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«BEALi
By Percival Christopher Wren
THE GREATEST MYSTERY, STORY EVER WRITTEN
FIRST READ THIS
George Lawrence meets an old
friend, Major Henri de,Beaujolais The
latter tells him a strange Story. He
had taken a command of men. to res-
cue the lonely fort at Zindeineuf, and
on arriving there, finds all Men with-
in dead—but propped in the embras-
ures Inside be finds a commandant
killed, and in his hand a note, signed
by Michael Geste, admitting the theft.
of the `Blue Water,' a valuable sap-
phire, owned by Lady Brandon, Who
is "Beau" Geste's aunt. Later that,
night, the body of the young , officer
disappears, and the fort is set .on fire.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"And' what of the new fort, and
the garrison! Zinderneuf would be-
come the most .popular outpost in
Africa, instead of the least—until the
sapphire was • found If it is there,
I suppose the surest way to lose 'it
for ever would be to hint the fact.
No, we should have to keep it' very
quiet' and do all 'the searching our-
selves, if possible Good Heavens
above us! Ivfore complications!" He
smiled whimsically.
George Lawrence pursuedhis vis-
ion, and the two fell silent for awhile.
"Supposing that stone had actually
been in the pocket of,a. man on that
roof, when it collapsed into the furn-
ace belbw,"%aid de Beaujolais as he
sat up and felt for'liis cigarette case,
`'would the jewel be destroyed when
the body of the man ,vas cremated?
Does fire affect precious stones:'"'.'
"Don't know," ' replied Lawrence
"We could •find that out from any
jeweller, I suppose. I rather think
not. Aren't they, in fact, formed in
the earth by a heat greater titan any
furnace can produce?"
"Of course," agreed de Beaujolais.
"You could make as many diamonds
as you wanted if you could get suf-
ficient heat and pressure. They are
only crystallised carbon. Fire certainly
would not hurt a diamond, and I don't
suppose it would hurt any other prec-
ious stone."
tallised carbon.. Fire certainly would
not hurt a diamond ,and I don't sup-
pose it would hurt any other precious
stone."
"No," he mused on. "If the Bltie
Water has been 'stolen ,it is probably
safe and sound at this moment, in
Zinderneuf, adorning the charred re-
mains of a skeleton."
.and George Lawrence day- dream-
ed awhile _of himeslf, Lady Brandon,
and the sacrifice of his leave to the
making of a great restoration. Of
his leave? Nay if necessary, of his
whole life.
("Describe me a man's day -dreams
and I will describe you the man," said
the Philospher He might have de-
scribed George Lawrence as a roman-
tic and quixotic fool -errant, which he
was not, or perhaps ni,erely asa man
in love, which he was. Possibly the
Philosopher might have added that
the descriptions are synonymous, and
that therefdre George Lawrence was
both.)
He was awakened from his reverie
by the voice of de Beaujolais.
"Queer that it never got into the
papers, George," reused that gentle-
man.
'Y es, It is," agreed Lawrence "I
shotild certainly have seen it if it
had . I,read my Telegraph and Ob-
server religiously. No, I certainly
should never have missed it.. Probably
the dammed, thing was never stolen
at all."
"Looks like it," said his friend. "Ev-
ery Englishpaper
would have had
an
acocunt of the theft of a famous• jew-
el like that , Though it is possible
that :Lady Brandon hushed it up for
some reason, What about an aper-
itif, my old one?"
And, his old one agreeing, they
once more dropped the subject of
Beau Geste, the "Blue Water," Zin-
derneuf, and its secret ,
On parting in London, Major de
Beaujolais handed a document to
George Lawrence, who promised to
deliver it, and also tokeep his friend
intonate das to any later develop-
ments of the story.
The major felt that he had the
middle of it, and he particularly de-
sired to discover its; beginning, and
to follow it to the end.
Chapter II
GEORGE LAWRENCE TAKES
STORY' TO LADY BRANDON AT
BJ7ANbON' AT3BAS
As his hireling car sod along the
countr`Y' road that led to the park
gates of Brandon Abbas, George Law-
rence's heart beat like that of a boy
going to, his first love -tryst ,
Had she married him, a quarter
of a century ago, when she was plain
(hut very beautiful) Patricia Rivers,
he probably would still have loved
her, though he would not have been
in love with her,
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As it was, he, had never anything
but in love with her from the time
whenhe bad taken her -refusal like
the man he was, and had' so,,ugltt an
outlet and an anodyne in work and
Central Africa .
