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"My name," he responded, "is not Henry Stanleigh• Storms." said It in a nonplussed sort of way, as though he were confronted by a novel situation. And the, girl kept looking at his eyes. What was there about them that made them look so peculiar - that made the man look an though he had just wakened out or sleep. An ordinary observer would have said that he was dazzled.by the sud- den light. Perhaps that was all there was to it -that was more than likely so. But the girl, agitated as she- was, lumped, to another conclusion. She, said to herself that tne man before her was asleep - fast asleep. That explained all. The man did not move. He still stood regarding her stupidly. She sprang to the table and 'picked up the photograph of E. Stanleigh Storme. The min watched her for an instant, saw what she was doing, and then suddenly readjusted his mask to .his, face, leaped toward Us 'electric bub and smashed it. ' Then all was dark, He moved stealthily toward the window. He made no attempt to touch the girl. He half suspectedwhat was in her thoughts, and .knew perhaps .that he was sate. • He reached. the window and placed one foot outside.. But as quickly he withdrew it. • . ,• ' For there, dimly outlined 'in the darkness, he Saw' the head 01 a uni- formed policeman peeping carefully above the, root. • • • The, burglar, 'once -more within the . room, and now regardless of the•pres- ence .of the. girl, stepped hastily to the inner door. He would make his exit by another way. HeHel hastily. unlooked it, and' tried to throw.it open. But he was foiled by his own petard, ' • His 'rive 'outside was. fastened to the' knob, and the. door would not yield. Ile stepped to the .eastern win- dow and looked out. • •• ' On the lawn below was another of- ficer standing motionless with some - thew glinting in his hand. * - The burglar swore beneath hie breath. He halted for a moment and, debated with 'hireselt. s • .. . • Then stepping to the foremost :of the eastern windows, he' put out his head and 'let forth' a 'blood -curdling scream - a Scream that might baire been a woman's, so •shrill„ was It in. its intensity. ," The• attention of the officer below was attracted to that window, The burglar . immediately dashed out through t he northern window ,upon the extension roof, and brushed aside the offider who:. was prepared to make an entrance •there. • He leaped and sprang to an arbor at the back and jumped to the ground. . ** • ' • The officer fired .a.• shot in the air. "Halt!"• he cried in a 'thud voice. The burglar laughed a mocking laugh and sprang upon the low wall, cleared .1t.,* an disappeared. But as he did so the ()Meer took aim and tired. • , • - „ * The shot was folloired hy the shriek of a man in agony. The bullet had reached Its mark. . . But the burglar, though he shriek- ed with pain, never halted, for an iaetent. Re sped on his way. • The 'efficer kept on firing. Then he Was' startled by the faint scream q a woman. . • "Don't - doe't shoot that man," rleaded th girl in.the window, "Don't hoot him. He's not himself.: He's not awake. He's fast asleep. Don't hoot turn •arill' fhend uotiling. Ile had completely disappeared, They rattaacked the neighborhood, and searched all the hOrreee, but With- out avail. The burglar had. escaped, By the time they had finished their search, a man, footeore and, weary, was wanting in security some two irCes away on the other side of town, his steps beat toward the Iroquois Club. And as he walked he shook blood from his finger. "Good heavens," he said to himself, "how that bullet hurt!" Or times. in battle men • are shot through their limbs, or even through the body, almost without pain. Some- times they never know that they have been hit. On the other hand, a stray bullet may •clip a piece of ear or chop a fin- ger 'off and cause excruciating pain. 