The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-09
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may be innocent. It seems as though
he were antagonistic to their schemes, IL
Leithcourt and his family fled from
him."
"And yet he was on board the Lola.
Indeed, he may have helped to commit
the burglary at the Consulate" I said.
"Quite likely" he answered. "But
our first object must be to rediscover
Muriel. Page says she is in Eastbourne.
If she Is there, we shall easily find her.
They publish visitors lists in the pa
pers, don't they, like they do at Hast
ings" Then he added: "Visitors' lists
are most annoying when you find your
name printed in them when you are sup
posed officially to be somewhere else. I
was had once like that by the Bourne
mouth papers, when l was supposed to
be on duty over ut Queenstown. / mar
rcwly escaped terrible wigging."
"Shall we 60 to Eastbournef" I sug.
gested eagerly. "I'll go there with you
in the morning"
"Or would It not be best to send an
urgent wire to the address where l al
ways writer She would then reply here,
no doubt. II she's in Eastbourne, there
may be reasons why she cannot come up
to town. If her people are in hiding, Of
course she won't come. But she'll make
an appointment with me, no doubt"
"Very we'll. Send wire," said.
"And make 1t urgent. It will then be
forwarded. But as regards Olinto2
Would you like to see himH He might
tell you more than he has told me-"
"No; by no means. He must not
know that have returned to London"
declared my friend quickly. "You had
better not see him-you understand"
"Then his interests are-well, not ex-
actly our own"
"No."
"But why don't you tell me more about
Elmar urged, for was eager to learn
all he knew. "Come, do tell mel" i'm
plored.
"Tve told you practically everything,
my dear old fellow" was his response.
"The revelation of the true facts of the
affair can be made only by Muriel.
tell you, we must find her."
said. "Let's 60 across to the telegraph
Office opposite Charing Cross. It's open
always" And we rose and walked out
along the Strand, now nearly deserted,
and dispatched an urgent message to Mu-
riel ut an address in Nottingham Road,
Fulham.
Afterwards we stood outside on the
curb, still talking, / 10th to part from
him, when there passed by in the shadow
two men in dark overcoats, who crossed
the road behind us to the front of Char.
ing Cross station, and then continued on
towards Trafalgar Square.
As the light of the street lamp fell
upon them, thought l recognized the
face Of one as that of person had
seen before, yet was not at all certain
and my failure to remember whom the
passer-by resembled prevented me from
saying anything further to Jack than:
"A fellow know has just gone by, ]
think"
1--WE seem to be meeting hosts OF
friends tonight" he laughed. "After oil
old chap, it does one good to come back
to our dear, dirty old town again. We
abuse 1t when we are here, and talk OF
the life in Paris, and Vienna, and Brus.
sells, but when we are away there is nc
place on earth so dear to us, for it is
home But there!" he laughed, "I'm
actually growing romantic. All! II we
could only find Murieli But we must
tomorrow. Ta-ta! l shall 60 around ia
the club and sleep, for haven't fixed on
my diggings yet. Come in at ten to.
morrow, and we will decide upon some
plan. One thing is plainly certain
Elma must be got out of Russia. She's
in deadly peril of her life there"
YES" said. "And you will help
mel"
with all my heart, old fellow" an
swered my friend, warmly grasping my
hand, and then we parted, he strolling
along towards the National Gallery on