'FHISPGSI fm ssmmmm mfm :JPf, JIPSPIISI xERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS IN ggf "1 come, In explain princess, order to We abuse Wwhen we "are "here, 'and ant and "kind-hearied young lady. 1 departure, warning me once more not good spirits, delighted to be back to you," he said. "Mademoiselle talk of the life in Paris and Vienna always felt very sorry for her. She to go forth. again in town after three years' sailing fears in rearrest, and the only house and Brussels, but when we are away was in deadly fear of them." Half an hour later, disregarding big up and down the Mediterranean, Petersburg that the police never suspect there is no place on earth so dear to "But why did they induce you tq words, I strode out into the Strand from Gib. to Smyrna, maneuvering always, Is this. Therefore I send her us, for it is 'home.' But there!" he entice me to that house in Lambeth? and again walked round to the "Junior." a yet with never a chance of to you, knotting that with your generosity laughed, "I'm actually growing romantic. Why did they so evidently desire that The short, wintry day had ended, fight. distress," you will help her in her Ah! if we could only find Muriel! I should be killed?" the gas lamps were lit and the dark* "Glad to be back!" he exclaimed, as But we must tomorrow. Ta-ta! I "By accident," he interrupted, correcting ness of night was gradually creeping he helped himself to a "peg." "I "It lg all arranged," was her highness' shall go around to the club and sleep, me. "Always by accident," on. should rather think so, old chap. You response. "She will remain for I haven't fixed on any diggings and he smiled grimly. Jack had not been to the club, and I know how awfully wearying the life her«, poor girl, until it is safe for her yet. Come in at ten tomorrow, and "Surely you know their secret mo began now to grow thoroughly uneasy, to go becomes out there. Lots going on out of Russia." Then, after we will decide upon some plan. One tive?" I remarked. He had parted from me at the cornet down at Palermo, Malta, Monte Carlo, some further conversation, and after thing is plainly certain—Elma must "At the time I did not," he declared of the Strand with only a five minutes' or over at Algiers, and yet we can toy well-beloved had made signs of at once be got out of Russia. She's walk before him, and yet he had apparently "I acted on their instructions, being heartfelt never get a chance of it." gratitude to the man known certainly in deadly peril of her life disappeared. My first imputaq compelled to, for they hold my future Dinner finished, we went across to from end to end of the Russian empire there." in their hands. Therefore I could noi was to drive to Notting Hill to inquire the Empire, where we spent the evening as "The fled Priest," the princess "Yes," I said. "And you will help disobey. You knew too much, there of Muriel if ah© had news of him, but in the grand circle, meeting tnrned to me, saying: me?" somehow the Italian's warning words a fore you were marked down for deatt many men we knew and having would much like to know what **1 "With all my heart, old fellow," answered —just as you are now." made me wonder if he had met witli acquaintances. rather pleasant time among old occurred before the Leithcourts left my friend, warmly grasping foul play. "And who is it who is now seeking Scotland." my hand, and then we parted, he my life?" I inquired gravely. "I only re After the theater I induced him to "The Leithcourts!" exclaimed (To be continued next week.) strolling along towards the National turned from Russia yesterday." come round to the Cecil, and in the Kampf 1c utter surprise. "Do you Gallery on his way back to the "Junior," "Your movements are well known,' wicker chairs in the big portico before know the Leithcourts—and the English I while returned to the Cecil answered the young Italian. "You can the entrance we sat to smoke our officer Durnford?" alone. Pens, inks and pencils at the not be too careful. Woodroffe has final cigars. And there, in a carefully I looked Into his eyes in amazement. Press office. been in Russia with you, has he not' careless way, I told him the What connection could Jack Durnford "Captain Durnford?" I inquired ol And Chater is in London." 