As the car entered the gates anti
swept up a long, winding avenue of
Norman oaks, he actually trembled:
and his bronzed face was drawn and
changed in' tint ,; He drew off a
glove and put it on again, fingered
his tie, and tugged at his moustache.
The car swept round a shrubbery-
enclosed,squa e at the back of the
house, and stopped at a big porch
and a hospitably open door.. , Stand-
ing at this, ;Lawrence looked into a
well -remembered panelled hall and
ran his eye over its gleaming floor
and walls, almost noddingto the two
suits of armour that stood one on
each side of a big, doorless doorway.
This led into another hall, from, and
round, which ran 'a wide stair -case
and galleries right up to the top' of
the house, for, from the floor of that
hall one could look tip to' a glass
roof three stories above He pic-
ture it and past scenes • enacted in it,
and a woman with slow and stately
grace, ascending and descending.
Nothing seemed to have changedin
those two -and a half decades since
she had come here, a bride, and he
had visited her after seven years of
exile. He had .come, half in hope,
that the the sight of her in her own
home, the wife'of another man, would
cure him of the foolish love that I:'ept
him . a lonely bachelor, half in hope
that it would do the opposite, and be
but a renewal of love.
He had been perversely glad to
find that he loved the woman, if poss-
ible, more than he had loved the girl;
that a callow boy's calf -love for a
maiden had changed to a young man's
devotion to a glorious woman;, that
she was to be a second Dante's Bea-
trice.
Again, and again, at intervals of
years, he had visited the shrine, not
so much renewing the ever -burning
fire at her altar, as watching it flame
up brightly in her presence. Nor
did the fact that she regarded him so
much as friend that he could never be
more, nor less, in any way affect. this
undeviating unprofitable sentiment._,
At thirty, at thirty-five, at forty, at
forty-five, he found that his love, if
not unchanged, was not diminished,
and that she• remained, what she had
been since their first meeting, the
central fact of his life—not so much
an obsession, an idee fixe, as his
reason for existence, his sovereign,
and the audience for the play, in the
theatre of his life.
And, each time he saw her, she was
to his prejudiced eye, more desirable
more beautiful, more wonderful.
Yes—there was the fifteenth century
chest in which reposed croquet mall-
ete, tennis rackets, and other para-
phernalia of those games. She had
once sat on that old chest, beside him
while` they, waited for the dog -cart.
to take hitt to the station and back
to Africa, ,and her hand had rested
so kindly in liis, as he had tried to
find something to say
=something
other than what he might not say.
Opposite to it was a muniment-box
into which many an abbot and holy
friar had put"nrany a lead scaled parch
tient. It would be full' of garden
rugs and cushions. On
that, she
had
sat beside him, after his dance with
her, one New Year's Eve.
Same pictures of horse and hound,.
and bird and beast, same antlers and,
foxes' masks and brushes; same tro-
phies he had sent from Nigeria, 'spec-
ially good heads ' of lion, buffalo,
gwambaza, and gazelle.
From these his eye travelled to the
great fire -place, on each side of which
stood a mounted Lake Tchad elephant'
foot, doing menial service, while above'
its stone mantel, a fine trophy of Af-
rican weapons gleamed. One of his
.
greatest satisfactions had always been
to acquire something worthy to b
sent to BrandotAbbas-=-togive her
pleasure and td keep him in mind.
And now, perhaps, was, his real
chance of givingher pleasure and
keeping himself, for a space, very
mudh in her mind. He pulled the
quaint old handle of a chairs, and a
distant bell clanged.
A footman approached, a stranger.
He would enquire as to whether
her ladyship were at bottle. But as
he turned to go, the butler appeared
in
theY" ,� doorway' from the ;inner halt.
"Hallo Burdon! Plow are you?" said
Lawrence.
"Why, Mr. George sir!" replied the
old Irian, who had known Lawrence
for thirty years,' coming forward and
looking. tiilwontcdly human.
This is a real pleasure-, Sir.
It wada e pr al five ound note too,
,-
where the visitor, 'a perfect gent, de -
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Parted . Quite a source of inoine,
Mr. Lawrence had been, ever since
Henry Burdon had been under -foot-
man in the seryiee of her' ladYship's-
father.
"Her Ladyship is at the 'Bower, sir,
if you'd like to come straight out,”
he 'continued, knowing that the -visitor
was a very old friend indeed, and al-
ways weleoine. "I will announce you:'
Burdon led the way.
"How is Lady Brandon?" enquired
Lawrence; impelled to unwonted lo-
quacity by his nervousness
"Site enjoys very good health, sir—
considering," replied the butler.
