r M I, i K . i ' i i. ' ( ;i ItU; tf As I 111 I A I If I K I wcmKiraOTTEsreTEm "Please," She 8ald Gently "Please Tell tho Cabby to Take Me Home, , Mr. Maltland." f- lirBjfcrVM"BW'YYWirtf1 Tl ftf I Jlfl DIPTI1BFC nw l" rzrf.JV&l XOi m v tr t- ConvnioMT i07 the C1,T1 1 iWh3t,V iri IN HHwrnaoHUBiiHami SYNOPSIS. "Mail" Dun Mnltlutul, on roar hliur Ids Now York tmrlwlor Hub. met an attrac tive ynuiiK wnnmti fit tlio ilonr Juultor O'HfiBnn assured him no oim hud been within Unit liny. Dan discovered u wom an's llnttcr prints In dust on Ills desk, nlons tilth a hitter fiom IiIh iittorncv. Mnltland dined with llutmeriniin, IiIh at torney. Dan sot out for dreenllidds, to gut his family Jewels. Multhintl, on ronrliltiK home, surprised liuly In pray, crnrklnK thn safe coutalnln,' his Kerns. Alio, apparently, took hliu for n well lcnown crook. Daniel Anlsty. llulf-hyp-liotlzed, Maltland opened his nnfo, took therefrom tho Jewels, anil kuvo them tn her, llrst forming h partnership In eilmu. The rrnl Dim Anlsty, sought hy pollco of tho world, appeared. Multhitul nvereaiiin Win. Ho nnd tho i;lrl wont to Now Yoik In her nuto. Ho hud thn jewels. Sho was to moot him that day. A "Mr. Bimlth" Introduced himself as n detec tive, To shlold tho Kill In Kray, Maltland. nbout to show htm tho JowpIs, supposi lly lost, was felled hy u blow from "Hnnlth's'' enne. Tho hitter proved to ho Anlsty himself and ho seeured tho Reins. Anlsty. who was Maltland's doublo. masqueraded as tho latter. Tho criminal kept Malt land a eiiKnKomont with tho Klrl in may. JIo travo her tho Renin. Tho lrl In sray Vlsltod Mnltland's aiiurtments durliiK his ftbsoiico nnd returned semi, Maltland, without cash, called up his homo and beard a woman's voleo expostulating. AnlBty, dlsKUlsed ns Maltland, tried to wrlnjj from her tho locution of tho Benis. A crash wns hoard at tho front door. Multlatid overwhelmed tho crook, allow ing him to csriipo to shield tho young woman. TIki Klrl In wray mado her es enpo. Jumrilntr Into n culi An imiiint later, by working a ruse. Anlsty was at hor Hide. Ho took hor to Attorney llun nernmn's olllce. Thorn, hy torture, ho tried In vnln to wrlm; from lior th loca tion of tho Reins I In left her a inotnent and Hho 'phoiied O'IIiikiiii, only kcUIiik In tho wordH! "Tell Mr. Maltland under tho brass bowl," tho hiding placo In tho hit ter's rooms, when Anlsty hoard her words, llannorman also was rovealed as a crook. Ho and Anlsty set out to secure the Kerns nnd leuvo town. Tlio Klrl was mill Imprisoned. Maltland llndlnK tho ulil pone, searched his rooms and unearthed the Jowols undor tho brass bowl. Ho hi hick Anistv's trail In u blj; oillro build ing, whero tlio crook was killed. Mnlt laiul nnd ulrl in Kray confessed lovo for Midi other. CHAPTER XVI. Continued. "I dunno." HIckoy Uckud Ills lips, watching with a number oyo tho prop aratlona bcliiK mado for tho romovul of Anlsty'8 body. "I'd 'vo kIvo a farm If I could 'vo cauKht that hoii of a kuii allvo;" ho added ut appurent random, out! vindictively. "All right. Yoh bo rosponnlblo for th' lady, If sho'a want od. will yoh?" "Posltlvoly." "I gottuh 'havo hor namo 'nd add ress." "Ib that oBHontlal?" "Suro. Qottuh protect myself 'n oaeo anythln' turns up. Yoh ouRhttuh to know that." "I don't want It to como out," Malt land hesitated, trying to Invont a plausible Ho. "Woll, any one can soo how you fool about It." Maltland drew a long broath and anticipated rashly. "It's Mrs. Malt laud," he told tho man with a tromor. Iilckoy nodded, unimpressed. "Uli huh. I Unowod that all along," ho replied, "Dut nooln' as yoh didn't want It talkod about . . ." And, appar ently hoedlosa of Maltland's startled and suspicious staro: "If yeh'ro guln' to soo yor fron', yoh bettor get a wlgglo on. Ho won't last long." 111 III . 