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R. bad been on duty from seven 'till ten that morning; then had come the mes- sage from Elsa, the ride with her into Ponta Delgada, the visit to the venta in the north road, and the ride back: be had had a tiring day already, and be was due for duly again at mid- night. But he hardly knew that he was tired. The joy of at last doing something, the knowledge that Elsa was now co-operating with him in the fight, instead of tacitly putting obsta- cles in his way, the hope that now the misunderstanding between them was at an énd a closer understanding would follow in its place, when he had put to her the question pe was hunder- ing to put--these things had been ton- ics, and would have been enough to counterbalance the fatigue _of even greater exertions. aN He hoped to be able to gc'an hour's sleep yet, before he had to begin his watch in the instrument-room: but Urat, as Varney had said, he must g~ that the girls were All right, He found them together in the dr. fng-room and it seemed to im | Bien's stiffness with the other girl © worn off considerably since the afi noon. Had anything happen bring them cloder together? Ov wa it simply that Mona's sunny nat had melted a coldness that was main artificial, and her persistent offerin, of friendship had broken down th barrier which Kisa's sensitive (anc: had set yp? . : Scarborough, seeing them, s!tvin: together, in outward amity at lsat had the thought borne in upon Lin irresistibly that they were surely an obviously meant to be friends. Th very difference in the types of thei beauty made them 'such admirab! foils to each' other--Elsa's the del cate, dainty beauty of carved ivory, an Mona's the vivacily of flashing brew: eyes, black hair; and rich creamy col oring. The one was an anemone 0 the woods. fragile but exquisite; th other a rich blossom of the sunlight. "Mother has gone to bed wii # headache," said Elsa, "and Mona is go ing to stay with me for he night." - Searborough noted with pleasure that she said Mona, and not Miss Ryan or Miss de 1a Mar. "What. has happened?" he askc. smiling. 4 Mona caught his meaning at once. "Oh," she said, "we've beer through a battle togother since we saw you. We went into it Miss Carrington and Miss Ryan, and we came out of it Elsa and Mona." Are you pleased?" "Very," he answered. "But against whom was the battle? -Not against each other?" "No," said Elsa. "against mother." "That is why she has gone to bed with a headache," said Mona laughing. "It was a hot engagement, you know, and she was utterly routed. She ob jected to my presence in the house, and Elsa stuck up boldly for me, and for the rites of hospitality, and 'said I shoud stay. "Mrs. Carrington retorted that I shouldn't, and they fought it out, and that pale fragile little girl there scored a complete vittory. I was proud of her. It was glorious." "Did you sit quielly by and listen?" asked Scarborough with a smile. "Five pounds to nothing you didn't." "Oh, I chipped in with a remark or two towards the end," said Mona gaily, "I couldn't resist it, you know. But Bisa bore the real brunt of the battle; mine was only a cavalry pursuit at the finish, to cut up the disorganized forces of the ememy, and drive the victory home. I think Mrs. Carring- ton's headache is probably rather bad. At least that is the only reason I can think of to explain why she made the mistake of losing her temper and blurt: ign out something that we very much wanted to know." "She told you what was in the letter that was stolen?" cried Scarborough eagerly. | "She admitted that it contained a plan of the place where the diamonds are hidden," said Mona. "and she seem- ed to think that it was Klsa's fault that it had beer stolen." I didn't follow her reasoning there, and | took the liberty of" pointing out some of her her that she went to an hotel, instead of coming straight home; secondly, she put the plan in her purse instead of handing it over with her other valu ables to the cashier to keep; thirdly, she had a large cup of coffee sent up to her the last thing at night, and didn't Suspect that someome had been paid to put an opiate into it, until she awoke next morning about eleven to find that the plan was gone. - Of course the man in the small boat had shadowed her from the Ring-Rock, and by sleeping in the hotel she gave him his chance After all that, instead of abusing ¥ self for her folly, she abuses Elsa. The uureasonableness of this was also One of the things I took the liberty of pointing out to her." N ough, the young man who, my husband informed me, would very possibly be my son-in-law one day." i "Mother!" cried