Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-05

get." said Poulain, and he picked up the
note and looked at it.
well" said Lopez, "where did they
go?"
Down to the harbor. They did not
know that I followed them"
"Ah, friend Poulain, you are In the
habit of following your guests, eh?"
when they are not quite-well, what
guests should be-
''They were odd, eh-these three?"
Yes"
Lopez smiled and stroked his black mus
tache. The guests must have been odd
| indeed If they had aroused the suspicion
OF NJ. Poulain. who. If all accounts were
to be believed, allowed some very queer
characters to stay in his hotel.
"odd in what way?"
We'll, the girl, who walked like boy
half dead she was. and no mistake. They
took private sitting room, and she never
came downstairs till the day they left.
But Jules, who waited on them, said she
looked half dead. He spoke to her once
and she did not answer him-just laughed
In a silly sort of way"
well, what happened when they
reached the harbor, friend Poulain?"
THE girl who was so i'll she had to be
carried, and the little man went on board
a ship. The big man left them, and
went home after had followed him to
the station"
"You took no further interest in them.
eh2"
"No; so long as they were out OF the
town did not care. 1 had found out
enough to tell the police If they came TO
me-they do come at times, as you know,
and dare say 1t is the Same in your own
country. 1t is only in England that the
police do not care who comes or goes"
"And the name OF the ship? You doubt
less noted thatT'
"The Marie Joseph-a small bark-the
kind OF ship people do not travel in. She
set sail that same afternoon"
For what port? I suppose you did not
Inquirer"
"Ah, there you are wrong. She was
sailing for Valparaiso. Doubtless II you
go there you will be able to find the dear
friends OF the English Milford"
Lopez took out greasy pocket-book
and made several notes in it.
What were the names OF these peo-
ple?" he queried. ~ shall say, the
names that they gave to your They were
English, OF course?"
"Yes-and OF the name of Watford-
the SON and the daughter. The doctors
name I do not know"
80 he was doctor. was her"
''Yes, he told me So"
''Is there ANYTHING else you think I
ought to known"
There is nothing else"
Then we will have another bottle OF
wine"
The landlord fetched another bottle, and
before It was finished Lopez had handed
him 800 francs.
drove down to the harbor. He found
an onicial OF the port authorities. and said
TO him.
HAS the Marie Joseph, a small
barque. been in here recently7"
The onicial laughed. mo" he replied,
'and we are not likely to see her again
for some time"
"And why not, II 1 may ask7''
'seeause' my friend. she is at the bot
Lopez 'frowned. The omcial seemed to
be amused rather than sorry that a good
ship had gone to her last resting place.
Wrecked, eh?" he said.
Missing"
But that Is the same as wrecked. Is it
mott"
In most cases, my friend, I am afraid
seas for more than a year without being
seen or coming into port"
Lopez took the onicial by the arm In a
friendly fashion.
Il dld not hear OF IT," he said. Il had
friends on board. Where can 1 get in
foFmationf ! saw nothing in the news
papers"
"One does not see such things In ths
papers, Few lines ana that Is ali. Now,
II she had been q great steamship p-Hith
passenger
Thea there q no news 70 be had OF
herr
None fear. How can there Be- news
of ship that is missiHEls
When Yaa she last scent Was nofh-