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! her canoe. It was a matter of several
i miles, but she made nothing of the
cruise to the beach beneath the cliffs
crowned bj her summer home.
Effecting a landing there as secret
as her launching had been, she dragged
the canoe up on the sands, hugged the
cloak more tightly round her, and with
a delicious shiver of daring sought the
private flight of steps that zigzagged
up to the grounds of the Channlng cot
tage.
At the top Patria sought the friendly
shelter of the nearest shadows, then
. made a furtive way towards the house.
1 There were on the ground a dozen
coigns of vantage known to Patria
whence spying would be practicable
and safe.
In the nearest of these, close by the
wide veranda, she resigned herself to!
wait with far less composure than her
motionless pose might have been taken
to indicate.
Even so, her patience was not se-l
verely taxed. Within a very few min
utes the light in one of the French)
windows of the drawing-room was
twice eclipsed, as two people came
out and began slowly to pace the ver
anda, side by side—Elaine and the un
speakable Juan de Lima !
Moonlight flooded the face and fig
ure of the changeling with unearthly
brilliance. Patria could have cried out
In amaze, so extraordinary seemed the
vision she gazed upon.
De lima wooed her after the manner
of his kind, ardently, crudely, with
patent intention. Inching closer, he es
sayed to kiss her.
But Elaine would not suffer him.
"That's as ter as you'll go !" she told
him, in the choice of words that came
most naturally to her. "I'm going to
marry you—yes ! Marrying you is part
of my contract with Hurokl—I wish
to Ood It wasn't. I'll go through with
It because I agreed to, but—lay off me
whenever we're alone. Marriage is
one thing—kisses are something else
again!"
She swung brusquely back through
the window. With an imprecation in
his native tongue, the Mexican fol
lowed.
Patria stepped back and sought a
way round to a point whence she
might see through the windows. Taking
Parts CeaNyli
conrage from the alienee, the ventured
to raise Ike window and stop within. ;
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l|t>nnt nay warning, she was seised, j
In the aims of a hulking créa
tare who had boon spying upon her
from behind a tree.
A villainous reek of alcoholic breath
half strangled the girt ns her captor
bent Ida face toward bees.
"Got you!" ho mattered thickly.
"Got yon, m' lady, with the goods on!
Yon will throw mo down, will you!
You will leave me go to the devil
while yon blow around with swells,
pretending you're what yon ain't, never
was, never will be! Oh, Pm onto your
little game, Elaine, my beauty! And
I'm in on it, or TU squeal so loud yon
can hear me In the office of the prose
cutin' attorney 1 Stop stragglin' and
listen to reason, do yon hear?"
la the bloated and congested fes
teres of the drunkard Patria recog
niaad the man Edouard, the manager
of Patna, who once before had mls
takea bar for hla dancing, woman a n d
had sufferedgrievously at Pan's hands
in consequence of that
-Let mo RoP pfatpln loathing.
1«tate«**Pr"
"Fat chance P ha Jeered. "Bet lis
tel» P arte yo n dont Rave to ba
afraid of me. AU 1 Waat Is a square
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Parr; I'm goin' to get him—get him j
good—"
He had unhappily struck the wrong
note. The hint of peril to the man
she adored maddened Patria. She
fought like a woman possessed, beat
ing Edouard's face with her small fists
till, in endeavoring to catch and stay
her hands, he relaxed his embrace, and
she leaped back to freedom, then took
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run before.
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her flîglit toward the cliff.
Three minutes more and Patria was
again afloat, paddling frantically to-;
ward the place of safety she had so j
unwisely left.
TWO AND AN EXTRA.
Oddly enough, considering the anx- '
icty on Donald Parr's behalf inspired !
by the threats of Edouard, Patria slept
o deep and dreamless sleep, and wak
ened so late that, by the time she had ;
taken her morning swim and dressed ;
and breakfasted, it was hard upon :
noon.
As the hour of their dally rendezvous
approached, she found it difficult to;
contain her impatience, so impatient j
was she to be reassured as to the;
safety of her betrothed. Had Donald i
been five minutes late he would have {
found her half-hysterical with dread.
He was, however, a trifle earlier than '
usual. (
None the less, she was beforehand !
with him in the glade. And the relief (
with which she saw him riding, sound j
and whole, to. meet her, translated ;
Itself into so violent a seizure ofj
trembling that he could not have failed .
to remark It j
He did« not even wait to tether his ;
horse, but ran to her the instant Ids j
feet touched the earth, seizing her
hands and drawing her to him.
"Patria ! what has happened?"
"No—nothing!"
"But you were never like this ! |
You're quivering like a frightened;
child! Something must be the mat
ter !"
"Only—only I have fretted so for
fear of some accident to you, dear. I
am so glad to see you safe!"
His arms closed round her; for a lit
tle her teoswas higher la hbL-bosont
Like a nanguty Child, she ha3 Teart
; to own the truth about her overnight
adventure. But now the need of con
j tesston was strong upon her.
