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The man looked up from the paper he pya.s twisting lor a fire and .gave Shuiey s attitude of de spair. “Say, kid,” ti<‘ said, with a kind of gruff tenderness, “you don't, need to take it that a-way. I know it’s tough luck to lose out when you been so nervy and all, but you knew we 'had it. over you from the start. You hadn't a show. And say ! Girlie 1 I tell you what-1 I’ll make Hennie sit down right now and copy ’em off for you, and you can put ’em in four book again when you get >ack and nobody be the wiser. We ’ll just take out the leaves. We gotta keep the original o’ course, but that won't make any beans for you. It won’t take you no time to write ’em over again if he gives you a copy.” Somehow it penetrated through Shirley’s tired conscious ness that the man was trying to be kind to her. He was pitying her and offering her a way out of her supposed dilemma, offer ing to assist her in some of his own kind of deception. The girl was touched even through all her other crowding emotions and weariness. She lifted up her head with a faint littel smile. “Thank you,” she said, weari ly, “but that wouldn’t do ine any -guvu. { “.Why not?” asked the man sharply. “Yrour boss would never know it got out through you.” • “Bpt I should know I had failed I” she said sadly. “If you (had my notes I should know that I had failed in my trust.” “It wouldn’t be your fault. You couldn’t have helped it!” “Oh, yes, I could, and 1 ought. I shouldn’t have let the driver turn around. I should have got out of that car and waited at the . station as Mr. Barnard told me to do till he came. I had been warned and I ought to have been on my guard. So you see it was my fault.” She drooped her head forward and rested her chin dejectedly on the palm of her hand, her elbow on her knee. Tho man stood looking at her for a second in talf-indignant astonishment. “By golly I” he said at last. “You certainly are some nut! Well, anyhow, buck up, and let’s have some tea. Sorry 4 can’t see my way clear to help you out any further, being as we’re sort of partners in this job and you certainly have got some nerve for a girl, but you know how it is. I guess I caii’t do no more’n I said. I got- my honor to think about, too. See? Hennie! Get a move on you. We ain’t waitin’ ail night fer eats. Bring in them things from the cupboard and let’s get to work.” Shirley declined to come to the taWc when at last tho repast was ready. She said she was not hungry. In fact, the smell of the crackers and cheese and pickles and dried beef sickened her. She felt too hysterical to try to eat, and besides she had a lingering feeliug that she must keep near that piano. If anything hap pened she had a vague idea that «he might somehow hide the prec ious notes within the big old in strument. The man frowned when she de clined to come to supper, but a moment later stumbled awkward ly across the room with a slop ping cup of coffee and set it down beside her. “Buck up, girlie!” he growled. “Drink that and you’ll feci bet ter.” Shirley thanked him and tried to drink a few mouthfuls. Then the thought occurred to her that it might be drugged, and she swallowed no more. But she tried to look a hit brighter. If she must pass this strange evening in the company of these rough men, it would not help matters for her to'give way to despair. So after toying with the teaspoon a mom ent, she put the cup down and began to play soft airs on the old piano again while the men ate and took a stealthy taste now and then from a black bottle. She watched them furtively as she played, marvelling at their soft eped expressions, remembering .theoidUae: ' -"Music hath charms to soothe the skvage breast,” and wonder ing if perhaps there were not real ly something in it. If she had not been in such a terrifying situa tion she would really have en joyed the character Btudy that this view of those two faces af forded her, as she sat in the ot* i .shadow playing softly while they ate with the flaring candle be tween them. “1 like music with my meals!” suddenly chanted out the boy in an interval. But the man growled in a low tone: “Shut up! Ain't you got no manners f” Shirley prolonged tlnU meal as much as music could do it, for she had no relish for a more in timate tete-atete with either of her companions. When she saw them prow restless she began to sing aguiu, light, little airs this time with catchy words; or old tender melodies of home and mother and childhood. They were songs she had sung that last night in the dear old barn when Sidney Graham and Elizabeth were with them, and unconsci ously her voice took on the wail of her heart for all that dear past so far away from her now. Suddenly, as the last tender note of a song died away Joe stumbled breathlessly into the room. The boy Hennie slithered out of the room like a serpent at his first word. “Beat it!” he cried in a hoarse whisper. “Get a move on! All hell’s out after us! I bet they heard her singin’! Take her an’ beat it! I’ll douse the fire an’ out. the candly. lie seized a full bucket of wa ter and dashed it over the dying fire. Shirley felt the other man grasp her arm in a fierce grip. Then Joe snuffed out the candle with his broad thumb and finger and all was pitch dark. She felt herself dragged across the floor regardless of furniture in the way, stumbling, choking with fear, her one thought that what ever happened sho must not let her slippers get knocked off; holding her feet in a tense strain with every muscle extended to keep the shoes fastened on