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Injury was only a slight
neglected it. It !began
en bloodepoisoningeet
. ..ted so quickly that he
is arm araputeted.
you.?ut Yoe may be
n safeguo.rd yourselr
remit of accidents, as
. reel :e have done, by
ra-Enh alweys bandy.
A. Vernicke of Ilitton,
'nritally ran a needle so
• finer that it pierced
ee write: "My hand
if and swollen that I
ise it. I naturally tried
dy 1 knew et but it only
Blood-polsordng deven
I extended right up my
, pain was intense, and 1
Iiought I would lose my
was in a terribly in-
strollon istate, and liter.
... with lumps. A friend
a to me Zam-Bula which
L It was not long before
w less. *With persevere
Attila/lett= wa,s it
. the swelling and lumps
d, and my arm was soon
again." -
t is also best for eczema
in troubles. ulcers, run -
and piles. All storen. See.
guard. His jaw drepped,
sh color perenial on his
me spotted with white,
• he managed to exclaim
seems to me," Duraat
eriously, "that you ought
you were drowned last
reed a laugh. "You're
ie retorted, gradually re.
ease. "How could I have
? I am here ?"
are here, but who are.
Unfortunately for you,.
s body was recovered, lies
r family vault in Eng -
rants voice softened a
thert So you do claim
eibbish!" Brooke turned
'away from him.
u off onee, because you
las older brother of mine,
I 13ellmere, whom you very
ibIe, and are so eleverlsr
ng was drowned off the
ands on November 18th
I thought you would have
:It to take yourself away,
ow you must pay for it,"
t!" Brooke laueshtd sueer-
t has this trumped-up
do with the matter that
here?" Brooke glanced
yward the sitting. watchful
...you're the thief here, not
der you'd like to vent your
r for informing on you, no
'ye put together this aston-
k-and-bull story. What
mu do? What does every
when, he's caught in
ke this?"
Durant glared at hint
.nd to pursue that chargd,
he way you have acted?
ir!" Brooke's face ixiilecL
ensense!"
;e! You'll soon find it is -
You. What! Po you think
aecklace can be stolen
room be found later
id that !then you can los-
e by assailing mh and by
eliarge nonsense?"
ew very well that if any -
at necklace from thia roora,
it to me."
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"Come, you. lite ----"t" He was leap-, , lace, haven't you?"
ing from the third to the last trunk. .11ilda stopped abruptly before the
He raised its lid, lifted out the tray chair to which she had moved; there.
and looked beneath.was a 11101119/1t during which she ap-
"Well, I'll be damned!" he exclaim- peered' to thinkithen she turned sham-
ed. N. ly toward him. "How did you know
For perhaps a minute andit half he that? I haven't •told a soul," she
stood staring at the disorder .he had declared. Her eyes glistened.
wrought in the. room. But obviously Brooke shrugged his shoulders.
this was not .what dismayed Min. He ,.saw your place it on this table when
was so nonplussed that he failed to you and I and one other man were
hear the sounds in tae hall. Then last in this rooin together," he re -
he shook himself, pulled open the door f plied ouickly.
and all but -ran into Rose emerging Yes, There was still a hope -
from her room. . ful, expectant look in her eyes.
"And soon !afterward I saw It in
"Why, David, what makes you Taink
"Rose! Rose! I was coining for you," thepossession of that other mail."
he cried.
"Oh!" Hilda turned away to hide
=
Whit?"' her disappointment. Again she pails-
at is
ed, staring dully down into the chair.
-"And so you though because he had it
that I had lost I,,?" she asked with -
mit looking at lam ,
"Yes—and worse, knowing the char-
acter of the man as I did."
"You don't seem to mind now s w
ing how strongly prejudiced you are
against that man." Hilda .still did
not venture to look at him.
"Why, should I? How would 1 you
feel against a man who had the pre-
sumption to steal your title, whci was
belly rascal enough to attempt to
face 'you down when you laid claim
to it?
"Corne in here!" he seized her arm,
drew her into Durant's room and
shut the door. "Your friend has
either skipped or hes' about ,to," he
anhounced.