From the haven at her lover's arms
she stared thoughtfully off into the for
est
Something moved among the trees,
nie head and shoulders of a man rose
slowly from cover of a breast-high
growth of underbrush. Patria looked
straight Into the eyes of Edouard,
bloodshot in a mask of features that ;
worked with rage.
She drew^a long breath. By no other
algn did she betray the terror that, as
sailed her. Edouard was lifting into
sight a pistol, but his auger and thej
condition of a nervous system wrecked I
by prolonged debauches rendered fu
tile all his efforts to level the weapon
and take steady aim.
It waa her Donald whom this crea
tors sought to ktlL
Gently disengaging, she looked up
steadily into her lovette eyes.
"Don, dear." she sold in a small ;
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piaaaa pissst, Donald,
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Parr stared. "I don't understand—"
"You will, as soon as I can tell you.
But now please do as I ask."
"As you wish, my dear girl."
Profoundly perplexed, yet never for
an instant suspecting the cause of this
singular request, Donald strode off
briskly toward the shore.
I Alone with the fear of death, Patria
i steeled herself against the worst.
The man Edouard broke through the
! covert in murderous haste. Patria
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j thought of hesitation. With an oath
j he struck down her imploring hands.
I But she would not be denied ; her arms
j clipped him; she exerted all her
strength to hold him.
"Let go, you jade !" he rasped
hoarsely. "Let me go ! I promised to
get him, and I will, so help me—!"
"No, Edouard, please—no! Listen
to me. You are mistaken—''
"You lie ! Get out of my way before
you get hurt !"
"Edouard, please—please listen! I
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back to
say—'
The man hesitated, looking down
strangely at her.
"You r"omise that?"
"Then give me a kiss to prove it !"
Instantly she offered her lips to his.
He tightened an arm round her, low
ered his head. She seized the pistol,
planted an elbow against his chest
with wicked force, fought wildly to
break away and disarm him.
What followed was so blurred with
fear, desperation, panic-stricken strag
glings, that she retained no clear un
derstanding of the affair. j
She knew only that it culminated in
the explosion of the pistol. - She saw
Edouard reel back, catching wildly at
the air, and fall. She stared lncredu
ously at her hands that held the weap
on.' Instinctively she fled that place
like a hunted thing.
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Parr, alaamed by the pistol shot, ran
back toward the glade to meet midway
and receive in his arms the wellnlgb
demented girl.
It was many minutes before he suc
ceeded In gaining a disconnected ac
count of what had come of Patrla's In
fatuated attempt to sacrifice herself.
"And then." she wailed, "the pistol
went off In my hands, and he fell
dead, dead ! I murdered him !"
On the echo of that cry both heard
the sound of dramming hoofs dead
ened by the forest mould.
"Dead?" Donald doubted. "Oh. 1
fancy not. Either Edouard has already
recovered sufficiently to steal my horse,
or he had a confederate to do me that
service. Come and see."
The glade, when they again entered
it, was empty. Both Elaine's manager
and Donald's cob had vanished. There
remained only the echo of flying hoofs
to testify that either had been there.
"How he managed to trail me here
without my knowledge is what mysti
fies me," Parr complained when, some
time later, the 'two sat together be
fore the little bungalow. "He could
hardly have done it unassisted. I see
Huroki's hand In this ; the mans is
shrewder than I credited him with be
ing—and that's saying a lot"
"And what can we do?"
"There's only one thing to do now.
Every hour's delay now means added
danger—for if Hurokl doesn't know iU
already, he'll learn quickly enough now
from Edouard that you still live; and
he won't waste much time before he
tries to rectify that fatal flaw in his
calculations. We've simply got to beat
him to It"
"And how—r
"Tonight there's to be a bal masque
at the Channing cottage. If we He low
-till nightfall—I won't leave you again
—we can take advantage of this
masquerade, I fancy, quite effectively."
Bapldly and clearly he outlined a
plan of operations.
"Publicity we mast avoid If possi
ble, both for your sake and for the
sake of the work yon have yet to do as
executrix of the Chinning Defense
Fond," he concluded. "If we can qai
etly pot the fear of God into the heart
of Maine and send her hack to town,
and at the same time persuade Harold
and Company it's ter more comfortable
to leave the country than stay to tecs
chargee of criminal conspiracy—I
think we may call It a good day's work
and let it go at that without hanker-,
lag ter more spectacular revenge."
It waa nearly eleven when Parr
brought the canoe to the beach where
on Patria had landed the previous
night The girl, again in bathing salt
and beach cloak—the only things Pa
tria had been able to master from her
bungalow wardrobe in the way of cos
tume—jumped oat lightly and lent
Donald a hand he didn't need to carry
the canoe well up ont of reach of the
tide. 1
At the top of the cliff they paused
no need for farther discussion of plans
already definitely formulated.
