Tuesday, March 13, 1923
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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T IS DIFFICULT
to imagine any
thing more fasci
nating than our
new serial story
By
Sidssey Gowing
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I. Disliking the prospect ot
a month's visit to her austere aunt, Lady
Krythea Lambe, at Jervaulx abbey, and
her cousin, Alexander Lambe, Aimee, vi
vacious daughter ot the Very Reverend
Viscount Scroope, Is In a rebellious mood.
CHAPTER II. She wanders into the
fiark, there encountering a strange youth
n trouble with a motorcycle. He laugh
ingly Introduces himself as "Billy," Amer
ican. The two cement the acquaintance
by a ride on the motorcycle, the, "Flying
Bphlnx," and part. With Georgina Ber
bers, her cousin, Aimee sets out for Jer
vaulx. On the way she decides that Qeor
Itlna shall Impersonate her at Jervaulx,
while she goes on a holiday. Georglna's
horrified .protest is unavailing.
CHAPTER III. Happy In her new free
dom, Aimee again meets "Billy." He tells
tier his name is Spencer, and she gives
hers as Amy Snooks, at presest "out of a
job." Billy offers to take her into part
nership In selling the Sphinx. In a spirit
of madcap adventure, she accepts. The
two proceed to the town of Stanhoe, tak
ing separate lodgings In Ivy cottage.
CHAPTER IV. That night Aimee visits
Georgina and learns that the deception
has not been discovered. By her dominant
personality she compels Georgina to con
tinue the subterfuge.
CHAPTER V. On a trial spin next day
on the Sphinx, with Billy, Aimee almost
collides with a carriage In which are her
.aunt, Georgina and Alexander. The pair
escape unrecognized.
CHAPTER VI. Georgina learns that
Lord Scroope is coming to visit Lady Ery
thea and, realizing what will happen on
his arrival, is in hopeless bewilderment.
CHAPTER VII. While Aimee is secretly
visiting Georgina at Jervaulx, the place is
-burglarized. Aimee escapes.
CHAPTER VIII. Georgina learns, with
much relief, that Aimee has got away.
CHAPTER IX. Police Inspector Panke
'decides that the robbery is the work of
" Jack the Climber" and "Calamity Kate,"
noted thieves, who travel on a motorcy-
cle.
CHAPTER X. Billy, aware of his
"partner's" nocturnal Jaunts, is troubled.
He follows her, on the Sphinx, to Jer
vaulx. He hears the commotion, at once
iuspects burglary, and follows two ligures
on a motorcycle who are apparently in a
dosperate hurry. Cornering the pair, Billy
knocks out a man who attempts to shoot
him, picking up a package the fellow had
dropped. He discovers the other fugitive
to be a woman. Stopping to aid her, she
strikes him with a stone, rendering him
unconscious, and the pair escape.
CHAPTER XI. Recovering, Billy dis
covers the package he had picked up is a
Jewel case, containing emeralds. Realiz
ing they must be part of the loot from
Jervaulx, he starts for the abbey. On the
way he meets Aimee, with the police in
pursuit. In a secure hiding place, a cave
.among the crag pits, Aimee tells him the
whole story. He urges that she make a
frank confession to her father, but on re
flection both realize Aimee's good name
has been compromised by her two nights'
SUtV af Ivv cnttap-A
CHAPTER XII. Assuring Aimee he
has a plan to save her, Billy leaves her in
the cave and, proceeding to Jervaulx, re
stores the emeralds to the astounded
Lady Erythea.
CHAPTER XIII. Rejecting any re
ward, after explaining how the emeralds
came into his possession, Billy accepts the
position of chauffeur to Lady Krythea,
seeing in the situation a promise of a way
out of the embroglio.
CHAPTER XIV. Realizing what her
father's visit lo Jervaulx would mean,
-Aimee goes secretly to her home, disables
the family auto, thus preventing his Jour-
mey, and induces a parlormaid to let her
take her place at Jervaulx.
