The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-02

ways Of nay not being his real daughter"
There's no doubt In my mind / have
only to recall Katrnas face TO know whoss
child you are. But what will you live ont"
Here was FIR greater mixup than she had
calculated upon. Surprising after all IL was
only resemblance, that the child was not
Hargreave's, a substitute just to bnd thu
Black Hundred? To keep them away from
the true daughter? Her mind grew Devil
dered over such possibilities. The single and
only way TO settle all doubts to make
this child prisoner. If she was Hargreaves
true daua liter he would come out of his hidins.
She heard Florence answering her oues-
ton There is of ten twelve thou
sand In the Riverdaie bank, under the control
OF my fathers butler After that is sons,
don't know what win happen to us, suaaa
and me-
The door of Miss Farlow's viii always b
open to you, Florence" replied Susan, With
love In her eyes,
This interesting conversation WAS interrupt
Ell by the advent of Norton. He was always
dropping in during the late afternoon hours
Florence liked him for two reasons One vas
that Jones trusted him to a certain extent
and the other was that that -
liked him. She finished this sentence In har
heart defantly.
Today he brought her box OF beautiful
Poses and at the sight of them the prfncess
smiled family. Set the wind in that quarter?
She could have laughed, Here was her re-
venge against this meddler who took no par
ticular notice of her while Florence was In
the room She would encourage him, poor
grubbing newspaper writer. with his beggarly
pdttanee. What chance had he of marrying
this girl with millions within reach OF hsr
hand?
The peculiar thing about this was that Nor
ton was entertaining the same thought at
the same time what earthly chance had hs7
In the second story window Of the houss
over the way there worried man But
when his glasses brought in range the true
contents of the box he laughed sardonicaiiy.
/" This watching il getting my goat. !
smell rat every time I a shadow" He
wiped the lenses of his opera glasses and pre-
ceeded to roll cgaret.
When the princess and Norton went away
Jones stole quietly up to Fiorences room and
threw up the curtain Two round points OF
light flashed from the watchers window, bat
the saturnine smile On Jones lips was not
observed He went to the door. opened II
cautiously. a hand to his ear. Then he closed
the door. turned back the rug and removed
section OF the flooring. Out of this cavity no
raised a box. There was lettering on ths lii;
In fact, the name OF its owner. Stanley Ear
xreave. Jones replaced the flooring tucked
the box under his arm srd made his exit
Ths man lounging In the shadow heard
faint WHISTLE 1t was the signal agreed upon
The man FELTON, ran across the street and
boldly rang the bell. 1t was only then that
Florence missed the ever present butler. 6hs
hesitated, then sent Susan to tho door
II must see Mr.. Jones upon vitality I'm
portant business"
He has gone ont" snid Susan, and vGY
sensibly closed the door before Feltons fosk
succeeded in getting inside.
II was time to act. He ran around to the
rear. The ladder convinced him that Jones
had tricked him. He was wild with rage. He
was over the wall in an instant. Away down
the back street his eye Uncovered his man In
full flight. He gave chase. As be came TO
the first corner he was nearly knocked over
By man coming the other way.
"Who are you humping into?" gTovlsd
Feltqp.
Not so fast Felton,"
Who the devil are your"
The stranger made a sign which Feitoa -
stantly recognized.
Quick What has happened?"
Jones has the million and ID making his
getaway. See him hiking toward the watei
front?'
The two men began to run.
There followed a thrilling chase. Jsaas
engaged a motorboat and it was speeding ssa-
ward when the two pursuers arrived. Thay
were not laggard. There was another boat
and they made for it.
"A hundred il you overtake that boat" aid
Feiton's strange companion.
FELTON, eyed him thoughtfully. There VA
something familiar about that voice.
Great plumes Of water shot up into the air
1t did not prove short race by any means.
1t took half an hour for the pursuer to evsI-
haul the pursued.
IL that Jones?"
Yes" FELTON, fred his revolver into ths
air in hopes Of terrifying Jsass' enginsw
but there was Ave hundred dangling bsfora
that individuals eyes
LET them got little nearer" shouted
the butler.
The engineer let down the speed Z astnh.
The other boat crept up within twenty ya1ds
Jones sought perfect range. He would AAvs
to find this spot again.