White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-30

down a bit. where's the girl2'
In her home. Where did you
suppose she would be, after that
botchwork of letting me go to dc
one thing while you had in mind an
other? And an ordinary pair of cut.
Threats, at that
The thought came to me after
you left. knew you'd recognize the
men and understand. see no rea
son why 1t didn't work"
1T would have been all right If
you had consulted a clarivoyant."
What the deuce do you mean by
Ithat?' Braine demanded roughly.
1T means that then you would
have learned your friend the re-
porter was to arrive upon the scene
at its most vital moment
What. Norton?"
Yes. The trouble is with you,
you have been SO successful all these
years that you have grown overcon-
h1Shr 4 I'll you that thciS 10 d uco-
perately shrewd man somewhere back
of all this. Mark me, / do not be-
lieye Hargreave is dead. He is In
hiding. 1t may be near by. He may
have dropped from the balloon before
it left land. The man they picked
up may be Orts, the aeronaut. The
five thousand might have been his
fee for rescuing Hargreave. Here is
the greatest thing we've ever been
up against; and you start in with
every day methods"
Little woman. don't let your
tongue run away with you too far
I'm not the least bit afraid of
you. Leo. You need me, and it has
never been more apparent than at
this moment"
"All right. I fell by the wayside
this trip. Truthfully. l realized it
five minutes after the men were
gone. The only clever thing | did
was to keep the mask on my face.
They cant come back at me. But
the thing looked SO easy; and il
would have worked but for Norton's
appearance.
/ You all but compromised me.
That butler worries me a little. II er
expression lost its anger and grew
thoughtful. Hes always about
somewhere. Do you think H~argreaye
took him into his confdenee?"
Cant tell. He's been watched
straight for forty hours. He hasn't
mailed a lie tier or telephoned to any
place but the grocery. There have
been no kilograms. Some one in that
house knows where the money is,
and it's ten to one that it will be the
girl"
she looks enough like Katrina to
be her ghost"
Braine went over to the window
and stared up at the stars.
You have made a good impress
SION Oh the sliA- WIN HIS Odth SIN
toward her.
Il had her in my arms"
"Olga. my hat is of to you" turn
ing. now that his face was again in
repose. Your very frankness re
garding your relationship will pull
the wool over their eyes. OF course
they'll make inquiries and they'll
find out that you haven't lied. It's
perfect. Not even that newspaper
weasel will see anything wrong. To.
ward you they will eventually ease
up and you can act without even
dreaming your part in the business
We must not be seen in public any
more. This butler may know where
stand even though he canpot prove
il. Now, I'm going TO tell you some
thing. Perhaps you've long since
guessed il. Katrina was mine till
Hargreaye-never mind what hi:
name was then--till Hargreave came
into the fold. So sure of her was
that | used her as a lure TO bring him
to us. She fell in love with him
but too late to warn him. | had the
satisfaction of seeing him east heI
aside. curse her. and leave her. In
one thing she fooled US all. | never
knew of the child till you told me-
He paused to light a cigaret.
"Hargreave was madly in love
with her. He cursed her. but he
came back to the house to forgive
her. to find that she had been seized
by the secret police and entombed in
the fortress. | had my revenge. II
was | who sent in the information
practically bogus. But in Russia
they never question. they act and
forget. So he had a daughter"
He began pacing the floor. his