Viewed from a little distance, the
scene on the lawns was distractingly
only to adjust their masks ; there was
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it had fallen ont, all Newport—all that
social colony whieh makes Newport
what it stands for in the comprehen
sion of the world—had foregathered
on the lawn of the Channing cottage
in brilliant costumes and gayest spir
its. ;
Bat Patna and CaptaloJ*arr did not
linger. Their time was too precious.
Entering the house by a side doorj
little used, they separated immediate
ly, Parr strolling nonchalantly to a pre
p—ois— men,
ohe throw open the do<
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do, but at once disappointed and a
bit relieved to find the room tenanted
only by an astonished maid.
"I wish to see Miss Channing," Pa
tria demanded.
"Madam will find her on the lawn,"
the maid replied, eyeing this strange
masquerader with considerable suspi
cion. "She has just descended to dance
for her guests."
One of Patrla's hands brought from
beneath her beach wrap a treasury
note.
"Please find her for me—ask her to
come here without delay."
"And whom shall I say—?"
"Tell Miss Channing a friend of Ed
ouard's wishes to see her on importunt
business."
The money changed hands ; the maid
departed on the errand; Patria select
ed a chair close by the door and sat
down, retaining her mask.
Minutes dragged interminably. A
rumor of applause, hand-clapping com
mingled with cries of "Encore! En
core !" came from the lawns.
Patria rose and went to the window.
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crowd.
general movement of the
Prefaced by scurrying footsteps in
the hallway, the door was opened,
Elaine flung herself excitedly into the
room. Patria arose, put her back to
the door, turned the key. Elaine
swung sharply to confront her.
"Who the deuce are you?" she de
manded. —.
Silently Patria removed her mask.
With a low cry that was half a
groan, the dancing woman reeled back
The Enraged Lover Attacks the Girt.
to the wall, her face ghastly beneath
the ronge.
Dropping her beach wrap, Patria un
covered her pistol.
"Be good enough," she said coldly,
"to let me have that costume you are
wearing. I give you this chance of es
cape, but warn you not to waste time.
The police will be here in ten min
utes!"
Dumb in despair, Elaine begau to
fumble with the fastenings of her at
tire.
The door was tried; from the hall
way the voice of the maid became
audible:
apon the pistol.
Miss Channing! do you need me?"
'Not in the least," Patria replied.
"Go away and don't come back for half
an hour."
Patria moved across the room and
picked up the costume out of which
Elaine had just stepped, a Spanish
dancer's dress.
But it was far from easy to manage
the change and a pistol at one and the
same time. On sudden decision Patrls
unlocked the door.
"Put that beach cloak over your un
derthlng8," she ordered Elaine, "an(
go!"
Submissively, Elaine picked up th*
cloak and went to the door. Patria
crossed to a cheval glass on the far
side of the room, on the way patting
her pistol on n little table la the re
cess of the window. A moment later,
while hooking up the dress before the
glass, she saw Elaine fling the door
open and dart toward the table.
Patria moved, but Elaine had moved
too quickly for her. Her baad.closed
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chrnst in between the window draper
>s, holding a revolver. This last was
discharged with what, in that small
space, seemed deafening detonation.
Without as much as a sigh Elaine fell.
She was dead before she lay at rest.
Thoughtless of danger, Patria
reached the window in time to see a
man leave the foot of a ladder whose
topmost rang rested on the window
sill, and scurry off in desperate baste.
As*she turned back she heard sev
eral people hurrying down the corri
dor, talking with more or less anima
tion. The suave accents of Baron Hu
rokl were distinguishable.
At her feet the pistol glistened
temptingly ; the rays it reflected struck
fire from Patria's brain. Hastily she
picked it up.
Followed by Fanny Adair and Juan
le Lima, Baron Haroki unceremonious
ly entered the room.
"The maid said she was afraid yon
were in some sort of trouble—he be
gan, and checked in stupefaction, star
ing down at the body of the dancer.
"Shut that door," Patria brusquely
to ld D e Lima.
"What does it mean?" Mrs. Adair
whimpered.
With a hint of contempt Patria
j looked from face to face.
j out was to the effect that Edouard had
Patrta 'CfiannTng' Is accounted Tor -i,
last. Somebody had to do it— und you ,
men bungled every time you tried it. i
! Now I've done my part; it remains for '
you to cover this up. Pm going back
to my guests before they miss me."
She let! the three staring, dumb
founded, aghast.
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"w"o eodr !
. stammered.
"As long as they think me Elalni,
I and therefore are sure that Patria is
I dead—I am inside their councils," she
; explained. "I shall become intimate
; with all their schemes—and disclose
to you all I find out !"
In the dim gray twilight of dawn the
body of Edouard was found at the foot
of the cliffs. It was surmised that—
blinded by remorse and drink—in the
haste of his flight, he had stumbled
over the brink to his death.
The discovery furnished Baron Hu
rokl and his circle with a way out of
their dilemma. ^ The story they gave
shot Elaine in a fit of jealous rage, and
then killed himself.
(END OF SIXTH EPISODE.)
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