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SYNOPSIS.
Adventurous Jerry Carson embarks
In search of hidden treasure with the
promise of Leontine Walcott to be his
wtfta on his return. Her father favors
Sebastian Navarre. Jerry's ship Is burned,
five Is reported lost. Jerry suddenly i
terns up to confront charges of the Na-1
Carres against him. In a,. struggle for a
Storged paper Diego NavartV'liTKVlfed ahd
Jerry fts convicted of the murder. He es- j
napes, and finds the treasure and a won- |
derful chemical pellet. Leontine is forced i
te marry Sebastian. On the honeymoon, i
be attacks her in a rage. Suddenly he is ;
confronted by a weird apparition. Rav
engar forces a confession from Louie. !
Sebastian attempts to get it. An earthquake
occurs; in the excitement. Red j
Finn steals the confession and floes. Ho j
appears in New York as Romanoff and
enlists the aid of Madame Bianca. |
Leontine consents to accompany Hain- ,
ilton on a balloon ascension. Sobastian j
drugs Hamilton and arranges to have
I*fcontine set adrift in the balloon. The j
balloon bursts into flame and Leontine ,
finds that her companion i3 Ravengur.
They Are reseated, but One-Lamp Louie
reports that they perished in a hurricane.
.Sebastian arranges to marry Bianca.
Ixmie prevents it to /ave himself and Is '
thrown to death by Sebastian who
changes his marriage plans. He sees
Leontine alive and well. Later Sebastian
kidnaps Leontine, but the Shadow has
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livers L^eontine from the hands of her
enemies, but Blanca's thugs capture him.
*Slanca hesitates to hill him as she Is
passionately in love with him. By maintaining
that Ivoontine is insane, Sebastian
again gains possession of her. Ravengar.
after a terrific battle, rescues her. hut the
mystic mantle which renders them invisible.
is stolen. Bianea's thugs corner Havengar
and I>coniine In a shuck. Blanco,
defends Ravengar. He escapes and recovers
the invisible mantle. Out of revenge
the thugs dynamite the shack. Rav
engar offers Sebastian his freedom in exchange
for the confession: as tlie police
arrive Sebastian escapes. Ravengar take.;
l^iontine to his laboratory to explain a
mystic pellet. Sebastian steals the pellets
and the mantle. After a struggle Sebasiiuu
by !!ic aid of the mantle spirit:; Rav
engar away unconscious. I.eontitie retums
to the laboratory but her husband
follows her, locks her within and sets tire
to the building. Ravcogar escapes from
JiiB prison and rescues Leontine.
FOURTEENTH EPISODF
Absolute Black.
Ravengar, in the midst of his conversation
with Leontine, laid seen Sebastian's
face at the window of a nearby
tenement house. Sebastian had
changed his mind about the immediate
destruction of Ravengar. He was
sensible enough to prefer to finish one
Job at a time, and at present he preferred
to watch ids wife burn to deuth
in Ravengar's laboratory.
lie was examining Joseph Dexter's
journal in the room of a certain Mr.
Waug. This gentleman was not, as
his name might imply, of Oriental persuasion.
He had never seen the Flowery
laud, und his only idea of a Chinaman
was of a purveyor of chop suey
to ordinary folks and clean laundry to
those who had a taste for such luxuries.
Wldtey Wang was an old
friend of Sebastian's, and lived in the
aforesaid tenement.
Sebastian soon perceived that the
dead scientist's journal needed more
than a careless scrutiny, lie closed
it and handed It to Wang, together
with the bottle of pellets.
"Take these to the Central Trust
company's otllces and have them put
in my safe deposits box," he said. i
Wang took them and went out. But
as he was closing the door Sebastian
hailed him.
"Come here!" he said. "Do you see
that man over there?"
Wang nodded.
"Watch him carefully. That's the
man I'm after. See, he's looking at
lis! Better heat it. Sure you've got ;
a picture of him?" i
^ "I got him," answered Air. Wang morosely
as he went out and descended
the stairs. ,
Now Air. Wang was a man of sudden
Impulses' i
'! Why should Sebastian wish to place
an old book and a bottle of black pellets
In his sufety deposit box?
