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6 a he (Continued.) "Hecaugut Hillard by the Rleeve and fairly ran him over to the cafe. "Nearly two thousand!" murmured Hillard. "Well, of all the luck!" "It does seem too food to be true. I Bay, what's the matter with your cravat?" ' Hillard looked down -at the flutter ing end and reknotted it carelessly. I "I saw Kitty tonteht" he said. I To Merrihew it seemed that all the clatter about him had died away sud denly.' He breathed deeply. "Where is she?" I 'Til explain what has happened." Merrihew listened eagerly. "And why did you bother about the Italian?" he interrupted. "Why didn't you hold on to Kitty?" "I confess it was stupid of me, but the gentleman with the scar was an unknown quantity. Besides, why should Kitty run away from me of all persons? And why, when I spoke to them in the casino, did they ignore me completely?" "It's your confounded prima donna. Che's at the bottom of a) this, take lay word for it Something's desper ately wrong. Persons do not wear masks and hide in this manner . just for a lark. Why didn't you knock him down?" "I wanted to, but it wasn't the psy chological moment. You can't knock a man down when he practically sev renders." "You're too particular. But what's the matter with Kitty? I dou't under stand. To see you was to know that I was round somewhere. She ran away from me as well as from you. What shall we do?" "Start the hunt again or give It up entirely. There are some villages be tween here and Nice. It must be in that direction. They were about to board the car for Nice. If you hadn't been gambling, if you had been sensi ble and stayed with me" " "Come, now, that won't wash. You know very well that you urged me to play." "You would have played without any urging." "And who is this Italian anyhow?" asked Merrihew. "And why did he run after your prima donna?" "That Is precisely what I wish to find out," answered Hillard. "I'm afraid that Kitty has fallen among a bad lot I'll wager it is He twept up the gold by Vie handful. some anarchist business. They are always plotting the assassination of kings over here, and this mysterious woman is just the sort to rope in a confiding girl like Kitty. One thing, if I come across our frleud with the scar" .J.'XQU-F.UI wisely, cross to, the oppo-. luure of the Mask By HAROLD MAC GRATH Copyright, 1908. by Merrill Co. the Bobbs- site side of the street. To find out what this tangle is it is not necessary to Jump head first into it." "A bad lot" "That may be, but no anarchists, my boy." ' Hillard was a bit sore at heart That phrase recurred and recurred:. "A lady? Grace of Mary, that is droll!" The shadow of disillusion crept into his bright dream and clouded it to build so beautiful a castle and to see it tumble at a word! The Italian bad spoken with a contempt based on more than suspicion. "Kitty doesn't wish to meet us," Merrihew bitterly observed. So we'll light out for Venice in the morning. I'm not going to be made a fool of for the best woman alive." " In the meantime the lamps In the casino had been extinguished. In the harbor the yachts stood out white and spectral. The tram for Nice shrieked down the incline toward the promon tory. At the foot of the road which winds up to the palaces the car was Blgnsled, and two women boarded. Both were veiled. They maintained a singular silence. At Villefranehe they got out. The women stopped before the gates of a villa and rang the por ter's bell. Once in the room above. the silence between the two women came to an end. "Safe! I am so tired. What a night."' the elder of the two women sighed. "What a night truly! I should like to know what it has all been about To run through dark streets and alleys, to hide for hours, as if I were a thief or a fugitive from justice, is neither to my taste nor to my liking." j "Kitty," she began sadly, "in this . world no one trusts us wholly. We must know why. Loyalty must have reasons; chivalry must have facts. ' You have vowed your love and loyalty a hundred times, and still when a great crisis confronts me you question, you grow angry, you complain, because my reasons are unknown to you. It was blind terror which made me run. . I counted not the consequences. I 'shall tell you why I am lonely, why the world, bright to you, is dark.' I ! am proud, but I shall bend my pride." i With a quick movement she lifted her t head high, and her eyes burned into ' Kitty's very heart "I am" I "Stop! No, no! I forbid you!" Kit ty put her hands over her ears. She might gain the secret, but she knew ', that she would lose the heart of the woman it concerned. "I am wrong, wrong. I have promised to follow you loyally, without quesHon. I will keep that promise. I am only angry be cause you would not let me speak to Mr. Hillard. He is