INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JUNE 12, 1919 him. From time to time he paused to teen minutes,''shebegged. ^He may ly HayBreak?" allow her to rest GREEN fANClf have been cut off and was compelled He looked at his watch. "Three "You are plucky," he onee said to CHAPTER XV. to escape from another—" o'clock," he said. her. "Just the same, I've got to see what There ensued another period of silence. "I am afraid I could not be so plucky Large Bodies Move Slowly—But M-. has become of—" She remained slightly aloof. if you were not so strong," she sighed, S prouse Was Smaller Than the "No! No!" She arose, with him, "You'd better lean against me," he and he loved the tired, whimsical little Average. dragging at his arm. "Do not be foolhardy. said at last. "I am softer than the twist she put into her reply. There was not a sound for many You are not skilled at—" beastly boards, you know, and quite as To his dismay they came abruptly seconds. She was the first to speak. & GEORGE MRR "There is only one way to stop me, harmless." upon a region abounding in huge rocks. "1 am ready to return with you, Mr. Miss Cameron. If you will come with "Thank you," she said, and promptly This was new territory to him. His O'Dowd," she said distinctly. "There me now—" settled herself against his shoulder. heart sank.. MS CUTCHEON mnst be no struggle, no bloodshed. "But I must know whether he secured "It is better," she sighed. "By Jove, I—I believe we are farther Anything but thar." the—" "Would you mind telling me something away from the road than when we O'Dowd spolie ont of the darkness: "Then let me go. I will find out about yourself, Miss Cameron? I started. We must have been going up "You forget that I have your own word whether he has succeeded." should like to know whether I am to the slope instead of down." for it that ye'll be a dead woman before He was rougher than he realized in address you as princess, duchess, or— Author rf "GRAUSTARK." "THE "In any case, Mr. Barnes," she murmured, the day is over. Wouldn't it be just plain Miss." wrenching his arm free. She uttered a "we have found something to better for me to begin shooting at once 5?v HOLLOW OF HER HAND." "THE low moan and covered her face with "I am more accustomed to plain sit down upon." and spare your soul the everlasting A PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK," ETC her hands. Undeterred, he crossed to Miss, Mr. Barnes, than to either of He chuckled. "If you can be as torture that would begin immejiately the door. His hand was on the knob the titles you would give me." cheerful as all that, we sha'n't miss after your self-produced decease?" when a door slammed violently somewhere "Don't you feel that I am deserving the cushions," he said, and, for the first A little cry of relief greeted this in a distant part of the house. of a little enlightenment?" he asked. "I GprtHbJMl MmirniCimim./«* time, risked a flash of the electric quaint sally. "You have my word that A hoarse shout of alarm rang out, am working literally as well as figuratively I torch. The purvey was brief. He led will return with you quietly if—" and then the rush of heavy feet over in the dark. Who are you? SYNOPSIS. open- transom. An Instant later hewaa her forward a few paces to a flat bouldei, "Thunderation!" exclaimed Barnes thickly carpeted floors. Why were you a prisoner at Green on the floor again. She heard him inserting and there they seated themselves. wrathfully. "What do you think I am? Barnes acted with lightning swiftness. Fancy? Where and what is your native CHAPTER I—Thomas K. Barnes, a key in the lock. Almost before "I wonder where we are," she said. A worm that—" wealthy New Yorker, on a walking trip land?" He sprang to the open window, through New England, is caught in a. "I am inclined suspect that she could realize that it had actually to we "Easy, easy, me dear man," cautioned half-carrying, half-dragging the girl "Mr. Barnes, I cannot answer any storm miles from his destination. At a happened, the door opened slowly, are above Green Fancy, but a long O'Dowd. "Keep your seat. crossroads point he meets a girl in the with him. one of your questions without jeopardizing same plight. While they discuss the situation way off to the right of it Admitting Don't be deceived by my infernal Irish cautiously, and his thin wiry figure gart's an automobile, sent to meet the "Now for it!" lie whispered. "Not 8 a cause that is dearer to me I re­ that to be the case, am afraid to humor. It is my way to be always polite, rl, arrives and Barnes is given a lift to than anything else in all the world. 