They must be worth something.
He went downstairs all right, but he 1
Began the Perilous Ascent.
went further than hl$ instructions. He
went Into the cellar. The old tenement
building was honeycombed with
rut holes, and human rat holes in the
basement. From the cellar Wang
squeezed his way into a back street.
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carrying the pellets and the manuscript
with him, with the idea of double-crossing
Sebastian later.
Sebastian, meanwhile, remained at
the window, watching Ravengnr. He
knew he had been seen, but he trusted
in the invisible mantle, of which he
had had ample demonstration.
Ravengar, having satisfied himself
as to Sebastian's location, came up the
stairs at a run. Sebastian went to the
door of his room and, looking down
over the banisters, watched him.
When Itavengur was two (lights beneath
him he slipped along the passage
into a room at the farther end.
Sebastian crouched down in the middle
of the room, the mantle drawn over
him. Through the fllmy cloth he could
see Ravengar reach the top of the
(light, stop, and look into the empty
chamber.
llavcngar hesitated, and then entered
the room, lie looked out of the
window into the street beneath,
turned, and walked back within a foot
of Sebastian, lie reached tlie door,
quietly loeked it, and went away with
the key in his pocket.
Sebastian, 1 lie moment ho had gone,
leaped to his feet and rushed to the
door. lie had not been able to believe
that it had been locked, though he
hoard the key turn in it. Rut it was
looked, and with his considerable
strength he was unable to open it.
He had had implicit faith in the
mantle. * He took it from about his
shoulders and looked at it. It was now
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was still visible. The mantle had
ceased to work.
Sebastian felt that his last clianco
had gone.
From the window he saw Ravengar
below, in conversation with two policemen.
They were looking and pointing
upward. 1'anic seized him. He
rushed back to the door and struggled,
furiously to break it down, but in
vain, lie ran back to the window. He
saw Ravengar and the policemen entering
the hull.
It was impossible to leap to safety.
Rut outside the window ran a waterpipe.
it. was substantial, though loose
in places?tills, however, would give
him a securer grip, and Sebastian, in
his early days in the Argentine, had
climbed like all his race, when, a barefooted
boy, lie scaled the crags along
the shores of l'orto Delgado. He
climbed out of the window and begun
to muke the perilous ascent.
He was breathing hard in terror, for
he was unused to that sort of predicament,
and years of good living had
softened him. He was half-way up
to the roof when a shout beneath him
apprised liim that he was discovered.
One of tlie policemen had entered
the rtice with Ravengar. Astonished
at his disappearance, at first they had
looked into the street and railed tr?
tlh? mail on guard *t the door; this
uione gave Sebastian his leeway.
"Com# hack!" shouted the policeman.
Sebastian climbed the harder. The
root' was almost within his grasp. The
policeman hesitated, uncertain whether
to shoot, and then, followed by Itavengur,
run from the room and up the
stairs.
It was an even race, but the cover
of the scuttle stuck, and Sebastian laid
the advantage. He was crossing the
roof when the scuttle at last came
loose. As the policeman's head appeared
Sebastian stopped and kicked
out viciously with ids foot.
The policeman groaned and fell
backward, ltuvengar was a few feet
behind him, near, but not near enough
to intercept his quarry, now running
again with all his speed toward the
tire escape at the opposite end. Sebastian
thing himself down and began
to worm his way down the rickety,
rusty ladder.
lit! hoard a shout beneath him.
Looking down, he saw the second policeman
coming up the lire escape.
The man was on the flight immediately
beneath him; in his hand was a revolver.
"Halt! Hands up!" he yelled.
Sebastian Hung up bis hands in token
of surrender.
I The policeman shinned up the lire
escape iikc a moiiKoy, me revolver in;
; his mouth. Sebastian waited for hiru
at the top. He could see, out of the
corner of his eye, Itavengar beginning
to emerge from the scuttle behind him,
followed by the first policeman, from [
! whose mouth the blood was streaming.
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As the first man set foot upon the
roof Sebastian leaped at him like a
tiger. A furious struggle followed,
the policeman trying in vain to get
the drop on the hunted man whose
arms were about his own, while the
hands clutched at his throat. Stair
goring on the e(lge of tlio dizzy height,
the policeman let the revolver fall and
caught at the rail of the escape to
save himself. As he did so Sebastian
stooped and picked up the weapon.