3tory of the Leithcourts. Of the marines have with the adventurer, the hall porter of the club next morning. "And the Leithcourts?" "You seem a bit down in the mouth, I, Philip Leithcourt? however, He shrugged his shoulders with Jack," I said presently, after we had recollected Jack's word, when I described "Not here, sir/' gesture of ignorance, adding, "The been watching the cabs coming up, the Visit of the Lola to Legttoro, "But he slept here last night," I Signorina Muriel returned to Londor depositing the home-coming revelers and further I recollected that remarked. "I have an appointment from Eastbourne this morning." from the Savoy or the Carlton. shortly he would be back in London very with him." 15 IS-E. FIFTH ST "Where can I find her?" I inquired I "Yes," he sighed. "And surely from his term of Mediterranean S A I N N The man consulted the big book before eagerly. "It is of the utmost impor have enough to cause me—after what service. OPPOSITE him, and answered: CITY HALL tance that I should see her." ['ve heard from you." "Well," I said after a pause, "I MODERN EUROPEAN "Captain Durnford went out at 9:27 PLAN "She is with a relation, a cousin, "What! Did the facts convey any happen to know Captain Durnford last night, sir, but has not returned." think, at Bassett road, Notting Hill 'LOCATED IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT bad news to you?" I inquired with pretended well, but I had no idea that he was Strange, I thought, but although 1 A E S it a he at The house is called 'Holmwood.' ignorance. shower bath— friendly with Leithcourt." waited in the club nearly an hour, he Then, after a pause, he added, witt "Yes," he said hoarsely, after a brief One person 75c, $1.00 and SI .50 per day The Red Priest smiled, stroking his did not put in an appearance. Two persons in same room, 60c extra, a strange, earnest look in his darl pause. Then he added: "And Martin White beard. "That Fellow Shall Never Marry Muriel." About four o'clock, as I was passing ROOMS with private baths and toilets- eyes, "Pardon me, Signor Commendatore, Woodroffe is engaged to Muriel Leithcourt. "Explain to her highness what she One person SI.50 and $2.00 per day through the big hall of the hotel, 1 if I presume to suggest some Two persons in same' room, $1.00 extra. Are you certain of this?" desires to know, and I will tell you." heard a voice behind me utter a greeting thing, will you not?" "Yes, quite certain." suffering she had kept her promise to Send postal card for colored blotters. My eyes met Elma's, and I saw how in Italian, and. turning in surprise, WE AIM TO PLEASE "Certainly. What do you suggest?' For seme time Jack Durnford him, and that the secret was still safe. Intensely eager and interested she found Olinto, dressed in his best "That you should remain here, iu smoked in silence, and I could just "Exactly. And now the fellow fears was, watching the movement of my suit of black, standing hat in hand. this hotel, and not venture out." distinguish his white, hard face in that as you are so actively searching lips and trying to make out what In an instant I recollected what "For fear of something unfortunate the faint light, for it was now late, out the truth, she may yield to your words uttered. Jack had told me, and regarded him happening to me!" I laughed. "I'm md the big electric lamps had been demands and explain. He therefore "Well," I said, "a mysterious tragedy with some suspicion. really not afraid, Olinto," I added :urned out and we were in semidarkaess. intends to silence her." occurred on the edge of a wood "Signor Commendatore," he said in "You know I carry this," and I drew I "What! to kill her, you mean?" near the house rented by Leithcourt— a low voice, as though fearing to be out my revolver from my hip pocket "That fellow shall never marry Muriel," gasped, in quick apprehension. a tragedy which has puzzled the police overheard, "may I be permitted to "But, signore, have a care for yourself," he declared in a fierce, hoarse "Well, lie might do so, in order to this day. An Italian named to speak in private with you?" cried the Italian, laying his hand (Crystal White) iroica. "What you have just told me sa've himself, you see," Jack replied. Santini and his wife were found murdered." "Certainly," I said, and I took him upon my arm. "You are a marked reveals the truth. Did you meet I tried to get from him all that he The modern way of making in a lift up to my room. man. Ah! do I not know," he ex chater?" "Santini!" gasped Kampf, starting Preserves, Jams and Jellies—one knew-concerning Elma, but he seemed, "I have come to warn you, signore," claimed breathlessly. "If you go out "He appeared suddenly at Rannoch, part Karo (Crystal White) and Up. "But surely he is not dead?" for some reason, disinclined to tell. he said, when I had given him a seat. you may run right into—well, the fatal three parts sugar. md