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sheba, or somewhere else?''
Constance would not admit that she
was Even Amy Thorpe, her most con n
Dental friend, could only guess from her
frequent inquiries by letter, "wheher
the missing man had yet been found,
what was the hope inspiring her unrest.
Amy had not been able to tell her much
about "Jack." He was a friend OF her
brother, Ross Thorpe, and she knew him,
but that was about all. His name was
John Burroughs and he had inherited
only a year or two ago, an estate oil over
a million from his father. III he had
spent II already, he must be an awful
spendthrift, but Amy did not think ne
was. He was in the best society, but Kept
out OF the Easiest and seemed rather
serious and quiet. One thing certain was
that he had disappeared as completely as
il he had left the planet. Even hoss,
who had been his "ehum, had no idea
what had become OF him.
"But he must turn up somewhere dur
ing the summer thought constance,
"and 1 will find him yet" But that
hope was faint by the time she reached
Bar Harbor, where Amy had been all
season.
Ross Thorpe, a few days later, joined
bis mother and sister there, having, as
was lis wont, wandered first 20 nearly
all the other coast resorts. Nowhere had
he seen or heard OF John Burroughs.
he must have gone to Europe, and as he
hadn't q dollar, he must have walked
Yes, that's it; he walked across" But
he had learned what explained the young
mans impecuniosity within little over
q year after inheritjngH million. Not q
dollar of the estate had been squandered,
but all was temporarily tied up by the
mac hlnations of gang OF rascals with
whom Jack 8 father had become involved
i'm an extensive land and mining specula-
tion. They had trumped ups claim Tor an
enormous amount against the Burroughs
estate and by corruption, II was believed, I,
had obtained q favorable decision from a
lower court. But that was only the be-
ginning, practically, OF the legal fight,
and until IL was ended the estate might
as well be at the bottom OF the Dead sea,
so far as any good to Jack was concerned.
"As mere matter OF curiosity re-
marked Constance, ~ really would ike
to know what has become OF him"
Amy smiled knowingly.
CHAPTER III.
When the winter season opened and
Constance was back in New York, her
hope revived, tor she felt that II John
Burroughs was in the city she must meet
him somewhere, at thea,er, opera, ball,
party, or some OF the various bird anc
beast "shows" in which society deigns
to affect an interest. Still, however,
thOugn sne went every Wnero, ene Wee
doomed to disappointment.
One afternoon, late in spring, she anc
Aunt keturah, walking up lower Broad
way from her lawyers office, halted for {
| moment TO look at the interesting and i'm
| pressive spectacle of one OF the enormou
hsteel- frame" office buildings in cours,
| OF erection. 1t was simply a stupendous
cage. OF ponderous columns and beams,
! twenty stories high. Workmen swsrmet
all through it,; cranes on its upper line
seemingly in the sky, dropped long wire
cables TO the sidewalk, where men attach
ed TO them by chains, huge forms o
metal.
Just az the ladies stopped TO gaze, on'
| of the forms, great steel beam, wai
made fast, guide lines were tied on III
ends, and signal to someone controll.
ing hc'sting engine, far aloft, caused
| the tautening OF the cable. At the same
instant one of the workmen, a stalwart
young fellow in his sbirt-sleeves, sprane
nimbiy on the beam, seized tho cable tC
steady himself, and was carried up with
the ascending weight.
"Ohl MY grscIous" exclaimed Aunt
Keturah I'm alarm. ''He will be killed
I'm sure he win" Her excitement pre-
vented her observing that her neioe also
uttered a cry and caught the lamp post
beside her for fear OF fainting. And Con
stances emotion could hardly be won
dered at. For in that young man, ex
posed to what In her eyes was deadly
peril, she recognized John Burroughs.
Ii seemed impossible, but il was true,
she could not be mistaken.
While they still gascd, with the fas
cination OF howor. the beam reached the