Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-09

| Il see your point" the promoter said
promptly. my offer of days ago still
holds good. I'll finance this matter to
| the end, and I'll look after the mine
! too. So you can be care free so far as
/ that goes. John"
You know l wouldn't take it for
myself John began awkwardly and
was silenced by smile.
The next morning they had barely
finished breakfast when the launch
, captain was announced.
The three of them found him burst
ing with news.
Il think | located your Hindu" he
told them. He came down at day
| light this morning looking for a steam
er sailing for the north The Halcyon
leaves at noon, and the steward gave
him a job in the galley
But it might be another Hindu"
Ruth. suggested.
The captain turned toward her and
shook his head. II don't think it's
possible" he said. HE answered the
description clear down to the rugs.
Besides that, he seemed kind of nerv-
Gus, and when one of the sailors jollied
him the man nearly had fit. I'm
sure he's your man."
There's only one thing for you to
do Everett said promptly-"take pas
sage on that steamer yourselves to San
Francisco. BY that time you can be
pretty sure whether he's your man or
not
This was agreed upon. and Ruth
started on her preparations immediate.
ly, Everett insisting that she take her
maid with her.
But 1 don't need her." Ruth protest
ed ''She's so expensive too"
"You are merely a youngster." Ever
EFT said quietly, land you must have
a woman travelling with you. 1t is all
right to do as you like I'm the mines.
where no one would dream of speak
ing evil or thinking it, but Mrs. Grun'
dy insists on the maid
John agreed with Everett and de.
parted to get the tickets. in spite Of
Everett's~ warning that he had better
send and get them.
The result was that George Drake,
Just landed from the mine and in
search of Wilkerson. found him shad.
owing Dorr.
Drake explained his coming by say
ing that he had heard nothing from
either Wilkerson or Mrs. Darnell, and
he could be of no use at the Master
Key
Its just as WELL" Wilkerson said
sulkily. 81 have dozen things to at.
tend to. and you can help. The first
Is not to let that man Dorr get out OF
our sight or turn a hand unless we
know it,
In few sentences filed with bitter
ness he told the story of the finding of
the chest and the futile search for the
plans and the abstraction of the idol
containing them.
When Wilkerson found that Dorr
and Ruth booked passage on the Hal.
cyon for San Francisco and had in
quired about the next sailings for the
Orient he took Drake aside and they
determined that this could only mean
one thing
DoIT was on the track OF the idol.
well follow themw he said savage
ly. We've spent too much to quit
Aow."
Jean Darnell received Drake coolly
and listened to Wilkerson's explana.
ton of his new scheme without
word.
Her stormy eyes BODIED no good to
some one. and Wilkerson feared she
would abandon him.
But there was the tenacitv of a H.
gress In her passions, and now she
could not give up her sweet revenge
nor forego the thought Of possessing
the wealth which had once been Tom
Gallons and which he had tried to
conceal.
She agreed to go. and they decided
to leave by train that evening, thus
being In San Francisco in time to meet
the steamer and watch for DORIS next
movement.
Two days later Everett again met
John and Ruth In the hotel In San
francisco.
Johns news was that the Hindu they
sought had undoubtedly been on the
Halcyon and that John had bought a
steerage passage for Bombay.
"You ought to get the plans before
you get to India" Everett said ear
nestly. You'll find yourself in strange
land, where it will be like looking
for needle in a haystack to get hold
OF your man."
Dorr acknowledged this and outlined
his tentative plan of getting hold Of
the idol during the passage.
"After all, we don't want the idol.
shall try to persuade the man Of this
and get him TO let me have the papers
concealed In it."
At this moment Sir Donald Faver-
sham was announced.
The entrance of the Englishman who
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