1 Slid through what seemed to her no second to lose. Climb upon my Lack, tavern, while the girl is taken agreeable and—prompt. I'll shoot on to her destination, which she tells more than a crack. As softly the door am sorry. I pray God a day may soon quick, and hang on for dear life." He Barnes Is a place called Green Fancy. in a second if ye move one step outside was closed. had scrambled through the window only trace our steps. The Lord knows that cabin." CHAPTER II—At the tavern Barnes For along time she stood, dazed and and was lying flat across the sill. what we might blunder into." to falls in with a stranded troupe of "barnstorming" come I can everything to "O'Dowd, you haven't the heart when reveal unbelieving, in the center of the room, actors, headed by Lyndon •'Hurry! Don't be afraid. I am strong "I think the only sensible thing to to I drag her back to that beast of a—" you—and the world. am of a Rushcroft, and becomes Interested in staring at the door. She held her enough to carry you if the vines do Mr. Barnes, is to make ourselves do, them. "Hold hard! We'll come to the point I to stricken country am trying serve breath, listening for the shout that their part," as snug and comfortable as we can without further palavering. Where the has ruled it unhappy house that CHAPTER III—As the storm grows, was so sure to come—and the shot, With surprising alacrity and sureness and wait for the first signs of daybreak." Barnes finds himself worrying over the for centuries and is now in the direst are ye dragging her yourself, ye rascal perhaps! A prayer formed on her lips safety of the girl, traveling over the she crawled out beside him and peril. The man you know as Loeb is mountain roads at what he considers dan- and went voicelessly up to God. He scowled—and was glad that it f'ancy then over upon his broad back, clasp- "To a place where she will be safe erous speed. He learns tnat Green a prince of that house. I may say this Suddenly she roused herself from Is something of a house of mystery. was too dark for her to see his face. to you, and it will serve to explain my from insult, injury, degradation—" Two mounted men leave the tavern the stupefaction that held her. With He wondered if she fully appreciated In a manner which arouses Barnes' curiosity. "Well, I have no fault to find with position at Green Fancy: he is not the feverish haste she snatched up garments what would happen to him if the pursuers prince I was led to believe awaited me ye for that," said O'Dowd. "Bedad, I from the chair on which she had came upon him in this forbidding CHAPTER IV—He meets "Miss Thackeray," there. He is the cousin of the man I didn't believe you had the nerve to carefully placed them in anticipation leading lady of the stranded theatrical spot. He could almost picture his tackle the job. You may be interested expected to meet, and he is the enemy troupe, who is acting as chambermaid. of the emergency that now presented own body lying there among the rocks That night he is aroused by the of the branch of the house that I to know that up to the moment I left itself. A blouse (which she neglected bringing of a dying man to the tavern, and rotting, while she—well, she the house your absence had not been would serve. Do not ask me to say one of the two who had ridden away a to button), a short skirt of some dark would merely go back to Green short time before. They tell of finding th* noticod, my dear Miss Cameron. And more." material, a jacket, and a pair of stout dead body of the other man. Both had Fancy. as for you, my dear Barnes, your "Your sympathies are with the entente been shot. walking shoes (which she failed to "I fear you do not realize the extreme visit is not even suspected. How the allies, the prince's are opposed? lace), completed the swift transformation. CHAPTER V—The wounded man, registered gravity of the situation. We livil did ye do it, Barnes?" Is that part of Sprouse's story true?" at the tavern as Andrew Paul, dies, As she glided to the window, she must get out of these woods if I have and Barnes Is informed he must not leave "Are you disposed to be friendly, "Yes." jammed the pins into a small black until after the inquest. O'Dowd and De to carry you in my arms." )'Dov. c5?" demanded Barnes. "If you "And O'Dowd?" Boto, guests at Green Fancy, visit the hat of felt. Then she peered over the "I shall try to keep going," she said tavern, apparently much mystified over )re not, we may just as well fight it "O'Dowd is anti-English, Mr. Barnes, the affair. ledge. quickly. "Forgive me if I seemed to ut now as later on." it that conveys anything to you. He She started back, stifling a cry with falter a little. I—I—am ready to go CHAPTER VI—Barnes advances Rushcroft "You are not to fight!" she cried in is not pro-German." her hand. A man's head had almost money sufficient to release the comply. on when you say the word." Teat agitation. "What are you doing? "Wasn't it pretty risky for you to from its embarrassing position, come in contact with her own as she "You poor girl! Hang It all, perhaps thereby becoming its official backer. He ^'ut it away! Don't