INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, MA^, 1919' 8th, o"3e lying in wail for these" men, and Why? Because I was i'jkv they believed driver's u- a w. down JtKe roaa. 'TEey botK" became with a very definite purpose in mind." trailing them and likely to spoil their very much excited, pointing and gesticulating, "It was almost loo dark to but "Strikes me," said Jones, "that these game. Gentlemen, those fellows wera he was old, hatchet-faced, and and taking turn about with two men were up to some kind of dirty here for the purpose of robbing the the glasses." with an accent." work~themselves, else why.did they place you call Green Fancy." "Then it couldn't have been Teter," "About six o'clock, you say?" said say they were goin' to Spanish Falls? "What's that?" came a rich, mellow said De Soto positively. "He's old, Barnes, greatly interested. They were queer actin' men, I'll have voice from the outskirts of the crowd. right enough, but he is as big as the "It was a quarter after six when I to say that." A man pushed his way through and full side of a house, with a face like a got back to the house. I spoke to Mr. $ GEORGE BARE. His eye:s met Barnes' and there was confronted Barnes. He was a tall, moon, and he is Yankee to his toes. Bacon about what I'd seen and he said a queer light in them. V: ,? good-looking fellow of thirty-five, and By gad, Barnes, the plot thickens! A he believed they were German spies, "You don't happen to know anything it vas apparent that he had dressed in woman has beer: added to the mystery. up to some kind of mischief along the about this, do you, Mr. Barnes?" he de* haste. "My name is O'Dowd, and I am Now, who the devil is she and wka* Canadian border. Then about half an manded, suddenly. a guest of Mr. Curtis at Green Fancy. has become of her?" hour later you came to the tnvprn— Why do you think they meant to rob saw Roon sneak out to the head of the his place?" CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. stairs and listen to your conversation '•Well," began Barnes dryly, "it with Jones when you registered. That Author of "GRAUSTARK," "THE The Farm-Boy Tells a Ghastly Story would seem that his place is the only Charity Begins F?r From Home, and gave me an idea. It was you they 't£v HOLLOWOF HER HAND," "THE and an. Irishman Enters. one in the neighborhood that would a Stroll in the Wildwood Follows. were watching the road for." Barnes- stared. "What do you bear robbing. My name is Barnes. Of PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK." ETC Mr. Rushcroft was furious when he Barnes held up his hand for silence. mean?" he demanded sharply. course, Mr. O'Dowd, it is mere speculation arose at eleven o'clock on the morning "Listen," he said in a low voice. "I "I mean just what I said. What do on my part." after the double murder, having slept will' tell you who they were looking you know, about this business?" ."But who shot the man?" demanded like a top through all of the commotion. for." As briefly as possible he recounted "How should I know anything about the Irishman. "He certainly wasn't He. boomed all over the place, Copyright by DoJJL Mtai and Compc iy, lite. his experience with tlje it?" winged by anyone from our place. vocal castigations falling" right and strange young woman at the crossroads. SYNOPSIS. "Well, we don't know who you are, left on^the guilty and the innocent Why, Lord love you, sir, there isn't a "That's just-what it is," said one of "From the beginning I have nor what you're doing up here, nor without distinction. soul at Green Fancy who could shoot connected this tragedy with the place the men,-a tall woodsman. "The feller CHAPTER I—Thomas K. Barnes, what your real profession is. That's a thief if he saw one. This is Mr. De "I flon't see how you managed to wealthy New Yorker, on a walking trip called Green Fancy. I'll stake my last who did it was a dead shot, you c'n why I ask the question." through New England, is caught in a Soto, also a guest at Green Fancy. He sleep through it," Barnes broke in. penny that they have been hanging bet on that. He got t' other man storm miles from his destination. At a "I see," said Barnes, after a moment. will, I think, bear me out in upsetting "You must have an unusually cicai* crossroads point he meets a girl in the around here waiting for the arrival of square through the heart." same plight. While they discuss the situation He grasped the situation and your theory." conscience, Mr. Rushcroft." that young woman. They knew she an automobile, sent to me«t the "Lordy, but this will raise a rumpus," he admitted to himself that Jones had A "I haven't any conscience at all, sSr," girl arrives and Barnes is given a lift to second man approached, shaking was coming and they doubtless knew groaned the landlord. "We'll Hart tavern, while the girl is taken cause for his