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GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN
FIRST BEAD THIS
George Lawrence meets an old
friend, Major Henri de Beaujolais.
The latter tells hint a strange story.
He had taken a command of men to
rescuethe lonely fort at Zinderneuf,
and on arriving there finds all men
within dead—but propped in the
embrasures. Inside he finds a com-
mandant killed and in his hand a
note, signed by Michael Geste, admit-
ting the theft of the"Blue Water,"
a avluable sapphire, owned by Lady
Brandon, who is "Beau" Geste's
aunt. Later that night, the body
of the young officer disappears and
the fort is set on fire. George Law-
rence, who knows Lady Brandon
well, imhnediately goes to her estate
•in . England to find out whatt the
niystery is and whether the "Blue
Water" actually has been stolen. He
is about to meet her. Lady Brandon
evades his direct question, but he
learns that Michael has disappeared
and he senses that something tragic
has happened in the Brandon house-
hold. He leaves, and the story now
shifts to part two wherein the author
begins to unravel "the mystery of the
'Blue Water.' " .-
NOW GO ON WITII THE STORY.
Of course. She would even shield
him, very probably,-- to such an ex-
tent as was compatible with the re-
covery of the jewel. contemp-
tuous,
if she were. so angry,
tuous, disgusted, as .to feel no inclin-
ation to shield him, she would at any
rate regard the affair as a disgrace-
ful family scandal, about which the
less said was better. Just so • in�i
But to hint, who had unswervingly
loved her from his boyhood, and
whom she frequently called her best
friend, the man to whom she would
always turn for help, since the pleas-
ure of helping her was the greatest
pleasure he could have? Why be re-
ticent, guarded, and uncommunicative
to him.
But—her pleasure was her pleasure,
and his -was to serve it in any way she
deigned to indicate. .
"Well, We'll have the details, dear,
and tea as well," said Lady Brandon
more ightly and easily than .she had
spoken since he had mentioned the
sapphire.
"We'll have it in my boudoir, and
I'll be at home to„nobody whomsoever
You shall just talk until it is time to
dress for dinner, and tell, me every -
last .detail
very-last.detail as you go along. " Every-
thing you think too; everything that
Henri de Beaujolais thought; and ev-
erything you thin khe thought as well.'
As they strolled back to the house,
Lady Brandon slipped her hand thro'
Lawrence's arm, and it was quickly
imprisoned..
He glowed with the delightful feel-
ing that this brave and strong woman
(whose devoted love for another man
was now, at any`xkte, almost maternal.
in its protecting care), was glad to
turn to him as others turned to Ater.
How he yearned to hear her say,
when his tale was told:
"Help me George I have no one
but you, and you are a tower of
strength. I' am in great trouble."
"You aren't looking too well,
George, my dear," she said, as they
entered the wood.
"Lot of fever lately," he replied,.
and
added:
,I feel as
fit as six
people
P
le
now," and pressed the band that he
had seized
"Give it up and come home, Ge-
orge," said Lady Brandon, and he
turned quickly toward her, his eyes
opening widely. "And let hue find you
a wife," she continued. ignored the
Lawrence sighed and g
suggestion.
"How is Ffolliot?" he asked, in-
stead.
"Perfectly well, thank you. Why
shouldn't he be?" was the reply—M
the tone of which a careful listener,,
such as George Lawrence, might have
detected a note of defensiveness, al-
most of annoyance, of repudiation of
an unwarrantable implication.
If Lawrence did detect it, he ignor-
ed this also. • it Hector
"Where is the good - S or
casual pol-
iteness,
randon?" he asked, witha,
"Oh, in 'Iliibet, or Paris or East f -
rico, or Monte Carlo, or tbe South Sea
Islands, or Homburg, Actually 'C'ash-
coir, I believe ,thank you, George," re-
plica Lady Brandon, and added:
"Have you hri tight a suit -case or most
you wire?"
". �eta itg at the Brandon
1 er ant g ere," admitted
Arms" and have one th
Lawrence;
I "Acid how long have yeti been at
tt Arms, en -
lite Brand y George? She:
ge,ired.
