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Bull-Dog Drummond The Adventures of a Demobilized Officer Who Founds Peace DuU ' by CYRIL McNEILE -sapto* lUUmLATlONJ ?Y IRWIN MYERS Carmcu to to. H. Dan. C*. 'TfcaHyr1 i?em>rkod Dwrnrnwd. ? think, ilr, that you must be right la : ? <mr StagnoHt*- of ytrw viUUiffAUT'fl^ mentality." He turned courteously to PafniT>n IBUp Ulttlai g~?? ?wrong, for a fellah to atop Bla Car, ljy limhtny if. jV?T Tin "WV? frftgV back wheel#. Is no bon, a s we uaed to say In Fruuce. I tliought. Judging by the track* in the dust, that you ? ?uot have been te- Imminent danger of ramming a traction engine. I won ? der If 1 could _ help your - thhuT' he -eenttniled.- "Fm a bit of an expert with ? a Holla. T' "How very kind of you," said Peter eon. "I'll go and see." He went over to the man and spoke a few words. "Isn't It extraordinary," remarked Hugh, "how the eye of the boss gal vanizes the average man into activ ity. As long, probably, as Mr. Peter son had remained here talking, that chaufTeur?would have gone on tinker ing with the engine. And now ? look. In a second ? all serene. And yet I I dare say Mr. Peterson knows nothing ?bout It really.. Just the watching eye, Mr. I^aklngton. Wonderful thing ? the human optic." He rambled on wun a genial 9BUt?T watching with apparent Interest the '?nr In front. "Who's the quaint bird *i:t'ng beside the chauffeur? He ap to me Immensely. Wish to 1 r; ? i?:i I'd had a few more like him in : .nee to turn Into snipers." "M.,;. I ask why you think he would have boon n success at the job?' Lak ington's voice expressed nrerely per functory interest, but his cold, steely ??yes were fixed on Drummond. "He's so motionless," answered Hugh. "The, bally fellow hasn't moved a muscle since I've been Ifere. I believe he'd sit on u hornet's nest. un?j leave in?' llMiuiies guessing. Great gift, Mr. Lakington. Shows a strength of will but rarely met with? n mind which rises above mere vulgar cu- i rlnsltv." ^ j "It is undoubtedly a preat gift to~| have such"' a mind. Captain Drum- ! mond." said Lakington. "And if It Isn't born In a num. he should most .certainly fry to cultivate it. Shall we bo r^eing you this evening?" Drummond shrugged his shoulders. 'Tm the vaguest man that ever live^l," he said lightly, "i might bii.llsteu Ing to nightingales in the country; or I might be consuming steak and onions preparatory to going to alight club. So long. . . . Hope you don't break down again so suddenly.*' He watched the Rolls-Royce start, but seemed In no hurry to follow suit. And his many friends, who were wont to regard Hugh Drummond as a mass of brawn not too plentifully supplied with brains, would have been puz Xled had they seen the look of keen concentration on his face, as he stared along the white dusty road. He could not say why, but suddenly and very certainly the conviction had come to him that this was no hoax and *o leg-pull ? but grim and sober reality. Jn his imagination he heard the sud den sharp order to stop the Instant they were over the hill, so that Peter son might have a chance of inspect ing him ; in a flash of Intuition he knr-w that these two men were no ordinary people, and that he was sus pect. Two thoughts were dominant in his mind. The first was that there was some mystery about the motion less. unnatural man who had sat be side the driver; the second was a dis tinct feeling of relief that his auto matic was fully loaded. THREE. At half-past Ave he stopped In front of CJodalmlng postofflc^ To his sur prise the girl handed him a wire, and Hugh tore the yellow envelope open quickly. It was from Denny, and It was hrlef and to the point: "Phone message received. AAA. Must see you Carlton tea day after tomorrow. Going Oodalmlng now. AAA. Message ends." With a slight smile he noticed the military phraseology ? Denny at one time In his career had been a signaler ? and then lie frowned. "Must see you." She should ? at once. He turned to the girl and Inquired the way to The Larches. It was about two miles, he gathered? on the Oulldford road, and lm|x>sslble to miss. A biggish house standing well ba^k In Ms own grounds. "Is It anywhere near a house railed The Kims?" he asked. , "Next door, sir," said the girl. "The gardens adjoin." He thanked her, nnd having torn up the telegram Into small pieces, he got into his car. There was nothing for It. he had derided, but to drive boldly up to the house, and say that he had come to call on Miss Denton. He had never been a man who beat about the bush, and simple methods appealed to~~ blm ? a'trnTt fn his ?*hiT acter which many a boxer, addict?*! to tortuous cunning In the rln*. had good cau*e to rfmetnlwr What more natural, he reflected. than to drive over am! *ee *ueh iin ? ?l ? ! friend? He ha?l no dlfflciilty la finding the house. and a few minute* later he \tah ringing the front -#l??or bell. Ifc waa answered by a maidservant. "Is Mlaa Benton In?" Hu?h asked with a amlle which at once won the girl's heart. London, sir." she answered doubtfully. ?