suspicions. "It has occurred roared the star. "I had an unusually his head vigorously. He was a thin, ori" to her destination, which she tells what she was bringing with her. What have detectives an'—" to you that I may be a detective full stomach, that's what was the matter Barnes is a place called Green Fancy. pale man with a singularly scholastic do you know about Green Fancy?" "I guess they got what was comin' or a secret service man,* isn't tliat with me. I take oath now, sir, face. Quite an unprepossessing, unsanguinary He wa&"vastly excited. His activa CHAPTER II—At the tavern Barnes to 'em," said another of the men. the case? Well, I am neither. Did never to eat again as long as I live. falls in with a stranded troupe of "barnstorming" person, thought Barnes. imagination was creating all sorts of "What's that? Why, they was ridin' actors, headed by Lyndon you know any more about these two A man who cannot govern his beastly "Mr. Curtis' chauffeur, I think it possibilities and complications, depredations Rushcroft, and becomes interested in peaceful as could be to Spanish Falls. men, MiVJones, than you know about appetite ought to defy it, if nuihing them. was, said the killing occurred just and intrigues. What do you mean by sayin' that, Jim me?" else." above this house," said he, visibly excited. Bacon was the one who answered. CHAPTER III—As the storm grows, Conley? But wait a minute! How "I don't know anything about 'em." "I gather from that remark that you "Green Fancy is at least a mile Barnes finds hi.jself worrying over the 'Teople live up there and since we've does it happen that they were up near Safety of the girl, traveling over the "What was their business?" omitted breakfast this morning." from here, isn't it? You don't shoot been here two or three men visitors mountain roads at what he considers danferous your dad's house? That certainly "Mr. Hoon was lookin' for a place •'Breakfast, sir? In God's name. 1 speed. He learns tnat Green burglars a mile from the plaqe they have come down from the place to ain't on the road to Span—" 'ancy is something of a house of mystery. fo bring, his daughter Who has consumption. implore you not to refer to anything are planning to rob, do you?" sample our stock of wet goods. I talked Two mounted men leave the tavern "Spanish Falls nothin'! They wasn't He didn't want to take her so disgusting as stewed prunes and '/Til admit it's a bit out reason," In a manner which arouses Barnes* curiosity. of with a couple of 'era day before yesterday. more'n I am goin' to Spanish Falls any to a reg'lar consumptive community, bacon at a time like this. My mind said Barnes. "The second man could They were out for a horseback Is—" nt this minute. They tied their horses CHAPTER IV—He meets "Miss Thackeray," said, an' so he was lookin" Jor he t. riAie and stopped here for a mug ol leading lady of the stranded theatrical up the road just above our house," quiet place where she wouldn't.be associatin' troupe, who is acting as chambermaid. "ITow about luncheon? Will you ale." only have been shot by some one who said young Conley, lowering his voice That night he is aroused by the with lungers all the time. join me at twelve-thirty?" was lying in wait for him," "Were they foreigners?" inquired bringing of a dying man to the tavern, out of consideration for the feelings That was his business, Mr. Barnes, an' one of the two who had ridden awav a '"That'.-? quite another matter." said Barnes. "Bedad," said O'Dowd, "it beats the short time before. They tell of finding 't.h» of the helpless man. "It was about I guess you'd call it respectable, Mr. Rushcroft readily. "Luncheon is devil. There's something big in this "If you want to call an Irishman a dead body of the other man. Both had 'leven o'clock, I reckon. I was comin' wouldn't you?" been shot. an esthetic tribute to the physical intelligence foreigner, I'll have to say one of them home from singin' school up at Number "Perfectly. But why should he be of man. if yon know what I was. He had a beautiful brogue. The CHAPTER V—The wounded man, registered Ten, an' I passed the hosses hitched to mean. I shall be delighted to join yon. at the tavern as Andrew Paul, dies, troubled by my presence here if—•" other was an American, I'm sure. Yesterday the fence. Naturally I stopped, curious and Barnes is informed he must not leave "Twelve-thirty, did you say?", Miss Thackeray put an end to the they rode past here with a couple until after the inquest. O'Dowd and De like. There wasn't no one around, Eoto, guests at Green Fancy, visit the '"It would give m^ great pleasure if discussion in a most effectual manner. of swell-looking women. I saw a fer as I could see, so I thought I'd tavern, apparently much mystified over your daughter would also grace the "Oh, for (he Lord's sake, cut it out! them turn up the road to Green