,rlOavei, ' fialitttte,„ he arieWered,
it then, clear,'
"You reuse be tired of
eo ti netated. Lady Txaado sad -
ed "iii tend 4P ►!'`
WINGHAIV! ADVANCE -TIMES
is a very small place ..." and went in Captain,
Reverend Maurice• "Innen the flowers off it and sell
search of the
Ffolliot. I suppose. As for retrieving
- then),
4n regard, to ,this sante gentleman, his 'character, it is better not retriev-
George Lawreneee entertained feelings ed. Better left where it is—if it is
,Which were undeniably mixed. not near Inhabited houses, or water
As a just and honest man, he'rec." used for drinking purposes...."
that at the Reverend Maurice "Oh, Please let hint live," interrup-;
ognfsed h very
Ffolliot was a gentle-souled sweet -ted -Faithful -found. "Re is
natured, lovable creature, a finished• useful at times, if only to try things.
scholar, a polished and cultured gen- on."
tieman who had never intentionally I was very grateful to Faithful
harmed a lieing creature. Hound for daring 'to intercede • for
As the jealous, . lifelong admirer me, but felt' that she was rating my
and devotee of Lady Brandon, the general usefulness somewhat low.
rejected but undiminished lover, -he "Well' we'll try bread and water
knew that he hated not so much on him, then," said the Captain after
Ffolliot himself, as the fact of his a pause, during which I suffered
existence. many. things. "We'll also try a
Irrationally, George Lawrence felt flogging," he added, on seeing . my
that Lady Brandon would long out- face' brighten, "and the, name of
live that notorious evil -liver, her hus- Feeble Geste.... Remove it."
band. But for Fyoliiot, he believed, And' I was removed by the Lieuten--
his unswerving„ erving, faithful devotion ant, Ghastly Gustus, and Queen
would then get its reward. Not who!- Claudia; that the law might • take.
ly selfishly, he considered that a'
truer helpmeet, 'a sturdier prop, a
stouter shield and buckler for this
lady of many responsibilities, would
be the world -worn and experienced.
George Lawrence, rather than this
poor frail recluse of a chaplain.
Concerning the man's history, all
he knew was, that he had been the
curate, well-born but penniless, to
whom Lady Brandon's father had
presented the living which was in
his gift. With the beautiful.Patricia
Rivers, Ffolliot had fallen disas-
trously and hopelessly in love,
Toward the young man, , Patricia
Riders .had entertained a sentiment
of affection, compounded more of
pity than of love.
Under parental pressure, assisted'
by training and comparative po.r rty,
ambition` had triumphed over affec-
tion, and the girl,' after some refusals
had married wealthy Sir Hector
Brandon.
Later, and.too late, she had real-
ised the abysmal gulf that must lie
between life with a selfish, heartless,
gross roue, and that with such a man
as the companion of her youth, with
whom she had worked and played
and whose cleverness, learning, sweet
nature ,aied noble unselfishness, she
now realised.
Lawrence wasaware that Lady
Brandon fully believed that the al-
most fatal nervous breakdown, which
utterly' changed Ffolliot in body and
mind, was the direct result of 'her
worldly and loveless marriage with
a mean and vicious man. In this be-
lief she had swooped down upon the
poor lodgings where Ffolliot lay at
death's door, wrecked in body and
unhinged of mind, and brought him.
back with her to Brandon Abbas as
soon as he could be moved. From
there he had never gone ---not for a
single day, nor a single hour.
When he recovered, he was install-
ed as chaplain, and as._"the Chap-
lain" he had been known lever since.
Almost reluctantly, George Law-
rence admitted the most of what was
good, simple, kind, and happY in
that house emanated from this gentle
presence
Pacing the little platform of the
wayside station, it occurred to George
Lawrence to wonder if he .Might
have more to tell the puzzled de
Beaujolais, had his visit to. Brandon
Abbas included the privilege, if not
the pleasure, elf a conversation with
the Reverend Maurice Ffolliot;;
PART .11 .,BLUE
THE MYSTERY OF THE
WATER"
Chapter I
BEAU G -ESTE AND HIS BAND i
"I Think, perhaps, that if V Y
Small Geste were allowed to live, he
ehand
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his character might retrieve
find a hero's grave," said, the Lieu-
tenant.
"And what would he do if he
found a hero's grave?" enquired the
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things."
That evening, George Lawrence
told Lady Brandon all that Major de
Beaujolais had told him, adding his
own ideas, suggestions, and theories,;
But whereas the soldier had been
concerned wetb the inexplicable
events of the day, Lawrence was
concerned with the ineeplicable pap-
er and the means by which it had
reached the hand of a dead man, on
the roof of a• desert outpost in the
Sahara.
