INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Spy was",' The Czar's "The house I found, somewhat had "given me" with the'address VVVVV' "w~rit» 'WW WW smaller than its neighbors, but not ten upon it, and then together we huj* as let out in flats the others. Upon ried forth. the door was a large brass plate bearing to The house which we drove wa% the name, "Olga Stassulevitch: a th« we discovered, large one facing Modes." I pressed the electric button, The Mystery of a Silent Love quarters Fontanka canal, one of the beet and in answer a tall, clean-shaven of the town, and on descending Russian servant opened the door. ARTER'S By Chevalier William Le Queux I asked the liveried dvornick for Mad« "Madame is not home," was his brief ame Zurloff, the name which tk* "Red ONVENIENCES reply to my inquiry. Priest" had written. Author of "THE CLOSED BOOK" Etc. "Then I will see the Red Priest," I "You mean the Princess Zurioff ,* said in a lower tone. "I come from remarked the man through his red ILLUSTRATIONS by C. D. RHODES Elma Heath." Thereupon, without55, beard. "Who shall I say desires tc HOME, further word, the man admitted me For the see her?" into the long, dark hall and closed Copyright by the Smart Set Publishing Co. "Take that," I said, handing to hinp SCHOOL, the door with an apology that the gas the piece of paper, which, besides th# was not lighted. But, striking a match, scended "lo her sitting" room and entered address, bore a curious cipher jnarfc Suddenly I caught sight of two figures—one or OFFICE. he led me up the broad staircase and without rapping, for if I had like three triangles joiaeS, a man in a big tweed traveling into a small, oosy, well-furnished room rapped she could not, alas! have heard. He closed the door, leaving us coat and a golf cap, and the on the second floor, evidently the sitting the wide, carpeted hall, the statuary other the slight figure of a woman in The apartment was spacious and room of some studious person, in which showed us fhaf. it v/as a a long, dark cloak ?.nd a woolen tamo'-shanter. comfortable, thickly carpeted, with judging from the books and critical richly furnished place, and ^yvtieti a The electric rays fell heavy furniture and gilding. From her review's lying about. few minutes later he returned, he con* upon them as they came up the wet low lounge chair a slim, wan figure For a few minutes I waited there, ducted us upstairs to a fine, gilded gangway together, and there once sprang up quickly and came forward until the door reopened, and there entered salon, where an elderly, gray haired again I saw the sweet face of the to greet me, holding out both her I a man of medium height, with silent woman whom I had grown to lady in black stood grayely to receive hands and smiling happily. a shock of long, snow-white hair and us. love with such fervent desperation. I took her hands in mine, and held almost patriarchal beard, whose dark I The man behind her was the same "Allow me to present Mademoisell# them tightly in silence for some moments, eyes that age had dimmed flashed out Elma Heath, princess," I said, gpeato who had entertained me on board the as_I looked earnestly into those at me with a look of curious inquiry, ing in French and bowing, and after* Lola—the man who was said to be and whose movements were those of wonderfully 'brilliant eyes "of hers. "She wards telling her my own name. lover of the fugitive Muriel Leithcourt. turned away laughing, a slight flush a person not quite at his ease. Spreader Tube Our hostess welcomed my iove iB "I have called on behalf of Mademoiselle rising to her cheeks in her confusion. a graceful speech, but I said: Without betraying my presence, 1 Photolibrary Paste Elma Heath, to give this letter Then she led me to a chair, and motioned "Mademoiselle, unfortunately, gnfs watched them pass through the passport to Madame Stassulevitch, or if she is me to be seated. fers a terrible affliction. She is deal office and custom house, and absent to place it in the hands of the Ours was a silent meeting, but her and dumb." then, overhearing the address which Red Priest," I explained in my best gestures and the expression of her "Ah, how very sad!" she exclaimed Martin Woodroffe gave the ishvostchik, Carter's Russian. eyes were surely more eloquent than sympathetically. "Poor girl! Poo* I stood aside, wet to the skin, "Very well, sir," the old man responded girl!" and she placed her hand tenderly Regulation and saw them drive away. I in quite good English. "I am upon Elma's shoulde? and At eleven o'clock on the following mere words. I knew well what pleasure Bottle the person you seek," and taking the looked into her eyes. Then, turning day I found myself installed in the that re-encounter caused her— letter he opened it and read it through. to me, she said: '"So the Red Priest Mucilage Hotel de Paris, a comfortable hostelry equal pleasure with that it gave to me. I saw by the expression on his furrowed has sent you both to me! You are in in the Little Morskava. Until that moment I had never really face that its contents caused danger of arrest, I suppose—yc»u wisfc I was beneath the same roof as loved. I had admired and flirted with him the utmost consternation. His me to conceal you here?" Elma, although she was in ignorance women. What man has not? Indeed, countenance, already pale, blanched "I would onl37 ask sanctuary fat of my presence. Anxious to communicate had admired Muriel Leithcourt. But to the lips, while in his eyes there shot mademoiselle," was my reply. "Fo? with her without Woodroffe's aever until now had I experienced in a fire of quick apprehension. The myself I ha^e no fear. I am English, knowledge, I was now awaiting my opportunity. my heart the real flame of