the affair. take a look to see whose hosses they festal board. I think it is too bad that Wait till he's dead, can't you?" she Fancy." were. I thought it was derned funny, CHAPTER VI—Barnes advances Rushcroft she has to go about in the .gown she whispered fiercely. "You've got all the The arrival of four or five men, who money sufficient to release the comply. them hosses bein' there at that time o' wears, Mr. Rushcroft," said Barnes. from its embarrassing position, time in the world to talk, and he stamped into the already crowded hallway night an' no one around. Looked thereby becoming its official backer. He I "She's much too splendid for that. hasn't more than ten minutes left to from the porch outside, claimed Visits Green Fancy, and in the grounds mighty queer to me. Course, thinks have a proposition I'd like to make to meets his acquaintance of the night bebeauty*n(^n** breathe unless that rube doctor gets the attention of the quartette. Among I, they might belong to somebody I *ler surprising you later on. cannot make it. however, a here pretty soon. I think he's going them was the doctor who, they were visitin' in there at Green Fancy, so I without consulting Miss Thackeray's soon to discover, was also the coroner thought I'd—" CHAPTER VII—She seems not to be feelings." desirous of recognizing him, and turns of the county. A very officious deputy "Green Fancy," said Barnes, starting. "My dear fellow!" beamed Rushcroft. awajr. O'Dowd appears and In apparently 1 sheriff was also in the group. Irlenaly fashion escorts Barnes (who (eels seizing the other's hand. "One grounds. ne is unwelcome) from the Mr. Jones called out from the doorway: "Was it up that far?"* demanded frequently reads in books about it "Mr. Barnes, you're wanted in Jones. CHAPTER VIII—Miss Thackeray warns coming like this, at first sight, but, there." Barnes that a man stopping at the tavern, I "They was hitched jest about a hundred damme, never dreamed that it ever ostensibly a book agent, had searched "All right," he responded. his baggage in his absence. O'Dowd yards below Mr. Curtis' propity, really happened. Count on me! She comes to the tavern and with Barnes and The doctor had been working over on the off side o' the road. I hadn't ought to leave the stage, the dear others goes over the scene of the previous the prostrate form on the tables. As nights shooting. Barnes 1s invited to any more'n got to our front gate when child. No more fitted to it than an dinner at Green Fancy. Barnes entered the room, he looked up I heard some one running in the road Easter lily. Her place is in the home, and declared that the man was dead. the—" CHAPTER IX—His acquaintance of the up there behind me. 'Fore I knowed storm is Introduced as Mias Cameron. "This is Mr. Barnes," said Putnam "Good Lord, I am not thinking of—" what was happenin', bang went a gun. The makeup of the house party, particularly Jones, indicating the tall traveler with And Barnes, aghast, stopped before a man introduced to him afc/'-Loeb," I almost jumped out'n my boots. The and the number of menservants about the a short jerk of his thumb. blurting out the words that leaped to runnin' had stopped. The horses wiis place, somewhat astonishes Barnes. his lips. "I mean to say this is a proposition "I am from the sheriff's office," said rarin' an' tearing' so I thought I'd—" CHAPTER X—Miss Cameron informs that may also affect your excellent the man who stood beside the doctor. "Where'd the shot come from?" demanded mmi she is a prisoner In the house, appealing companions, Bacon and Dillingford, The rest of the crowd evidently had to him for aid and binding him Jones. to secrecy. In conversation with the as well as yourself." been ordered to stand back from the "Up the road some'eres, I couldn't chauffeur who drives him back to the At twelve-thirty sharp Barnes came tavern, Barnes becomes convinced there tables. "Did you ever see this man before?" swear just where. Must'a' been up by at Is a conspiracy of moment hatching down from his room freshly shaved the road that cuts in to Green'Fancy. Green Fancy. and brushed, to find not only Mr. Rushcroft So I thought I'd hustle in an* see if "Not until he was carried in here CHAPTER XI—At breakfast the supgosed and Miss Thackeray awaiting pa was awake, an' git my gun. Jest an hour ago." "Bedad," Said O'Dowd, 'It Beats the book agent Introduces himself as him in the office, but the Messrs. Dillingford prouse, a government secret agent. then pa stuck his head out'n the winder "What's your business up here, Mr. Devil." Sprouse tells Barnes he Is there to watch and Bacon as well. an* yelled what the hell's the matter. .Barnes?" the party at Green Fancy, describing them as refugees from a country overrun thing, Mr. Barnes—something a long "I took the liberty, old fellow," said You betcher life I sung^out who "I have no