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SYNOPSIS left. And quite naturally his fho’ts
* turned along the other line; the lin^
... ___________ ____I hinted that
p0?tUlar j morning. Was She acting as a go-
i between for the Queen?
If it was so he was in deeper water
I than ever. Impossible though it was
i to arrive at any conclusion if it was
| Mary herself involved, it was doubly i
| impossible if it was the Queen. And
Winy Carteret was a tree easy going ;7wMc;"Gril5OB ’haa
young man extremely '
with both men and women and
and with his income of five thous
and a year enabled him to live in
an up-todate apartment in the city
of London. He received a letter
one morning from a friend, Ron-
aid Standish, which bore a post yej more he thought of it the
mark Grand Hotel, at Territet,
on the Lake of Geneva. Standish
appealed to him to meet him at
once as he needed someone who
had steady nerve, could use a re
volver and could use their fists
if necessary. Gillson from the
Home Office calls Tiny and he
goes there before leaving. Here he
is instructed by Gillson to appear
at a certain restaurant in Paris
and after receiving instructions
there to proceed to Switzerland.
Just as Tiny was about to leave
word came that Jebson, a mem
ber of the force had been mur
dered, he being the fourth officer
to be done away with in the same
manner. Dexter came in and des
cribed the facts. Tiny finds that
his friend Lady Mary is connected
with the case.
CHAPTER III
I more likely did it seem to him. In
■ the first place the mere fact that Gil
son had suggested it as a likely so
lution weighed withc’him. Never in
his life had Tiny Carteret been so
I impressed by a man’s personality as
I he had been that morning. It wasn’t
| only the fact that the fellow had
seemed to know such an astounding
amount abount one’s personal move
ments, he reflected: it was the inde
finable atmosphere of power about
hifcn, . . . inscrutable to a certain
extent, and yet quite prepared to
throw all his
suited him.
man to bluff.
But apart
considered it a possibility, Tiny him-'
I self was inclining towards the idea,
i The difficulty of imagining Mary
| herself to be the victim, necessitated
finding another. And it was a sig
nificant fact that the first time she
had had supper with Felton Blake
was immediately on her return from
Bessonia. Odd remarks, to which he
had attached no importance at the
time, came back to him—remarks
made casually during .the last few
weeks by pals of both sexes.
“Mary seems a bit off her oats.”
“Mary doesn’t seem a bit herself
these days.” And one in particular
“My dear, l> believe you’ve
love with a Bessonian.”
Trifles: laughed off as
made, but now taking on
significance in Tiny’s brain.
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with a pink gin. Is it a bargain?”
“Hullo! Tiny.” The other lounged
over—i-a big loosely made man with
a European reputation. “Don’t often
see you here at this hour.”
“Straker, I crave knowledge
about Bessonia. Get on with it.”
The other looked at him curiously
“Rather a new departure for you,
isn’t it? What do you want to know
about it. If the shooting is good, or
wihat?”
“I want to know briefly, old man
what the political situation is there.
I have just read in this rag—oh,! |
it’s one of yours, is it—that a clash.
rumour was proved true the party
would simply disintegrate.”
“And do you think it is true?”
asked Tiny slowly,
The other shrugged his shoulders
“The King is not a particularly
prepossessing .specimen,’ he answer
ed. “And Queens are no different to
ordinary women except that consid
erably more publicity surrounds
their lives. No, Tiny; I can’t tell
you—-I don’t know. All I can tell
you is that if the rumour becomes
currently believed, it doesn't matter
whether
it isn’t:
same. It
the end
course,
such a thing—spectacularly, which
as far as I can see it
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his shoulders,
Tiny.
be a question
Again he shrugged
“Wliat then?” said
“Well it wouuldn’t
of in the end. The thing would be
over in an hour, and one would
never be surprised with people of
the Bessonian temperament if the IL O WL JUULU A, AO XL---LXlttL <L AJAO.OU .is imminent between the Royalist 'punishment awarded the erring lady
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No, Tiny—
serious mat-
Berendosi in
reasons into
I was
that would be a very
ter.
power there for many
which I haven’t got time to go now.
