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• I refused to take it.
ound that a detective was
101 the time to see that.
. This interference en -
[ threw up my position in
!seeped the detective, and
ton more determined than
that at least for e, few
add earn my own living.
a here—but only because
because---. Howev-
that Matters now." He
all away into the past.
and I have -probably had
'erence. I shall cable him
;. to be raarried."
al at him a long time be-
ing her thought. "What
e objects to me?"
ed. He laughed so loudly
g that she was forced to
from him a little to re-
ttention.
w ed, drew up close beside
e rail until their. arms
[earl"
nking seriously of having
dredged for the opal pin.
ered a little involuntarialy
!fling the gleam in his eye,
y?" she asked expectantly.
?. if it hadn't been for t'ke
might never have come to
met you."
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BY
RUFUS GILLMORE
McLeed and Allen, Toronto
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(Continued from IAA Week.) out of the window. Gently she\nut her
hand on Hilda's arm • ''ae,
"That's as absolutely and utterly "DMA speak to ine—for a few Mina
false as all you've said before today. utee—please." Rose started at the
Of course you had to trmnp up some --
thing against me because I informed
on you. Of course you had to say I
gave the necklace to you because you
have got it. But, inspector, what
have you to say about all this?"
"He says he has it That is the
only thing he's said that interests me."
The inspector was still pdrturbed.
"You surely don't intend to press
a charge made by this imposter?"
Durant demanded.
"That's what. Your hot air don't
count," answered the inspector.
"Isn't fny word as good as bis?"
asked Durant hotly.
"Not on your tintype." Inspector
Hieks laughed.
"He accuses me „of stealing this
necklace, and I accuse him. Why
should you act on his compaint and
not on mine?"
"Lightly! •Lightly! He has other
witnesses. Have you any?'
ed breathlessly.
"Wm lent do you mean to tell me
that ,if II attempt to leave you will "No. I've only had it about half an
hold me?" hour." David smiled at her alarm. "I
hardness of Hilda's tone. Then she
left her and sat down.
One of those men who are un-
popular because they are always bit-
ing the nail ion the head onceasaid of
a certain weman, "she just delights
M roaming around aniong trouble and
giving. a poketwhenever it shows signs
of quietinge down. The same might
be said of tate.
Rose, he conscience oppressing her
for the part she had played in the
drama of that day, returned to Miss
Cobb's late in the afternoon. She found
David lying in wait for her.
"See! I got it from him. He ceme
here in a tremendous hurry to borrow
money to send a telegram. I gave him
five *dollars for this, Imowing how bad-
ly you wanted it" Before her face he
flourished the opal pin.
Rose turned pale—shrank fromit.
"How long have you had it! Has any-
thing happened to you?" she demand -
thought you/ wanted it," he urged.
"That's about it.. •ct "I did. I did, but I fear we got it
"Where's your warrant or indi -
from lihn too late," she exelaimed.
ment, or whatever else you have to
Hastily, she recounted the events of
have?" -'that afternoon. "Come, come quick,"
"Coming!" Inspector Hicks drop:.
she cried, seizing him by the arm and,
ped Ms hands on the arms of his chair dragging him toward' the stairs, "we
and raised himself carelessly to his must get rid of it before something
feet. 'It's coming, all right, and I happens to you." •
guess I can stretch a point and hold Protesting, laughing a little, yet
you, until it's ready. What's your obeying, he submitted to being dragg-
dream ? Going to resist arrest?" . ed away At the foot of the Stairs
1 •
"Well, then?" : Miss Cobb iwas waiting. "Your
wanted at the telephone, Mr. Shaw,1,
Durant flushed I - - - angrily. C1 I m aina,z.. she said.
ed that after I've exposed thie man as aThere! There! Something more!
an imposter you're willing to take his, We're too late," Rose exclaimed broke -
word against mine." nly. She followed closely. She stood by
"That imposter business 'hasn't got his side while he conduebed a short
anything to do with this case a but startled conversation over the
theft Can't you get that through wire. "What is it?. Tell nie! Quick!"
your nut'?" she cried the moment he finished
,"Very well. I'm ready to go along 4iliIr. -Bunce thinks that -Mr. Durant
with you." . has ieloped with his daughter," David
"That's the talk. No use in mix- replied; gazing at her wide-eyedr
beg it up here." Inspector Hicks "Oh!"
smiled affiably. "No need of your "He wanted to know if Durant were
- looking so heavy about it. If you're,. here. When I said' he wasn't, that he
being misused; you can prove it soon had gone out half an hour ago to send
enough in court" • a telegram, he said he would get his
Durant nodded. "I won't be under car at once and come right up here.
arrest long. Are you ready?" he de- He hopes to catch him before they get
mended. away." .