the Leithcourts fled precipitately All I could gather was that Leithcourt "No. That's the curious part of the "Your enemies mean harm to you." accident." Makes a richer syrup and retains the ind have not since been heard of." affair. The man who was killed was was in league with Chater and Woodroffe, fresh fruit flavor. Prevents Crystallization "Look here, Olinto!" I exclaimed "Never fear, Olinto," I replied reassuringly. "Ah, no wonder!" he remarked with in Jams and Jellies. and that Muriel had acted a3 a man disguised to represent the Italian, determinedly, "I've had enough of this OUT Preserving Booklet gives the right "I shall keep my eyes a, dry laugh. "No wonder! But look while the woman was actually the an entirely innocent agent. formulas for all kinds of fruits. Send for confounded mystery. Tell me the wide open. Here, in London, one's life lere, Gordon. I'm not going to stand it—it is free. waiter's wife herself. I happen to "We must find Muriel," he declared, truth regarding the assassination of is safer than anywhere else in the by and let that scoundrel Woodroffe CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO. know the man Sanrini well, for both when I pressed him to tell me everything your poor wife up in Scotland." world, perhaps—certainly safer than P.O.Box NewYorkCity marry Muriel." be and his wife were for some years he knew. "There are facts you 161 WssaSHfe* Dept. FX. "Ah, signore!" he answered sadly in some places I could name in your "You love her, perhaps?" I hazirded. in tiinpioy." my have told me which negative my own in a changed voice, "I do not know. own country, eh?" at which he The [riacess and the director of the theories, and only from her can we It was a plot. Someone represented grinned. "Yes. I do love her," he admitted. Russian revolutionary movement exChanged obtain the real truth." me—but he was killed also. They believed The next moment he grew serious 'And, by lieaven!" he cried, "I will glances. was as though "But surely you know where she is? they had struck me down," he again, and said: tell the truth and crush the whole of her highness implored Kampf to reveal She writes to you," I said. added, with a bitter laugh. "Poor Armida's their ingenious plot. Have you met "I only warn the signore that if he to me the truth, while he, on his "The last letter, which I received body was found concealed behind Elma Heath?" he asked. goes out it is at his own peril." part, was averse to doing so. at Gib. ten days ago, was from the a rock on the opposite side ol "Yes," I said in quick anxiety. "Then let it be so," I laughed, feeling "And upon whom does suspicion Hotel Bristol, at Botzen, in the Tyrol, the wood. I saw it—ah!" he cried "Then listen," he said in a low, earnest self-confident that no one could rest?" asked her highness. yet Bartlett says she has been seen shuddering. voice. "Listen, and I'll tell you lead me into a trap. I was neither a "As far as I can make out, the police down at Eastbourne." The police had, it seemed, succeeded something." foreigner nor a country cousin. I knew have no clue whatever, except "But you have an address where in discovering the unfortunate London too well. He was silent and "There is a greater mystery sur-ounding one. At the spot was found a tiny you always write to her, I suppose?" woman after all, and had found that shook his head then, after telling me that yacht, the Lola, than miniature cross of one of the Russian she was his wife. "Yes, a secret one. I have written that he was still at the same restaurant you have ever imagined, my dear old orders of chivalry—the cross of St. and made an appointment, but she has "You know a man named Leithcourt?" in Westbourne Grove, he took his 2liap," declared Jack Durnford, looking Anne." not kept it. She has been prevented, I asked a few minutes later. me straight in the face. "When "There is no suspicion upon Leithcourt?" of course. She may be with her parents, "Now, tell the truth. In this affair, you told me about it on the quarterleek she asked with some undue and unable to come to London." Olinto, our interests are mutual, are that day outside Leghorn I was •nxiety, I thought. they not?" "You did not know that they had half a mind to tell you what I knew. "No." He nodded, after a moment's hesitation. fled, and were in hiding?" Only one fact prevented me—my disinclination "Then why did the Leithcourts disappear "Of course not. What I've heard to reveal my own secrets. DOWN DEEP IN YOUR POCKET so suddenly?" "And you know also a man named tonight is news to me amazing I loved Muriel