shoot!" carry the crown jewels around in a Waits Green Fancy, and In the grounds leaned out. A man's hand reached you are right and not I. Sit still "Is it a gun he is pulling?" inquired traveling bag, Miss Cameron?" ineets his acquaintance of the night bebeauty**11^11* over and grasped the inner ledge of and I will reconnolter a bit. If I can O'Dowd calmly. "And what the deuce ^er surprising "I suppose so. It turned out, however, a the casement, and then a man's face find a place where we can hide among are you going to niin at, me hearty? I that It was the safest, surest was dimly revealed to her startled these rocks, we'll stay here till the sky CHAPTER VII—She seems not to be have a bull's-eye lantern with me. way. I had them in my possession for oesirous of recognizing him, and turns gaze. begins to lighten. Sit—" From the luxurious seat behind this three days before coming to Green J-wajr. O'Dowd appears and in apparently "No! I shall not let you leave me friendly fashion escorts Barnes (who feels roi.-'.: I rould spot ye in a second. Having Fancy. No one suspected. I was to he Is unwelcome) from the grounds. CHAPTER XIV. for a second.. Where you go, I go." said as much I now propose arbitration. deliver them to one of their rightful She struggled to her feet, suppressing CHAPTER VIII—Miss Thackeray warns Would ye mind handing over owners, Mr. Barnes—a loyal prince of Barnes that a man stopping at the tavern, A Flight, a Stone-Cutter's Shed* and a a groan, and thrust a determined arm that tin box in exchange for my polite ostensibly a book agent, had searched the blood." Voice Outside. his baggage in his absence. O'Dowd through his. thanks and a courteous goodby to "But why here?" he insisted. comes to the tavern and with Barnes and "Why have you come up here?" She "That's worth remembering," said both of ye?" "He was to take them into Canada, others goes over the scene of the previous came swiftly to his side. night's shooting. Barnes Is Invited to he, and whether it was a muscular "We have no box of any description, and thence, in good time, to the palace dinner at Green Fancy. "Thank the Lord, I made it," he necessity or an emotional exaction Mr. O'Dowd," cried she triumphantly. of his ancestors." whispered, breathlessly. "I came up CHAPTER IX—His acquaintance of the that caused his arm to tighten on hers, "Thank heaven, he got safely away!" "I am to understand, then, that not storm is Introduced as Miss' Cameron. because there was nowhere else to go. none save he would ever know. "Do you mean to tell me you came The makeup of the house party, particularly only you but the committee you speak I thought I heard voices—a man and a man introduced to him as vLoeb," After a few minutes prowling among away without the—your belongings, of, fell into a carefully prepared trap. and the number of menservants about the a woman speaking. They seemed to the rocks they came to the face of place, somewhat astonishes Barnes. Miss Cameron?" exclaimed O'Dowd. The treachery, therefore, had its Inception be quite close to me. Don't be Holding to the Ledge With One Hand, what subsequently proved to be a "They are not with me," she replied. in the loyal nest. You were betrayed CHAPTER X—Miss Cameron Informs alarmed, Miss Cameron. I am confident He Felt for and Clutched the Thick sheer wall of stone. He flashed the «im she is a prisoner in the house, appealing Her grasp on Barnes' arm tightened. by a friend." that I can—" Vine With the Other. to him for aid and binding him light, and, with an exclamation, started "Oh, isn't it splendid? They did not "I am sure of it," she said bitterly. to seorecy. In conversation with the "And now that you are here, trapped back. Not six feet ahead of them chauffeur who drives him back to the catch him. He—" ing her arms around his neck. Holding "If this man Sprouse does not succeed as I am, what do you purpose to do? tavern, Barnes becomes convinced there the earth seemed to end a yawning to the ledge with one hand he felt in restoring the—oh, I believe 1 "Will you both swear on your sacred Is a conspiracy of moment hatching at You cannot escape. Go back before it black gulf lay beyond. Apparently Green Fancy. shall kill myself, Mr. Barnes." honor that ye haven't the jewels in for and clutched the thick vine with is too late." they were on the very edge of a cliff. your possession?" the other. Slowly he slid his body off The wall of anguish in her voice CHAPTER XI—At breakfast the «up- "Is Sprouse—where is he?" Sprouse, "Good Lord, that was a close call," osed book agent introduces himself as "Unhesitatingly," said Barnes. of the sill and swung free by one arm. went straight to his heart. "He is somewhere in the house. I a government secret agent. he gasped. He explained in a few "I swear, Mr. O'Dowd." Sprouse tells Barnes he Is there to watch An instant later he found the lattice "He has