The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-09

1 can, for one"
Are there others?"
Many others. Shall I enumerate
them?"
Mo- she said, I'VE haven't time
Here is mother"
They We're to take the company's spe-
cial train to Paris, which was Waltlhs
on the wharf, 200 feet away, ana we
slowly pushed our way toward II. u
the clamor and hurry and con1usion
wholly Latin, there was no chance lol
Intelligent converse. The place was
swarming with people, each of them, as
1t seemed to me, on the verge Oh hss-
terra. Someone, somewhere, was shout-
ing En- Voiture,." in a stentor1an voice.
Suddenly, we found u way blocked py
a uniformed official, who demanded u
see III tickets.
You can't come any farther: I'm
afraid" said Mrs. Kendall, turning 10
us. We'll have to say goodbye and
she held out her hand. But Wen soon
see you both again in Paris. You hays
the address,"
ooh, yes!" I assured her; I felt that
there was no danger Of my ever 1or-
getting it.
Very well, them. we shall o for
YOU" and she shook hands with both
of US.
For an instant, I felt another little
hand in mine, a pair of blue eyes smiled
up at me in a way
Goodbye, Mr.. Lester" said a voice.
L shall be all Impotence till we meet
again"
$50 shall T." and I frightened. THAT
was nice Of you, Miss Kendall"
ooh, l shall be anxious to hear how
you succeeded she retorted. You
will bring Miss Holiday to us?"
IF we find her, yes"
Then. again. goodbye"
She waved her haad, smiling, n
was lost in the crowd.
Come on. Lester" said Mr.. Royce's
voice. There's no use standing star
ing here. We've got our own journey
to look after" Inc he started back
along the platform.
Then, suddenly, I remembered Mar
tigny.
"Ill be back in a minute" I called,
and ran up the gangplank. HAS NJ.
Martigny left the ship yet?" I inquired
Of the first steward 1 met.
"Martigny?" he repeated. "Martigny?
Let me see."
The sick gentleman in 375." I
monsieur"
well, no matter. I'll find out my
self"
= w ItS apPGA oCSA Ilo
knocked at the door of 375. There was
no response. After a M l tried
the door,, but it vas locked. The win
dow, however, was partly open, and,
shading my eyes with my hands. 7
peered inside. The stateroom was
empty.
A kind of panic seized me as 1 turned
away. Had he, indeed. seen through
my artifice? In attempting to blind
him, had 1 merely uncovered my own
plan? Grand my cheeks burned at
the thought!-was he so well i%ntrenched
that he had no fear of me? Were his
plans so we'll laid that it mattered not
to him whittier [ went or what I did?
After all, I had no assurance Of sue
cess at Etretat-no proof that the fugi-
tives had gon there-no reasonable
grounds to believe that we should find
them. Perhaps, indeed, Paris QUIZ be
a better place to look for them: per-
haps Martigny's advice had really been
well meant.
l passed a moment OF h~eartrending
I saw quite clearly what a
little, little chance of success we had.
But shook the feeling off, sought the
lower deck, and inquired again for
At last, the ships doctor
old me that he had seer the sick man
1im order the driver to proceed to the
Continental.
And, frankly, Mr.. Lester added the
ioctor, Il am glad to be so we'll rid OF
him. 1t is most fortunate that he did
lot die on the voyage. In my opinion.
he is very near the end"
l turned away with a lighter heart.
a dying man there could not be
to fear. So I hunted up MI. Royce.
found him, finally, endeavoring to
extract some information from a. SUPER
'ilious official in a gold-laced uniform.
1t was. 1t seemed, a somewhat COM
olicated proceeding to get to Etretat.
n half an hour a train would leave for
3~euzeville, where we must transfer to
mother line to Les Ifs: there a second
ransfer would be necessary before we
.ould reach our destination. How long
would it take? Our informant
'hrugged his shoulders with fine non
.'halance. 1t was impossible to saw
There had been a heavy storm two
lays before, which had blown down
wires and damaged the little spur OF
rack between Les IFS and the sea,
trains were doubtless running over the
branch, but we could not, probably.
Etretat before morning.
Amid this tumble Of uncertainties.
definite fact remained train was
o leave in half an hour, which we must
AXE. So we hurried back to the boat.
u declaration had our boxes ex-
lmined perfunctorily, and passed.
bought u tickets, saw our baggage
transferred, tipped a dozen people. more
,r less. M finally were shut into q
compartment two minutes before the
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