true, burning thin, almost transparent hand holding I and therefore not a member of th# He had, it appeared, taken affection. The sweetness of her I the letter trembled visibly. Party." for her a pleasant front room with sitting expression, the tender caress of those "You know mademoiselle—eh?" he "Well," exclaimed the gray^alred room adjoining, on the first floor, soft, tapering hands, the deep, mysterious asked in a hoarse, strained voice as lady smiling, leading my love acros# while he himself occupied a room on look in those magnificent eyes, I he turned to me. "You will help her the luxurious room, the atmoepitere of the third floor. As far as I could md the incomparable grace of all her which was filled with the to escape?" ment ot gather from the French waiter whom movements, combined to render her "I will risk my own life in order to flowers, and taking off her cioag with Photolibrary I judiciously tipped, he appeared to the most perfect woman I had ever her own hands, "you are «a.fe here, save hers," I declared. treat her with every consideration and met—perfect in all, alas! save speech Paste in "And your devotion to her is prompted my poor child. If spies have fol« I kindness. ind hearing, of which, with such dastard by what?" he inquired suspiciously. lowed you, then you shall remain mf Bottles "Has the Englishman received any wantonness, she had been deprived. guest as long as you desire." I was silent for a moment. Then I I visitors?" I asked. "I am sure it is very good &t yon, confessed the truth. "One man—a Russian—an official oi She touched her red lips with the princess," I said gratefijli}'. e'Misg "My affection." police, I think." tip of her forefinger, opened her Heath is the victim of a vile a»d dag* "Ah!" he sighed deeply. "Poor me "If he receives anyone else, let lands and shrugged her shoulders with tardly conspiracy. When I tell you young lady! She, who has enemies on know," I said. "And I want you to 1 sad gesture of regret. Then turning that she has been afflicted as ghe if every hand, sadly needs a friend. But me give mademoiselle a letter from juickly to some paper on the table at can we trust you—have you no fear?" In secret." ier side she wrote something with a "Of what?" gold pencil and handed it to me. It "Bien, m'sieur." "Of being implicated in the coming read: I turned to the little writing table revolution in Russia? Remember, I "Surely Providence has sent you and scribbled a few hasty lines to my am the Red Priest. Have you never love, announcing my presence, and tiere! Mr. Woodroffe must have followed heard of me? My name is Otto you from England. He is my asking her to grant me an interview Kampf." in secret as soon as Woodroffe was snemy. You must take me from here Otto Kampf! and hide me. They intend to send me absent. I also warned her of the I stood before him open-mouthed. info exile. Have you ever been in search for her instigated by the baron, Who in Russia had not heard of that Petersburg before? Do you know anyone and urged her to send me a line in mysterious unknown person who had here?" reply. Carter's directed a hundred conspiracies Then when I had read, she handed The note was delivered into her against the imperial autocrat, and yet Handy Glue Pencil me her pencil and below I wrote: hand, but although I waited in suspense the identity of whom the police had "I will do my best, dear friend. I nearly all day she sent no reply. always failed to discover. It was believed have been once in Petersburg. But is While Woodroffe was in the hotel I that Kampf had once been professor It not best that we should escape at dared not show myself lest he should of chemistry at Moscow university, once from Russia?" recognize me, therefore I was compelled and that he had invented that "Impossible at present," she wrote. to sham indisposition and to most terrible and destructive explosive "We should both be arrested at the eat my meals alone in my room. used by the revolutionists. The frontier. It would be best to go into For several hours I sat at my windaw ingredients of the powerful compound hiding here in Petersburg. I believed watching the life and movement and the mode of firing it were the Woodroffe to be my friend, but I have down in the street below, my mind secret of the nihilists alone—and Otto found only this day that he is my enemy. Kampf, the mysterious leader, whose full of wonder and dark forebodings. He knew that I was in Kajana, Was Martin Woodroffe playing her personality was unknown even to the and was in Abo when he learned of conspirators themselves, directed Ealse? my escape. He went with two other o'clock the Just after half-past six those constant attempts which held men in search of us, and discovered note the emperor and his government in waiter entered, and handing me a as that night when we sought shelter Dn such hourly terror. a salver, said: at the wood cutter's hut! Without "Mademoiselle has, I believe, only Rewards without number had been making his presence known, he waited in this moment been able to write offered by the ministry of the interior Carter's Dutside until you were asleep, and then secret." for the betrayal and arrest of the unseen Photolibrary Paste for the Office he came and looked in at my window. I tore it open and read as follows: man whose power in Russia, permeating At first I was alarmed, but quickly I every class, was greater than Friend—I am I Dear so surprised. saw that he was a friend. He told that of the emperor himself—at whose Press thought you were still in Abo. Woodroffe me that the police were in the vicinity word one the people would rise has an appointment at eight o'clock ca day and intended to raid the hut, therefore the other side of the city, therefore come in a body and