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swiftly place him last. Her Uncle Jim? Too hot-headed. Her Aunt Grace? Too inexperienced. Her Aunt Helen? Too conventional Lucille, Ted, Dick? She laughed. Arly? There was knock at the door, and Arly herself appeared
 Selfish" chided Arly. Were all wanting you"
 That's comforting" smiled Gail. T have just been being all alone in the world, on the most absolutely de- serted island of which you can con- ceive. Arly, sit down. 1 want to tell 1 you something"
 The black hair and the brown hair cuddled close together, while Gail. her | tongue once loosened, poured out in torrent all the pent-up misery which had been accommodating within her for the past tempestuous weeks; and Arly, her eyes glistening with the ex- citement of it all, kept her exclama- tions of surprise and fright and indig- nation and horror, and everything else, strictly to such low monosyl- | ie1pAOo oo Woulu uOt ld1PCoC lhC 6~oP ing narration.
 ''Id like to kill him!" said Arly, In a low voice of startling intensity, and jumping to her feet she paced up and down the confines of the little staterooTi. Among all the other sur prises of recent events, there was none more striking than this vast change in the usually cool and sarcastic Arly. who had not, until her return from Calls home, permitted herself an emo tion in two years.
 'The only way in which that person Uncle Jim, which would be his first step, is to attack him before he can do anything" said Arly, pacing up and down, her fingers clasped behind her slender back, her black brows knotted, her graceful head bent toward the floor
 He is too powerful" protested Gail.
 That makes him weak" returned Arly quickly. "In every great power there is one point of great weakness. Tell me again about this tremendously big world monopoly"
 Patiently, and searching her mem- ory for details, Gail recited over again all which Allison had told her about his wonderful plan of empire; and 1 even now. angry and humiliated aud terror-stricken as she was, Gail could not repress feeling of admiration for 1 the bigness of it. It waS that which had impressed her in the beginning.
 Its wonderful" commented Arly, catching trace of that spirit of the exultation which hangs upon the un- folding of fairyland; and she began to pace the floor again. Why, Gail, it is the most colossal piece of thievery the world has ever known!" And she walked in silence for time That IS l the thing upon which we can attack him. We are going to stop it."
 Gail rose, too
 How" she asked. "Arly, we couldn't, just we two girls!" Why not?" demanded Arly, stop ping in front of her. Any plan like that must be so full of criminal crook edness that exposure alone is enough to put an end to it.''
 Exposure" faltered Gail, and struggled automatically with a life long principle. Tt was told to me in confidence"
 Arly looked at her in astonishment.
 Il could shake you," she declared, and instead put her arm around Gail. Did that person betray no confidence when he came to your uncles house this morning! Moreover, he told you this merely to overawe you with the glitter of what he had done. He made that take the place of love! Conf. dence! I'll never do anything with so much pleasure in my life as to be- tray yours right now! If you don't expose that person, will! If there's any way we can damage him, I in- tend to see that it is done; and if there's any way after that to damage him again and again, I want to do it!"
 For the first time in that miserable day, Gail felt thrill of hope. and Arly, at that moment, had. to her, the aspect of a colossal figure, an angel of brightness in the night of her de- spair! She felt that she could afford to sob now, and she did it.
 Do you suppose that would save Uncle Jim?" she asked, when they had both finished a highly comforting time together.
 Tt will save everybody" declared Arly.
 Il hope so,' pondered Gail But we can't do it ourselves. Arly. Whom shall we get to help us?"
 The smile on Arly's face was a posi- tive illumination for a moment. and then she laughed.
 Gerald" she replied. You don't know what a dear he isl" and she rang for a cabin boy
 CHAPTER XXVI.