He sow that Ravengar and the first
policeman were within a few feet of
him. He thrust the revolver against
x. ra86**ri?&his
antagonist's body and tired.
| The ballot pierced the heart. The
' policeman flung up his arms,
stumbled, and pitched backward.
Then, as Ravengar leaped forward,
SebartKa struck hlra a vicious blow
I with the revolver butt which sent him
reeling backward. The next Instant
Sebastian was half way down the first
flight of the Are escape.
lie ran through a back yard, down an
alley, crossed a street, went through a
garden, and finally emerged breathless
In a main thoroughfare of traffic.
Ravengar'8 sudden disappearance
frightened Leontine. She saw him
dart across the street toward the tenement
building. Then he was swallowed
up In the crowd that still lingered
about the burncd-out ruins of;
the building in which had been the1
laboratory.
As she stood in Mrs. Splelburgor's
yard, with Pat McGulre, trying to compose
herself, she heard a distant revolver
shot ring out. She caught at
Pat's arm in an agony of apprehension.
"It's nothing, lady/' said the ever-'
ready Irishman. "Sure he'll be back.
Them rats in that district is always
shooting at each other. Maybe it's a
tire blown out," he added hopefully. I
But when a second crowd began to
run around the corner of the adjacent
block Put volunteered to go and
find out what the trouble Was. And
Leontine waited in terror Svhleh she
could no longer conceal. What if the
shot had been fired at Ravengar?
It was, of course. Sebastian's shot
which killed the poiicoman. Itnvengar
had been a participant in that affair,
hut not a principal. And Loon
tine never k>\ ~ iow narrow his escape
had bee a.
As Leontine clung, trembling, to the
fence, Ravengar stood before her. She
gave a happy little cry and ran to
him; then, remembering how short a
time had passed since she had acknowledged
her love, she drew back,
suffused with blushes.
Ravougar dropped upon one knee before
her.
"Be bravo, Leontlne," he said. "And
be assured that I shall stand between
you and any further danger all your
life.
"I saw Sebastian and went t9 find
him," he continued. "But he escaped
me."
"That shot?" she faltered.
"It was not fired at me," answered
Ilavengar, and he said no more.
"Leon line." he continued, "if it
should prove impossible to catch Sebastian
and compel him to free the
memory of your dead lover, how long
will VOll IllirKIU* ?1 lli?nnlnoc
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"I cannot give that up," she answered
gently. i
"Put you love me, dearest?"
"Yes. And do you not love me
enough to bear with me a little longer?"
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Ilavengnr hesitated. Then he bowed
his head In assent. He turned as If
to leave her; then, returning, he took
her in his arms, and their lips met in
their first kiss.
"I shall never give up the quest,"
he said, as he released her.
Mr. Whitey Wang was decidedly disposed
to consider ids charge a treasure.
Nobody but a madman would put
an old book arid bottle of pellets in
a safety vault unless there were something
more in the action than met the
immediate understanding.
And Sebastian was not crazy.
Putting the book under his coat,,
and still holding the bottle of pellets, I
Wang began to make his way toward;
another rookery, where lie also had!
lodgings, in virtue of a certain alias
into which it is not necessary to go.
However, on the way Mr. Wang re-,
i ceivod another impulse, and hastened I
to obey It. He would find out what'
was in the book. ? -
Stepping into a doorway, he opened
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snorted with disgust. It scrinerl to be j
u book of travel. Mixed with it, how- j
ever, were the figures of a cypher.
Whitoy closed the book with a snap.
Whitey was not particularly inter-!
er.ted in the sight of a pretty American
girl who was apparently saying
good-bye to an old irishman and a
German woman in a back yard. He
had seen such sights before. However,
Whitoy had a decided interest
"I'll Pay Y<
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for Loontlno, bectwt ih? recognised
the book under bis arm, and the pellets
In hH hand.
She rus^d back to Pat.
MDo you see that man?" she cried,
Indicating the unconscious Whltey
Wang. "Get that book from htm. And
the bottle of pellets. That's the bottle
you lost In the river!"
