New Britain herald., 1925-04-03
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flames.
 Hes done us!" said All. My fault for being soft hearted. l ought to have put him right out and not been so bally kind"
 Anyhow" remarked Kathleen calmly, 'it will be plain proof that he murdered George. told Kinkley what he had threatened to do. If he isn't hanged for that murder he will be for this"
 A fierce exaltation shone in the girls face. The two men looked at her with awe. In the hour of her own extremity, while furnace ragged in the one exit from the mill and her death was very near to her, she could only think of the ven- geance she had striven so hard to win and yet hoped might fall.
 I'm glad you feel like that. Miss" said Ali, with a note of restrained admiration blended with pity. "It'll make what's coming to you come easier"
 Then he ran out on to the land ing and peered over the rotting balustrade down the we'll of the staircase. The pungent fumes nearly choked him.
 "The only chance" he coughed, and ran back into the room.
 CHAPTER XXVI.
 Tho Hcroism of Mir. Colne
 We parted from Inspector Wragge and Mir. Stephen .Colnc as they started from Coin brook Towers to walk through the woods to the clearing, where the statesman had promised the detec- tive evidence of Sir Dudley's guilt, and it has been shown that these two men, each eminent in his own calling, reached their destination at the critical moment when Mir. Fa- bian Wommersley's electric appat- atus had been turned on.
 The pedestrians halted at the un, expected sight. Wragge casting 6 sidelong glance at his companion as if to make sure tht it was as great a surprise to MT. Colne as 1t was tc himself. "A queer go," said the inspector l thoughtfully. 'Is this what vol brought me along for, sir?"
 "No-o-o" was the long drawn re ply. What do you make of it?"
 Picture artists faking film" saic Wragge and for once his tone lacket the deference he habitually used to ward the cabinet minister. And h added with still more marked ab eence of respect: Looks bit rocky sir, for this wonderful evidence o yours that's going to dish the Beech wood baronet. This show couldn
 have been started without his sane
 tion, and murderers don't squir
 electricity on their guilty secrets" "
 What had we better do?" sai
 Mr. Colne feebly.
 "Why, join the crowd and prob the mystery" said Wragge.
 So 1t was that they advanced Int the beam projected by the Amphi
 bian Syndicate's apparatus, incider
 tally so frightening Miss Mau
 Blair" that in her sudden start sh
 canted over the mill-wheel on whic
 she was posed and got herse'
 jammed by 1t against the masonry
 the dam. Unconscious of the pal ; they had played in causing tll
 catastrophe. they stood on the ban ! watching MT. Wommersley's curi5u antics.
 It was only when the tall ma , rushed out on the dam that tl' inspector grasped that there ha
 been an accident. and when Joh Grimes brought his daughter to tl bank and laid her down Wragg
 stiffened in all his fibers as he recoG nized the injured actress as MT simon Trickey of Lipscombe Roa
 Brixton. At the instant of his oW recognition he was conscious thu Mir. Colne convulslvely gripped h arm. Wragge was al pains to col
 ceal the thrill of excitement thi was nearly destroying his compo ure.
 . You know the woman, sir?" ' asked. tuning his voice 10 an incu ious note.
 "I know her?" queried Mir. Coli
 as if in defense of his dignity. I laughed a little, as if it was a ca for amusement rather than resen ,, ment. "I am afraid that I have ne lected my opportunities, Wragge, f cultivating cinema professionals , ever had any"
 The inspectors hand stole gent under his companions arm, :, though to guide him nearer | z Casualty.
 "It seemed not impossible tn a you might know her, sir, for'if a
 not mistaken she is a native of the . parts" said Wragge, "the daught i of Sir Dudley's keeper - the m
 who has just brought her to | Y bank"
 :, Miss Maude Blair" had falntt : and John Grimes, clumsily trying |, restore her to consciousness, or c recognized her as the cabinet mi
 ister and the detective drew near. il "My God! it's our Sally" bro |, from the big man in velveteen. Y The astonished cry brought ba a Mir. wommerseley's leading Ia .r from shadowland. The long lasl d eyes. which had been such an as 10 in many a film, flu,tered open. ! ,- fl was not upon the rugged f' to bending over her that they set'l
 l Their puzzled gaze passed Ju