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cent. l did not know. should
have seen him and his little mean
hole first before coming to him. l
advertise again and get into high
err atmosphere"
Brendon found his thoughts who'll
ly occupied with Jenny Pendean.
Was it within the bounds of posi-
bility that she, as time passed to
dim her sufferings and sense of loss,
might look twice at this extraor- !.
binary being? He wondered, but
thought it improbable. Moreover
the last of the Dorias evidently aim
cd at greater position and greater
wealth than Michael Pendean's wi
dow had to offer. Mark found him
self despising the extraordinary
creature, who violated so frankly
and cheerfully every English STAN
dard of reserve and modesty. Yet
the others self-possession and
sense of his own value in the mar.
ket impressed him.
He was glad to give Doria five
shillings and leave him at the land
ing-stage. But none the less Gius-
eppe haunted his Imagination. One
joice in his physical beauty, but to
escape his vitality and the electric
force of him was impossible.
Brendon soon reached the police
station and fastened to communi-
cate with Plymouth, Paignton, and
Princetown. To the last place he
sent special direction and told
Inspector Halfyard to visit Mrs.
Gerry at Station Cottages and make
careful examination of the room
which Robert Rcdmayne had there
occupied.
CHAPTER V
Robert Redmayne Is Seen
| A sense of unreality impressed it,
self upon Mark Brendon after this
stage in his. inquiry. A time was
coming when the false atmosphere
in which he moved would be blown
away by stronger mind and a
greater genius than his own; but
already he found himself dimly con-
scious that some fundamental err
ror had launched him along the :
wrong road-that he was cropping in
a blind alley and had missed the
only path leading toward realty.
From Paignton on the following
morning Brendon proceeded to Ply
mouth and directed a strenuous and
close inquiry. But he knew we'll
enough that he was probably too
! late and judged with certainty that
| if Robert Redmayne still lived, he
he turned to Princetown, that he
might go over the ground again even
while approaching the futility of SO
doing. But the routine had to be
observed The impressions of max
ed feet on the sand were carefully
protected. They proved too indefi-
mite to be distinguished, but he sat-
|-isfied himself that they represented
the footprints of two men, if not
three. He remembered that Robert
Redmayne had spoken of bathing in
the pools and he strove to prove
three separate pairs of feet, but
could not.
Inspector Halfyard, who had fol-
lowed the case as closely as it was
possible to do SO, cast all blame on
Bendigo, the brother of the vanish
cd assassin.
."He delayed of set purpose" VOW
ed Halfyard, "and them two days
may make just all the difference.
Now the murderer's IN France, IF
not Spain" y
"Full particulars have been cir
: culated," explained Brendon, but
the inspector attached no import
ance to that fact.
eve know how often foreign po-
r lice catch runaway" he said.
3 ''This is no ordinary runawry,
j, however. still prefer to regard
t him as insane"
"In that case he'd have been TAX
l en- before now. And that makes
e what was simple before more and
$ more of puzzle in my opinion. l
e. don't believe that the man was mad.
believe he was and is all there;
e and that being so, you've got to be-
J, gin over again, Brendon, and find
e why he did it. Once grant that this
: was a deliberately planned murder
n and mighty, sight cleverer than it
a looked at first sight, then you've got
a to ferret back into the past and find
what motives Redmayne had for do
d bing it,
!; But Brendon was not convinced.
: II can't agree with you," he an
: swered. 1--WE already pursued that
theory, but it is altogether too fan
tastic. We know, from impartial
e testimony, that the men were the
It best of friends up to the moment
It they left Princetown together on
t, Redmayne's motor bicycle the night
e of the trouble"
ID "What impartial testimony? You
l. can't call Mrs: Pendean's evidence
1t impartial"
"Why not? >eel very certain
that it is; but Pm speaking now OF
is what heard at Paignton from Miss
Flora Reed, who was engaged tc
Robert Redmayne. She said that
her betrothed wrote indicating hi:
le complete change of opinion, and he
n also told her that he had asked his
sr niece and her husband to Paigntor
is for the regattas.
Isl Continued in. Our xt-Issue)