CHAPTER XV. Alexander recognizes
Aimee as the woman on the motorcycle
which ran Into the Lambe carriage, de
nouncing her as "Calamity Kate." Geor
Sina divulges Aimee's identity. Hearing
her story, Alexander consents to keep the
secret.
CHAPTER XVI. Alexander finds him
self very much in love with Georgina.
CHAPTER XVII The approaching vis
it of Alexander's sister, Lady Diana (who,
of course, krows Aimee) brings conster
nation to the two girls.
CHAPTER XVIII. Another visitor to
Jervaulx is the Vlcomte de Jussac, Di
ana's suitor. Diana recognizes Aimee and
threatens to denounce her.
CHAPTER XIX. - Interested in the
Lambe collection of armor, De Jussac,
-during the night, tries on a suit. Diana,
investigating an alleged ghostly appari
tion, meets him. He declares his love,
and is accepted. Aimee finds them to
gether and binds Diana to secrecy con
cerning her affairs.
CHAPTER XX Alexander and Geor
irlna become engaged. Ijadv Erythea. be
lieving Georgina to be Lord Scroope's
daughter, Is delighted.
For once Alexander was at a loss,
lie had turned very pale. Georgina
fame nobly to his rescue.
"Alexander," she said faintly, yet
articulately, "has Hsked me to he his
wife." And, with desperate confusion,
she added "may I?"
The ear-trumpet clattered on the
gravel. I.ady Krythea gathered Geor
gina into a triumphant emhrace.
"My dear child," she exclaimed,
kissing Georgina, warmly on both
cheeks, "I am delighted!" Lany Rry
thea released her and kissed Alexan
der. "You have made me very, very
liappy. The match Is In every way
: Ideal. Alexander, you will have Just
such a wife as I should have chosen
for you and I never thought you
would have the sense to choose one at
all. My dear Aimee, your excellent
father, I am sure, will be as plensed
' about this as I am."
Oeorglna felt her knees giving way.
She stooped and recovered the ear
trumpet. "W-would you mind not telling any
body for Just a day or two?" ahe said
desperately. "We have told you, but
we I feel "
Lady Erythea smiled.
'Foolish, romantic child 1" ahe said,
patting Georgina'a cheek. "Well, well
we shall see."
She turned, and disappeared towards
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the house. The betrothed couple looked
at each other. Alexander squared his
big shoulders.
"What on earth will happen now?"
said Georgina faintly.
Alexander's reply was practical. He
lifted her suddenly off her feet und
kissed her.
"I don't care what happens!" au-
He Kissed Her Again.
nounced Alexander. And he kissed ber
again.
CHAPTER XXI
A New Partnership.
"It rains all the time In this coun
try," said Billy, discontentedly, "except
when you want It to."
He addressed the remark to the dry
and unresponsive soil. Billy's attitude
nt the moment was unusual. He was
close to the footpath along which he
had wheeled the Sphinx, after the en
counter with the motorcycle thieves on
the night of the burglary.
That event was now many days old,
yet no rain had fallen In the meantime
and here and there the track of the
Sphinx's tires was faintly visible In
the dried mud to anyone who had un
usually good eyes.
"If they've got a Scotland Yard
sharp down here now," reflected Billy,
"and he goes over the ground, It's Just
possible he might see what that fool
inspector ut Stanhoe never tumbled to.
That there were two motorcycles, and
not one, at the place where Jack the
Climber got ditched. If they were to
track up the Sphinx now It would be
mighty awkward. They'd soon con
nect her with Aimee and me. But I
guess It's an outside chance."
The slight impression of a tire mark,
a little to the right of the path, caught
his eye. It hud passed over a soft
mole hill, and was clearly defined.
Billy paused, und Inspected It with a
new Interest. The fashion of his
countenance changed; he went down
on hands and knees, and looked very
closely Indeed.
