The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
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with his gimlet gaze.
 "And was Mir. Varley visiting there also? An, sir, be careful I am told the young Rumanian girl is so lovely that her mother and brother keep her enclosed like num-"
 .I didn't know she existed when I went up there, Mistitch. I was just taking a stroll, and I came upon their cottage, lit up so that you could see it all the way down the glen. I knocked and asked my way. You are quite right about the girls beauty, I admit it. They were tremendously upset at my visit, you could see they were ex- pecting somebody. They hustled me out pretty quick, but I saw the supper table laid for four, and I saw Stepan Woronz arrive shortly afterward.'
 Mistitch stood digesting these facts. "So that was it." he remarked slowly "That was what Woronz was after, not our princess after all'
 "It may be so. You were on the quay when Anton asked me to go up there to sup per, were you not?"
 "I was."
 "He wanted to cover up any suspicious that may have remained in me- He did not know I had seen the visitor that night. Afterward he sent me an excuse. He did not mean me to go there really"
 Mistiteh pulled his cap right off and clawed his hair with both hairy fists
 "Anton has applied for leave of absence" he said. "He has to go to Gailma for few days to hay ehis teeth attended to-"
 "Is that so?" said Humphrey thoughtful ly. Well, of course, the Pole may be up there after Anton's sister-or-he may|I tell you what, old dog, I think shall go up there myself and pay call while Anton is away. If you will hand over that letter, it will make an excuse for my appearance. can say that we think Anton may have the mans address,"
 Mistitch nodded his great head slowly, his eyes still probing those of the Englishman.
 "Remembery he said, ''that thou are man and young-quick-bl -blooded, too, for all thou are so quiet. Will the girl beguile thee?"
 Varley was astonished to find how angry this suggestion made him. Heavens. Mis- titch, she isn't that kind" said he quickly.
 "No? We'll, I take thy word. Go and see if thou canst find out more than know. Youth to youth, after all"
 
 that, next day, as soon as Ra had gone to visit the invalid princess, Varley found him. self ascending the path that wound beside the torrent, up to Kyriel Moor. Mistitch had undertaken to invite Prince Ra to come out fishing with him after tea, so the tutor was at liberty for the whole afternoon.
 The path by daylight was astonishingly wild and beautiful, and he met no single human creature from the moment of leav- ing the palace grounds.
 Some obscure action of his subjective mind caused him, as he ascended, to whistle at the same place as he went up. It was quite unconscousiy that he did so he was "giving out the theme" Gas the concert pro- grams have it), in his especially clear and sweet whistle as he passed the point where the steep path from the lake joined the one by which he was ascending, at the verge of the stream, which just there turned in a sharp elbow.
 Pausing, as unconsciously as he had be- gun, he stood, arms behind him, gazing down into the rushing water at his feet; when he heard an answering whistle, mot strong but clear and sweet, accompanied by a scuffling sound as though someone upon the path behind him. Before he could turn round, two arms clipped him, and glad voice cried in English-"How wonder full! How did you get back so soon?"
 So swift, so unlocked for was the attack that for the first instant, Humphrey felt paralyzed, Instinctiyely he put LID his hands