The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-06-05

n.y." she cried. You are going to tell
me that John is a dream. just as they
did, and that ! am not even married.
Blu / have evidence. Look" And,
pulling of her glove, she showed a we'd
ding ring upon a very pretty finger.
81 didn't doubt" began the consul
weakly.
And look" continued Mrs. Gray,
and, opeRing her reticule, she pulled
out a most convincing proof OF John in
the shape of a rank and well-colored
meerschaum pipe, with a gold band.
on which was engraved, from Doris
to "a John"
Nov do you doubt me?" she con-
tinued.
NO. said the consul briskly. "A
question or two. You are sure that
you went pack to the right hotel?"
"Of course | am cried the girl in
dignantly. That's what the police told
me. They wanted me TO inquire at
every hotel in the city. ] am absolute
ly certain-why, didn't | find Johns
pipe under the table, where 1t had
rolled, and the thieves didn't notice it
when they removed his things. o, cant
you help me? He has been kidnapped,
perhaps murdered, and | am alone
The tears came into her eyes again.
Nov, now, Mrs. Gray said the
E consul soothingly, pray don't distress
+ yourself. | am going TO probe this
mystery to the bottom. i"
He broke off as the sounds of a vio-
Il lent struggle came from the adjacent
room. and a m later the little
I clerk appeared at the door.
"Mr. Sichel! Help!" he shouted.
There is a crazed assassin want TO
enter"
u He disappeared suddenly, and the
g sound of the struggle was renewed.
An instant afterward the door burst
y open and there appeared a wildlook-
u ing figure attired in a silk hat and a
pair of pajamas, to which latter the
% clerk chung desperately.
b With a cry Of rapture Doris Gray
ran to the apparition and, laying her
head upon its shoulder, sobbed from
&c Joy.
ly John! Oh, John. it's you!" she
!! wept.
"a It's all right, Monsieur Jean. You
IS can go now" said the consul to his
secretary. Perhaps | can offer you a
OF suit of Clothes" he continued to Mr..
We Gray.
Thanks! Thanks!" painted the ap
partition. Il had an overcoat-took II
from the jailer-but l lost it en- route
no here. l knew they wouldn't dare to
y! I follow me inside this Office, over which
floats the American eagle"
En- John. What happened"
= why" said John. more calmly, "
hadn't got as far as the drug stor
before two men came up behind me
pushed me inside, gagged me, tied me
opened the door again, and pushed m
into a cab that was waiting. 1t wa
all lone so quickly that nobody say
anything except the drug store clers
Then they put me down at the door Q
a sort of big Jail. whisked me inside
and flung me into a private bedroom
with barred windows. ! lay there a
night, except when the doctor came
u feel my pulse. He tried to take N
temperature too, but l broke the the
mometer. In the morning | looked OF
and the first thing ! saw was the Stal
I and Stripes floating from this bull
ing. | knew where | was then,
when the jailer, or whoever he va
came in, | got him into a corne
knocked him down, o his overcoat
they'd taken all my clothes away-al
made for the door. Luckily it was u
locked, and so. after knocking down
~ couple of watchmen I reached you
Can such things be in a civiliz
country" exclaimed Doris. MIR. Sich
you must cable to Washington al on
You must present In ultimatum to t
Dutch government for Mr.. Ora.
clothes and cane. All in the &C
anne spiracy; drug clerk, police, hotelke'
err. clerk, matron, housekeeper, ma
in. what does it mean? Is this a natl
Of lunatics?"
that The consul clapped his hand to
So forehead.
and 81 have it," he exclaimed delight
and ly. You came from Zurich? Your b
told gage was labeled Zurich?'
He Yes. Welt"
WED Wasn't there cholera at Eur
anne, when you left?~
and That's why we left in a hui
n "a But"
1t be This is the exposition year. A c
third Of cholera in Maasdorf would ruin
hus show, cost hundreds OF thousands
ntsh- dollars. YOU complained OF a he
ache, Mr.. Gray. The Dutch are a c
: she mercial nation. DOM you see?"
AT You mean they hxed all that
me- tween them while Mr.. Gray was be
had kidnapped inquired the girl.
rewn Not Kidnapped" said the con
and why. that was only the quaran
away station for this district. No doubt
any doctors know by now that Mr.. G
hasn't the cholera Now II you
sug- my advice"
"A package for a Mr.. Gray,
going said the clerk, entering, and