Throughout his telling of the tale,
Lady Brae don maintained an un-
broken silence, but her eyes scarcely
left his face.
At the end"°she 'asked a few ques-
tions, but offered no's opinion, pro-
pounded no theory.
"We'll talk about it after dinner,
George," she said.
And after a poignantly delightful
dinner a deux—it being explained
that the Reverend Maurice Ffolliot
was dining in his room *to -night, ow-
ing to a headache ---George Lawrence
found that the talking was again efo'
be done by him. All that Lady 'Bran-
don contributed to the conversation
was questions. Again she offered
no opinion propounded no theory.
Nor, as Lawrence reluctantly ad-
mitted to himself, when he lay awake
in bed that night, did she once admit
nor even imply, that the "Blue Wat-
er" had been stolen. His scrupulous
care to avoid questioning her on the
subject of the whereabouts of the
sapphire and of her nephew, Michael
Geste, made this easy for her, and she
had• availed herself of it to the full.
The slightly painful realisation, that
she now knew all that he did where-
as he know nothing from her, could
not be denied.
Again and again it entered his
mind and roused the question, "Why
cannot she confide in me, and at least
say whether the sapphire has been
stolen, or, not?"
Again and again he silenced it
with the loyal reply, "For some ex-
cellent reason. . Whatever she
does is right."
After 'breakfast next day, Lady
Brandon took him for a long drive.
That the subject which now obsess-
ed him (as it had, in a different
way and for a different reason obsess-
ed de Beaujolais) was also occupying
her, mind, was demonstrated by the
fact that, from time to time, and a
propos of nothing in particular, she
would suddenly ask him some fresh
question bearing on the secret of the
trajedy of Zinderneuf.
How he restrained himself from
saying, "Where is Michael? Has any-
thing happened? Is the 'Blue Water'
stolen?" he did not know. A hun-
dred times, one :or the other of these
questions had leapt from his brain
to the tip of his tongue, since the
moment, when, at their first inter-
view, he had seen that she wished to
make no communieation\or statement
whatever.
As the carriage turned in at the
park gates on their return, he laid
his hand on hers and said:
"My dear—I think everything has
now been said, except one thing—
your instructions to vile. All. I want
now, is to be told exactly what you
want' meto do."
will<I
tell youthat
George,
,
when
n
you go And thank you, my
dear," replied Lady Brandon. '
So he possessed his soul in patience
until the hour struck.
"Come and rest on this chest a
moment, Patricia," he said, on taking
his ,departure next day, when she
had telephoned to the garage, "to
give me my orders. You are going
to make me happier. than I have been
since you told me that you liked me
too much,to love me.';
Lady. Brandon seated herself be-
side Lawrence and all but loved him'
for his chivalrous devotion, his un-
selfishness, his gentle strength, and
utter trustworthiness. ,,
"We have sat here before, George,
she Said, .smiling, andeeie he took her
'hand:
"Listen, my dear. This is what I
want yen to do for me,, Just noth-
ing at all. The 'Blue"" Fater' is not
at Zinderneuf, net anywhere else In
Africa. Where Miehael is, I do not
know. What that paper means, I
cannot tell: And thank you so much
for Wanting to help me, and for ask-
ing no questions. And now, good-
bye, ray dear, dear friend... o"
e .' dearest dears .$ala
Gooil'by , nee
George Laeeretoe, angst ,Sorely peed -
ed, and went out to the door a sadder
int not a wiser man.
Ale e the ear drove away Lady Bran-
don stood it deep thought, pinehing.
he lip.
"To think of that tiq: l" She. Said,.
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its course. It took it, -while Faith- i� a
ful Hound wept apart, and Qiheen i ■
Claudia watched with deep interest.111
I used to dislike the slice of bread i.■:
and tbe water, always provided for
these occasions, even more than the
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"six of the best," which was the
flogging administered, more in sor-
row
or row than in anger, by the *Captain
himself. 11.
The opprobrious name only lasted a •—
for the day upon which it was'award- '■
ed, but was perhaps the worst feat- ■
ure of a punishment. The others
passed and were gone, but the name ■
kept one en the state of unblessed- :,
ness, disgraced 'and Outcast. Nor ■,
was, one allowed in any way to ie- ■
taliate upon the user of the injurious '■ ' e
epithet, awarded in punishment of
ter formal trial, ' however inferior ■
and despicable he might be. One '■
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cheerfully, or,farWorse-would befall.
