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“of course,” mournfully.
“He would have started in pursuit,
had they not cony inced him of the folly of such an undertaking.”’
“Polly, ind ed, for him.,’’
“And now, Miss Wardour, we have arrived at the end of a certainty, and to enter the field of conjecture is useless. The time may come when some of us may be of actual service to this most unhappy friend of yours. [ confess that I wait with some curiosity the movements ef her parents in the matter.”
“They will take her from him, at once. They will buy him off: compel him— anything to get her hack."’
“Perhaps; but—she may resist them. Think of that letter.’
“Prue, Ah me! Ieantt think, Doctor Heath, I have kept you ‘here starving. I had forgotten that dinner ever was, or could be. You shall dine with Aunt Honor and myself; and, for the present, we will not speak of peor Sybil’s flight to her. She would rum the entire gamut of speculation, for she is very much given to ‘seeing through things,” and I can’t hear to talk too much on this subject. I should get angry, amd nervous, and altogether unpleasant. I say, ‘you will stay; will you stay?"’
He has never before been invited to dine at Wardour Place, except when the dinner has been a formal one, and the guests numerous; but be accepts this invitation to dine en famille, quite nonchalantly, and as a thimg of course.
So he dines at Wardour Place, and talks with Aunt Honor pe the rob- pery, and listens to her ption of the spiendid Wardour diamonds, and looks at Constance, and thinks his own theughts.
After dinner Aunt Honor occupies herself with the evening paper; and, after awhile, Constance and Doctor Heath pass out through the low, broad French window, and stand on the balcony. The light from within falls upon them and that partion of the baleony where they sand. There is a young moon, too; and just beyond is a master oak, that spreads its great branches out, and out, until they rustle, and sway -abeve- the lower halfofthe long balcony, and rap and datter against the stone walls.
“Have you thought,”’ asks Constance, as she leans lightly against the iron rail- ing, “that to-morrow is Stmnday, and that Mr. Lamotte, unless he has already
, can not reach home until Mon- day?”
“It has ocearred to me."’
“And poor Sybil! Where will she be by then?’’
“Miss Wardowr! What disinterested- ness! I thought you were thinking of your detective. *’
“My detective! stupid people! He come atall. Why telegraph at once?’
“Because Mr. Lamotte was coming. I depended upon him.”’
“And he has made a blunder.”’
“Not necessarily.’’
“Why?’’
*“He may have seen an officer imme- iately. and tne man may pe DOW CH tie
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way,by the night train. He will be sure to be here before Monday, or he is no detective. They depend very little om the regular trains.’’
‘Oh: Lam enlightened! All the same, gd shall never see my diamonds more.”’
‘“You don’t seem much troubled.’’
‘*Pride, all pride! I'm heart broken.’’
‘You are a most nonchalant young lady.”’
‘*“Yes—it’s contagious. ”’
Then they both laugh, and relapse into silence. Presently she says:—
‘*We are sure to have the wrong man. Why did you not tell me the name of your great detective, so that I might have commissioned Mr. Lamotte to bring him? That man has been in my mind all day. You have made me enamored of bim.”’
“Why?’’ laughing barely mentioned him.”’
‘‘No matter; you say he isa splendid afficer?’’
“There is no better. I know of none as
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grood.”’
**And his name?”’
‘“‘A very romantic one: Neil J.. Bathurst.’’ :
‘Why!’ stepping suddenly to the win- dew. ‘‘Aunt Honor!”’
“*Well,’’ replies Mrs. Aliston, from %e- himd her newspaper.
“What is the name of your wonderful detective, who brought those two maur- derers from Europe, and had them pro- perly hung?”’
“Mr. Neil Bathurst. Why, my dear?’
“Oh, nothing special, auntie;’’ then returning to the window, ‘‘Auntie never loses trace of a crime or atrial in high life. I have heard her talk of this man’s splendid exploits, by the hour. She isa walking catalogue in all aristocratic sen- sations. So this is your great man? Well, if he is im the city, we must have him. Mr. Lamotte shall bring his man,or send him: there should be work for two. As for me, I intend to secure the service of Mr. Neil J. Bathurst.’’ .
‘‘He may not be within reach; he is constantly moving, and always busy.’’
‘‘No matter. I tell you Il want to see this man.’’
“That being the case, present myself.’’
They start at the rustling of leaves, and from one of the great oak’s extended branches, a form swings downWiard, and drops lightly upon the grass, just before the place where they stand.
“Who are you?’ cemands Doctor Heath, sternly, as the eayvesdropper ap- proaches. ‘‘ And what does this impertin- ence mean?’’
Before they can think, the man ap- proaches the balcony, puts his hands up on the railing, and springs lightly over; standing in the full light that falls from within. he doffs his hat like a courtier, and bending before Constance, says, in a voice that is, for a man, simgularly rich and mellow :—
‘*Madaine, Lam here at your service. I am Neil J. Bathurst.”’
I may as well
CHAPTER V.
Bota Constance and Dr. Heath fancy that they comprehend the situation al- most instantaneously. The stranger’s movements haye been so catlike, his voice so carefully modulated, that Aunt Honor reads on, never dreaming that an ndicition has heen made to the rfarty. Dr. Heath is the first to speak.