Pat needed no second orders. He
rushed from the back yurd and
grabbed Whitney by both shoulders.
"Gimme that book and the Inittle,
or I'll knock your blamed head of!"
he shouted.
Whltey was taken by surprise, a
thing that seldom happened to liliu.
"Lemme go!" he yelled. "Lcinine go,
d'you hear?"
Pat twisted the bottle of pellets out
of his hand and put It in his pocket.
In doing this he had perforce to release
his hold of Whltey for a moment.
It was only a moment, but
Whltey took full advantage of the situation.
He twisted out of Pat's grasp
like an eel and ran-rInto
the ample form of Mrs. Spielburger,
who promptly boxed his ears,
knocked hiiu down with a blow of her
brawny fist, and screamed for help.
Pat got the journal from Whltey before
he had found his feet again. A3
the two men struggled a crowd begun |
to collect. A policeman came running
up. I
Whltey, freed by Pat, started off
again, but this time he fell into the
policeman's arms. The policeman recognized
him as an old friend, and stuck
to him as such. Pal thrust ins pellets
and the journal into ILeontine's hands.
"You'd better boat it. Miss," he said.
"I'll trust you for that five hundred."
Leontlne darted out of the yard,
pushed through the crowd, and found
a toxical). A moment later she was
being whirled invar from the seene.
Loonrlne's now address was in a
fashionable part of the city. She lutd
decided that the best security lay in
publicity. She had a small house, with
a gardener, a chauffeur, and a couple
of maid servants. Thus aided, she
felt a liiatch for any schemes of Sebastian.
She was seated in her study waiting
for Kavongar when she hoard the door
opening. She looked up in surprise.
She had not hoard tiie bell ring. It
sounded like liuvengar's step. Then
sho#found herself looking into the face
of?Jerry !!
She stared at him in amazement
which robbed her of speech. Yet she
l'elt 110 fear. And as she watched him
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'I come to you in behalf of Kavon(rur,"
he said. "You are all in the world
to him, and the life of the living is
more than the memory of the dead."
He turned and left the room, leaving
Leontine storing after him. And,
though she had no doubt that Jerry's
appearance was that of a spectre, even
then she remembered that she had
heard his footstep.
A spirit's footstep! Suddenly she regained
control over her limbs. She
sprang forward and opened the door.
Jerry was nowhere to be seen, but
itavengar was coming along the hall.
"Who was that?" cried Leontine, in
the reaction of deadly terror. .
"Who, dear?"
'You saw somebody come out of tills
door?"
"No, I saw no one come out of this
door," answered ltavcugar. "Whom did
you think you saw?" '
"Jerry," slid answered, und burst
into tears.
Kaveugar put his arm about her and
led her buck into t- study.
"It was his spirit," Leontine sobbed,
"lie came back to me from the grave,
to tell ihe that I must give up my endeavor
to free his memory. He said
that tiie love of the living was more
than the memory of the dead." I
ltnvengar took lier in his arms. "Leontine?"
he began.
"But I want to clear his name," continued
the girl eagerly.
Iiavengur took her hands in his and
kissed them. "Let us sit down, Leontine,"
he said, "and perhaps when I
have shown you the secret of the pellets
we shall see a clearer way towurd
mat purpose."
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"And so we've found hcr.':
Sebastian listened eagerly to the
story of the two crooks, confederates
of Whitey's, whom he had hired. They
had discovered Leontine's ne<v abode,
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Sebastian knew that what he
had to do must be done speedily, for
already every police station was
posted with circulars descriptive of
him and ottering a reward. He must
secure the pellets and book, make an
end of his enemy Iluvengar, and the
wife whom he hated, and make a
quick, clean getaway.
At that moment Whltey Wang came
in. The three had been waiting for
him.
' "We can get her wow, boss,** he said
to Sebastian. "I seen her througli
her study window. She's setting there
alone. She looks as if she was waiting
for somebody."
Sebastian understood. It was Itnvengar,
and he would trap the two, get
what he needed, and secure his revenge,
in one dramatic coup.
"We'll go along," he said.