'this man had been hit - painfully hit -but the bullet had merely clipped a small piece of flesh from the end of bis middle finger. The wound was not serious, but it had been painful -and bad aused the involuntary shriek of anguish which .he • had emitted when' the shot had taken effect. The men threat the injured hand into his pocket, and walkd on in the direction of the Iroquois Club'. Meantime Burke and his men had kept the IroquoisCleb well surround - d. They had watched there all night, It Was now after half past two in the morning. Still t he man they were looking for had not appeared. But still thy waited, A policeman pacing slowly upon his beat peeped the place where Burke stood halt concealed.. "Theres been a burglary up town," he said to Burke. "I Just came out,• With the 2o'clock squad and heard 'em talking about it." "No!" exclaimed Burke, "What, another one? Get out!" • "It's heaven's own .truth," replied the man. ' • "Where was it?" inquired Burke. "Up in the swell quarter," returned the other. "Family of the name of Dun -tont -lot of jewelry an'-" • The special caught the policeman by the arm. "Dumont!" he repeated to the other. "Are you sure? Did they say Du- mont?" ' , • 'Sure," answered the"officer.. "I heard 'em talking about it. I'm sure was Dttmont." • . "Great' Scott!": exclaimed Burke. "Why -why,' I was there tonight my- self." • • • "That's: where it was," went on the .Officer. . "I'm tellin' You .straight. Well, along. I got to go.,: • Burke himself had started away in the other direction.•. "Weli,,s'lengl" he responded. "I've. got to ..go *myself, for hero comes my man now." ,. • - '.Me bad glanced toward the matron- . ce to the club. A. man came out. • The man stood for an instant under the bright light above the door. Then he descended the steps into the street. He turned to his right and walked leisurely along. Burk and his men ollowed him. • . • . As the man strolled away, he kept one hands carelessly perhaps, con- aied in the pocket of his coat - 't as any run might do. . .c • CIIS.PTER XI • The Police Investigation. • The Dumont robbery' was the last traw. • The police department had been casted right and left by the press :tut the people, and It Was even hint - d• that certain of the officers were in eague with the gang'of burglars. It is dile to thehonestY of the force o shy that they were innocent of the lightest information relative to the &air. They had tried their best to et ent the depredation, but without ucess, Just as certain as they became un- usually vigilant in one qurter, the burglaries burst out afresh in anothe. Burke was their best man, and be wee confident - or had been - that Stornie was the guilty party. He had been instructed with' the task of run- ning him down. He had run him down as beet he could. The chief held a secret session at beadquerters the morning after the Dumont affair. He called hi the (sap - tains of all the precincts, and he also directed the ettendanee of Burke and his assoelates, and of the twe Officers who had been present at the time of the theft. Burke had not yet orrivea. The pre lice had suppressed from the morning Mee any reference to the s.ffair. ."Gentlemes" said the chief, "this Is a serious matter. I propose to in- vest.igate it fully. The honor and in tegrity of this force have been at- tacked, and we are powerless to de- fend ourselves until we produce one or more of the Members of tide gang, snd yield them up to punishment, "I'm going to find but about this thing, if it takee a leg, and l'ns going as begiht right now. I Want Andrews Fortunately ter her, the officers eaed hut littie of this, His duty was rursuit. His fellow officer was already reeding after the culprit, and the ran on the roof lost no time in fol - owing. The girl'voice trailed off into in- ohereney, and she slipped down, ainting to the floor, 'The household vas aroused, only to find that each er oretiennts was imprisoned in his t -,r her room, . he neighborhod wail arousd, and same to their relief, The butler was 'mud just waking from bis stupor, laerybody was scared to death. Away down the street the burglar rilde good use of his heels. If he had been asleep, he certainly had 'Woken ., for lie flew like the wind, Por a While the offieere kept Sight 1 him, but rthally they lost Mei, hey hettrd his footstepe, however, ad followed on. lie cleated up one street and down he neXt, and often doubled on his racks. Suddenle he daahed around orner. Then everything was still, hey rbed. Mend the corner 10 aleat. .ed Cassidy to step up bore and tell heir story," Thek told the Flame tale. Andrelvs was the (officer on the emit beat. Catisidy was a roundsman. heir suspicions had been aroused the ight before by the Merest el:lance- it sudden lighting of MiesDuinontet roow The illumination attracted their attention, and they distinctly gew the man in her room 24 he rephIced his un wandalirieerdtoortoth ward the Ithigtr,had t bulb n not seen his fate. One of the men immediately moved to the rear of the /mum mounted to Ute extension