"Snakes !" exclaimed Billy. He rose,
and quartered the ground carefully for
a considerable distance In either di
rection. The ground was too hard to
show any continuous track. But mole
hills were plentiful, and some way fur
ther on he found another one, also
showing the print of a tire.
"It's the same. And not the Sphinx's
tire, by a mile!" said Billy, knitting his
brow. "This one was steel-studded." !
With growing perplexity he made a ;
close examination of the soil, and pres
ently discovered other traces. There
were a few footprints and, faint though
they were, they bore some very marked
characteristics.
Billy stood up straight and gave a
liquid whistle. The furrows In his
brow deepened. He carried his Inves
tigations still farther afield, but to
ward the henlthy common the soil was
light, .wind-blown sand that shifted
with every fresli breeze. There were
no tracks left. The seeker was at a
loss. j
Billy stopped and reflected rapidly. I
"It came this way, whatever it was," ;
he said. "But why on earth did It'
and how? Let's start from the begin- ;
nlng."
He struck across country and, break- i
lng through a hedge, came out Into the '
blind lune where Jack the Climber's
machine had crashed on the fateful 1
night; the spot where he had recov
ered the emeralds, and made acquaint
ance with Calamity Kate's resource
fulness. The muddy lane still showed slight
traces, very much mixed up and tram
pled, of the place where the thieves
machine had fallen; the ruts were now
dried and hard. Billy also recognized
what were evidently the hoof marks of
the Stanhoe police.
"A herd of steers wouldn't have
made more mess." said Billy. "And
I'anke found nothing after all, or be'd
have Well, I can't blow much, either.
I've been here twice since, but never '
got wise to It till now."
He turned back down the lane to- :
ward the hlghwhy. his eyes noting the
smallest details of the ground.
When 1;ess or nat has a strtig
decided color it is not advisable in
use a rompl''inei,tary color of The same
strength or luminosity, as It would
form too striking a contrast. A safe
rule is to select lighter tints or darker
shades of the original color for trim
ming. The remarks made regarding
good combinations hold good for trim
ming also.
"Here's my track; pretty near
washed out. And here's the other's.
That cycle was u big Indian, by what
Utile I saw of it. And likely it was
half crippled when it got away. Aud
here it got on the high road, and head
ed straight on past Jervaulx again.
That's mighty queer. I always reck
oned they'd have gone the other way.
Something must have turned them."
He passed along the wider lane in
the direction of Jervaulx, his eyes
scanning the ground and the ditch. A
little distance short of the gate
through which Billy had wheeled the
Sphinx when dodging the police, he
stooped quickly and picked up a scrap
of metal. It was the broken end of an
exhaust silencer.
"I was right!" ejaculated Billy.
"Here they crashed again or the en
gine gave out for good. And they
came the very way I did myself. And
one of the two was lame dead lame.
One sure thing they couldn't have got
far that night. And If they weren't able
to ride the thing, what did they do
with It?"
He hurried to the far end of the
field, where the last of the tracks had
failed. He hesitated, and glanced to
wards the distant crag-pits.
"What should I have done myself
If I hadn't known the ground?" he
thought. "I'll try here first."
Less than a hundred yards to the
right wns a clump of brushwood,
growing alone, a little oasis on the
bare field.
The bushes masked a narrow clay
pit, twenty feet deep, that -had been
delved In times past to bring up the
heavy marl subsoil and spread It over
the sandy field. It was now complete
ly cloaked with brambles. Billy pulled
them apart, and saw something gleam
ing dimly at the bottom of the pit.
It was the buckled frame of a big
twin Indian motorcycle.
With a whoop of triumph Billy
clnmhered down the steep side of the
pit and disappeared through the bram
bles. He remained below some time.
When at last he emerged and stood
on the brink, Billy's face was rather
pale, and his eyes troubled.
"Great Caesar's ghost!" he said.
