The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-04

tents of that pocket by touching 1t, to assure myself that it was safe, but ! had done so just before meeting Dl, and I felt certain that nothing coutu have happened to 1t since
 I folded my arms across my chest. glanced up to see where the cord or communication might be found Tn ease of emergency: and then reflected tnat these men were not likely to be dan gerous, since I had followed them into the compartment, not they me rms thought was reassuring, as they were three to one If they combined against me, and the train was, unfortunately not a corridor train. Therefore. nav ing assured myself that l was not among spies bent on having my life or the secret I carried I forgot aDout my travellers, and fell into gloomy speculations as to my chances with Diana Forrest. I had been loving her. thinking of little else but her and my hopes of her, for many months now; but never had I realized what miser- able, empty world 1t would be for me without her for my own. as did now, when I had perhaps lost her.
 Not that I would allow myself to think that could not get her back. l would not think It. l would force her to believe in me to trust me, even 10 TenGnI
 ances were all against me, and Heaven knew how much or when might be permitted to explain. I would not pc a man if I took her at her word, and let her slip from me, no matter now many times that word were repeated, so told myself over and over. Yet voice inside me seemed to say that noinins
 would be as 1t had been; that Ia sac rificed my happiness to please strans
 CT. and to save a woman whom nau
 never really loved.
 Di was so beautiful. so sweet, SD
 used to being admired by men; there
 were so many who loved her, so many
 with a thousand times more to oHoi
 than had or would ever nave: now
 could I hope that she would go on
 caring for me, after what had happeheo today? I wondered. She hadn saie
 in actual words last night that sht
 would marry me, whereas this Hornin '
 she had almost said she never wouiu
 I should have nobody to blame but my
 self if I came back to London tomor' row to find her engaged to Lord ROD ert wesr--a man who. as ms protnei has no children, might some day HiaAs her a Duchess
 Sorry to have seemed rude just now sir" said one of the two railway-keS mefi, suddenly reminding me of his un. necessary existence. 11dA1AS
 what I was about when I showed yot away from the door. Me and my friend was afraid of missing the train SO we pushed--instinct of seH-preser' yation, I suppose" and he chuckled al if he had got off some witticism. Amy how, apologize. Nothing fntentionai 'pon my word"
 ''Thanks. No apology is necessary I replied as indifferently as I felt. That's all right, then" finished tn' Jewish faced man, who had spoken. H' turned to his companion, and the tw' resumed their conversation behind th' newspaper: but now became conscious | that they occasionally glanced over th' | top at their neighbor or at me, as ! | their whole attention were not takei up with the news of the day.
 Any inerest they might feel In mo provided 1t had nothing to do with i certain pocket, they were welcome to l but the little man was apparently no | of the same mind concerning himself | His nervously twitching hand on tn | upholstered seat-arm which separates | his place from mine attracted my at | tehtion, which was then drawn up t
 his face. He was so sickly pale. unde a kind of yel1owish glaze spread owe | his complexion, that thought.he mus | be i'll, perhaps suffering from trai
 sickness in anxious anticipation of tn l horrors which might be in store fo