"Considering' . what'?" asked Law-
renee.
"Everything, sir," was the non-corn-
mittal reply
The visitor smiled to himself. A
good servant this.
"And how is his Reverence?" he con
tinned.
'Queer sir, very. ' And gets queer-
er, poor .gentleman,' was the answer.
Lawrence expressed regret at this
bad news concerning the chaplain, as
the Reverend Maurice Ffolliott was
always called in that house
"Is Mr. Michael here?" he asked
"No, sir, he ain't. ,Nor none of the
other young gentlemen ,"• was the re-
ply. Was there anything unusual in
the old man's tone?
Emerging, from the shrubbery, cros's
ing a rose garden ,some lawn -tennis
courts, and a daisy -pied stretch of
cedar -studded sward, the pair entered
a wood, followed 'a path beneath en-
ormous elms and beeches; and came
out on to a square of velvet turf.
On two sides ,the left and rear, rose
the great old trees of a thickly forest
ed hill; on the right, the. grey old
house,' and from the front of this op-
en space, the hillside fell away to a
famous view. '
By wicker table and hammock -stand
a lady reclined in a chaise longue. She
was reading a book, and her back was
towards Lawrence, whose heart miss-
ed a• beat and hastened to make up
for the ommission by a redoubled
speed.
The butler coughed' at the right dis-
tance and upon the right -note, ,and,
as Lady' Brandon turned, ,announced
the visitor, hovered, placed a wicker
chair, and faded from the scene
'George!" said Lady Brandon, in
her .soft deep contralto, with a :pleas-
ed brightening of her wide grey eyes,
and flash of beautiful teeth. But she
did not flush nor ,pale, and there was
no quickening of her breathing. It'
was upon the man that tlesp symp-
toms were produced by the meeting,
-although it was a meeting anticipated
by him, unexpected by her. e ended
"Patricia! he said, and ekt
both hands . She took them frankly
and Lawrence kissed therm both, with
a curiously gentle and reverent mann-
er, an exhibition of a .George..Law-
rence unknown to, other people.
"Well, my dear!" he said, and look-
ed at the unlined ,if mature, determine
ed, clever fact before him -that of a
woman of forty years, of strong char-
acter and of aristocratic breeding.
"Yes," he continued .
"Yes, `what,' George?" asked Lady
Brandon.- -`
"Yes. You are positively as young
and as beautiful as ever," he replied—
but with no air of gallantryand com-
pliment, and rather, as a sober state-
ment of ascertained fact
"And you as foolish George. Sit
drown—and tell me why you have dis-
obeyed me and come here beforeyour
wedding. Or—or-are you married
George?" was the smiling reply.
"No, Patricia, I am not married,"
said Lawrence, :relinquishing her
hands slowly." "And I have disobey-
ed you, andcome here again without
bringing a wife, because I' hoped you
might be in need of my help: I mean,
I feared yon might be in trouble and
in need of help, and hoped that I
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Lady Brandon fixed 'a penetrating,
gaze on Lawrence's face—neither
startled or alarmed, he felt, but keen
and,', possibly, to be •described as wary,,
or at least watchful.
"Trouble? In need of help, George?
How?" she, asked, and whatever o f
weariness or watchfulness `had peep-
ed from her eyes retired, and her face
became a beautiful mask, showing no
more than reposeful and faintly -am-
used interest.
"Weil-it'is a longish story, said
Lawrence, "But 1 need not inflict it
on'you if you'll tell me if Beau Geste
is all right and—er-the `Blue Water'
—er--.safe and sound and—er-=all
that, you know,'
"What?" ejaculated his hearer sharp
There was no 'possibledoubt now,
as "to the significance of the look on
Lady Bradon's face. It certainly
could be called one o falarm, and her �t!■■ti■■/■■t!%■����tltlt�r!■11■■�t!■�■tit!
direct gaze was distinctly watchful ■(!t♦■■�^'
and wary,. Had not she also paled ■ ■;
slightly, ' Undoubtedly she frowned 111*°w ■,.
faintly as she asked:
What are you talking about, Geo-
rge?, ■■' ;
■
"Beau Geste an tithe 9:3111
1ue Water,'1 ta,
Patricia,"replied Lawrence. If I ■•
u4a
, hat,
through my ■
appear to be talking thro
I am not really, and will produce rea- N
son for my wild -brit -not -wicked, ■
words," lie laughed. "Thereis meth ■
od in my madness, dear." MI
"There's m dness .in your method,
replied Lady Brandon a trifle tartly,
and added: "Have yoµ seen Michael
then? Or what? Tell me!" ■`
"No. I have not seen him.
