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ting him off, only to be told by young,
prepossessing woman, who says that
she 10 Oliver Hilditch's wife. that Hill
ditch 10 an arch-criminal and that Led
sam has turned loose q dangerous man
to resume his preying upon society.
CHAPTER IL-Lsdsam. dining with
his best friend, Andrew Wnmors, meets
Hilditch and his wife and is invited 70
dine with them at their homA
CHAPTER IIL-At dinner with the
Hilditches, oliver shows L~dsam how
he killed his victim and says his own
death the same way would make his
wife supremsly happy. Returning
home, Ledsam receives q phone call
from Margaret. sayiAg oliver has been
murdered.
CHAPTER IV-Lsdsam gets the eoF-
oner to set divers death down aS
suicide. Later on hs admits to Will
more that he has DEVELOPED keen In
terest in Margaret He meets her Ia
ther, Sir Timothy Brast the evil shep-
herd, who tells him o crime win be
committed before they leave the cafe.
CHAPTER v1Ths crime 10 COM
mittsd and shopland, . Scotland Yard
detective. asks Lodsam - interview the
girl In the ease.
CHAPTER vI-Daisy tells Lsdsam
nothing much, except that her COM
panion had led . pretty fast life and
was trying to break away from his cid
evil companions.
CHAPTER vII-By chance Francis
meets Margaret and asks for permits
sion to call, which she refusss- He
tells her he will ask her fathers per-
mission and Margaret bsgs him to have
nothing to do with BiH Timothy. al
though she admits hs 10 everything
that 10 kind TO her.
CHAPTER VIIY-Just a. Sir Timothy
appears to DO the murderer In the see
end affair another maA suicides. ad-
mitting his guilt
CHAPTER IX-Brast displays an uA-
usual humane side TO his character
and mystines Ledsam By It.
CHAPTER X-Franois 10 invited to
dine with Brast at his cottage. Return.
ing to his ONCE he hnds an unfinished
scrawl from the brother Of Wilmore,
asking aid, but ending abruptly. Will
more then tells him his younger brother
has been missing for days and they
fear harm has befallsn him. Search for
him proves unavalling.
CHAPTER N-Under the influence
of lovely moon and the quiet OF the
river Francis kisses Margaret, and the
latter does not resent 1t, although ask
ing Francis to escort her back to the
house They and Sir Timothy had taken
Lady Cynthia to see the Walled House.
The next morning Francis escorts Lady
Cynthia to London and finds Margaret
had left before them. Francis admits
that he wishes to marry Margaret.
CHAPTER XII-shopland tells Fran
els that he oan fnd nothing definite
about young Wilmore's whereabouts.
Francis runs into Margaret and she
yields and becomes engaged to him.
CHAPTER XIII-Sir Timothy nnds
the happy couple dining at Ledsam's
chambers. Unable to forbid the mar
riage he secures their consent to keep
the announcement of their engagement,
secret for two weeks. Shopland meets
Francis ana discloses that he hopes to
get Sir Timothy In the tolls Of ths law
In q short time.
CHAPTER XIV-Margaret confesses
70 Francis that she had never cared for
Hilditch. Sir Timothy offers Shopland
temporary truce, whereby Francis.
Wilmore and Daisy Hyslop will be al.
lowed to attend a party at the Walled
House and then tell him anything ills-i
gal that has happened there. The do.
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CHAPTER xv-Lady Cynthia forces
an invitation from Brast to q trip to
the London slums. Lady Cynthia falls
In love with Brast, O feeling he rseip-
rocatss.
Francis was himself again. There
was an immense relief, JOY In his
heart. He had never for single mo-
ment blamed Margaret, but he had
never for single moment forgotten.
It was a closed chapter, but the stain
was on its pages. 1t was wonderful to
tear it out and scatter the fragments.
"I remember you at the inquest" he
said. "Your name is John Walter"
Eyes, SIR"
"Your evidence was very different"
"Yes, sir"
"You kept all this to yourself"
II did, sir. / thought it best"
"Tell me what has happened sinceY'
The man looked down at the table.
81 have always been a poor man,
sir" he said. 81 have had bad luck
whenever / made try to start any
thing. I thought there seemed a
chance for me here. I went to Sir
Timothy and told him everything"
'Well?"
"Sir Timothy never turned hair,
sir. When l had finished he was very
short with me, almost curt. You have
behaved like a man of sense, Walter
he said. How muchY / hesitated for
some time. Then I could see he was
getting impatient. I doubled what l
had thought Of first "A thousand
pounds, SIR said. Sir Timothy he
went to a safe in the wall and he
counted out thousand pounds In
notes, there and then. He brought
them over to me. Walter he said,
there is your thousand pounds. For
that sum 1 understand you promise
to keep what you saw to yourselfT
Yes, SIR I agreed. Take 1t, then
he said, but want you to understand
this: There have been many attempts,
but no one yet has ever succeeded IN
blackmailing me-. No one ever will. !
give you this thousand pounds WILL
ingly. 1t is what you have asked for.