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\ 2??? SYNOPSIS. C1JAPTER I.?In a New York jewelrj store Philip Severn, United States con Sular agent, notices a small box whicl attracts him. He purchases it. Later h< discovers in a secret compartment a writ ing giving a clew to a revolutionary move ment in this country seeking to over throw the Chilean government. The writ ing mentions a rendezvous, and Seven decides to investigate. CHAPTER II.?Finding the place men tioned in the writing apparently deserted Severn visits a saloon in the vicinity A woman in the place is met by a man seemingly by appointment, and Severn his suspicions aroused, follows them They go to the designated meeting place an abandoned iron foundry. V CHAPTER III.?At the rendezvous Severn is accepted as one of the conspirators and admitted. He meets a strange] / who appears to recognize him , v;nAjrrEK IV.?The stranger addresses Severn as Harry Daly. The incident playi into Severn's hands and he accepts it His new acquaintance Is a notorioui thief, "Gentleman George" Harris. Concealed, Severn hears the girl he had followed address the conspirators. She urge! them to hasten the work of revolution. CHAPTER V.?Leaving the crowd tc discuss the message she had brought, the girl discovers Severn listening. She accepts his explanation of his presence and makes an appointment to meet him next day. He tells her his name is Daly. Harris informs him of a scheme he has tc secure a sum amounting to $1,000,000, thi revolutionary fund, and offers to "split" with him. Severn accepts the proposition fev . CHAPTER VL?Severn learns it was his new friend and a "Captain Alva" whc had lost the box which started him or the trail. Harris tells him the woman ii Marie Gessler. He arranges to meel Severn next day at Tom Costigan's saloon. Leaving the building, Severn notice! ' a stalled automobile a few blocks away. Investigating, he finds the body of Captain Alva, stabbed to death with a hatpir dagger. Securing it, he remembers havinj seen it, or one like it, in Marie Gessler*! bat CHAPTER V11.?Believing Marie lefl V the foundry with Alva, Severn is forced to believe she is the slayer. He takes the dagger with him, leaving the bodj to be discovered later. At the address Marie had given him he finds she is unknown. He visits Costigan's and learns that Harris has disappeared. Costigan apparently has no doubt that Severn Is really "Daly," and gives him his full - confidence. y CHAPTER Vm.?At his hotel Severn finds a message asking him to 'phone the Hotel McAlpin. He does so and is invited to call. At the McAlpin he meets Maris Gessler. She refuses fully to explain her . position, and he is unable to make up his mind as h> whether she is guilty 01 innocent of Alva's murder. The presump, tion, however, is all against her, and Severn, on whom she has made a deep 'mpresslon, is in a quandary. "1 "knew that would he your firsi question. The answer is extremely simple. Did you wonder why 1 die not denounce you to those men in the other room? Oh, you did! Yot knew you were there surreptitiously in disguise, under a false name, mas querading as a friend of that fellow Horner. Yon knew it?well, so did I.r "But how could you know that! What gave you such a suspicion? And knowing it, why should you desire tc protect me?' "I'll waive your last question; thai can.wait its own answer." She leaned toward me and l.er extended hanc touched a ring I wore. "Because men who wear a Yale signet of 1S99 are not going to be connected with that kind of a gang," she Xiiu J,""51.'1 "But," I exclaimed, bewildered, "how . did you recognize the signet?" "My brother wears one." "Your brother! In my class? Tot: will not tell me his name?" "Xo, Mr. Severn. I have reason tc believe you know him very well, or di'ti a few years ago. However, that was why I trusted you so suddenly. 1 pinned my faith on the honor of old Yale. That is why I kept silent and asked you to call at 247 Le Corapte street" "I did call," rather indignantly "Ajqd was informed there was no 'Miss Conrad' residing in the house." "I suspected you might make somt such discovery. Yet your coming was appreciated; it afforded me the oppor tunity I sought to discover where yot were stopping and under \?hat nam< you registered. To confess the truth this was my sole object in the sudder Invention of Miss Conrad." "Then there is no such person?" "I would hardly go as far as that undoubtedly there is; In facta I know a very estimable stenographer by tha' name, but she does not reside on 1a t Compte street." "But how could my inquiry then - - ' 9 J ~ have brought you tne inrormation ue sired? I was not asked my name." "A boy got into the' ear with yot at the corner, did he not?a Jewisl boy?