And as long as the matter remains
in the region of rumour I don’t
think we shall, have Berendosi in
power. But if by some /unfortunate
j chance that girl has been indiscreet
X1 i and Berendosi holds proof of it— the *the'Proof which would carry conviction
I to the masses—it’s all up. He is just amthe1 biding llis now and preparing
’ | the ground. Then when he’s readythan'
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party and the Industrial group.
Why,”
Squire Straker sat down and be
gan to fill an ancient pipe.
“If you are really interested, Tiny
I can give you the situation in anutshell. It is not at all complicated]
it is a situation which has occurred1
innumerable times in those small'
Latin states in the past and which
will occur innumerable times in
future,
breath
'bound
11 matter
| usual. You probably don’t remember
I that when the old king died five
I years ago, there was a very large1
I party in Bessonia who were in favor'
I of the place becoming a republic.]
j The party was led by a gentleman*
i named Berendosi, who is an extre-|
mely able man—i " \
they've got. And had that party had
its way Berendosi would undoubted
ly have been the first president.
I Well—it didn’t have its way, and
] the present bloke Peter became king
But Berendosi is not the type of man '
to let trifles of that sort deter him 1
and though he was defeated in the
first Tound he was by no manner of
means knocked out. He went on
working and plotting behind the
scenes until he got a severe jolt in
was
The
is a’
and
Political intrigue is as
of life to them, though I
to say that in this case
is rather more serious i
That it had been Lady Mary Ridge-1
way with Felton Blake the previous
night he was convinced. True, she(
had not actually admitted it, but her
whole demeanour simply shouted the*
fact. And as he walked moodily*
back to his club he tried vainly to
puzzle the thing out.
Tiny Carteret knew probably as
much about Lady Mary Ridgeway as
any other man, and a good deal more
than most. He knew all her friends
they were both in the same set. xAnd'
if anybody was likely to have heard
of an undesirable entanglement in
the past it was he. C
it to himself if she was in Felton
Blake’s power it must be due to his
possession of something incriminat
ing belonging to her. And that as
far as he could see could only be
letters . . . Love letters. Further,
they must be letters written either
to some
married
possibly
nothing
The question of me outsider he
dismissed at once: the mere thought
of such a thing in connection with preciably graver than it was twenty-
Mary was laughable, ana tne mar-|
ried man solution seemed almost as
blank wall. He made of course, no are proceeding normally,
pretence whatever to such an ex-] state of affairs exists only
tremely intimate inside knowledge of surface,
her life, and there might have been the Bessonian temperament it is ob-
some man . . . might even be one]v’i°us that a clash must come soon
now. And a letter might have got between the Royalist party and the
mislaid, or been stolen by a valet and * International group, and what the is-
sold to Blake. But
othere—rightly or
felt that if it had been so rumors of
it would have got about, at any rate
in her own immediate set. And there
had never been such a rumour—not
the suspicion or hint of one: that he
knew.
He tried another line—could it be
money trouble? If possible—eveij
more absurd. Mary was very
off, and her father, me Duke,
an extremely wealthy man
adored her. Besides, Gillson
said nothing about Blake being a
moneylender. ,At which point in his reflections1 ed-^Squire Straker, foreign editor of way is an extremely able man—dis
he realized tihat he didn’t seem to be th0, Planet> T>”*
making much progress. Incriminating* Straker, old hearty, ’
letters and money trouble removed. ---- - .
there didn’t seem to be a great deal( ?— ------- ----------
fallen in
soon as i a new (
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'As he argued’ ha(j happened fo Mary during her]
l visit there? He would have given
all he possessed to know. In the
answer to that question lay the so
lution.
He ordered a gin and bitters and
picked up an evening paper. One
the headlines .caught his eye—
CRITICAL SITUATION IN
BEiSiSONIA.
