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Comientle teete 141welewal with beading, me b.iecured "Wow nem Otos* • lend aseaL Early eppileation must 1* made Asa root Hoye titiegeriti Ariels1411.re !melee* mem mid fee isionestime • pply le mime CPA. Area ei le 11. L. ONLY DIRECT LIM NO MOO OM I Die, lege Aete Two). AGENT. CigN140X, Cfablernan AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE. Vkie.A.Tti R.F3N1' eiFIS8NeY euppilecl Exclusively In Qamala by The British 4 Celonial Pre*" 4ervinin Limited. my ,affaina alba time? Yorrand I never meet except when fatbas been libels- ing something into InY /hp out of her beg of worries. What is it, sir, this time? Any misfortune happened to • my schooner, or to my children of Val B. Montague's Combination?: Or does your appearance merely portend that I am about to- miss this easy ohot at snooker?" "Try the shot and see," iMid Scar- • borough, Montague did so. The balls kissed, and his ownran into the pocket, • "Off the pink, too!" he exelahned ruefully. "Six off my score. But I'm • glad. I was afraid the Sea -Horse had • gone to the bottom, at the least,'" "Is your game nearly over?" Sea. borough asked Scott, "Yes. Want to join in?" "No, thanks; but will you bring Mon- tague to my room when you've finish - cd? There's something I want to tell you both." Val B. Montague looked up quickly. "There is a crisis!" he said. "I was • sure et it, • "Yea," said Scarborough, "there Is a crisis. But not in your affaire this time, Montague. rm going to ask for your help, that's all; and Miss de la Mar told me I should find you would give it. But finiele your game first." Montague had thrown down his cue, "No," he said. "If Mies de la Mar promised tbat I should help you, I opine that she did not calculate that I should let a game of snooker delay me. Lead the way to your room, sir! Mr. Scott and I will follow." "Very well, if you prefer it." "I do, sir." Scarborodgh kept nothing back in wbat he told- these two; be gave them the whole tale simply, and did not fear that he was violating confidences in so doing. He guessed that heprobably had a clever adversary in Gillies, and he was quite sure that he had an ex- • tremely clever one in Mrs. Carring- ton; and he • judged with a Cool pru- dence that was characteristic, that the heavier the battalions which be could bring to bear against them, the moire likely was be to win in the end. Ile woiild have • liked, of course, to win without the heavy battalions, but it was safer if less glorious, to be as strong as possible. • The bestjeneral Is not he who brings off forlorn hopes . gallant fighting, but he who cote centrates all available forces, leaves the leading of forlorn helms to the enemy, and never requires to lead one himself. Scarborough did not despise the glory which is won by making .e gallant fight against odds, but ho-Sirae a good -enough general to prefer ciafety to glom Had, he been lighting for his own hand, he would probably have reasoned differently; .but just now. he was fighting for Elsa. . • . . These two, then, would be staunch recruite. Scott he could vouch for • himself, and Mona -Mid. vouelued for 'Montague. It was all right. • When • he .had finished. Montague said: • • - "That's all 'right, sonny. 'Of courae we'll ehip in and help you to beat' the widow. You're boss in . this show, Just ten us -what you want as to do, • and we'll do it. Is that right, Mr. Scott?" . , "Oh, yes," said • Scott, laughing, "But I see the part I'm cast for with- out being told. Extra .spells In front of the siphon -recorder, while Saarbon • ough goes treasure -hunting. Thatfs the form of eiccitement I'm billed for, isn't it. Horace?" "I do want you to relieve me to- morrow morning at .five, if you will," said ScarboroI' ugh. "m afraid it's deadly slow part for you, old man." • "Never -mind, r11 do it.. I've just laid In a fresh stock of modern French fia tion in. paper -backs, so I'll yawn through an extra spell. all right with their help. • Give Me a chance of bein.g In at the death, as a reward, if you get any real fighting." ' • . "Now, Mr. Scarborough, your orders to me!" said Montague. • "I gather that • I'm to look after the widow-. Any pan ticular way • of doing it?" • • "The .most effective you can think