The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-09-10
CHAPTER XVIII.
Means to an End.

been but now. At least, she had seen
Roleau-had found once more proof
OF his faithfulness and his efficiency
! Surely he would help her to escape yet
| again. And as for Sachio-better he,
of whom she knew something, than q
stranger of whom she knew nothing
at all. OF late despair had been knock
ing at her heart in such fashion that
the summons of opportunity found no
hearing, but now she began to plan
once more.
She sought to study the exits of the
apartment in which she found herself
There were two doors, SO 1t seemed,
both fastened. She pushed strongly
at one; it opened before her. She
stood once more face to face with
Count Sachio, the mocking conspira-
tor who had of late had so much to
do with her own misfortunesi
"Mademoiselle!" said he, II am SO
pleased"
For myself" rejoined Kitty indig-
nantly, Il was never SO much dis
pleased as I am now. So the gentle
men of this country in this way show
their quality-in their treatment OF
women? / compliment you"
Your words are at least better than
your absence, mademoiselle-I like
neither"
And what of me? What shall +
say of man who treats me as Grim
1nal? Nay. a criminal would be treat
ed better in my country-he would
have trial. There would be process
of law, observance of the law. Is the
habeas corpus writ thing unknown
in this country-have the people never
yet wrung that right from the hands
of tyrants? In my country there are
some recourses which any citizen may
have"
Your own country? Why did you
ever leave it, mademoiselle?
"The reasons concern me alone, sir."
Indeed, you mistake-they do not
concern you alone. We are many of US
in this country also concerned with
them. We would that you never had
come from America. There are many
i Coooiio luOflhS " IUdl- aiius 1n0cCoy
we even ask your return to your own
country"
SO, then, it was your message to
me that got? Most meIodramatic
of you, Count Sachio-but by what
right do you demand my return?"
There are some large rights,
mademoiselle, which need small ex-
But which allow you to hinder me
IN the performance of my own duties
to ask me to be unfaithful to my en-
ployers? Why, you even ask me to
deceive the public-to present coun-
.erfeit-to pretend that l have done
what have not done"
$50? And you cannot take such
good advice?"
mo, will not. To deceive, to pre-
end, to counterfeit-those are attrib-
ties of your kingdom, not of my OWN
country, America. In my country we
lave better standards-men and wom-
N alike-for which / heartily ann
lad"
You have a stinging tongue, ma
lemoiselle," said Count Sachio, red un-
er his swarthy skin. Perhaps it will
TOW milder if left unused. / shall
cave you here-until you are willing
o say you. are done with Gretzhoffen
nd ready to return to your own coun-
ry. This land, mademoiselle, can
eep its own secrets-it could even
lose over the secret Of the disappear
nee of a young woman-and leave
er fate a mystery. / trust that you
ill reconcider what you have said
moment and he had left her once
lore. Before he passed through the
DOR she glanced beyond. The room
as occupied, apparently, by his
iends-escape on that side was i'm
ossible.
The other door still remained fas-
med. Kitty turned to it with bur-
arious intent-uslng an art learned
hen she was schoolgirl. With no
,tter instrument than a hairpin, she
I'd seen wonders done at opening
cks.
Her brisk interchange of compli-
ents with Count Sachio had set her
Uses stirring once more. She want
to get out--she wanted to escape,
d she proposed to escape. Once
ore free, she admitted to herself, she
'uld be willing enough to take the
vice which but now she had
enough to take ship
ok home, to see the familiar sky
Q Of her own city, to find her own
ice back In the smoky and grimy
y, her own place in the hum and
Ind of the old newspaper How
Cd 1t would seem to her now to see
, faces Of the local room. They
ght char her all they liked. Yes,
, would go back home
And now, with schoolgirl fnesse In
, employment of the small fnstru-
mt at her disposal, she succeeded
her burglary She felt the lock turn
last-felt it give-saw that she
lid open the door, She did open
land closed 1t again.
sack Of her she heard once moro
J creak Of the other door a. Il
med. She turned-to encounter
. more the figure Of Count Sachio.
< 0mfl0d ut her N once mora No.