The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-12

past, and others and many more.
Then / saw Roxaine approaching.
Poor Rozainel He did not seem to
have recovered from his misadven-
turesi
at may be he, all the same.s ssdd
Nellie. what - you thinki.
Il think it would be very interest
ing to have Canimard and Roxaine in
one photograph. Would you take the
camera? My hands are so FULL
l gave it to her. but too. late for
her to use it. Rozaine crossed. The
officer bent over to Ganimard's ear;
Ganimard gave shrug of the Shout
ders; and Rozaine passed on.
But then who, in Heavens name
was Arsene Lupin1
YES" she said, aloud, who is it?"
There were only score OF people
left. Nellie looked at them, one after
the other. with the bewildered dread
that ne was not one of the twenty.
said to her:
! we cannot wait any longer"
She moved on. / followed her. But
we had not taken ten steps when
Ganimard barred our passage.
What does this mean" I ex-
One moment sir. What's your
Il am eseorting this young lady"
/ One momenf" he repeated, in .
more mysterious voice.
/ He stared hard at me, and then.
locking me straight in the eyes, said:
! .Arsene Lupin, / believe"
gave laugh.
BERNARD d'Andrezy died in Mace.
donna, three years ago"
1T Bernard dAndrezy were dead I.
gould not be here. And it's not SO.
Here are my -apers."
"They are his papers. And I shall
be pleased to tell you how you be-
came possessed of them"
But you are madl Arsene Lupin
took his passage under name be-
ginning with R."
Eyes, another of your tricks
false scent upon which you put the
people on the other side. Oh, you
have no lack of brains, my 1adi But
this time, your luck has turned.
Come; Lupin. show that you're a good
loser" y
hesitated for second. He struck
me smart blow on the right fore
hit the unhealed wound mentioned in
the telegram.
There was nothing for It but to
submit. ] turned to Miss Underdown.
!. She was listening, with a white face.
| staggering where she stood.
Her glance met mine, and then fell
upon the Kodak which had handed
her. She made sudden movement,
and 1 received the impression. the
NJ hot r. IaI
Yes, it was there-between the mar
row boards covered with black mo-
rocco, inside the little camera which
I l had taken the precaution to place
{ in her hands before Ganimard ar.
:, rested met was there that Ro-
!, zaine's twenty thousand francs and
Lady Geriand's pearls and diamonds
4 lay concealed.
I'll Now l swear that, at this solemn
, moment, with Ganimard and two of
his minions around me, everything
3 was Indifferent to me-my arrest, the
hostility of my fellow-men, every
s thing. save only this: the resolve
9 which Nellie Underdown would take
L intregard to the object had given
), into her charge.
J Whether they had this material
E against me, what cared II The only
y question that obsessed my mind was.
, would Nellie furnish it or not?
Would she bet=zy. me? Would she
s ruin me? Would she act as an ire
concilable foe, or as a woman who
E remembers, ard whose contempt is
J. softened by a touch of indulgenee-
a shade of sympathy?
: She passed before me-. ! bowed
n with the other passengers, she
, moved toward the gang-board. car
! ! rying my kodak in her hand.
not dare to. in public. She win hand
it over presentfy-in an hour"
But, on reaching the middle of the
:. plank, with a pretended movement Of
in the water, between the landing
= stage and the ships side. =,
= Then I watched her walk away. g
Her charming profile was lost in the
: crowd, came into view again, and
). disappeared: 1t, was over-over for
5 good and all.
3 For a moment I stood rooted ia
n the deck, sad and, at the same time,
"a pervaded with sweet and tender
emotion. Then, to Canimard's great
e establishment, sighed:
y "Pity. after all, that I'm . rogueis
It was in these words that Arsens
o Lupin. one winters evening. told me
{ the story of his arrest. Glance and
series of incidents which will come
n day describe had established betweeu
us bonds of shall I say friend
l. ship1 Yes. / venture to think that
Arsene Lupin honors me with a Ger.
a tain friendship; and it is owing ia
this friendship that he occasionally
drops in upon me Unexpectedly,
bringing into the silence of my study
his youthful gayety, the radiance OF
his eager life. his high spirits-the
o spirits of a man for whom fate has
le little but smiles and favors in store
" His likeness? How can / trace it!
o have seen Arsene Lupin a score Of
|. times. and each time different being