roof, and was about to enter the window as the burglar, a Milt well built man, dashed, Past him and leaped to the ground. They fired, end evidently hit their man, because along the Mae or chase tliey diecover- e4Indrthopelr°0tpibali000rLthey had wounded him painfully, and perhaps very seri- ulY. akna then he had dleappeared. They had dole their test::; -and no Mall could do more. "New, look here," afiked the chief, "did this man look like Storm? - you know the man I mean:: He scrutinized their faces carefully; be was not quite eertain that the escape was altogether unavoidable, "Well, sir," said Andrews, "Au I aid, we didn't see -ie face. But to the truh, Storme was the man nat we were looking for -we had an le out for him -and Ulla man seem - et to Us 1.0 be about his build, We bought, sir, it was Storme." At this juncture a man in plain lotlies entered -a man with sunken eyee and weary frame. • It was Brke. He had net slept for thirty hour. Re sank .in an exhaust- ed WAY into a chair. ' • "Where have you been, Burke?" in- (luired the chief. Burke stepped wearily up to the front and stood before the dek. "I'm dog tired," he announced with a smile. "I've been followin' /I. Stan- leigh • Storme," "What' have you found out?" in- quired the chief. I3urke shook his hed. "Nothinh-just nothini he replied, "Either we're away, off or else he's dead on to us and is keepin' straight." The chief turned a pair af suspi- cious eyes upon the detective. '!Yeliat the mischief do You' inean, Burke?" he demanded. "Don't you know that Storme robbed the Dumont house last night?" • Burke started' up as though shot. "What!" he demanded. "What d(e mean? Robbed the 'Dumont house! Never!" • "Do you mean to tell us," said the. chief, biting his finger, "that he wasn't the man who did- it?" "Sure he wasn't," answered Burke. "Of course he wasn't." ,e,ieetow do you know?" asked the cb "Well," replied Burke with a smile, "I ought to know. I saw Storme go into the Iroquois at about midnight last night, eaw him take his place in the card morn, and saw him sitting there all night till half past two alext, morning, saw him go home, and I've just new come from the Gouverneur where he lives." "Do you mean to tell me," demand- ed the chief, "that you saw his face - saes Storme himself -in the Iroquois all night long?" 1 , "I'll tell you," explained Burke. "I didn't see hie face after he went in, but I saw it froni his eyebrows up, and it was Storme'shad all right, all, rilht; and besides, the doorkeeper teld mahalf a dozen times that Storme was there. He was there all right, all right, too: I'M sure» of that." . The chief glanced. Uncertainly at • the men before bite, and then he ad dressed Cassidy onc more. "Did --did you See Miss Durnont in• • the room 'last night?" he asked • Casidy nodded. "We did," he returned. "That's the reason Andrews climbed up, Re was afraid the fellow might offer some violence." The chieftouched a buttOn. An of- ficial appeared. aared. "You get a commanded the chief, "and go up to Miss Dumont's house and bring- her here. I'm going to have- herdown. She's the only one who can solveahin mystery. "I Won't go up there where Ill be embarrassed. I'M going to have her down here: Tell her that she needn't be afreid to come. PH see her in my room. We'll melte •it as easy -tor her as we can. But she Must come -un- derstand. It's for the good of the community. Ilring her down at once," Half an hour later another man e11 - feted. "Miss Dumont is here," he announ- ced. .1 • The chief went in nd. saw her. He took Burke in with him - he wanted Burke to hear and see. • Miss Dumont was very pale - she seemed exhausted. The chief explain- ed to bee gently just wny he had sent sir her and just why this was a very important matter. She replied that she understood and. would render any assiatance in her power. "Did -did you get, the man?" she asked -a bit anxiously, It seemed. The two teen answered at once, "No," replied the chief. "Yes," answered Burke. Burke's was the better answer of the two. He was taking no chanes, even with Miss Dumnt. Ile was not so sure but that she Was trying to shield the burglar. The chief'S ans- wer was a tnistake, and the chief knew It as soon as he had made, it Burke, however, sate the necessity of rectos oiling the twe replies. "We've got a man," he responded glibly, h but not the man although some of us, think he is the matt." There was An added expression of interest In Mies Datnonts