Putnam patriot., 1909-12-17
CHAPTER XXXIv.

the evening glow looking out over the tranquil seq that crept up and licked the foot of the ! ciin. II was September. Five months
 had passed since the Kings Own steamed away from the harbor of Ara- tat. The new dispensation was in full eYeet During the long. sickening
 weeks that preceded the coming of the syndicate Hollipgsworth Chase toiled faithfully. resolutely. for the restors- ton of order and system among ths demoralized people of Japat
 With the transfer of the eompany's
 business his work was finished. Two young men from Sir Johns were now settled in Arafat as legal advisers to the islanders. Chase having declined to serve longer In that capacity
 He was now waiting for the steamer
 which was to take him to Cape Town on his way to England and home. l The chateau was closed and iB the hands Of il small arnfy of caretakers. The three widows of Jacob yon Blitz were now married fo separate and dis i tinct husbands all of whom retained their places as heads of departments If the chateau. proving that courtship lad mol been confined to the white | people during the closing days of the l siege
 | The head Of the bank was Oscar | Arnheimer. Mr Bowies having been l hepesed because his methods were | even more obsolete than his coat of nrmor.
 Selm disposed of hls lawful interest in the corporation to Ben Ali. the new 1 cadI. and was waiting to accompany his master to America. II may be well fo add that the deul did not Include 1 fhe transfer of Neenah She was not for saIe. said Selim to Ben Ali. l It was of Mr. Bowles that the three persons were talking as they stood in The evening glow.
 | "Yes. Selim." said the tall man fin | fannels. he's sort of old dog Tray ever faithful. but not the right kind You don't happen to know anything of old dog Tray. do you7 No? l thought not. Nor you. Neenahl We'll. he was"-
 Was be the one who was poisoned at the chateau. excelleney2" asked Neenah timidly. l No. my dear.'' he replied soberly. If l remember my history. he died in l the seventeenth century or thereabsuts l tt's really of no consequence. however Any good. faithful dog will serve my | purpose. What I want to impress I f., Ia. .4 faithful old dog to survive Il change | of masters. IL isn't human nature-or dog nuture. either I'm glad that you | are convinced. Neenah. But please | don't tell Sahib Bowes that he is a dog"
 ..Oh, no, excellencyF she cried ear | nestly.
 "She is very close mouthed sahib.a added Selim with conviction. "Wen take Bowles to England with us next week went on Chase dream. fly We'll leave Japat to take care of itself"
 He lighted fresh cigarette, tenderly lingering 1t before applying the match.
 'sfll smoke one of hers tonight. Se- , Inn See' l keep them apart from the others In this little gold case. smoke them only when.l am thinking | Now. run In l want To be aione.' They left him. and he threw himself l upon the green sod. his back to tree. | his face toward the distant chateau, I Hours afterward the faithful Selim came out to tell him that it was bed I far stf II. l ting there, looking across the moonlit l dat in the direction of a place in the | hills where once he had dwet in mar ! ble halls.
 "Selim." he said, arising and laying his hand upon his servants shoulder, | his voice unsteady with finality, "l have decided. after all. to go to Paris. l Ne Will live there. Seiim. Do you un- dcrstnnd2" with strange fierceness, great exultaton mastering him. We are to live in Parlss'
 To hlmself all that night he was saying. "l must see her again. shall see her,''
 A thousand times he had read and rcread the letter that Lady Depping- ham had written to him just before the ceremony in the cathedral at Thor berg. He knew every word that It contained. He could read it Tn the dark. She had said that Genevra was going Into hell that no hereafter could surpass fin horrors. And that
 was ages ago. 1t seemed to hlm. Ge- nevra had been wife for nearly three months-fhe wife of a man she ioathed She was calling In her heart for him to come to her She was sui ferlng In that unspeakable hell. All this he had come to feel and shudder over in hls nnsneakable loneliness.
 He would so to her. There could be no wrong In loving her, in being near her. in standing by her in those hours of desperation.
 A copy of London newspaper stuffed away in the reeeeses of his trunk. dated June ca had come to him by post IL contained the telegraphic
 details of the brilliant wedding In Thorterg. Every royal family tu Eu rope was represented. The list of no ble names seemed endless to him. the flower of the worlds artstocracy
 How he hated them.
 The next meraing Selim aroused him from his ttful sleep bringing the news that a strange vessel had arrived nN Arasst t,hsSs> ruxhed ossf unan his