INCREASING TENSION
His eye travelled down the column
“The situation in Bessonia is ap-
hopeless outsider, or to a]
man. Otherwise, though
injudicious, there would be,'
incriminating about them, j
of
And the mar-J f°ur hours ago. As yet there are no
visible signs of discontent and things
But this
on the
To anyone acquainted with
i he’ll strike.
He finished his drink
I “.So long, old boy:
. hour when my chief labour com
mences.”
He shambled out of the room like
a great bear, leaving Tiny staring
r out of the window.
And such is the constitution of the
human mind that it was not prob
lems of high politics in the Near
East that occupied the latter’s
thoughts, but something more per
sonal. Why had not Gillson told him
all this at lunch? That Squire Strak-
,ier should be in possession of infor-
, mation unknown to Gillson was ab
surb. Gillson must have known all
, these rumours, but not a word had
’ he said. And Tiny began to feel irrl-
‘I lated.
man’s
I dark.
'proper
least he could-expect was to be given
full information. Why should he be
used^ as a cat’s paw? And then as
suddenly as his ir.ritation had arisen
it evaporated. Gillson’s words in his
office that morning recurred to him
“Ther^ are certain occasions when
real genuine ignorance is worth un
told gold.”
Presumably this had been one of
them. Not only was he to be kept
in the dark as to what was going to
happen to himself on the other side,'
a Tumour spread’and ’then contra-|but also as to what was happening
dieted!—but by that time the damage! to other Pe°Ple- Yet> surelr would
1 have been better had he known the
rumours before he went round to
see Mary. He could have asked her
point blank: he could have. .
And what would have been the
result? He lit a- cigarette thought
fully, and a faint smile twitched
round his lips. What would have
■ been the result? Nothing: a flat de-
I nial. He knew Mary well enough for
* that, and so apparently did that
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•possibily the ablest i tliouslltfu^ly
i
i the second round too. That
i when the King got married.
I Queen, as you probably know,
most divinely pretty creature,
she absolutely knocked the entire
population endways. They raved
about her, and Peter’s stock soared
sky high. Never had he been so pop
ular; had his position seemed more .
secure. And Berendosi looked on, I
smiling behind his hand. Only too'
well did he know his own country-]
men; only too well did he know the
rapidity with which the pendulum
swings with people of their tempera
ment. He could afford to bide his
time. A word here, a hint there: j
was done. And so it went on, like
drops of water wearing away a stone
until a new and completely unex
pected development took place about
three months ago. Am I boring you?
“Very far from it,” said Tiny.
“Up to that time the hints and,
innuendoes started by Berendosi and
his group had been entirely political
You now the sort of thing I mean—
and
this
rose,
is the
He had all the independent
dislike of being kept in the
•Surely if he was a fit and
person to play at all, the
somehow cr* sue will be no one can say. At the
wrongly__Tiny’momeiit the army remains loyal.”
I He put down the paper, and lit a
1 cigarette. Like the majority of his
I fellow-country-men, the internal af-
* fairs of remote foreign states bored
him to extinction. He dimly remem
bered that he had heard a man. at
dinner a few nights ago saying some-, that So-and-So was accepting bribes . , . „v x x<. J3x- a t, 11, x XI. i x | darned fellow Gillson. Had he gonething about the condition of Besson- that the King was grossly extrava- , x, .. x, „i. , x , x, ., xx x. * x xu x xx. 1 u ■ I round there evidently bursting withI ia, but he had paid no attention. And gant: that the people were being
1 It began to strike him now that if his overtaxed in order that corrupt min- , , , ’
I surmise over Lady Mary was right, lt.isters might line their pockets. And x . • , , .
I was high time he ceased to pay no then, as I say, came the change. It t s0 * ,®on a e* era 6 y SG?
i attention. He glanced round the was done very gradually, and at first* roun °.see u ° genu ne g-
, - x1 j x x u *u xi : norance, in the hope that she wouldi room and saw the very man he want- our correspondent out—who by the x x , . , .1 I turn to him for help. The problem
i that occupied Striker
I son too. Was • there
! proof of the rumour
I That is what he had
find out, and that is
well
was
who
had!
| regarded it. But after a time he
| "Straker, old hearty,” he called could do so no longer: the rumours
out, “in return for a few minutes of became so persistent. And though
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gist was the same: the Queen was
being unfaithful to her husband.”
