Arizona silver belt., 1893-10-14
A TWO EDGED SECRET

dawn during the speeding of his horses
 Baron Karl Silber, an Austrian bank. | CT and financier, was an unknown mo- body 10 years before. Now you could not open a morning journal of com morce, sport or a9ything else without running across some mention of his busi- ness, his races and racers, his dinners or his wife's beauty.
 Above all. his wife's beauty, for Silber, who denied himself nothing, had in- dulged himself at 40 in the dangerous luxury of marrying charming Marguerite de Francmont, with whom all Paris had danced during four successive seasons, but whose poverty had reserved her for q marriage of this kind.
 They lived happily enough, and Silber, recognizing his wife's really uncommon intelligence. did nothing--savo in mat ters of fnance--without consulting her with frank and tender deferenee,
 "Then." .aid he presently, rolling a last strawberry to sugar. ''Guerin did comcF'
 "Yes, last night, just after you had started for Yirohay. saw him and ex- plained to him fully how you wer3 the victim of indiscretions that brought sus. picion upon you. Everything that passes at the stable, said l, 'isreported straight way to the booknakers of the Rue Yiyi- enHe. They know in advance what horse will run or bo withdrawn; what horse carries tho stables money or is meant to win; briefly. daily and regu- larly, we are betrayed by some one. But by whom? Know this we must, for they are beginning to accuse us of dishonest practices
 And he saidT'
 Nothing, but asked if you suspected any one of your menf"
 No special one, by Jovel 1 simply suspect them all.
 Precisely what I told hSin, where, upon he took notes and his departure. assuring me that special agent would be at once put in charge of so delicate a matter He will report 80 soon as he discovers anything"
 (Which will be soon. I hope. You have had no other visitor, my dear;'
 Not one. dined alone and spent tho evening with mother. But you, Karl, what did you do at YiroAayi"
 Always the same thing audited ac. counts, paid out money, examined the colts. and by o'clock was out with the trainers speeding the racers. Kronstalt is not doing as well as he should. We shall have a hard pull to keep him in shape for the 18th. Why, hello, it's 10 o'clock. l must go. It's time for busi- ness"
 "But you seem so fatigued. my poor Karl"
 "zoundsl l ought to be. was up before the srn."
 But need you go to Virofay so often KarlY9
 Every day if could, my dear. Tho eye of the master, you know--aboYe all, in the care of race horses, And have, praise heaven, an eye that sees clearly"
 Undoubtedly, my dear" Marguerite assented calmly, tracing the tablecloth with the tip of her rosy nail But Guerin, trust, will see clearer still. It is really as amusing as q play to me, dearest, to have anything to do with a detective whom they talk so much of as they talk of this Guerin."
 Two hours later Karl Silber, lying back in an easy chair in his office in the Rue Richelieu, smoked with half closed eyes the purest products of the Havana tobacco fields. Near him in chair no less luxurious and with weed drawn from the same source between his lips young De Payzac--with q somewhat doubtful past--lolled and talked with wide open eyes, making the isost of his position of intimate friend of so rich and renowned man as the Baron Silber.
 "The fact is, baron, said he, contin. uing tho subject upon which he was launched, you are or ought to be the happiest man in Paris today. Just think of it, the pot of money you've made at a single stroke--more than would need to amuse me whole, long year.
 "One would say that fact annoyed you" Silber returned lazily, without stirring himself.
 Annoyed me? Not the least in the world, baron. I'm too much your friend for that. But when 1 contrast our two destinies! Why. everything in the world succeeds with you. Your business, look at it. It goes like conhagration. Your racing, too, which heaven knows why you took it into your head to try -wheth- er your own horses win or lose, it mat ters not--you find way to win with the horses of others"------
 "In word, Silber interrupted, with some show of temper, ''you mean to i'm ply, like the rest, that purposely allow my own horses to be beateny
 Payzac continued with an imperturb- able calm and alightly shrugged shoul- der.
 But all of which is as nothing," said he. compared with the fact that not only are you the legitimate possessor of the most beautiful woman in Paris, but you also know one not less lovely who lives in more mysterious quarter of the city"----
 This time the banker sat erect, as if pulled with spring, and looked about him uneasily,
 "Payzac," said he, "h-s-shl You risk too much at times. You, and you only, are to know that side of my life, se- eret that must not be noised abroad"
 "Of course, said Payzac, T know it, for to whom else than me do you owe the acquaintance of the fair and beauti- ful WandaT