1 IT' 1 A 'ii narn3 - trmit.L. co. "Who? llannorman? What tln iloiR-i' do you moan?" "Hi-'h tlu fcllor I iiluggod In thr elevator, that's all. Put a holo through his lungs. Thoy took him Into an of Hco on tho twonty-llrst lloor, right opp's.ti- tlio shaft." "Hut what In Hpavon'B namo Iuih hi' to do with this ghastly mess?" HIckoy turned a shrewd oyo upon Maltland. "I guosB ho can toll yoh botlor'n mo." With a smothered exclamation. Maltland hurried away, still Incredu lous and Impressed with a belief, firm er with every minute, that tho wound ed man had been wrongly Identified. lie found him ns HIckoy had said he would, Robbing out his life, supine upon tho couch of nn olllco which the Janitor had opened to afford him a plnco to die In. Maltland had to force a way through a crowded doorway, whoro tho night-watchman was hold ing forth In aggrieved Incoherence on tho cruel treatment ho had Buffered nt the hands of tho law-breakors. A pliraso camo to Maltland's ears as he shouldered through tho group. ". . . . grabbed mo an' trim me otiler tho cage, inter tho ball, an' then the shootln' begins, an' I jumps down stairs V tho slxteent' floor. . . ." Hannermnn opened dull eyes as Maltland entered, nnd smiled faintly. "Ah-h, Maltland," ho gasped; "thought you'd . . . come." Hacked with sorrow, nothing guess ing of tho career that had brought the lawyor to this pass, Maltland slipped Into n chair by tho hoad of tho couch nnd closed his hand over Dannerman's chubly, icy fingers. "Poor, poor old chap!" ho said, brokonly. "How in Ilea von " Hut at llannormun's look tho words died on hla lips. Tho lawyer moved rostlessly. "Don't pity mo." ho said In a low tone. "This Is what I might havo . . . expected, I suppose . . . man of Anlsty'B stamp . , . ob porato character . . . It's all right, Dan, my Just duo. . . ." "I don't undoratnnd. of emirsn " fi. tered Maltland. Hannermnn lay still a momont, then continued: "I know you don't. That's why I sent for you. . . . 'Member that night nt tho Primordial? Whon tho douco was It? I . . . can't think straight long at a tlmo. . . . That night I dined with you and touched you up about tho Jowols? We had a bully Balad, you know, and I spoko about tho Graomo affair. . . " "Yes, yes." "Well . . . I've been up to that game for years. I'd find out whoro tho plunder wns, nnd . . . Anlsty al ways divided square ... I used to advlso him. ... Of courso you won't undorstnnd you've novor want ed for a dollar In your llfo. , . ." Maltland said nothing. Hut his hand remnlno'l upon tho dying man's. "This would novor havo happened It . . . Anlsty hadn't been lmpa- ivmmwwm iH&msmBnsm UffcjQjiPH Vance), MamwMijiaimiiiMa llnt. Ho wan hard to handle, tome HiiifH. 1 wain't mire, .vim know, about tho Jewels; I only said I thought they were at On'Oiillelds. Then I under took to find out from you, but ho was loHtlvc, and without saying anything to me went down to OreenllolilB on his own hook Just to have a look around, be said. And so . . . so tlio fat was In tho fire." "Don't talk any more, Hannermnn," Maltland tried to soothe him. "You'll pull through this all right, nnd You need never have gone to such lengths. If you'd como to mi " Tho ghost of a sardonic smllo flitted, Incongruously, neross tho dying man's waxen, cherubic features. "Oh, hell," he said; "you wouldn't understand. Perhaps you woron't born with tlio right crook In your nature or the wrong one. Perhaps It's be cause you can't soo tho fun In plnying the game. It's that that courfts." Ho compressed his lips, and after a moment spoke again. "You novor did have the true sportsman's lovo of the game for Its own sake. You're like most of tho rest of the crowd content with mighty cheap virtue, Dan. . . . I don't know that I'd choose Just this kind of a wind-up, but It's been fun while It lasted. Good-by. old man." He did not Bpeak again, but lay with closed eyes. I'lvo mlnutcB later Mnltlanil rose and unclasped tho cold fingers from about bis own. With a heavy sigh ho turned away. At the door HIckoy was awaiting him. "Yor lndy," ho said, as soon as they had drawn apart from the crowd, "is waltln' for yeh In the cab down stairs. She was gettln' a bit high steerlcal 'nd I thought I'd better got her away. . . . Oh, she's waltln' all rlnht!" ho added, alarmed by Malt laud's expression. Hut Mnltlanil had left him abruptly; and now, as he ran down flight after echoing lllglit of mnrblo stairs, there tested cold fear .n his heart. In the room ho had lust milt ted. a man whom he