of, please," said Scarborough. "I leave 'it to yeti to decide. Better ewait till' You See to -morrow what she means to do." • . " "No, sir," said the, circus -man, "That's not my way of doing business, If I put my finger into this pie, it's go ing to he My pie. I shall arrange the programme, not the Widow Carrington, You give me it free hand?" "Oh. yea;. short of actual *violence, We may dorae te that -in -the end, but I don't want Our side to begin it." - "Then get up, and go to that writing table, and write me a letter' of. intro. duction to -her.""What's the good of that?" asked Scarborough laughing. "She 'will laugh at you." "Maybe she will, but that's the way I'm going todo it. You said I could • have a free hand, and I said it wa: • going to be ray pie. Don't know how to word it, don't you? I'll dictate. • 'Dear Madam,e-During my unavoidable ab• sence on a picnic with your daughter and Mademoiselle Mona de la Mar, our Mr. Val B. Montague, of Val B. Mon. tague's American Chas Combination, is fully empowered to represent me, and to make any arrangements that may be necessary for your comfort, Is a man in whose 'ability I have perfect confidence, and I have given him a free hand in the matter. He re. quests nee to inform you that this in his pie, and though the metaphor is not very clear to me, he premises that you shall underetand it before the day Is over. Horace Scarborough, Cable Station, Ribiertti Grande.' -Sign it!" Scarborough threw down hie pen, and heard' Scat burst into a roar -of laughter. Val B. Montague gravely • picked up the paper, blotted it, and put It into his pooket.book, "Nov, tell 120 what you really mean to do," said Scott. Montague turned to him tioleninly, ft "Mr. So," he Said, "you don't show the Intelligente which / have gathered, frOni your eonversation. On Other subjects, that yeni poSse0S. I ani going to tall at the Chinelas to -morrow morning early, • and present this ad- mirably•Worded letter of introduetkel to the widovr of the late Richnioncl Carrington." "Oh,- Minimise, man!" "I am sir. Aad I antleipate that as a reault I shall enjoy a very pleasant day. It MaY ba a somewhat strenuouil one, though,,ala will *lilt you geed - night. MY riOM iti two dOeril away* I think.' . • . • ..- WI JACKSON, By IOW" said Scott, when Monta- • gue had bowed biniself out of the room, "he really means It! I don't think all the fun will be at Fume to- MorroW, Horace!" CHAPTER XXII. IraFemme Phil Varney, lying on his back under a golden roof famed by tektite of • maize eobs, found the morning verY • pleasant. The drying maize, strung in bundles on three poles stacked in a tripod, whispered portly as the breeze crept through the airspaces between the cobs. The sun was not yet hot enough to be unpleasant, and the view in front of Min was perhaps the most beatiful in all the iuslend. He found nature's morning mood restful, hie Pipe was drawing well, and Muriel Davis had promised last night that she would ride over el the course of . the day. Everything, therefore, was peace;' he indulged himself in dreams and sere try though lie was, he showed unmis- takeable eigns of a tendency to sleep at his post: Beneath, him in the valley lay the lake of Las Furnas, three miles in cir- cumference; and the roofs of the long straggling village, half Midden by the trees which grew everywhere on the' lower ground,. made dots of darker 'color on the landacape, The village is situated in the bottom of a vast crater, and the steep pointed hills, once active volcanoes, but clothed now with a dense garment of pines, form a com- plete ring mind it. Down the flank$ of the great Peak of the Cedars, and its twin mountain the Peak of the Locust, waterfalls flaeleed in white spray; and the Ribeira Quente, the "Hot River," wound thr'ough the val- ley, changing color eontinually as it received the tinted waters of the many vocanie springs by which it Is fed.. . Nature was beautiful, but aomno- lent; and Phil Varney, feeling quite tontented with his lot juSt now, was inclined to be somnolent too. . A voice bailing bizn from the lower level broke the reverie into which he Was drifting. • He raised himself on his elbow and saw Scarborough push- ing a bicycle up the rough ground of the hillside. "Any sign of -Gillies yet?" asked Scarborough, when he reachedthe • maize stack, "No. • Where is Muriel? She said she would ride over with you." • "She and the •other two girls are behind. I •left them at the Casa Davis, packing luncheon baskets, and came • On. first." e . • "The other two girls?" queried Var-. ney. "Mona and 'Miss • Carrington? They coming' too? You've turned it Into a regular. picnic!" "That is the idea," said Scarbor- ough. 