succeeded, take my word was to wait until he—Oh, Mr. Barnes, words and then, commanding her to the party at Green Fancy, describing "Then," said he, "I have no time to with the other hand and the hurried for it. They will be in your hands before I—I am terrified. You will never know them as refugees from a country overrun stand perfectly still, dropped to the waste here. I am looking for a tin by the Germans. He asserts that "Miss descent began. many hours have passed." the—" ground and carefully felt his way forward. Cameron" is a relative of the former ruler box. I beg your pardon for disturbing His feet touched the ground. In the "Is he to come to the Tavern with of the devastated country and that she or "Trust him," he said. "He is a marvel. Again he flashed the light. In "Loeb" have with them the crown jewels, you." twinkling of an eye he picked her up them? Or am I to meet him—" We'll be safely out of here in a of enormous value, which Sprouse would an instant he understood. They were "Oh, Mr. O'Dowd, I shall never forget recover. in his arms and bolted across the little "Good Lord!" he gulped. Here was little.while, and then it will all look on the brink of a shallow quarry. all that you have—" grass plot into the shrubbery. She a contingency he had not considered. simple to you. You are ready to go? CHAPTER XII—Barnes agrees to accompany Lying there, he made swift calculations.. did not utter a sound. "Whist, now! There Is one thing I Sprouse on a nocturnal visit to Good! Sit down, do! If he doesn't Where and when would Sprouse appear The quarry, no longer of use to Green Fancy, Sprouse with the object of must insist on your forgetting completely: Presently he set her down. His with his booty? "I—I fancy we'll return in a minute or two, I'll take a securing the Jewels, and Barnes with the the builder, was reasonably sure to be all that has happened In the hope of rescuing "Miss Cameron." breath was gone, his strength exhausted. find him waiting for us at the Tavern." look about the house myself. I don't abandoned. In all probability some "But had you no understanding?" last five minutes. What I am doing, intend to desert him. I know this floor CHAPTER XIII—They enter the grounds sort of a stone-cutter's shed would be Mr. Barnes, would be my death sentence in safety, Sprouse overcoming two men "Can you—manage to—walk a little "Er—tentatively." The perspiration pretty well, and the lower one. The found nearby. It would provide shelter evidently on guard. Reaching the house, if it ever became known." way?" he gasped. "Give me your hand, started on his brow. He was thinking stairs are—" Barnes sends up, by means of a fishing from the fine rain that was falling and and follow as close to my heels as you of something else: his amazing stupidity "It shall never be known through rod carried by Sprouse, a note to "Miss "But the stairway is closed at the from the chill night air. He remembered Cameron," informing her of their intention me, O'Dowd. I'd like to shake your can. Better that I should bump into in not foreseeing the very situation bottom by a solid steel curtain. It is to enter the house. She tries to dissuade that O'Dowd, in discussing the them, but Sprouse climbs to her things than you." that now presented itself. Why hand, old man." made to look like a panel in the wall. erection of Green Fancy the night before, room and goes through it on a quest for had he neglected to settle upon a Shouts were now heard, and shrill "God bless you, Mr. O'Dowd," said the crown jewels and state papers. You are not to venture outside this had said that the stone came meeting place with Sprouse in the blasts on a police whistle split the air. the girl In a low, small voice, singularly room, Mr. Barnes. I forbid it. You—" from a pit two miles away, where a CHAPTER XIV—Barnes becomes uneasy On they stumbled, blindly, recklessly. event that circumstances forced them suggestive of tears. "Some day I at Sprouse's long absence and follows "How did Sprouse get out? You said fine quality of granite had been found. him, climbing by means of the Ivy to part company In flight? Fearing He spared her many an injury by may be in a position to—"• your door was locked." Two miles, according to Barnes' quick a-ttaehed to the wall. While talking to taking it himself. More than once she that she would pursue the subject, he "Don't say it! You'll spoil everything "Miss Cameron" a commotion in the "He had a key. I do not know calculations, would bring the pit dose house warns them that Sprouse has been murmured sympathy when he crashed made haste to branch off onto another if you let me think you are in where he obtained—" to the northern boundary of the Curtis detected. Barnes, with Miss Cameron" Into a tree or floundered over a log. line. clinging to him, makes his escape to the my debt. Bedad, don't be so sure I "Skeleton key, such as burglars use. property and almost directly on a line ground. He loses his sense of location Utterly at sea, he was now guessing at "What is the real object of the conspiracy sha'n't see you again, and soon." By Jove, what a wonderful burglar he with the point where he and Sprouse and they become lost, finally taking refuge the course they were taking. Whether up there, Miss Cameron?" In a small shed. "Miss Cameron" "Tell me how to find Hart's Tavern, would make! Courage, Miss Cameron! entered the meadow at the beginning explains how she was decoyed to the their frantic dash was leading them "You must bear with me a little old man. I'll—" He will be here soon. Then comes the "".P.