business up here. I just by the Germans. He asserts that "Miss shot bigger than any of us suspects." Rushcroft, addressing Barnes, "of asking I was mighty quick, 'cause pa's purty Cameron" is a relative of the former ruler happened to stroll in this evening." of the devastated country and that she or my excellent co-workers to join us "You'll flnd^ that it resolves itself spry with a gun an' I didn't want him "Well," said the sheriff darkly, "I "Loeb" have with them the crown jewels, in our repast." into a problem for Washington to takin' me fer burglars sneaking around of enormous value, which Sprouse would guess I'll have to ask you to stick recover. solve," said De Soto darkly. "Nothing "Delighted to have you with us, gentlemen," the house. While we wuz talkin' there around here till we clear this business local about it, take my word for it. said Barnes affably. one of the hosses started our way CHAPTER XII—Barnes agrees to accompany up.* We don't know you an'—• Well, Sprouse on a nocturnal visit to lickety-split, an' in about two seconds These men were up to some international The sole topic of conversation for we can't take any chances. You understand, Green Fancy, Sprouse with the object of devilment. There'll be a stir in securing the jewels, and Barnes with the it went by us. It was purty dark, but the first half hour was the mysterious I reckon." hope of rescuing "Miss Cameron." Washington over this, sure as anything." we see plain as day that there was a slaying of their fellow lodgers. Mr. "I certainly fail to understand, Mr. man in the saddle, bendin' low over Rushcroft complained bitterly of the CHAPTER XIII—They enter the grounds Sheriff. I know nothing whatever of In safety, Sprouse overcoming two men the hoss' neck and shoutin' to it. We "What time was it that you heard outrageous, high-handed action of the this affair and I intend to continue evidently on guard. Reaching the house, "I Think He's Going Now," She Whispered. the shots up at Green Fancy?" ventured Barnes sends up, by means of a Ashing waited a couple o' minutes, wonderin' coroner and sheriff in imposing upon on my way tomorrow morning." rod carried by Sprouse, a note to "Miss Barnes. what to do, an' listenin' to the hoss him and his company the same restrictions Cameron," informing her of their Intention "Well, I guess not. You got to stay to enter the house. She tries to dissuade gittin' furder and furder away in the that had been applied to "Lord love you," cried O'Dowd, "we now. Keep still, all of you. Is he here till we are satisfied that you them, but Sprouse climbs to her direction of the cross-roads. Then didn't hear a sound. Mr. Curtis, who Barnes. They were not to leave the room and goes through it on a quest for breathing, Mr. Barnes? That awful don't know anything about this business. 'way down there by the pike we heerd the crown jewels and state papers. has insomnia the worst way, poor county until the authorities gave the cough just now seemed to—" Her That's all." another shot. Bight there an* then pa word. One would have thought, to devil, HEard them and sent some "one eyes were fixed on the still face. CHAPTER XIV—Barnes becomes uneasy "Am I to consider myself under arrest, said he'd put on his clothes an' we'd at Sprouse's long absence and follows out to see what all the racket was hear the star's indignant lamentations, "Why—why, how tightly he holds my sir?" him, climbing by means of the ivy set out to see what it was all about. about. The man, it seems, made such that he and his party were-in a position hand! I can't get it away—he must attached to the wall. While talking to "I wouldn't go so far as to say that. Miss Cameron" a commotion in the "Well, pa come out with my gun an' a devil of a racket when he came to depart when they pleased. It be alive, Mr. Barnes. Where is that You just stick around here, that's all house warns them that Sprouse has been his'n an' we walks up to where I seen home with the news that the whole would have been difficult to imagine detected. Barnes, with "Miss Cameron" silly doctor?" I got to say. If you're all right, we'll clinging to him, makes his escape to the house was up in pajamas and peignoirs," the hosses. Shore 'nough, one of 'em that he was not actually rolling in Barnes unclasped the rigid fingers soon find it out. What's more, if you ground. He loses his sense of location was still hitched to the fence, an' money instead of being absolutely and they become lost, finally taking refuge of the man called Andrew Paul, and. are all right you'll be willin' to stay. in a small shed. VMiss Cameron" t'other was gone. We stood around a "I think I have a slight acquaintance penniless. shaking' his head sadly, drew her Do you get me?" explains how she was decoyed to the with the chauffeur," said Barnes. "He minute or two examinin' the hoss an' house, and