had called friend and looked upon with affection ate regard, had died a self-confessed and unrepentant l!nr and thief. If now he were to find tho girl an other time vanished If this had been but a ruse of hers finally to elude him If all men were without honor, all women faithless If ho had Indeed placed the lovo of his life, the only love that bo had over known, unworth ily If sho cared so llttlo who had loomed to enro much . . . CHAPTER XVII. Confesoional. I. Hut the cab was there; and within It the girl was waiting for him. The driver, after taking up his faro, had at hor direction drawn over to the further curb, out of the fringe ol the rabble which besieged the St. Luke building in constantly growing numbers, and through which Maltland too impatient to think of leaving by the basement exit, had elbowed and rmigbt bis way In an agony or appre hension Hint brooked no hindrance, ly'eded no dllllculty. 'He dashed round the coiner, stopped short with a sinking henit, then as :be cabby's signaling whip across the street caught his eye, fairly hurled hiins-elf to tho other curb, pausing at the wheel, breathlosa, lifted out of himself with joy to find her faithful in this ukluiuto Instance. She wns recovering, whose high spir it and lecuperativo powers were to him then nnd always remained a mar velous thing; and she was bending forth from tho body of the hansom to welcomo him with a smile that in a twinkling mado radiant tho world to him who stood In a gloomy aide street of Now York at three o'clock of n Biimmer'a morning a good hour and a half beforo tho dawn. Kor up thoro In tho tower of the sky-scraper ho had ns much as told her of his lovo; and sho had waited; and now and now ho had boon blind Indeed had ho failed to read the promlso In hor eyes. Weary she was aad spent and overwrought; but thoro Is no tonic In all tho world like tho coasclousness that whoro one has placed one's lovo, thoro lovo has bur geoned In response. And desplto all that she had suffered and endured, the happiness that ran like aoft flro in her veins, wrapping her being with Its beneficent rapture, had deepened the color in her chocks and holghtonod tho glamour In her eyes. And ho stood and atared, knowing that In nil tlmo to no mnn had over woman seemed moro lovoly than this girl to him; a knowlodgo that robbed his mind of nil othor thought and his tonguo of words, so that to hor fell tho task of rousing him. "Please," sho said gently "please tell tho cabby to tako mo homo, Mr. Maltland." Ho camo to and In confusion stam mered: Yes, ho would. And ho climbed up on tho step with no other thought than to scat himself at hor sldo and drlvo away forever. Hut this tlmo tho cabby brought hint to his senses, forcing him to remember that somo measure of coherence wns demanded oven of a man in lovo. "Whoro to, sir?" "Eh, what? Oh!" And bonding to tho girl: "Homo, you said?" Sho told him tho address a num ber on Park nventio, nbovo Thirty fourth street, bolow Forty-second. Ho ropoated it mechanlcnlly, unawaro that It would remain stamped forovor on his memory, Indelibly tho first personal dotail that sho had granted him; tho first barrier down. Ho sat down. Tho cab began to niovo, and halted again. A face ap peared at tho apron Hlckoy's, red and moon-liko and not lacking In com placency; for tho man counted on profiting variously by this night's work. "Excuso me, Mr. Maltland, 'nd" touching tho rim of bis derby "yoh, too, ma'am, f'r buttln' In" "HIckoy!" demanded Mnltland, sud denly, In a tono or smoldering wrath, "what the what do you want?" "Yeh told me tub call round to-morrow, yeh know. Whon'll yoh bo In?" "I'll leave a note for you with O'Hugan. Is that all?" "Yop that Is, thoro'B somclhln' olso . . ." "Well?" "Kxcuso mo for mentlonln' It, but I didn't know It ain't generally known, yoh know, 'ml o'no uh th' boys might "vo heard mo speak tub yor lady by name 'nd might pass It on to a re porter. What I mean's this," hastily, as tho Maltland temper showed dnn goroua Indications of going Into actlvo eruption: "I o'poso yeh don't want mo tub mention 't yeh'ro married, Job' yet? Mrs. Mnltland here," with a nod to