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Marchand should be punished; but,
after all. was he the Judge TO deter.
mine such punishment as he knew
would be hers? Might she not be the
victim of a social system, even as old
Lum Simons had been her victim? he
looked across at her desperate eyes,
at her outstretched hands.
IF forget Atranto," he said, will
you tell me what Snyder and WI
Tsang are doing tonight?"
She studied him, furtively at
first then straight in the eyes.
You tell the truth, don't you?'' she
said. "welI, that's more than Snyder
and Fuller do. so here goes for the
truth with you" She puffed on her
der and Fuller are. They took the
car and went off, across the river, I
think. They told me that they would
telephone me before midnight That's
all I know about them-but you can
stay with me tin they call"
"Whsre's wu?"
That's another story" She knock
ed off the ash "Wu has taken a sub
marine down the Potomac, and is
waiting for tonight to run up Occo-
Quan creek
''why?"
"DO you remember the Cinnamon
out at the Occoquan workhouse. One
Of them. wu thinks, has the Triangle.
Wa is afraid that he'll try to slip out
81 he stays there any longer. so he's
going to kidnap him tonight"
TN the submarihe?"
POSSIBLY. But. IL that won't work.
then the machine is to be on the Rich
mond read."
"At what timer"
"Wu plans TO land at o o'clock near
the workhouse brick yards"
"And that's alI?"
That's all Know now"
You won't doubIe-cross, Zita?''
How can Il"
Nor hurt Madeline?'
Nor hurt Madeline"
"Then, adios."
"Adios"
The look in her eyes haunted him
as he went out into the mauve beauty
of the washington twilight, but he
felt somehow reassured by his dis
covery. Since Mrs. Thayer was Zita
MarchaEd-and in his power-the
game became less mysterious, more
akin to those he had seen played in
his old western days. He would 60
to the hotel, cali Henderson and Kim
ball-if Kimball might be found-and
set out to occoquan. They would take
WI. turn him over to the police for
attempted Jail delivery, then, vita
the Chinaman eliminated. deal with
Snyder and Fuller according to the
information Mrs. Thayer would bring
him They were on the road to the
end
As he turned into Pennsylvania
avenue from Fifteenth street he saw
Earl Goodwin, of The Times stah,
standing in front OF the willard,
talking to a man whom for the mo-
n1ent knowles took for Fuller. ForI
an instant he thought to join the
writer and his companion, then de-
cided against it II Goodwin knew
Fuller well no warning would bel
needed. II he didn't, what was the
use2 AfterWard he was to regret the
decision. As it was he proceeded toI
the Raleigh, almost happy in the
thought that at last he was on the
road to circumventing the enemies of
Madeline COnnor.
Madeline herself came to meet him /
in the lobby. Barry will take me
10 Pohick Church." she told him.
ssThey won't watch him the way they
watch you, and you will meet Us
there" She gave him an upward look
that set his pulses beating faster.
Are you dining aIone?- he asked
Just $3.50. In an hour he must start
70 Occoquan- Remembrance Of some
verse he had learned in his college !
days, Browning he thought it was, |
something they called The Last Ride |
Together" rushed to him as she &C
cepted his invitation
who knows but the world may |
end tonight?'' he quoted as they went |
1o the dining room
Il hope It won't" she said with /
downright, matter-of-fact directness. |
He smiled in the. thought that Made !
line, like himself, had come from 4
Colorado.
+ E + + !
He had not intended TO tell her tina:
ne was going to intercept Wu Tsang.
but under the influence Of the music.
the shaded lights, the sense OF her
uearness. he broke down his own re-
solve. "oh. you mustn't go alone