The three left the tenement separately,
and rejoined each other some distance
away. Tliey proceeded rapidly
toward Leontlne's house. At length;
the pair indicated it to Sehastiun.
It was beginning to grow dark. Sebastian
spoke a few words to his com- j
pan ions and one of them went round
to the bnck of the house. After giving (
him time to post himself, Sebastian
and the two others stole past the lodge
among the trebs until they were standing
in front of the study. And Sohnsti
tin's heart leaped up as he saw
his wife and Havengnr seated opposite;
each olhvr at the table.
He watched them with eager eyes
and listened with ears that heard a
little?not lhueh, but. just enough to
inspire the keenest interest.
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Sebastian mid his companion stole
round to the side of the house. The
crook inserted a knife under the 1
sash and had the window catch shot
hack in a moment. Then he crawled
in, and Sebastian followed him.
Clutching their revolvers, the two
crept to the entrance of Leontine's
study. The door was partly open. Sebastian
motioned to his companion to
halt and, his ear close to the crack,
listened to Ravengars explanation.
But he had not been there more than
a half minute before both Leontine and
Ravcngar turned their heads simultaneously
and saw him.
They sprang to their feet; Leontine
screamed, and Ravengur issued a
short command:
'The journal and the pellets, Leontine?destroy
them !"
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"Until now," said Ravengar to Leontine,
as they sat down, 'there has never
been such a thing as absolute black.
Our blacks are not absolute black. If
they were, tliey would reflect no light
and would be invisible. We see things
by the light they reflect."
"Now let us begin with Dexter's
statement of the discovery.
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xne diuc'k penets,' ne says, 'rep-1
resent, then, this absolute black Which !
I have discovered after my investlga-1
tions of many years. A solution of
these, made in pure water and painted
upon any object, confers the power of
invisl?"
That was the moment at which Ravengar
and Leontine both felt the presence
of Sebastian at the door. They ;
turned their heads and saw hln^
"The journal and the pellets, Leontine
? destroy them 1" Raveugar
shouted.
As he spoke he darted to the door
and struck Sebastiun a blow in the
face that sent him reeling backward.
Taking advantage of this, Leontine
slipped past him and ran down the
passage. The two companions of Sebastiun
started after her, but Ravengar
barred the way.
With an oath one of the crooks
drew his revolver. As he did so, Ruvengar,
with almost incredible dexterity,
snatched it out of his hand and fired
point blank. The crook, shot through
the brain, fell over backward, dead
before his head struck the floor. The
two others, maddened with fear and
rage, threw themselves upon Raveugar.
He had no time to fire again. It was
an inextricable medley; but somehow j
Ravengar managed to hold the passage.
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the intention of gaining tlie garden and !
alarming the chauffeur and gardener, j
But as she tilil wo she saw the third'
creek on guard there. She Mopped
back hnrriedly. It was a difficult srt'uatfon.
Kavengar had ordered her to destroy
the journal and pellets; hut;
Kavenftar was lighting for his Kfo and J
All her impulse was to help him. On;
the cflher lib nit she was too weak To he.
iff. assistance, and ndght even hamper J
!d:r.. fflio d*eitfOd therefore to rtl/oy. I
She rah iuto the card room, adjohflng1
her study, and flung the bottle of pellets
and the book into the grate of tho
open fireplace.
It was summer time and there was,
no lire, but a box of matches hung by'
the mantel, and tliefe was the day's
newspaper upon a chair beside the
fireplace.
Leontine heard the crook in the passage
outside. She turned and locked
the door. She heard Itavengqr strug(flitvcr
rfloorvooofolif h tl..?i?
uinjr mill UI9 u^nuillllim,
and hc^ one thought was to destroy
the Journal and pellets and then go to
his aid. She struck a match, lit the
newspaper, and flung the journal and
pellets upon It, tearing out page after
page to ensure complete combustion.
In the passage outside Ravcngnr was
still engaged in his furious struggle
with Sebastian. The letter's surviving
companion, who was none other than
Whitey Wang, was not particularly
adept at rough and tumble fighting, unless
he had a revolver in his hand and
a clear aim; the first condition was
fulfilled, but not the second. The combatants
were so mixed that it was im
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possible to fire.