"Not quite." The inspector turned "Come, David! Come quick! We
significantly toward Brodkemug get rid of that pin before some -
In a minute," answered Brecikething happens us." Again she was
He moved over beside the officer with a impetuously dragging him, this time
satiefied smirk on his face. "Some along the hall toward the door.
little difference between paying me "But what areawe going to dt with
there?" he demanded of Durant. f'If it?" he demanded as she slammed the
and getting paid yourself, isn't door behind him and they ran dawn
you'd only been a trifle more do- the steis.
into the front seat.
"I've got to borrow this," he yelled the park for the htltwa,ys the nigh-
t° the astonished chaliffeur. At the ways, for narrow; dusty, unfrequented
same %staid- he threw in the dutch. country roads.
As he flew away Up the Beacon Street "We're holding our own, but we'll
he wasted not a look behind. Conse- lose sight, of him soon if he _deem%
quently could not have beet aware light up,' 'announced Hilda disappoint --
of all the excitement his act occasion- edit',
aid, • They turned from the thick, dusty
Across Massachusetts •Avenue, on ruts of one country road into a State
the downtoWn end of Beacon Street, road ran Iaong its smooth surface, a.
Is girl In e gray racing gar, slowing few rods and theratinned into another
up for the crossing,. ,observed the road more impossible than any of
theft of the car, also the consternation the others,
of its chauffeur. She ran her car to They floundered along clumsily for
the curb without stopping the engine a..few rods. Then their Itghts picked
and looked eagerly about for a police- up a dark object ahead ati, the side of
man. There was none in sight. Sudden- the road. Hilda stiffened, peered _for-
ly her eyes lighted on Rose and .David ward, became Suddenly alert,
appproaching, leisurely along the "He's stopped to light fup," she
sidewalk i exclaimed. !Now do Just what I tell
"Get in here Quickla She called zou. run the car ahead tot him
you and Rose seize him. I'l run back,
and get the switch plug out a his ear ,
so that he can't start it again."
With a swerve over the huge ruts
that almost threw David out she con-
trived to place her gray car in front
of the other one. She scrambled past
Rose, not wasting bine even for a
glance at the man lighting the lamps,
and hastily snapped the switch plug
Ifrom the other car. She turned to
find Rose and David releasing their
-hold of the prisoner and staring at
him in open-mouthed astonishment.
"Hold him! Hold him!" she cried,
running toward him.
The man tinned. It was Richard
Durant.
There were hasty, flurried explan-
ations.. Durant, after his first 'aston-
ished look at Hilda, confined his at-
tention and questions to the other
two, conducting the conversation as if
she were not present,
"Then I was right! They are elop-
ing ?" he dernande.d. "Quick! Get
in and we'll catch•them. TheY've got
police will stop them," •
He hurried David mid Rose surnindr,
ily into the tonneau and leaped into
the • seat by the wheel, leaving Hilda
standing ruefully in the road.
She watched his' 'frantic efforts to
start the car. She laughed a little
harshly.
"You can't go without me," she
volunteered at last .
•
-suer and pursuerapurelied. They „left.
cent—" "We mist throw...it into the river,
Durant's eyes blazed; he toek a step the ocean, some place where ,no one
toward Brooke. "None of that," he can ever lay kends on.it again; Don't
:interruptaa hetly,. `-fDon't thinkethate -4seagh, David:e4 eartrae. all that has
it is your part in this that surprises happened to Mr. Durant has been due
rne or hurts me." to that pin We must get rid of it now
"Oh! Really!" . at once, before something happens to
"No. It's that •a certain woman you." She set a quick -pace, until they
could look on us two and decide that were all but running down the side
I.- was the impostor. It's that a cer- of Beacon Hill. -
tam woman could look on us two and Ten minutes later David threw the
decide that I, not you, was the thief." opal pin nto the placid bosom of 'the
"I never—I never believed. it!" Charles River.
