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Jean Grtham and her brother, Euan, tay on the Riviera with Geoffrey Winto and his wife Doreen, who leads Euan en to gamble. Jean coaxes him to go to Paris. While driving: there Jean finds a string of pearls in Euan's pocket, He enatches them from her and the car crashes. The accident Is discovered by Jerry Grant who takes Jean ba.ck to his hostess. Helen Gorst. Euan Is missing. Jean visits Euan's friend, de Laurler, and learns that Euan is in debt to him. Jerry Grant meets Ii. Periehon, famous detective, who assists them. Jerry pro poses to Jean but she asks him to wait The Baron insists on accompanying Jean to the Van Dyke party. The next morning Mrs. Van Dyke reports the theft of a diamond. Jean is discovered missing. M. Periehon directs Grant and Washburn to a deserted villa. Grant enters and follows de Laurler Into a subterranean cave, de Laurler knocks him out, gags, and binds his arms. Grant works his way free and finds Jean, de Laurler returns and attacks Grant Jean is unable to see which is the vic tor. She faints. Washburn and Perichon find them. " W hat?" exclaimed Helen. Doreen Winton let out her usual sneer, yet she seemed strangely affected by the news. Grant also was outraged, and growled between his teeth: " God! the swine!" "W ell, Mademoiselle?" prompted the detective. " I --well, it staggered me, but get ting up I ran forward. Immediately I was covered by a revolver, but when the Baron saw who I was he put it down and began to talk to me -- He spoke very roughly-- not as he used to-- asking me what I was do ing there. I said: `What are you, doing here and how did you break into the safe? I couldn't think what to do, So I sprang to the door and began to yell. In a moment he was on me and had tied a silk thing over my mouth and nose. Then-- then somehow another man appeared and they tied my legs together and pour ed some nasty stuff int the handkercheif. A fter that, I knew no more.' The others all broke out into ex cited conversation, expressing their own amazement and horror to their inattentive neighbours. Grant, how ever, mereily looked down, feeling deeply humiliated that he had so failed the girl lie loved. It seemed to him now that his blindness had been absolutely criminal, and he could not understand i 1 :. `Sh! S h!" Periehon hissed. " We must advance. Now, mon enfant. Go on, please." Jean's horror seemed to increase as her story progresstd, but she went on in a low voice: `I came to, feeling horrible sick to find myself in a mo tor car. I didn't know how long I had been there, but it seemed to me that we were going very fast. I tried to shout and move, but I was still tied vp. Th-- there was a woman with me, too, someone I had never seen before." " How was she to look at--this wo- Orange Pekoe Blend man?" asked Periehon. `She was very big and l ad red hair." `Say!" Washburr broke out, and leaning over Grant towards her, he said: " That must have been the jane who-- " _ -- " Go on, Mademoiselle." ` Did you see the chauffeur?" sud denly asked Rivaux. ' " Yes. It was M. Guardi." " So'there was a gang o f them?" Winton asked Periehon however was not to be hurried and said. Go on, Mademoiselle," Jean brushed a hand over her eyes as if she were heartily weary of it, all, but resumed: " I awoke in the place where erry found me, on some smelly straw in a terribly cold cel lar t was "daylight but what time or how long I'd been there I don't know. I-- I felt too sick from that stuff to do anything and anyway my feet and hands were tied. Once Guardi and that woman came in, and I heard disjointed snatches o f conver sation. The man said: " We'd better get her on board the Swallow." This seemed to make the woman angry, and she said: " What the use? Morin makes me sick with his wo men. Besides, she knows too much. Open the ^trap." Guardi seemed afraid an$ hesitated. Then some thing happened, I don't know what, but they went off quickly, and it seemed for a moment as i f she could not go on, but finally she added: " I was so cold and so uncomfortable. I -- I thought I was d y in g " She laughed tremulously. " It seemed so long. I--I ^waited and waited___ Then I remembered nothing more un til Jerry came." Fresh from the Gardens passionately at Jean. " I am sorry-- I have your permission, Mademoisel le?" " Go on," murmured Jean. " Firt o f all, then-- I regret to tell you that M. Euan Graham was kill ed in the accident from which Ma demoiselle so luckily escaped with her life." The detective's eyes were on Doreen, whose hand clenched fiercely in her lap at the news. `Now M. Graham was in debt to de Lau rier; that was true. De Laurier made a pratice of lending large sums o f money to weak young men and women, leading them on to gamble and borrow more. On that last morn ing, Graham called on de Laurier to beg him to give him longer to repay his debt. De Laurier refused, saying that Graham would never be able to raise so large a sum-- but the young man pulled out a beautiful string of pearls and said: `How is that for security? I will sell them in Paris, and at once send you your two thou sand." Now de Laurier had intended to steal those pearls one day-- for that reason, he had been making secret love to Mrs. Winton " " My God!" exclaimed Winton. Doreen stiffened and her face changed colour beneath its paint. " He didn't," she said, in a strangled voice. Periehon, however, ignored hei protest. " So d® Laurier says to himself: `1 must steal from Graham instead," and sends his jackal Guardi to fol low the young people, with instruc tions to get the pearls. That would have been easy, fo r figure to your self that boy was carrying them loose in a cigarette box! Guardi gets into.his car. He knows that they are taking the Grande Corniche, and he follows, it an off day, few people are on the road and almost as the accirent happens-- a few omoments later-- he comes upon the scene of the wreck. Mademoiselle is under neath, but Monsier is clear. Guardi must act quickly, fo r any moment a car may come. He gets out and finds the box of pearls. It is clasped like a vice in the dead boys hand-- he had grabbed it away from his sister, you recollect-- there is on time to lose. Quickly he picks up the lad and puts him in the back o f his car, und er the rug perhaps or on the floor;; then he turns and drives back to Monte Cario, but turning off at the first opportunity and driving by de vious ways to the villa where Made moiselle was taken, near St. Croix So in the night the body o f Monsieur was dropped into the sea." Jean sat with her face in her hands and no one broke the ilence until Grant asked: ` But how did Graham get the psaris, sir?" 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