"Why, David, what Makes Youlhink
that?"
"Practically everythingthat belongs
to him i
gone, carried off n those bun-
dles from time tto time Look!" He
led her to the closet, It contained
nothing except one 'dresssuit hanging
limply from its hanger; all the other
hangers hung bare, "Ana look here,
and there and here!" He dragged her
from ttunk to trunk. The top trays
of each were empty. Beneath, on the
bottom ot. every trunk were single lay-
ers Mil:wicks compactly packed.
"He's gong Rose." He tinned from.
the last trak to look at her. "Yon
dont believe it? Then why all these
bricks? He hasn't said anything, a-
bout intending to build a house , for
himself, and he isn't a strike syin-
pathizer."
Rose stifled' her smile "David how
did you kipper.- to come in here ?",she
aaked.
al decided that it was • about time
we took that Opel pin away from him."
- • "David, I'm ashamed of, you!"
"I'm ashamed of myself, but only
for not getting it." t .
• "Oh, David!' she was as reproach-
ful as she eould manage to be. "Whit
if he should return? 'Put everything
back. Quickt" She closed the doer
of ,the yawning closet, herself.
"No chance of his coming back,"
grumbled David, beginning to restore
order Among the trunks. "Closets;
trunks,toorni everything prove he has
departed for -good plamer than day-
light."
he may have taken his things
away, piece by piece, to the pawn
shops ".•
"Might." Slam! -"May have a mania
for collecting brieks," Sioash! "I al-
ways like to think the best of every-
one." Bangle
. "David, please don't handle those
trays so roughly."
"I'm sore. I don't like to fail at
anything I start out to do. I came
in" here to get That -opal 'talc Ad* "t
won't be happy until I have it And,
anyway, there isn't anything in these."
To prove it, David teasingly shook the
-tray of the last trunk at arms' length.
before her. Suddenly he stopped, rest.
ed one end of the tray on the edge- of
the trunk and groped with his free
hand under the flap over the end com-
partment of the tray. His hand came
forth with a large bunch of tickets
held together by a rubber bind.
"Good, Lord, you're right. Pawn
tickets!" he announced. ,
"Hurry, David—please."
David replaced the tray in the
trunk. He raised the flap to. restore
the tickets to their hiding place.. An
exelarnation of astonishment brought
Rose running to his side.
On the bottom of the tray lay a
small oblong packet tied with red
cord. The rough handling had loos-
ened the cord; the stiff paper -had
sprung open atone end. Through the
aperture gleamed Mildred Bunce's
diamond sunburst.
Evidently David had not heard of
the theft. "Guess you're right," he
muttered, "he surely -wouldn't (run
off and leave ethese valuables. Now, I
wonder if that little opal pin can
be hiding here?'" .e
Before Rose could object he had rais-
ed the packet and shaken it. Out upon
the floor of the tray slid Hilda Ca-
bot's emerald necklace.
Rose stared at the jewels as though
doubting her senses. Hen hand reach-
ed out for them, stoped halfway,
dropped to her side. For several mo-
ments she had not a word to say.
Then she etiffened and her eyes
flashed.
."Look, David, look!" she command-
ed. "See if there is a jeweled, cross
in that same' packet."
Her request was so sharp that David
obeyed first. "No, nothing else ex-
cept same envelopes, paper, or some-
thing." Then his eyes shot to het
"Why, Rose, what's the matter?" he
demanded. "Is there anything wrong
about his having these? You dont
think' "
"No, no," she. `interrupted hastily.
She shrank awaY from him as. if
-dreading to explain. °After a Mo-
ment she managed to pull herself to-
gether
"Put them back, David, put them
kick and -let's go," she said with a
decision of manner so icy 'and so hard
that it effectually silenced further
q ueetions.
XIX
Heavy portieres divided the two
rooms, but it was obvious that the two
people talking were women. Corn-
evallis Brooke heard their voices :with
but a momentary, barey, percep-
tible lift of his eyebrows If he dread-
ed the ordeal he faced, he gave no
other sign. Cool, collected, quite at end her face whitewith de animation.
