The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-11
CHAPTER XVIII.


"Such duty as tie subject owes the prince
Even such O woman oweth to her husband"
The detective engaged by Sir Reginald
Denlson to keep strict watch upon the
movement of Claude Maclean had but
| thankleSs Office,
The artist was something of a Bohemian
| in his tastes, and in oldsn days was given TO
| visiting strange haunts; sometimes drawn
thither by curiosity, and at other times at
tracted by the desire to discover unconven-
| tional subjects for his pencil When he
abandoned figure painting for landscape
| this habit was interrupted, to be resumed
later after Winifred's disappearance. In
| the perturbation Of his mind Claude Maclean
| found it impossible TO work. and still more
impossible TO sit STILL He was at all times
| fond of pedestrian exercise, and he found It
some relief to the anxiety thai possessed
MIN, to resume bis old wanderings ia
strange and little fEsquented by-paths of
| Rrimy London.
The detective who logged Claude's foot
steps made daily reports to his employer,
whose intelligence was sorely taxed to dis
cover the meaning of Clauds's pedestrian
feais. Sometimes it seemed TO him that his
rival was possessed Of some clew that he
was working out in his own fashion, and
which rendered it imperative on Sir Regl-
nald to follow up But there were other
times when it was blankly impossible to
class his peregrinatiens under any other
category than aimless wauderings
m thinking that the gentleman is off
his chump.'h the detective at last ventured
to intimate to Sir Reginald with amusing
natrete. ''He Just worked me footSore, and
to no purpose at all"
Sir Reginald was slow to surrender his
| opinion that Claude knew the secret of
| Winifred's hiding place, or at least that he
had some clue which he was diligently
pursuing. But when day followed day and
the detective, fairly driven into a corner
confessed himself nonplussed to unriddle the
meaning of Claude's extraordinary move
ments, Sir Reginald was compelled to admit
his error
The conclusion to which he was driven
that his rival in the elections of his wife
was as ignorant as himself of her retreat.
exasperated him. Now that his wife had
gone from him he found himself growing
more and more the slave Of his all-absorb-
Ing passion for her. He recalled her in her
rare beauty as he had last seen her, only to
become more nieddsned in his desire to re-
| cover his lost dominion over her, and when
the hope of penetrating her retirement by
placing watch on the going out and COM
ing in Of Claude Maclean van ished he felt
himself driven to bay.
As last resource he decided on a visit to
Paris, with the slender expectation that he
bring his search to an sud. He might have
decided on this step earlier il his furious
jealousy Of Claude Msclean had not blinded
mis- eyes. 1t had occurred to him moro than
once that it was possible that Winifi ed
might have found refuge in Paris, where
she bad lived down to the period of
her marriage, as the wearied bird.
wrath Of the elements, returns to
Its nest. But so long as he harbored
the suspicion that Winifred in her flight had
ooeyed the instructions of Claude Msclean
he dismissed the idea as impossible. When,
no viewer, he became satisfied that she had
not taken Claude into her confidence the
idea returned to him, wearing greater de-
gree of probability; though he confessed to
himself that as the motive for Winifred's
disappearance was to be found in her an
tipathy to himself it was q forlorn hope to
expect that she would seek a refuge known
beforehand to her husband,
But when no better alternative occurred
70 him Sir Reginald hastily decided on
hurry1ng to Paris to lay tho question to
rest. He called on Lady Poehampton to
communicate his intention, and having
obtained from her a promise that she
would hasten to follow him in the event of
his discovering his wife's retreat, and
endeavor to bring about a reconciliation, he
set out on his journey. He did not reckon.
Detective Van de Weyer
Sir Reginald, on his arrival in Paris, took
up his quarters at the Hotel Bristol in the
Place Vendome. After dinner ALWAYS a
prime consideration with HIM he sailed
forth for stroll through the well-lighted
bouievards, gay with the movements of
Partisan life. The next daT. he Thought.
would be soon enough to begin his injuries
1t was not very formidable undertaking
and would admit of delay. During the
few months that had elapsed between her
fathers death and her marriage, Winifred
had resided, whilst pursuing her art studies,
with Mime. Favert, whose house was sit
uated IN the Rue Vanguard. There. il
any where. be would learn OF her If she
was in Paris. A facre would convey him
the next day, in few minutes to the gar
dens OF the Luxembourg, and a few stems
would take him 20 the hotel of Mime. Favert.
Besides, he reflected, his mind was not
made up whether ne would make his maui
rieS personally or place the matter in the
hands OF member of the secret police.
Meanwhile the whole evening lay before
him, and he began to discuss with himself
how he should contrive to while the time
away. The gay movement of the boulevards
with their hurrying crowds OF pleasure
seekers set the blood dancing in his veins.
making every nerve tisgle with suppressed
excitement He was in Paris, "the city of
pleasure the city in which be had expert
enced so many tilts vita fortune, some of
them Pieasurable and some Of then frauoht
with much discomfort. How often had he
tired the gaily-lightsd streets without
napoleon Ia his pocket when the luck was
against himl He reflected with serene sat-
isfaction that those days were gone by for
ever. The richest baronet in England
could AFFORD to fling about his money as he
pleased The gamblers craze had never de-
serted bin. II possessed fer him an infatu-