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to assist in the development of the

to assist in the development of the
country's rich resources than his ma
jesty, the king.
| Upon side table in Statham's
study in Park Lane was big auto
graphed portrait in silver frame,
which King Peter had given him at
his last audience Therefore it was
with feeling Of qualification that Char
| lie heard from the minister-president'
lips the verbal message which the
king had sent-a message of thanks
20 Mr. Rolfe for doing all that he had
| done to arrive at satisfactory ar
rangement whereby with English cap
ital Servia's wealth was to be ex-
plotted and work provided for her in
dustrial population.
| Though he knew that Maud Petro-
witch was no longer in Belgrade yet
! he fingered on at the Grand Hotel
amid all its clatter, its hustle and it's
music. Truth to tell, he earnestly de-
sired to obtain the truth from Sir
Charles Harrison. For that destardly
attempt at Top schieder a friend OF
his was responsible
1t was the identity of the friend in
question that he was deeply anxious
to establish, SO that in future he
would know whom to doubt and
whom to trust.
Was Max Barclay really his friend?
Hour after hour he reflected upon
that problem. He recollected Incl
dents which. in his present state of
mind, filled him with misgivings. Why
had he openly charged him with be-
ing present at the house in Cromwell
Road after the disappearance of the
doctor and his daughter? Indeed, had
he not practically charged him with
opening the Doctors safe and alb
stracting its contents. He had not
made the charge directly, it was true,
but his remarks had certainly been
made in a spirit of antagonistic sus-
picion.
A long letter from Max explained
the sudden disappearance of Marion
from Cunnington's, and begged him to
give all information regarding any
likely quarter where the girl had
sought refuge. 1t was now plain
enough to Charlie that his sister had
been discharged from the establish
ment in Oxford street-and in dis.
grace! In what disgrace?
When he read the letter In his
room at the hotel, he crushed it in
his hand with an imprecation upon
his lips. Cunnington should answer to
him for this indignity. His sisters
honor was at stake.
/ Disgraced by her sudden discharge,
I,L horJ
doubt, been ashamed to face the man
who loved her, ashamed, too, to write
to her brother. Instead, she preferred
to go away and efface herself, as,
alas! so many London shop girls have
done before her.
4 Charlie Rolfe knew the cruelty
practiced by many shopkeeper in
London in discharging their female
employees at moments notice For a
man it matters little. Perhaps, indeed,
it is best for both parties. But for a
helpless girl without friends, without
money, and without friends, to be cast
suddenly upon the great world of Lon
don, filled as 1t is with lures and
temptation, Is a grave sin which no
tradesman ought to commit. And yet
there are today in London and its
suburbs hundreds of SNUG, top-hatted
frock-coated tradesmen, who, though
pillars of their chapels and churches
and stalking around the aisles with
their plush collecting bags on Sun,
days, will on six days of the week
cast forth any poor girl in their EN-.
ploy without grain of sympathy or
conjunction merely because she may
break rule, or even because she
does not lie to customers sufficiently
we'll to induce them to make pur'
chases.
The general public are ignorant Of
the tyranny Of shop life in London
There have been strikes-strikes
quickly suppressed because, by lifting
, his finger tho employer is over
whelmed with assistants glad to live
on mere bread and butter wage =
, and these strikes have been treated
, humorously by the evening papers
! All! the tragedy of it all.
/ Charlie Rolfe, though secretary an6
! trusted factotum of millionaire
]. knew it all. His sister had been in {
: snug billet" one from which he ha6
5 fondly believed she could never have
| been dislodged.
But the hard, bitter truth was nov
: apparent. Even his own brotherly pro
/ lection had availed her nothing She
had been consigned to disgrace.
;. 1t was with such bitter thoughts hi
l resolved to return to London HI
| went to the telegraph Office and sen
e long message to Sam Statham. ex
! planatory of what had occurred, ant
t beseeching his Intervention with Gun
nington.
Through the night he waited, bu
: received no response.
: Then he went around in the morn
!. ing to bid Sir Charles adieu.
a well, Rolfe!" exclaimed the repre-
Q sentative of the British government
4 I'm sorry you're off SO quickly. NJ,
8 wife was asking YOU to dine TOMORROW