The Huttig news., 1908-12-19


 on his desk, along with letter from his attorney.
 CHAPTER H-Ma'tland dined with Zimmerman, his attorney. Dan set out tor Greentields, to get his family jewels. During his walk to the country seat he met the young woman in gray, whom he he had seen leaving his bachelors, club. tier auto had broken down. He fixed it and by ruse she lost" him.
 CHAPTER IIL-Maitland, on reaching home surprised lady in gray cracking he as, safe containing his gems. She. ep- parently, took h1n for a well-known srook, Daniel Anisty.
 CHAPTER IV.-Half- hypnotized. Malt lard opened his safe took therefrom the jewels, and gave them to her. first form ing partnership in crime. The real Dan Anisty, sought by police of the world, appeared on the same mission. Maitland overcame him. He met the girl outside the house and they sped on to New York in her auto. He had the jewels and She promised to meet him that day
 CHAPTER V.-Maitland received a
 MT. SnaitlI," introducing himself as a detective. To shield the girl in gray. Maitland, about to show him the jew blow from "Snaith's" cane. The latter proved to be Anisty himself and he se- cured the gems
 CHAPTER VI.-Anisty. who was Matt lands double, masqueraded as the latter.
 CHAPTER VII.-The criminal kept Maitland's engagement with the girl Tn gray. He gave her the gems, after fall ing in love at first sight They were to meet and divide the foot
 CHAPTER vIII.-Maitland revived and regretted missing his engagement. An isty masquerading Maitland. narrow ly avoided capture through mysterious lip The girl in gray visited Maitland's turned gems. being discovered ou re- turn
 CHAPTER Ix.-Maitland. without cash, called up his home anc heard a woman's voice expostulating.
 To be just with herself, the girl had not gone to the restaurant with much real hope of finding Maitland there. Curiosity had drawn her-just to see f. But it was too preposterous to credit that he should have cared enough. Quite too preposterous! It was her cup. her bitter cup. to know that she had learned to care enough at sight! And she recalled with what bangs of shame and misery begged expression,@ how her heart had been stirred when she had found him (as she thought true to his tryst: even as she recalled the agony and dis tress of mind with which she had a moment later fathomed Anisty's i'm personation.
 For, of course, she had known that Maitland was Maitland and none other from the instant when he told her to make good her escape and leave him to brazen it out; task to daunt even as bold and resoureeful a criminal as Anisty, and more especially if he were called upon to don the mask at a min utes notice, as Maitland had pre- tended to. Or, if she had not actually known, she had been led to suspect; ana it had hardly needed what she haG heard him say to the servants, when he thought her flying hotfoot over the lawn to safety. to harden suspicion into certainty.
 And now that he should find her here, a second time trespasser. doubly an ingrate-that he should have caught her red-handed in this abominably ungrateful treachery! She could pretend, of course, that she had returned merely to restore the jewels and the cigarette case; and he would believe her, for he was generous. She could, but-she could not Not now Yesterday, the excitement had buoyed her; she had gained a piquant enjoy ment from befooling him, playing her part of the amateur cracksman In this little comedy of the stolen jewels. But therein lay the difference; yesterday 1t had been comedy, but today-ah! today she could no longer laugh For now she cared
 A little lie would clear her-yes. But fl was not to be cleared that she now so passionately desired; it was to have him believe in her, even against the evidence of his senses, even in the face of the worlds con demnation; and to prove that he. too, cared-cared for her as his attitude toward her had taught her to care.
 Ever since leaving him in the dawn she had fed her starved heart with the hope, faint hope though it were, that he would come to care little. that he would not utterly despise her, that he would understand and forgive, when he learned why she had played out her part. nor believe that she was the embodiment of all that was ignoble, coarse. and crude that he would show a little faith in her, a little faith that like flickering taper might light the way for-loye.
 But that hope was now dead within her, and cold. She had but to look at him to see how groundless 1t had been how utterly unmoved he was by her distress. He waited patiently that was seeming so very tall. pillar of righteous strength, dstin- guished and at ease in his evening clothes: waiting natiart hut cold, dis. passionate and disdainful
 T am waiting. you see. Might sug- gest that we have not all week for our-our mutual differences?"
 His tcne was altogether changed she would hardly have known it for his voice. It's incisive, clipped accents