The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-07
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CHAPTER XI.-Continued.

CHAPTER XI.-Continued.
The girl looked grave, and mad
no reply until she had opened tn
envelope. The message it hel
merely said:
81 have found your bracelet
Please leave word where l may de
liver it. Hope you have had 6
pleasant run. Newman
She read that out to Fanchette
and then had to confess her OWL
encounter with the cars owner, sc
that, u view of his unexpected
urhanity under grave grievance
neither had any fault to find with
the other. and both were inwardly
prepossessed by the tact he had
displayed in a position which could
not but have been most aggravat
ing to him.
Fanchette's fears thus finally dis
sipated, she even ventured to jus
tify herself in her evil-doing, and
the girl did not contradict her as
sertion that, in any case, all had
turned out for the very best. She
herself was thinking of the strong
sun-tanned face, of the fearless
but very appealing brown eyes she
had left behind on the beach, won
dering what the man who was al
ways successful would say IL he
could hear her own sad story Of
failure. And she did not crumple
the telegram up, but kept it smooth
and carried it to the hotel with
her.
She drove along Twenty-nintf
street to the Martha Washington
and, leaving Fanchette to look te
the baggage, sat down at a desl
to pen reply. Fanchette tool
that and the car to the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, where she entrusted
both to the guardian of the TWEEN
ty-fourth street entrance, who will
ingly took charge of them after he
had recovered from his first aston
ishment at sight of such an un
usual chauffeur. When she go
back to Twenty-ninth street, she
found her mistress porting over {
steamship guide.
There's a boat for Havre to
morrow at ten, Fanchette," salt
the girl, and I've booked tive
berths.'
YES, ma'mselle," answered Fan
Ghetto submissively, but also il
earnest approval. And her hear
was filled with gratitude to the
man whose forbearance had thu!
enabled her to snatch her lamt
from the very jaws of the wolf
1t would no doubt have gratifiet
Quaintance greatly to know how hi
had risen in her esteem.
But Quaintance was in quite an
other mood with regard to her
And who shall blame him? For
While he still stood, blinking, be
wildered. within the thicket IL
whose safe keeping he had left hi
car, a hundred ugly suspicious in
vaded his mind. The worst of these
was that he might have been mis-
taken in his estimate of the girl.
He recalled each circumstanc,
copn ected with her, from the mo
ment when he had first noticed hel
on Fifth avenue, to her hasty noe
of concurrence in the errand which
had so, recently sundered them, ant
givenh her opportunity to escape
him. He did not forget the rat
faced 'Frenchman. or Mrs. Smiths
obvious constraint with himself
nor yet the individual he had seer
seeking ingress to the bungalow.
Looking facts in the face hi
found himself minus a costly tour
ing car and round sum in cash
AS sole Offset to which he hat
acquired a plain gold bracelet, en-
graved with the name "Dagmar.
That was what hurt him most-th'
idea that 'Dagmar"-
He stood there frowning vexedly
biting his lip, and his eyes lit OF
an envelope affixed to tree-trunl
by means of woman's hatpin. L
was addressed to himself, and h
was soon possessed of Fanchette''
impassioned appeal, 1t left him IL
gravest perplexity, quite undecided
how he should act, for five full min
utes before he came to the con
clusion that he could not very wei