"Who'd have expected this? Now If
I can pick up the other track, I'll have
the game In my hands 1"
He hurried In the direction of the
distant crag-pits, then suddenly pulled
up short and glanced at his wrist
watch. "Aimee!" he exclaimed.
He had an appointment with Aimee
at five, and an urgent one. It was al
ready past the hour. Billy set off at
a run, and In ten minutes reached the
rendezvous. Aimee was there already,
In a rough serge walking-cloak and a
Snooks hat trimmed with calico vio
lets. In spite of the costume she
looked vividly lovely.
"Mr. Chauffeur," said Aimee, severe
ly, "I don't know If you think I want
to waste my afternoon off like this.
You're late."
"I'm sorry," panted Billy. "Came as
quick as I could."
"What are you looking excited
about?" she said, eyeing him suspi
ciously. "Oh Just seeing you," blurted Billy.
'That Isn't true. I've never seen you
look excited before. You've found out
something. What Is It?"
Billy paused.
"It's true. I have found out some
thing," he said quietly, "but there's
more to do, and I haven't quite all the
cards in my hands. It's the most amaz
ing stunt yet. I'll tell you about it
the moment I've got It set."
Aimee looked at him wistfully.
"I don't think you ought to have any
secrets from your partner,", she said.
"I always tell you everything."
"Give me till tonight," pleaded Billy.
"I hate to talk about It now. It's ugly.
mm
Billy Stared Before Him Gloomily.
By tonight we shall have either won or
lost but we'll win! Will you trust
me?"
Aimee seated herself on the turf be
neath the sweetbrlars.
"All right then," she said happily.
"Let's forget our troubles for a bit.
Sit down you look so tall, towering
op there, that I can hardly see you
and I'll tell my news. It's much more
Interesting than yours. Do you know
that Alexander has got himself en
gaged to my dear fat Georgle, and
they're Idiotically happy?"
"Has he?" cried Billy, dropping be
side her. "Good for him! She's a real
trump of a girl, that. And the par"n'ii
as white at they make thern he's a
fine fellow."
"1'es. Georgle will exactly suit aim.
I shouldn't have, a bit."
"You !" exclaimed Billy.
"Exactly. Aunt Erythea's Idea Is
that Alexander's marrying me. You're
not very bright today, Billy. They'll
have a funny tangle to straighten out,
when the crash comes."
"Gee! They will. We'll have to help
them somehow."
"Of course, we shall. But I wonder
how we'll do it. And that's not all
the Yicointe has suddenly become be
trothed, as he calls it, to Alexander's
sister Cold I.i'.mbo."
"She'll tone him down," said Billy.
"Not a 'hit. He'll tone her up," re
plied Aimee coi'.li.iently, "ami a jolly
good thing, too. so there they ull are.
I oughtn't lo nave mentioned it to you,
Biliy 1 ki.ow hew it depresses you.
It's lm.rili.i-- isii tuis sentiment."
Biliy siared bei'oi'e him gloomily, and
its silent.
"isn't it!" i'lMstod Aimee.
"Sickening:" said Billy, bitterly.
Aimee gl.imed at him and, looking
away, stirred tiie grass with the point
of his shoe. There was a long pause.
"What was it you were saying
about tilings';" said Aimee.
"I told you," replied Billy, "that be
fore tomorrow It will either bo a com
plete crash or all clear."
Aimee nodded.
"I see. That means, In the first case,
that I'll be exploded broken done
for "
"No !" said Billy, sharply.
"It does, though. But in the second,
If things go better I shall just be
back at Scroope, in a sort of mild dis
grace stood in the corner. That's
nothing much. I'm used to It. And
there you are I Well, the curtain's soon
going to ring down. Our partner
ship" Billy turned to her quickly.
"Is finished," continued Aimee quiet
ly, looking out across the park. "I
shan't be able to ride the Sphinx for
you, Billy. I'm sorry about thut. It
would have been fun."
