The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-16
Fl nloorlalld Princess
By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON,
Anhor Of The Barn Stormers' "Fortue's Sport "a Wone
in Gray" "Queen Sweetheart" "Her Royal Highness
'Ihe House By the Lock-" ETC.
Copyright 1908 by the National Press Agency.


we lodge, they would say it was Dupont"
Thank you for telling me your name is
Maya You will not be vexed if I re-
member it, when call you Miss Dupont.
Yet you will let me do nothing for YOU"
You may set well-for me-"
For you?"
ITO please meas one of your nurses.
Oh. don't think am ungrateful.. There's
truth in your eyes and your voice. and !
have not so many friends that l can light
ly lose one-even so new a one. Besides.
after yesterday, it Is not rs If we had met
in any ordinary way. Somehow nothing
happens to me in ordinary ways. l wish
it might. No, don't think me ungrateful.
But l must go my own way and fight my
own battle, I think-I am sure. We won't
talk of this any more. But there is some
thing should like to ask you Will you
tell me all the things that were In the
black portmanteau, besides the clothing
and-some notes of dates? Wasn't there
something else?''
There were several MAPS
Nothing besides those and what you
have told me? Think we'll"
There was one--otner thing"
"Wen?"
'I didn't mention It because, to tell
the truth. it was rather an unpleasant OBJ
ject; In fact, a death mask .,.'
He stopped. seeing her finch and the
color ebb from her lips.
"Ah! and that, you didn't break it7
Nothing happened to it before the man
came and stole it back with my photo
graph and-my hair, and everything
else?"
mo" said Jim, miserably: Nothing
happened to it. If could have guessed I
would have broken the thing into a hun
dred pieces, just as I would even have
burnt your photograph and curl Of hair
rather than he should have got them into
his possession again. -, .#.
IF only you had cried the girl IF
only you had"
"Tll get them all back yet" Jim ex-
| claimed. II promise you that. L"
mo, don't promise what you will prob
ably not be able to perform" she sighed,
HE is not easily trieked. You did trick
him once, in that railway train. But he
will be more careful in future
II wonder If he came to Satan's Tor
yesterday" Jim impulsiyely CALCULATED;
and then, at sight Of her face, wished he
had held his tongue. 3. ~. ; -,.s~
IL do not know" she answered,
hanging her head. IF he came no one
was there to meet him."
'And he didn't know where you lived?'
| II hope not. Yet who can tell? Only
the future can give the answer, and, oh,
Heaven, how fear it''
IF you would but tell me why, and let
me devote my life, if need be- to outwit-
| ting and thwarting him"
| A slight sound at the door broke his
sentence short. He looked towards it and
| saw the pale young man with black eyes
and auburn hair who had dug the grave
1 near Satan't Tor. The newcomer had been
standing in the doorway and must have
| heard a sentence or two; but now that he
had been seen he crossed the floor quietly,
suspicion and some other feeling even
stronger burning In the sOnlber gaze. Jim
| knew that here was an antagonistic pres
ence, and that the confidential talk with
his Moorland Princess had been inter-
rupted ,purDGSely., tssssa-sss 4sa--s- -.
Il have saoane back to see my patient"
announced the young man, civilly enough.
HE seems to have made good progress,
Judging by appearances. Pardon me,
MAYA, but you had now better leave US
to ourselves ~. -
With one backward glance, unsmiling
yet eXquis1tely sweet, Maya obeyed The
new conner opened the door for her, and
before she had passed out, Breakspear
heard murmur, which sounded like a
warning from the man, and answering in
dignation from the girl. . g.. ,...-.. :. :,1
Yesterday tried to kill YOU" said the
young man, returning to the bedside. you
remember what took placer"
up to the moment of falling backward,
down what felt like precipice, but which
was nothing worse, fancy now, than the
hole you had been digging" responded
Breakspear. - 7|Es IN,
"Did you guess what it was meant for?''
ut might have been anything from a
trap to catch fox, to-a grave"
ut was to have been a grave. My only
regret now is that it Is empty"
"Thank YOU" replied Breakspear dryly.
"You misunderstood me-wilfully, per-
haps. I shot the wrong man, and since
then I have honestly done all in my power
to atone for my mistake. Nevertheless,
wish had buried the right one
80 do l." said Jim. Tho I should not
have the moralists with me-
"You deny all connection with that man,
then?"
"Emphatically. Except that, by an ex-
traordinary accident I was placed in pos
session Of part of his secret, which SO
much interested me that wanted to find
out the rest"
How much did you find out?''..9>
"I'll tell you in a few words. Jim re-
peated the tale he had told to Maya, and
his nearer paid him the compliment OF
listening with grave attention to the end
Then, with a shrug of the shoulders, he
said:
Strange, if true; ingenious If invented
Which it is, remains to be proved, and
so far as can see, only time can prove it
If you are innocent, you are a much
injured man; but, as we have only youl
own word for your innocence, deeply re-
greet the necessity which has brought yor
under this roof. Indeed, I am not sure
; it was a necessity; however, my cousin
Miss Dupont, thought otherwise, and
as am but a guest here"
'.Like myself coolly suggested Break
spear, adoring his Moorland princess fo
} thinking otherwise"
Hardly, You are to realize, sir, tina
for you play a. triple part in this hous,
for the present, 1 am your doctor, YOU
host, and-your gaoler."
u thought you said Miss Dupont wa
. my hostess" cut in Jim.
4 Miss Dupont is my hostess. She can