Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

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in the same way her own father was-but what
of that? Alone, with the ruby necklace. she had
sufficient means to do as she pleased and be per-
fectly safe from any danger?
But was she safe from any danger? Had she
not been in danger before-yes, on the train.
And the reason was because Thompson knew she
held the ruby necklace. Thompson was one to be
feared and respected. He had well nigh proven
himself able TO cope with the mighty Loubeque
himself.
She unlocked the door very softly and slipped
down the v~estibuled aisle. She had reasoned out
the answer. Thompson had escaped Loubeque
and, foiled in his attempt to gain the necklace,
was still one of the pursuit.
Swiftly she stepped down the aisle. through
car after car until she halted abruptly and
moved back again. For, doing against a pillow
in the tourist car. a long cash over his eye rem
dering him a bit villainous looking was the but
ler-thief.
Lucille sought her compartment, her brain
a-whirl. 1t was a three cornered fight now.
Loubeque to retain the papers and to protect her
in her wealth; Thompson to gain the ruby neck
y lace and revenge himself upon his master. But
she-Lucille only sought the papers. Nothing else
counted as against that. And L~oubeque held the
papers.
Let the three cornered fight go on. All the
parties to it save herself had double motives.
She wanted but the papers that would lead to
the fulfllment of her hearts desire. Nothing
could divert her from that. And she was so close
to them-so close-so close that she must win.
CHAPTER XXXxvI.
IVY " N"'''"N "t'"t
LUCILLE thrilled with inexpressible delight
when she found herself once more in San
Francisco. Somehow, it seemed a harbinger of
good that she should come back to the place
where last she had seen her sweetheart She
imagined him rowing the city, using every means
in his power to find her. She knew he had read
Alright the message she shot him from the win
dow of Loubeques mysterious house. that he had
led the assault upon that house, and that not
even the secret exit made by the occupants could
divert him from his purpose of finding her. All
woman at that thought. she fought against the
natural instinct TO hunt him up and rely upon
him. She had a far better chance than he with
Loubeque. She only caught herself hoping that
the international spy would return to his home.
She knew the hope was foolish as it immed-
lately turned out to be. Not for the cunning
brain of such a one as the spy to go back to a
place from which he had been driven and which
he had every reason to believe would be under
surveillance. Instead Of doing this he promptly
took a motor to the St. Francis, relying upon the
very audacity of his move to protect him.
Lucille followed him quietly, almost meekly.
They had but little to say to each other. Both
knew the others thoughts too well to waste time
in words; both knew the others relentlessness
of purpose. And, more than anything and every
thing else, both knew that the fight between
them must be settled very shortly, that any move
must be made quickly.
Lucille slipped out of the hotel her second
day, undecided as to what to do and caring little
to plan or plot. Before this opportunities had pre-
scented themselves, Providential opportunities
which no one could have foreseen. Only at such
times had she been enabled to make a s~atisfac-
tory move. And she felt convinced that the very
justice of her cause would permit her TO win
when the last hands were dealt in this strange
game. And, always there was Thompson to be
reckoned with.
Thompson was the man who had been capa-
BILE enough to be the right hand of Hugo Lou
beque; Thompson was the one who, when he
turned against his former master, was the one
who excited such alarm in the spy that he took
the most elaborate precautions against him;
THOMPSON was the man nnO0 whom she con-
WINGED herself with feminine intuition she must
depend. Thompson would lay open a way. And
the hate of Thompson would turn itself against
the hate of Loubeque and then her own great
Love would have its innings.
Somehow this utterly illogical, unreasonable
viewpoint upon the situation buoyed her hopes
to such an extent that she went out the great
doors of the hotel, fairly beaming with ~satisfac-
ton. And in this mood, for the first time since
leaving Manila so abruptly in the aeroplane of
Harley, her thought turned from the sweetheart
she felt was in the city to the thought of meet
ing him. And simultaneously with this thought
came q dismayed alarm.
She stopped short, the song upon her lips
frozen there as she looked down at herself. For
the first time in months an idea required to her,
an idea that seemed to have formed. a major
portion of her ideas in life before that time
clothes.
Clothes! She fairly blushed as she looked
upon the beautiful dressed women upon the
street. Clothes! Why, she looked a perfect rag
amuffin. She became frightfully self-conscious.
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her from pedestrians to her shabbiness. Uncon-
sciously her hands sought the precious necklace.
She shuddered ana drew into an areaway. Sup
pose she should meet Lieutenant Gibson here.
Would he not be a bit ashamed of her?
She speeded swiftly and f~urtively down the
street. Self-reliance had become a part of her
from her experiences but the thought of obtain
ing money was something that appalled, her. She
had never known anything of money in her life.
Things had always seemed to just come to her
without the necessity for worrying.
Resolutely she bit her lips and forced her
way through the doors of a iewelry establish
ment, fighting her resolution to the point of APP
preaching the bespectacled, important looking
man behind the counter. Somehow, she could not
repress a faint smile at sight of the glittering
baubles so temptingly outlined beneath the glass.
She found her amusement intensified by the
obvious lack of impression she made upon the
salesman as he looked her over.
AS he bent forward politely, questioning her
as to her pleasure, her hand sought the necklace
and brought it forth, laying it quietly upon the
counter.
"I wished to sell" she urmur bashfully.
The salesman stared from her to the neck
lace, his eyes growing wider and wider with be-
wilderment as he looked upon such stones as he
had never seen before in his life.
1.-THE proprietor" he muttered.
Lucille followed the direction of his pointed