Billy caught his breath.
"You mean," he said slowly, "that I
shan't see you again?"
"I mean that. How can you? Our
little holiday Is over, Billy."
His fingers closed on the turf on
either side of him, and dug deep.
"I understand. It's up to me. To
morrow we don't even know each
other."
He let go the turf, and caught her
hands.
"Aimee 1"
"Billy 1"
Before either of them knew how It
happened, he had her In his arms.
"I can't let you go I" said Billy wild
ly. "You're the darling of the world.
The loveliest, brightest thing thnt ever
breathed. Aimee do you think you
could try and love me?"
"Love you?" snld Aimee, trembling.
"Who could help loving you, Billy I"
He held her tight and kissed her.
"I wus so frightened " said Aimee,
In a stilled voice.
"Frightened I" He held her tighter.
"That you'd be frightened"
"Me!"
" of being sentimental," panted
Aimee.
Billy felt stunned.
"If you knew what I've been
through," he said a little hoarsely,
"this past week trying not to let you
see It!"
He kissed her again more than
once. Then he sat back, his head In
a whirl. There was the longest pause
yet ; a silence that seemed Intermi
nable. They were recalled to earth by a
staccato noise.
"Yap I Yap I Yap! Yap I Ylpe
ylpe !"
Aimee and Billy started violently.
A small white Highland terrier, with
Its four legs braced, was barking at
them excitedly, but not wholly with
disapproval.
Aimee felt stricken as though by a
sudden paralysis, p.ehlnd the terrier
stood Lady Krythea, erect anil rigid.
The glare In her eyes was the glare
of a destroying Gorgon.
CHAPTER XXII
Not Guilty.
The guilty pair arose to their feet.
Aimee, from rosy red, had turned ex
tremely pale. There was every ex
cuse for It. Lady Erythea's expres
sion was enough to unnerve the stout
est heart.
"And this," In a voice like the clash
lng of a motor's gear-box, "In the face
of my express warning I You are dis
charged." She took a step towards
Aimee. "And as for you "
Billy Interposed his large figure be
tween them.
"Madam," he snld, "If you have any
comments lo make, please make them
to me. fir, better still do not make
them at all."
His voice was quiet and respectful.
But his chin was lifted remarkably
high, and his lips compressed danger
ously. Lady Erythea struggled for breath.
"Are you presuming," she said, In
a strangled voice, "fo dictate to me!"
Mr. William Spencer bowed.
"I hope my lady that It will not
be necessary. What I do presume Is
to defend Miss Snooks against any
reproaches whatever. This Is her
afternoon off."
Aimee looked at them both espe
cially at Lady Erythea. And fot once
the "sand," on which she had so often
been complimented, deserted her. Ai
mee turned suddenly and fled.
The terrier, under the Impression
that It was all an extremely Interest
ing game got up for his amusement,
pursued her out of sight round the
hushes, giving tongue excitedly.
Billy kept his eyes fixed on the In-t-nder.
"If you require fin explanation, Lady
Erythea," he said qnisrly, "T guess I
can give you one very briefly. I have
just usked Miss' Snooks to marry me,"
I.ady Erythea was mentally stag
gered. "You have asked her to
marry you?" she said, staring at Billy.
"And sue has done me the great
honor to consent."
Billy's grim expression relaxed into
a very charming smile.
"I feel sure your ladyship will not
throw any obstacles in t lie way of this
humble romance," he said gently. "We
shall he very happy to have our em
ployer's approval."
His employer gazed nt him dumbly.
The announcement came as a shock.
And It was difficult even for Lady
Erythea to resist Billy's smile. As
well attempt to icsist a sunbeam. She
melted Imperceptibly. Her faculties
were bemused. Billy, despite the
smile, looked so extraordinarily digni
fied that Lady Erythea almost felt an
impulse to apologize to her chauffeur.
She made au effort to recover her
austerity.