face. "116's nothing but a tomp," eon - tinned Burke, "who had been injured itt row." ,.fs Oust to exhianstio, Peteah* "Now, Misa Dumont," said the chief "tell us an you know." She told him all there was to tell, from the time tile burglar entered her window to the time Mat she saw hint disappear in the gloom, with Cassidy and Andrews at his beele, but she said nothing about the appearance of tile burglar. Burke took nuiek note of that. "Jneit describe this Man, will YOU mitr," be requetd. She described him -aid that he was tall, well built, wore a black coot and a black hat, and in selpear. atm watt gentlemanly. "You saw hie face?" inquired Burl I I He wasn't sure she had, hut be was tying the experiment. She hesitated insperceptibiy, •and then answerd. "I did, He wore a mask. at first. Later he removed it. I -I turned on the light and saw his face, but only for an instant, for he sprang past me and broke the bulb. Then the police came, and he sprang out ef the win- dow." "What did you say to the policemen at that time?" asked Burke. "I -I forget," replied Miss Dumont. "I called out sometning, and then I fainted." "You saw the burglar well, then, for a short time. What did he bolt like?" "He bad a black beard," she replied, "hind dark eyes." Burke leaned across the table and looked her in the face, "Miss' Dumont," he said earnestly, gazing into her yes, "do you know H. Statiletgla Storme?" The color roe' to tier face as she replied: "I do." ' • • "Wasn't the man you saw in your room last night tee man H. Stanleigh torme?" Burke went on. The girl raised her head and looked squarely at the men who asked the question, wtiona.s not R. S'taroeigh Storine," she said. "That's concluded "Well," said the chief to Burke ten minutes later as they sat along, "what do you make of it?" Burke shook his head. "41 know that it was not Storme," he answered, "because I kept tab cut Storme all night. But for that," s he added, "I shouldn't place much re lia.nce upon the girl's denial." • . The °bier looked quizzicailY at . Burke, "Do you know what I think. Burke?" he asked. ' • . • Burke shook 01 heaa. think," resumed the 'Chief, with an air .of •• conviction, "I think the giii lied, for the first tlmeln her life. She knows more than we think."• CHAPTER XII An Eetry by the Front door, instead •.• Of throughthe side window.' - The servants in the Dumont house hold had beccimetimorous - the sen sation Of the night before had: mad thein so. 1 .* The creaking of a stair or th whistling of the • svied sent them into temporary spasms: They \valise about the house in the broad day light ,each one casting apprehensiv glances over their shoUder, fearin that something might spring put •to Thie dark corners to pounce upon an seize them. This fear was intensified as • nigh came on. They went to the front doo in answer terings of the bell in- Solid phalanx--nOne would go alone,• and none would stay behind. . . Miss Dement kept to her room. • "She's the only one that ain't afraid," •they 'said down below, "and yet - they say site saw the man, too, Whit d'ye think of that?" ' • "She's feelin! pretty had, though, all the same," suggested the cook. "Who vouldnt," interposed the housentaid, "to lose ail them Jewels? I would myself." • • . "Lord save us" ejuculated the cock. "Mercy 011 us, what's that?" • It was nothing but the ringing of ` Atte' front door bll. Tlie Phalanx a regular fOrtnntien • by •Ole time - started for the floor above: The servants peered through -lite glass door, unaware *of.' the 'Met • ohna - emote ehieiume 11 that though the man outside was in• visible to them they were distinctly visible to him. • He smiled • with amusement, and pressed the bell again. The maids Jumped • and 'shrieked and finaliy. opened the door. ,. The man stepped in, and Miss Du- mont`e own maid stepped forward. "Oh,S she eclaiined, "it is y6u, Mr. Storme.. Came in. We weren't sur. We'vebeen so much afraid' since the burglars' broke in last night." Storme had been about to hang up Itis coat, but at the girl's last words be stopped and looked her in the fade. "The burglars!" he exlaimed, "Did --did they 'get in? Last night?" 