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resting with obvious sense of amuse-
ment upon his wrathful face. No temp
tation? And what of a peerage and a
fortune lost. that could only be re-
No pr~ovocation? And what of the
brother and sister turned u of the
old home? The good. supplemented
man had sense enough to see that
here. II he wished to speak for Luke,
he was on the wrong track
What questions" he said abruptly,
does luke not answer satisfactorily
How he spent certain ours of yes
terday evening""
lie was dancing attendance upon
Louisa and me-"
"Oh. was he? Well. that's satisfac-
tory enough. At what time did you
part from him?"
legation where we We're dining"
"At what time was that?"
Eight o'clock dinner"
But he was not dining at the Danish
legation?"
NO. He came and fetched us again
soon after H."
That's right, but between whiles?"
Yes. Between 10 and soon after Up"
"Well-I suppose don know-yes,
of course. 1 do! What a stupid ass l
am. Luke told me himself thai he was
going to see his uncle at the Some
thing club in Shaftesbury avenue
The Veteran's?"
Yes, that's 1.-THE Veterans Luke
wanted to persuade Radcliffe to go
abroad for the benefit of his health
Algeciras-that was it,"
:"Quite so,'' rejoined Sir Thomas dry
lNo' and Luke de Mountford went to
the Veterans club in Shaftesbury we
nue., n he asked to see Lord Rad
clyffe, who was a more or less regular
habitue at that hour. On being told
that Lord Radcliffe was not there that
evening, but that MIR. de Mountford
was In the smoking room, Luke elected
to go in and presumably to have a
talk with his cousin
II didn't know that" said Colonel
Harris.
mo, but we did. Let me tell you
what followed. The hall porter Of the
club showed Luke into the smoking
room, and less than five minutes later
he heard loud and angry words pro-
ceeding from that room. That a quar-
rel was going on between the two cou-
sins was of course obvious. One or
on the noise, and one gentleman act
ually opened the smoking room door
to see what was going n He seems
to have heard the words 'blackguard'
and 'beggar' pleasingly intermingled
and flying from n young man to
lilC Oli1CI. IulS WllIleSS KNEW 1UlLlp
de M%ountford very well by sight, but
he had never seen Luke. But remem-
Der that Luke denies neither the in
terview nor the quarrel. The former
lasted close on an hour, and Lord Rad
clyffe's journey to Algeciras was the
original topic of discussion. At about
9 O'Clock LUX emerged from the smok-
ing room. The hall porter saw him.
He was then very pale and almost tot
tered as he walked. Men do get at
times intoxicated with rage, you know,
WILL"
Il know that. and I can well imag-
inc wha happened at that interview.
Radcliffe had become such a confound-
ed fool that he would not move or do
anything without this Philips permits
sion; and Luke was determined to get
him down to Algeciras at once. As
Philip was at the club, he thought that
he would tackle him then and there"
Quite so. He did tackle him. And
equally of course the two men quar-
Relied"
But hang it all, ones not going to
murder every man with whom one
quarrels."
stop a moment. Will. AS you say,
one does not murder every man with
whom n quarrels. But you must i'd
init that this is altogether an excep-
tional case. There was more than n
mere quarrel between these two men.
There was deadly enmity-justiied en-
nifty, I'll own, on Luke's side. We have
already come acrOss-it was not very
dffficult-two o. three of the servants
who were in Lord R~adclyffe's house be-
fore Luke and his brother and sister
were finally turned out of it. They
all have tales to tell Of the terrible
rows which used to go on in the house
etween h cousins. You. Will, must
know how Luke hated this Philip de
Mountford?"
Again Colonel Harris was silent.
What was the use of denying such an
obvious truth?
"You wanted" continued the other
man quietly, ito hear the truth, Will,
and you've got it. For Louisa's sake,
for all u sakes, in fact, l made up
my mind to tell o all-or most-that
is officially known to me at this mo-
ment. You must get Louisa out OF
town at onco-take her abroad II you
can. and keep English newspapers
away from her."
She won't come" said Colonel Har-
ris firmly.
"oh. yes she will, If you put it the
right way
Which saying on the part of the
acute chief of our criminal investiga-
ton department was but a further
prOof-if indeed such proofs were still
needed nowadays-of how little clever
men know of commonplace women.
The case will be extremely unpleas-
ant" resumed Sir Thomas, who was
quite unconscious Of the ignorance
which he had just displayed. 1T will
be hateful for you, and quite impos-
sible for Louisa
always supposing.' retorted the
other, that Luke is guilty. which
neither I nor Louisa will admit for a
moment"
That" rejoined Sir Thomas, "is as
you please"
He put down his cigar, crossed one
leg over the other, leaned back in his
chair, and folded his tapering hands
together. putting finger to finger. with