like a vise. She was haunted with a wild thought of how she might have slipped under the piano and eluded her captor if only the light had gone out one second sooner before he reached her side. But it was too late to think of that now, and she was being dragged along breathlessly, out the front door, perhaps, and down a walk; no, it was amongst trees, for she almost ran iuto one. The man swore at her, grasped her arm till he hurt her and she cried out. “You shut up or I’ll shoot you!” he said with an oath. He had lost all his suavity and there was desperation in his voice. He kept turning his head to look back and urging her on. She tripped on a root and stumbled to her knees, bruising them painfully, but her only though was one of joy that her shoes had not come off. The man swore a fearful oath under his breath, then snatched her up and began to run with her in his arms. It was then she heard Graham’s voice calling: “ Shirley 1 Where are yout I’m coining! She thought she was swooning or dreaming and that it was not really he, for how could he pos sibly be here? But she cried out with a voice as clear as a bell: “I’m here, Sidney, come quick!” In his efforts to hush her voice, the man stumbled and fell with her in his arms. There came oth er voices and forms through the night. She was gathered up in strong, kind arms and held. The last thought she had before she sank into unconsciousness was that God had not forgotten. He had been remembering all the time and sent His help before it was too late; just as she had known all along He must do, be cause He had promised to care for His own, and she was one of His little ones. When she came to herself again she was lying in Sidney Graham’s arms with her head against his shoulder feeling oh, so comfort able and tired. There were two automobiles with powerful head lights standing between the trees, and a lot of policemen in the shadowy background. Her, cap tor stood sullen against, a tree with his hands and feet shackled. Joe stood between two policemen with a rope bound about his body spirally, and the boy Hennie, also bound, beside his fallen bicycle, turned his ferret eyes from side to side as if he hoped even yet to escape. Two other men with hawrk like faces that she had not ’ seen before were there also, man acled, and with eyes of smoulder ing fires. Climbing excitedly out of one of the big cars came Mr. Barnard, hut usually immaculate pink face smutty and weary; his sparse white hair rumpled giddi ly, and a worried pucker on his kind, prim face. “Oh, my dear Miss Hollister! How unfortunate!” he ex claimed. “I do hope you haven’t .offered too much inconveni ence!” Shirley smiled up at him from her shoulder of refuge as from a dream. It was all so amusing and impossible after what she had been through. It couldn’t be real. “I assure you I am very much distressed on your account,” went on Mr. Barnard, politely and hurriedly, “and I hate to mention it at such a time, but could you tell me whether the notes are safe? Did those hor rid men get anything away from you?” A sudden flicker of triumph passed over the faces of the fet tered man and the boy, like a ripple over still water and died away into unintelligenee. But Shirley’s voice rippled forth in a glad, clear laugh, as she answered joyously: “Yes, Mr. Barnard, they got my note-book, but not the notes! They thought the Tilman-Brooks notes were what they were after, but the real notes are in my shoes. Won’t you please get them out, for I’m afraid I can’t hold them on any longer, my feet aclio so!” It is a pity that Shirley was not in a position to see the look of astonishment, followed by a twinkle of actual appreciation that came over the face of the shackled man beside the tree as he listened. One could almost fancy he was saying to himself: “The nervy little nut! She put one over on me after all!” It was also a pity that Shirley could not have got the full view of the altogether precise and con ventional Mr. Barnard kneeling before her on the ground, remov ing carefully, with deep embar rassment and concern, first one, then the other, of her little black pumps, extracting the precious notes, counting over the pages and putting them ecstatically into his pocket. No one of that group but Shirley could fully ap preciate the ludicrous picture he made. “You are entirely sure that no one but yourself has seen these notes?” he asked anxiously as if he hardly dared to believe the blessed truth. “Entirely sure, Mr. Barnard!” said Shirley happily, “and now if you wouldn’t mind putting on my shoes again I can relieve Mr. Graham of the necessity of carry ing me any further.” “Oh, surely, surely!” said Mr. Barnard, quite fussed and getting down laboriously again, his white forelock all tossed, and his fore head perplexed over the unusual task. IIow did women get into such a little trinket of a shoe, anyway t “I assure you, Miss Hollister, our firm appreciates what wou have done! We shall not forget it. You will see, we shall not forget it!” he puffed as he rose with beads of perspiration on his brow. “You have done a great thing for Barnard and Clegg to day!” “She’s done more than that! said a burly policeman signifi cantly glancing around the group of sullen prisoners, as Graham put he upon her feet beside him. “She’s rounded up the whole gang for us, and that’s more than anybody else has been able to do yet! She oughtta get a med al of some kind fer that!” Then, with a dare-devil lift of his head and a gleam of some thing like fun in his sullen eyes, the manacled man by the tree