was to be married against her away from the improvised bier. He Barnes had been immersed in his "I certainly do. And I can now assure will to the man "Loeb," whom she reveals gave me the most thrilling motor ride then pa says let's go up the road a ways own thoughts for some time. A slight and the shivering Mr. Dillingford conducted as a prince of the house to which you, Mr. Sheriff, that I'd like an' see if we c'n see anything. An' I've ever experienced. Gad, I'll never she belongs. They are surprised in the her to the dining room, where frown, as of reflection, darkened his nothing better than to stick around darkness by O'Dowd. forget it." by gosh, we hadn't gone moren' fifty a single kerosene lamp gave out a eyes. Suddenly—perhaps impolitely— here, as you put it. I'd like to help The two men looked at him, plainly feet afore we come plumb on a man CHAPTER XV—O'Dowd demands the feeble, rather ghastly light. he interrupted Mr. Rushcroft's flow of clear this matter up. In the meantime, jewels, which he thinks the fugitives have perplexed. layin' in the middle of the road. Pa eloquence. "Would you like a little brandy?" in their possession, not knowing of you may readily find out who I "When was all this?" inquired De shook him an' he didn't let out a Sprouse's enterprise. Convinced neither inquired Barnes, as she sat down limply "Have you any objection, Mr. Rushcroft, am and why I am here by telegraphing "Miss Cameron" nor Barnes have them, Soto. sound. He was warm, but deader'n a O'Dowd puts them on the right road to in the chair he pulled out for her. to a more or less personal question to the mayor of New York city. "Early last evening. He picked up tombstone. I wuz fer leavin' him there the tavern, where Barnes gives his companion "I have a flask upstairs in my—" concerning your own private—er— This document, which experience has into the care of Miss Thackeray. your latest guest at the corners, and till we c'd git the coroner, but pa says Next day O'Dowd tells Barnes Sprouse, "I never touch it," she said. Tm all taught me to carry for just such an misfortunes?" he asked, leaning forward. she insisted in his driving me to the no. We'd carry him down to our porch whom he describes'as an expert burglar, right. My legs wabble a little but—• emergency as this, may have some got away with the treasure, after killing tavern before the storm broke. I've an' lay him there, so's he'd be out o' a guard in the house. O'Dowd and "Loeb" Sit down Mr. Barnes. I've got something weight with you." He opened his bill For a moment one could have heard Fancy. ,, been terribly anxious about her. She leave Green danger. I jumps on Polly an' lights to say to you and I'd better say folder and drew forth a neatly creased must have been caught out in all that a pin drop. Mr. Rushcroft evidently out fer here, Mr. Jones, to telephone CHAPTER XVI—Barnes tells "Miss it now, because it may come In pretty sheet of paper. "Read it, please, and -if Cihnnf nf v\n (Tk li. 1 held his breath. There could be no frightful—' up to Saint Liz fer the sheriff an' the Cameron" of Sprouse's treachery, and handy for you later on. Don't let note the date, the signature, the official mistake about that. she tells him the whole story of Green "What's this you are saying, Mr. coroner, not givin' a dang what I run Fancy. The man known as Loeb is her those women come in here, Dilly. seal of the New York police department, "It's rather delicate, but would you Barnes?" cut in De Soto, frowning. into on the way. Polly shied somethin' cousin, and he inveigled her to the house "This afternoon I walked up in the and also the rather interesting mind telling me just how much you 1 with the object of possessing himself of "No guest arrived at Green Fancy last terrible jest afore we got to the tne jewels, which were in her custody. woods back of the tavern to go over silver print pasted in the lower were stuck up for by the—er—was it evening, nor was one expected." pike an' I come derned near bein* some lines in a new piece we are to do left hand corner. I think your will a writ-of attachment?" CHAPTER XVII—O'Dowd returns and Barnes stared. "Do you mean to throwed. An' right there 'side the road mforms Barnes of the identity of "Miss later on—God knows when! I could asyee that it is a good likeness of me. "It was," said the star. "A writ say that she didn't get there, after was this feller, all in a heap. Thinks Cameron." Phe is of royal blood, lie asserts, see the house .from where I was sitting. Each year I take the precaution of of inquisition, you might as well substitute.. Countess Therese Mara-Dafanda. all?" I, you poor cuss, you must 'a' tried te Boon's windows were plainly having myself certified by the police The act of a polluted, impecunious, "She? A woman, was it?" demanded stop that feller on hossback an' he CHAPTER XVIII—Barnes