“Upon my word,’’ he says, with a touch of coldness in his tone; ‘‘this is quite dramatic.”’
“Its avery good the new comer, ‘‘but dramatic present Cay drama No, naturally brought about, as you init, when I explain my presence Your mention of my name, while
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‘: ‘s time Censtane> has re:overed nerself, and rises to the occasion; in fact, she rather enjoys the situation; this is one of the emergencies wherein she is “te at home: Without st»pping for © \menplace remarks, or ex essions of suc_rise, she goes straight to the point.
“Tlowe we came to be discussing you, you must understand, if you are really Mr. Bathurst, and—heve been very long in that tree.’’
‘“} have been ‘very long’ in tha’ tree, I feel it,’ ruefully. ‘‘And I am Neil Bathurst, detective; never was anybody else, and by the by, here is this doctor; I heard him giving me a capital ‘recom- mend;’ now bid him step up and identify me.’’ and he laughs as if he had uttered a capital joke.
Doctor Heath laughs néw, as he comes closer and scrutinizes him by the light from the drawing room.
“Oh, Lrecognize you by _ your voice, which you have not attempted to disguise, and by your —a—assurance.”’
“TI thought so!’’ rubbing his hands with a satisfied air.
‘‘But that physiogonomy, I never saw before.’”’
The detective laughs.
‘No, this is one of my business faces, and you, sir, are one of the few who have known me simply as a man, with- out reference to my occupation; @ man like me may be expected to turn up any- where, but you, sir, are the last man I expected to see in this place.”’
‘‘Nevertheless, I have been an inhabi- tant of W— for a year; but enough of me for tha nréeont Mr Bathurst this ladv
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Miss Wardour extends a graciows, wel- coming hand.
‘**Mr, Bathurst has heard my desire to know him,’’ she a little ripple of laughter, ‘‘so no more need be said on the subject. Mr. Bath- urst you came as opportunely as a fairy godmother; and now let us go in and take my aunt into our counsels.”’
She lifts the lace curtains and passes in; as she goes, Dr. Heath lays a detain- ing hand on the detective’s arm.
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‘“‘Mr. Bathurst,’’ he whispers; ‘‘in W—I am Dr. Heath, from nowhere.’’
“*T comprehend,’’ significantly.
“Thank you; then they too pass
through the window, and the detective goes through the ordeal of presentation to Aunt Honor. Mrs. Aliston, being a thorough wo- man, who knows her perquisites, gets through with the necessary amount of astonishment, ejaculations, questionings, and expressions of delight; all things are overcome by time, even a woman’s volu-
bility. And during the flow of her dis- course the detective is communing thus with his ‘‘inner consciousness ;—”’
“So we have been retained by this
handsome young lady? Well, that’s intel- ligence! and what does the old lady mean by supposing that Mr. Lamotte has told me this and that? Who the deuce is Lamotte? Why the deuce don’t somebody ask me how I came to be perched in that tree? Do they think it’s the proper thing for detectives to tumble in among them out of the trees and the skies? After all, it is like a drama, for I'll be blessed if I see any sense in it at all.’’
‘“*‘T see you are all more or less at- tracted by my personal appearance,’’ he says, after Aunt Honor has given up the floor. ‘‘Now that I think of it, it’s not just the thing for a drawing-room.”’
Mr. Neil Bathhurst. or his present presentment, is a medium sized man, at- tired in garments that have once been elegant, but are now frayed, threadbare, travel worn; his feet are encased in boots that have once been jaunty; his hat is as rakish as it is battered; his face wears that dull reddish hue; common to fair complexions that have been long exposed to sun and wind; his hair and beard, somewhat matted, somewhat disordered, may have borne some tinge of auburn or yellowsonce, but they toc, have, unmis- takably, battled with the sin, and have come out light hay color. As Constance looks at him, she, mentally, confesses that he is certainly the oddest figure she
has ever entertained in her drawing- room. ‘“‘T have been wondering just what
grade of humanity you are supposing yourself to represent just now,’’ says Doctor Heath, eyeing him quizzically.
‘“*What!’’ with mock humility, ‘‘am I thus a failure? Miss Wardour, look at me well; do you not recognize my social rank?’’
Constance surveys him afresh, with critical eye.
“7 think,’’ she says, ‘‘I recognize the gentleman tramp; one of the sort who asks to wash his face before eating, and to chop your wood after.”’
‘Right!’ says the detective. ‘‘My self-respect returns; I am not a bungler. In the morning I shall be on the ground, to wash my face, and chop your wood; which reminds me, your servants, they must not see me here. I must depart as I came, and soon.”’
‘*And your search,’’ asks Constance, ‘‘when will that begin?’’
‘*My search?’’ hesitating oddly. that has already commenced.’’
‘‘What a curious thing it is that Mr. Lamotte should have secured you of all men,’’ breaks in Aunt Honor. ‘‘I did not think it possible Mr. Lamotte—’’
‘‘Pardon me, all of you,’’ breaks in the gentleman tramp. ‘‘Something must be set right; I will come to the point at once. Who is Mr. Lamotte? . What is Mr. Lamotte? I have never seen him; never heard of him.”’
‘‘What!’’ from Constance.
‘“‘Oh!’’ from Mrs. Aliston.
‘‘But—’’ from Doctor Heath,
(To be Continued. )
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