The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-03

He lifted the girl to the divan and made
a sign to Won Altdorf to come to her
there-which seemed a task much to that
gentleman's liking. Then he rose and
stood in the center of the room thinking |
rapidly.
Save herr" he cried again, but as if
to himself. aye, Wen save her! But
what to do? What to do? Those fools
of servants won't have noticed anything
that could help us, and Steinbruckes no
such fool as to have taken a cab from
any stand near here. The police? No.
the police are out of the question: The
thing mustn't get abroad. Steinbrucke
knows that. Will he take her out of
Paris, wonder? Ted Ted, if only you'd
! managed to trace the man to his lodg
ings! Oh, Teddy you're detective!"
He walked up and down the room for
some minutes, head bent, brow creased
and hands shifting softly together. We
! all watched him and waited for him to
speak.
! l think his taking the lead. thus at
| once, and without question or hesitation,
moved us to no surpriSe-if we thought
| Of it at -all-but rather seemed most nat
| ural. Even old Mackenzie watched his
| face with an anxious eye; and from the
divan, Colonel Won Altdorf's ministrations
as nurse and comforter, became absent
| and perfunctory while his eyes followed
| the restless march up and down the ROOM.
| II must see the servants he said
after awhile. They may have noticed
something about the fiacre, the horses
! color, the look Of the cocher, something
| to give us a clue. It's just possible
! He halted before the divan.
| you've cipher code for telegraphing
| to trustworthy friends in Novodnia?" he
demanded.
Naturally" said Colonel Won Altdorf,
a bit piqued that he should be ques-
| toned about so elementary a precaution.
Then listen, MANI cried Denis swift
| ~. You'll telegraph at once to the best
man you have down there, the very BEST
to intercept any communications they
| cam between Georgias and Won Stein
brucke bride Georgias' servants, do any
! thing possible to find out where Stein
| brucke is now, for where he is the prin-
cess will be. Tell them to spare no pains
and to work quickly. It's our best hope,
their efforts. Ted, you'll come with me
| to the house-no, no, not the door, the
window and the garden, it's quickest We
must find if the servants have taken no.
tice of Steinbrucke's facre; and then
you're to prowl about the city looking
out for it. Sir Gavin, you'll take care of
| Miss Mannering."
The girl raised her face at the mention
OF her name and reached an arm toward
him. He dropped one knee beside the
divan and smiled into her eyes.
Everything will be done that men
can do said he gently. "Well have her
mustn't worry nor break down nor fall
Ill. because we shall need you. Go
home now with Sir Gavin and
rest. We have all much to do"
Then he came over to me at the little WIN
dow and we ran up through the garden to
; the old convent.
The servants were quite as stupid as one
could have expected. No. they had no.
ticed nothing peculiar about the facre
Why should one notice a tiacre? They
were all alike, parbeu!
But the gentleman. he had an eye glass,
monocle in the left eve, and spoke
French with an accent
YES yes" cried Denis impatiently 1--WE
know all about the gentleman and his eye
glass; What sort Of a facre? Did no one
notice the horse, what color was it?''
J But here, a gardener who had been re-
pairing the spikes on top of the high
wall near the entrance, declared that the
horse had been gray, with a rat tail, a
= very old and tired horse. ~ p
"Our friend Steinbrucke seems to have
certain fancy for gray horses" observed
e Denis Mallory. "a gray horse! Good
so far! And the cocher, was he of the
p Compagnie Generate or the Compa gnie
. lurbaine? In other words, did he wear 8
e dark coat and a black hat, or a tan coat
4 and a white hat?"
"A black hat The gardener was quite
i positive. The cocher had been of the
Compagnie Generate. And there were NJ
yellow markings on the fiacre, which wa:
e an old one old as the gray horse and thu
e gray cocher. Anything else? No. moth
S ing-but yes. on second thought-the CO
Il cher had worn a mourning band about hi
q left arm.
e Further than this we could extrac
e nothing from the two or three servant
who had seen the princess departure, saw
:, that the fiacre, hood raised, had driver
j. off up the Rue Denfert Rochereau towar,
:, the Place du Lion-''which means moth
A. ing commented Denis Mallory. 1.-The
r. might go in any direction to elude a pos
v sible pursuit: Ted, you must take fiacr
and cover the city, so far as you car
" passing all the cab ranks possible, tn
r watch for a battered old voiture of tn
= Compagnie Generate, a voiture with an OIL
70 gray horse and an old gray cocher VIII
ST wears a mourning badge. The only quar-
N ter you need not search is this one abou
us-Steinbrucke's no fool. If you fin
10 the man bring him here at once and don
g let him out Of sight till I've seen hin
= i AS for me, I'm off to see a friend of mine
n a police Official whom I did a good tur
once. I said the police were out of. tn
- question:, and so they are, in the usus
way, but think I find if our friend
leave Paris, without any one knowing say
4 a very few people who'll never tell. M
official will, have all the outgoing train
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