"What!" For one silent, vibrating
ense, he waited. The conversation in
-econd Brooke stared at her, then his
the next room ended instantly when
-leper lip curled, ,show -no. his teeth,
he was anounced Soon there was a
faint swirl of the portieres. Hilda it'You nitre as much fo him as that,
Cabot appeared and greeted him mei- 10 you?" he demanded. Before she
-euld answer he had tdrned on Id
he I • is
e , and was making for the door:
• jelly.
"I fear you won't be quite so glad 1
"Then I'M attend to.this man myself."
to see me after you learn why I are
here." he said with an air of resig- ' he muttered.'
Pahl turned swiftly toward him
nation. "Whet are you going to do?" she
She looked at hire, aurprised. 04
m.
"I have an exceedingly unpleasant erren ed.
duty to perfor"
‘(I haven't time—I can't tell you—
"What is it?" Hilda motioned to-
, r,ot nowy, . With an angry shake of
y •
ward a chair, moved slowly toward an-
las beads Brooke passed through the
other herself. door
1
,
"You have lost your emerald neck-
Hilda stood for a moment -
e look -
"You could stop him quickl en-
ough if you -wanted to."
"No, You're . wrong about that."
Brooke tOok a step toward her, "You
heard him say that he had t niter
clairted to be Lord Bellmore. When
I ran him, down afterward he had the
side still to insist that if the Bunceh
spread the news they did- it without
his authority or _knowledge. , What
eari one do against such a cautious fin-
-poster as that? ' Nothing. Don't
think I haven't looked into the mat-
ter long and carefully."
"You mean---" -Hilda began' ner-
vously to -smooth down the nip of the
brocade on the chair before her.
"I mean I've been to the police a-
bout it, and--" Brooke -stowed, ruf-
fled by the effect this statement had
upon Hilda; his tone became louder,
more angry. "What can one do in
this belly country of yours that does--
nt even protect a man's own name?
I ask' the police to stop him from
using my 'title, and they telt rne at
isn't even a misdemeanor, that if I
want to stop him I've got to bring
a civil action against him that the
courts will get around to Lord only
knows when. -.
"They couldn't do anything about
it?" y •
"Nothing except call him to Scot-
land Yard or whatever you call it
here, and try to scare him off. aAnd
what good would that do aganist the
sort of scoundrel who had the effron-
tery to try to face me down? He won't
run; not he. Not *until he has bag-
ged -the game." - - - -
Brooke dwelt with *a sinister em-
phasis on the last phrase, and wait-
ed as if expecting to be asked for
an expla..nation. No suclademand was
made. He turned away impatiently.
"That's what I want to prevent I,
don't care se -much about My title.
I want to prevent -him from taking
advantage of you and--er—a lot of
other people. I want to save----"
Hilda stopped him with a quiet wave
of her hand. "You're very good, but
don't bother about 'Me," she said with
a slight smik. For the first time
she tamed owerd him.
Brooke cane impetuously toward
her. "You know very well that I
care more bout that than all the
rest Put to .ether. I've surely .made
my fee1rngs plain to you. I can't
stand calnilr, supinely here and see
that scound el crowd in between us .-
I want you doe * ".
- "Yes. L know. We won't -go into
that again.f' - Hilda checked him
quickly. "We're talking about some -
(1
tbing else ow. You esay you intend
to save me. That's amusing enough of
itself, but let's be serious. I don't
see how y u'xe going to drive him a-
way. You ve just said that there was
nothing you could do." ,
- "Nothing unless—" Brooke lean-
ed -toward her eagerly.'
"Unless what?
"Unless you'll help me."
"Help you? How?" ,.
Brooke frowned at the eharp change
in her tone. "The police tell me that
the only way to stop a scoundrel l of
this sort is to afreet him for solme
other crime. The time has been short
I had almost given . lip hope of dis-
covering anything until----"
"Until what?"
