New Ulm review., 1906-06-06
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HoHadaY
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The place was filing with a motley
crowd Of diners, but I paused only to
exchange nod with NJ Jourdain and
then hurried away. The fugtHves had
taken the French line, Of course, and
FASTENED on to the foot Of Morton
street, where the French line pier Is.
a ship was being loaded for the voy-
age out, and the pier was still open a
clerk directed me to the sailing sched-
ule, and glance at 1t confirmed my
guess. At 10 o'clock on the morning of
Thursday, April 8, La Savoie had sail
ed for Havre.
MAY I see La Savoie's passenger
ust?" asked
Certainly, SIR" and he produced it.
I did not, of course, expect to find
Miss Holiday entered upon It; yet I
felt that a study Of it might be repaid,
and I was not mistaken. A Mrs. G. r.
Folsom and two daughters had occu-
pied the cabine de luxe, 1876, 439, 44O.
On the company's list which had been
given me saw bracketed after the
name Of the youngest daughter the sim
gle word "invalide."
LA Lorraine sails day after tomor-
row, believer" asked.
"Yes, sir"
"And is she full?'
"No, sir; it is little early in the sea-
son YETI And he got down the list Of
staterooms. showing me which were
vacant. 1 selected an outside double
6or0Sito1 hol &ho 60 tn, 1or
to reserve it
There was nothing more to be done
that night, for glance at my watch
showed me the lateness Of the hour.
AS emerged from the pier suddenly
found myself very weary and very
hungry, so I called a cab and was driv-
en- direct to my rooms. A bath and din
ner set me up again, and finally I set
tied down with my pipe to arrange the
events of the day.
Certainly I had progressed. had
undoubtedly got on the track Of the
fugitives; I had found out all that
could reasonably have hoped to find
out. And yet my eXultation was short
lived. Admitted that I was on their
got? 1 knew that they had sailed for
France, but for what part Of France?
They would disembark at Havre. How
was l, reaching Havre two weeks later.
to discover which direction they had
taken? Suppose they had gone to
Paris, as seemed most probable, how
could I ever hope to find them there?
Even if l cid find them, would I be
in time to checkmate Martigny?
For a time paused, appalled, at the
magnitude Of the task that lay before
ne-in all France to find three people,
after all, it might not be so great.
robably these women were from
the towns Holiday and his
/ visited during their stay in
Which towns they were l, Of
q no means of knowing, yet
tain that some means of dis
them would present itself.
Ist be my work for the morrow.
hour passed, and I sat lost in
ton, watching the blue smoke
upward, striving vainly to pen
the mystery. For I was as far
yer from a solution Of it Who
e these people? What was their
/? How had they managed to win
ss Holiday over to their side, to
.suade her to accompany them, to
.e from her friends-above all, from
'ur junior partner? How had they
caused her change of attitude toward
him? Or had they really abducted her?
Was there really danger of foul play;
danger that she would fall victim as
we'll as her father? Who was Mar
tigny? And, above all, what was the
plot? What did he hope to gain? What
was he striving for? What was this
great stake for which he risked 50
much?
To these questions 1 could find no
reasonable answer. I was still cropping
aimlessly in the dark, and at last in
sheer confusion I put down my pipe
turned out the light and went to bed.