stand 'cm off for a bit. You take the bag and run for It. Just as soon 03 I can con vince them I'll follow, but If there's any delay you call the first cab you see and drive to tho Floss. I'll Join you there." He stood up, surveying the neigh borhood. Behind him the girl lifted her voice In protest. "No, Philip, no! I won't leave yon." He shook bis head In Bllent contra diction, frowning, but not frowning because of the girl's mutiny. He was a little puzzled by a vague Impression. The hansom wns traversing a street In Old Brompten, a quaint, prim by way lined' with dwellings singularly old worldish even for London, He seemed to know It subjectively, to have retained a memory of it from an other existence. Calendar's cab was drawing peril ously near, and be was debating whether or not they should alight at once and try to make a better pace nfoot when tho decision was taken wholly out of his hands. Blindly sUiggerlng on, wilted with weariness, the horse stumbled In tho shafts and plunged forward on its knees. Quick as tho driver was to pull It up, with a cruel Jerk of the bits, Klrkwood was caught unprepared. Lurching agninst the dashboard, he lost his footing, grasped frantically at the unstable air and went over, bring ing up in a sitting position In the gut ter with a solid shock that Jarred his very leolh. For a moment dnsed, he sat there blinking. By the time be got to bis feet the girl stood beBlde him, ques tlonlng him with keen solicitude. "No," he gasped, "not hurt only surprised. Walt." Their cab bad come to a complete standstill. Calendar's was no more than twenty yards behind, and Klrkwood caught sight of him the fat adventurer wns In the act of lifting himself ponderously out of the seat Incontinently the young man turned to the girl and forced the traveling bag into her hands. "Bun for it!" he begged her. "Don't stop to argue. You promised run! Ill come. "PhlHpP she pleaded. "Dorothy P he cried in torment. I'erhniM It was bis unquestionable distress that weakened her. Suddenly she yielded, with whatever reason. He was only hazily aware of the swish of her skirts behind him. He bad no time to look round and see that Bhe got away safely, n had only eyes and thoughts for Calendar and Stryker. They were both afoot new and run ning toward him, the one as awkward as the ether, but neither yielding a Jot of their malignant purpose. He hold the ptrtare of K oddly graphic la his memory for many a day thereafter. To this mental pbotogrsjiii another succeeds of the seme scene an Instant krt. r, all as It bud been before, their rriatrre positions nnrbanged save that Stryker and Calendar had come to a deed slop und that KIrkwood's right oui wns lifted and extended, pointing at the captain. Bo forgetful of self was be that it required a moswnt's thought to con venes him that be was really responsi ble for the abrupt transformation. In credulously he realised that he bod drawn Calendar's revolver and pulled Stryker up short In mtdstrtle by the mute lusnam of k as much as by his hoarse cry of warning: "Stryker, not another footP With tills there chimed In Dorothy's voice, tinging bell clear from a little (lists nee: "Philip!" I.Ike a fleeh he wheeled to add yet another picture to his mental gallery. Perhaps twoecore feet up the side walk a gate stood opeu. Just ouUido It a man of tall and slender ngure, rig ged out In a bbuirre costume constat ing maluly of a flowered dressing gown and slippers, was waiting In an attitude of singular luipaxnirlty. With in It. pausing with a foot lifted to the doorstep, hag In hand, her head turned as she looked bark, was Dorotliy. As he comprehended these essential details of the composition the man In the flowered dressing gown raised a hand, berktaitag to htm in a manner as Imperative as his accompanying words. Klrkwood eboked on a laugh that was half a son. "BrentwtckP be cried, restoring the weapon to his pocket and running toward his friend. "Of all happy incidents.1" "You may call it that retorted the elder man, with a fleeting tIK as Klrkwood slipped Inside the dooryard "Come." he said; "let's get into the house." "Hut you saM I thought you wen to Munich," stammered Klrkwood, and so thoroughly Jmpr-OTitrd . was .hJ ceptlons to the truth. "I was detained by business," re sponded Brentwlck briefly. HI' B,lze weary and wistful behind bis glasses, rested on the face of the girl on the