As puimets, manoeuvred by a single
string, they all turned, their faces
changmg ,with the varying degrees of
their surprise. In the doorway be-
tween the two rooms, her face flushed
and her eyes agleam, stood Hilda Ca-
bot.
"Alt, then you were there?" Dur-
ant gave her only one short, sarcastic
look. "The sooner we go now, the
better it will suit me," he declared,
advancing toward the inspector.
Hilda looked at him without ans-
. They caught .the neeed of quick o block his way. As soon as I stele
peremptorily.
action. David thrust Rose into the
seat beside Hilda and tumbled him-,
.self into the seat on the floor at her '
feet Trolley ears were approaching
both ways along Massachusett Avenue
but by a quick spurt and mastierly in -
and -eat steering Hilda managed to
graze between them.
"I'll catch him for you," she called
in passing to the frantic chauffeur.
Brooke, with one qtick, apprehen-
sive glance had taken an what had
happened behind. Conscious of pur-
suit, he thought only of acquiring
distance. Pushing his well -ballasted
car to the limit out Beacon Street, he
flew onto the Beacon Boulevard. Well
along on this, he decided 'against
lingering much longer on the main -
traveled roads.' A • pulauer, hopeless-
ly distanced, could notify the police,
could teleqhone ahead to stop him.
At the Chestnut Hill Resovoir he
turned to the left into Brookline and
began to retrace his course.
"You new should have left that
note to your father, I told you so,"
he grumbled sullenly.
"We'll get to Worcester before he
can do anything," she said with one.
breath, and then, with the next, "If
you're going to be an 'I told you se,'
yokel -night as well take me back home.
"I don't dare try for Worcester now
that we are -followed," he explaiKed,
all the querulous gone from his tone.
"Where are yen; taking me—home?"
she demanded after a kook about.
""No, dear,tosome place where they
will least think of looking for us," he
answered more plaCably, ."I wish I
knew more about the blasted roads in
this direction." He turned off the
the right into the Fenway.
Meentime, to the pursuers, the hscanrodulyslyt.h'oiWugohnt't-Iyoouu comewooa along? want t °I
following things happened. Durant, in
desert your own car." He started to
get out to help her in.
But she leaped in beside him and
inserted the switch plug before he
could rise. ‘‘I—I -wondered if you did
not want me," she 'murmured laugh-
ingly.
"I did, but -" The quick, fe-
minine change in her attitude was
evidently too sudden for Durant. A-
gain he became preposterously busy
with the manegement of the car.
He reversed power, wormed- ginger-
ly by Hilda's deserted car, and soon
they were' dumping over the deeply
rutted toad. ' The car ran much more
easily bemuse of theadditionalweight,
the absurdly bad road required care-
ful attenttion littera( Durant' at the,
wheel, but he gave even niore. He
XXI.
From facts gathered later by Roe
it was established that events straage-
ly fortunate for Richard Durant be-
gan to happen the moil -lent that the
opal was safely deposited, in the
ready depths of the Charles. Rose
was enabled to prove this because
David looked at his watch soon, after
the opal pin sank into the river. It was
twenty minutes after six. She and
David decided to take a short walk
wering, a flash of anger darkening her along Beacon Street before returning
blue eyes; then she walked slowly to Miss Cobb's for dinner. Thi e walk
across the room to Inspector Hicks. was productive of a meethig most un -
"I understand you are waiting fel. expected and important, but move -
me to swear to something," she said mente even more timely and mirac-
coldly. "You have been brought here ulous must be mentioned first.
under a misapprehension. I have no- At six thirty-five to an instant
thing to swear to." Hilda. Oabot ran down the steps ftenn
"What! The inspector gasped. her house and entered her gray racing
"Whoever took that necklace of motor. She was able to recall the tune
mine took it with my consent." definitely because she glanced at the
"But, lady=---" The inspector pre- clock in her , car to learn -.how muoh
pared to expostulate . time she had for a spin before dinner.
