The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-28

~ hoNoi sIiuch lihS Jnal YOU would ike
to see the place. Why should you3"
you know where it is!'
Perfectly"
when shall we go together and look at
itf" O'- ~
when You like"
"Shall we say to-dayT
To-day be it,"
This was one of the daily arrangements
made which were never carried out. Once
the comedy of trying to catch Sivory into
some admission of his connection with tho
Iaggarfs Inn mystery played ont, and the
detective abandoned his keen hunt until
another occasion rose.
For still carrying ont his determination
to COMPROMISE Margaret as little as possi-
bic, he was disiucllnGd to allow her to ap-
pear in the streets walking upon his arm.
he knew that if she was recognised, her
character would suffer, ard it has been al
ready said that his fear of injuring her
reputation was excessive.
Weber would propose these excursions.
and then say no more about them; while
Austin himself never referreS to them, be-
cause he found it infinitely more agreeable
to pass the day in MarGherita's company
than in driving about from ono London
wonder to another.
Every day about three, and after lunch,
Sivory and Webber walked or drove to Mar
garets lodgings overlooking the Park on
one side aud Park street on the other.
Ii iS needless to say that Austin was al
ways taken to the street door. He knew
nothing of the garden entrance from Bid
cage Walk of the arrangement Of reaching
the hall from the balcony and conseIva-
tory ATTACHED to tho back drawing-room-
CT the gate key, which Webber always car
riCd with him.
Reaching Margaret's rooms, the three
cat about the fire chatting. while some-
times, though rarely, Webber ordered o
carriage, and they drove in the Park.
They generally dined together late in the
evening, ard little more conversation
concluded the strange days work.
Strange, indeedi A few weeks before,
neither Of these three had seen the others,
and now they were seated daily at tho
same table, and, TO the occupiers of the
house, appeared to be very pleasant and
well-conducted family party. Who could
have thought that the beautiful woman,
dressed in black, was an agent in the
hands Of a police-constable. who together
were endeavoring to hunt their companion
to the scatiold7
About Austin Sivorv the detective had
woven an lDeXtricable net of watchful-
ness. This espionage was the most COM
plete imaginable. He watched lis victim
from morn until midnight, and he not
only watched the man himself, but his
least gestures, his faintest words, or parts
of words; his looks, his very thoughts,
were open to the detectives unceasins
work.
And the detectives work was the more
marvellous that it was not the police OIL
Ger who daily sought out the victim him
self; it was this latter who placed himself
day after dav i'll the grasp of the detrc-
tive. Without any trouble on his part,
and with his feet comfortably warming at
his own tTeside at Westminster or at
Margaret's, he continued his duty pe1se-
veriugly. Always watching; always
ready to anayze each word, TO find in his
victim actual and moral proofs Of that
guilt which Webber still firmly believed
Austin Sivory would sooner or laUer dem
onsJrate.
What had been his aim in introducing
Margaret and Austinq What had be said
to ler7 These words: "Sivory has never
fallen in love, and you are beautiful. Once
attract him-once make him devoted to
YOU, and all his secrets are yours. This is
the only means we have of ascertaining
whether he did OF did not kill Graham
Forbes"
And when Margaret, for moment,
finched from the proposal, he added, He
does not know you, he never saw you be-
fore the murder, and therefore he cannot
nist1ust you. You will creep into his life,
you will learn his PAST, and sooner or
later, you will unmask him. Be the Deli
lah OF this new Sampson, and let us to-
gether bind him and give him over to the
PhiliStines,"
Finally she consented, as our readers
have already learned. She, Margaret, it
was who played the principal character in
this CHASTITY drama-she, and not WeDber
lie simply enacted the part of contidant,
and had only TO bring the chief characters
together, and wait wait until he was
wanted.
| Ills better sense told him that he would
do wisely to leave Austin to MargareU's
watcMfu]ness alone, but that mysterious
something (the knowledge andstreneth Of
which so far he had not measured) in-
duced him 10 save her reputation as much
as possible. that unknown power winch
cansad him to awake in The black night to
find tears upon his face, drew him con-
etantiy towards her. and gradually he
found himself as eagerly listening to what
eho said to Austin, as watching Sivory.
Had Margaret herself asked the detec-
tive to be present as frequently as possible?
Did she fear to be near Sivory without a
third being close at hand? Did she fear
that, if left to herself, she should fail in
the part she had to play; that she might
betray herself; that upon come terrible oc.
casion, unable to hide the hate and indig-
nation she experienced towards man she
still persisted in believing Graham Forbes
murderer, she should suddenly overwhelm
him with reproaches?
But this was certain-tlnat she dared not
prolong this daily association with this
man beyond the time necessary either to
prove him guilty, or be assured he was in
accent. This end reached, he and she
were to part, never to meet again in this
world,
And yet, day after day, week after