"You have asked this girl to marry
you after an acquaintance of four
days?" she said acidly. "Is thut un
American custom?"
Billy's smile intensified.
"I haven't much experience, my
lady," he said, "but I think it's a
British custom, too sometimes."
With two such recent examples at
hand, her ladyship felt unable to con
tradict him. She looked at him stead
ily, wondering why she felt no resent
ment. There was something so re
markably disarming about Billy.
"What you tell me, Spencer," she
said at last, "places a new uspect on
the case. It Is, I suppose, within your
discretion to engage yourself to a
young woman if you wish to do so.
The situation In which I found you
led me to suspect mere irresponsible
philandering n tiling most stringent
ly forbidden within the precincts of
Jervaulx. Admitting the seriousness
of your Intentions," she continued
with returning Indignation, "I am still
unable to consider your behavior dec
orous." "I was very careful to choose a
place Just outside the park boundary,
my lady," said Billy gravely, "and I
was obliged to make use of the small
amount of free time at my disposal."
Lady Erythea drew a long breath.
"I am making unprecedented allow
ances for you, Spencer," she said,
"since I cannot forget how far I am
Indebted to you for the recovery of
my emeralds. If I was under a mis
apprehension as to your conduct Just
now, It was natural. I will say no
more. But I gather from this event
that you will be leaving my service In
any case, so I will merely give you a
week's notice If you are willing to
stay so long."
"Yes, I guess I shall be quitting
rather soon," said Billy, "but I'll be
very glad to serve your ladyship In
the meantime, and I hope I'll give sat
isfaction. But, may I lake It that you
won't put It across that you will not
say anything to Amy?"
"I have nothing more to say In the
matter whatever," replied her lady
ship abruptly. "But you must under
stand -that the conduct of both of you
will have to bo rigidly circumspect
and correct."
Billy twinkled.
"We shall be careful to give your
ladyship no grounds for complaint,"
he said.
Lady Erythea had a vague Impres
sion that Billy was laughing at her. It
was stranger still that she did not
seem to feel any resentment.
"You may go !" she said, with a ges
ture of dismissal.
Billy saluted and walked away.
She watched his tall figure till It had
Lady Erythea Inspected Him.
receded some little distance, and then
recalled him.
"Bpencer !"
Billy returned. Lady Krythea In
spected him through her lorgnette.
"Are you sure thut this is a wise
thing you are doing?" she said slowly.
"You seem to me a somewhat superior
young man. I think you could do
much better for yourself."
Billy twinkled yet more brightly.
"I should hate to disagree with your
ladyship," he said, "but I am quite
sure I couldn't."
Lady Erythea turned and walked
away with a dazed air.
Billy passed through the gate Into
the lune, and irade for the abbey at
his best speed. He hoped that Aimee
might be waltlcg for him somewhere
within call, but there was no sign of
her. Thinking It likely she would be
In the neighborhood of the garage, he
hurried in that direction. He was
within sight from the park boundary,
when Monsieur de Jussac, approach
lng t lie fence from t lie abbey, saw him
and called him by name,
Billy was too far away to hear. The
Vlcomte whistled, without result. He
saw Billy disappear in the direction
of the crag-pits. De Jussac hesitated,
uncertain whether to follow. '
"Our amazing chauffeur appears to)
be in a hurry," murmured Bertrand.
lie took out a cigarette, and smoked
It reflectively. Bert rand was looking
a little puzzled and anxious. Finally
he wandered slowly back towards the
abbey.
As he neared the main entrance the
quack of a motor horn was heart!,
and an automobile drove up rapidly.
It contained the stolid Inspector l'ank
from stanhoe. Beside him sat a slim
and active-looking man in a gra
tweed overcoat.
De Jussac, raising his eyebrow,
drew near unobtrusively. The man In
tweeds got out and stepped briskly tip
to Mr. Tarbeaux, who was standing
on the steps. I
"You have a chauffeur here," snld
the man In tweeds quietly, "who calls
himself William Spencer."