She stopped him with a curt wave And Richard Durant, too, was able
later to gate the preciet time that
he turned afoot from Massachusetts
Avenue into Beacon Street The clock
in the corner store registered six
thirty-seven. He walked on a short
way, then, with a sigh, he began to
retrace his steps toward Miss Cobb's
grily. and dinner.. - .
Allowing for differences be -
They rooked for him in ,:rain. In the tween clocks, each one of those al -
confusion following her entrance, ready mentioned may have received
Brooke had managed to escape. his or her impulse toward the corner
"Well, it begins to look to me as if of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon
--"' Inspector Hicks paused and Street at preeisely the same moment.
his 'gaze travelled "No
from That cannot be established. But at
Durant to Hilda. 'No Charge against least each moved. to his or her place
the man that's flown, eithee?" he
asked her -
of her hand. "I don't care to enter
any complaint over the loss of my
necIdace. Does that render any fur-
ther action on your part unneces-
sary?"
"But,—" The inspector turned
from her inexorable look. "Where's
that man Brooke?" he demanded an -
"Well, you've got ror The in-
spectoias look of amazement travelled
back to his late prisoner.1
Durant broke the heedless, sarcastic
silence he had preserved since Hilda's
appearance, "Am I to understand
that I am at liberty to do what Brooke
did ?" he asked.
"So far as I can see." The inspec-
tor glanced inquiringly at Hilda.,
She nodded.
"Then ni wish you all a very g.00d
afternoon Durant bowed and left
the room.
"If you should happen to change
your mind—" Inspector Hicks look-
ed dubiously from one to the other
of the two women, then, receiving
neither answer nor encouragement,
he, too, bolted.
Somewhere feom the room behind
the portieres came the slow, loud,
ponderous ticking of a grand father's
clock. There was the scraping of .the
outside door as the butler dosed it be-
hind the departing inspector, the quiet,
respectful footsteps of the butler as
"Why not? " He did not look at
her, but instead besame •etxraordinar-
ily 'busy about the mechanism of the
car.
"Because I have the switch plug,"
she stated qnietly.
"0,11.!—so youehave t" He ceased his
experiments. and laughed a little ,con -
in readiness for the events of that
evening as by a common impulse and
miraculously soon after the disappear-
ance of the opal pin.
To chronicle these eveiqs in the
order of their importance, Richard
•Durant, turning back, did so just in
time to observe a car containing a
rnan and woman swing round the
corner of Massachusetts Avenue into
Beacon Street. The speeed at which
the car made that corner caught his
attention. He raised his hat mechan-
icalliy to the man and the young wo-
man occupying the front seats. Then
he stopped and stared after. them in
amazement.
The man and the woman were
Brooke and Mildred Bunce. They he'd
met his eyes, then looked quickly-,
uneasily away, as if not earing either
to recognize him or be recognized
themselves. And the tonneau and
rear seats of the car were piled with
bagggage as if they were off on a
long Journey.
Durant's stare changed swiftly from
amazement to certainty. "The scound-
rel!" He's eloping with her. She
doesn't. know!" he cried. He looked
he retreated down the long hall, but
the solemn ticking of the clock was
heard above all.
Rose sighed, raised her head from
the arm on which it had rested, and
looked at Hilda for a long time; At
last she erossed the room to where she
stood gazing silently, movelessly,
a big high-powered, but =ballasted
ear, found himself steadily losing-.
ground He lost sight of the car ahead
just before the Beacon Street entrance
to the Fenway, but continued on. At
Chestnut Hill Itesoviour he turned to-
ward Newton before it occurred to him
to take coansel of a policeman. No ear
with the.. occupants such as he de-
scribed had passed that spot any time
within the past ten minuets.
. "Of course! He would turn off at
the very first road," muttered Dur-
ant. He hurried back along Beacon
Street and entered the Fenway at the
point where he had last seen the. other
car, .