*6.' an.d was to be married against her of their advance upon Green Fancy. toward the, Tavern, or whether they will to the man "Loeb," whom she reveal® longer, Mr. Barnes," she said, appealingly. real adventure—my part of it. I didn't "No, I'm dashed If I do. You ought That being the case, they were now a» a prince of the house to which were circling back to Green Fancy, he "I cannot say anything now." come here tonight to get any flashy old to be grateful to me for not stopping she belongs. They are surprised in the quite close to the stake and rider fence darkness by O'Dowd. knew not. Panting, he forged onward. "You said that tomorrow night you entirely, without asking me to crown jewels. I came to take you out separating the Curtis land from that At last she cried out, quaveringly: of—" would be too late. What did you mean give you a helping hand. Good-by, CHAPTER XV—O'Dowd demands the of the farmer on the north. "Oh, I—I can go no farther! Can't jewels, which he thinks the fugitives have by that?" and God bless you. I'm praying that "You—you know about the crown "Good," he said, more to himself in their possession, not knowing of we—is it not safe to stop for a moment? jewels?" she murmured. Her body ye get away safely, Miss Cameron. So Sprouse's enterprise. Convinced neither She waited a few seconds and then than to her. "I begin to see light. Are My breath is—" 'Miss Cameron" nor Barnes have them, long, Barnes. If you were a crow and seemed to stiffen. "Then you know removed her head from his shoulder. you afraid to remain here while I go O'Dowd puts them on the right road to "God bless you, yes," he exclaimed, the tavern, where Barnes gives his companion who I am?" He heard the sharp intake of her wanted to roost on that big tree In down there for a look around? I into the care of Miss Thackeray. and came to an abrupt stop. She "No. You will tell me tomorrow." breath and felt the convulsive movement front of Hart's Tavern, I dare say sha'n't be gone more than a couple of Next day O'Dowd tells Barnes Sprouse, leaned heavily against him, gasping whom he describes as an expert burglar, you'd take the shortest way there by "Yes, yes—tomorrow," she whispered. of the arm that rested against minutes." got away with the treasure, after killing for breath. "I haven't the faintest his. There was no mistaking her sud» flying as straight as a bullet from the "The way I feel at present," she a guard In the house. O'Dowd and "Loeb" idea where we are, but we must be leave Green Fancy. den agitation. mouth of this pit, following your extremely For some time there was silence. said, jerkily, "I shall never, never from some distance from the house. We good-looking nose." Both were listening intently for sounds this instant till the hour in which I "I will tell you," she said, and he CHAPTER XVI—Barnes tells "Miss will rest a few minutes and then take Cameron" of Sprouse's treachery, and in the hall. She leaned closer to whisper was surprised by the harshness that They did not wait for the break of die, let go of your coat-tails, Mr. she tells him the whole story of Green it easier, more cautiously. I am sorry, in his ear. Their shoulders came into her voice. "Tomorrow morning day. Taking O'Dowd's hint, Barnes Barnes." Suiting the action to the Fancy. The man known as Loeb is her but it was the only thing to do, rough cousin, and he inveigled her to the house touched. He wondered if she experienced word, her fingers resolutely fastened, was the time set for my marriage directed his steps straight out from with the object of possessing himself of as it was. the same delightful thjill that to that wretch up there. I could have the mouth of the quarry and pressed the jewels, which were in her custody. not upon the tail of his coat but upon "I know, I understand. I am not ran through his body. She told him of confidently onward. In answer to a his sturdy arm. "I wouldn't stay here avoided it only by destroying myself. CHAPTER XVII—O'Dowd returns and complaining, Mr. Barnes. You will find the man who watched acro&s the hall alone for anything in the world." If you had come tomorrow night instead question she Informed him that there Informs Barnes of the