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Tie called frs. at two ptiyat. inquiry Of.

hces whose services hc had engaged.
Al the frst he learned nothing; at the
second. Tint a man had called the previous
evening. and said
You are conducting private inquiry on
behalf OF lady who resides at Perthard.
iiavs you any intelligence Of tho beggar.
The answer had been:
Ne. Have you2"
The man lad replied:
know hes in I.o don, and that's alll-
and had then left the office.
Tryfoii concluded that this man was ono
OF Miss Bentley Perthard emissaries. and
Immediately teiegraphed TO that lady the
following words:
"lias anything been heard of Buckley
YETI Answer % Wnlworih.p
After sending tho Telegram, he prcceoded
10 Waiworth. satisfied, at least that Lon
don was the best pace he could be in
since one Of Miss Bentley's emissarics
had confidently declared that Buckley was
thefe, TOO.
VIII was not al his lodgings an hour
when his loquacious landlady, with moral
s.pncfulncsH' made him the receptacle OF all
Graham.
Tryfoil believed IL implicitly. He was
sorry for Jacks weakness. but was i'm no way
surprised. much less suspicious of II.
Il IL drop him line, and bow him up, I"
ne Sail, when I've time 10 spare:- and.
with his mind running ON Buckley, he
taought no more of the matter.
AZ a quarter past one in the morning Miss
Bent'ey telegraphio answer arrived. Il
only contained two words-thc following:
None wha ever
Tho reply puzzled him. II looked as II
The man who had inquired at the inquiry
oihce was not one OF ths Perthafd emi J.
sariss. IL looked. I'm point of fact. as il
the police search for the murderer OF Ed
wart keardon had not yet bcen aban-
doned.
On the next morning Ada last on Garth,
as arranged NJ Bercsford Grove Will Try
foil e'icilcd from the inquiry Office a per-
sonnl description OF the man vh6 had called
there; ihoif, stout, and dark. As two OF
Miss Bcnteys emissaries answered this de-
scrirtion, Will decided that the man was
ono OF csc. and continued his search in
dependently OF the matter.
AS yet. having no clew, he could only
conduct at search In tie hope Of coming
across buckley nccidentally
Al three clock ia the afternoon finding
himself in Oxford street, he ca led nj Jacks
Office. Perhaps Graham might have some
news for him
One OF the insurance clerks told him that
Jack had left the Office early that day.
Holiday"
mo. His wife IL dy,ngl"
viii received the wosd "wife" as a harm
less deception. The clerk was on terms of
Intimacy with Grnham, and knew that win
was iFio II ~ -
"DiI yJs aaOw Aliss bernstein. Mr.. Try
foilf' as sed the cloIk casually.
No; Is here no hope for herr
None whatever"
VIII left tie office, and made for the West
End.
AZ half past five, tired and weary. he on
tered restaurant oddly enough. the
same at which Crab im aud he hsd dined
That fogRy day on Viii Ia wo were first intro
duct d 10 tlcm--and ordered d nner
II was dismal. fogRy evening: and, as
there hac been no warning ot the weather
was about TO change. itsurprised him sadly
r. sadly, because II was 40 worry like the
evening that poor. dead Emily had posted d
bis first letter e. Miss Bentley.
Noihi 8 had ever spoken to him so elo-
quenily of her. since her death, as this res 4.
taurant M his back. aud this unreasonable o
fog that surrounded him.
strange, deep. almost indescr.bab!o
iecling came over nina sort of OF desire
TO finish the likeness between that past
evening and the present one. by returninz Z
10 the city now az he had returned 10 AZ
then-a sort o. dim conviction that some
thing would come Of H.
In the absence OF any clew one place was
as likely 10 End Buckley as another. Ger
tain words that poJr Emily Graham had
spoken on her d ath-bed came 20 him, aud
those words now send him TO the city.
Aud you viii 70 one evening" she had
said --"one fo2Ry evening to the dear old
city, and say good-by' for me TO all our
dear old spots. won't you. Will, darliug7"
Here ~ns tho foggy evening. and now
was the time to do tho poor deid girls bid
Slowly and thoughifully, then, he return
cd. without confessipg may. without actu-
ally knowing 10 himself. iilumiued With
the stra1ge poetic hope tNat her words
would lead him on 10 Ada Wentworth.
When the clock Of the Royal Exchange
tOlled forth the thioe-quarters after seven.
he had passed al The dear old spots" but
one-the little fruiterer'a.
There WIS girl with dark hair behind
IN counter now, aud girl with fair hair.
pink aud white che ks. bich shou,d have
been all white, on the other side OF IL.