- You paid no attention to hiu after that; you had no conception tha he got off also where you did and waf not far behind you when you enterec the hotel. He did not remain long merely long enough to assure himsel. that you were given a key from th< box and went upstairs. That prove( vcm tQ ..he. a registered. guest Tei TERYAi P JMMM&ISH thor 0? (r BMW? ?4?i? f CAVENDISH , ? ?. Illustrationsv4-weil v diunm l oar dish minutes later he met me "Tmtsiae and i told me what he had learned. Then r j I paid him and he went away. Not - at all complicated, you see." I j "No, but even then your information - I'was incomplete." - | "Yet I found it quite easy to fill in [ : the details. Do you recall your class j | picture, with the names printed below? I copied those names?it was quite a task?and, in a way, memorized them. With these in mind I ran i! lijii :|y f I - WMF* t "Why, Yes. He Did Make Such a Sug' gestion, But I Never Liked the Man." | back over the hotel register until I r came to 'Philip Severn, Washington, ' D. C., G-145.' Then I knew I had j found you." She laughed sofUy. i "Then you did not return to Wash' ington?" "There was really no need. Besides, circumstances compelled me to , change my plans." . I The answer instantly brought back | to my mind what those circumstance , might be. Tier immediate presence * her ease of ncmor r.r.v. iir * ... ! ' of speech ha* f?*r -:,A .' / , ated the ?!ar\ c.:... was asso: ia: > ?. t "You km. v. c." l r sume?" I asked, endeavoring to put I the question carelessly. > Her lips were grave again, but her i cltar eyes met mine frankly. *T read what the papers said. It """ T.QTW. forrililfl Whrt /In T7A11 CT1TV. nao * n j x iuiv* t? uv j v%? r pose did it?" ' "The police seem to have no clew," f I answered, astounded by her calm, ness. "I wondered if you knew any> thing? He asked you to ride down with him, did he not?" "Why, yes, he did make such a sugl gestion^ but I never liked the man. I Of course, I only met him that night? you remember in the saloon, but he > was very disagreeable even during the . short time we were together. I would f not have ridden alope with him at that \ hour for Worlds. Mr. Krantz and I ' came downtown together on. a street car?he was the old man, you may 1 remember. I asked him to escort me." i ! "I am very glad to hear you say | that." , { "Glad! Why, what do you mean?" I ! her eyes widened, with sudden appre. : hension. "You did not suppose I was [ 1 with Alva wh^n he was murdered, did j you?" i "Yet is it so strange,' after all?" I defended, rather indignantly. "In a j way it seemed impossible enough to j connect you even indirectly with such a crime. But I have only known you as an associate with these men. In ; truth, I know very little more regard| ing you, even now. You meet them | secretly, bearing credentials and or' ders from high junta conspirators, ' who are plotting against the very life j of their country. You know the'r . plans and are aiding them. Why, unj der such conditions should I make an ' exception in .your case?merely bei cause y<*i are a woman?" i "So you actually believed me capai ble of that atrocity? Perhaps you are i justified, if you think me a Chilean." "Are you not?" "No. I am not a Chilean, Mr. Severn. I am an American girl, as loyal t? my country as my ancestors. Will you accept my word for this?" "I certainly do, more gladly than j you dream." "Then let us talk no more about i it" shp danced at her wrist watch. ? "You have a story to tell me?how j you came to he present last night?" ' l "A mere accident put me in possession of certain information that a co" terie of South American conspirators j in this country were receiving a large 1 sum., of. money. fimm --friends . in _Lpn/ t - \ - _ . Jon,"Texplained hrfefly. "rTThis~money was to be expended either in the purchase of arms or the killing of certain Chilean