The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25

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"Sent them?' repeated, and stared
at her in amazement, doubling if I had
heard Alright.
eyes, sent them,' she said again,
ee'mphatieaally: +s mWEh hyf do you Suppose fSe
next morning9" : - T.
s,,s 81 ssp IS ned ), they had become
HNonsense! What possible reason
could they have for becoming suspicious
Of you. On the contrary, it was because
they were not suspicious Of you, because
they wish to please you, to all. your
room for you; because, in a word, you
fsEef tff ost to pggR Rsy weat af9r t 5Re
shutters. Of course, Martigny had it. -
For a moment, l was too nonplused
to speak; I could only stare at her.
Then I found my tongue.
"Well, I was a fool, wasn't I9' I
demanded bitterly. "To think that I
shoqldn' It have foreseen that! I was 50
n Me5aef that up c SvG5 aaEvb bha
else. Of course, when they asked For
the key, the whole story came out. - t.s
~ shoul dn't blame myself too
severely, r & isss K emball, sas;
she looked at my 1Fueful Scountenance.
'ssI&myself think it's rather fortunate
that he s on the boat2' ~
tW.Fortunate? You don't mean that!7'
dams hadn t gone to him; he'd have
left the hospital anyway in two or three
days-he isn't the man to lie inactive
when he knew you were searching tor
the fugitives. He'd have returned,
then, to his apartment next to yours;
your landlady would have told him that
you had sailed for Europe, and he had
Ivy To ;c
list to discover your name. So you see
there WASH It so much lost, after ALL
"But, at any rate,'' 1 pointed out,
che would still have been in America.
He couldn't have caught us. We I'd
have had good start Of him. -
"He couldn It have caught you, but
a cablegram would have passed you in
they have time to conceal their
prisoner, you IL never find her-your
only hope is in catching them unpre-
pared. And there s another reason
since he's on the boat, you we another
opportunity not 60 and have a
talk with him-that battle Of wits you
were looking forward to?"
I'm afraid I couldn It play the part.
"The part?'
"Of seeming not to suspect him, of
being quite frank and open with him.,
of appearing to tell him all my plans.
IN afraid he ID see thru me in the first
moment and catch me tripping. It's
too great a rjsk.' .-..
"The advantage would be on your
side,' she pointed out; "yoq could tel
knows, and which he has no reason to
suspect you know he knows-it sounds
terribly involved, doesn't it9 But you
underestimate
ooh, yes; I understand
"And then, it would be the natural
thing for you to look him up as soon
as you learned he was ill. To avoid
him.
but his name ism It on the passenger
list. If I hadn't happened to see him
as he came on board, ia probably not
have known it at ALL
"P,erhaps he saw you at. the same
"Then the fat's in the fire. I said.
I"If he knows l know he on board,
then he also knows that 1 suspect him;
if he doesn It know, why, there g no
reason for him to think that I'll find
it out, unless he appears in the cabin;
which doesn It seem probable.' z 4
She sat silent for a moment, looking
out across the water: >,
ldSC, Cnefo 5 uO USE Gdh1uS ally I'LL
necessary risks. The think appealed to
mel think T should enjoy half
hours talk with him, matching my wits
against him.
tBut yours are brighter than mine, -
I pointed out. "You we proved it
pretty effectually in the last few
minutes. " seq.
emo I haven't; I We simply shown
you that you overlooked one little thing.
And l think you re right about the
danger of going to Martigny. Our first
duty is to Miss Holiday; we must
rescue her before he can warn his con:
federates to place her out Of our reach. y
The unstudied way in which she said
/ ''our' filled me with an unreasonine
| "But why should they bother with 9
prisoner at ala They didn It. shrink
from striking down her fatherg'
"And they may not shrink from
striking her down, at a favorable mo
ment,'S she answered calmly. 1T will
be easier in France than in New York
: they perhaps have the necessary prepar
ations already made-they may be only
hesitating-a warning from MartlgnJ
may turn the scale. =
NY hands were trembling at the
thought of it. If we should really be
ssBut I don't believe they'll 90 t
such extremes, Mr.. LESTER continued
l nv companion I believe you re go
(; ing to find her and solve the mystery
u NV theory dOesn It solve it. Won knew