identity of "Miss me ready and strong and—" Cameron." She is of royal blood, he asserts, from the room supposed to be occupied of tonight you would have were no fewer than twenty-five men in "Heaven bless you," he exclaimed, Countess Therese Mara-Dafanda. "Let me think. I must try to get by Loeb the secretary, and of suddenly exalted. "And, since you put found me dead, that is all. Now you Green Fancy, all of them shrewd, resolute my bearings.. Good Lord, I wish CHAPTER XVIII—Barnes visits Green understand." Sprouse's incomprehensible daring. it that way, I shall always contrite to and formidable. Fancy to secure the wardrobe of the Sprouse were here. He can see in the "Where is Mr, Curtis?" he asked. be within arm's length." "Good God I You—were to be forced "I cannot, for the life of me, see countess. He meets Sprouse. who tells dark. We are off the path, that's him Loeb got away with the jewels after Her breath fsained his cheek, her into a marriage with—why, It is the why they took chances on inviting me And so, together, they ventured killing the guard and accusing Sprouse sure." most damnable—" of the murder and robbery lips were close to his ear. "There is to the house, Miss Cameron." along: the edge of the pit until they "Do you think he escaped?" no Mr. Curtis here. He died four "O'Dowd—God bless him I—was my She was silent for a moment, and peached the wagon road at the bottom. CHAPTER XIX—Barnes and the countess "I am sure of it. Those whistles months ago in Florida." only champion. He knew my father. when she spoke it was with great intensity. leave Hart's tavern with th* actors, As he had expected, there was a ramshackle were sounding the alarm. He may and at Crowndale. where they are to He—" "Mr. Barnes, I had your life "I suspected as much." He did not shed hard by. It was not appear. Bs*nes again meets Sprouse. come this way. The chances are that press her for further revelations. "Listen!" he hissed, starting to his in my hands all the time yon were at much of a place, but it was deserted your flight has not been discovered. Do CHAPTER XX—Sprouse tells Barnes feet. "Sprouse should be here by this time. and a safe shelter for the moment. Green Fancy. I shudder now when I Loeb is in hiding in Crowndale with his you feel like going on? We must beat I must go out there and see if he requires "Don't move!" came from the darkness think of what might have happened. mistress, and promises to rob him of the A workman's bench lay on Its side in them to the Tavern. They—^ .jewels. He does so, delivering the treasure any—" outside. "I have me gun leveled. Before you were asked to the house, I the middle of the earthen floor. He to Barnes, as agreed, at the same "I am all right now," she said, and I heard me name taken in vain. was coolly informed that you would time Informing htm that be would take She clutched his arm frantically. righted it and drew it over to the It from him if he could, at the expiration they were off again. Barnes now picked not leave it alive if I so much as "You shall do nothing of the kind. You boarding. She laid her head of one week. Thames for the blessing. I was wondering Ids way carefully and with the greatest breathed a word to you concerning shall not—" against his shoulder and sighed deeply. whether you would say something CHAPTER, XXI—With the oountess, caution. He could only pray that He kept his eyes glued on the my unhappy plight. The first word of "Sh! What do you take me for, Barnes leaves Rushcroft and the rest and pleasant about me—and, thnnir lie was going in the right direction. hurries to New York. There he Haves an appeal to you would have been the door and listened for the first ominous Miss Cameron? He may be sorely in the good Lord, I was patient. But Fd the jewels in a place of safety and introduces An hour—but what seemed thrice as signal for—for your death. That is sound outside. A long time afterward the countess to his sister. need of help. Do you think that I advise you both to sit still just the long—passed and they had not come to Sprouse risks his life in a daring effort what they held over me. When 1 she stirred. would leave him to God knows what same." to obtain the treasure, and failing takes the edge of. the forest. Her feet were spoke to yon on the couch that night, sort of "Are you cold? You are wet—" his leave .of Barnes in a characteristic beginning to drag he could tell that manner. With little prospect of an early chuckle rounded out the genue see? see "It was the excitement, the nervousness, I—oh, don't you Don't yon .. "But lie said positively that I was to return to her home in Europe, the countess by the effort she made tokeep nn with admonition of the invisible Irishman. Mr. Barnes," she said, drawing yields to Barnes' pleading and agrees go in as re if U. Kecome hto wife. C«lfpvr»ovr from him. "Isn't it near­ (To be continued next week.)