The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-25
CHAPTER xlll.-continued

allZS ueI 1dIueT was 1lOI W pO
schemed for and hidden from the world
any more. She did not faint or weep.
but sat by the bedside, dry-eyed and
silent, Offering no objections to anything
that Breakspear suggested, except that
she would not be induced to leave her
father. Miss Truro was called from her
room, where she was locked In with the
door barricaded, and finally consented.
after tedious explanations and assurances,
to go to Maya In the north wing.
Let the police have those men If you
choose. I don't care any more" Maya
said, when Breakspear asked her what
should be done. There will be revela-
tions, but they will not hurt me nor my
father now; and nobody cares for me in
this country
IT care. more than for anything or any
one else on EARTH answered Jim.
''You will not care when you hear all,
as you must very soon," the girl sighed.
And he did soon hear all; partly from
her, partly from the man whom he had
been won't to call Eagle face; and the
two stories wove themselves together in
one. Even Vivien Oakley's part in it be-.
came clear to him, tho she had had time
to disappear from the world Of society
which for a brief period had known and
| feted her. And it was because of Vivien
| Oakley, strangely enough, that Michael
Zelenine Cknown to Breakspear as Michael
Dupont) had not returned to New-Take
Farm.
The caravan had been hired for a good
price of some gipsies who had been camp
| ing few miles from Mallery-Tavy, and it
was to have been used for a double pur-
pose. In the first place, if Maya had re-
| sisted the demands made on the night
when Eagle face appeared under the win
dow wearing the death mask, she was to
have been seized, gagged and taken away
in the cavaran, there to be kept until she
was ready to tell where the greatly de-
sired pearls might be found But she had
consented to make an appointment, bring
ing the pearls to Satan's Tor; and q GU;
rious chance had made the kidnapping of
Breakspear possible instead. It had been
thought most desirable to get him out OF
the way, lest his advice should, after all,
render Maya obstinate; and Vivien Oak
ley, In her gypsy disguise had lent, her
aid to the carrying out Of this suddenly
J conceived scheme, on the understanding
| that Breakspear should not be injured.
Her jealous fear. lest he. should have
grown to care for the Lady of the Lilies
had made her fercely eager to separate
the two at almost any cost.
| Rejoicing in the thought that Break
spear, parted from his love, would never
know what. role she had played in his
undoing, and must turn to her (Vivien)
In the end. when he had been led to be-
| lieve that she%had saved his life, .Vivien
Oakley sat on the drivers seat beside the
man whom she had married years ago in
the states. In those days she! had lived
by her wits, not dreaming that somewhere
n in the world she had a kindly disposed
uncle, who would by -and-by advertise for
hts dead sisters daughter, lost sight of
tEyears ago, and offer her half Of all that
was his. She had hoped sthat the Russian
tadventurer who had won her by gifts of
false diamonds and pretending to be a mil
lionaire was dead. When. after seven
years Of desertion he had not appeared
she had told herself that, at all events
she was legally free; even to marry again
ii she chose. Then he had found her out
in England, threatening to reveal the past
which she had carefully concealed, and
since then she had been his slave. But
since coming to Dartmoor her affairs ha6
. changed for the better She had helped
him, and he had promised to help her
Vivien was comparatively contented to SIT
beside the man as the caravan jolted ovel
the moor. .
Then suddenly shot had rung out
She had felta sharp pang in her shoulder
and had uttered a scream Of surprise anc
pain. A voice had exclaimed: "Great
Heavens! A woman!" Quick as lightning
the man at her side had snatched his
revolver and fired. Michael Zelenine, who
had followed the caravan, thrown off his
guard for moment by the horrible
thought that he had shot. perhaps killed
|
Before he had recovered his presence o.
mind he was struck full in. the breas
by the bullet which revenged his shot anC
fell on his face, pierced thru the heart
Thus he owed his death to Vivien Oakley
as well as to the man whose hand helt
the revolver. s--7+:5-.
Instantly the two had to make up thei
minds what was to. be done with the deat
body, when tHey had assured themselve
it was that and nothing more, when alst
Vivien had informed her companion tina
this was the man she had seen and spoken
to at the farm. It was decided at las
that it would be better to put the bod.
In the caravan with Breakspear, who
bound and half smothered in the travel
ing cloak, would not be able to see wha
a strange fellow traveller he. had beel
+ given. It was not until they set abou
8 to carry out this plan that they knew o
Breakspear's escape, and then 1t was use
less to attempt recapture. Vivien Oak
ley's scheme was broken in two. Their
was nothing further to keep her on Dart
;. moor since her services were needed n
more, and her only wish was for escape
Her wound was not serious, and sh
started next morning to walk to Mavi
stock; from there reached London, go
rid of her disguise, went home to Man
chester Square, packed all her Jewels
cashed a blank check her uncle had give
he had intended), and had disappeare
before her confederate could betray hel
AS for him. he had seen that it woul
be well to leave Dartmoor as soon a
possible, tho the contents Of the carava
need not be discovered (if he were lucky
for days. He drove it to as lonely a plac
as he could find, embarrassed the hors
and rode him to New Take Farm, whic
he reached early in the morning, an
threw the note into the window which h
believed to be Maya's. From there h
Il went straight to Satan'ss Tor, where b
waited in vain for some hours.
Maya did not come, but upon this cor
tingency he had calculated and already al
ranged his plan Of campaign, In case
occurred He had seen the inside of
prison last year (being caught on til
very day he had noted the Dartmoor az
Gaping with his box all packed, and cor
ing out on the day before the sale of ur
claimed luggage at Victoria), and h
3 crime had been the instigation Of a bul
glary. Now, on April "a, having misse
Il Maya for the first time, he had write
to an acquaintance of his in London /
bring two or three good men"
Mallery Tavy at his expense, and he woul
put them on to big thing. The goo
4 men" had duly arrived in the guise
tourists, and waited for the word to
given them. Meanwhile, Thomas Tril
. was drugged and temporarily laid on tt
shelf and an effort was made to g
Breakspear out of the way. Fate had pl
the only other dangerous person at Ne
Take Farm into the power Of Eagle Fac
whose real name was Paul Strogoff; an
by teaching his men a few Russian wors
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