'And Mrs.. Carrington and Val B. will poin us later,. l• fancy."' • "Here, hold hard!" Varney exclaimed. °I don't understand this. ' What's Mrs. Carrington coming for? Explain, please!" • •• "All right, but glee me some break.* feat first. Got anything?" • "Frogs' legs," said Varney with a grin. "1'11 heat you a pailful In no time. Ever tasted 'them?" "No," said Scarborough, and added, doubtfully: "Net •sure that ' I wane to .now." • • "Oh, they're capital! • Wait till you taste! It was Davis -who' put me up to the idea. The. place swarms with them; ,and they're the -real 'edible kind, though the natives haven't .found that out.. Deets is thinking of starting a pickle factory and exporting them to Paris. By the. way, .did you show him - the scratched stone?" • •• eyes..1 "Well? What's his idea?" • "He fancies that he can make some More of it legible., He's going,to dust lycopodium powder over it, and •then Photograph it, and he thinks the pow. der may .show up in the photograph • where the pencil marks were. He's working at it now," • "Cunning man, Davis!" said Varney with • satisfaction. "He and I *ill: •Initke a suctess of our partlieriihip, 12 it comes off. Think it will, too! New tell me about Mrs. Carrington:" . Scarborough gave him an account of the scene at the Chinelas the even- • ing before, and of the modification in their plans Which it had •reedered ne- cessary. At the end he asked: "Which is the. ihn where yeti saw GillieS the other day?" '• • • "That rambling block•at the end of the village nearest to us," said Varney. "I've.. had my eye on it mere or less since daybreak, but ,,there's been no sign of either hen or his donkey. I don't think he can. be.' there, or he • would have .been stirringbefore now." • "I'll go and -see before the girls come," said Scarorough. "After -they grieve, if we •haven't seen him before • then,. we'll quarter the country, and get a thorough notion of the lie of the land. If Deeds niakes anything out frorh the scratched stone, it will be an advantage to ne to know as much as: possible beforehand a the main features of the district, It's what (Al- fieri has been working, at, I imagine. I wish we knew where he is now, and What he is doing." • "Any- challeo that he has recovered the stones already and is off?" "Oh, yes, there's a chanee. But he only got the plan yeaterday, you know. What I'm more afraid of is that he may have foetid that he was on a wrong scent here, and IS working somewhere else. Still, we'll take the opportunity of' his absence to do a -bit 'of hunting here ourselves." •• "In tousles, of counie!" Said Var. hey. "Miss Carrington and you, Mur iel and mel Capital! But Where does Mona come in?" "Oh;" eaid Scarborough laughing, POWs not the girl to spoil ati arrange - Merit of that eat. She'll probably say that -she prefers to work alone, and shall have to be ungallant enough to let her have her own Way. I say, old chap, I don't care much for thee() frog -things. The taste Isn't bad, but the Idea's atoity. I'm ;yang down to the ten for breakfast. Will you come?" "No, thankg, I'll wait for you here. The girth might turn up, you nee. What shall you do if you Meet Gflfles there?" "Don't know. Wait and Olee what he done, I euppoile," But Gillies Was not at the inn. Seat - borough Went in, and, asked the land. ladylit Portuguese what she could ere hiret for breakfast. To tie surprise he warn aneWered in hie own tongue, epo. ken Stith a ;Strang bath:bat Went, , "Neel, there* jilit italt etia end and if ye Oxman like thmt,Owe* the bitter mixture. It's visit the Mks heresibeuts breakfast on et* * general thing, and if ye're the A.merican tour. ist I take ye for. Ye'll he wanting to Mete it. They all do, but there's not mealy ef them cell take a aecend help. "What* the bitter mixture?" asked Scarborough. "Oh, jUllt halt A We le Melte bread, tilled up