Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-04-25
The Holiday Case
eY BURTON E. STEVENSON.
@@mx--c Copyright 1907 by Henri. Holt & Co uHmu-zMm
BY BURTON E. STEVENSON.


confirmed my guess. At ten o'clock.
on the morning of Thursday. April 3.
La Savoie had sailed for Havrc.
May ! see La Savoie's passenger
list | asked.
.Certainly. sir" and he produced it.
-! did not. OF course, expect to find
Miss Holiday entered upon It, yet l
felt thai a study of it might be re-
pad; and i was not mistaken. Mrs.
u. X. Folsom and two daughters had
occupied the cabine de luxe, 438, ass.
$40: on the company's list. which had
been given me. l saw bruckcted after
the name of the youngest daughter the
single word "invalide."
LA Lorraine sails day after tomo--
row. | helieve?" | asked.
Yes. sir"
And is she FULL
n sir; it is Il little early In the
season yet" and he got down the list
OF stateroorHs. showing me which We're
vacant. l selected AN outside double
one. and deposited half the fare in
order to reserve it.
There was nothing more to be done
mat night. for a glance at my watch
showed me The lateness of the hour.
AS emerged from the pier. ] sudden
~ found myself very weary and very
hungry 80 called n cab and was
driven direct to my room. a bath and
dinner set me up again. and finally I
settled down with my pipe to arrange
the events of the day.
Certainly l had progressed. l had
undoubtedly got IN the track OF the
fugitives: l had found out all that l
could reasonably have hoped to find
out. And yet my eXultation was short
lived. Admitted that 1 was on their
track. how much nearer success had
l got: / knew that they had sailed
Tor france, but for what part of
France. They would d!sembark at
4HaNre-hoM was l. reaching Havre,
TWO weeks later, 10 Observation-Disclosures
rection they had taken? Suppose they
had gone to Paris, as seemed most
probable. how could l ever hope to find
them there: Even if I did find them,
would l be In time to checkmate Mar
tigny?
For a time. / paused. appalled, at the
magnitude of the task that lay before
me-1n all France, TO find three people.
. u after all. IT might not be so great.
Most probably these wonen were from
M of h towns Holiday and his wife
mac visited during their stay in France.
Which towns they We're, ], of course.
mad no means of knowing; yet j felt
certain that some means OF discovering
them would present itself. That must
be my work for the morrow.
"A half hour passed. and l sat lost in
speculation. watching the blue smoke
curling upward. striving vainly to pene-
trate the mystery. For 1 was as far
as ever from the solution of 1t. Who
were these people? What was their
aim? How had they managed to win
Miss Holiday over to their side: to
persuade her to accompany them: to
flee from her friends-above all, from
our junior partner? How had they
caused her change of attitude toward
him? r had they really abducted her?
was there really danger Of foul play
danger that she would fall a victim as
Wen as her father? Who was Mar
tigney? And above all what was the
plot? What did he hope to gain? What
was he striving for?
To these questions 1 could find no rea-
sonable answer; I was still cropping
aimlessly in the dark; and at last IN
sheer confusion. l put down my pipe,
turned out the light. and went to bed.