Elsa. ggain, Mrs. Carrington laughed "Elsa's blushes suggest that I am in- discreet," she said mockingly, "But, Horace, if 1 api to be your mother-in- I baven't a doubt but that it would |law, you ought to have the opportun- prove to be the message that Mrs, [ity of knowing something .of me. I Carrington wants." shall join your picmic fo-otiow, and "Well, now," said Mona approvingly, |e ¢an enjoy a talk together. You "I think that's sense,'and I'm dm don't look pleased. Surely the ar- Elsa and I didn't think of it. De you |[frangement is a good one. It will ob- know iy seems to rather a preity [¥iate the necessity of leaving anyone sitnation. - The man who stole the |bere to watch me! 5 plan won't be able to use it, because | She threw herself into a chair, and he hasn'y the scratched stone; we have [her mocking laughter rang out again. the scratched stone, but it's no use to us because we can't interpret it without CHAPTER XXI A Letter of Introduction the plan; and your mother, Elsa, has Mrs. Carrington was enjoying the stone out. "But, after all, it's vnin telligible," she said. "What does 'ache ~blue--N, drip' mean?" "I haven't an idea" said Scarbor ough. "But it we bad the full text, in. cluding the words that that idiot of a bean-seller rubbed out with his blouse, to frighten him vet." mistakes. In the first place I reminded % lost the plap, aud never heard of the scratched stone. It rather looks as though the diamonds stood a good |®ituation. These young people were chance .0f staying undisturbed where [really delicious. They thought. they they are for a year or two. You and | | bad outwitted her, and were discuss- needn't have bothered about deciding |Ing gravely what they meant to do what we were going to do with them | With the diamonds when they got them. when -we got them!" The stones were to be handed over to "Have you been doing that?" Scar | her husband's creditors, fof distribu- borough asked with some amusement, | tion amongst the widows and orphans "Oh; yes, we've settled it all! There in England; it was a touching scheme, were rather a lot of people who gu. [but it was not the one which Mrs. Car- fered in the Carrington and Varney | tington proposed to see carried out, smash, you know, and most of them | "But though she enjoyed her triumph, were poor. We lad decided thatt he | 20d dil not mind in the least that she diamonds should be sent to the ligni- | 18d gained it by admitted eavesdrop- dator in bankruptcy, (0 be turned into | PIS; she was really tired. Moreover a small dividend of something or other | er headache had not benefited by: in the pound." balf an hour's crouching with her ear "She resigns all Ley to the keyhigle of the door. She ex- id B Scarooroug pected to spend an energetic day to- Wig Ear 0 Seuoerough, morrow, and she did not think she was tikely to gmin apy other information to-night; so she sacrificed present gratification to future profit, and an: nounced that she was going to bed. I "Really to bed, this time," she said. own claim," "Isn't it splendid of her? She says that the poor. people suffered more than she did." "Oh, no, it isn't splendid, or hero, or anything of the sort," Mona cut in before Scarborough could 'answer. "Don't 'run away with that idea, Elsa. I've got two reasons, both are very ordinary ones. The first is that I've got a feeling that 1 should hate to touch a penny of the money which the man who stole it from me lost his life in defending. 'That's silly perhaps, but I can't help it. The second is that I'don't need it." "Not just now," said Scarborough. "But if you grow tired of your wander- ing lite with the circus-troupe--"' "Oh, doz't bother!" said Mona. "I've got plenty of money, I tell you, but it's a theme I don't want to dis cuss just now. I have a reason for that, too, which I shall perhaps tell vou some day, and perhaps not. It all depends 'upon whether something 1 very. much want to happen, does hap- pen. See?" The others noted with astonishment that whe was blushing, and Elsa be- that sccount! - I don't suppose a chap- eron is really necessary, as Elsa's friend is with her. No doubt that was why Mademoiseulle Mona de la Mar-- I have got vour professional name right, my dear. have 17--that, no doubt, is why Mademoizelle Mona de la Mar insisted wpor stayinj I am not neaded. so I will retire. You have Arrangements to make for to-morrow. I'am afraid | have complicated them somewhat." "You hava," said : Scarborough, quietly. She was trying to anger him, he thought; but he was not even an- noyed: and he rather admired the woman's impudence. She was a type that he had not met before, and he realized for the first time the tremen- dous advantage