Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-16
Chapter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright. 1908. by Dodd. Mead
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lie to me. Seip, Is i, really thercy
Then he n,tcnd loud cry of joy arC
starred IF down the sl"pc with tho
sPeCd of rlce. y, rise. shouting In III,
frenzy of an uncuutrollable p!ee,
II was the Marquis of B,'s white
and blue yacht
Three weeks later HollingSworlh
Chase STEPPED from the Ge Of the
Yacht 10 the iCr ia Mars HES. The
rCxt day he was in Paris. attended 10y
Inc hevl'dercd and almost useless So
liin An old aud valued friend cam,
p1ig'lcr Of the wartime days. met hint
at the Care DC l.yCn in response to
telel ram.
TN tell ycu the whole story OF ia
pat. Arch lat rot until tomorrow.
Chase said 20 him as they drove to
ward the i.iz "a arrived yesterday
Ul he Marquis of B.'s yacht, the
Cricket DO ycu know him: OF COURSE
YOU do Eycryb dy does. The Cricket
was cruising down my way aud picked
be M Rowl,s ard me- The captain
came n bi, cut 81 his way ,o call mt
tr?tat. lat Le ll3d orCers az some sort
from The marquis by cable, | fancy, TO
stop oF for me"
lie Gid not regard il a. necessary to
tell his correspon lent friend that the
Cricket had sailed froiu Marsci,les
with hut one purt In view Arafat.
He did noi tell him that the Cricket
had como with u message toi him and
that nc vas answering IL in person. rs
II WITS intended that he shOu.d-a mes
sage writes six weeks before his ar
rival In France. There were many
things that Chase did not explain to
Archibald James.
You're looking fine. Chase. old man.
Did you lot 0f good out there. You
are rs brown as that Arab In the taxi
meter back there. By Jove. old man
that Persian girl is ripping. Yen say
she's his wife; Shes Chase broke
IN upon this far from original estimate
81 the picturesque Necnah.
Il say. Arch, there's something
want to know before | go to the
marquis this evening. I'm due there
with my thanks He lives IN the
boulevard ST. Germain I've got the
number all right Is'one likely to find
the house full Of swells? I'm bit Of
savage Just now. and I'm correspond
ingly timhd"
His friend stared at rim for mo-
ment
II can save you the trouble Of going
~ the marquis" be said. He and
the warehouses are Ia London at pres.
cnt. Left Paris IA month ago"
"Whati The house is closedt" in
deep anxiety.
Il think not. Servants are all there
dare say Their place adjoins the
Brabetz palace. The princess is his
niece, you know"
You say The Brabetz palace is next
door," demanded Chase stcadying his
voice with an effort
'Yes-the old Flaurebert mansion
The princess was to have been the so
cial sensation of Paris this year She's
Wonderful beauty. you know"
WAS TO have bceD?"
sue iudTiieu lndt rOlIeD BfHDetH
last June. but of course you never
heard of II out there In whafs-tbe-
name-of-the-place You may have
heard of his murder. however His
mistress shot him In BRUSSELS
Great God. man gaspcd Chase.
clutching his arm IN a grip of iron.
The devil. Chase" cried the other.
amazed. What's the matter?"
Hes dead? Murdered? How
when? Tell me about IT. cried Chase. |
his agitation so great that James
looked nj him In wonder.
Cad. you seem 10 he Interested"
IL am, Where Is she--l mean the |
princess and the other woman"
Cool Off, old man. People are star
ing at you. Iirabetz was shot three |
weeks ago at q hotel In Brussels He'd |
been living there for two months, !
more or less. with the woman. In fact. |
he left Paris almost Immediately after
he was married TO the Princess Gene
vra. The gossip Is that she wouldn't |
live with him She'd found out what
sort OF a dog he was. They didn't |
have Il honeymoon. and they didn't
attempt bridal tour. Somehow they
kept the scandal out of the papers.
We'll, he liked out Of Paris at the end
of week, just before the nth. The
police had asked the woman To leave
town. He followed. Dope fiend, they
say. The bride went into seclusion at
once. She's never to be seen any
where. The woman shot him through
tive head and then took fine dose OF
poison II was a ripping news story
The prominence Of the
This was month agof demanded
Chase, trying to fix something In his
mind, "Then 1t was after the yacht
left Marseilles with orders to pick me
up at Arafat"
What are YOU talking about? Sure