The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-04
(Contnued from Yesterday)

ringers twisting and gripping at the edge of the washstand.
 Whats your proposidon7'' he snar1eo- Curse you, name your price, and have done with itI You're as big a crook I am!"
 You are inpatient" The Adver- turer's shoulders went ID again. "In due time the rajah decided that a trip through Europe and back home through America. would round out his sons education. and broaden and fit him for his future duties in way that nothing else would. It was also decided, l need hardly say to my in tense delight, that I should accom- pany him. We come now to our Journey through the United States you see, Danglar, that I am emitting everything, but the essential details In 2. certain city in the Middle West T think you VII remen1 Der it well, Danglar-the young rapjah met with an accident. He was out riding in the outskirts of the city. His horse took fright and dashed for the river bank. He was excellent horseman, but, pitched from his seat, his foot became tangled in the stirrup, and as he hung there head down, a blow from the horses hoof rendered him unconscious, and he was being drag ged along when a man by the name of Deemer, at the risk of his own life, saved the raja.h's son. The horse plunged over the bank and into the water with both of them. They were both nearly drowned. Deemer, let me say in passing. did one of the bravest things that any man ever did. Submerged, half drowned himself, lie stayed with the madden animal until he had succeeded in freeing the un- conscious man. All this was some two years ago."
 The Adventurer paused
 Rhoda Gray, hanging on his words, was leaning tensely forward-tt seem ed as though some great, dawning wonderment was lifting her out or herself, making her even unconscious of her surroundings
 ''The rajahs son remained at the hotel there for several days to recup- erate,' continued the Adventurer de- Iberately; "and during that time he saw a great deal of Deemer, and. nat urally so did I. And, incidentally, Danglar, though I thought nothing much of it then, I saw something Of you; and something of Mrs. Danglar there, too, though-if she will permit me to say it-in more becoming cos tune than she is now wearingt" Once more he shrugged his shoulders as Danglar snarled. "Yes, yes; I will hurry I am almost through. While it was not made public throughout the country, inasmuch as the ra1ah son was more or less an official guest of the government. the details Of the accident were of course known local ly. as also was the fact that the young rajah in token of his gratitude had presented Deemer with a collection Of jewels of almost priceless worth. We resumed our journey; Deemer, who was man in very moderate ctrcum- stances and who had probably never
 t,ss JNa I, to New York, presumably to have his first real holiday, and, as 1t turned out. to dispose of the stones, or at least a portion of them. When we reached the cost we received two ad- vices containing very ill news Tn" first was an urgent message to re- turn instantly to India on account of the old raJah's serious illness; the sec ond was to the effect that Deemer had been murdered by a woman in New York, and that the jewels had been stolen"
 Again the Adventurer paused, and, eyeing Danglar, smtled-not pleasant ly.
 "I will not attempt to to explain to you" he went on, 'the young raJah's feelings when he heard that the gift he had given Deemer in return for his own life had cost Deemer his Nor will I attemupt to explain the racial chara cteristics of the people Of whom the young rajah was one, and who do not lightly forget or forgive. But an eve for an eye. Danglar-you will np5erstand that. If it cost all he had, there should be justice. He could not stay himself; and so l stayed because he made me swear l would, and because he made me swear that l would never allow the chase to lag until the murderers were found
 And so I came East again, I re rnenbered you. Danglar-that on seV- eraI occasions when had come upon Deemer unawareS, you, sometimes ac- commanded by woman, and some times not, had been lurking in the background. went to Cloran, the house detective at the hotel here Tn New York where Deemer was mur- dered He described the woman Sne was the same woman that had peen with you I went to the authorities and showed my credentials, with which the young rajah har seen to It I was supplied from very high sources indeed I did not wish to tnter1ere with the authorities in their handfns of the case; but. on the other hand, I had no wish to sit down idly and watch them. and it was necessary therefore that should protect myself in anything I did. also made my self wnown to one of New 4ork's as sistant district attorneys, who was an old friend of my fathers. And then, Danglar. started out after you
 T discovered you after about month; then I wormed myself into your gang as the Pug. That took about 6 year. I was almost another year with you as an accepted member of the gang. You know what hap peped during tflat period. A little while ago I found out that the woman we wanted-with you, Danglar-was your wife, living in hiding in this gar fet as Gypsy Nan But the jewels themselves were still missing. To night they are not. A-a friend ot mine, one very much nisjudged pub ucIv. I might say has them, and has told me they would be handed to the