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_ can on to gamble at the , the SYNOPSIS Jean (irahm and her brother, Huan, gtay on the fiiviers with Qeotfrey Wik: een, W . ton.and his wife, 13 no sein coaxes him tu go to Paris. While driv- ing there Jean finds a strin of pearls in Buun's pocket. He snatches i from her and the car crashes. The accis dent is digcovered Ls 4 Jerry Grant who takes her back to his hosteas, llelen Gorst. Buan is missing, M. Rivaux in. vestigates and he confronts Helen with act that Mrs, Winton's pearls are missing. Jean visits Euan's frierd, de Laurier and learns that an ig tn debt to him . . Jerry. Grant meets M. Perichen fa. mous deteetive. ho aselsts them. Jers ry proposes' to Jean but she asks him to wait. The Baron Insists on accormp« anying Jean to the Van Dyke party. The next morning. Mrs. Van Dyke re- orts the theft of 'her famous diamond, ean is discovered misging. BM. Perl: chon directs Grant and Washburn to the deserted villa. pn CHAPTER XXII--INSIDE THE WHITE VILLA It was \tter five when the two young men rap the car into the pine woods beyond St. Crolx and took to the road on foot. They had talked the affale o- ver for the last two hours and had de cided that they would both approach the villa, but that when the time came only one of them wold go inside, whilst the other waited outside to warn Perlchon when he arrived. The. Jast part of the.walk they performed in silence for reasons of caution, and to save their breath for speed. Hurry- ing, did not keep either from thinking however, and Grant, like several oth- er people, was turning the affair over and over for a solution. He cursed himself too for his own dllatoriness, for he had gone back with hia apolo- gies on the night before, this latest disaster might have been averted. That, he told himself ruefully, was what came .of leaving things. His ~ mother had told him never to let the sun go down on his wrath, but he had let several suns. sink upon his es- trangament with Jean. His heart was beating fast, not only from the rap- 'idity with which they were moving, but, from a mixture of anxiety and ex- citement, What would they discover? Euan as wall as Jean? Or perhaps neither? Was old Perichon barking up the wrong tree? He had seemed: pretty certain and yet-- "Here we are," Washburn pointed. | . "Better keep under cover," whisper- ed Grant. The villa's white plaster gleamed faintly through the trees although the hillside was already darkening in the shade of evening. Scrambling over the red rocks which ran down and out in to the sea, then np into the. woods that stood like a. rampart about the house, they made their way in silence. Their feet fell softly upon a carpet of pine needles, and only the occasional crack. . ing of a twig told of an unknown pre sence. After a somewhat stiff climb, * they. reached the top of the hill ana remained hidden awhile rounding = bushes to regain their breath and to take their bearings. The villa seemed completely desert ed; but the garden, although in a bad] condition, showed signs of having been worked, one or two. beds being dug, and containing a few measly plants, Keeping within the shelter of crept around the villa, but it seemed Ee ---------- them |. in the sur-| the trees or bushes, -the young men deserted and devoid of life. "We'd better wait and watch, I'll go round the other side," Washburn whispered. . Grant nodded and sat down where he could see and-be out of sight. He heard Washburn moving cautiously through the bushes for a moment, and ther complete silence fell, excepting for the occasional cry of a seabird or the faint distant purring of the sea, which washed nearly three sides of the little promintory, Whilst the sha- dows deepgned he waited there, and every moment scemed an hour. Was Jean in that villa he-asked himself. staring. at the shuttered windows. God! He'd like to smash his way in to it. But that would give the show a- way. In the gathering dark he tried to reason out what had happened and found himself at at a loss, How could Jean have come to this villa:and why? Suddenly the name of Dushkin occur- red t6 him, Mme. Dushkin,,,.The place was supposed to belong to her, but who was she and what had Jean Craham to do with her? He recalled that the name had had significance to Perichon on the day of their pre vious visit, but it left him completely at sea. Anyway why was a girl like Jean involved in 8 mystery of this de- scription? In a moment he fell to wondering who the mysterious individual was that they were walting for. Perichon had seemed to think that they might get a surprise. It was. beyond him --absolutely. The silence was so intense that the}: smallest sound was exaggerated, and must be audible. Whilst listening to it » became awar? of 'another sound. one which he realized he had been hearing all the. while. It was a dull frregular booming like very distant firing at sea, and it seemed to come from beneath him. "Good Lord!" he thought, and, sit- 'ting up, he signalled violently to Washburn, The young men crept very stealth- ily towards each o6ther, keeping well under cover and they met. "What's the news?" breathed the werican "Caves! Under us, Listen!" oa With thelr ears to the ground they 2 motionless. Then Washburn nod- (J . "Yep. Supposing they come in that way? The place looks as dead as mut- ton, but it-- "Sh!" Grant grabbed the others' arm and pointed to the left. Lying flat they listened and in:a monient the sound which had: caught his ear wap repeated. Certainly someone was com: ing up. the hill from the opposite side of the cliff from which they had as- cended. "From the water," Washburn whis- pered. © Grant nodded and they lay strain: ing their ears through the dark in the direction from which the