spoke out, looking straight at Shirley, real admiration in his voice: “I say, pard! I guess you’re the winner! I’ll hand you what’s coinin’ to you if I do lose. You certainly had your nerve!” Shirley looked at him with a kind of compassion in her eyes. “I’m sorry you have to be— there,” she finished. “You were —as fine as you could bo to me under the circumstances, I sup pose ! I thank you for that. ’ ’ The man met her gaze for an instant, a flippant reply upon his lips, but checked it and dropping his eyes, was silent. The whole little company under the trees were hushed inth silence before the miracle of a girl’s pure spirit, leaving its impress on a black ened soul. Then, quietly, Graham led her away to his car with Barnard and the detectives following. The prisoners were loaded into tho other cars, and hurried on the way to judgment. CHAPTER XXVI. The ride back to the city was like a dream to Shirley after ward. To see the staid Mr. Barn ard so excited, babbling away about her bravery and exulting like a child over the recovery of the precious notes, was wonder enough. But to feel the quiet protection and tender interest of Sidney Graham filled her with ecstasy. Of course it was only kindly interest and friendly anx iety, and by tomorrow she would have put it into order with all his other kindlinesses, but to night weary and excited as she was, with the sense of horror over her recent experience still upon her, it was sweet to feel his at tention, and to let his voice thrill through her tired heart, without stopping to analyze it and be sure she was not too glad over it. What if he would be merely a friend tomorrow again! Tonight he was her rescuer, and she would rest back upon that and be happy. I feel that I was much to blame for leaving you alone to go to the station with a bait like these notes in your possession,” said Mr. Barnard humbly. ‘‘Though of course I did not dream that there was any such possibility as your being in dan ger.” ‘‘It is just as well not to run any risks in these days when the country is so unsettled, ’ ’ said the detective dryly. ‘‘Especially where a lady is concerned!” remarked Graham significantly. ‘‘I suppose I should have taken Miss Hollister with me and left her in teh cab while I transacted my business at the war depart ment!” said Barnard with self reproach in his tones. ‘‘They would have only done the same thing in front of the war department,” said the de tective convincingly. ‘ ‘ They had it all planned to get those notes somehow. You only made it a trifle easier for them by letting the lady go alone. If they hadn’t succeeded here, they would have followed you to your home and got into your office or your safe. They are determined, desperate men. We’ve been watching them for some time, letting them wrork till we could find out who was behind them. Tonight wo caught the whole bunch r^d handed, thanks to the lady’s cleverness. But you had better not risk her alone again when there’s any thing like this on hand. She might not come out so easy next time!” Graham muttered a fervent ap plause in a low tone to this ad vice, tucking the lap robes closer about the girl. Barnard gave little shudders of apology as he humbly shouldered the blame: ‘ ‘ Oh, no, of course not! I cer tainly am so sorry! ’ ’ But Shirley suddenly roused herself to ex plain: “Indeed, you mustn’t any of you blame Mr. Barnard. He did the perfectly right and natural thing. He always trusts me to look after my notes, even in the most important cases; and I heard the warning as much as he did. It was my business to be on the lookout! I’m old enough and have read enough in the papers about spies and ruffians. I ought to have known there was some thing wrong when that boy ord ered me back and said Mr. Barn ard had sent me word. I ought to have known Mr. Barnard would never do that. I did know just as soon as I stopped to think. The trouble was I was giving half my attention to looking at the strange sights out of the window and thinking what I would tell the folks at home about Wash ington, or I would not have got into such a position. I insist that you shall not blame yourself, Mr. Barnard. It is a secretary’s bus iness to be on her job and not be out having a good time when she is on a business trip. I hadn’t got beyond the city limits before I knew exactly what I ought to have done. I should have asked that boy more questions, and I should have got right out of that car and told him to tell you I would wait in the station till you came for me. It troubled me from the start that you had sent for me that way. It wasn’t like you.” Then they turned their ques tions upon her, and she had to tell the whole story of her cap ture, Graham and Barnard ex claiming indignantly as she went on, the detective sitting grim and serious, nodding his aproval now and then. Graham’s attitude to ward her grew more tender and protective. Once or twice as she told of her situation in the old house, or spoke of how the man dragged her along in the dark, he set his teeth and drew his breath hard, saying in an undertone: “The villain 1” And there was that in the way that he looked at her that made Shirley hasten through the story, because of the wild, joyous clamor of her heart. Continued next week. Giving a Guess. "What were the Greenbackers, I aw?” “People who lived up near the North | ole.”—Louisville Courier Journal. GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER The Remedy With a Record of Fifty Five Years of Surpassing Excellence. 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