"Until I found him in possession of
your emerald necklace"
"Oh!" Hilda exclaimed. "Ah! you
expect me -to appear against him Just
to help°you?", -
"No, that isn't the right way to
look at it." Brooke reddened. "You
want to get back your necklace ,don't
you? You want to punish the man
Who stole it, dont you?" - -
"And you—you want to have him
arrested so thatthe will be out of your
way ,dont you? Isn't that the one
reason why you're so anxious for my
-help?", .
"That and to help you,' admitted
Brooke reluctantly... "He'll be out of
your way quite as much as out of
mine and you'll—" '
"No more about saving me, please."
"But you'll do it?"
' •
"What!" Brooke stared at her
dumb -founded ' his face flushing to a
higher and higher color.
"I said no. I won't have a hand in
-any such: action" Hilda, r met his
eyes intrepidly, her blue e es flashing
......,----.....—
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lag. after lu
, then she sank into the affilda, you vasieitat eee him."
-
Iclime before which she had stood oway not . ... -
minutes passed. Finally the portieres , et don't care" -
throughout the interview. - Several "What will he think of you?".
' parted, .and Rose entered, her dark, "He'll think you!ae just throwing
expressive teal anxious, and her man- yourself at him. He'll think you're
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unedit. otFicoerd,segvrearvaellymosmttieudyte. Iv infatuated ahtouladteudpwiathgit.eiMrthard hewasroil-
ing Hilda. Once she started to with- away with him)'..._. -
draw, then slowy, unwillingly, she 1 "What does that shatter?"
Crossed the room and stood stilly un- i "Hilda, you wouldid would you?"
noticed, beside Hilda.
"No. Don't be silty? Hilda laugh.
las?! ilde, dear," she said softly at 1 ea scornfully.
Hilda did not hear her.
Rose hesitated, then, "Hilda dear,"
she repeated, touching her arm gent-
ly.
Hilda looked up at her, startled;
managed to smile . wanly. "You
heard?" she asked wearily.
"Yea. It must have been an aw-
ful blow to you." Rose bent down.
impulsively and kissed her.
"Don't!" Hilda started. "You be-
lieve it," she accused. Her blue eyes
sparkled with indignation, " I don't,
I've heen thinking it over. I can't
believe it. Oh, if 1,e had only given
me time to tell lam sot I'm dis-
gusted with myself for standing here
quietly and allowing him to lay what
he did, but now I Ionia?' what to do."
She sprang to her feet
-
"Hilda!" Rose stretched out A
restraining head,
"One minute. I want to telephone."
-"What are you going to do?" Rose
moved- slowly between her and the
door. "Please tell me," she pleaded,
di
"I'm going to telephone him hat
Mr. Csitinvallis Brooke is saying a-
gainst him. I'm going to warnhim
in time so that he can stop the ,slan-
der. Fin --
"Hilda, dear, I wouldn't do that."
"Why not?" Hide turned on her
a face ablaze with intention. "Why.
shouldn't I whenI know it is all a
slander, a trick, a vile, malicious lie
to discredit him with me? That
,
necklace of mine is not a valuable one..
It was the duplicate imitation set
that was- taken.- I acept abiolutely
quiet about it to see who would Men-•
tion it first. Mr. Cornwallis Brooke
was the first man. • Why should I
take his word that another man has
it, a-- mans too, that he is
so anxious to get out of the way? He
may have it himself, he may—he
"No, Hilda."
Hilda stopped, astonished at the
tone of the interruption. "What—
wkat do you know about it?" she
}diked.
"I dislike to tell you, Hilda, but II
know that your en -Jerald necklace is
rinon?, of the trunks in Mr. Durant's
oom:
"What?"es,llda, it is there. I'm sorry°
1
but I saw it last night. And not only
that, but- Mildred Bunce's sunburst.
Hilda, dear, I'm terribly sorry to have
o tell: you." - •
I came here this,morning to do it. I
was just geting up my courage when
Mr. Brooke came. I didn't like to
speak of it. You had never told me
of its disappearance. You inight have
put it in his charge for •some reason.
k --I had to wait until I was sure I
Was making BO mistake. But nether
than have you telephone him, think-
ing that he—e-" Rose stopped breath-
less and unwillingly to go on. *
"Rose! Roser Yew are sure? You
oaldn't possibly be mistaken?" Hilda
_OOTOR
stared at her, breathless.