officials, leading to an overthrow of government. My knowledge was extremely vague?not sufficient, you understand, to warrant my making any report to the United States authorities. I had no proof beyond a I rather vague suspicion. In truth, about all fhe clew I actually possessed was that these fellows met secretly at a certain number on Gnns street. I was half a day in learning that Gans street was located in Jersey City and I went over there that evening to seek blindly for further information." "You knew the names of ttoose involved ?" "Only casuady. I had heard of Alva; that the agent bringing the Doodle from England was known as ' Horner and that the actual money ex- ' change was to he made through Adolph fvrantz. the banker." "You had never seen any of these men?" "Only Krantz; I knew him by sight." "Then it was my meeting with Alva which led you to the factory?" "Yes. I had dropped into the saloon because it was the only place to get out of the rain. When Alva arrived. it was perfectly piain to oe seen you two had never met before. You went out together and I could not help but connect the whole affair together. The mud enabled me to trail you down the alley and good luck enabled me to gain entrance to the factory without detection. That is about the whole story." She sat motionless, with hands clasped in her lap and eyes fastened upon me. The depth of her interest in my recital was very apparent. "Then you were not really a friend of that Horner? You told me you were." I laughed, the absurdity of the recollection coming suddenly home with full force. "I had to account in some way for my presence; that was the only inspiration which came to mind. It happened that Horner had adopted me and even given me a rechristening, which I was compelled to accept." "Harry Daly, the name you gave me?" "Yes. He ran across me prowling about in the dark and flashed an electric light in my face. Before I could move the fellow thought he recognized me and jumped at once to the con" 11?T a oovnn C4US10I1 inai J. WU? luwe uu uic oatu^ job he was." "What was that?" . "Robbery.* "The?the English money which was to be paid over?" "Of course?3t looked easy; all cash and no one would dare go after it by | law." "And Horner was in it?the agent? Whv didn't he help himself before ?" * f "How could he? It was a mere letter of credit to be cashed in this country. He had to wait until ft was transmitted into currency. Besides, this fellow was not the real Horner; he is an American thief who has been operating in London. The real Horner has been put out of the way." "Good heavens! I am beginning to 1 ,-o +V.Q see a ray ?n iijiii'. ^ 10 mvr mac?' "George Harris? : <-:T: Goorge they call him." "Ana he actually mistook you for one of his kind?" "He certainly did; extremely flattering, wasn't it? I am supposed, to be one of the fraternity*in good standing ?Harry Daly, whoever he may b?. Unfortunately I am not up in criminal biography." Her glance left my face and swept the room; then sought her watch again. "I am so glad you told me all this," she said gravely. "It is going to be a wonderful help when I have time to think. You are still willing to go | where I ask, without questioning?" I "I am even pleased to he asked? and trusted." "Then we will go now. Perhaps it will be better if you depart first and j wait for me outside at the entraoce." I She arose when I did. turning ; slightly so that the back of her broad* brimmed hat became visible for the j first time. There, bravely displayed, j was the ornamental dagger hilt I had | believed hidden in my valise at the j hotel. The sight of it there vanquished ! i my last suspicion. CHAPTER IX. Perond's Cafe. A thousand questions were upon my j lips as I waited just outside the door, | yet when she appeared, wrapped from j head to foot in a raincoat. I asked J nothing. The pressure of her hand I on my arm guided me across Broad- j way, into the quieter streets beyond. It was a dark, cool night, cloudy but j without rain, and we walked rapidly, i entering a region with which I was j unfamiliar. Here was a strange sit- j nation indeed, acting as esport to a woman about whom I knew next to ; nothing; voluntarily accompanying j ! her on a mission of peril, with no con- ; j ception of its nature, or the purpose j she had in view. I