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CHAPTER XIV.—(Cont'd.)
"Yes! I have been wondering
whatever it could be. In fact, I rang
up his office this morning, but learned
that he was out. It was a serviette
which he took away. Did you know
that?"
"I did know it, Miss Abingdon. I
called upon the analyst. I under stand
you.were out when Mr. Harley came..
May I ask who interviewed him?"
"He saw Benson and Mrs. Howett,
the housekeeper."
"May I also see them?''
Both witnesses having been dis-
missed, he turned again to Phil Ab-
ingdon.
"The next step is clear enough,"
be said, brightly. "I am off to South
Lambeth Road. The woman Jones is
the link we are looking for."
Chartering a more promising -look-
ing cab than that in which he had
come, Detective Inspector Wessex pro-
ceeded to 236 South Lambeth Road.
He had knocked several times before
the dcor was opened by the woman to
whom the girl Jones had called on the
occasion of HarIey's visit.
"I am a police officer," said the de-
tective inspector, "and I have called
to see a woman named Jones formerly
in the employ of Sir Charles Abing-
don.'"
"She went away last night to a job
in the country."
"Did she leave no address to which
letters were to be forwarded?"
"No; she said she would write."
CHAPTER XV.
NAIDA.
Dusk was falling that evening.
Gaily lighted cars offering glimpses
of women in elaborate toilets and of
their black -coated and white-shirted
cavaliers thronged Piccadilly, bound
for theatre or restaurant. The work-
aday shutters were pulled down, and
the night life of London had com-
menced. The West End was in pos-
session of an army of pleasure seek-
ers, but Nicol Brinn was not among
their ranks.
"In," said Nicol Brinn.
Hoskins, the neat manservant, en-
tered. "A lady to see you, sir."
Nicol Brinn turned in a flash.
"Name?"
"She gave none."
"English?"
"No. sir, a foreign lady."
The door was opened again, and
Haskins, standing just inside, an-
nounced: "The lady to see you, sir."
Ile stepped aside and bowed as a
tall, slender woman entered the room.
She wore a long wrap trimmed with
fur, the collar turned .up about her
face. Three steps forward she took
and stopped. Hoskins withdrew and
closed the door.
At that, while Nicol Brinn watched
her with completely transfigured fea-
tures, the woman allowed the cloak
to slip from her shoulders, and, rais-
ing her head, extended both her hands,
uttering a subdued cry of greeting
that was almost a sib. She was dark,
with the darkness of the East, but
beautiful with a beauty that was
tragic.
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"Naida!" breathed Nicol Brinn,
huskily. "Naida !"
Her cloak lying forgotten upon the
carpet, she advanced toward him.
She wore a robe that was distinctly
Oriental without being in the slight-
est degree barbaric. Her skin was
strangely fair, and jewels sparkled
upon her fingers.
Their lips niet, endfor a moment
they clung together, this woman of
the East and man of the West, in
utter transgression of that law which
England's poet has laid down. It was
a reunion speaking of a love so deep
as to be sacred.
Lifting the woman in his arms
lightly as a baby, he carried her to
the settee, between the two high win-
dows end placed her there ami a. thien-
tal cushions, where she looked like an
Eastern queen. He knelt at her feet
and, holding both her hands, looked
into her face with that wondering ex-
pression in which there was something
incredulous and something sorrowful;
a look of great and selfless tender-
ness, The face of Naida was lighted
up, and her big eyes filled with tears.
Disengaging one of her jeweled hands;
she ruffled Nicol Brinn's hair.
"You knew I would tonne?''
"How was I to know that you would
see my message?"
She opened her closed left hand•and
smoothed out a scrap of torn paper
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Her cloak lying forgotten, she ad-
vanced toward him.
which she held there. It was from the
"Agony" column of that day's Tithes.
N. November 23, 1913.
N. B. See Telephone Directory.
"I told you long, long ago that I
would come if ever you wanted me"
He seated himself beside her on the
settee, and held her close. "My
Naida!" he breathed softly.
"Ah, no, no!" she entreated. "Do
you want to break tiny heart?"
He suddenly released her, clenched
his big hands, and stared down at the
carpet. "You have broken mine."
Impulsively Naida threw her arms
around his neck, coiling herself up
lithely and characteristically beside
him.
"My big sweetheart," she whisper-
ed, crooningly. "Don't say it—don't
say it."
Turning, fiercely he seized her. "I
won't let you go!" he cried, and there
was a strange light in his eyes. "Be-
fore
Be -fore I was helpless, now I am not.
This time you have come to me, and
you shall stay."
"I trusted you, I trusted you!" she
moaned.
Nicol -.Brinn clenched his teeth
grimly for a moment; and then, hold-
ing her averted face very close to his
own, he began to speak in a Tow, mon-
otonous voice. "For seven years,"
he said, "I have tried to die, because
without you I did not care to live. I
have gone into the bad lands of the
world and into the worst spots of
those bad lands. Night and day your
eyes have watched me, and I have
wakened from dreams of your kisses
and gone out to court murder, I have
earned the :reputation of being some-
thing more than human, but I am not.
I have everything that life could give;
me except you. Now I have got you,
and I am going to keep you,"
Nelda bean to weep silently, The
kw, e cn voice of Nicol Drina ceased
Ho could feel her quivering in his
grasp; and, as she sobbed, slowly,
slowly the fierce light faded from his
eyes,
"Naida, my Naida, forgive me," he
whispered.
She raised her face, looking up to
him pathetically. "I came to you, 1
carne to you," she moaned, "I prom-
ised long ago that I would come.
What use is it, all this? You know,
you know! Kill me if you like. How
often have I asked you to kill tine. It
would be sweet to die in your arms.
