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At drvettttronly 25c Muts tht te$t tonight FEEL LIKE A MILLION, TAKE ' CI h mm fw!V. mm:' p. j ' i w mm w in m The M By W. N. U. Service THE STORY Msrvya Holt la en (raged by a man calling himself Masarefr a a traveling companion. After a short tour they put up at the Wooitcock Inn on Marrasdala moor. They meet, casually, Mrs Elphlnstone and Sheila March! son. CHAPTER I Continued . 2 1 "Holt, laddie," he said, with a con fidential nod, "you'll understand mo, I'm sure I want to have this day to myself, looking round old spots, you know, alone. And also, there's a man I want to see on a bit of business. So you'll amuse yourself till evening, when I'll be back In good time for dinner?" "Of courser I agreed. T11 be all right. Don't bother about me." lie thauked me, almost as If I bad been the first person to consider. Presently, carrying a atout stick, he went out and I noticed that Just be fore leaving our sitting room he put on a pair of blue spectacles, with some remark about tbe glare of the sun. lie went off In tbe direction of the village, and I saw no more of him until be turned up again Just as dinner was ready at seven o'clock, lie was very quiet and thoughtful during dinner, and It was not until be was half way through his after-dinner cigar that be suddenly motioned me to draw my chair close alongside his own. Ilolt," be said, "I've something to tell you. And, man! It's the strang est tale you ever heard In your life!" I suppose I gave him a wondering, and perhaps a balf-uneasy stare, for he nodded reassuringly as he drew his chair still closer to mine. "Nothing to be frightened about. Ilolt, my lad," he said. "Just a a coil, as you might put It Tut a bad one I And, as I said Just now as strange a tale as ever you heard. Anyway, one of 'em.M "Yes?" I sail "bout yourself r "Self and other folk." he replied. with a grim smile, "Other folk ! aye, there's the devil of ltt If It were only myself, now! but there's more than one affected." He turned to the window and for a moment or two sat staring fixedly and In silence across the moor, stretching away In the rapidly gathering twilight Curiosity got the better of me, and I broke In on his thoughts. "I'm all In the dark, Mr. Mazaroff," I said. "Am I to listen?" lie started then gave an emphatic nod. 'Aye'.-' he answered. "You're to listen. Holt, for I've nobody else to tell It to, and I'm wanting counsel on It, and you're a feasible- youngster. It's just this you saw the two ladles that passed us by yesterday afternoon when we were talking to the laud lord at his garden gate?" I nodded an afflrmntlve. "Aye, well!" be continued. "They don't know It and nobody knows It only me. Hut It's Just this, Holt my lad that's my wife and daughter!" I was smoking one of Mr. Mnza roffs prime cigars at the moment and when he said this I started so violent ly that It Jumped from between my teeth and fell to the floor. It seemed to me that a whole age an eon, if you like elapsed In the mere act of stooping and recovering It And I wondered at the ca!nin"ss and banality of my reply when I sat upright again, looking at him. "Musgrave," I said, quite steadily. "Musgrave called the eider lady Mrs, niphinstone, and the younger Miss Merchison Miss Sheila Merchison." "Musgrave here, Musgrave there!" he retorted, "lie knows no better and no more. Hut I'm telling you that that's my wife, laddie, and the lassie's my daughter, and unless 1 see some way out of the complications there's the devil and all to pay !" There was a pause between us then. He sat twiddling his big thumbs, and, as lie bad discarded the blue spec tacles a slight cast lu his eyes looked, somehow, sinister. I began to sense the mysterious In blrn, and to realize that his was, to me, an unexplored personality. "I don't understand," I said at Inst. "I'm going to make you understand, Holt," he answered. "This Is the way of It yon good-looking lassie's name Is Merchison, sure enough. And Elphlnstone though she may call her sHf, und no doubt think she's a right to cull herself so Is her mother's. And so's mine. ' Merchison I" "Not Mazaroff, then?" I exclnlmed. "I've a right to that, too," he said. "Legal right all correct and proper. It's been my legal name for many years, and It'll remain so. Hut I was born Merchison and not so far from here, too und I was married Merch ison. And yon's Mrs. Merchison, for all she's married to Klphlustone." "And I don't understand any more now!" said I. "Well, Holt," he answered, "I'll make It ns plain as I cun, and maybe It's not such a tangle us It seems when you get hold of one end of the thread and pull steadily at It. My father und mother died when I was a mere Tt XT azaron Mvsterv J. S. FLETCHER Illustrations by Irwin Myers youngster, and after that I lived with my grandfather on his farm near Sel kirk, across the border yonder. Then he died, when I was Just about two-and-twenty, and he left me atl he had, a tidy lot of money, and that, put to what my parents had left mo, made me t pretty rich man. And I was headstrong and Impetuous, and alwayt for having my own way, and there was nobody to keep mo from having It, nor from Indulging myself lu any whims that came Into my head. And I came across high-mettled girl that was pretty much like myself In that respect and we got wed In more than the usual haste, and began to repent at toon as we'd done It!" "Whyr I asked. "Manl" ht answered. "We hadn't a taste In common I We'd nothing la common except obstinacy and self will) And we found we were