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1 r .1 mTHE By - 0p rlirlit, 123, lijr I ICmtUt tr Prrf4mt hurried along. If no weren't too I late! I. . He Mopped aurldsrily like a iiihm r hrnuani up at ine point or. a oay- onet. "My word!" He jerked the ex pression out through hie tightened jaws. "Has ahe got ninety thou and dollar of your money?" And ha aet out again In hla lone strides. I explained briefly aa I endeavor ad to kaep hla pao. It waa her own money, trot mine, but she did In fact have that large mm with her In the cut-under on thie night. I gave him the story of the mat ter, briefly, for I had no breath to apare over it. And I asked him what he thought. Had a gang of thieves attacked the cut-under? But ha only repeated his ex aresaic. "My Vrordt . .. . 'You got her ninety thousand, dollars and let her drive away with no eye on Her! , . . Such trust In the honesty of our fellow creatures! . . . My word!"' I had to admit the deplorable negligence, but I had not thought nf any peril, and I Aid not know that she carried-the money with her until the conversation with piy ister. There was some excuse for me. I could not remember a rob bery on this inland., Marqula snapped 'his Jaws. "You'll remember this one!" hej said. It was a ridiculous remark. How could on ever forget it this Incomparable creature were robbed anil nnrhlrM murdered. Rut were r tf iyaa-not some extenuating clrcum yiiMneca in lay favor. I presented ftnd I lived in a rather protected atmosphere apart from all crimi nal activities; we could not fore see auch a result. I had no knowl edge of criminal methods. Most 'is m m i m m i mttW'WT' J urm r; , WEK CAKES 5 (. polcka6es ' ij 'I "Above them aU-uVos IdfGarJnerls and see that you ' get them. . Doubly wk rMd and sealed at the bakery. 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I can weir believe It," waa the only reply Marqula reutrned to me. in addition to my extreme anx lety about Madame Hurras I began now to realiaa a profound aense of responsibility; every one. It seemed saw what I ought to have done, ex cept myself. How had I managed to overlook it? It was clear to other men. Major Carrlngton had pointed it out to me as I was turn ing away; and now Blr Henry Mar quis waa expressing in no uncer tain words how negligent a crea ture he considered me to permit my guest, a woman, to go alone, at night, with this large sum of money I It wa not a pleasant retrospect. Other men the world would scarcely hold me to a lesser negll gence than Mr Henry Marquis! . I could not forbear, even in our haste, to seek some consolation. "Do you think Madame Barraa has been hurt? "Hurt!" he repeated. How should .Madame Harms be hurt? "In the robbery," I said. "Robbery!" and fie repeated that word. "There has been no rob bery!" ' . I replied In someastonlshment "Really. Sir Henryl You but Just now assured -me that I would re member this nlght'a robbery." The drawl got back Into his voice., "Ah, yes." he said, "quite so. You will remember It." The man wns clearly. It seemed to me. so engrossed with the mys tery that it was Idle to interrogate him. And he was walking with a devil of a stride. Still the pointed query of the af fair nreased me, and I made an other effort. ' "Why did these assaila,nl take Madame Barras on with them. Marquis regarded me, I thought, with wonder. Good Things rrom oavmg NORTH CAROLINA .' ' : Winston-Salem - , THE lady "The devil, man," h said couldn't leave her behind!" They "The danger would be too great to them? "No," he said, "the danger would De too great to her. At this moment an object before us in the road diverted our at tentlon. It was the cut-under and the horse. They were atandlng by tne roadside where it makea a turn to enter the village from th south There is a wide border to the road at this point, clear of underbrush where the forest edges it, and there are here, at the whim of sum one. or by chance, two great fin stores, one lying upon the other, out not nttlng by a hand thick ness by reason of th unever aur faces. What had now happened waa evident. The assailants of the out under had abandoned It here be fore entering the village. They could not. of course, go on with tnis incriminating vehicle The alght of the cut-under here had on Marquis the usual affect of any Important evidential sign He at once ceaaed to hurry. He pulled up; looked over the cut under and the horse and began to saunter about. This earless manner waa difficult for me at such a time. But for his assurance that Madame Bar ras was uninjured it would have been Impossible. I had blind con fidence in the man, although hla expressions were so absurdly in conmct. I started to go on toward the village, but as he did not follow I turned back. Marquis was sit ting on the flat stones with a cigar ette in his Angers. "Good heavena, man, I cried 'You're not stopping to amoke a cigarette? 