The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20
THE POWERS AND MAXINE
,iIisanssa, An Rishss Ressrves.

wouldn't tell what the thing was the .hief had taken from him. except that it was valuable. 1t does look as if he were determined to make the case as piack as possible against himself: but then. as l said before, no doubt he has good reasons"
 He has no good luck, anyhow!" signed Aunt Ldl, who always liked
 Rather not--so far. Why. one of ene worst bits of evidence against him is that the concierge of this house in tne Rue de la File Sauvage swears that though Dundas hadn't been in the place much above half an hour when the detective arrived. he was there then Tor the second time, that he admitted It when he came. The first visit he made, according to the concierge, was about an hour before the second. the concierge was already in bed in his little box, but not asleep, when 8 man rang and an English h-soundins voice asked for Monsieur Gestre. On hear ing that Gestre was away. the visitor said he would see the gentleman who was stopping in Gestre's room. Bly, and-bye the Englishman went out, and on being challenged. said he might come back again by-and-bye. After awhile the concierge was walked up once more By a caller for Gestre who announced that he'd been before; and now he vows that it was the same man both times, though Dundas denies hay ing called twice If he could prove that he'd been in the house no more than half an hour, it might be all right, for two doctors agree that the murdered man had been dead more than an hour when they were called in But he can't or won't prove it-that's his luck again!-and nobody can be found who saw him In any of the streets through which he mentions passing. The last moment that he can be ac- counted for is when a cabman, who'd taken him up at the hotel just after ha left us. set him down in the Rue de Courbvoie, not so very far from the Elysee Palace. Then it was only be- tween five and ten minutes past 12, so he could easily have gone on to the Rue de la File sauvags afterwards and killed his man at the time when the doctors say the fellow must have died. It's bad scrape. But of course Dun das will get out of it somehow or oth- CT. in the end"
 Do you think he will. EricT' asked Aunt Lii.
 T hope so with all my heart" he answered. But his face showed that he was deeply troubled, and my heart sank down--down.
 AS U redllzeu more anu iiore the danger in which Ivor stood. my resent n1ant against him began to seem curi- ous1y trivial. Nothing had happened to make me feel that had done him an injustice in thinking he cared more for Maxine de Renzie than for me--indeed, on the contrary, everything went to prove his supreme loyalty to her whose name he had refused to speak. even for the sake of clearing himself. Still,
 IL. 1u1an mnVAf Rmt finn my soul rushed to stand by his side, to defend him. to give him love and trust in spite of all.
 Down deep in my heart I forgave him, even though he had been cruel, and I yearned over him with an exceed ing tenderness. More than anything on earth, I wanted to help him: and I meant to try indeed, as the talk went on while that terrible meal pro gressed, I thought ]. saw. q way to do 1t, if Lisa ana I should act together. ss
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