threshold of his home, and the faint, sensitive flush of her face deepened. He stopped and honored her with n bow that for all his fantastical uttlre, would have graced a beau of an earlier decade. "Will you be pleased to en ter?" lie suggested punctillcusly. My house, such as It Is, Is quite at your disposal. And," he added, wltn . a glance over his shoulder, "I fancy inui a word rr two may present uo passed which you would hardly care to hear." Klrkwood lingered with his friend upon tue uoor stoop, uiiemtur, i. covered from his temporary consterna tion, was already at the gate, bending over It, fat lingers fumbling with the latch, his round red face lined to tne house, darkly working with chagrin. From his threshold, watching mm with a slight contraction of the eyes, Brentwlck balled hiin in tones of cloy ing courtesy: "Do you wish to see me, sir." The fat adventurer faltered Just within the gateway. Then, with tru culent swagger. "I want my daugh ter!" he declared vociferously. Brentwlck peered mildly over his glasses, first at Calendar, then at Klrk wood. His glance lingered a moment ' ' T'll T "I want Tiiv dauflhteW on the young man's honest eyes and swung back to Calendar. "My good man," he said, with sub lime tolerance, "will you be pleased to take yourself off to the devil If you like? Or shall I take the trouble to interest the police?" He removed one fine and fragile band from a pocket of the flowered dressing gown long enough to Jerk It significantly toward the nearer street corner. Thunderstruck, Calendar glanced hastily In the indicated directum. A blue coated bobby was to be seen ap proaching with measured stride, dif fusing upon the still evening air an Impression of ineffably capable self contentment Calendar's fleshy Hps parted nnd closed without a sound. He banged the gate behind him and waddled off to Join the captain, who already, with praiseworthy native prudence, had fallen back upon their cab. Sullenly extracting money from his pocket, he pnid oil bis driver and In company with Stryker trudged In mo rose silence down the street. Brentwlck touched KIrkwood's arm and drew him Into the house. A: CHAlTEn XXIX. tho door closed Kh-kwood swung Impulsively to Brcnt- wkk with the brief, uneven laugh of One drawn nerves. Good God, sirP he cried. "You dont know" 1 con surmise," Interrupted the cider nun shrewdly. Ton turned up In the nfcfc of time, for all the world like Harlequin popping through a stage trap?" "No no lnearnatim of the proti- denoe that watches over children and foots." BrKulwkk dropped a eoltulng hand upon bis Bboulder. Tour simile seems singularly happy, Philip. Permit mfe to suggest that you Join the child In my study." Ho laughed quietly, with a slight nod toward an open door at the end of the hallway. Tor myself. 1 11 be with you In one moment" palms while he led her to a chair. "We can make ourselves easy now." the sat down, nnd he released her hands with a reluctance less tvldent than actual. "If eve? I say another word against my luck" "Who," inquired the girl, lowering her voice "who Is the geutlemun in the flowered dressing downr "Brentwlck-George Silvester Brent wlck, an old frlena. l vo kuowu mm for vears. ever since I came abroad. Curiously enough, however, this Is the first time I've ever beeu uere. i cuneu once, but he wasn't ln-a few days ago the day we met I thought tne ptace looked familiar. Stupid of mol' "Philip." said tlie girl, with a grave face, but a shaking voice, "It was" she laughed provoklngly "It was so funny, Philip. I don't know why 1 ran wheu you told me to, but I did. And while I ran 1 was conscious of the front door hero opening and this tall man In the flowered dressing gown coming down to the gate as if it were the most ordinary thing In the world for him to stroll out dressed that way In the evening. And he opened the gate and bowed and said, ever so pleasantly, 'Won't you come lu, Miss Calendar?' " ;'Ho did!" exclaimed KirUwcod. "But how" "How can I say?" she expostulated. "At all events, ho seemed to know me, and when he ndded something about calling you in, too he said 'Mf. Klrk wood' I didn't hesitate." "It's strange enough, surely, and for tunate. Bless his heart!" said Klrk wood.. And "Hum!" said Mr. Prentwlck considerately, entering the study. He had discarded the dressing gown and was now In evening dress. The girl rose. Klrkwood turned. "Mr. Brentwlck" he