The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-27
CONTINUED From Saturday,
Copyright. 1909
By7 Dodd. Mead & Company.


At the first glance Shirley had a
faint suspicion that likewise she knew
that face; then she looked again and
for a moment she was startled. mo,
1t can't be possible that AT that
instant the stranger looked up and
dispelled her doubts. She was face
TO face with the man who had niled
her thoughts for the last two hours.
And SO thai is Billy Murgatroyd!'
she murmured to herself. He was the
same Murgatroyd she had known, but
different from the man she had pic
tured. And she would have gone on
indefinitely criticising his looks but
she was suddenly interrupted by the
sound of voices. 1t was Broderick
talking, his big voice filling the room.
Shirley listened attentively.
Blamed good place to get away from
the gang" he was saying, and there
was a satisfied look on his face as he
glanced about the room.
While Broderick odered the dinner,
Murgatroyd leaned Onward and made
some remark. Instantly something in
the tone of his voice, or 1t may have
been his manner told the girl that the
relations between the two men were,
In a degree. confidential. The back of
Broderiek assumed the attitude of a
political adviser. Shirley observed that
he g~esticulated a great deal and often
wiped his brow with a handkerchief
which, even at a distance. she could
see was over-embroidered, but in none
of his movements so far was there the
slightest suggestion OF hostility.
And ms is the use that Murgatroyd
has made Of poor Mirlam's money!
SHE cried 20 herself. He's bribing the
enemy."
Shirley bowed her head In same.
Presently she lifted It again. for be-
lore tlIeIr dinner had arrived and while
Hrddeflck talked on, Murgatroyd rose
and walked for a brief while up n
down behind the table. and, unseen
herself. she scrutinized him closely.
The first thing that her woman's eye
noted was that M~urgatroyd was not in
evening clothes, he wore a business
suit, not altogether new. which to her
thinking, needed pressing; it locke as
IL he had lived In 1t from daybreak 10
daybreak. He was no stouter than
when she had last seen him; If any
thing he appeared to have lost flesh,
yet his figure still retained Its strong
but fine lines. And Shirley was forced
to acknowledge to herself that 1t had
lost none of its grace. But on his face
was the dun flush that results from the
strain of enthusiasm, of excitement, OF
overwork. He looked tagged out, and
his eyes were restless, though they
glowed with steadiness of purpose.
From Time TO time he glanced quickly
about him, taking in every detail OF
the room. studying the people in it,
and even peering through the palms
that hid the girl, as though he Won
dered what interloper had a the
temerity TO rob him of his lair. One
thing. however, impressed her more
than anything else: his demeanor
toward Broderick. There was within
IL not a particle of that confidential
concession hat Broderick seemed ever
ready to offer; on the contrary, it sug-
gested a suspicious watchfulness. Muir
gatroyd had every appearance OF being
a Jealous. Jealous t~aslSmaster who had
set himself over a paid but uncertain
servant.
And Broderick-only once did Brod-
erick turn his head so that Shirley
might see his face; but in that one in
slant the girl OWNED what she believed
to be the situation. the true force Of
the drama that was being played by the
two men. Broderick's face, glance, his
whole being, indicated the cunning ofthe
man; he was treachery p~ersonihed. at
least. so he appeared to Shirley; and
she told herself, as she sat there n
studied him, that anyone with half an
eye could see that he was hoodwink-
ing the man opposite him.
"Murgatroyd was being fooled"
There was no doubt about it. The at
titude of both men expressed II; but,
more than anything else, Murgatroyd's
air OF }fevsrish endeavor. of expendi-
t,tre OF energy. confirmed 1t. With
Miriam's thousands he had paid for
something hat had not been delivered.
Frederick had taken the m-on9v-every
dollar Of 1t, of that Shirley Was thor
oughly conyinced-and had given moth