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"Then what are you talking .about is
-
What do you know?" she interrupted, U`
speaking hurriedly, a very sure sign. ■
that she was greatly perturbed. ■
'atricia, ■:
I. don't know anything,"1
and I amt,asking you, because I have, ■ „
ine into. OS ® How many: votes have you got in the Pony Contest or how
most: extraordinarily, co p ■
session of a document that purpots ■ near the -top is •your ' favorite. Tfie boys and girls are making a
to be a confession by Beau that,he IMwonderful showing, and the list is changing every week.
stole the "Blue Water," began Law- IN B
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"Then it was
Lady Brandon.
"Was what Patricia?" asked Law-
rence.
"Go on, dear," she 'replied hastily.
"How an dwhere did you get this con-
fession? Tell me quickly."
"As I said, it's a :long tory," replied
Lawrence . "It was found by. de
Beaujolais at a place called Zinder-
neuf in the French Soudan, in the
hand of a dead man. ."
"Not Michael!" interrupted Lady
Brandon.
"No—a Frenchman. An adjudant
in charge of a fort that had been at-
tacked by Arabs. . . "-
"Our Henri, de Beaujolais?" inter-
rupted Lady Brandon, again. "Who
was, at\school"with you? Rose Cary's
son?"
"Yes. He found it in this dead
officer's hand. . ." replied Law-
rence.
Er—has the sapphire been stolen,
Patricia, and —er-excuse the silly
question -is this Beau's writing?" and
he thrust his hand into the inner
pocket of his jacket.
"But of•courseit isn't," he continued
as he produced an envelope an ex-
tracted a stained and dirty piece of
paper.
Lady Brandon took the latter and
." whi•ape,red.
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looked at it, her face hard, enigmati-
cal, a puzzled frown marring the
smoothness of her forehead, her firm
shapely mouth more tightly compress-
ed than usual.
Sheread the document and "then
looked into the distance,. down the.
coombe, and across the green and
smiling plain, as 'though communing
with herself, land deciding how to
"
answer.v
"Tell,me the whole story from be-
ginning to end, George," she said at
length, "if it takes you the week enol.
But tell me this qujtikly. Do you lrnow>
anything more than you have told
me, about either Michael or the 'Blue
Water;'?"
"I,,,know, nothing whatever, my
dear," was the reply, and,, the speak-
er thought he saw a look of relief, or
a lessening of the look of alarm on.
his hearer's face, "but what I have
told you, You. know as much as I'
do now—except the details, of .course.
George Lawrence noted that Lady
Brandon had neither admitted nor do
niecJ'that the�//sapphire•had been stol
en;' had neither' admitted nor denied
that the handwriting was that of her
nephew.
Obviously and undoubtedly,:' there
was something wrong, something
queer, :and in connection with 'Pesti,
Geste too. f
For one thing, he was missing, and
she did tot know where -he was.
But since all ; questions to hitt, leis
handwriting, and the safety of the
jewel had remained unanswered,
could only refrain from repeating
then, and do nothing but tell his story
and, at the end of it say: "If 'the
`Blue Water' is not in the house, Pa-
tricia, I am going straight to Zinder-
nettf to find it for you,
She would then, naturally, give him
all thin information site could, and cv.,
ery assistance in -, her 'power—if the
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sapphire had been stolen.
If. it had not, she would, of course
say. so.
But he wished she would be a little
less guarded, a little more communi-
cative . It would be so very easy to
say; "My dear George;' the, 'Blue Wat-
er' is in the safe in the Priest's Hole
as usual, and Michael is in excellent
health and spirits," or, on the other,
hand, . to admit,at once: "The 'Blue'
Water' has vanished and so has Mich
However, what Patricia Brandon
did 'was right. For' -whatever course
of action she pursued, she had same
excellent reason, and he had no earth-
ly cause to feel' a little hurt at her
reticence• in the matter.
. For example, if the impossible had
come to pass, and Beau. Geste had
Stolen the sapphire and bolted, would
it not be perfectly natural for her to
feel most reluctant to have it known
that her nephew was a thief—a des-
pitiable creature that robbed his bene
facYress?
(Continued Next Week)
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and was. sentenced this morinng, by
Magistrate Reid to five years in the
Portsmouth Penitentiary, plus twenty,
lashes on going in, and ten two mon-
ths before his release, plus two con-
current months on a second charge.
He received sentence without show
of emotion.
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