visits Green visible. I saw Roon standing at a department at home before venturing parsimonious—what shall I 1 O'Dowd. "Bedad, if she said she Fancy to secure the wardrobe of the plunked you. That accounted fer the countess. He meets Sprouse, who tells window looking toward the cross-roads into unknown and perhaps unfriendly say? Well, I will be as simple as possible—hotel was coming to Green Fancy she was second shot. The thing that worries all him Loeb got away with the jewels after communities." •with a pair of field-glasses. Every keeper. Ninety-seven dollars killing the guard and accusing Sprouse spoofing you. Are you sure it was old of us is did the same man do the of the murder and robbery once in awhile he would turn to Paul, "Yes," said the sheriff dubiously and forty cents. For that pitiful Peter who gave you that jolly ride?" shootin', or was there two of 'em, one who stood beside him with a notebook, "but how do I knofr it ain't a forgery?" amount he subjected me to—" ss "No, I am not sure," said Barnes CHAPTER XIX—Barnes and the countess waitin' down the cross-roads?" and say something to him. Paul wrote leave Hart's'-tavern with th* actors "You don't know, of course. But in uneasily. "She was afoot, having "Well, that isn't so bad," said 3 "Must have been two," said Jones, and at Crowndale. where they are to it down. Then he would look again, case it shouldn't be a forgery and I appear. Barnes, vastly relieved. He was covertly walked from the station below. I met Bs-nes again meets Sprouse. thoughtfully. "The same man couldn't turning the glasses this way and that. am subjected to the indignity of arrest watching Miss Thackeray's halfaverted her at the corners and she asked me if have got down there ahead of him, CHAPTER XX—Sprouse tells Barnes Suddenly my eyes almost popped out or even detention, you would have I knew how far it was to Green face as he ventured upon the Loeb is in hiding in Crowndale with his that's sure. Did anybody go up to of my head. Paul had gone away mistress, and promises to rob him of the a nasty time defending yourself in a Fancy, or something like that. Said proposition he had decided to put be- A Green Fancy to make inquiries?" jewels. He doe/3 so, delivering the treasure from the window. He came back and civil suit for damages. I shall remain fore them. am prepared and willing she was going there. Then along came "I to Barnes, as agreed, at the same 'Twasn't necessary. Mr. Curtis he had a couple of revolvers in liis here, as you suggest, but only for the time informing him that he would take to advance this amount, Rushcroft, the automobile, rattling down this Mr. heard the shootin' an' jest before we it from him if b3 could, at the expiration They there a hands. stood for few purpose of aiding you in getting to very road—an ancient Panhard driven and to take your personal note of one week. left he sent a man out to see what it minutes carefully examining the the bottom of this affair." as security." by an old codger. She seemed to think was all about. The old skeezicks that's CHAPTER XXI—With the oountess, weapons and reloading them with Standing on Jim Conley's front it was all right to hop in and trust Rushcroft leaned back in his chair Barnes leaves Rushcroft and the rest and been drivin' his car lately come down I hurries to New York. There he leaves fresh cartridges. Just as was about porch a little after sunrise, Barnes herself to him, although she'd never and stuck his thumbs in the armholes half-dressed. He said nothin' out of the jewels in a place of safety and inti to start down to the house—it was a made the following declaration: seen him before." of his vest. He displayed no undue oduces the countess to his sister. the way had happened up at Green Sprouse risks his life in a daring effort little after six o'clock, and getting "Everything goes to show that these "The antique Panhard fits in all elation. Instead he affected profound Fancy." to obtain the treasure, a,nd failing takes awfully dark and overcast—Roori took men were up here^Yor one of two reasons. right," said O'DoWd, "but I'm hanged his leave of Barnes in a characteristic calculations. His daughter shot a "It's most mysterious," said Barnes, manner. "With little rrospect of an early up the glasses again. He seemed to They were either trying to prevent if the woman fits at all. No such person swift, searching look at the would-be return to her home in Europe, tl^e counrtess •glancing round the" circle of awed be excited and called his companion. or to enact a crime. The latter is arrived at Green Fancy last night." yields to- .Barnes:*,r]$fe'.-dmg.-..aiid agree? faces ''There •nuisn.Jbfive been some to .scorn5 his, wife. 1 Paul .grabbed, the glasses, and looked W. They \yqre afraid of me. :'PjtI you, ret a...square look.'at the (To be continued next week.) n- & •r^ .. is-'