"No. Listeril"'eltose eaplairiedhhoyet
they had happened to .come upon the
emerald necklace. Urged on by Hil-
da's defensive silence, she _this time
dwelt upon the discovery of Mildred-
Bunce's diamond sunburst.
"That, too! I can't believe it."
"'They were both there Hilda, dear.
I saw them with my 'ov;n: eyes:"
"Poor man! And those were the
only things left in all his trunks?"
"Yes, except the pawn tiekets " Rose
started with dismay at -the look of
resolution suddenly appearing on- her
companion's face. "Where are you
going? What do you intend to do?"
she cried.
"I'm going to telephone him. tint
goingto ask him to come here and
explain."
"But, Hilda, you mustn't."
"I must—now more than ever."
Hilda ° passed swiftly bather and out
of the room.
Rose walked to the window and
gazed gloomily out until Hilda return-
ed; then she went quickly to her, "1111 -
da, ,you didn't do it she begged.
"What did you say to him?"
"I—I couldn't tell him by telephone.
I intended to—I tried to but I found
I couldn't so—well, 1 asked him if he
wouldn't come right up here."
"And he eaid he would?"
"Yes—of course."
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"a promise."
Rose studied her, dissatisfied , withi
the ground she had gained.' Several
times she stetted to -, speak, and chang-
ed her mind...Atli she did it :was
in an entirely different ttone.
Prd sorry / had to tell You ,
this," she said.
"Don't reproach yourself. It conlil-
n'tqbewsorry
or
heolped.1"aebime
too. You
ho,yew,ms.tighifl
ililriddnitdo
him?" oup.13-08.0
I would have asked you as Pay that
account of his for me?" Hilda drew
away to the window.
There was a large silence. Neither
of the *tWo 'women moved or spoke.
Rose slowly crossed the room, came
up behind her. -
it is going to be very hard
for you to tell him," she said softly.
"Yes) I realize that now." , Hilda
spoke hollowly, without turning.
"Let me tell him Or you."
"It will be naliela easier for you
both"—imploringly.
"I ought to do, it myself." ,
• "You can be in the next room—
anywhere." a
"You wouldn't be as kind about 1
ar I." -te
ur would. I could—because 1 a
not so interested. You'll either be to
cold or too—mu-pathetic. You kno
that, don't you dew?"
"Yes, I suppose---"
."Then let me tell -him."
The butler entered bearing a card,
"Ask him. to eorne in." Hild
handed the card to- Rose and fle
through the portieres iiirto the oth r
rooin.
Rose turned nervously. In the doo
way stood Richard Durant looki g
calmly about the room.
"Oh, how do you do? I was loo
ing for Miss Cabot," he said coolly.
• Rose found it more difficult th n
she expected. "1—she won't you it
down?" she stammered.
After a quick, surprised glance, e
seated himself in a big high-backed
chair with its back to the door. "It's
a wonderful morning," he said, evi
dently to cover her eonfusion.
"Yes." she replied heedlessly, and
through sheer neritousness pl g -
ea theadlong . toward an ieaue t at
reeplired tact. "Miss Cabot asked nie
to receive you in ler place," she be
garia"She—You will probably see her
later." • -
Again he raised his eyes to hers
with surprise, but he nodded.'
Her eyes dropped before his, "I
don't know how to begin," she flound-
ered,
-
an froxn 4dst, r:1:11°,1 neu:kt k -disappeared
aboute e ele
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The 400l, caln -
014" _a_f his
Utile a
ingJ
\vat I
take .0re-sten-Alia s.
He seemed seemed only slightly in-
terested. ";
Rose turned away irona him! In:-
evitably her voice and manner beeame
colder; "And you 'didift notice it
then?"., •
"Nor you haven't seen it sine ? '
eNtt,
How could he have the effrontery to
-say this when she had seen it, in his
trunk? Involintary` Rose . looaed her
scorn. Obviously she'shrank away
from him:
I
S4, '
He started and flushed; then he stiff-
ened as if he caughtsfor the first time
the unmistakable meaning f her
questions. "Oh, ithwas stole was
it?" he demanded.