very handsome," Kitty added thoughtfully. "He is j "Strong and cruel as a tiger. How 1 1 hate him! But thank you, Kitty; thank you. Sooner or later, if we stay I together, I must tell you. The confi dence will do me good." Kitty ap- proached, and La Signorina drew her close. "I have wrought harm to no one. But on my side they will tell yon that I have been terribly wronged. And all I wish is to be left alone, alone. It was cruel of me to forbid you to speak to Mr. Hillard. But wish him to recollect me pleasantly, as a whimsical being who came into his life one night and vanished out of it In two hours." "But supposing the memory cuts deeply," ventured Kitty. "Men fall in love with less excuse than this." "Nonsense!" La Signorina opened the window to uir the room. She lin gered, musing. "You are very good to me, Kitty.'" "I can't help being good to you, you strange,. lovely woman, for your sake as well as for mine. Now I am going to write n letter." La Signorina still lingered by tin- window. Merrihew was pocketing currency In exchange for his gold when Hillard j passed an open letter to him: My Dnar Mr. Jllllnrd Do rot noek un j It will bo useless If Mr. Merrihew li ! With you, tell lilin thiit poms day I will explain nway tho myntory. Hut tliip j plcnHO niako jjain to hlm-if he Inslm.p upon eearchlnff for mo ho will only double my unhapplnees. . KITTY KILLIQRBW. Merrlhtnv roberly tucked tho letter nway. "I know it," he mid simply. "Sho Is In bi:i..i tivulilo ir other, hoiiio tangle, and fears to rirnt; us Into It. Who loft a letter Iito tills ni-riilngV" ho asked of the coiii'liTse. "A small bry froia Vlllcfrtmolio." 'Just my Im-k." said Morrlliew. "I said that It would be of no uso to hunt In the sr.mKir towns. Writ, wo hud "jotter ta!:e tho luggage, back to the rooms. I nm going to Villo fnsneho." . "You will be wasting time. After what happened last night I am certain they will be gone. Let us respect their plans, hard as It may Room to you." "But you?" "Oh, don't bother about ino. I hnvc relegated my llitlo romance to the gar ret of no account things, nt least for the present" said nillttrd, with un enigmatical Finlle. "Make up your mind we have only twenty minutes." "Oh, divine nfllatus! And you lay down the chase so readily s:s this? ' Merrihew "was scornfully Indignant I would travel the breadth of the continent were 1 sure of mooting this woman. But she has become a wlll-o'- the-wlsp, and I nm too old and like comfort too well to pursue impossibil ities." "But why did she leave you that mask?" demanded Merrihew. "She must have meant something by that." True, but for the life of nie I can't figure out what." 'But I don't like the Idea of leaving Kitty this way without a final effort to rescue hor from the clutches of this fascinating adventuress." I admit nothing, my boy, save that the keenness of the chase is gone. As for Kitty, she's a worldly little woman and can take good care of herself. Her letter should be sufficient" But It Isn't. A woman's 'don't' of ten means 'do.' If Kitty really expects me to search for her and I do not she will never believe lu me ngnln." "Perhaps your knowledge of women Is more extensive than mine," said Hillard. But this flattery did not appeal to Merrihew. "Bosh! There's something you haven't told me about that makes you so Indifferent" This was u shrewd guess, but Hil lard had his renso-s for nut lettlnj hU frleud see how close he urd shot. "A lady? flraco cf Mary, tint is droll!" He could not cast this out of his Hillard espied a beggar leaning over the parapet. thought. He floated between this phrase and Mrs. Sandford's frank de fense of her girlhood friend. "Time flies," he warned. "Which is It to be?" 'We'll go on to Venice. It would be folly for me to continue the hunt alone." At 7 that evening they stepped out of tho station In Venice the blue twilight of Venice that curves down from the hollow heavens, softening a bit of URllness here, accentuating a bit of loveliness there. Here Merrihew found one of Ills dreams come true, and his first vision of the Grand canal, with its gondolus und barges und queer little bobtulled skiffs, was never to leave him. Hillard hunted for bis old gondolier, but conld not find him. So he chose one AcliIIIc, No. 154. With their trunks, which they had picked up at Genoa, and small luggage in the hotel barge they had the gondola all to themselves. Instead of following the Grand canal Aeulllo took the short cut through the Ruga di San Giovanul and the Rio dl San Polu. Out into the Grand canal again. As they swept under the lust bridge before coming out Into the hotel district Ilil lurd espied a beggar leaning over the parapet The moonlight shone' full In his face. "Stop!" cried Hillard to Achllle. 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