"Yes, sir," said Mr. Tarbeaux.
Bertram! de Jussac moved away,
with the air of one retreating from a
situation with which he had no con
cern. He lit a cigarette as he went,
but once on the far side of the rhodo
dendrons, Monsieur de Jussac began
to move with uncommon swiftness.
"Is he on the premises at the mo
ment?" said the visitor.
"I do not know, sir," replied Mr.
Tarbeaux with cold reserve, eyeing
the police car. "If you wish to sea
her ladyship "
"I do. Inform her nt once, If you
please, that the police are here."
Mr. Tarbeaux went indoors, leaving;
the visitor on the step. It was soma
little time before Lady Erythea her
self came to the entrance, grim and
forbidding, ear-trumpet In hand.
"I am Detective-Inspector Ark
wrlght, from Scotland Yard," said the
visitor. "I wish to see your chauf
feur, my lady William Spencer."
"For what purpose?" suld her lady
ship, examining him icily through hep
lorgnette.
"Thnt will transpire as soon as I
have seen him," said Arkwrlght a
little sharply.
A face peered down cautiously
from a second-floor window. It was
the face of Aimee, very white and
scared. She drew back quickly be
hind the window curtains, one hanil
clutching and kneading them tightly
ns Rhe listened.
'Ioes this mean," snld her ladyship
with distinct hostility, "that you pro
pose to arrest my chauffeur? If not,
what do you mean? He Is the man
who restored the emeralds to me,
when the police failed to achieve any
thing whatever, and I have complete
confidence In him. If that really is
your Intention, It Is my opinion you
are about to make fools of your
selves." Inspector Arkwrlght looked both
surprised and Irritated.
"I am here with full authority, my
lady," he said abruptly, "and my task
Is to clear this matter up. Out of
consideration for you, I have como
here quite openly, and what my In
tentions are I must nt the moment
keep to myself."
"It Is Spencer's afternoon off, I be
lieve," said Lady Erythea coldly. "I
do not think he Is on the premises."
The Inspector was plainly taken
aback by Ids reception. His lips tight
ened to a thin line. Just then a po
liceman on a bicycle came riding rap
Idly along the drive. It was Constable ,
I'olson. ,
"Beg pardon, sir," be said, dis
mounting and saluting tho Inspector,
"have you found tho man you uro
looking for here?"
"Why?" said Arkwrlght abruptly.
"Well, sir, I know lilm by sight, of
course," said I'olson In a lower voire
"the chauffeur, J mean and as I
came off the Stanhoe road awhile ago,
I saw somebody like him crossing tha
forty-acre field ami going towards tho
crag-pits. I thought I'd better hurry
on and tell you. I'm sure It whs he." ,
"Excellent ! You aro a man that
keeps bis eyes open," exclaimed In- :
spoetor Arkwrlght. "Come, I'anke '
leave the cur here. I'olson, show us
the way." j
The three of them departed to
gether hurriedly In the direction of
the park boundary.
Lady Erythea stared after thorn
with mingled anger and anxiety. Sho
waited for some tl mo on the steps,
pondering, and then went slowly In
doors. Her eyes were troubled
The three police, crossing the park,
left It by a wicket gate near tha
sweet briar clump. After a short ron
sultnllou with I'olson, Inspector Ark
wrlght gave an order. The three men
spreading out In a wide semi circle,
stalked the crag pits by way of tha
lower meadow.
(Continued next week)
One of our country corresp"ndunts,
telling about a fire in his town,
wrote: "The Flro Department wa
called, but not much damage was
done." Capper's Weekly.
Teacher "Johnny, what Is veloci
ty?" Johnny "Velocity Is what a fel
low lets goof u ben with." Forecast.
Don't refuse to marry a girl be
cause she can't cook. She may have
money enough to pay your board.