The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-28

heIp me to keep this secret I am teli- ing you so frankly"
 "Keep the secret, yet use 1t to free the Englishman?' asked the Chief of Police graveiy.
 Yes. I ask no less of you; I beg, implore you. It would Kill me 10 break with Raoul du LAurier." | Dear Mademoiselie," said the good | and gallant man. .'trust me to do the | best I can for you" q could see that my tears had moved him.) "A grief l to you would be a blow to Paris. Yet well as you have been frank. owe | it to you to be equally so on my side. l should before this have sent--duite l privately and in friendly way, to question you about this MT. punoas l who passed under another name at the | hotel where you called upon him; but 1 I received a.fequest from very high | quarter to wait before communicating Il with you. Now. as you have come 10 me, I suppose I may speak" Ask me any questions you choose I said, "and I'll answer them"
 Then. to begin with. since you are engaged to Monsieur du Laurier, how | do you explain the statement you made | at the hotel, concerning Mir. Dundas?''
 "That Is one .of the many things | have come here on purpose to tell | you" I answered him; for I am go- | ing to give you my whole confidence. I throw myself upon your mercy
 You do me a great honor. Will you speak without my promptingT
 Yes. I would prefer 1t. In Eng land, a year ago. I had a little firta- ton with Mir. Dundas--no more; though we liked and admired each other. We exchanged a few silly letters. and forgot all about them until l fell in love with Raoul and promised to marry him--only a short time ago Then couldn't bear to think that had written these foolish letters, and that, perhaps, MT. Dundas might have kept them. l wrote and asked 1T ns had He answered that he had every one. and valued them immensely, but if I wisheds he would either burn all or bring them to me, whichever chose. I chose to have him bring them, and I told him that I'd meet him at the E1ysee Palace Hotel on 6 certain evening, to receive the letters from him."
 He came, as I said under another name, Why was that, Mademoiselie since there was nothing for him tC be ashamed off"
 ''Ide also is in love, and just en. gagged to be married to an American girl who lives with relatives in Lon don, in very high position. Ht didn't want the girl to know he was coming to Paris, because. it seems there had been a little talk about hin and me. which she had heard. And she didn't like it,"
 T see. This gentleman started foi Paris. have learned, the first thing in the morning, after a ball at a house where he met the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs."
 Perhaps. For have enquired and found out that the girl-a Miss For. rest. is distantly connected with tht with her aunt, Lady Mountstuart whose sister is married to that gen tleman. And the Foreign Secretary il a cousin of Lord Mountstuart."
 "Ah, Miss Forrest!'
 You know of her alreadyr
 T have heard her name."
 q guessed how: for she could no have seen Ivor Dundas in prison ex scept through the Chief of Police, bu said nothing of that.)
 You say you know how we met al the hotel, MT. Dundas and l." went on. But I'll explain to you how ths inner meaning of 1t all. which ever you can't have found out. Mir Dun. das was to have brought me my let. ters--haIf a dozen. He gave me q leather case, which he took from ar inner breast pocket, saying the let, ters were in it. But the room wal dark. Something had gone wrong witf the electricity, and I hadn't let hin push back the curtains. for fear might be seen from outside, if tht lights should suddenly come on, H. didn't see the case, as he handed | to me. nor could L Just at that in. stant there was knock at the door and quick as thought, I pushed the | 6rTxy knNv NhA l and back of the sofa"
 (ConcIuded TomOrrovyl