But what use to talk so? You are in
great danger or you would not have
asked me to tonne. If you don't know
it, I tell you—you are in great dan-
ger."
Nicol Brinn released her, stood up,
and began slowly to pace about the
room. He deliberately averted his
gaze from the settee. "Something has
happened," he began, "which has
changed everything. Because you are
here I know that—someone else is
here,"
He was answered by a shuddering
sigh, but he did not glance in the di-
rection of the settee.
"In India I respected what you told
me. Because you were strong, I loved
you the more. Here .in England I
can no lunger respect the ,accomplice
of assassins."
"Assassins? What, is this some-
thing new?"
"With a man's religion, however
bloodthirsty it may be, I don't quar-
rel so long as he sincerely believes in
it. But for private assassination I
have no time and no sympathy." It
was the old Nicol Brinn who was
speaking, coldly and incisively. "That
—something we both know about—
ever
bout .ever moved away from those Indian
hills was a possibility I had never con-
sidered. When it was suddenly
brought home to me that you, you,
might be here in London, I almost
went mad. But the thing that made
me realize it was a horrible thing, a
black, dastardly thing. See here."
He took both her hands and looked
grimly into her face. "For seven
years I have walked around with a
silent tongue and a broken heart. All
that is finished. I am going to speak."
"Ah, no, no 1" She was on her feet,
her face a mask of tragedy.. "You
swore to me, you swore to me!"
"No oath holds good in the face of
murder."
"Is that why you bring me here?
Is that what your message means?"
"My message means- that because
of—the thing you know about—I nal
suspectedof the murder."
"Oh," moaned Naida, "what can 1
do, what can I do?"
"Give me permission to speak and
stay here. Leave the rest to me."
She pressed her little hands against
his shoulders.
"Listen! Oh, listen!"
"I shall listen to nothing."
"But you must—you must! I want
to make you understand something.
This morning I see your note in the
papers. Every day, every day for
seven wFiole long years, wherever I
have been, I have looked. In the pa-
pers in India. Sometimes in the pa-
pers of France, of England."
"I never even dreamed that you
left India," said Nicol Brinn, hoarse,
ly. "It was through the Times of
India that I said I would communicate
with you."
"Once—we never left India. Now
we do—sometimes. But listen. I pre-
pared to come when—ham"
Nicol Brinn's clasp of Naida tight-
ened cruelly. •
"Oh, you hurt me!" she moaned.
"Please let me speak. He gave me
your name and told me to bring you!"
Nicol Brinn dropped his arms and
stood, as a man amazed, watching her.
(To be continued.)
There'd Be Nothing In It
"I couldn't drink anything out of
a flask after that fellow for money
"Why not? Ile seems a pretty
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be anything in the flank."
Something Wrong.
Mr. :Newlywed --"What on earth
are you, trying to do?"
Mrs. Newlywed—"I was reading
about cooking by electricity, so I hung
the chops on the electric bell, and I've
been pushing alae button for half an
hour, but it doesn't seem to world"
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He scans the world with calm and
fearless eyes,
Conscious within of powers long
since forgot;
At every step, now man-made barriers
rise
To bar his progress—but he heeds
them not.
He stands erect, though tempests
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School With Glass Walls
Will Be Built in Berlin
Berlin.—The Steglitz District of the
German capital is to have an enor-
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practically entirely of glass.
According to the plans, the building
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a! reddy--"I won't! It's too much
like bean' a girl,"
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DIVORCE HEARING
(A Chicago titan has sued his wife
for divorce on the ground that she
neglects hire and bis children to.Play
golf,—News item.)
Q.--ls this lady your wife?
A.-1•Ier face is familiar, hut I don't
recall her tan.
Q, -It's been a long time since
you've seen her?
A.—I haven't seen her to speak of
since warm weather set in.
Q.—When were you married?
A:—In December, 1911.
Q.—Why in December?
A.—All the golf courses were
frozen over and she could spare the
time.: •
• • •
Q.—Were you happy?
A.—Until the following spring.
Q.—What happened in the follow-
ing spring?
A.—The links reopened.
• • •
Q.—Did your wife ever spend any
time at home?
A.—Only when it stormed.
Q.—You did everything you could
to make your home attractive to her,
did you not?
A.—I even put grass on the floor
and had the entire house trapped by
one of the best known golf course de-
signers in America.
Q.—Did she make any complaint?
A.—Yes; she' said she never could
be happy in a home that had no water
hazards.
* * *
Q.—Was she extravagant?
A.—Extravagant to the extreme.
Q.—What do you mean by that?
A. She often lost as many as eight
golf balls a day.
Q.—And you mad to buy her new
ones?
Q,—This did not.keep her content?
A.—No, I had to buy some of the
fifty cent balls and she used to com-
plain constantly that I couldn't af-
ford to keep her supplied with dollar
ones.
• * •
Q.—Have you any children?
A.—Three.
The Wife (interrupting) : FOUR!
Judge: Which is right? Your wife
says four.
A.—Sore's played golf BO steadily
she can't say anything else.
• • *
Q.—Your wife named the children,
did she not?
A.—Yes.
Q.—What did she name them?
A.—Mashie; Niblick and Cpoon.
Q.—Was she kind to them?
A.—Well, she used to let them play
with her old score cards.
Q. --Did this have a good influence
on them?
A.—No; they grew up to be in-
veterate liars.
• •
Q.—You have had very little of your
wife's company?
A.—I figure I have only Been her
for about eleven weeks out of the last
sixteen years.
Q.—Did you ever chide her about
this?
A.—Yes.
Q.—What was her answer?
A.—She said that was par for the
match.
Judge: Decree granted, Custody
of children to husband; custody of
golf clubs to wife!
•
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within the one hour before the engine.
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