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By MAX 5ALTM ARSWj
The Cbaraclert
Ruro Stern, handsomt author,
Uvtng on the French Riviera.
Archie Lumiden. mytetf, Hu
go'i friend.
Rene Oelu, cartoonist and mur
derer de luxe.
Ottille Willi, beautiful Ameri
can heireu.
Testerday: Ditregarding Hugo't
warning, Otltlie pojei or Geus.
We oo a(er her.
Chapter 38
First Fetters Of Love
MET up!" Hugo said harshly.
"You're coming back with ui
at once. Your uncle is waiting for
you."
"Uncle?" she said, on a different
note. "Goodness! Is he getting
iretiui ioo ; well, in mat case, ra
better be going. Mr. Geiss," she
said, "I fancy we'll have to call it
a day. It's been a lovely party, and
i a certainly liKe to come again.
As she spoke, she flashed a "nock
ing, impish look at Hugo, and I
heard him swear under his breath.
I could not blame him, for that
girl, when she set her mind to it,
could have irritated an archangel:
and yet she was such a lovely sight
as she stood silhouetted against
tne darn nangings mat 1, lor one.
felt my rage fading away.
The cartoonist looked from one
to the other of us, livid with fury.
"Yes," he said slowly. "You will
come again, and you are quite
rignt mere win oe no interrup
tion." He took a step nearer, star
ing at her intently with his ppaque
eyes. "Strange, lie said, never
before have I used a model that so
Inspired me. Yet I have never stud
led you before." He drew a hand
across his eyes. It it like a
membered dream," he added, half
to himself.
The girl caught her breath. "I
guess it must have been a dream,"
she said uncertainly, and as she
spoke Hugo picked up the thick
white woolen wrap that lay on the
dais, and threw it across her shoul
ders. "That's enough," he said hrshly.
"Come along out of this."
He led her through the door and
down the passage. As we reached
the hall there came a sudden
interruption. Cassandra Chubb
leaped from her chair by the door
and rushed at us, emitting a stifled
eqtienk of fury mixed with relief.
"Well!" she said. "Ottilie Wills,
of nil the ways to act!"
"Don't, Chubby!" said the girl.
"Don't you start scolding. I've got
plenty of that coming from other
quarters!" She gave a half-apprehensive,
half-mischievous glance
at Hugo. "You're mad with me,
aren't you?" she added, naively
questioning him.
Hugo moved impatiently. "To be
angry with anyone," he told her,
"presupposes a certain regard or
respect. This last effort of yours so
completely passes the bounds of
reason that all I can feel is a pro
found pity for the people who are
obliged to look after you."
The girl caught her breath
sharply, tier dark eyes flashed dag
gers at him, and even Miss Chubb
at my side gasped in a shocked
way.
"My. my!" said she.
On the pavement Ottilie turned,
her air subdued, her expression
all meekness. "Shall I go straight
home," she asked, "or shall I tell
you what I found out? Once we
get together with Uncle, there'll
Be no more private talking."
"I hope," Hugo said icily, "that
your news will be worth the
troub!" and anxiety your visit has
caused."
Sho looked up at him quickly,
mutinous yet apprehensive, then
drew a deep breath and folded her
hands. "Well," she said, "first and
foremost, he's asked me to visit
a thing they call the braderte
it's a sort of fair and they hold it
next Sunday. He asked wouldn't
I bring my uncle along, and I said
he couldn't walk, because of a
lame foot, but that didn't seem to
worry Mr. Gelss. All he was con
cerned about was that I should be
there."
'The Decoy Duck'
"TPHAT'S simple," 1 laid. "He
get you planted somewhere
u the decoy duck, and sends an
urgent call to your uncle. What
did you say?"
She grinned impishly. "I acted
the bashful maiden," she said.
"Didn't know if I could go out
with him alone, but let him see I'd
love to. That's how it stands at the
moment. Second," she checked off
an item on her fingers, "a friend of
his has a yacht which Is expected
In the harbor tomorrow. She's a
seagoing boat, and the friend may
shortly lake a long cruise in her.
He's invited me for a sail In her
on Saturday afternoon."
I whistled. "That's Interesting
I presume she belongs to either
Stah! or Rakovsky. but what's she
mere for?"
"In case their plans miscarry,"
said Hiiro. His manner was still
stiff and formal, but I could see
a glint of interest in his eye. "If
the yacht Is registered under a for
eign flag, it would be an admirable
way nf getting away in a hurry."
The girl nodded slowly. "1
guessed that," she agreed. "But
why, unless the mans a lunatic,
did he tell me about her?"
"Because, my dear," said I, "in
the first place, he doesn't know
that you or we, for that matter
guess a thing about the plot Ha
doesn't know who your sister was,
or O'Donnell either, and he thinks
he's being very clever. Probably
if you Anally refuse to go to the
braderie with him, he'll have a
shot at holding you on board the
yacht until your uncle's disposed
of."
