Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-12-05


Of Delhi.
The powerful League of Lost
Causes had sent him upon an under
taking involving the destruction of
England's power in India He had
failed miserably, and, at the moment
Of his failure, had encountered the
eyes OF the mysterious woman who
had induced him to leave America
and to devote his millions to the pur-
poses Of the League. She had seen
his disgrace and read and reflected
the abatement In his eyes.
He loved her, this beautiful I'M
known lady of lofty rank, though, in
obedience to the command which she
had laid on hinA he had never sought
to discover her identity. He was ig-
norant even of her name. He had
believed her a parsonage of title at
the Austrian court; behold, she was
in India, an unsupported watcher of
the way in which he carried out his
mission and her mandate!
A flood OF anger and resentment
swept over him; anger against him
self, that he had been blind enough
to allow himself to be used as tool;
resentment against his friend Rosny,
the Leagues Paris secretary, that he
should have duped him so many
times by the promise of some day
meeting the girl again.
Now he would be fooled no longer.
He would seek her out, find her,
though he searched Delhi for days
he would speak face to face with her,
plead his own cause, as was the right
of every American, and stand or fall
by her answer.
It seemed madness, but 1t was a
glorious madness that enwrapped him,
enmeshing spirit and senses until
nothing seemed longer impossible to
Paul. Imagining that Mademoiselle
the only name by which he knew
her-was a visitor at the Durbar at
the invitation of some ambassador,
he haunted the railroad station for
days until the last Of the visitors had
departed, searching and scanning ev-
cry face eagerly in hope of seeing
her again But all his efforts were
to no purpose, and at last, sick at
heart, he resolved to abandon his OBJ
ject, to sever his alliance with the
League, to see Rosny no more, and
to return home to America again.
He took ship for Egypt; thence he
embarked aboard a French steamer
for Marseilles. The sun was warm,
the sky bright and cloudless. The
vessel skirted the low sand-dunes Of
the Tripoh coast preparatory to head
ing north for Malta
On the second morning the white
sides of warship appeared some
miles astern. AS the hours wore on
she began to draw nearer At last
the watchers, through their tele
scopes, could make out the italian
flag at her foremost. The French
ship turned northward being then
within half a mile of the Tripoli
shore; as she shifted her course, how
ever, gun roared from the Italian
vessel II was a blank shot, signify
ing that the liner was to heaye to
until her papers could be examined
The coast being blockaded, this or
der excited much comment, but nc
alarm, among the passengers, who
crowding the liners decks, watched
with interest the approach of the pur
suing warship. She anchored about
half mile distant and a cutter lef
her side, containing boats crew
with an officer in charge.
But an astonishing effect was pro
duced by this maneuver among 1
small fleet of Arab fishing vessels
which had been placidly sailing be
tween the liner and the shore. Al
the warship hove to they turned ant
began to scurry toward the beach
One, which had been caught between
the liner and the battleship, passed
close under the Frenchman's bow al
she beat her course landward. Paul
watching idly from the taffrail, say
two bronzed oarsmen pulling to sur
plement the power of their Tapping
SAIL and then
Seated in the bow, yelled, attiret
in white from head to foot, a womal
in Arab garb guided them, issuing
short, curt orders as they tugged a
the oars. All the blood in Pauls bod
rushed through his veins furiously a
the sight of her. It was the woma
he sought He had no doubt of Il
Loves intuition would have told hir
that, but apart from 1t there was n
mistadng that trim, slight figure, tina
imperious mien, displayed even unde
the desert VEIL
AS the boat passed under the liner
bow and scurried toward the shor
Paul hesitated no longer. Withou
q thought, actuated solely by tina
overpowering impulse which POI
sessed him, he vaulted over the tai
rail and leaped into the sea.
cry of horror went up from tn
liners decks The Arab dhow, q
though fearing some hostile design
this maneuver, redoubled its effort
to make the land AS Paul came u
he saw the taffrail crowded with e,
cited, shouting, gesticulating passel
gers, and, twenty yards in the di
lance, the flying boat Two hundre
yards from the opposite side of til
liner was the Italian cutter. AS til
officer perceived him rise to the su
face he issued an order to his nue.
and the boat, altering It's cSa
pulled directly toward him. s
Paul struck out for the shore.s7
On that triangular race he eve
looked back with establishment thi
he should have won, though bl