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CLOSE QUARTERS;
OR, THE HOUSE. IN THE
RUE BARBPTTE
CHAPTER IX.-(Cont'cle
Brett smiled.. ]'ouarstupid
oa
woman," ho said. "You think you
are serving your friends by adopt-
ing this tone. In affect you are
- bringing them to the guillotine.
Now listen. If I leave you with-
our further words you do not see
Inc again. You willknow nothing
of what is going on until the police
have lodged you in a cell. Neither
you nor' your associates can escape.
[ promise nothing,, but perhaps if
you -tell Inc what I want to know
there may be a chance for you.
Otherwise there is none. Shall I
go?" • .
And he turned as ifte approach
l+he door.
For an instant the woman hesi-
tate,d, and Brett thought that he
had scored.
"Wait," she said, lowering her
voice, th-ough there was still the
menace of subdued passion in her
accents. "Who is your friend?"
"A gentleman whose identity in
way coneerne you. You must
aeal with me, and it will be bettor
If you -ask who I am."
"I know," she said, laconically.
"Come this way, both of you."
She raised a flap -door located at
one side of the counter. Brett fol-
lowed her into a. passage behind
the doorway that led into the bar.
t'airholine succeeded him•
The trio passed rapidly through
the door at the end of the pass-
tge, and quickly fund themselves
in a long, low tonne,, usually devot
al to billiavo7e. The place was
lark and xrnelled evilly of stale to-
bacco. De-y);3nt penetrated but
feebly through the red blinds that
`,locked up three windows on ono
tide. The woniati drew two of
these blinds, and thus' illuminated
ho interior_ The windows, open
'unto a yard, and the, place was
ihoroualtly shut off from all eines-
ration from the street,
";Now," she said, "I will chew
;ctl` something."
r ,She walked toward the fire -place
trthe end of the room. On the
nantlepieeo was 'a snuare of iron
lhectiug, painted' white and stud-
lecl with curious -looking spikes in -
hetes, triangles, and straight lines.
Prom a box at hand she took half
t dozen small glass bulbs, red and.
clue. She placed theta in a lino on .
eine of the snikcs'at intervals of
eve inches. Then she retired to f
that sideofthe room where they
had entered. The distance of per-
haps thirty feet. -
Before Brett or Fairholme could
vaguely guess her intention she
whipped a revolver out of her poc-
ket. It would be idle to deny that.
they were startled, but the woman
paid not the least attention to
them.
She steadily leveled the weapon
and fired twice,' smashing the two
outer balls of the six. Then she
transferred the pistol to her left
hand and smashed another pair.
Then she turned her back to the
target, adjusting a small, mirror
attached to the butt of the revol-
ver, and smashed both of the re-
maining bulbs by firing over her
left shoulder. Sweeping round
with a triumphant smile towards
the barrister, she said, "I can do
that in fifty other ways, but six will
snake."
"It is very Cleve, madame," ho
said, "May I ask why I am in-
debted to you for this display?"
She placed the revolver in her
pocket. "It is my answer to your
question, monsieur," she said.
"That is the way I and my friends
often talk to people who annoy us;
and now I -shall wish you pod -
day. You will find other sights
in Montmartre to interest you."
Brett laughed easily, and bowed
low.
"Believe me," he said. "I
will find few performers en expert
and, may I add, so discreet. We
will meet again, and perhaps test
your skill,"
Without another word the party
retnrned to ,the front room of the
restaurant, and Brett and Fair-
holme passed into'the street, where
their cab was waiting.
r"I .suppose she meant," .said
Fairholme "that if wo were not
jolly careful she would put &bul-
let through our hearts as easily
as through those glass bulbs."
"Such was her intention," said
Brett, .dryly, "But women never
have a true dramatic genius. That
was a piece of melodrama which
might suffice with many of her
class. It aroused me, but it w.as.
a waste. of time on her part."
"Anyhow, we shall not get much
taut of her in the way of informa-
tion."
Oh, yea, wo will. She will tell
us everything. She has told me a
great deal already,"
That
He directed the driver to wait
or them at a street corner some
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little distance farther en. 01
to where theystood an itino
Wender was 1301114 'some lino
anima toys,
Brett bought one. The p
was twenty sous, He 'gave
man a two -franc piece end tofu
the ohmage, '
"Do you know," ho said, "w
is the ,proprietor of the .Caba
Noir. ?"
"`Certainly, monsieur," rept
the gutter -merchant; "it is G
Jews, His name is Boatteaire,
"Alli And the lady whp. lir
there, adtu'k pretty woman •w
white -skin, who is she?"
"That is his daughter," said
intim. "She is known as, La Be
Chasscuso." "Why such a name
"Because she is clever with f:arms. She used to be in a eirc
but She left* the profession aye
ago."
°'And does site live here co
menetstantly?" '
"I menet say, 1' think she go
away a great deal. She- was tray
ling recently; she came back--4me •see—last Tuesday eight."