She gave me a quick, under
standing smile. "That's how I'd
figured it out myself. Well, thai
was all I heard, for he spent a lot
of time being gallant, and the resi
in finding out how I'd met Mr.
Stern in the first place and in
warning me to keep away from
him. It appears," sho added, turn
ing solemn eyes on Hugo, "that
you're a terrible philanderer.
He flushed. "At least," he re
torted, "you were able to deny
that from your own experience.
Archie, you can see Miss Wills
back to her hotel and meet me
later by the car." And with a stiff
little bow he turned on his heel
and marched off.
She stood for a moment watch
ing his broad, blue-shirtcd back
disappearing along the pavement.
"There's gratitude for you!" she
commented bitterly. Then, sud
denly she laughed and, linking
her arm in mine, drew me away in
the opposite direction. "Tell me,"
she said confidentially, "when he'i
mad like that, how long does hi
take to get over it?"
"Sometimes an hour," I told her
"sometimes a month, and some
times never."
She heaved a short sigh. "1
guess it'll be never in my case,'
she hazarded, and then, with an
upward jerk of the chin: "Oh, well
who cares? Archie you don't
mind if I call you Archie, do you?
Somehow I always think of yoi
that way, though I couldn't evei
call Mr. Stern Hugo. Not ever!'
she finished with considerable em.
phasis.
"It's not so hard as you'd think.'
I assured her. "What is it you want
to know?"
"I just wondered if he'd evei
been in love. Somehow he doesn'l
strike one as having any human
emotions."
I looked at her thoughtfully, and
a sudden, surprising possibility
struck me. "Oh, well, said I.
"Hugo's a hard nut for any woman
to crack. There's a lot of stand
back, kcep-your-distance, about
him, but you can't wonder at it.
With his reputation as a writer
and his looks, most women he
meets seem to fall for him."
"Poor mutts!" said she viciously,
and the conversation came to an
abrupt close.
Queer, Tingling Excitement
1 DELIVERED over a silent and
thoughtful young woman to the
care of Mr. Virgoe Wills. Hugo was
waiting for me in the Hispano's
driving-seat, and as I settled my
self beside him. I looked at him
curiously.
I had by now a shrewd idea that
Ottilie Wills's interest in him was
not entirely curious, but I had yet
to determine whether the irrita
tion she roused in him was the
protest of a confirmed bachelor
against the first, unwelcome fet
ters of love or merely the normal
reaction of a staid man to the va
garies of modern youth.
But his stony face gave no hint
of hi" feelings, and as we circled
the port and approached the fa
miliar turning, my thoughts were
irresistibly drawn back towards
the chateau. I was conscious of a
cloud descending on my mind,
darkening the recollection of what
ka4 h..n nn tVin uihnla a mnct
cheerful day but as wefl as the
shadow, a queer tingling excite
ment was slowly creeping over me.
"Look here," I said, drop me
near the hotel. I must have a wash
and brush-up."
Me obeyed in grim silence, and as
1 strolled down the lane and
crossed the gravel sweep to the
vestibule. I found myself chuck
ling. If peace and an ordered rou
tine were what he demanded irom
life, ho was certainly not gettinc
them at the moment.
The long hall was empty, cool
and shndowed. and a lilac dusk
veiled the terrace beyond, but as
my footsteps echoed on the mar
hie flagstones, the big dog rose
from beneath the counter, slowly
wagging his tail, and the servant
Amedee appeared from the corri
dor.
"Monsieur, he said anxiously,
"the patron has awaited you since
noon! Ho wishes to speak with you
s soon as you return."
"With pleasure," said 1, and on
that he conducted me up in the
lift to his master's apartments.
It was a strange little room in
which I found myself as I opened
the door, in answer to a fretful
"Come in!" If the creator of the
room had wished to reproduce,
say, a small smoking-room in a
well-to-do London residence, he
couldn't have done better, but it
would have belonged to a London
of twenty years back.
The small, irate form of Mr. Ven
ner was propped on a long couch
drawn before the window.
"Come over here!" he said 1m
patiently. "Sit ye down and heir
yourself to a drink. What have you
been up to. I should like to know
gadding about all day while I wa."
waiting to have a talk with you.
and a most important talk tool"
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Tomorrow: A narnliia.
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num.
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The Young rnmninnder
Had Samuel Smedley, Connecticut
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As Is was, 'Smedley was only 21
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Young Smedley captured for the
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A lieutenant at the age of 15.
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So far, Hess also has conducted
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There have been no signs yet of
a bitter campaign between any two
candidates, but the right has Just
begun. Earnest mud-tossing In the
primary campaign didn't start until
a week before election.
The battle so far has centered
about the Initiative measure which
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The death of Ben Osborne, state
A.F.L. head who was conducting a
vigorous state-wide campaign against
the measure when he died, was a
severe blow to the labor forces who
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ions powerless. This contention is
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