wi' lard, garlic, Wong, Vine* gar, whole peppers and saffron. WIB I get you a plateful?" "NO, thank YOU," said Scarborough with decision,. "I'm not an ,A.merican touriet, You see, so I haven't the curi- osity or trio courage to try it. I'm a pieta Britisher, hungry, and look'ng a fellow Britisher to give him a better • Meal than that. By the way, Yea have had a countrymen of yours staying in Your Inn latelx, haven't you?" ' "The Scotchmaa arbota exploring Ur-- • countryside On A donkey, and Minim that tongs will take him for a native? Yes, he' s been here; but wlio told you • :ittai he was a fellow countryman o' rather "Well, you are Scotch too, aren't • "raugiar" as born in Fraser's Wynd in the High Street o' Edinburgh,' said the woman proudly, "But I'm thinking I hadn't told you that, and it's no likely you would be able to guess it from mY tongue: What's it to be? Salt cod and beans, or win it be yams and a red • sausage?" ' "You gave the Scotchman something better than any of these, didn't you?" asked Scarhorough. "Oh, levet He was a pernicketty body, and gave me a let o' trouble get- ting things for him I couldiate please him with anything, until I put an eel frkoed hitt mtthe,uHotnRiver before him, 'Ele "r litre eels too," said Scarborough, "and I have been told that the worm raud of the Ribeirs, Quente breeds the best in the world." "Ay, but I havens one in the house. Not but what there might be one, or even two, in the eel baskets; but my guidman hasn't been down to the river yet to see." In the end Scarborough breakfasted off bread and wine, but when the land- lady learned that, three ladies were eoming, she promised to have a proper meal, including fried eels from the Hot River, ready for the whole party in an hour,' Scarborough drew her out on the subject of the likes anddislikee of the Scotchman, for he • saw that Mlles had been giving trouble over his meals here, as he did'at the yenta in Ponta Delgada, and that this wo. • man had resented this. He did not find it necessary to ask her questions about Gillies' movements during the time that he stayed in her house; she had a grievance, and was voluble about it, andScarborough let her rattle on whillt;,_. munched his break- fast.However, 'beyond the fact that Gil- lies had not been seen in the district since yesterday morning, he learned little. The woman knew nothing of how he spent Ms time when he was there, except he was often seen near the edge of the lake, fishing in the water With a net at the end•of e pole. He never caught anything, she ex- plained ;scornfully, and wasn't likely to ' by that senseless way of fishing. When she showed signs: of becom- ing autobiographical, and had started to explain how it came about that she, a respectable Edinburgh womanwith a Free Kirk upbringing, was now tee wife of a Portuguese innkeeper, Scar- borough discovered hurriedly that hi had finished his meal; and inust go. Her history might possibly be inter - testing, but he did not wait to hear it. Other things •of greater impor- tance filled his thoughts just now. , He returned to where he had left Varney under the maize -cobs. • "Mlles goes fishing at the edge of the lake with a net at the end of a long pole," said he. "What tides that mean, Phil?" •"That the diagnonds are hidden in the water," said Varney promptly, "But he has given up the occupa- tion. since yesterday morting. Got an interpretation OE that?" "Yes. Either be has found' them and is 'off -or he haan't and is feel- • ing somewhere else." • . "In either case weare wasting time by staying here?" .• • •• • • "Shouldn't wonder," -said' Varney calmly. • "But we nimit wait or the girls anyway. .What have you dis- covered?" • Scarborough told him what the Scotchwoman had said. • • • "Then I tell yo'u 'whet," said Var- ney. • "When the girls come, we'll have that meal yOu've ordered for us, and then we'll ride back to the 'Casa Davis to hear how the, photographic experiment has turned out. We Can't go chasing Gillies aimlessly about the island of San Miguel, because • we don't know which way he's gone; but If Davis has managed to interpret the message on the scratched .stone, we shall have something to guide us. If the stone tells us 'where to go, we'll go there, and I hope we Won't find that Gillies is before