Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-23
CHAPTER XIV.
THE nErECrIvES AGAI1


While Lydia and Natalie had been talking,
large steam-yacht glided noiselessly down
the bay and anchored off CromwelPs har-
Dor. A boat put of from the yacht and
came rapidly toward the shore.
While the yacht was coming to anchor, q
man sitting modify and dejectedly looking
out of one of the windows of Glen Gore
cottage raised his eyes toward the sea, be-
yond the pines that stood between him and
the shore.
He saw, or thought he saw, two masts
and the extreme tip of the blackened
smoke-stack of steamer projecting up
above the trees. He looked again. There
surely had been ne vessel there in the
morning, and that was a very extraordinary
place for anchorage.
Taking his hat, he walked rapidly toward
the shore. AS he gained an opening in the
wood the captains gig was about halfway
between the yacht and the landing place.
The yacht plainly enough was the ma
movna." There was no installing her. Only
an hour or two ago he had telegraphed her
captain and was momentarily expecting an
answer. Now, here, as by magic, in all her
aquatic beauty before them lay the yacht.
He could scarcely believe his senses.
AS the captain neared the shore, he recog-
n1zed Fairfax, and, raising his hat, he greet
ed him with:
Good afternoon, Mr.. Fairfax. I'm glad
to see you again, SIR"
The latter returned the salute, and has
tened to shake hands with his late COM
panion in adventures. The captain, after a
cordial inquiry after Fairfax's health, land
more especially of that of your fair cousin"
here sly, knowing twinkle momentarily
filled his eye-answered Fairfax's inquiries
as to the cause of his unexpected presence,
by handing him an envelope, with the cool
remark:
my dear sir, your games up. All the
world will soon hear about it. AT present,
and two others-beside yourself ard your
own confidants-are the only persons in
America who know the true state of affairs.
those two others are Jean Louvait and
Jean Leroi; the former head of the police
department at st. Malo, the latter at st.
-Brleux. These two men are noted rivals,
and letters from friend in Havre have told
me that they have been like bloodhounds in
their pertinacity to discover the trail of the
=abductors of the stolen Princess Natalie.
Now telegram, in cipher, from Mr.. Neb-
Dit, tells me he has just learned that both
Louvait and Leroi lately sailed by separate
steamers for New York.
You know the glory and the reward that
awaits the discoverer of the Princess's
whereabouts. They have spared, and will
spare, nothing IN their efforts to find her
Mr.. Nebbitt telegraphs me that he is con-
NLHSOU IuSy KNOW your whereabouts and all
about you, and wants me, Immediately on
receipt of this telegram, to start for Bar
.Harbor and take you all OF on the yacht to
some remote place selected by yourself
"Fortunately had steam up and all nv
coal in. We came up here flying, can tell
you.
.'If you have read the message, YOU will
observe it says that Louvait and Leroi will
reach New York on the 9th or the 9TH. To-
day is the 9TH. know Nebbitt well enough
TO believe that when he says thing is so it is
60 You may depend upon it that when those
men arrive in New York they win come di-
Srectiy here, If they are obliged to hire
special engine to do it. There will be race
between them. Each will stimulate the
other, and neither will lose moment
II know Louvait well When he's around
there's no child's play, can tell you. He is
always in dead earnest. He can talk English
Ike native. His geography is something
wonderful; his knowledge of human nature
still more so, and his ability in the direction
sof resources most wonderful of all They
cay LzsrOi, although not so full of genus as