The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-22
BY ROI COOPER MEGRUE,
Novelized by Wyndham Martyr.
Copyright. 1914. by
Roi Cooper Megrue and Little
Brown * Co.
Continued from our last issue.)

But you don't have to give him
your confidence, remember" Tay-
lor warned her. And don't forget
that I've got little document
here with your sisters name on It,
There's somebody coming" he
whispered. and silently let himself
out into the garden.
II was DENLY who came In
Hello he said mot dancing
them"
Hello" Miss Cartwright said
in answer to his greeting. Il
don't like dancing in August"
I'm fortunate to find you
alone" he said. Now we can fin
ish the talk We began before din
ner."
Where did we leave OFF," she
demanded with smile.
"Why-in Paris" he said with
a trace of embarrassment. You
don't want to forget our Paris,
hope?"
Never" she cried, enthusiast
tically. 1T was there We found
that we really we're congenial. We
are, aren't WEI"
"Congenial?" he repeated
We're more than that-we're-"
She interrupted him. and yet,
somehow, you've changed a lot
since Paris"
He looked at her reproachfully.
"Oh, come now, Miss Cartwright,
be fart"
"In Paris you used to trust
me-" she said.
why do you say that?" pel-
by inquired.
There are lots of things" 'she
answered. "One is that when
asked you why you were here in
America, you put me off with
some playful excuse about being
just an idler." She looked at him
with a vivacious air. Now didn't
you really come over on an I'M
portant mission?"
Poor DENLY, who had been tell
ing himself that Monty's suspic-
ions were without justification
and that this girls good faith
could not be doubted, even If sew
eral circumstances were beyond
his power to explain, groaned in
wardly.
Well" he said, suppose | did
come over on something more
than pleasure, what do you want
to know concerning it? And why
do you want to know"
Shall We say feminine curl
osity?" she returned.
He shook his head. There
must be something more vital
than mere whim."
Perhaps there is" she con-
cluded, leaning forward, 81 want
us to be friends, really good
friends; regard it as a test OF
friendship"
Then you put it," he said
quietly. ito a test of friendship"
Yes" she answered readily.
He thought for a moment. Well
here was the opportunity to find
out whether Monty was right or
whether the woman he cared for
was merely spy set upon him, a
woman whose kindness and smiles
were part of her training.
Very WELL" he said, then so
do l. You are right. l did not
come to America idly came to
smuggle a necklace of pearls
through the customs. | did it to-
day."
The girl rose from her seat by
the little table where she had sat
facing him and looked at him, all
the brightness gone from her face.
You didn't, you didn't"
II did he assured her. 81 fool
ed EN-"
She looked about her nervous
lily.
"You can't tell that" she said
in a lower-keyed voice. "How can
you be sure they didn't suspect? -
Because I'm comfortably set
tied here, and there are no de-
tectives after me. And If there
were" he confided In her tri-
umphantly. "they'de never suspect
I carry the necklace in my tobac-
co pouch"
But your pouch was empay,'
she cried.
How do you know that?" he
demanded quickly.
Il was here when Lambart split
it," she explained hastily. There
it is on the mantel, | meant to
have given 1t to you"
81 don't need it," he said, tax.
ing one similar in shape and color
from his pocket.
Two pouches!" she cried
aghast. "Two?"
1t seemed to him like an ejacu.
lation of distress. What is it?'
he cried.
Nothing much" she said nerv'
ously, tits the heat, | suppose
That's why wouldn't dance
Won't you take me into the gar.
den and we'll look at the moon?'
Surely" he said. and moved
leisurely over to the French
windows.
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