Us." °Why• should he be? He doesn't know about the stone." • • "No, but maybe tee stolen plan wasn't quite so indefinite as Mrs. Car- rington says it was. It is since he has had It in his possession that he has ceased to work here. • We Shall have to give up the happy day of hunting in couples that we had er- ranged. • That's the pity," ,he added' ruefully. • -"You can ride with 1VIuriel," said Scarborough laughing. "You've en - ed it • I'll look after the other two." . "Thanks, old man," said Varney, brightening at once. "ru take you at that!" • Half an hour later the girls arrived, and when they heard What Scarbor- ough had learned at the len, they agreed that Varney's proposal was the right one. However, when they were on the pond of remounting their ma- chines to ride back to datot Davis, MOM& pointed with an exclamation to a figure that was limping deem the hill towards them. ' • "It's Val B.!" she cried. "Then what has become of Mrs Carring- ton?" "I think he's hurt," said Searbor. ough, anxiously., "I'll ride on and meet' him." e brought the circus Man baek Hto tph ai :Tun by the door of the lnn, and after a long draught of wine, Val B. Montague dinned his mouth, to ex "Ladies and •gentleinen," he said, • "you see before you a cock -sure fool Who has been taken down a peg, I dictated a letter of introduction Isat night, Ald /?-in which I got Our friend here to say that Our Mr, Men- tague Was a man in whOse ability he had entire faith! Mr, SetarborOugn, •slr, I was a fred. I ale° stated, I be. lieVe, that it Was going to be tny pie. "Flail ray Pie at all, tie it turnsout; It's the widow's." He paused and took Wither long 6411'e has given yeni the blip?" ask. 1,..a WA.. v n••••••1 *"Whibro 11 shot" Lilted licallSor. • °ugh. Montague looked from one to the other. "No," he said. 4481i0 did not give • me the slip. She merely rode away from me ell My own donkey, and told ine I wisn't to follow, And I didn't dare to disobey bel-. Where is elm? don't know. The only thing 1 AM • Absolutely sure of is that Our Mr. Montague, et Val 13. Montague* Amer- • les.n Circuit •CoMbinatiOn, has been Pude a complete fool a, and that bY WhOnt he thought all the time Lila he Washimself fooling. • Anybody like to kick me?" 6. -rot ua what has happened." maid Else. "Tills!" he answered. "Your mo- ther and the scoundrel Mlles have joined forces; and, the man in whooe • ability Mr, Scarbormigh expreesed entire confidence, allowed them tO do it." .11./...•••••••••• CHAPTER XXIII. • The ilVidoW Makes the Pie "Mrs. Carrington and Milieu have • joined forces!" Scarborough repeat- • ed with dismay, and the others echoed his exclamation of astonishMent. "That was what I ;saki, sir," re. ereinded Montague. "And It struck Me, from what •I saw of the pair of them, that it will be a strong coali. tion. More fool I for letting it come about! • Guess you're sorry you en. listed me as a recruit, aren't you?" "Are you hurt?" asked Mona an* imlslYw. • "tisted ray ankle on a stone, and got ti large blieter on my heel, there all. I'm a poor walker, and walking wasn't part of my plan for the day. The widow arranged that too, and • didn't consult me about my prefer- en"Gireces," us the tale, Montague, and we'll condole with you afterwards," said Vareey. "The tale, air, is one that I am ashamed of," said Montague; "but I suppose yoieve got to know it. After Mr, Scarborough had started • this • Morning, without waiting for break- fast, as he is young enough and fool- ish enough to be imprudent in these matters, I made a good breakfast and then started myself. When I reached the Chinelas 2 found it would have been' better if I had hurried, for the • widow had already gone into the town of Ribeire, Grande. I had let her get ahead of me at the start, you See; However, I • followed at once, and 'found her at the livery stables, bar- gaining for a carriage to take her to Las Furnas. I presented my letter of introduction, and, aq Mr. Seat and .Mr. Scarborough warned me last night would be the case, she, laughed at me.