The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
PART FOUR.


This Godfrey Norton evidently was
an important factor in the matter. He
was a lawyer. That sounded omnibus.
What was the relation between them.
and what was the object of his repeat
ed visits? Was she his client, his
friend or his mistress? If the former
she probably had transferred the pho
tograph TO his keeping. If the latter,
1t was less likely. On the issue of
this question depended whether
should continue my work at Briony
Lodge, or turn my attention to the
gentleman's chambers in the Temple
1t was delicate point, and it widened
the field of my inquiry. / fear that
! bore you with these details, but /
have to let you see my little difficult
ties. if you would understand the sit
uation."
Il am following you closely" an
swered.
Il was still balancing the matter in
my mind, when a hanson cab drove
up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman
/ sprang out. He was a remarkably
handsome man. dark, aquiline, and
mustached-evidently the man of
whom l had heard. He appeared to
be in a great hurry, shouted to the
| cabman to wait, and brushed past
the maid who opened the door with
the air of a man who was thoroughly
at home.
HE was in the house about half an
hour. and / could catch glimpses oil
| him in the windows of the sitting
room, pacing up and down, talking ex-
citedly and waving his arms. OF her
| ! could see nothing. Presently ne
| emerged, looking even more Hurried
than before AS he stepped up to his
cab, he pulled a gold watch from his
pocket and looked at it earnestly
| Drive like the devil he shouted
first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent
| street, and then to the church of st
Monica, in the Edgware Road. Halt
Ia guinea if you do it in twenty min
utes!'
Away they went, and I was JUS
I wondering whether l should not dc
well to follow them, when up tbs
lane came a neat little landau, thu
coachman with his coat only half
buttoned, and his tie under his ear
while all the tags of his harness were
sticking out of the buckles. 1t hadn'
pulled up before she shot out of th'
hall and into it. l only caught
glimpse of her at the moment, but sh'
was a lovely woman, with a face tina
man might die for.
1.-THE Church of st. Monica, John,
she cried, and half sovereign if yol
reach it in twenty minutes
This was quite too good to lose
Watson. | was just balancing whethe
l should run for it, or whether
should perch behind her landau, whel
a cab came through the street. Th
driver looked twice at such shabb,
fare; but jumped in before he coult
! object The Church of ST. Monica
said I, and half a sovereign if 20,
reach it in twenty minutes 1t wa
twenty-five minutes to twelve, and o
! course it was clear enough what wa
. in the wind.
my cabby drove fast don't thin
), ever drove faster, but the other
were there before us. The cab AM
the landau with their steaming horse
were in front of the door when ! al
rived ! paid the man and hurried in
to the church. There was not a sou
there save the two whom l had FOL
lowed and a supplied clergyman, VIII
seemed to be expostulating with then.
They were all three standing in a kno
in front of the altar. I lounged VI
the side aisle like any other idle
who has dropped into church. Sud
} denly, to my surprise, the three a
. the altar faced round to me, and God
!, frey Norton came running as hard a
, he could toward me-"