that a-simple shame; lessness gives a plotter who has brains to use it effectively. Mrs. Carrington had the gift of shamelessness, but she also undoubtedly had the gift of brains. She was an added difficuity of course, but bis hands were not tied by mia . "Mr. Scarborough, | understanding now; he was free to Mah 8 with 4 a what you and |srapple with difficulties, and he rather Phil found at the venta." . welcomed them as adding zest to the Scarborough told them the result of game. the visit to the venta, and of Varney's 1 should like to bear what you mean suggestion that the Furnas distriét | to do with me," she said sweetly. "I should be watched night and day, in|am coming to your picnic, but I rea; order to catch the man Gillies. Of |lise that I shall not be very welcome. course Gillies knew nothing about the |! am an unfortunate complication-- soratched sione, and if it was he who how are you going to deal with it had stolen the plan from Mrs. Carring- Scarborough smiled. : ton, there was still that link missing I don't think there is anything to in his knowledge: but it was also pos be gained by saying," he answered. sible that he had other reasons for You hope to be able to leave me knowing, or guessing. the place to out, after an % which the plan referred, and so could Oh, no," said Scarborough. If you do without the stone. 'Anyway Var-|say you are coming, | have no doubt ney was quite right in saying that he | that you will . But you will probably must be watched." make your own arrangements. x "You are going to ride over and re- Mrs. Carrington gave him a quick lieve Phil in the morning?" Mona | glance. a . asked. "Young man," she said, "vou are not "Yes." a fool! T admit that I hoped you were. "| can -improve on that plan. Elsa | Good-night." and I will go with vou. and we'll call She swept smiling from the room, on the way for Miss Davis. We will] and Mona jumped up and opened the make a regular picnic of it." long French windows that led to the Scarborough shook bis head. garden. "Too conspicuous," he said. "We "Bisa and 1 will see you on your way shall frighten our man if we go in a] to the station." she said to Scar- swarm. Phil suggests, and I think he's right, that as Gillies seems (6 know more than we do, we should let him 80 ahead without interference for the present, and be ready to come in at the last minute. So you see, we oughtn't gan: "Why, Mona--" - "Change the subject, please!" said the open air! Never mind your hat, Elsa. It's warm." When they were clear of the house and the trees round it, Mona halted in an open space of the road. "I think this will do," she said. "There isn't a hedge within futy yards, and the sick-room of our head- ache patient is double that distance away. Our voices won't be heard. But speak without pointing at things. There's a bright moon, and an intelli gent observer can deduce a good degl from gestures. Now, then, what's to be done?" "I think." said Scarborough, '(hat you two had better give up your plan of going with me to-morrow; stay dere, and avatch Mrs. Carrington, If she. goes--" "Oh, she'll go right enough," said Mona. LE "Yes, 1 think she will." If. she does. you cau follow her. Does she bicycle, Elsa?" *No." "Exactly," said Mona. "But that's just what | meant by suggesting a picnic. If he sees you and Phil moon- ing about here, he'll know that you are watching him; and you may be sure he will see you. But if we ail go. he'll think it's just a picnic party, and we shall be ble to explore the whole neighborhood without exciting his or anybody else's suspicions." 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We found out from her that the plan was not complete, because it gave no indication of where the place to which it ref: d was to | be found. Father said he dared or put that information in the letter, be- | ,,28¢ cause it might get into the wrong | one hands. but that he would convey the | been : her in Some other way, | hat is Cats t 1 bave that know- {to the ledge am keeping it back | being a from her purposely." . ¥ "Well, so you are," said, Scarbor ough, smiling. ; Kisa sprang to her feet. scratched stone!" young man to me." . «kl Elsa had jumped up, and was gazing Mona turned to Elsa, "Are you willing to give up your at her mother with a look of mingled contempt and anger. picnic?" she asked. "Mother!" she said scornfully. "You we don't mean to sive it up," said A-LAC is indeed a wonder-working aid in bave been--" sa quietly. "I am geing." : . > a a "Listening." said Mrs. Carrington! Mona looked at Scarborough : . Sunwigate foots u and woodwork "spic and spap." : queerly. 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