• However, .I didn't mind that; in fact- I had counted 'upon her doing so, and should have been put out if she hadn't. I improved •the oppor- timity 'of her laughter to make a quaint and possibly outrageous re- mark or two, and therebysucceeded In amusing her further.. She saw that I was a men -of some originality of thought, and she was piqued into an me in my own vein. Teat again was what- I wanted: We in- dulged in a regular duel of badinage In. that stable yard, and if a third par- • ty had been there to listen, I think he would have agreed with my opinion, • that in the clash of wit against Wit, we -both emitted some quite brilliant spaks of faney. The result was,what I had foramen; the widow was .'pleasad with herself, and began to think that an hour or two spent in my company would be interesting and stimulating. I worked hard to keep •that impros-• sem alive in her mind, until I had got • her • to agree to what I -wanted; and I succeeded -as I • had of • course thought I should -in doing so. "She accepted my offer to be her cicerone, and she even adopted my suggestion' that we should go, .not carriage, but on donkeys. I point- ed but that the carriage road made a long sweep round, whereas on don- keys we could take a short cut across •the hills which I knew of. • 1VioreoVer the -San Miguel donkeys are good, and are the favorite instruments of travel in these parts; and when one is in Rome -it wat, not .necessary to 'argue further; she saw the advantaga of my proposal, and I think there was a certain quaintness in the idea which pleased her. ordered the donkeys, and 1 'had a private word with • their owner first. "Your mother, Miss ' Carrington,. ' is a brilllant conversationalist,* ivlien • she meets with someone who is capa- ble of appreciating and replying . to • her sallies; and if 2 ,may say so -with- out undue boasting, /think she found that person. in meT Indeed, bad* not past experience justified .me in rely. Ing to a certain extent en my own powers. in this respect, I should have made a different plan, I think we both enjoyed the ride,.at any rate in its earlier stages. I know,' at least, that I did. "After about three miles, the beast she was riding went dead lame.. It was a contingency for which I was not- unprepared . In fact, in my pri- vate words with the man from whom We had hired the donkeys, 1 had stip- ulated expressly that the one he supe plied to the lady should not be able to go five miles without breaking down. The man performed more than his centred, for it broke down, as I say, In three. • "Now do you see n1/ plan? I knew that you were busy here, and that you did .not want to be interrupted. The widew's Intention was to inter- rupt you, and mine therefore was to delay her, by all and ane means, jus- tifiable and unjustifiable. • That was why she was riding a donkey which had been privately guaranteed to me as certain to go lanie at the first or second bit of Stiff Climbing we came •I thought that the evidOw would thereby be compelled to do one of two things: either to abandon the expedi- tion altogether, which, was not What I thought she would do; or to waste a 'eonsiderable part of the Morning by walkiog back to Ribeira Grande, and hiring a carriage after all. There Was a third possibility -that She might Suggest continuing the journey on my donkey, and leaving me to lead the lame one back home; but to that I was ready with the Unanswerable ob. jectien that she did not know the way, ' • "It was a pretty sittiatioft, end was eurieus te gee how she would meet it. Of eeurse she met it hi the one way which I had not anticipated. "She langlied as though it did tot matter, sat down by the readeide, and said that we would rest for an hour and admire the Scenery, and perhaps by that time her steed Would Mire re- covered elleugh to proceed. Now I knew quite Well. that he WOUldn't and I thought she knew it tob; but delay was what I had been playing fa all along, so 1 fell In with her suggestion Without eminent. We cOnversed lightly, perhonis even at times brit. Haab', for about twenty minutes, and then just When I was in the Inidet of wonrvkalfgAr ouust aa 3 or oe it st sfati n ay d ntlz (rues ;A- .111erema 7 yeeemempowommenewisweemewoomem Met $11111/11irleltStetag las with asr moot 444 attention, with the WW1* of capping any effort If she could, she electrified me by putting a 41,11.4104 wbleal had nothing at, all to de- Trak what I was Wing. "le the Pie yours so far, Ur. Mow.) tape? "My regain* ot poetic faitey wu! deehed to the gremnd, and thereWa not se much am a flutter lett in his • wings; I did• not wren finish M7 phrase but looked at her instead, Her manner had changed, mkt iihe Welt re. • garding me With a mocking smile. • " ▪ the pie yourm?' she repeated. 