sound had come. It was nearly dark now, a mere glimmering of - light - lingering upon the white villa and paths, against the dim sky they saw it clearly enough-- the tall-figure of a man clad in a dark er ------ cessful resitlte because thelr power will mot deteriorate, | Royal Yeast Cakes have been the standard of quality for over 80 ye why, they are preferred In 7 out of every 8 where dry yeast is Canadian homes weed in home baking. Fen cake wrapped {n air-tight waxed paper=Royal Yeast Cakes always reich you in perfect condition, They keep fresh for months=you can be sure of sucs leavening 1{0) EASY ¥ & VAL t's why aA today, Grant feared that even his breathing. .and the Rain" at the *St. turned up. For a moment he stood still as if to regain his breath, then again he paused. and Grant for one, felt as if the ex- audible to the man standing there. They watched him hunting in his po¢- kets for the key. This was apparent- him; exclaim, ' "Tounerrel" Then a small light began to move up and down the door, as an electric torch searched for the kehole. For one in- stant the light fell across the man's face and Grant grabbéd Washburn's arm with a grip that nearly made him yell. Yih "De Laurier!" he breathed, as ex- cited turbulent thoughts began to chase through his head. ; : The pursuit now took on an adde for the young man's loathing of the Baron. But if Jean was in the villa, how had she got there? De Laurier bad been with ther all at the Villa St. Juan until two-thirty the night before and again this morning. Had he. 'brought her with him now? Was she perhaps down the hill--in a boat--or round the corner In a car? Straining their eyes ad ears, they watched and listened as the doo was opened 'and 'De-Laurier passed in. Ev. idently he considered himself alone, and free from pursuit, for he did not 'bother: to close the:door, but allowed it to swing behind: him. "What now?" whispered Washburn Gran't face was set In grim lines as he turned to his. friend. This was his job, and his alone. "I'm going in after him. You get down the side there and gee If he has a boat waiting, or how he came. Jean may be: there, If not, come back. I Washburn nodded: and' started to crawl away as; Grant moved stealthily towards th villa: It seemed to -him that. it took: hours to. cover the few yards which separated him from the open door, and that as he.stood out in the open on'the pathway, he must be visible to all the eyes with which the surrounding darkness seemer peopled by his over excited imagination. Ho gained "his objective however, and: he stood listening at the crack of the door. There were sounds within, hol low sounds.of footsteps moving in. an empty room, but they sounded: toler- ably distant and gently pushing open the door--fortunately it did not squeak --Grant stepped into the darkness of the villa. ; ; : Scarcelp<breathing, he stood there, not daring to move for fear of run- ning into something, making a noise and startling his quarry. Taking out the small torch which they had stopp ed to buy enroute, he almost entire- ly smothered. the light and searched the floor before his feet, Thus he made his way to a second: door which was also ajar. Switching off his torch he stood with his eyes on. the crack and saw. that De Laurier was moving about within, The . man's activities watched him light a. hurricane lamp and go to the window. It becanie ap- parent now that not only did these windows. have innocent looking sun shutters on the outside of the house, but that they were sealed by Iron shutters from within which no doubt kept out every ray .of light, so that although the villa might be inhabited, no sign of life need reach the out side world, De Laurier now switched off the light in the room and opening one of the. windows--one Grant calcu- lated to face directly .out to sea--he lifted up the lantern high above- his head, swinging it up and down three times: then lowering 'it. After going through this process three. tinies he closed and barred the window again before switching on the light. (To Be Continued) Her Husband Dies Actress Plays On London. ~The comedy "The Wind Martin's Theatre, W., became a tragedy one night recently. But only one woman knew it. That- woman was Miss Margaret Moffat, who plays the part of Mrs. McFee, a humorous role, ; Throughout the evening the audi- ence laughed and applauded, and her co-players acted with her. They did not know that her husband, Mr. Sewell Collins, the dramatist manager, of Madeville Place, W.I, had died a few hours 'previously. ' Mr. Collins, who had been suffering from heart trouble, collapsed and died while lunching with friends. but bravély decided to go on with her part, . CAN'T SLIP OR SLIDE FALSE TEETH ch' sa Dr, Wernet's Po -- i overcoat, the collar of which Was moved to the door of the villa, where} The young men raised thelr heads; | cited pounding of his bear! must be] ly not easily found, and they heard| zest, for It offered legitimate outlet were. peculiar," and curlously hej' Miss Moffat was told by telephone, }' js Oranze Pekoe + Blend 'Hydrocarbon' For Use as. 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Seven telephones were ringing most of the time, A girl hours, not prices) on a bulletin board filled with names, in an alr of tepse '| excitement, . In and out of the office sauntered the youth and beauty of modeldom-- the girls whose faces Jook at you from newspapers, magazines and posters, tilting thelr favorite brand of cig. arette, exhibiting the dernier cri in spring hats, or stepping delicately from high-priced automobiles. These five-dollar-an-hour faces are destined, some of them, for the screen, some: for drawing rooms of wealth, or for success in business. 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