began. But Brentwlck begged his patience with an eloquent gesture and rang the bell. A soft footed butler. Impassive as Fate, matcrlallztd mysteriously lu the doorway. "You rang, sir? he interrupted frig idly. "If any one should ask for me I'm not nt home." "Very good, sir." "And If you should see n pair of dis reputable scoundrels skulking In the neighborhood, one short nnd stout, tlie other tall and evidently a seafaring man, let me know." "Thank you, Blr." A moment later the front door was heard to dose. Brentwlck turned with a little bow to the girl. "My dear MIs3 Calendar,' he said, rubbing his thin, fine bands "I am old enough, I trust to call you such without offense please be seated," "Would you mind telling us how you kmew" began Klrkwood anxiously "Not In the least, my dear Philip. It Is simple enough. I possess an Imagi nation. From my bedroom window, on the floor above, I happen to behold two cabs racing down the street the one doggedly pursuing the other. The foremost stops, perforce of a fagged horse. There alights a youug gentle man looking, if you'll pardon me, un commonly seedy. He Is followed by a young lady, if she will pardon me, with another little bow, "uncommonly pretty, Brentwlck removed his glasses, rub bed them and blinked thoughtfully at the girl. "My dear," he said suddenly. with a peculiar tremor In his voice, "you resemble your mother remarka bly. Tut I should know! Time was when I was one of hor most ardent admirers," "You y-you knew my mother?" cried Dorothy, profoundly moved. DW I not know you at sight? My doer, you ore your mother reincarnate for the good of an unworthy world. She was a very beautiful woman, my dear," "But you will tell me" "A number of Interesting things. Mlsi Cnlendar, If youll be good eoouch to let me choose the time. 1 beg you m De patient with the Idlosyncraaiea of on old man who moans no harm, who has a reputation as an eooentrle to sus tain before his servants. And now," said Brentwlck "now, my dear boy, for the odveuture." Klrkwood chuckled. Infected by his host's genial humor. "How do yon know" "How can It be otherwise?" coun tered Brentwlck, with a trace of asper ity. "Am I to be denied my adven ture? Sir, I refuse without equivoca tion. Your very bearing breathes of romanee. There must be on adventure forthcoming, ThUlp; otherwise my dis appointment will be bo acute that 1 shall be regretfully obliged seriously to consider my right as a householder to show you the door." 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It is a fluid v,r ...... l .s.no "!, ivcerine. ol Drooer strength, from the rni, ..I Purev trJ forest plants. World'B Dispensary Medical Association, Pro" note A faint Indulgent smile lurking In I ' , ",e y0l,n5 mon- ud risen, which his hliu with Bumnsp. nnnn host advanced. Indicting a lomr wiilfn f, ...... "Would you, Bir," he demanded, "again expose this little lady to the machina tions of that conwlent scoundrel whom 1 have Just had the pleasure of shoo lng off my premises because you choose to resent an old nam's rail-lery?" apologise," Klrkwood hurnorod the shadow of his white mustache, he watched the young man wheel and dart through the doorway. "Young hearts!" be commented audibly and a trace sadly. "Youth!" Beyond the threshold of the study Klrkwood paused, eager eyes search ing Its somber shadows for a sign of Dorothy. By the fireplace, a little to one side, she stood, one small root resting on the brans fonder, her figure merging Into the dusky background, her deli cate benutv gaining m effect of elr slvo nud eniereal mystery In the woe lng and wnxlng ruddy glow unng from the bedded coals. "Oh, Philip!" She turned swiftly to Klrkwood with extended hands und n low, broken cry. "I'm so clad." A trace of hysteria In her manner We ars closing out out business 1-U1 , i . . .... Rnffan rwj . , . . . wnrneu nun, ana ne caecitea nimsolf "vu uiiiruinuy j0r live ujwn the verse of a joo da antrum ten.OT111 t0 KV tnt0 MtabWW-i business investment of email ejfpltal. Grea ) American Importing Co., Ninth sreet "I hint. "I accept the apology tn tho spirit in which It w offewd, I repent, now ior the adventure. Philip. If the sto--.- loug, cprtonUae, Wo can con- - dtnii uaore at our WrQ.,.- (Continual next Saturday.) The Is a place for HOMES AND G AKUhlNb. Good terms and very good pries. 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