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ivory-handled revolver from her
handbag, broke It, looked Intently at
the cartridges to see if they were all
right, then snapped it Bhut and
dropped It back into her handbag. "I
shall be all right. Besides, I count
on your being there. I shall go In.
I want you to follow and wait in the
hallway. You can do it; it is the
public hall of an offlee building. The
moment you hear anything unusual,
I shall want you.
A second time Clare entered the
Futurist Shop. There was the sanio
atmosphere of perfumes and repose,
but somehow she could feel the frig
idity in the air as she asked the girl
at the- desk, "Is Mademoiselle Fleur
ette in?"
"Hero is Mademoiselle Fleurctte,"
returned a voice from the other side
of the partition that cut off the outer
ofTice.
The beauty specialist herself
emerged. Her face seemed a little
flushed perhaps In spite of her arti
ficial complexion. It was evident from
the harshness of her tone that she did
'not enjoy the second visit.
"What back again?" she rasped.
"What can I do for you, now, Miss
Kendall?"
"I am looking for news of tho
whereabouts of Miss Norma Moore,"
returned Clare quietly, meeting tho
defiance of Mademoiselle with a cold,
searching glance.
"Miss Moore? Who Is Miss Mooro?"
"I have every reason to know that
some one hero can answer tho ques
tion," Ignored Clare, then added, eye
ing tho beauty specialist steadily,
"Mrs. Despard, for Instance."
Fleurctte then repeated, "I told you
she had sailed for Europe."
"I saw her enter this building, not
ten minutes ago," asserted Clare.
"Indeed."
"And I havo every reason to know
that she and Mr. Lyons, who was
with her at tho Montmartre this
afternoon, can answer my question.
You can answer it." Clare was lean
ing forward emphasizing each word.
Fleuretto laughed again harshly.
"So you think I know something
of Norma Moore, do you? Llttlo
fool!"
"What has become of her? I shall
not movo from this placo until you
tell me tho truth."
The woman laughed again. "How
should I know? Perhaps she disap
peared to escape a scandal. Perhaps
there had been a clandestine corre
spondence who knows? Thero are
many 'perhap's'."
"I insist that Mrs. Despard her
self," Claro laid emphasis on tho
word, "tell me where Norma Moore
is."
Mademoiselle was struggling with
suppressed fury. "This has gone too
far," she cried, backing to n door that
opened on tho opposite side of tho
beauty shop from tho entrance to the
corridor to the llttlo dressing rooms.
"I shall call assistance."
Before sho could open it, some ono
on the other side turned the knob.
"What 's tho matter?" asked a man's
voice.
"Here Is that woman detective
again," sho hissed.
It was Jack Delroy, no longer club
man, but fiend, as ho saw Clare block
ing tho progress of his amorous pro
gram. "Sinclair will be back in a moment,
now. Let mo
Thero had been no chance to call
Lawson. As Delroy rushed at her
Claro whipped an automatic from her
handbag and covered him. Thero
was a loud explosion and a puff of
stifling, choking smoke. Fleurette
lay motionless on tho floor and a few
feet away sprnwled Delroy.
AS Lawson rushed In, ho stopped
short, aghast. "You you shot
them both?" ho gasped.
"With a bulletless gun, a German
invention adopted by our own Secret
Service. It shoots stupefying gas of
capsicum and lycopodlum. Here
watch Delroy whllo I loosen her
dress. Sho will be all right In a
minute."
Claro was on her knees beside
Fleurette. Sho had seized an inking
pad from the ofllco desk and was roll
ing tho unresisting Angers of tho
woman on It and then on a sheet of
paper.
"Thumb a whorl Index, a loop,
central pocket middle linger, no, I
don't want that," sho was saying to
herself as she studied the ink
smudges eagerly. "Thero ring lin
ger a radial loop no arches or
composites."
"What do you mean?" Inquired
Lawson, bending over.
"I mean," explained Clare, looking
up at him with cheeks flushed by tho
excitement of the moment, "that
though sho could change the faco of
Fleurette to Mrs. Despard or perhaps
a dozen other disguises by her art,
there wns one thing sho could not
change and that was the flno lines on
the Inside of those long slender whlto
fingers. The Infallible linger print is
proof against even the criminal art
of the beauty doctor. It was Fleur
etto who wrote the note. Fleuretto
Is Mrs. Despard herself!"
As tho beauty specialist came
blinking and choking from tho effects
of tho fumes, she was murmuring,
rambllngly. Clare bent over to catch
whnt she was saying.
"Jack get her away quick
no money any of us without
marriage."
"IJIfly," cried Clare, as tho truth
suddenly dawned on her, "sho Is hero
In ono of thoso llttlo dressing
rooms."
Crashing down one after another
of tho doors Into the corridor which
opened into tho office on tho opposito
sldo from the room from which Del
roy had entered, Lawson peered into
the darkness of each.
There in the last ono lay Norma
Moore, fully dressed, but half dazed.
As ho leaned over, sho mistook him
in the darkness.
"Jack is It all right tho license
what church? Help! help! Jack,
there Is a strango man In tho room."
"There, there," Interrupted Clare,
gently motioning Lawson out into tho
corridor, "my poor dear these are
friends don't scream you havo
been tho victim of a drug tho ciga
rettes, you know."
Sho had taken tho now unresisting
girl In her arms, and rapidly re
viewed tho story of how she had been
led on by Delroy and his friends.
"And to think, I loved him!"
sobbed the girl. "How I loved him
and thought ho loved mo! I never
let mother know sho did not like
him. But we were to bo married as
soon as it could be nrranged."
MOMMA had clearly been lighting to
the last tho effects of tho drug
which Delroy had used to lead her on
until ho could take advantage of her
infatuation.
"My God," sho cried, rising and
pressing her hands wildly to her
throbbing temples, "it was not I
whom he wanted whom they
wanted, after all It was my money
my money my money."
Clare, whom experlenco and obser
vation hnd taught tho closo psycho
logical connection between lovo and
hate and how readily ono may pass
Into the other, stroked her hand as
sho endeavored to quiet tho bitterness
of her denunciation of Delroy.
"My dear," sho soothed, "you are
with friends. All has come out right
in the end. It Is an awful' shock, I
know, but don't give way to It. Sit
still a minut, here, then when you
aro recovered wo shall go away."
Dr. Lawson meanwhile had hurried
hack to tho main room. Already Del
roy was stirring restlessly and mut
tering, "Quick, Fleurette, Sinclair
somebody a cab Llttlo Church
Around tho Corner all arranged "
"It '8 too late, Delroy," exclaimed
Miss Kendall, coming down tho cor
ridor looking for Lawson. "Tho con
spiracy Is discovered. Only the de
sire of tho Moores to coverwhatmlght
have been an open scandal will save
you from Jail. Hilly, call Mrs. Moore.
Tell her for tho present It was
as she suspected a caso of aphasia."
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