Leithcourt, yet, afloat the the "Because of appearance of Archer—who is sometimes known as news." as I was, I could never see her—I evident man Chater," I replied. "It is Hornby, or Woodroffe—as well as a :ould not obtain from her own lips the "And does it not convey to you the that they feared him, for they friend of his called Chater." sxplanation I desired. Yet I would truth The coins ache for freedom. .They exert an took every precaution against being "Si, signore," he said. "I have met not prejudice her—no, and I won't "It does—a ghastly truth concerning followed. In fact, they fled, leaving them all—to my regret." a now!" he added with fierce resolu:ion. Elma Heath," he answered in influence over you to be put into circulation. .No a big party Of friends in the house. "And have you ever met a Russian—a low voice, as though speaking to himself. The man Woodroffe, now at the Hotel certain Baron Oberg—and his "I love her," he went on, "and she de temptation to spend needlessly when the money is Paris, is a friend of Leithcourt as niece, Elma Heath?" "Tell me. What? I'm dying, Jack, reciprocates my love. Ours is a secret well as of Ghater." "His niece? She isn't his niece." to know everything concerning her. engagement, made in Malta two years in the bank on interest. Start an account now with "He was not a guest of Leithcourt "Then who is she?" I demanded. Who is that fellow Oberg?" ago, and yet you tell me that she has When this man representing Santini "How do I know? 1 have seen her pledged herself to that fellow Woodroffe—the "Her enemy. She, by mere accident, whatever surplus you have—even a dollar will open was assassinated?" asked Kampf, once or twice. But she's dead, isn't learned his secret and Woodroffe's, man known here in London again stroking his beard. she? She knew the secret of those as Dick Archer. I can't believe and they now both live in an account. Don't allow your money to work you "No. As soon as Woodroffe recognized men, and they intended to kill her. it—I really can't, old fellow. She deadly fear of her." me as a visitor he left—for I tried to prevent them taking her could never write to me as she has "But Chater?" make it work for you, this is theway others get ahead. Hamburg." away on the yacht, and I would have done, urging patience and secrecy until "I know very little concerning him. "He was afraid to face you because gone to the police—only I dare not my return." He may have conspired with them, or of the ransacking of the British consul's because my own hands were not quite "Woodroffe is at the present moment he may be .innocent. It seems as safe at Leghorn," remarked the clean. I knew they intended to silence in Petersburg," I said. "I've just though he were antagonistic to their princess, who, at the same moment, FIRST NATIONAL BANK her, but 1 was powerless to save her, come back from there." schemes, if Leithcourt and his family took Elma's hand tenderly in her own poor young lady. They took her on "In St. Petersburg!" he gasped, surprised. really fled from him." and looked at her. Then, turning to board Leitheourt's yacht, the Iris, and International Falls, Minn. "Then he is with that villainous me, she said: "What you have told us "And yet he was on board the Lola. they sailed for the Mediterranean, I official. Baron Oberg, the governor Indeed, he may have helped to commit tonight, Mr. Gregg, throws a new believe." general of Finland." I light upon certain incidents that had the burglary at the consulate," "And what was your connection "No Oberg is living shut up in his of hitherto puzzled us. The mystery said. with them?" palace at Helsingfors, fearing to go it all is a great and inscrutable one— "Quite likely," he answered. "But "Well, 1 was Leithcourt's servant," Dut lest he shall be assassinated," was our first object must be to rediscover the mystery of this poor, unfortunate was his reply. "I was steward on the my answer. girl, greatest of all. But both of us Muriel. Would it not be best to send Iris for a year, until I suppose they "And Elma? What has become of an urgent wire to the address where I will endeavor to help you to elucidate thought that I began to see too much, her?" it we will help poor Elma to always write? She would then reply and then I was placed in a position "She is in hiding in Petersburg, here, no doubt. I've told you practically crush her enemies—these cowardly ashore." awaiting such time as I can get her everything, my dear old fellow. villains who have maimed her." "And what did you see?'' safely out of Russia," and then, continuing, "Ah, princess!" I cried. "If