Tiny Carteret sat up with a jerk:
then sank back in his chair.
“Go on,” he said quietly.
“Now you can see at once,’
tinued Straker, “the vast importance
of the move. The Industrial party—
which is another name in that
country for the Republican party—
and Berendosi do not c'are the snap
of a finger if she is unfaithful or
if she isn’t. But the other party—
Royalist party—would literally be
split from top to bottom if it were
proved that she whs. In fact Bereh-
dosi would have obtained everything
he wants, The cement binding the
Royalist part together, is the beauty
and the home life and all the rest
of it of the Ring and Queen. Once
that cement was removed; dnee thej
occupied Gill-
any definite
in existence?
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What he had
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And yet.
herself was not
was even more
possible conclu-
not succeeded in finding out,
At least, not
Squire Sitraker's
vital importance
vided a central
whole thing hung together connect
edly. There was proof in existence,
and Felton Blake held it. And Mary
was^ acting on behalf of the Queen
to get it back. The other difficulties
—the private room in the Fifty-
Nine, the motor drive which the two
had taken together—seemed capable
of explanation once that central
fact was conceded. They were trifles
compared with the main thing.
He glanced at his watch: five min
utes to eight. What was he going to
say to Gillson over the telephone?
He had no proof: only a strong in
tuition, He might be wrong—wildly
wrong. He might be jumping to the
most absurd conclusion,
once granted Mary
the victim, which
absurb, what other
sion was there?
He was still undecided as he call
ed up Sloane 1234: still undecided
when he heard Gillson’s deep voice
from the other end.
“Nothing for certain, Colonel,”
he said.
“We can’t always deal in certain
ties, Carteret, in our trade. Did you
find out anything at all?"
“Do you know Squire Straker by
any chance?”
“Of course I do.” Gillson seemed
surprised. “Why do you ask?”
“I’ve just been having a long talk
with him over the state of affairs
in a certain country.
Was it Tiny’s imagination, or did
a very faint chuckle come from the
other end of the wire?
“Have you indeed? I hope you
were interested.'”I
I think you might have been a
little more explicit, Colonel, at lunch
to-day.”
“Possibly, Carteret. But don’t
forget it is still only in the rumor
stage. The point, however, now is
this. What opinion, if any, have you
arrived at?”
(Continued next week)
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Mr. James Henderson, the post-
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Catherine Windus, of Bothwell, is
in charge of the post office during
Mr.Henderson’s absence.
KIRKTON
(Too late for last week)
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Audrey and Muriel, of
spent Sunday with Mr.
Chas Paul; also Mr. and
Veitch spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Paul. . ,
(Mrs. Danakin and two little chil
dren spent the week-end with her
mother, Mrs. Wm. Bibby.
Mr. and Mrs. Blatchford and two
children, of Detroit, spent the week
end at Mr. and- Mrs. R. Dobson’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Essery, of
Centralia, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fletcher.
Elimville Horseshoe club paid a
visit with the Kirkton club and won
by thirty-five pbints.
Mrs. David Goulding’s flower gar
den is a wonder. Quite a number of
people from miles around called on
Sunday to admire the flowers.
The hunter’s from our district
will not need to go to the northern
country to hunt deer as there were
two deer seen on the farm of Mr.
Emerson Gunning last Friday after
noon.
Rev. and Mrs. R. sf. P. Bulteel
and daughters, from Brantford,
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs, R. Humphreys. Mr. B'Ulteel
preached two very excellent sermons
in the St. Paul’s Church and Mrs.
Bulteel saing a s|olo in the evening
which was very much enjoyed by all.
Mrs. David Kirk and daughter,
Mrs. Orth and twin sons, Glen and
Gordon Orth, of March well, Sask.,
are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. David
Haziewood and other friends.
Mr. Dudley, of Detroit, spent a
few days this week with Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Scott.
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