The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-11-07

"My Name Is Not NY Own, but Il
Must Serve Me to Ny End"
with loathing and my nights with hell
eternal, after all these years.
There is every hope / said, Save
the hopes Of youth-the hope of a
woman's love, and Of that happiness
which comes through love. l am a
man past thirty, madame-thirty-fye,
/ believe my dossier makes it. 1t has
taken me fifteen years to bury my
youth. Let us talk Of Mornac."
Eyes, we will talk of Mornac," she
said, gently.
So with infinite pains / went back
and traced for her the career OF Buck
hurst, sparing her nothing. she sat
%motionless, her face like cold marble,
as | carefully gathered the threads OF
the plot and gently twitched that n
which galvanized the mask of Mornac.
"MornacY she stammered, aghast.
/ showed her why Buckhurst desired
to come to Paradise; l showed her
why Mornac had Initiated her into the
mysteries of my dossier, taking that
internal precaution, although he had
every reason to believe he had me
practically in prison, with the keys in
his W pocket.
She told me that Buckhurst came
to her house here in Paradise early In
September; that while in Paris, pom
dering on what l had said, she had
determined to withdraw herself abso
lutely from all organized sociaIistic as.
~sociations during the war; that she
believed she could do the greatest
good by living a natural and cheerful
life, by maintaining the position that
birth and fortune had given her, and
by using that portion and fortune for
the benefit Of those less fortunate.
This she had told Buckhurst, and
the rascal appeared to agree with her
so thoroughly that, when Doctor Del
mont and Professor Tavernier ar
rived, they also %applauded the choice
she made Of Buckhurst as distributor
Of money, food and clothing to the
provincial hospitals, now crowded to
s~uffocation with the wreck OF battle.
Then a strange thing occurred. Doc
tor belmont and Professor -avernier.
disappeared without any explanation.
They had started for st. Nazaire with
a sum Of money-twenty thousand
francs, locked in the private strong
box of the co~untess-to be distributed.
among the soldiers Of Chanzy; and.
they had never returned.
In the light Of what she had learned
from me. she feared that Buckhurst
had won them over.
But" / said, patiently, you have
not yet told me where he Isl
Il don't know" she said. "A week
ago a dreadful creature came here to
see Buckhurat; they went across the
moor toward the semaphore and stood
for a long while looking at the cruiser
which is anchored Oh Groix. Then
Buckhurst came back and prepared for
d journey. He said he was going to
Tours to confer with the Red Cross. |
don't know where he went. He took
all the-money for tho general Red
Cross fund"
When did he say he would return
"He said IN two weeks.
THAT Is good news ] said, gayly
But tell me one thing; Do you trusI
Mademoiselle Elyen7s
"Yes, indeed-indeed!" she cried
horriHed.
Very well,g said I. smiling. "Onll
for the sake Of caution-extTa, AMI
even perhaps useless caution-sa.
nothing OF this nhtter to her, nor K
any living soul save me.
II promise" she aaid, family.
Nov that Mornac Is not '
pawn In the5game-ao. indeed, | begll
to believe he never really was, but ha
: been from the first q dupa Of Buck
hurst-it 10 tho duty Of every homes
man to watch BnakErrst and war
? tho AUTHORITIES tnat ne possibly a q
slgns on the crown jewels OF Francs
which that cruiser yonder Is all read
} 10 bear away 70 Saigon.
How no proposes 70 attempt sue
7 q robbery ! can't imagine. / don.
want to %denonnce him to Qenerl
ehanzy d AprelIea do palladine. b.
cause the conspiracy ia too wldel