you The facts of the affair can be made 'More than I care to tell, signore. I explained how she had been will only help and protect her, you known only by Muriel. I tell you, we 0^ Tf they were arrested I should be maimed and rendered deaf and dumb. will be doing an act of mercy to a defenseless must find her." arrested, too, you see." "What!" he cried fiercely. "Have I woman. I love her—I admit "Yes, we must—at all hazards," "But I mean to solve the mystery, 1 they actually done that to the poor said. "Let's go across to the telegraph It. I have done my utmost I have Olinto," 1" said fiercely, for I was in ?irl? Then they, feared that she striven to solve the dark mystery, but office opposite Charing Cross, no trifling mood. "I'll fathom it if would reveal the nature of their plot, it's open always." And we rose and Up to the present I have been unsuccessful, it costs me my life/' Steel Trains for she had seen and heard." and have only remained, even walked out along the Strand, now "If the signor solves it, then I cannot "I intend to rescue and to marry nearly deserted, and dispatched an till today, the victim of circumstance." be charged with revealing the her," I said quite frankly. "But "Let her stay with me," the kindly argent message to Muriel at an address truth," was the man's diplomatic reply. from whom do you expect I can obtain woman answered, smiling tenderly in Hurlingham road, Fulham. "But I fear they are far too wary." Ouluth'Superior the facts concerning her, and the here, upon my love. "She will be safe Afterwards we stood outside on the ''Armida has lost her life. Surely keep reason of the baron's desire to and in the morning we will endeavor eurb, still talking, I loath to part from that is sufficient incentive for you to ler silent?" to discover the real and actual truth." him, when there passed by in the StPau! bring them all to justice?" "Ah!" he said, twisting his mustache And in response I took the princess' shadow two men in dark overcoats, "Of course. But if the law falls thoughtfully. "That's just the to hand and pressed it fervently. who crossed the road behind us me.:' upon them, it will ^so fall upon question. She may be the victim of I scribbled a few hasty words upoii I explained the terrible affliction to Minneapolis r" that blackleg Woodroffe, who is one the front of Charing Cross station, paper and handed it to Elma. And for which my love had been subjected by of the most expert swindlers in London, and then continued on towards Trafalgar answer she smiled contentedly, looking those heartless brutes, whereupon he square. and who has already done two into my eyes with an expression Milwaukee ried enthusiastically: "Then she is terms of penal servitude." As the light of the street lamp fell Of trust, devotion and love. not dead! She can tell us everything!" upon them I thought I recognized the "But he is on extremely friendly face of one as that of a person I had terms with Elma. It was he who succeeded CHAPTER XV. "But cannot you tell us?" Chieajfo seen before, yet I was not at all certain, Through in finding her in Finland, and "But what is the use, if we have no inQ Cat's and my failure to remember taking her beyond Oberg's sphere of Just Off the Strand. clear proof?" was his evasive reply. Twin Cities A week express whom the passer-by resembled prevented had gone by. The Nord influence to Petersburg." I could see plainly that he feared being me from saying anything further had brought me posthaste "Then it is certainly only an affected implicated in some extraordinary across to Jack than: Europe from Petersburg to Calais, friendship, with some sinister plot, the exact nature of which he so ThroughThe10.000 WONDERS "A fellow I know has just gone by, and I was again in London. motive underlying it." steadfastly refused to reveal to me. I think." It was a cold but dry November "She wrote a letter from her island of Ihe CANADIAN ROCKIES We talked on for half an hour, and "We seem to be meeting hosts of Hlght and I sat dining with Jack Durnford prison to an old schoolfellow named from his conversation I gathered that friends tonight," he laughed. "After at a small table in the big-welllit Lydia Moreton, asking her to see he was well acquainted with Elma. Ticket Offices all, old chap, it does one good to come room of the Junior United Service Woodroffe at his rooms in Cork street, "Ah, signore, she was such a pleas­ SUPERIOR- back to our dear, dirty old town again. clilb. Easy-going and merry as of was 823 Tower Ave. and tell him that through all she my Old, friend waj bubbling over with