Putnam patriot., 1913-10-10

and she talked a great deal about his skin and insight into such maladies.
 At New York my cousin Richard met us and literally took possession of us. Without my knowledge, the cruellooking doctor was included in the party l did not discover t until we were on the train. bound. as sup posed. for my old home just beyond Buffalo. It was some time since l had been in New York. and naturally did not notice much which way we were going The fact was. every plan was anticipated, and was told that all arrangements had been made. Mrs Chambray began to treat me like little child and say: You see, we are going to take good care of you, dear. so don't worry about a thing"
 T had taken the drawing-room com partment. not so much because I had headache, as told them, as because I wanted to get away from their so- ciety. My cousins marked devotion became painful to me. Then, too. the attentions and constant watchfulness of the disagreeable ooctor became most distasteful.
 We had been sitting on the ob- servation platform, and it was late in the afternoon, when l said was going to lie down and the two men got up to go into the smoker In spite of my protests. Mrs. Chambray insisted upon following me in, to see that was per fectly comfortable. She fussed around me, covering me up and offering smell ing salts and eau de cologne for my head let her fuss, thinking that was the quickest way to get rid of her closed my eyes, and she said she would go out to the observation plat form l lay still for awhile, thinking about her and how much l wanted to get rid of her. She acted as if she had been engaged to stay with me for ever, and it suddenly became very plain to me that l ought to have a talk with her and tell her that should need her services no longer after this journey was over. It might make a difference to her if she knew it at once, and perhaps now would be as good time to talk as any. for she was probably alone out on the platform. l got up and made a few little changes in my dress, for it would soon be time to go into the dining-car. Then went out to the observation platform, but she was not there. The chairs were all empty. so l chose the one next to the railing, away from the car door, and sat down to wait for her. think ing we would soon be back.
 We were going so fast. through pretty bit of country It was dusky and restful out there so leaned back and closed my eyes. Presently 1 heard voices approaching above the rumble of the train, and, peeping around the doorway saw Mrs. Cham bray, Richard, and the doctor coming from the other car kept quiet. hop ing they would not come out, and they did not. They settled down near the door, and ordered the porter to put up table for them to play cards.
 The train began to slow down, and finally came to halt for a longer time on sidetrack, waiting for another train to pass. l heard Richard ask where I was. Mrs. Chambray said laugh Ngly that l was safely asleep Then, before I realized it, they began to talk about me. It happened there were no other passengers in the car Richard asked Mrs. Chambray if she thought had any suspicion that was ha ,ty1, in ba GuI1 Not the slightest, and then by de- grees there floated to me through the open door the most diabolical plot had ever heard of. l gathered from it that we were on the way to Philadel- phia, wcald reach there in little while, and would then proceed to a place near Washington, where the doc tor had a private insane asylum, and where was to be shut up. They were going to administer some drug that would make me unconscious when l was taken of the train. If they could not get me to take it for the headache I had talked about, Mrs. Chambray was to manage to get it into my food or give it to me when asleep. Mrs. Chambray. it seems, had not known the entire plot before leaving Europe. and this was their first chance of tell ing her They thought I was safely in my compartment, asleep, and she had gone into the other car to give the sig nal as soon as she thought she had me where would not get up again for a while.
 They had arranged every detail Richard had been using as models the letters I had written him for the last three years, and had constructed set of love letters from me to him, in per feet imitation of my handwriting. They compared the letters and read snatches of the sentences aloud. The letters referred constantly to our be- ing married as soon as I should return from abroad. and some of them spoke of the money as belonging to us both. and that now it would come to its own without any further trouble.
 Gro Be Continued).