New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-03

peculiarly OILY tone though the pronunciation was
perfect. - was in the cavalry before began t.
travel But | walked over two thousand miles II
Central ASIA and was none the worse for It
Margaret was sure that she not going 10 ike
him as She moved on with him by her side and
Van TOrp walking with Mrs RushmOre was quite
certain that he was Long Legged Levi, who had
her1ed cattle with hum for six months very long ago
CHAPTER TX
T OGOTHETI reached his lodgings IN > James
L. Place At SIN o'clock in the evening Of the day
on which he had promised TO dine with Van Torp
and the latterS note of excuse was given 70 him
at once He read it looked out Of the window
glanced at again and threw into the waste paper
basket without another thought. He did not care
in the least about dining with the American million
are In fact he had looked forward TO it rather
as a bore than pleasure Then he looked through
his letters to see if there one from Margaret
but there only colored postcard from Bayreuth
with the word greetings scraWled beside the
address in her large hand
Next to the card. however. there was Il thick
letter addressed a commercial writing II was
from Pnney the leweler. and contained a tuli
and conscientious account of the whole affair OF
the theft from the moment when Logothetl and
Van Torp had gone out together till PInney had
locked up the stone his safe again. and Baraka
and Spro had been lodged in Holloway JAIL. The
enveop contained also cutting from the news
paper similar the one Margaret had received from
Lady Maud.
Logothet laid the letter on the table and looked
at his watch. 1t was now quarter past SIN. and
old fashioned shops like Pnneys close rather early
expected and the days not SO long as they have
been. In the latter part of August, IN London. the
sun sets soon after seven o'clock, and Logothet;
realized that he had time to lose.
As he drove quickly toward BOnd-St-. he ran over
the circumstances in his mind. and the
conclusion that Baraka had probably been the
tim of a trick though he did not exclude the bare
possibility that she might be guilty. With all her
cleverness and native sense she might be little
than a savage who had picked up European manners
Cons anti nOple. where YOU pick up any man
ners YOU like Eastern or Western. The merchant
that had given her a letter for Logotheti knew only
what she had chosen tell him. and couuived III
her deception by speaking of her 4 man. and she
might have told him anything to account for having
some valuable precious stones dispose of But,
the other hand She might not be Il Tartar at all
Anyone, from the Bosporus to the Anlur, may speak
Tartar. and pretend not to understand anything else
She might be nothing but clever hdltbred LeVantInc
from SMYRNA who had fooled them all. and really
Raraka', own story and Logotheti really knew
of nothing in her favor beyond his intimate con
Viction that She innocent Against that stood
the fact that the stolen ruby had been found Secrced
on her person within little more than half hour
of her having had q chance To take It from P,nncy's
shop.
T OGOTHETI found Pnncy himself III the act Of
- turning the disks Of the safe before gong home
and leaving his shopman to shut up the place. Tie
smiled with grave satisfaction when Logothrt. en-
tered
Il was hoping To YOU sir, ne said g.
presume that YOU had my letter, | wrote out the
account with great care a YOU may imagine. bur
| shall be happy to 60 over the story with YOU ID
there $ any point that clear
Lpgothctl dd not care - hear II. Le wished