The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-17
CHAPTER VIII-continued.

"Your position is unanswerable. l will tell you all I can, but that may not be much"
 "You mean l am to question your "YOu may try. but 1 warn you; am a very difficult subject. 1 may answer and may not If I refuse, still you must pretend to be content. Are the terms too rigOrousY
 "It sounds like a test"
 "It is test. 1 must remain a mys- tery, not from any real desire to con- ceal my identity from you, but be- cause of a duty to others. Now l will tell you all I can."
 You greet me as Philip Severn to- night. yet last evening I told you my name was Harry Daly. How did you know lied? And how did you dis cover who I really wasp
 Her eyes sparkled with enjoyment. "I knew that would be your first question. The answer is extremely simple. Did you wonder why l did not denounce you to those men in the other room? Oh, you didl You knew you were there surreptitiOusly, in disguise, under a false name, mas Querading as a friend of that fellow HOrner. You knew it-well, so did l." "But how could you know that3 What gave you such suspicion? And, knowing it, why should you desire to protect me-"
 ''PI waive your last question; that can wait its own answer" She leaned toward me and her extended hand touched 8 ring wore.
 Because men who wear a Yale signet of 1899 are not going to be con- nected> with that kind of a gang" she said gravely.
 "But," exclaimed. bewildered, "how did you recognize the signet?"
 "My brother wears one."
 "Your brotherl In my class? You will not tell me his name?"
 "No, Mir. Severn. have reason to believe you know him very well, or did a few years ago. However, that was why I trusted you so suddenly. pinned my faith on the honor of old Yale. That is why I kept silent and asked you to call at PAT Le COmpte street"
 q did call," rather Indignantly "And was informed there was no Miss Conrad residing in the house."
 'I suspected you might make some such discovery. Yet your coming was appreciated; it afforded me the oppor tunity I sought to discover where you were stopping and under what name you registered To confess the truth this was my sole object in the sudden invention of Miss Conrad"
 'SThen there is no such persOnT"
 'T would hardly go as far as that undoubtedly there is; in fact. 1 know a very estimable stenographer by that name, but she does not reside on LC COmpte street"
 "But how could my inquiry there have brought you the information de sired? I was not asked my name."
 "A boy got into the car with yOU at the corner, did he not-a Jewisl boy? You paid no attention to hin after that; you had no conception tha he got off also where you did and wa! not far behind you when you entered the hotel. He did not remain long merely long enough to assure himself that you were given key from tht box and went upstairs. That proved you to be a registered guest. Ter minutes later he met noe outside ant told me what he had learned. TheI l paid him and he went away. No at all complicated. you see"
 "No, but even then your information was incomplete"
 "Yet found it quite easy to fill il the details. Do you recall your clas picture, with the names printed be lOw7 I copied those names-it WE quite a task-and, in a way, memOr Ized them. With these in mind 1 raj back over the hotel register until came to Philip Severn. Washington D. O., G-145.' Then I knew l ha found you" She laughed softly.
 ''Then you did not return to Wash ingtOn?"
 ''There was really no need. BC sides, circumstances compelled me t change my plans"
 The answer instantly brought bac to my mind what those circumstance might be. Her immediate presence her ease of manner and happy mod Of speech had for the moment oblitel ated the dark crime with which sh was associated