the worst pair to pull together that ever was harnessed. I saw In lest than a year that things would never do to I Just took matters Into my own bands. It wasn't the way I'd take now, with t sober mind and more knowledge of the world. Hut what I did was this I went to a lawyer and pledged hlra to secrecy. Then I reul lzed all that I had a nice lot 1 and divided It Into two equal shares, and made one fast to her for life she'll have bad It always; never lest, Ilolt, than fifteen hundred poundt a year of her own. And that done, and atl secure for her, I Just took my share and cleared out" "So you ran away from herT I suggested. "If you put It that way, I did," be assented candidly. "It was the only thing to do. There'd have been un pleasantness, otherwise. A silent and quiet departure the only thing for It In my Judgment" "And the child? the girl we saw yesterday afternoon?" I asked, after a pause, "Was she born then?" "No!" he answered with emphasis. "She wasn't! If she had been, maybe I'd never have gone Indeed, I'm sure now I wouldn't have gone. Cat the wat neither born, nor did I know she w as likely to be born. She came eight months after I'd left." "You heard of It then?" I tuggeated. "Never knew of It tilt today!" he exclaimed. "Of course, Mrs. Elphlnstone at she's known here believes you to be dead?" I said. "That goes without taylng." "Oh, to be sure!" he answered. "She married this niphinstone a few years back. Just before he bought this Marrasdale Tower estate. Aye. she believes me dead as Adam and here I'm alive 1" "What are yoo going to dor I asked. "What would you do, yourself, Holt?" he replied, anxiously. "Tell me your plain opinion, man! I'll not be offended at anything you say." "I think I should Just go away, say ing nothing," said L "After ail, you left her. And If you reveal yourself. It'll mean breaking up what's probably a satisfactory settlement. Mr. Glphln atone and the " "Oh, by all accounts, they suit each other as well as we suited each other 111 !" he broke In. "Aye, this settlement's all right But the girl's my daugh ter." "She's never known you, Mr. Maza roft," I remarked. Ills bronzed cheeks reddened at that, and be shook his head. "You're right, Holt, you're right!" he said, almost humbly. "And It's my own fault Well up to now, nothing's happened. Nobody knows but your self." "After all these years It would be something of a startling revelation," I observed. "It needs some reflection. And" but then a new Idea struck me, and I regarded him doubtfully. "I suppose, If It came to It, you'd have to prove that" "That Salim Mazaroff Is Andrew Merchison," he Interrupted. "Oh, that can be done. There's the cast In my eye, and a birthmark on my right arm, and there's papers and people not Just at hand, to bo sure, but findable that cun substantiate all that" "How came you to tnke such an un usual name?" I ventured to ask him. He laughed softly, as If the reminis cence pleased film. "I'll tell you," he answered. "When I first went off, It was to India. I knocked fc.v,ii there a good deal, and In the Persian gulf, and In adjacent parts. Then I went further south to Durban and thence Into the Interior the diamond districts. And In Dur ban I foregathered with an old man of like tastes to mine In fact, he and I lived together and traded together. His name was Mazaroff, and he left me all his money no little on condi tion I took It. So I did why not? At thnt time I'd no Intention of ever coming back to England again. And now there's the situation i" "What are you going to do about It?" I asked. "I don't know," he answered frank ly, "Nothing In a hurry. And ns I say, nobody knows but you and me. There's no fear of my being recog nized. I've talked to n dozen people today who knew me In the old days, A (Ii. by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) and In my blue spectacles they hadn't the least Idea at to who I really was," He got up then, and went out, to stroll about the front of the Inn, alone. That night he tnld no more on the subject of hit revelations, nor did he mention the mutter In the morning. We spent most of that day In motor ing to some ruins twenty mllet away: when wt returned In the evening there wat a good deal of business being dont at the Inn men were returning In numbers from fair. After din ner, Mr. Mntaroff, remarking to me that he wanted to have a good think all by himself, crossed over to the open moor and strolled away across the heather, I never suw hltn again alive. I went out myself soon afterward, and was out until past nine o'clock, when I returned to the Inn, Ha had not come back. Nor had he come at ten and when eleven struck from the old grandfather clock In the stone walled hall I fought out Musgrave and hit wife, touted at their tupper table after the tolls of an unusually busy evening. The landlord and landlady were not ncllned to any uneasiness or alarm. During our forty-eight hours' ttay they had discovered that Mr. Maiaroff 'How Came You to Unusual Name?4 Ask Him. Take Such I Ventured was, at they put It, an affable and friendly gentleman, Inclined to socia bility their present opinion wat that be had dropped In at one of the moor land houses, and was still there, com fortably chatting. I!ut when twelve o'clock sounded, and he was still ah sent, Musgrave't face lengthened, and he began to talk about the foolishness of going out In the duftk and dark In strange placet. "There's places he could fall over In the dusk, and there's others bog-land that he could sink into before he knew where be was, dark