This was part of the Law as laid
down by the Captain, '-ani beneath
his Law we lived, and strove to live
worthily, for we desired' his praise
and rewards more than we feared his
blame and punishments.
The Captain was my brother,
Michael Geste, later and generally
known as "Beau" Geste, by reason of.
his remarkable physical beauty, men-
tal brilliance, and general, distinc-
tion. f , He was -a very' unusual per-
son, of irresistible charm, ' and his
charm was enhanced, to me at any
rate, by.the fact that he was as en-
igmatic, incalculable, and incompre-
hensible as he was forceful. He was
incurably romantic, and to this trait
added the unexpected quality of a
bulldog tenacity._If Michael sud-
denly and quixotically did some rid-
iculously romantic thing, he.did- • it
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thoroughly and completely, and lie
stuck, to it until it was done.
Aunt Patricia, whose great favour-
ite he was, said that he combined the
inconsequent romanticism and,reck-
less courage of a youthful d'Artagnan
with the staunch •tenacity and stub-
born determination of a wise old
Scotchman!
Little wonder that he exercised au
extroardinary fascination over those,
who lived with him.
The Lieutenant, my brother DigbY,
was his twin, a quarter of an hour
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don, nephew of Sir Hector Brandon, status of Stout Fella, when, invert -
often came during our,” holidays, in
spite of the discouragement of the
permanent name of Ghastly Gustus,
send our united and undisguised dis-
approval.
One could not love Augustus; he
was far too like Uncle Hector for one
thing, and, for another, he was too
certain he was the heir and too dis-
posed to presume upont. However,
Michael dealt with him faithfully,
neither sparing' the red nor spoiling
shipping shadow. Digby had all of the child.... e
Michael's qualities, but to a less I do not remember the precis
Mach q ' • 'had led to my trial and
hewas
"easier,"'crime that
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marked degree,
Both upon himself and other people,'
than Michael was. He loved'fudn
and laughter, jokes and jollity, and,
above all, he loved doing what Mich-
ael did.
I wasa year younger than these
twins, and, very much their obedient
servant. At preparatory school we
ere known as ,
Small al
1 Gesto ,
Geste, •to
and Very Small Geste, and I was , in-
deed, Very Small in all things,' comb
pared wit yny brilliant brothers, to
please whom• was my chief aim in
life.
Probably* I transferred to them the
affection, obedience, and love -hunger
that Would have been given to illy
-parents in the ordinary course of
events; but we were orphans, remem-
bered not our mother nor our father,
and lived our youthful lives between
school and Brandon Abbas, as „soon as
we emerged from the Chaplain's tut-
elage.
e.
Our maternal aunt, Lady Brandon,
did more than her duty by us, but
c `eetainly concealed any love -she may
have felt for any ofeele, but Michael.
Childless herself, I think that\ ail
the maternal love she had to spare,
.as
- g even to hinit and; Claudia, an ex-
traordinarily
traordinarily beautiful ` girl whose
origin was, SO far as we were confer-
red,mysterious, but 'who was vague
ly referred to as a cousin,`• She and
Aunt Patricia, named niece of Iso -
„deal of
bel Rivers, also Spent �a,,good
Childhood at Brandon their Chat n Abbas,
Isobel being, ) think, imporeed as a
Irlriymate and companion for :Claudia
When were at school. She prove
(Id at etcellent playmate and corn -
Dation for tis also; and, at as early
date,
earned and aderked the'honar-
Ory degree and honorable title of
bful Ii otiznd.
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sentence, but I recollect the incident
clearly enough, for two reasons.
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One was that, on this very day of
my -fall from grace, I achieved the
permanent and inalienable title and
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ing the usual order of precedence.
Pride came after the Fall. The other
reason was that, on that evening, we
had the exciting'privege of seeing
and handling the "Bene Water,” as
it is called ,the great sapphire which
Uncle Hector had given to Aunt Pat-
ricia as a wedding gift..I believe his
'great-grandfather, "Wicked', Bran-
don," had "acquired" it when sold-
iering against Dupleix in India.
It is about the loveliest and most
fascinating thing I have ever seene
and it always 'affected me, strangely.
^I could look at it for hours, and it
always gave me a -`curious longing
to put it in my mouth, or crush it to
my breast, to hold it to my nose like
a• flower, or to rub it against my ear.
To look atit was, at one and the ;
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