Knvengar, winning free for a mo*
meut, hurled Sebastian from blip wttti V
all liis force. That was Wang's op*
port unity. He sprang forward and
11 ml. The bullet hissed post Raven*
gur'ri head. Ravengar struck Whltey a.
blow that sent him staggering hack*
ward, and snatched the revolver from
him, aiming, not at him but at Se*
bastlnu. The two exchanged shots. Sebastian's
ballet clipped a lock of hair
from Itavengar's head. Havengar's bullet
went wild. )
Sebastian's revolver was empty. Before
Ravengar could fire again Sebastian
was upon him. The revolver
butt descended upon his skull. As
ltnveugar staggered under the force
of the blow Sebastian begau striking
?.gatn and again.
Itavengur was growing dazed. Sebastian
and the crook hammered at
Itavengar until he sank with a groan
upon the door, unconscious.
"Lcmme finish hlin!" begged Whltey
as Sebastian stood over Ravengar's
prostrate body, considering whether t<*
fire or to give the final blow with his
revolver butt.
But at that Instant the back door
opened and the gardener, who had
Ravcngnr Was Coming Along the Hall.
hoard the sounds of the tiring, rushed
in. He realized the sltuatlou and dissppeurcd
for aid, his speed accelerated
by a shot from Sebastian.
Sebastian, pausing only to give his
enemy's body u final kick, ran forward,
dragging Wang with him. ,
"Qulclt!" he shouted. "There Is no
time to lose!"
Meanwhile the third crook had been
hovering in the background after mak- ?
ing a fruitless effort to break down the
door of the card room.
"All together J" yelled Sebastian.
They put their shoulders to the door. ?j
A mighty heave, and it flew open, disclosing
Leoutlne crouching before the ;
lire, which was consuiuiug the last
pages of the journal. The pellets had ?
already melted into a mass of sticky
black. Leon tine rose to her feet as Sebastian
entered. |
lie rushed at her, hurled her aside,
audi stooped over the grate. Bitterly 1
he repented that he hud stopped to >
hammer Kavengur after he had
knocked hiiu unconscious. He saw now
that it was too late. The pellets, even
if they still retained their virtue, were
stuck fast to the iron bars of the
grate. The pages of the Journal were
a smouldering heap of burned paper.
Sebastian tried to pluck them out, i
but only a few scraps and corners remained
unconsumcd. He turned upon
Leontine in fury.
I'll pay y<*i for this!" he shouted, :
and struck her a violent blow on the
mouth that threw her to the floor. I
Leon tine rose and looked at him fix- i
edly. And Sebastian suddenly realized \
the moral strength of this woman J
whom h* had married, tortured, be- 1
trnyHL 1
jtt* had been afraid of her before. J
lie hM feared her vengeance for Jerry.
Mtaft his fears had had a material j
crJffifi. Now for the first time sometiring
seemed to stand between them,
AS tt it were a protecting angel, sometfr.Mift,
that forbade him to lay hto hand
upOft her ugain or to go a Step nearer, j
her. * fl
II11 wna ?rI.I. 1.1 M.. ?"? i*?~ ? 1
- v ...?o uiiuiu. iic nuw iiih tiwil lin- |
pending punishment; he realized that?l
all his life had been lived in vain. .
Casting a glance backward, he dls- \A
covered that he was alone. His com- \
panions had fled, leaving their dead r
comrade upon the floor. Sebnstian hud p|
struck his last blow and failed.
And outside he heard the excited J
voices of the chauffeur and gardener.
Upstairs the maids were screaming. J|
Somebody was shouting for the police. W
He turned with a curse, flung up the J
window, and leaped out to the ground.
It was a light drop, he rose uninjured j]
and made his way toward the street iu I
the rear* among the stables, while the
chauffeur -and gardener burst through |
the hall, to find Leontlne, the blood
streaming from her lip, bending over
the body of ltuvengar. 1
As she crouched there, trying to re- N
call him to consciousness, she made a j
singular discovery. Ravengar's mous- l
tache had been half torn from his face. 1
But it was a false one. Underneath it *
the skin was white and freshly shaven* 1