or light Them that doesn't know these moors shouldn't wander about 'em, after dark." Musgrave got lanterns for Webster, me and himself: we went out on the moor and dispersed In different dlreC' tlons, listening always for any cry of distress. We were out in thnt way until a faint grny light began to show beyond the eastern hills: at that we went buck to the Inn. None of us hud heard or seen anything. Webster and I got some food and hot coffee, and went out again ho one way, I the other. Mine took me toward the dawn. And suddenly I came fuce to face with the girl of Ruins of Ancient City After being hidden for centurlet In a tangled-up nmsg of Jungle, the an cient city of Odl, has come to light only 50 miles from modern Mombasa. Professor Fleuro, of the University college of Wales, who has been visit ing Kenya colony with tho members of the I'.ritlHh association, believes that Gedl, known In Kenya ns the "hurled city," Is of Persian origin and at least tlx hundred years old. The ruins dlsrlose a fine Arabic writing, especially In the mosques and tombs. Professor Fleure thinks thnt Oedl would well repay Investigations by archeologlenl and ethnological experts. He does not believe these would be difficult In view of the profiiKlon of Authors' Creations Rook characters are our brothers, because often they are more ourselves than we can ever be. Ilelng bone and Blnow of real men, they are real men themselves und ptirtake of the Inex plicable character of that relation. In times of action, muterlui or mental, few would want to be characters In books, but at other times few there are who would not be willing to change places. ItoKton Herald. WM whom I had boon thinking for two diyt Sholln. CHAPTER II Youth'a Freemasonry Sheila was sitting by one of tho rood fringed poult thnt lay amongst the hoather and tho moss. Uncon scious of any presence save thnt of a solemn-eyed spaniel who sat at her side, she had drawn off her shoes and stockings and was dabbling hur foot and ankles In the dark waters. Tho spaniel caught Unlit of me and barked, lilt mist reus looked hastily In my direction, saw mo, seemed to renllro that the had seen mo before, and though she blushed at being caught In a somewhat mystifying situa tion, accepted It calmly. She gnvf me a friendly nod and at the same time began to put on her footgear, I purposely remained In the rear until the Jumped to her feet, fuced me, and laughed, pointing to the pool. "There't a superstition about thnt well," the tald, without preface or hesitation. "They say that If you dip your feet In It six times, within au hour of sunrise, any time between Michael mas and Martlumas, you'll live happy ever after. So 1 wat trying It." "I hope It'll come true," I suld. "At for myself, I'm not at all happy Just now." A look of concern came Into her eyes. "No?" she responded. "Why?" "I believe you taw me, yesterday no, the day before near the Wood cock, with an elderly guuilemnn?" I suld. "You went by. Well, he's miss ing lost I He went out from the lun, last night, after dinner, alone, and he's never returned You know these partt? Are there places " "There are many dungerous placet," she Interrupted hastily. "Have yuu searched ?" "Several of us, all night." I an swered. "We've teen nothing, beard nothing of til in." "Your father?" she asked, eyeing me half sympathetically. "No a friend, with whom I'm trav eling," I replied. "I'm awfully anxious about htm. It was unusually dark lust evening, and I'm afraid he's come to harm fallen over something or Into something." I then told her Mr. Maza roff name and my own. "I wonder If our people gamekeep ers, you know have heard anything? If you'd walk with me to tho house- She pointed crust the moor to where the gables and chimneys of Mnmtt dale tower showed above the trees. "We might hear somelhlng there," she continued. "We can go there In few minutes," We cume before long to Marrasdule tower. In the tourtyanl, talking to man In velveteens, we met Mr. Elphln stone, a tall, thin, gray-hulred studious looking niun, who glanced at me wm derlngly over the top of an unusually large pair of spectacles. Ills step daughter led me up tc him. "This It Mr. Holt Mr. Menyn Holt," she said, "lie und a friend of his, Mr. Mazaroff, an elderly gentle mun, have motored from London, and are staying a few days at the Wood cock. Last night Mr. Mu?.aro!T went out alone on the moor, and he's never returned. Mr. Holt wants to find him: he's anxious." Mr. L'lphiiistone, who looked to mo to bo one of those nu n wan take In thliiKS very leisurely, nodded, and glanced at thu man In velveteens. "A gentleman lo:,t un the moor, eh?" he s.tld. "L'h! I'arl.er-go und In quire amongst the men In tho stables and lu the gardens. I'm! Lost all night, eh? Dear me I Er wmi't you come In, Mr. er " "My name Is Holt, sir," 1 suld, prompting his absent-mindedness. "Holt, eh?" ho answered, with sudden gleam of Interest. "I'm I I was at Merlon with a nam of that name. He and I were great rowing men. He's vicar of some country parish In ltuchlnghamshlre now, I be lieve long since we foregathered." "I think you are speaking of my father, Mr. Elphlnstone," I remarked. "He was ut Merton, and he's now vicar of Chelllnghnm, near Aylesbury." He turned und gave mo his hand, shaking mine, In evident high delight. "Illess ine!" ho exclaimed. "Now Just linuglno Itl This Is a great pleas ure. Come In como In! this Is ex cellent 1" (TO BE CONTINUED) Long Hidden in Jungle evidence provided by the ruins. 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