Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-16
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Then I met the pretty sirl-on tho
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She was wearing charming frock
IDENTIFY from Paris: and there wasn't q
doubt that she was one OF the prettiest
women at the meeting. She was talk
ing to a TALL sallow. black-bearded
man when my eyes fell on her. I star
ed at her, very naturally. trying to
make up my mind what to do; then
she saw me. She looked at me quietly
enough and said something to the tall
| man; he turned and looked at me
too. Then she left him, came across
the law to me. and held out her hand.
How do you do. Lord Garthoyle?"
she said, with charming smile. IT
knew we should meet zooner or later"
How do you do?" I said. shaking
her hand. II have been hoping we
should meet ever since the evening
you called on your uncle in Garthoyle
Gardens"
10 have the poleece. believe"
and she led the way out Of the crowd
to couple Of chairs beside little
table.
We looked at each other, and she
/ said: II moost introduce myself I am
the Sonora Carvalho. My husband ees
ze Colombian ambassador. Was eet
not strange about my oncle-your ten
dHI VI 1NuNlDcF 10 f1o was not my
oncle truly. Oh. no. He was Ell Cabal.
To-:
| WAS he?" said though had nev.
er heard of Ell Caballo in my life
i Yes; sometime cen Colombia zey
call heem re Black President; some-
time ze Red President He was pres
ident for four monz. And what a hor.
ror! He was murderer and brigand
at first; and when he was president he
! WAS VhrSP-nh n1nnch n.
bed and tortured not only hees ene-
| mics, but also hees own party" She
paused: she was not smiling now:
then she added slowly: "He shot my
fazer and my brozer-a leetle boy Of
twelve
THE hound" said.
"My mozer was zere and I. was
nine years old. My mozer died veree
soon. At the end of four monz. he
disappeared. re president-suddenly.
[ We Fought Eat he had been killed
quietly and buried, cough eet was
strange Eat nobody could find re mon
ey he had stolen. People talked about
heem for years when I was child.
Zen zey forgot heem. light .monz ago
! recognized heem In Piccadilly. He
was veree different-oh, yes, veree
different. But 1 knew heem-right
zere. He did not know me; and fol-
lowed heem to hees house cen Gar
thoyle Gardens"
| II see,' I said. +
Zone of my friends came from
Colombia-zons of murdered fazers.
| Zey COON quickly. But zomehow he
learned Eat zey had COON. We do not
know how he learnt eet. but he knew
why zey had COON. He shut up hees
house: and we Fought zat he had
where he had gone; but we waited.
Always one or re ozer watch re house.
But he nevaire came. Zen one of my
coosins cen re beeg garden cen re
needle. on a hot day, saw a-what
would you call eet?-he saw re heat
twinkle above a chimney. 70 we
know Eat he was zere. Zen apother
coosin got into re house from re back,
and found re barricade He tooched a
Wire cen re hall; and ze bell rang. Ell
Caballo fired at heem, and heet heem
in re shoulder, but my coosin got out
of ze house. We did not know what
to do. Zen I planned re snakes I saw
zem cen a book. an Eengleesh book
called ze Shippers Wooing. but only
one snake was cen Ze book. We got
| more snakes, to make sure. My
coosin bought zem and went quickly
out of England. Zen we poot zem in
re house.
I'm jolly glad you got him--the
hound wanted killing Off" said
"Ah. you understand" she said.
with a little sight of relief. And my
/ friends have gone back to Colombia,
and my husband he does not know.
+. An ambassador should not know zese
| zngs."
| ] nodded.
But eet ees strange zat re police
know nozing-nozing at all?" she said
anxiously.
! "They will never know anything
about it, or about any one connected
with it. I'm quite sure Of that. The
brute wanted killing off," said firm
| ly.
"Zank you." she said, and she smil-
ed. Il knew Eat gentleman would
! understand"
| I thought for a moment and then
said: He must have turned pretty
cold when you hammered at the door
that night"
81 fought of zat," she said. And she
laughed-the soft, queer uncomfort-
able little laugh. But COON, let me
introduce you to my husband"
Continued Tomorrow.)
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