The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

euce upon CNOSe uHlIcQucHtcu pdtHo WouAu excite no suspicion. Varley had seen many of his type in roaming about the open country.
 Had it not been for the signal whistle, there was nothing to suggest mystery. But Humphrey had heard the whistle, and knew that Beruna had walked so far down the path solely in order to hear and answer it.
 She was talking fast and eagerly, but in tones so subdued that the listener could not catch a word, nor even be certain what language she employed. The man listened quietly, nodded two or three times, and then apparently told her something which pleased her, for she clapped her hands to- gether softly and her eyes danced
 The concealed man held his breath; for if the peddler's design was to search along the fringe, he must find what he sought. But he did no such thing. He stood for a moment listening keenly, as though to catch distant sound of movement; then he began to run, very fleetly, away toward the short cut which Humphrey had meant to take, and which the pursuer evidently thought he had taken.
 Humphrey returned from Kyrel Moor in a passion of regret, the force of which sur prised himself.
 He had ascertained that Anton and his family were conspirators, and the idea of conspiracy, associated with Beruna, was simply horrible to contemplate. He told himself that she was an unpracticed, nervous conspirator, that she had nnocently 4Lo;, @cyJ together, yet the fact remained. She had broken her promise to hand the letter to her brother, and had given it to low-class spy. She was false, and her face and her eyes should have belonged to such woman as an English peer might take to wife with out sullying his blood.
 By dint of inquiries at the Kron Prinz, Humphrey proceeded to convince himself that the man, although an extraordinarily able servant, was of very irregular habits.
 Needless to say, the questioner did not allow Rastitch to suppose that there was any question of spying; but Rastitch had nothing to conceal, he was frank enough; and he left little doubt that the man was in the secret employ of Nordernreich.
 He was hand and glove with Von Reu- lenz, who, to the landlords knowledge, would often sit up to admit him in the small hours of the morning, much to the scandal of the good folks of Veros- Rastitch averred that, had he known what crew they were, he would not have been so delighted at the securing of their custom to such large extent
 To have established the fact of the cor rectness of Evadne's instinct where the Pole was concerned was something; but it left Varley more hopelessly confused than be- fore
 When he succeeded in obtaining an in- terview with Evadne, he begged that he might be allowed to tell the headman the whole story, and to consult with him; he re- gretted that this had not been done at once, the moment the princess discovered the morsel-of paper
 Having obtained the permission he craved, he went off at once to Mistitch, and upon looking up his lists, found that, as he had expected, Anton was the sentry on duty before the bungalow during the hours of that night when the entry was achieved.
 The headmen listened with grim interest tV eHC SOuHS iHdH Cdlc, anu DldmcO nlm bluntly for not Insisting upon his being in- formed at once.
 "Anton should have been made to speak" he declared. "As things are, our best course would be to let him go on duty as usual, and to have him watched all the time. But he is not likely, one would suppose, to re- peat that maneuver."
 The old man laughed in his hairy throat