Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-09-02

of the Vielle Bourse he would discover
the tram cars of the Rue kipdorp.
Monsieur was most welcome.
Monsieur departed with the more
haste since lie was unable to repay
this courtesy with the most trifing
purchase. After a brisk walk Of some
fifteen minutes he reached the station.
A public clock treasured him With
the information that he had the quar-
ter of an hours leeway. 1t was only
seventeen minutes past IS o'clock Del
gian railway time, always confusing).
1nquiring his way to the Amsterdam
train. which was already waiting at
the platform, he paced its length. peer
ing hraZenly in at the coach windows,
with disappointment. realizing as he
could not but realize that. all else
aside. his only chance of rehabilitation
lay in meeting Calendar. But in none
of the coaches OF carriages did he
discover any one even remotely re-
ter or Mulready.
Satisfied that they had not yet board
cd the train. he stood aside. tortured
with f~oreboGingS, while a%nXiously scru-
t~ini@ing each Individual of the throns
OF intending travellers. Perhaps they
had been h~e!ayeI-by the Alethea's
latcncss i'll making port. very likely.
Perhaps they purpoScd taking NOT this
but Il later train. Perhaps they had
already left the city by an carlicr or
had returned 10 England.
On time. the bell changed its warm
ing. the guards bawled theirs, doors
were hastily opened and slammed. the
trucks began to %IoHM. couplings Jolt
inc as the engine clMfpa in constraint.
The train and kirzWood moved stimuli
~taneouSly out OF opposite ends of the
station. the to rattle anG hammer
round the eastern boundaries of the
city amd s%trAi%!lten out at top speed on
the northern route for the Belgian line,
the other to stroll mo0dily away idle
hands i'm empty pockets. bound aim
lessly a~nywhere-it didn't matter,
Nothing whatever mattcred in the
~ 4 tlo" llIt oullOOh
had been dark. but this he felt to be
the absolute nadir of his misfortunes.
PreSently-after awhile, as soon as ho
could bring himself to 1.-THE would ask
the way and 60 to the American consul
late. But just now, low as the tide Of
chance had ebbed, leaving him strand
ed on the flats of va%gabondage, low as
showed the measure of his self esteem,
he could not tolerate the prospect of
begging for assistance.
He found himself, neither knowing
nor caring how he had won thither,
in the Place Verte, the vast venerable
pile of the cathedral rising on his
right, hotels II quaint old world
dwellings with peaked roofs and ga
bles and dormer windows inclosing
the other sides Of the square. II
chimes Che could hear none but those
of the cathedraD were heralding the
hour of seven Listless and preoccu-
pied in contemplation Of his wretched
case, he wandered purposelessly half
round the square, then dropped into a
bench on its outskirts.
1t was some time later that he no.
tlced, with Il casual, Indifferent eve, a
porter running out Of the Hotel de
Flandre, directly opposite, and calling
a fiacre in to the carriage block.
AS languidly he watched a woman.
very becomingly dressed, follow the
porter down to the curb.
The fiacre swung in, and the woman
dismissed the porter before entering
the vehicle, Il proceeding so unusual
that it fixed the o~nlooker's interest.
He sat rigid with attention. The wo-
man seemed to be giving explicit and
lengthy directions 10 the driver. who
nodded and g%esticulatcd his compre-
tension.
The wonan was Mrs. Hallam.
The first blush of recognition passed.
leaving Kirhwood without any amaze
ment. 1t was an easy matter to ac-
count for her being where she was.
Thrown off the scent by Kirkwood at
Sheerness the previous morning, she
had missed the day boat. the same
which had ferried over those whom
ohS PNASNSo' Acquiring 4lOdl SuCtI-
ness to Queensborough, however, she
had taken the night boat for Flushing
and Antwerp, and not without her
plan. She vas not a woman to waste
her strength aimlessly. Kirkwood be-
lieved that she had had from the first
a very definite campaign in view. In
that campaign Queensborough pier
had been the first strategic move, the
journey to Antwerp, apparently, the
second, and the American was i'm
pressed that he was witnessing the
inception of the third decided step.
The conclusion of this process of rea-
soning was inevitable-madam would
bear watching.
Thus was a magical transformation
brought about. Instantaneously lassi-
tudc and vain repinings were replaced
by hopefulness and energy. In a
twinkling the young man was on his
feet, every nerve a-thrill with excite
ment.
Mrs. Hallam, bhssfully ignorant of
this surveillance over her movements,
took her place In tho faerc. The dvfyus