'Does Our Mr. Montague eensider that, he is working big commiesion a de- lay with surprising ease and Owen? Or did he deSpiSe hie antaeouiet I muck that he anticipated that ouceeell wotild be easy? Do you Mary el:.r.k I am a fol?' • "She had taken the matien Sete ter own hands, I rca:iZed nett f rteer Pretense was useless. Sie are -- eutly, she already imew n yce, e'er I abowed my hand. "'2 think,' I said, 'that you • somewhat late for the pien.e ULas Fungus' • "Possibly,' She retorted. 'I • not want to go. If you will 1•10.1; be-• • hind you, you will see a wan ap- proaching us.' By the paee at which he is coining, it would appear that 13.3 is riding a better donkey than either ef these which you hired for us. Wh.- ther I go to the picnic or no, will de- pend a good dval upon him, I fancy.' "'You are going to make him an offer for the hire of his donkey for the day?' I said, But I knew we 1 enough that the remark Was foolish. • "She glanced at me through half closed lids. ' • "}fls name is Andrew Gillics,' she i said. 'Do you know him?' "Then, as thought to complete my humiliation, She told me exactly what she had done and what she meant to do. She did not even pay me the com- pliment a regarding me as an antag- onist from weom it would be allele- • able to conceal information. I had• ' thought that my fanciful eloquence had impressed her! • I see now that • she had been laughing at .me all the • time, and I think she regarded me as a semewhat foolish windbag. You will understand that I found tbat suf- ficiently galling, "It seems that a few minutes after Mr. Scarborough and the two ladies jell the Chinelas,, Mrs. Carrington, who had been wakened by the crunch- • ing of their eiotsteps on tee gravel, • got up and looked out from her win- dow. She saw a man in the garden, and he saw her at the window. He took a note from his pocket, held it up for her to see, and then laid it on a garden seat. in full, view from where she was • standing.' Then he went • away. thainan was Andrew Gillies, • and she told Me that he had in all probability been waiting in. the gar- den in concealment for te long time, hoping for a Chance of delivering the .letter. You three,. by your early start, gave elm the opportunity sooner than he had hoped. • "Without waiting to dress, • she threw on an ulster and 'went for the letter. • • " 'It suggested an inteririew,' Mr. Montague,' she told me sweetly, 'and e • the place which was mentioned was this road on which we are now You • timed that good aniinars attack of. laineness 'Very well. If we bad gone .a quarter of a mile farther, I should have had to invent •some excuse for , •'stopping. As it is you have given me the opportunity unsought. Do •you OUR claim the ownership of the pie?' •• "'No,' I said, with a grudging ad- miration at the way in -Which she had playedwith•me, 'it's yours. What are ' yougoing to put into it?' • • "'That depends,' she said. 'Though We agree thatthe pie is not yours, I can't claim that it is all mine either. Andrew Gillies will have a finger in it, too, and I shall wait to See what his contribution is before I offer mine. • You understand the situation, I think. • He probably found that fact out very soon, and that is why he waited so patiently outside my • window ' this •morning, • Now why shouldn't he .and.• I pool our resources -he supplies the plan, and I the additional' inforination which makes the plan, of 'value?' " 'Because you haverPe, sot %it to . supply,' I said at once, and I really' thought' she 'hadn't. ••• . . • . ' "She -smiled. 'Didn't Mr. Scarbor- ough tell You,' she said, 'that I was behind the door for some- time last • night? I know about the scratched stone.' . "'But you don't know what Le words on it mean,' I cried. 'No one does.' •, . • "'No, but Andrew Gillies may he able to guess. He knows more than • we do, you remember, about what My , husbapd's movements were on, the last day of his life. •We will see how the point strikes him. 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