-"Thank you," said Brett.. T
two reentered their cab, a
Brett. told the driver to proceed
rapidly as possible to the Rue 5
Honore.
"I hope to goodness," he said t
Fairholme, e "that
Captain it
G
tier has nnot left Paris already
these Foreign Office Messenge
.are .liable to be despatched to t
other enol of the earth at a moan
ent's notice."
"Why do you wish to see him?
said Fairholmo.
"Simply to obtain definite eon
firmation of my theory. La Bell
Ohassseuse was the, woman_ who ae
companied the man made up to
look like Jack Talbot duringhis
journey from London. If aul
tier can see her and assure me
that .1 am right I will be convinc-
ed concerning that which I already
know to be true."
"By Jave!" cried Fairholme,
"that never occurred to Inc. I.
wonder if it is so 1
"Mademoiselle Beaueaire is
quite an adept in two things: she
can break tiny glass bulbs and she
an flirt. She chose t.0 exhibit the
first of these .accomplishments to
us, and convey what was intende.l
o be a warning; in reality, she
ave us some valuable • informa-
tion."
"I suppose," said Fairholme,
.``that this crowd will watch us
pretty closely, won't they?"
Brett leaned back in, the cab and
auglred heartily.
"We are the most interesting
taersons in Paris to'them at this
moment." he said. "That poor
ellow who sold us the toys will
ave to change his position, I am
afraid• One ,of them is following
s now. Let's see who it is."
At the next street corner he stop -
d the cab suddenly, and jumped
ut, followed by Fairholme. A
inute later another vehicle dash--
d into the street. In it was Beste-
da lady, closely veiled; but a
rge feather hat and a grotesque
attern of a black veil could not
wholly conceal the - pretty, deter-
minecl face of La Belle Chasseuse,
Evidently she had no one at hand
undertake the mission, so she
Hewed Brett in person. He sig -
ailed to her and her driver.
stonished, the man pullet] up•
rett instantly advanced and took
of
his hat with that pleasant smile
his which usually went straight
the female heart, but which now
()the
lost its effect on the
rims young woman who looked
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"Allow. me," Ito said, "to offer
my friendly services. It is a close
day, and mademoiselle has, I am
sure, many•otlter calls on her time.
I will save you at least an hoer,
and myself nearly the same period.
I am going to secure the presence
of a witnoss to identify you as the
lady who crossed the Channel last
Tuesday in company with a gentle-
man. You both drove to the Grand.
Hotel, and your companion signed
the register there in the names of
Mr. and Mrs. Talbot; is it not so?"
She bent forward and looked at
him viciously. Her eyes sparkled
with annoyance at being pal • it so
easily in her self-impote
espionage.
"Monsieur is
CHAPTER. X.
On their way te the. hotel, Brett,
Yielding apparently to a momen-
tary impuire, stopped the cab et a
hoose in the Rue duo Obaussee
d'Antin, Without any explanation
to Lord Fairholme he disappeared
into the. interior, and dict not re-
join his companion for nearly ten
minutes.
"It is perhaps not of much use;"
he explained on his return,: "but:I
do not like to leave any stone un-
turned. The roan I have just called
on is a well-known .private detec-
tive•, and I can treat him to Iook
after; my business without taking
the polies into his confldence•,Two
of tris smartest agents will maintain
te close wateh on both the Cabaret
Noir and No. 11, -Rue Barbette,
during the afternoon. We are
tracking some of the most expert
and daring criminals in France. It
is hopeless to expect them to, pro-
vide us with clues; they simply
won't do it. No one but it genius
in criminality would have risked
steal a dramatic move as the per-
sonation of Jack Talbot, or dared:
to put in an open appearance at
the Grand Hotel. So my agents
here can only hope; at the best, to
got sight of any messenger or as-
sistant scoundrel who may•turn'
ip
at either of the places indicated."
It was evident that whilst he rat-
tled on in a careless strain his ac-
tive brain was busily employed in
discounting the future.
(To be continued.)
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calendar and follow the practice of
western nations in using only the
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a cycle consisting of sixty years,
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flesh of Europeans, however, de-
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at all by the ordinary farmer, who
simply knows at -tire end of the year
that his crops have not done well
and the year has been an tinprefite
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Perhaps some of the wheat straw
worms have attacked his wheat and
the result has only shown in the
shriveled eondition and light weight
of the kernels, with no apparent
connection between the two.
His corn has not grown well, the
ears are short and not well filled
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or his land, whereas it was the corn -
root worm that ruined his prop, a -
pest that he might easily have
avoided.
His timothy meadow las died
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should have done so, when had he
looked carefully about the roots ho -
would have found the short winged
form of the chinch bug present there
in myriads.
Such losses as these are not con-
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consideration, either by the farmer
or statistician. unless they are of
such magnitude as to devastate
largo areas of country.
Here we have a financial loss,
falling upon a single industry neat-
ly three times as great as that
caused by fire, and to ask if such
a factor should be reckoned upon
and carefully considered by those
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open air every find day and warm
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