Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-02

MIN. Ihere OmlnOuS
posefulness about the great international spy that
seemed to his follower thing loaned from some-
thing tremendously evil.
But Loubeques thoughts were upon the girl,
Lucille, who had thwarted him so many times
he was only just beginning to realize that Destiny
was working in her behalf protecting her from
him, urging her on to the desperate chances she
had already taken, giving her courage and conf
dence to go even further than she had already.
Was it possible that he could fail, could be
beaten by this pretty slip of GIRL no more than
out of her teens; he, who, judging nations to be
stronger than the weakest Individual had
brought about the wreck of nations he, who had
worked through the civilized and uncvilized world
to prepare himself for his great act of vengeance
and always worked successfully, should finally deal
the eliminating blow against his enemy only to
find this fragile Lucille than counteracting
his sturdiest efforts?
Swiftly he reviewed the succession of events
which had followed the placing of the papers and
orders of her father in his hands by the hiey-
ing butler-accomplice. Aboard the Empress he
had been justified in thinking himself clear of
any possibility of failure when Lucille appeared
to confront him, conquering the distance between
the liner and the shore by the aeroplane which
was being used at the post for army maneuvers
His destruction of the wireless outfit had re-
acted against himself, hurting its flaming finger
against him and rendering him helpless. And in
this state, out of this heplessness, had grown a
situation which made it possible for the girl Luz
cille, to nurse him and eventually discover the
location of the missing papers. When the mighty
liner took fire and recourse was had to the life
boats, only his marvellous nerve and purposeful-
ness had made it possible for him to find place
beside the girl and, with his hands practically
upon the papers once more, Nature had stepped
in and crushed the boat against the burning
vessel bearing her from out his reach. An atom
upon that world of endless water, what superior
being had decreed that she be saved from death
what power had guided friendly native feet to-
ward her and saved her from the cruel, black
jungle? Was it not strength greater than his
own that looked over her He shook his shou-
ders irritably, ashamed for the weakness that had
made him admit of such question rising in his
brain.
Though Destiny, Fate, Crcumstance-call it
what he would-appeared upon her side, it could
not always be wakeful in her behalf. But he--he,
Hugo Loubeque, had been wakefu thirty-nine
years, his eye never off the man he hated and the
revenge he sought Though Nature conspired in
her behalf, he, by his own indomitabe will had
fought down the ocean, had discovered the girl,
and was so close to the papers he only had but
to reach out his hands to gain them.
But how-how was the question that per-
picked and annoyed him? Times, in pondering it.
ing them from her by sheer force. But always
there her face, the face of her mother whom
he had loved, still loved in memory, to rise up
and deter him. No, she must be tricked into dis
closure of the precious documents herself
That she carried them upon her person he
knew. The scheme he had worked out through
the evil-eyed native he had picked up in the
jungle and frightened into ,superstitious awe and
implicit obedience had shown him that much
The big snake working his sinister length through
the thatched roof of her hut had frightened her
away sufficiently long time for him to make
such search as permitted of no hiding place
for them. The papers upon her person, the
papers and the diary of his life which he desired
no less. And there small time to spare
Yes, he must move swiftly. He must strike
now while she taking stock of her desperate
situation while she nourished the belief that his
two preceding failures would be followed by
lull, respite. The papers upon her per-
son-that much he knew. His whole nature re-
volted at the idea of searching her for them
She, herself, must be forced to give them I'D
and the only possible way of doing this, he knew
was to frighten her by some such immediate peril
as would dwarf them before the instructive
thought of self-preservation
Long he pondered the situation. his great
body bulking in its shadow across the hut, his
face stern, imperturbabe, betraying none of the
emotions dominating his very heart and soul his
eyes great pools of nl<y blaclness, staring always
before him, unwinking and fathomless before the
concentration he had placed upon himself.
His native had brought him word of the way
lucille had saved the Chiefs daughter from death
and in consequence been presented with the
sacred amulet of the country He realized that
the ignorant savages regarded her as something
in the nature of deity. Had it not been for that
the papers would be his. This was another
thing he must take into consideration while weav-
ing his plot. They would permit no harm to be-
fall her SO long she remained with them
Night had long since fallen when he stirred
ON his motionless position, before the sombre