'Not this cigarette, at anv rate. he replied. "Madame Barras has already smoked it. ... I can, per- naps, nna you the burnt match! He got the electric flash light out of his pocket and stooped over. Immediately he made an exclama tion of surprise. I leaned down beside him. There was a little hean of char red paper on the brown bed of pine nooui. marquis was anout to take up this charred paper when his eye caught something thrust In veiween me two stones. It was a handful of torn bits of minor Marquis got them and laid them on Vie top of the fiat atones un- aer nis light. , "Ah!" he said. "Madame Bar. ras. while she smoked,: got rid of some money. The package of gold certifi cates: ; t cried. "She has burned tnem . . "No," he reolled. "Madame Bar. ras has favored your Treasury in her destructive process. These are five-pound notea of tha Bank of England. I was astonished and I express, ed It. , "But why. should Madame Bar ras destroy notes of the Bank of England?' . "I imagine," he answered, "that tney were some which she had, by cnance, lauea to give you ror ex change." "But why should ahe destroy mem .' i went on. "'I conclude," he drawled, "that she was not w"holly certain that she would escape." "Escapol" I cried. "You have been assuring me all along that Madame Barraa- is making no ef- rort to escape. "O. no," he replied, "she la mak ing every "effort"' ' ' I was annoyed and puzzled. "What is it," I asked, "precise ly, that Madame Barras did here; can you tell me in plain words?" "Surely, he replied, "ahe eat here while something was being decided, and while she sat here she smoked' the cigarette, .and while she smoked the cigarette, sho destroyed the money. But." he added, "beforesesfie had quite finished, a decision was made and she hastily thrust (he remaining bits or torn notes into the crevice between these atones." "What decision?" I asked. ' Marquis gathered up the bits of torn paper and put them into his pocket with the switched off flash. "I wish I knew that," he said. "Knew what?" "Which path they have taken," Start Raleigh Salisbury ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVtMBtK 3, he replied; "there seem to be two branching from this point, but they paaa over a bed pf pin needle and that retalna no Impression. . . . Winn do these paths lead?'' I did not know that any put tin came Into the road at this point. Hut the Island is veined over with old paths. The lead of paths here, however, waa fairly evident. "They must com out somewhere on the sea," I said. "lUght," he ori'd. "Take either, and let's bs oft. . . . Madame'a t-lg- arett waa not quit cold when I picked It up." I waa right about th direction of the paths but. aa it hapurned. tha one Marquts took- waa nearly double th distance of the other to the sea; and I have wondered always, if It w&a chance that se lected th only taken by the assail ants of the cut-under aa It was chance that selected tha on taken by us. Marquis waa Instantly gone, and I hurried along the path, running nearly due east . TJror waa light enough entering from the brilliant moon through the tree tops to make out the abandoned trail. And aa I hurried M,rq ills' con tradicting expressions sqji to ad pust themselves into a sort of or der, and all at once I understood what had happened. The Brazil ian adventurer had not taken the loss of his wife and tha fortune In English pound's sterling, lying down. He had-followed to recover them. I now saw clearly th reason for everything that had happened; the attack on the driver, and my guest's concern to get rid of her Ungllsn money which ine disoov ered remaining in her possession this man would have no knowledge of her gold certificates but he would be aearchtng for hla English pounds. And If ab cam clear of any trace of these five-pound notea she might disclaim all knowledge of them and perhaps aend him elsewhere on his search, since It waa always the money and not the woman that he sought. This explanation was hardly re alized before It waa confirmed. I came out abruptly onto a aloap of bracken, and before ma at i few pace on the path were Mad ame Barras and two men: one at some distance In advance of her, dlsappearlnr-at the moment behind spur-of the slope that hid up from the sea, and I got no concep tlon of him; but the creature at her heela was a huge foreign beast of a man in the drees of a com mon sailor. what- happened was over In a moment. I waa nearly on the man when I turned out of the wood, and with a shout at Madame Barraa I struck at him with tho heavy walking stick. But the creature waa not to be taken unaware: he darted to one aide, wrenched the atick out of my hand and dashed Ha 'heavy- weighted head into my face. I went down in the bracken, but I carried with me Into unconsciousness a vision of Madame Barraa that no ahadow of the lengthening years can blur. She had swung around sharply at tha attack behind her, and ahe stood bare-haired and bare-shoul dered, knee deep In the golden bracken, with the glory of the moon on her; her arms hanging, her lips parted, her great eyes wide wltn terror aa loveiy in ner aes perate extremity as a dream, as a painted picture. I don't know how long I was down there, but when I finally got up. and following along the path behind, th. spur of rock, cam out onto tne open sea. I found Sir Henry Marquis. He was atandlng with hla hands In the, pocKets or, nia loose jwoea xoai, and ha was cursing. softly. The ferry and the mainland ara patroled. .... I didn't think of their having an ocean-going yacnt. A gleam of light was disappear ing Into the open sea. He put his hands Into hla pocket and took out the scraps of torn paper. ' These notes," he said, "like tne onea which you hold in your bank vault, were never issued by the Bank of England." I stammered some Incoherrent sentence; and tha great chief of the Criminal Investigation Department- of Scotland Yard turned to ward me. i 'Do you know who that woman is?"- - ' Surely. ' I cried, "she went to school with my sister at Mlsa Page a; ahe came to visit Mrs. Jor dan " He looked at me steadily. "She got the data about your sister out ot the Back Bay biog raphies and she used the accident of Mrs. Jordan's death to get In with it . . . the rest waa all fic tion." Madam Barraa?" I stuttered. You mean Madam Barraa?" Madam the Devil," he said. 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