'Phegirl nodded. "He got in," she said, "and he got all Miss renont's Jewels, too, 'worse luck." "Miss Dumont!" eXclainted Storme. "Is she -that Is, was anybody hurt?" "Nobody here, sir," returned the girl, "but they do say the inian him- self -whoever he might be -got Shot, I hope he did, for he deserves It" Stortne, to cut short a convereagoe which threatened to be long and tire- some -inquired if Mise Dumont were She was, and the maid told she would announce his peesence. Sho went upstaire to do it Statue sauntered into the 'little room Just off the hall, where the tire place was. lie waited as he Own) aite d, ‚With hie eyes fixed011 the "Miss nument gays," antiounad-114c Mies Dumont breathed a sigh, pqrntaid„"that elm itt.tiOt• va.! She profie-at to edial dewe ;lairs." Storme !coked lutentiy at the eiti. "1a --hast Miss Dunamt retired?" come (Iowa jut for a rnetvent or two. he asked, la a strained voice. -Would you miud asking her t) The male said no, elle had not. I - ,I particularly want to tee her? Will 7011 tell her that?" The girl assented, Mgt left the room. Sterni e 170.!te4 once mere. Finally mho came. StorMe hardly knew her, ehe seented so pale and 111. She halted on the very threat:Old and looked at bini. Storme hail starts ed forward (Mee atain, but he Vitecked himself, "Helen," he said, hoarsely, "Helen, What's' the -matters- tor lieaSen'e -seke, tell me what le the matter?' He had never seen such an express don upon bar face Isethre. '4Vizat mild It mean? • "Helen," he repeated getly, and with a note of pleading in his tone, "tell me what's the triatter." She put hershand up to the throat "De you - do you Ask me?" she queried. "After last night?" "Last night?" exclaimed Shortie.uns certainly. "Last night?" He acted for all the world like a man who had torgotten about last night. "What happened -last niget?" he queried. ("What was it? Oh yes, I wag ealled away. I had to go. I went soniewhat too abruptly. I remember' now" As he spoke he booked etraight at her. The light flared up and illumi- nated Me face. And when the girl saw the expression there ,she sprang forward and buried ' hers upon his arm. "Sttaileigh," she cried wildly, "then you are safe -safe, You are not hurt! They told me yOu were shot, that -3 She broke into a storm, of Mimi. tuous. sobbing. "Your'e safe! Safe!" she kept ex - claiming.. Storme wafted until she had calMed down, • n• beg your pardon, Heln," be..be- gan; "I had forgotten about- the bur- glary. It is just that and the train of thought through which it carried, me, about which I had desired to speak. It is that which has unnerved you. Poor little I would that I had been here to protect you." The girl raised her head and looked' at him with wide Open eyes. • "Henry" she exclaimed. "Stanleigh! No.don't look at me while 1 talk-. I can't stand it. Look at the fire.. Look anywhere but at me." He Obeyed her. She went on, quietly enough now but with tt strakige tentness in her voice. • • • • • "S 1 i t tan e gh, ell me, why is that you have been doing these things? Why do you commit these crimes?" "Do these , things?" exclaimed Storme. "What things -what crimesi .• What do ,you mean, Helen?" Miss Dumont did notanswer. e "Where were you" she aelted in s measured tones, "at half past two last morning, rather?" Storme looked at her in surprise. d "Why," Ise returned, "at the Ivo, quota I was there until three," She nodded.' . g "I know that", she returned, "1 A know that you were supposed to be " there but where Were you really? De you know? S.torme loked at her in a puzzled way. • "I' was at the cluns-that's ail," ht anwered. • . ,.• Sh.e continued looking et him for s time and then uttered a little sigh, which sounded like n sigh Of reilet But sbe went on. nevertheless. in. s • (TO HE CONTIN1ED.1. A boy! was killed by falling front a tree near Ottaw: A Toronto young man appeared in flhathaen Police Courts on serious char- ges. • Charges of mnladrainistrattion were laid against Fire Chief Trenrblay' Montreal, Owing 1.45 drought and imendin& famine in India the Delhi durbar may not take place in 'December. Imperfect Kidney Action Causes Rheumatism Rheumatism with its kindred ailments -Lumbago, Wry Neck, Neuralgia, etc.., • usually results from lodgments of uric acid m the joints and muscles. Now the chief function of the kidneys is to properly filter this poison from the bloOd Only when they fail to do this ii Rheumatism probable, Kidney weakness starts in various ways. la sadden chill; after perspiring freely, sometimes settles in the kidneys -or an -unusual strain may cause it. Poisons which should be filtered out of the system are pumped back into the b °Istfle:Rrda.1;legictiaamit;saeigtnticsin. Uric A, °thi NCaeucks. 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