hor, "didn't seem tub tako kindly tub tho notion if It's belli known" "HIckoy!" "Ah. excuse i.l!" "Drlvo on, cabby Instantly! Do you bear?" HIckoy backed suddenly away and tho cab sprang Into motion; whllo Maltland with a faco or flro sat back and inged and wondered. Across Hroadway toward Fourth avenue dashed tho liansoni; and from tho curb-lino HIckoy watched It with a humorous light In bis dull oyos. In deed, tho detective seemed In extraor dinary conceit with himself. Ho chewed with unnccustomed emotion upon his cold cigar, scratched IiIh cheek, and chuckled; and, chuck ling, pulled hla hat woll down over brows, thrust both hands Into his trousers pockets, and shambled back lo tho St. Imko building his heavy body vibrating amazingly with his secret mirth. And ao, shuming sluggishly, ho merges Into tho shadows, Into tho mob that surges about tho building, and passes from those pages. II.' In the clattering hansom, steadying herself with a hand against the win-dow-frnmo, to keep from being thrown against the speechless man besldo her, the girl waited. And slnco Malt land In confusion nt tho momont found no words, from this eloquent sllenco sho drew an Inforenco unjustified, such as lovers are prono to draw, tho world over, one that lent a pathetic color to her thoughts, and chilled a llttlo hor mood. She had boon too suro. Hut bettor to havo It over with at once, rather than permit It to remain forever a wall of constraint between thorn. He must not bo permitted to think that sho would dream of taking him upon his generous word. "It was very kind of you," sho said In a steady small voice, "to protend thnt we what you did pretend, In or der to save me from being hold as a witness. At least, I presume that Is why you did It?" with a note of un certainty. "It Is unnecosMiry that you should be drawn Into tho affair," ho replied, with some tesumptlon of his self-possession. "It Isn't as if you wore " "A thiof?" sho supplied, as he hesi tated. "A thief," ho assented, gravely. "Hut I I am," with a break In hor voice. "Hul you aro not," ho asserted al most fiercely. And. "Dear," ho said, boldly, "don't you suppose I know?" " what do you know?" "Thnt you brought back tho jewels, for one minor thing. I found them al most as soon as you had left. And then I know knew that you cared enough to get them from this fellow Anlsty and bring them back to mo, know that I cared enough to search tho world from end to end until I found you, that you might wear them If you would." Hut sho had drawn away, had averted her face; and ho might not see It; nnd sho shivered slightly, star ing out of tlio window at tho passing lights. Ho saw, and perforce paused. "You you don't understand," Bhe told him In a rush. "You glvo mo credit beyond my duo. I didn't break Into your tint again, to-night, In order to return tho Jewels at least, not for that alone." "Hut you did bring back tho Jowols?" Sho nodded. "Then doesn't that provo what I claim, provo that you've cleared your self?" "No," sho told him, firmly, with tho dimness of despair; "It dooB not. Ho cause I did not como for that only. I camo with anothor purpose to steal, aB woll as to make restitution. And I I Btolo." Thoro was a nioniont'a silence, on his part Incredulous. "I don't know what you mean. What Mil you steal? Where Is it?" "I havo lost It" "Was It In your hand-bag?" "You found that?" (TO UK CONTINUED.) Rather Discouraging. "You want to presont 'Undo Tom'a Cabin at tho opery house?" said tho sheriff of Bacon HIdgo. "Why, that blamed show was hero a month ago." "That so?" responded tho advance ngont In tho bluo vest. "Yes, stranger, and the dogs chased Uzu." "Thoy always do that, air." "Then tho dog catchers chased tho doga." "Ah, that was an added feature." "And old Mrs. Wlggs chased Llttlo Kva for winking at her husband as ho sat In tho front row." "Bather startling, I nsstiro you." "And old Bill Jones, who runs tho Knglo house, chased Undo Tom for a board bill." "Great Brutus!" "And then the boys got togothor and chased the whole blamed show out of town. Bettor prosent some o'.ho. show, mister." 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