, Hilda, left' far behind -in her over-
buxdened motor at theeerery..stert, had,
however, followei a similar course
of reasoning. She believed that the
thief would leave the main road at the
first thrn. At the Beacon Street en-
trance she turned into the Fenway, and
hence 'was the first of the three drivers
to betake herself to its twisting, pur-
seit-losing roads,
Thu it hapnened, half an hour after
the chase -began, that all the three
gained a momentary view of each
other and then esumed their former
order in the chase. Hilda, stopping
to light the lamps on, her car, looked
up at a loud series of blasts on the
horn of an approaching autombile.
"Why, that's—look!" she cried
sharply to her two passengers as the
Bunce car containing Mildred and last hopeless stand against woman.
Brooke shot past "But you did steal the car, didn't .
"I thought you said that Mr. Durant
had ehaped•with Hilda's exulant ; you?" she inquired with a direetness
not to be evaded and a laugh too
tone was lost in the noise of the swirl':
delicious to be withstood.
past them of another autombile. It was
rattling as if it would shake iteelf a- 1 "Yes. but--" He made the mis-
part, it was skidding on -the turns from take of meeting her eyes. His anger
its high speed and lack of ballast It crumpled, fell away visibly; in a mo -
was past before she had time to ident- ment he was laughing with her, sur-
ify its occupant. Involttntarily heneyes Tendering-- wiliout terms to a humor
t. no longer to be gainsaid.
W to ite number.
-
excitedly about for means of frust-
rating Brooke's last move.
Against the curb, chugging, cheer-
ful and ready, _ stood a large touring
car, its chauffeur crossing the side-
walk toward One of the residences.
Duraitt ran back toward it and leaped
in the road.. Less than a rod ahead
stood the Dance car, The man -at its
front' . who had been lighting the
lamps, °arose, 9, match still burning
in his hand, started back. ,
"Look out for your heads!" Ow -
lint bent .over the wheel. A sudden
turn swerved them from the ts The.
scat
-car whipped the thick du toloud,
tore through the undergro , gra
-ed a few -saplings at the sede of
narrow road, and stopped,. ahiveting,
palpitating ,directly in front of, the
other car. a- ' ' A
"One minute, if you likes Dur-
ant was just in time to ca rooke
by the arm as he was dam g back
into his seat. With a ick pull he
jerked him from the ing board to
the ground facing him. Then he reach-
ed into the car to detach the switch
plug.
"Look . out, Mr. Durant!"
Durant turned sharply at Hilda's
cry of warning. Brooke. had fallen
back a step, or two, was pointing some-
thing at him—something that glisten-
ed through the darkness. i' !
There was a moment Of alarmed
moveless ,silence, Durant and Brooke
staring watchfully into each other's
eyes ,the others not daring to make
move or sound; then David began
quietly edging around to the rear of
Brooke. I
"Stand where WOU are! Don't move
another step!" Brooke leaped further
from Durant and pointed his weapon
at 'David. • .
, David obeyed. He stood looking help-
lessly at Durant. Hilda and. Rose
shrank toward each other. On them
all was the stillness of the surprised,
the subiaissionef the vanquished. And
then the silence was broken by a short
amused laugh.
"Fut it up, Brooke! Put up that
cigarette case!" exclaimed Durant.
Brooke, started, stared sharply at
Durant, wavered.
devoted himself, -utter
saying not a word, 1
at all, only out of th
But in one of thes
glances perchanc
to its steering,
°kilt. at her, if
tail of an eye. ,
furtive, sidelong
he caught the
twinkle in.her del eyes, and realized
that she declined to take his anger
seriously, that she was only maintain-
ing her mischievous silence because
she knew that the veny fact that
they were together would bring its
inevitable reconcilation. At any rate
he took upon himself the burden of
maintaining their quarrel.