."Yeintwe fear so."- . •
"And Miss Cabot ,requested ou to
ask Me about it?" tr
"Yee—that
"Intending to receive me if didn't
seem* guilty?" .
"No, no; hew cant-aro:01th* , that of
her ?" . Rose's voicceIrew 'angry.
"She Sent for yeti '00cent-eh truth,
to ask you some question's; an "
"Why didn't she allow the police to
do that?" His inquiry was. stern.
"Because—because she never once
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thougth of dorngi such a thing. She masculine speech and found *himself
intended merely
to----" She lite
slight sound behi
looked toward t
He followed h
became harder"How do I know but
the police are ti+e behind those por-
tieres listening to -all I say?" he de-
manded.
"Mr. Durant!'" -
"May I look
allo."
"Ab!" He le
and regarded h
Rose looked
Vexes, from the
No further.
room. She at
o give you a chance teeing Richard Durant: "You—er—
ped in dismay at the here?" he exclaimed.
d the portieres, She "Your surprise is admirably count -
ens with alarm.
look, and his vote
o make sure?"
ted back in his their
oin. silence. to the
m
h
the por- 1
ortieres,back to shine
tem from alte. other
mpted. to give him a
last Thence to r deem himself.
"It—the necklace—is in a small ob-
long 'package ede with. a red cord,"
-she ventured.
"Oh!" Dura t threw his head back.
It struck again t the upholstered back
of his chair *th a' dull sound. eHe
paid no attention.'He looked at her
with eyes int4 which understanding
seemed to flow, to flow,- away, and
leave nothing except the cold glare of
suspicion. 1is voice became icy.
"How did youi and Miss Cabot know
I had that pac age? ' he demanded.
But Rotie h
Through th
ant, thrustin
protesting bu
Brooke, and
stout, compa
tionablY of t
«1-1-
d waited too long.
doorway behind .Dur -
aside the fat, indite,
ler, came Cornwallis
e was followed by
ly made man, unques-
e police. -
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1 found 1 jrnu&t have- you to enter
complaint, s , 1 brought the inspector
back with m t" exclaimed Brooke, and
thew observ that he was addressing
Reset, "Whe e's ' Miss Cabot!" . he
de -Meade& brusquely.
"Within reach, inall probability."
Brooke turned at the dry, cYnical,
erfeited," replied Durant with more
sarcasm. '
"I dare say. I dare say? Brooke
repeated the phrase, looking about
while he obtained his bearings.
"Yes, and you will now have to set -
tie Mall me," ' •
Brooke had learned nothing from
Rose's startled face, - He made a•
scornful gesture. "Inspector Hicks
will attned to your ease, I think," he
,said quickly. He turned aside as if
he pneferred to have it thus.
"This -the- man?"-- ynspieLter Rieke,
at Brooke's nod, statiOned himself in
a chair by the door, content to await
developements. His was the final
work.
"Inspector, Hicks," Durant turned
toward him with a quick nod'"you
have yet to learn, I think, which one
Af us should be taken into custody,
With your permissioh!"
"Go on. Go as far as you like?
The inspeetor settled himself comfort-
ably. "Only anything you may say
will be- used against you.
"Not against me." -Durant's eyes,
burning black as coals, were levelled
at Brooke. "I let you off the other
night, and you took advantage of it.
Now I intend' to, show you up for an
imposter."
"What "rally rot!" exclai eth Brooke.
"Inspector, is it necessa4 ,to waste
time alloying this crinin to blust-
er?"
"Let him tangle himself all up in
bowknots and throw flipflaps, if he
wants too," said the inspector imper-
turbably. "You don't care, do you?
It may help some."
"You surely can't fear answering a
few questons," pursued Durant.
"Fear!" Brooke looked from the
winking, inspector to Durant 'Well,
go on,' be agreed grudgingly.
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