destroy their oppressors. at to me at 8:15. I must see you, and fled with him, first down to Tammerfors jnce. I am in periL and then to Abo, and on here. At ELMA HEATH. Stationery Store "You are surprised," the old man "I Have No Further Need to Doubt that time I did not see the dastardly was {& naxilt It luat laughed, noticing my amazement. You." Us lava trap he had laid in order to get me "Well, you are not one of us, yet I by her enemies—that an operation DUt of the baron's clutches and wring need not impress upon you the absolute was performed upon her in Italy while from me my secret. If I confess, he necessity, for mademoiselle's she was unconscious—you will readily intends to give me up to the police, sake, to preserve the secret of my see in what deadly peril she i#/' who will send me to the mines." existence. It is because you are not "What!" she cried. "Have her enemies "Does your secret concern him?" I member of 'The Will of the People' actually done this? Horrible'* asked in writing. that you have never heard of 'The Red "She will perhaps tell you th# of "Yes," she wrote in response. "It Priest8—red because I wrote my ultimatum strange romanoe that surrounds hep-* would be equally in his interests as to the czar in the blood of one a mystery which I have not yet jfoea well as those of Baron Oberg if I his victims knouted in the fortress Df able to fathom. She is a Rssaiatt were sent to Saghalien and my identity of Peter and Paul, and priest because subject, although she has beea edts effaced. I am a Russian subject, DONT ORDER YOUR AUTO Until you have seen the I preach the gospel of freedom and cated in England. Baron Oberg Mm? as I have already told you, therefore justice," self is, I believe, her worst and gaoei with a ministerial order against me "I shall say nothing," I said, gazing bitter enemy." I am in deadliest peril." at the strangely striking figure before "METZ" 25 "Ah! the Strangler!" she exclaimed! "Trust in me/' I scribbled quickly. me—the unknown man who directed with a quick flash in her dark eye& "I will act upon any suggestion you the great upheaval that was to revolutionize "But his end is near. The movement make. Have you any female friend Russia. "My only desire is to is active in Helsingfors. At an moment in whom yo^ could trust to hide you save Mademoiselle Heath." now we may strike our blow for until this danger is past?" "Are you prepared to do so at the freedom." risk of your own liberty—your own "There is one friend—a true friend FULLY EQUIPPED WITH "Who is this man Martin Wood* life? Ah! you said you love her. Will you take a note to her?" she roffe, of whom she speaks?" asked ih» wrote, to which I instantly nodded in GRAY & DAVIS ELECTRIC Would not this be a test of your af princess presently, turning to zr»e. the affirmative. fection "I have met him twice—only twic*»* Then rising, she obtained some ink LIGHT AND STARTER- "I am prepared for any test, as long I replied, "and under strange circus and pen and wrote a letter, the contents as she escapes the trap which hei stances." Then, continuing, I taid of which she did not show me FULL STREAMLINE BODY enemies have set for her. I succeeded her something concerning the feci* before she sealed it. dents of the yacht Lola. in saving her from Kajana, and I intend I watched her write the superscription 32 BY $y2 TIRES, FOR ONLY to save her now." "He may be in love with her, aadi upon the envelope: "Madame Olga desires to force her into marriage,." "Was it you who actually entered $600. Stassulevitchi modiste, Scredni Prospect, Kajana and snatched her from thai she suggested, expressing amazement 231, Vasili Ostroff." I knew that tomb!" he exclaimed, and he took my at the curious narrative I had related, the district was on the opposite side hand enthusiastically, adding—"I have "I think not, for several reasons. of the close to the Little Neva. city, no further need to doubt you." And One is because I know she holds .some "Take a drosky at once, see her, turning to the table he wrote upon a secret concerning him, and another1 International Machine Co. and await a reply. In the meantime, because he is engaged to an En.gUs& slip of paper, saying, "Take mademoiselle I will prepare to be ready when you there. She will find a safe girl named Muriel Leithcourt." return," she wrote. "If Olga is not at "Leithcourt? Leithcourt?" repeated place of concealment. But go quickly, She Touched Her Red Lips With the home, ask to see the Red Priest—in for every moment places you both in the princess, knitting her brows wifclt Tip of Her Forefinger. Russian,' Krasny-pastor.' Return quickly, a puzzled air. "Do you happen more deadly peril. Hide yourself there as I had feared. I thanked Providence as I fear Woodroffe may come back. also." know her father's name?" that I had been sent to help her and If so, I am lost." I thanked him and left at once. I was telling the story of the Leith* Subscribe For The Press extricate her from that awful fate I assured her I would not lose a I found Elma in her room, ready courts when the long, white doors ft to which "The Strangler of Finland" single, instant, and five minutes later dressed to go out, wearing a long the handsome salon were thrown opesfc had consigned her. I was tearing down the Morskaya traveling cloak, and in her hand was and there entered a man whose hair At the hour she named, after the in a drosky along the canal and across a small dressing case. She was pale fell over the collar of his heavy overt waiter had come to me and announced the Nicholas bridga to the address and full of anxiety until I showed her coat, but whom, in an instant reg* the Englishman's departure, I de­ upon the envelope. the sljp of paper which Otto Kampf ognized as Otto Kampf.