Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-10-03
1.-THE MISS MILLIONS
on,
The WITCH Of MONTE CARLO.
A ROMANCE OF TIE RIVIERA.
A ROMANCE OF TIE RIVIERA.
BY ST GEORGE RATHBORNE,
lv:Aor Of "Mss Pauline. or Nsw York" "1As
Spiders I'so," 'Aiss Caprice etc, etc.
1900, Stree, and Smith, New Yors.
CHAPTER xlII.--(Cout,nued J

CHAPTER XIII Continued
Merrick would have been lost In
amazement could be have seen his
old and simple friend. Jones, great
hearted Jones, who broke the bank at
Monte Carlo because of the deep de-
testation he felt toward the world.
wide sin of gambling. which he hoped
to stop through radical homeopathic
observation-disclosures, who had appeared
80 utterly guileless and honest with
Merrick, gave evidence OF having
some secret affiliation with the
French government
Stranger things than this have hap.
pened and Yankee detectives have
ere now won fortune In foreign parts
The men who kept near Jones
seemed both ready and willing to
obey his slightest wish, whether 1t
meant to watch over the booty he
had forced the swollen bank to dis,
gorge at the call of his CRANE, system
or to guard the president of the re.
public from evil designs-these men
were like himself, members of the
Paris secret police, accustomed to
peril in all its guises, and only ach
ing for chance to strike the con
spiracy knockout blow between the
eyes.
Matters were not so bad, then
after all.
If the royalists could gather quite
a force In the endeavor to carry out
their plans, the president was not
wholly unprotected while he had
these brave men to call upon.
Jones was curiously affected while
In the presence of the other.
He could not account for his feel
ings at the time. but as opportunity
arose he cast many a side glance a.
the president.
The fact of the matter was that
the first gentleman of France seemed
to have such happy faculty for dis
guising not only his face, but his
voice as well, that Jones was puzzled
to account foc his identity.
Why. an actor could hardly have
done better.
Really, the distinguished gentle
man who shone SO brightly in the pc
culiar sphere where fortune had
placed him might have also made
name in the annals of the stage
II his present effort we're any critic
ron to his ability. as..s..
Little guessed the majority of those
good people who sauntered about the
gardens, chatting of the remarkable
scene SO recently witnessed, and the
uncertain future of Monte Carlo, that
In their very midst stalked the .ele
ments Of a sensation far more tragic
than a mere run upon the bank, OF
any scene connected with that mem
orable event. -u. b
1t is often so in real life.
Perhaps when Merrick learned the
news, If he ever did, he would com
prehend certain things in connection
with the run upon the heather bank,
and suspicious might well arise re,
garding the philanthropical motives
influencing Jones.
But the time for dreaming and re-
Election was gone, while the hour for
action had swung into Ine-Jones
gave the president the benefit of his
experience in such matters, and just
as the two gentlemen who acted as
special body guard came up again,
cycling him suspic1ously the while,
our good friend saw the curtain ring
up on the last act Of the strange
drama. -, t., I'd