*1 don't know whether ._j. "Would ynu tell her that Captain Drummond called?" said Hush as the maid healtated. "That I happened to find myself near here, and came on chance of seeing her?" Once again the smile was called Into play, and the girl l>esltated_ no longqr. ? "Will you come Inside, sip?" said. "I will go and tell Miss Phyllis." Kbe ? uwhupod ? Mm ? into ? ? draw lug- room and closed the door.? it a rhHrmlnp room. Just such as he woald have expected with Phyllis, nig nftn.trtn.-B ^panlng il.wn th.> (yrminM led out on to a lawn, which was jiN, rearir blaze of color. "A few j ?reaF oak trees threw a pleasant shade ht~ the end of the gaiden, and partially showing through them, he could see another houso which ? be ? rightly, an. sumed _was. -The Eltmr" In fact, even as he lieard the door open and shut behind him, he saw Peterson roifj? out -of ? K ? small ? guujtiiet -house ? and ? com "It's Very Dangerous for You to Come Here/' She Remarked Quietly. mence strolling up find down, smok ing 11 cigar. Then he turned round and fared the girl. Chaimlng as she had looked in Lon don, she was doubly so now, In a slra figure to perfection. But If he thought he was going to have any leisure to enjoy the picture undisturbed, te wu soon disillusioned. "Why have you come here, Cap tain Drummond?" she sold, a little breathlessly. "I said the Cailton ? the day after tomorrow." "Unfortunately," suld Hugh, "I'd left London before that message came. My servant wired it on to the post oft Ice here. Not that it would have made any difference. I should have come, anyway." An Involuntary smile hovered round her lips for a moment ; then she grew serious again. "It's very dangerous for you to come there," she remarked cffcletly. "If once those men suspect anything, God knows what will hap pen." It was on the tip of his tongue to tell her that It was too late to worry about that ; then he changed his mind. "And what is there suspicious," he asked, "In an old friend who happens to be in the neighborhood dropping In to call? Wherefore your telephone message? What's yie worry?" She bit her Hp an(J drummed with her Angers on the arm of the chair. "If I tell you," she said at length, "will you promise me, on your word of honor, that you won't go blunder ing Into The Elms, or do anything foolish like that?" "At the present moment I'm very comfortable where I am, thanks," re marked Hugh. "I know," she snld; "but I'm so dreadfully afraid that you're the type of person who . . who . . ." She paused, at a loss for a word. "Who bellows like a bull, and charges head down," Interrupted Hugh with a grin. She laughed with him, and Just for a moment their eye* met, and she read In his something quite foreign to the point at Issue. In fart. It Is to be feared that the question of Lnklngton nnd his com panlons was not engrossing P">rum mond's mind, as It doubtless should have been, to the exclusion of all else. "They're so utterly unscrupulous," she continued hurriedly, "so fiendishly clever, that even you would he a child In their hands." ITugh endeavored to. dissemble his pleasure at that little word "even" nnd only succeeded In frowning hor ribly. "I will be dlscreHon Itself," he as sured her firmly. "I suppose I shell have to trust you," she said. "Have you seen the evenkjg papers today?" Cigarette ~To ieal In the deltoiou* Bui'tey tobaoco flavor. It's Toasted "I looked at the ones that come out In thejaornlnM-tebHeti sli p. m. , fore 1 haa lunch, 1 he answered. "Il there anything of Interest?" She handed htm a ropy ? of ? ih* Planet. "Read that little paragraph In the second cohnnn.** She pointed to It. as he took the paper, and Hugh read It aloud. "Mr. Hlrara C. Potts ? the celebrat ed American millionaire ? Is progress ing favorably. He has gone into the country for a few days, but Is suf ficiently recovered to conduct business as usual." He laid down the paper and looked at the girl sitting opposite. "One Is pleased." he remarked In a puzzled tone, "for the sake -of _Mr. Potts. To be 111 and have a name like that Is more than most men could stand. . . . Hut I don't quite see . . ' "That man was stopping at the Carlton, where he met Laklngton," said the girl. "He Is a multl-mll llonalre, over here In connection with some big steel trust; and vtfien muUl^_ m 1 1 1 1 ona I reS jge t-friewHy wjrn LaEl n g ton, "Their health frequently does suf fer." "Rut tills paper says he's getting better," objected Drummond. " 'Suf ficiently recovered to conduct business as usual/" "If he Is sufficiently recovered to conduct business as usual, why did he send his confidential secretory away yesterday morning on an urgent mls glon to Belfast?" "Search me." said Hugh. "Inci dentally, how do you know he "I asked at the Carlton this morn Inn." shr answered. ? "I said i d ewne after a Job as typist for Mr. Potts. They told hie at the Inquiry office that he traa ill in bed and unable AO oee anybody. "So I asked for his secre 1 tary, and they told me what I've Just i told yon ? that he had left for Belfast that morning and would be away sev eral days. It may be that there's nothing tn It; on the other hand. It may be that there's a lot. And It's only by following up every possible clue," she continued fiercely, "that I can hope to beat those fiends and get daddy out of their clutches." Drummond nodded gravely, and did not speak. 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