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CHAPTER xx-(continued.o

You allude to the fortunate acct
dent that enabled me To re-
turn the lost necklace to her majesty.
/ ~presulne?" Prue replied, seating her
self and ~negligently pointing with her
fan tn a sufficiently distant chair. Il
assure YOU ] deem myself most happy
in rendering Il service. which has been
only too highly appreciated. but / can
not lay claim to brilliancy. for l was
hut a passive instrument"
The briliiancy I refer to. dear Wis
countess. was not so much the for
tunate accident as the ready wit by
which YOU turned so compromising an
adventure to sue good %ccoun said
Sir Godfrey significantly.
The challenge of his tone and words
was unmistakable and Prue responded.
with more spirit h wisdom.
You u speak more plainly if YOU
wish to be understood" she answered..
Compromising adventures, you know
very we'll, are not rare In my expe-
ricnce-or yours"-she laughed rather
to good account. Now, the accident
that gave h queens necklace into
INV hands
Was the happy result of a little visit
to Newgate.' interposed Sir Godfrey.
with yelled insolence. why beat about
snow who I'VE % the necklace
when he was warned. by you, of the
danger of keeping it. and how It carle
about that he was lucky enough to
escape before the soldiers arrived to
arrest him"
What in the world are you talking
bout Sir Geoffrey?" she cried. With
rather over-acted bewilderment.
What Is every one talking about to-
day, but the madcap ~viscountess. who
coaxed the highwaylnan out of the
stolen necklace, and being caught in
Tim tr2v that woo timed fnv. P0hin
Freenantle, circumvented the soldiers,
co2ened h Duchess of Marlborough
and bcguiled the Queen Majesty. Am
] not right in congratulating you on
such q brilliant series of achieve
ments?"
My dear Sir Godfrey. you have
mistaken your vocation she laughed.
With such an imagination you ought
to have been, not a member of Parlia-
ment. bu a poet! j am quite inter-
ested in this surely there is
more OF it?"
Considerably more" he went on.
lowering his voice and drawing his
chair closer to her. are those
who say the beautiful shepherdess in
close conversation with a masker in
red, at the ball; and who now know
that he was no other than Robin Free
mantle in the borrowed plumes of
Beachcombe. You have enemies. fair
Prudence-men you have Tilted and
women you have excelled in wit and
beauty-and by some of these you were
seen. in company with the Red Dom
inc. very nea the queens tiring-roonl,
from which the necklace was stolen.
Can you wonder that when a story is
bruited about that Lady Prudence
Brooke. in dead Of night. was discov-
cred with the necklace in her posses
sion. in the place where Robin Free
mantle vas looked for, these good peo-
pie should compare notes about hel
ladyship's latest exploit, and place
their own construction pom it,"
And you, Sir Geoffrey?" she asked
her thoughtful eyes upon his, "wha'
construction do you place upon THU
curious rodomontade""
Obi" he laughed softly: Il hold al
the clews, DO It seems less Of a 70,
domontade to me than. perhaps. T.
others. I alone know OF the little cere
mony in Newgate. which explains ALL
"Oh! u explains all. does it," h re