Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

The jailer concealed what annoy
ance he felt. In his way he was
| just as capable an actor as she was.
| The accuracy of her description
startled him, for the affair had been
carried out so adroitly that he had
been positive that until her real cap
! tor appeared she would be totally in
the dark regarding his identity. And
here she had hit it off in less than a
dozen words. Oh, well, 1t did not
matter now. She might try to make
it unpleasant for his employer. but
he doubted the ultimate success of
her attempts However, the matter
was at an end so far as he was con-
! cerned.
"Have you thought what this
means? 1t is abduction. 1t is a
crime you have committed punisha-
bic by long Imprisonment"
Il have been mademoiselle's jailer,
not her abductor. And when one is
poor and in need of money!" He
shrugged
Il will give you thousand francs
for the name and address of the man
~ no lIlSJlSdlGu ltllS
All, he thought; then she wasn't so
sure? 81 told you the name, made
moiselle. AS for his address l dare
not give it, not for ten thousand
francs Besides, | have said that there
has been a mistake"
For whom have / been mistaken %
"Who but Monsieur Champeaux's
wife, mademoiselle, who is not in her
right mind?" with inimitable sad
ness
VERY WELL" said Nora you say
that | am free. That is all 1 want,
/ freedom"
'In twenty minutes the electric
tram leaves for Paris. You will re-
call, mademoiselle' humbly, that
we have taken nothing belonging to
you. You have your purse and hat
and cloak. The struggle was most
unfortunate; but, think, mademois-
ellie, think; we thought you to be in
sane!"
Permit me to doubt that; and you
are not afraid to let me go?"
Not in the least mademoiselle. A
mistake has been made, and in telling
you to go at once, we do our best to
rectify this mistake. 1t is only five
minutes to the tram. A carriage is
at the door VIII mademoiselle be
pleased to remember that we have
treated her with the utmost cour-
tesy?"
Il shall remember everything"
ominously.
VERY good. mademoiselle. You will
be in Paris before nine" With this
he bowed and backed out of the room
as though Nora had suddenly made
distinct ascension in the scale of
Importance.
"Waitr she called.
His face appeared in the doorway
again.
"Do you know who / ann"
"Since this morning, mademoiselle."
THAT is all"
Free! Her veins tingled with
strange exultation. He had lost his
courage and had become afraid of
the consequences. Free! Monsieur
ChampeauX indeed! Cowardice was
new development in his character.
He had been afraid to come. She
drank the tea, but did not touch the
toast or fruit. There would be time
enough for breakfast when she ar
rived in Paris. Her hands trembled
violently as she pinned on her hat
and she was not greatly concerned
as to the angle. She snatched up her
purse and cloak. and sped out into
the street. A phaeton awaited her.
1.-The tram" she said.
Eyes, Madamoiselle."
"And go quickly" She would not
feel safe until she was in the tram
A face appeared at one of the win
dows. AS the vehicle turned the cor
ner, the face vanished; and perhaps
that particular visage disappeared
forever A gray wig came Oft, the
little gray side-whiskers, the bushy
grey eyebrows, revealing a clever
face, not more than thirty, cunning
but humorously cunning and any
thing but Scoundrelly. The painted
scar aslant the nose was also OBJ
liberated With haste the man thrust
the evidences of disguise into trav-
eling-bag, ran here and there through
the rooms, all bare and unfinished
save the one with the bars and the
kitchen which contained two cots
and some cooking utensils. Nothing
of Importance had been left behind.
He locked the door and ran all the
way to the Place d'Armes, catching
the tram to Paris by q fraction of
o minute.
All very well done She would be
in Paris before the police made any
definite move. The one thing that dis-
turbed him was the thought OF the
blockhead chauffeur, who had got
drunk before his reutrn from YER
sailles. If he talked; well, he could
say nothing beyond the fact that he
had deposited the singer at the house
as directed He knew positively MOTH
ing.
The man laughed softly. A thou
sand francs apiece for him and An
tome. and no possible chance OF
| being discovered. Let the police
find the house in Versailles; let
| them trace whatever paths they
/ found: the agent would tell them, and
! honestly, that an aged man had
I rented the house for month and had
paid him in advance. What more
could the agent say? Only one bit of
| puzzlement. why hadn't the blond
stranger appeared? Who was he, in
| truth, and what had been his game?
! All this waiting and wondering, and
/ then a curt telegram of the night be-
! fore, saying, Release her." So much
! the better What his employer
motives were did not interest him
half so much as the fact that he had
a thousand francs in his pocket and
/ that all element of danger had been
done away with. True, the singer her.
| helf would move heaven and earth to
find out who had been back of the
abduction. Let her make her accu-
sa tions. He was out of it.
He glanced toward the forward
| part of the tram. There she sat, star
J ing at the white road ahead A young