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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
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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,
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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
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only 50 miles from modern Mombasa.
Professor Fleuro, of the University
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He does not believe these would be
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Authors' Creations
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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)
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spirits of tho dead, who wreak special
vengeance on Intruders. Tho lighting
of a fire In the precincts of the ruins
was considered particularly dangerous
by the negroes, even If the fire way
only a cigarette.
From Bad to Worse
rich old Chinese mandarin had
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"I wish you had not so many
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pull them out," ho said soothingly,
lint when he had pulled out oil the
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darin wns completely bald. And
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