"So you believed- Stole this car, as
well as a title and a few other things?'
he demanded sternly; and with that
bitterness wherewith man makes. his
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"Very vrell," Duran't voiee hard -
"No. Go on." •
med. "I had a call recently from a
man named Mink," he stated in a tone
Durant removed his foot from the full of warning. ,
running board, took a step toward him, "Mink? Mink?" Brooke repeated
Brooke laughed a forced laugh. "Oh, the name as if he had never beard of
so it's you, Durant, is it'?" he inquir- it before.
ed im.perturbably. He dropped °his "Yes a sneak, if I ever sate one
ingrdltoG arm and detiseodp anor with e;tes shifty and of different col -
arm and depsited his cigarette case ors. Do you recognize him now?"
in his pocket. "I thought at first yoti "No."
•
were highway mene,and then I decided I ."He said he was a former friend
to give you a little scare. I got in too of yours, and offered to sell me cer-
cilep before I noticed that there were tain information against you."
ladies present," He bowed to the lad- I "Well, you bought him, of course,
ies in question. under the misguided hope of getting
"Yes." Durant looked at him. "You me out of your way,"
are hi so deep that its' time you be- 1 "No. I hadn't the money, and, I'm
gen to think of Wading out!' not quite such -a rotter as that any -
"Why, that's the car that was "Miss Cabot, how could you think
"
stolen," she exclaimed, ,scrambling for an instant-- -
back to, the wheel. Again she joined 3ltua2 310mb g 'PiatIS
lls „illstSe
the pursuit. hand on his arm; then she pointed a -
The slow dusk of a night in early head.
May was failing -alike on pursued, pur- They had come around a sharp bend
1,11
"Oh, .now, don't be so beastly‘the- way. I told him I knew quite enough
atrical! . What do you want of us, about you already. I sent him away."
anyway, spoiling our little &lye?" "Very noble of you; I'M Sure."
"Brooke, I admire your audacity! If "But this Mr. Mink was arrested
you were hemmed in by police-- I sup- _late this afternoon for having pawn -
pose you'd still -brazen it out" Dur -
ant's tone .yielded a• little, .only nn -
mediately to become stern again ▪ "But
this is no time to waste words. All
we want of you is your companion, and
we intend to fete her from further as-
sociation with you at once." He turn-
ed toward Mildred. "Will you be good
enough. to get out and move into the
car ahead?". he asked.
"And you think she will desert me
ppon your request?" intersposed
Brooke.
Durapt paid nmattentiehe His -eyes
were fastened upon Mildred, After
a short look at him_ she turned and
settled back in her seat in a way that
ellotend.efie. had ,eeo intention, oa daing:
as he. asked. Re started to remon-
strate then evidently changed. his
mind.
"Perhaps you will ask her to
ehange?", he suggested, returning - to
Brooke. ;
"No. Why should I?" Theae was
triumph in Brooke's tone. •
"I dislike to have to inform her
what you are."
"Don't mind me." Brooke's voice
and manner challenged him to do it.
"You insist upon my exposing you
to her for the blustering sham, im-
postor, fortune hunter that,----"
"Anything. Don't mind me."
"I shall have to do it."
"Go on."
Durant regarded him in silence for
a moment. "I telegraphed for Mr. •
Stackpole to -day," he stated: "He will
be here to -morrow. He will put an'
end to your pretense to being Lord
Bellmere."
"Go on."
"He will take steps immediately to
have you arrested for the theft,ef the
jewelry you palmed off on me:
"Brooke, I don'it like this. Durant
made an impatient gesture. "I don't
like telling in cold blood all I knew
about you. You've shown your eonr-
age. ow be a sport and ask your
compi ion to change cars and allow
us the onor of taking her home -with
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ed certain jewelry stolen at the Rol-
lin's masked ball."
"Yes—well—what has thatgot to
do with me?" Brooke turned impat-
iently from his inquisitor, and looked
tap the road at the ether automobile
as if the noise of its still running, en-
gine annoyed him.
'. "What has that got to do with
you?" Durant paused. "Nothing ex-
cept that he has confessed thatyou
got him his chance to serve as a
private detective at that ball. Shall
g°"If oyne?; wish. On my word, you are
no Worse than many another bore
have hadto listen to, but---" Brooke
east another swift glance up the road
—"but while I Can stand it myself,
I Can perhaps save one lady ,from be-
ingbored any • longer." lie walked
coolly over to Mildred. "Do you anin.d
getting out and sitting in the ear a -
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