glanced aside at j her profile revealed by the gleam of j ' a street lamp, but she appeared,in | different to ray presence, intent orny j j upon whatever object she had in mind. J ! We were in the gloom of the de- j j sertety block beyond, when she spoke j | abruptly, startling me with the in- ! ' quiry. , "Do you know a Russian named | | Waldron?" "No. I have heard of him; that is, J ! if you refer to the agitator,- the so! cialist. That was his wife, wasn't it, j where you sent me this afternoon?" ! She turned toward me jn surprise. Ulii 11 "How did you chance to TearnThat. pray?" "I stopped on the corner, at the delicatessen store, and made some inquiries." She laughed, one of her soft laughs, with an odd suggestion of music in ? the tone. "Why, really, you are developing Ta StC wonderfully. I must give you credit. Co, Well, then it may interest you to ? know that I am going now to meet Ivan Waldron. The place where I holioro him to ho is not altogether safe for a woman without an escort Your mere presence will be sufficient <>f protection, however; it is not necessary that you encounter him. By the Qf way, what has become of your friend ?Horner, alias Harris?" ? "Dropped completely out of sight," I admitted, "since early this morning. That chances to be why I feel some interest in this man Waldron. It was a note from him. left at Costigan's g| saloon, which caused Harris to leave 18 so hurriedly." K "Who brought the note?" she i S stopped suddenly, and faced me in the j if dim lamp light. H "A Jewish boy, known as 'Sly 8 Levy.'" ;! "It was from Caldron then, no 8 doubt. I'm glad you told me. The j K chances are they will both he where j a Eyed Us Curiously as He Went By. we are going, unless they have already quarreled * over# that bunch of easy money you spoke about." "But has that been paid over by Krantz? Who has it?" "The fellow who put a knife into j Alva?whoever he may be.""And you don't know who the assassin was?" "No. Only it must have been one of certain men; perhaps two were in the affair. At first I figured it out to be Waldron alone; now I am not so sure that Harris didn't have some hand in it. They may have had the ? affair all planned?the money was passed over to Alva earry in the eve- 1 ning. 1 didn't know it then: I hnrned I this later. Krantz told :-? when we | were alone on the way ba^k to New I York. Let's move along; there is a policeman coming yonder." The officer passed us slowly, swinging his club, and eyed us curiously as he went by; I did not turn my head, yet felt certain he stopped and looked back as though wondering what -our business could be in that neighborhood. We turned down a still darker side street before exchanging further speech. "I believe I know what you are," I said at last in low tones close to her ! ear, "an agent of the Secret Service." jt "Oh, no; the honor you offer me is far too great. I have not attained to any such official dignity." \ "I rather expected you to deny; but you offer me no other explanation." "And so you decide to believe that? very wen, air. Severn, i suau lei you j have it your own way. You deserve | reward; only, pray, never suggest this theory to any one else. Let it remain our secret, will you?" "Your mockery does not change my mind." "I had no expectation that it would; j neither does it bring me a salary. But, seriously, forget all this raillery tonight, and remember only that yon =? are with Marie Gessler. Whatever her purpose may be, you are to-be I loyal only to her." | "I am, absolutely," I replied with a | conviction my voice was unable to 1 disguise. She turned her face quick- | ly, and in the dim light our eyes met | "You said that very earnestly. You I make me believe I judged you right, | Philip Severn. Here is my hand." I I clasped it tightly, the firm pres- 1 sure of the warm fingers sending an 1 instant thrill through every nerve of my body. It was not withdrawn, and we walked so closely together I could feel the slight pressure of her form, almost resting against mine. | "Where are you taking me?" ' "To Perond's French cafe?have you ever heard of it?" "No, I think not." "I have been there with slumming ; parties once or twice, with a plain- ! clothes man along, of course, to show j us the sights. 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